Ask HN: Show me your Half Baked project
Release early, release often.
Don't worry, be crappy.
Fail fast.
Iterate.
Show us your half baked, not really ready for prime time projects, HN. Is it ugly but interesting? I'll start with mine: http://smsul8r.com - a SMS message scheduler. Ugly, buggy, but it works. Come on... let's see your worst work!
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i also have this half-baked search engine that has no content: whatwhere.com.au :) but you can't really do anything with that!!
(incidentally when you're ready to add "rest of the world" you can use my 8centsms.com API ;)
http://github.com/abraham/hackernews-extension
I am choosing to note right here that I'm quite tired of the uptight comment nazis on this site.
I THINK IT'S THE COMMENT OF THE YEAR
SO GO FUCK YOURSELVES
As a painter too. http://www.curtiswmoore.com/
Going live tomorrow :)
Edit: if you want to know soon as it's live, add your email here: http://tekbob.wufoo.com/forms/notify-me-when-tekbobs-live/
Edit: or add yourself here: http://tekbob.wufoo.com/forms/notify-me-when-tekbobs-live/
Have you thought about some integrated click-to-call?
(And add border:0; to your images.)
The issue I'm seeing is on the logo, btw.
(Checkout browserlab.adobe.com for testing btw.)
I'm not sure I agree with robryan 100%, as there are other ways for buyers to compare the freelancers (years experience, etc.). For a middle-ground, you could have the freelancers give a per hour range to be negotiated dependent on the scope/intensity of the project. Also, you could expand on the freelancers' credentials by including websites, previous projects, or client testimonials.
Good luck with your launch!
1. we'll have a min. hourly rate of $40/hr.
2. by making it phone-based, we will be filtering out most non-US programmers
3. we intend to charge $2-5/lead once we get traction. This will probably make it unaffordable for folks that only compete on price.
I really don't want to attract elance/rentacoder-type audience which only cares about cost. My experience as a freelancer AND client has shown that you get what you pay for. I'd like higher end clients to match with higher quality coders.
I think you underestimate the capacities of non-US programmers. The international shops (ie. the coders from India and Singapore who can charge a fraction of what a US programmer would need to) usually have access to great VOIP and 24/7 availability.
Neat toy I think, but pretty buggy and really no business potential
I am doing a UX rewamp and trying to minimize the learning curve. The next version with some major UI modifications and support for all browsers should be out in 2 weeks. Do follow me on twitter or drop a line and I will make sure you know.
As far as I know, there was ONE GUY in Germany that managed to install it and get it running. He blogged about it under the title "That's Real RAD!" in German - but my lack of autotools skill and inabiilty to properly use qtruby as a "lib" meant that the install process was pretty diabolical.
What did you work on? Did you ever do anything with it after SOC?
I did continue to work for Google and played a part in some of the SoC activities for next year.
Got some very useful feedback when I posted it here, update coming soon.
http://chatpatio.com
I need to add more products, product specs, and fix the way the pros/cons work, but I'm already using it to start thinking about which digital camera to get.
It may be good if the site was able to, based upon the metadata and extraction from the product description, show the relative differences in the specs of the products.
For instance, if I compare a Macbook 13" and a Macbook Pro 15" it would be great if it listed all of the differences - such as screen size: 2", price: $300, speed: 0.4Ghz, weight: 700gms, popularity: 200 difference in sales rank etc.
It would allow objective comparisons to go along with the subjective comparisons of the reviews you currently show.
Kind of like Google Squared, but easier to generate the table.
Anonymous matching site with a twist.
An Operational Transformation (like Google Wave / EtherPad) implementation in node.js and coffeescript. Source at http://github.com/kevinmehall/OTpad . It's much cleaner and lighter-weight than the EtherPad open source project. Chrome recommended for now, FF sort-of supported.
I wish I had some time to finish it (client work first)! It also might be a miniscule market.
/me signs up and begins using it immediately
This post is great, too. We should make this a regular feature because, how many frequent HN users end up launching a neat product like this and it languishes among blah-blah news links? Tragic.
I've never even posted a launch on HN, but I love seeing them -- it seems like they should be highlighted on the new page or something.
Don't even limit to websites at all, just use keywords. It's regex parsing anyways, it's not hard to check any number of domains.
The failing point of almost all rank tracking systems is limiting keywords and domains the way they do
Also: grouping keywords in different, Venn-like ways should be easy and intuitive.
Receive Weather Texts Everyday.
It's a web app that integrate RPG elements with a TODO list.
Try the link again. It'll work.
Made it for my gf and I, but never got around to polishing it. It still tentatively works. Basically it sends reminders at odd times because I felt when you set a reminder, you automatically remember it anyway, and wind up staring at the clock. So this comes at different times.
Bit fuzzy around the edges and I haven't worked on it in months :(
It's an HTML5 typing tutor that I'm working on. Also planning to sell the tools I use to build it as a jump-starter API for folks wishing to create GWT/App Engine products:
http://gwtquickstarter.appspot.com
Wanted a place to keep track of what movies I was watching, when and who I was watching them with, and then be able to recall them later.
For instance: Recent movies watched http://movief.ly/users/adamfortuna/viewings
Movies first seen in 2009 http://movief.ly/users/adamfortuna/lists/first-seen-in-2009
Never went beyond the 'scratch my own itch' stage, but gomiso seems to like the idea of checking in to TV/movies.
For instance -- What're my girlfriends favorite movies that I've never seen? Or What are my friends favorite movies of all time (that I have seen or haven't seen)? In the end it's all about keeping track of what you've seen, and helping decide what you should see next though, so it might have Netflix integration so I don't have to reinvent the recommendation wheel either. What movies you'll like is only half the equation though -- the other half is what people you know are actually watching!
Regvex is a proof of concept timing attack against regex engines. To make a long story short, the timing characteristics of regex engines make it perfectly suited to timing attacks, allowing you to (locally or remotely) create data that matches a given regex, and potentially even reconstruct the actual regex you're matching against.
The current version works locally against Python's sre, but I plan to take it further when I have time.
When you pass data into a regex engine for matching, it works character-by-character. When it reaches a character that doesn't match, the matching is terminated. That means that if you have the regex /^foo$/, "f" will take slightly longer to parse than "b", since it'll move on to the next character for "f", but not "b".
Due to this, you can produce matching data for a regex in a fairly small number of samples. Interestingly, it takes fewer samples to reliably get characters further down the string -- however, this may be a result of my horrid statistics code. Not sure yet.
As far as I'm aware, no one has ever done this before.
For others, this helped me understand the basis of timing attacks.