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I really enjoyed last weeks Screenshot Saturday[1]. So here is this weeks post: "If you like the idea, please post a screenshot and a few words of explanation on what you have been working on for the past week."

[1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7579982)

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karangoeluw
After the huge success [1] of SoundCloud Instant [2], I started working something else using the SoundCloud API.

For the purpose of surprise, I'll just leave the screenshot here: http://i.imgur.com/PP4LN2J.jpg

The prototype is ready and it does what it's supposed to, but it's not ready to be released yet. If you'd like to know when it's ready, you can join my (new) email list: http://eepurl.com/SRIPT

[1] https://twitter.com/TheKaranGoel/status/457563836225056768 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7602045

UweSchmidt
So it plays 6 songs at the same time? Neat.

C'mon, what does it do? :)

karangoeluw
You're almost right! :p

EDIT: Hint - it makes music discovery easier and less time-consuming.

dk8996
Do you know if there is a Pandora like app for SoundCloud music. Where you can create "radio stations" from SoundCloud artist then plays similar sounding music from SoundCloud.
karangoeluw
No I'm not aware of any. Though it's not hard to build something like that (in theory).
mkal_tsr
I've been working on https://thesquatrack.com/

It does workout, nutrition, and body measurement tracking and I'm in the midst of deploying the routines and meta-routines - https://thesquatrack.com/soon over the next few weeks.

* Better search result info - http://i.imgur.com/RassIwF.png

* Flexible nutrition goals - http://i.imgur.com/8dabrHg.png

* Some meal fast logging - http://i.imgur.com/PdOBm0U.png

* Improved the dashboard a bit - http://i.imgur.com/hbs8ZTS.png

I'm not a UI/UX or business person, but I love code, so as long as it's functional, I'm happy.

100% solo founder and 100% bootstrapped ... it's been a heck of a fun journey :-)

suhailpatel
I've been following your stuff at /r/fitness. Definitely keep working on it, looks real solid!
mkal_tsr
Will do, I've got a lot planned so long as I can keep it going
theboss
I've used i[T] since early beta, shorty. Much better than fitocracy and I think you really hit the nail on the head that your website should help me be more effective (with wil[K]s calc, program templates, and nutrition [2]), instead [o]f just [G]iving me MORE e-points.

Best 5 bucks a month I spend.

I should also say that your site is one of the few startups that I've seen that doesn't completely neglect security. Not sure if it's just part of your framework (symfony?), but I rarely look at startups sites that I can't break in less than a minute.

mkal_tsr
Thanks for the support it means the world to me (literally, you're keeping me fed!). On a more serious note, I've got a lot of things planned and I hoped the announcement of the automated meta-routines shows I'm not dicking around with making an entirely new platform ... I just need to get some people on marketing it if I want to go faster :-/
ttty
I really like the design
will_lam
Sweet - I just got an invite back on April 11 - looking forward to digging in. Right now I'm still on Fitocracy but looking for alternatives.
mkal_tsr
fwiw I made a chrome extension to do auto importing from Fito and LoseIt, you basically just set the date-range and if you want to overwrite on TSR's side and it does the rest (Track -> Integrators or Settings->Integrators)
bowmanb
This sounds great. Hope to get a beta invite soon.
aaron987
This looks great. I tried Fitocracy and was disappointed. It seemed to be focused on a flashy interface rather than useful features.

I signed up for your mailing list. I especially like the ability to see moving averages. Up until now, I have been using spreadsheets for this kind of thing. That works fine for charting, but not much else.

mkal_tsr
> Up until now, I have been using spreadsheets for this kind of thing. That works fine for charting, but not much else.

Historical archives! http://i.imgur.com/RsB99dN.png that's one thing that's always kept me off of services, not being able to export my workouts, so I made sure you can do it in CSV, Markdown, and bbCode (individual, date ranges, and all workouts).

If you want to give it a whirl here's an invite code w/o needing to wait - https://thesquatrack.com/register?c=nn5z3za84d

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karangoeluw
So, how's it different from the gazillion SE's?
mikkom
sorry, I just realised this wasn't a screenshot so I removed it - you were fast :-)
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Mankhool
Downvoted? I'm crushed by that kind of response. Deleting now. Apologies. I'll post again next week. Thanks for this great thread.
adambard
Edit: Ah, I missed the point. Here it is in screenshot form: http://adambard.com/img/screenshots/extsearch.png

My idea is to deliver a fully-customizable drop-in search widget in the form of a javascript snippet. I saw a gap in Adwords coverage for similar searches (I hope it wasn't just Google quashing competition), and thought there might be potential. I did a bit of proof-of-concept coding, and now I'm trying to validate the market.

