Ask HN : What side project are you working on?
Time flies! It's that time of the month again for HN'ers to share what they are working on. We've had some awesome projects shared in the previous threads.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9891487 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9696274
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http://www.freecodecamp.com/ Because I never felt that comfortable with web development. The interface is super easy to use and I can't wait to start helping non-profits.
Non tech related: Write. I write and I write and I write. I have so much to say and I want to say it in the best way possible.
Also draw. I don't draw as much as I should because I am so bad at it. But sometimes things with terrible art can still take off so it keeps me going. example: https://twitter.com/KeLuKeLuGames/status/553404094958694400/...
Unfortunately, after approaching and talking to dozens of nonprofits, we gave up. The Boards of NPOs tend to be highly egotistical, highly possessive morons. I can't tell you how many times we weren't allowed to fix an awful website because it had been a Board member's pet project done by one of their friends or relatives. Or, in many cases, the Managing Director just wouldn't give up control.
I hope you have better luck. I've now worked with two industries I'll never work with again -- restaurants and nonprofits.
http://www.freecodecamp.com/nonprofits/directory
When we actually did projects, they would accept the work, semi-cooperate, and then bury the finished product because the Board wouldn't approve it.
Even if we didn't have someone hovering over the project, trying to micromanage it, we always ended up with a committee-based feedback system. No matter what we did, someone would hate some part of it and demand it be changed.
Can it manage the draft and trades as well?
it's messageboards for github projects.
mainly because a lot of projects use live chat (gitter, slack), which i think isn't always the best solution (time zones, discoverability of past discussions, ...).
http://getdropsha.re
http://www.h4ck1t.com
a multiplayer strategy hacking game
Part of the project is creating is also list of high quality newsletters across a wide range of topics. Feel free to provide any newsletter suggestions!
The idea is that for each contact you can connect them to events and connect those events to locations. This way you can pivot off any piece of information about an acquaintance (where you met, when you met, etc.) to recall the details you know about them.
I just launched it for fun, and have had fun working on it. The list has grown to more than 5000 subscribers, which is pretty cool.
Not totally sure what I plan to do with it, but I really enjoy working on it and have found lots of people who like it, so that's good enough for now. :)
The second stage will be to pre-order the food from a Supermarket API, so all the food will already be in your house.
If I can figure out how to make an app that actually cooks my food, I'm done :)
The goal is to make it the easiest way to save receipts. No app to install, no complicated expense report forms to fill out, just take a picture of the receipt with your phone camera, email it to our specially-trained robots, and it gets saved and sorted for you for later.
Edit: Never mind, I thought this worked using OCR. It's still a cool service, but I wrote this comment under that assumption, so unfortunately I'm a little less excited about it.
Even just the total would be awesome. I don't mind entering metadata manually, and looking through a picture of the receipt for each line item if I need to do that, but I've love it to automatically capture the total so I can see those at a glance without manually inputting them. Maybe the date, too, but that's less important if I can just take the photo as soon as I get the receipt. (Getting the vendor would be doubly awesome, but I know that would be nearly impossible, so I wouldn't ever expect that.)
I wrote a web app to do this for myself when I was contracting, but I had to manually enter the vendor, total amount, and date for each receipt, which got really tedious. (The process wasn't fast enough that I would do it on the move, so I saved up receipts and did them in batches, which took a lot of time.) I'd love to just be able to take a picture and enter some metadata (probably just vendor and category) and have at least the total be pulled from the receipt, and the date either pulled or defaulted to today's date.
Yes, please let me know if you ever implement OCR! And feel free to contact me directly in general. My email is sasha1rus@gmail.com. In the meantime, I'm going to give this a try as-is. Thank you!
then i have a ruby script which connect to the imap account, creates reports based on sender and tags, including attachments in the breakdown. Simple and effective.
Anyone wanna take it over? Send me a mail.
If you really really want an app, you can get the code http://github.com/hasgluten/hasgluten and plug it in Cordova/PhoneGap.