I'm working on a simple python/flask website for sport bets that only accepts bitcoins.
It's not really a serious project it's just to practice web development. I also wanted to make something that works with "real" money but isn't that complex to implement doesn't require accounts etc, so bitcoin seemed like a good choice.
Thanks, I think it's a great project with quite a bit of potential. You can see the progress at www.mykinapp.com if you're curious. It's in kind of rough shape at the moment, but coming along...
I'm from kentucky so the name definitely strikes my fancy... I think there's a lot of potential there. I think the HIPPA issues can be a possible minefield. I took care of my grandmother for months before she passed and the two features that we most would have liked would have been: 1) tracking medication dosage. She was taking this shifting cocktail of drugs 4 times a day towards the end. 2) Maintaining some short videos or self reported mood ratings would be very helpful, this data could be provided to health care providers.
I'm glad you like the name! It was established like a year and a half ago. Since then someone developed some... not-so-great social app with the same name. We haven't really dealt with that yet.
HIPAA issues are going to be a nightmare, I agree. I think before we truly launch we're going to have to bring someone with thorough domain knowledge in for that. I went over-board with encryption, pretty much everything in the database is encrypted but naturally it's going to be some quirk with legalese that will catch us up. "The patient's mood is technically a medical condition and so cannot be displayed without waiver a-123" or something.
I appreciate your two ideas. Medication is something we're VERY hesitant to approach. God forbid a query gets screwed up (or even user error) and they end up with double dosages. Maybe later on, but for now... they can send messages with reminders or something :)
The mood ratings are a wonderful idea. I will be adding that to our to-do list. :)
A) The save Mz charitable fund.
B) Some stupid comic that I am creatively stuck on.
C) A raging fever, which is apparently far more productive than either A or B
D) Other super secret projects that I can't mention here.
E) Breaking the rules by cracking jokes on HN.
I'm working on a startup-life-broadcasting idea. Basically, you follow me through the process of building my company. Hopefully you're building yours too at the same time. Maybe this is much more transparent than anything you've paid attention to before. So, not just blog posts about how things are going down (ala patio11 or Nathan Barry), but videos, audio recording, actual code, bank statements... like, lots of details, very open. Lots of live-broadcasting. Kinda like the way Justin.tv started.
I've often thought/day-dreamed about such an idea. Not just for a start-up but for a big well established company. If everything was open how would it affect their business dealings etcetera.
I imagine going into negotiations where the opposing party has watched your board of director meetings, looked at your profit margins and ascertained all manner of information pertinent to the negotiations and completely owning the negotiations.
I'd like to think this volatility/risk would occur only in the initial stages and in the long run it would lead to a powerful new business structure. Idealism isn't always reality however.
Given start-ups are fragile taking on this extra risk could be the death pill. How do you propose to deal with these issues if/when they arise?
I'm actually doing something similar. A few weeks ago, I decided to do a clean slate rewrite of my projects and record the hours worked. My wife has been making recordings of various evolutions of the design and I'm getting ready to go public with at least the open source component of my code, probably this weekend if my day job doesn't get in the way... I'll be announcing on twitter @keefe
As part of my senior thesis, I'm working on finding sentence similarity using semantic graphs such as WordNet and ConceptNet. I'm going to use this research to fine-tune some algorithms to use for an intelligent note-taking system I have been working on.
I am working on a school reviews by students website. I deployed it recently and asked people at hacker news to review it and got some valuable feedback. I am doing lots of updates and will be redeploy this weekend. You can get the link from my profile .
working on 2 things...redesign and new better features for http://whatabout.me and a collaboration and notes exchange platform for students and teachers
I'm working a community to helping startups find good help building out financial projections, revenue and cost drivers, market positioning, etc all things that are needed for raising funding. Building out models correctly can be a huge time suck for a startup without someone with financial background on the fouding team.
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[ 2.6 ms ] story [ 75.9 ms ] threadIt's not really a serious project it's just to practice web development. I also wanted to make something that works with "real" money but isn't that complex to implement doesn't require accounts etc, so bitcoin seemed like a good choice.
HIPAA issues are going to be a nightmare, I agree. I think before we truly launch we're going to have to bring someone with thorough domain knowledge in for that. I went over-board with encryption, pretty much everything in the database is encrypted but naturally it's going to be some quirk with legalese that will catch us up. "The patient's mood is technically a medical condition and so cannot be displayed without waiver a-123" or something.
I appreciate your two ideas. Medication is something we're VERY hesitant to approach. God forbid a query gets screwed up (or even user error) and they end up with double dosages. Maybe later on, but for now... they can send messages with reminders or something :)
The mood ratings are a wonderful idea. I will be adding that to our to-do list. :)
I'll save your email address and send you a quick notify when the beta is up and running.
I'm working on a startup-life-broadcasting idea. Basically, you follow me through the process of building my company. Hopefully you're building yours too at the same time. Maybe this is much more transparent than anything you've paid attention to before. So, not just blog posts about how things are going down (ala patio11 or Nathan Barry), but videos, audio recording, actual code, bank statements... like, lots of details, very open. Lots of live-broadcasting. Kinda like the way Justin.tv started.
I've often thought/day-dreamed about such an idea. Not just for a start-up but for a big well established company. If everything was open how would it affect their business dealings etcetera.
I imagine going into negotiations where the opposing party has watched your board of director meetings, looked at your profit margins and ascertained all manner of information pertinent to the negotiations and completely owning the negotiations.
I'd like to think this volatility/risk would occur only in the initial stages and in the long run it would lead to a powerful new business structure. Idealism isn't always reality however.
Given start-ups are fragile taking on this extra risk could be the death pill. How do you propose to deal with these issues if/when they arise?
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