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Before edit:

A competitor to Google Custom Search (yeah, I know) called ExtSearch. Right now there's just a lander at http://getcustomsearch.com/

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fnbr
Have you spoken to Snapchat devs about your project? It seems like it violates the ToS, and I suspect that they will shut it down once they hear about it.
JamieLewis
http://i.imgur.com/PnmDT5z.png

I have had some time off this week so decided to work on something a bit different. I have been working on a concept fuzzing framework for security testing. In the screenshot you can see some of the files produced by it - The bottom right is the configuration used to generate the file format (for this case Bitmap, although I have tested a few others like WAV)

Bottom left is a bitmap produced with no defects. The top shot is a bitmaps produced with some random changes - you can see the green bitmap is now corrupted due to a change somewhere in the format.

tptacek
Neat. Have you found any bugs with it yet? Any sense of where you're going to take it?
do
A QA test case management tool integrated with Github Issues.

http://imgur.com/a/0oqGO

Designed to be easy to navigate with the keyboard and replace the spreadsheets I normally use on projects.

If anyone out there needs something like this please shoot me an email. Planning on launching a V1 this weekend.

bichiliad
I'm working on a music and member management system for my university's radio station [1] as part of an independent study. I'm cheating and using FlatUI [2] for the interface. Using Bookshelf.js + MySQL/Express/Angular/Node

Screenshots here: http://imgur.com/a/uw8I1#0

[1]: http://www.wrct.org/ [2]: http://designmodo.github.io/Flat-UI/

ac1294
I'm working on my first (major) project -- an app that will show live winning probabilities for each team in ongoing NBA games. I'm hoping to get it done before this year's NBA playoffs are over.

I just started, and I'm scraping JSON play-by-play data. This is my first experience with databases, so hopefully it works out well.

http://i.imgur.com/1OafJuj.png

Aaronn
Where can we follow this?
joshmn
Hey that's some Golden Gophers stats right there!
qsun
It's Easter break in Australia - 4 days weekend.

I'm working on http://www.hackathonwatch.com It's a hackathon discovery site - it helps you discover new hackathons.

http://imgur.com/CQU4TGU

I've been working on it for several months, but did not really get a chance to add "watch/monitor" feature.

[1]: optimize contractor work flow to increase my ROI

[2]: adding "watch/monitor" feature

hayksaakian
I wish it was easier to browse by locations

E.g.: hackatonwatch.com/seattle

qsun
Thanks! I totally missed this critical feature.
ttty
UPDATE: WOW! Thanks, currently there are more users than the whole week. :D

I've been working on a minimalistic game collection site with Flash and HTML5 games: http://playszone.com/

Why to play here?

    - Big images that actually shows the real game at almost 1:1 scale;
    - Social integration: when you like an item, like on facebook, share on facebook
      or tweet about it, it will be stored on my server. (You have to be logged in 
      in order to work.) 
      - Why this is cool? - You have a feel of accomplishment as you will always try to do all the social tasks. 
      - Where exactly is this? - Everytime you play a game, you have a right navigation with 
      6 buttons. Those are the buttons. 
      (The only problem is the like button which takes a lot longer to get accounted)
    - No ads, at least not in my site. The flash games and some html5 games comes bundled with ads (Any way to remove them?).
    - Minimalist UI, which can be closed (Click on the 3 bars at top right of the page).
    - Played games have an watermark (Only for logged in.).
Interesting views:

- Main: http://playszone.com

- In game (flash) Road of Fury: http://playszone.com/games/id:5334632f8984d74232b8925d/road-...

- In game 2 (flash) The Peacekeeper: http://playszone.com/games/id:5339d19cc6af0b434c2dc9d2/the-p...

- In game (non-flash): http://playszone.com/games/id:5332e034775c56a02cc4a1cf/flapp...

- Submit game: http://playszone.com/submit-game

- Login or register: http://playszone.com/login-or-register

- Categories: http://playszone.com/games

Login required:

- Manage games: http://playszone.com/manage-games

Technology used:

    - Node.js + Express
    - MongoDB + Mongoose
    - Server side rendering with React.js
Anyway, I find very very very hard to promote such a site. :/
AlexMuir
Well that just cost me 30 minutes. Excellent. Well done.
ttty
Thanks, man ;) hope you come again :D
Ryel
Yes, please stop, I have work to get done :[

Awesome work!

ttty
Thanks man, so happy to know someone is actually enjoying this!!!
mden
I might be missing something, but is this legal? Where are you getting all the games from and why are you trying to remove in-game ads? There's a reason these games are free and while I think users should be allowed to bypass ads using ad-blockers, it seems bad-natured to do it en-masse for everyone.
ttty
I know is not a good way to remove the ads. This would create the best experience for the end user. I would like to take another approach to monetization and then of course, reward the actual authors with a part.
Raphael
The domain name is hard to pronounce.
ttty
I know :/ but you can spell it: Play s Zone. If you say Plays Zone someone might miss understand for Place Zone.

You had to tell a friend and he miss spelled?

robhack
Real-time FFT analysis of mic/line-in, with logarithmic scale showing the corresponding music notes. http://i.imgur.com/3WJcXTK.png
hexa-
This looks nice. Any chance this is going to be open source?
robhack
Thanks, I might open source the prototype/early version here, but not the whole project (I intend to add a lot more stuff and make it gaming-oriented)
gue5t
This is really cool. It looks a lot like baudline; have you ever used that?
robhack
Thanks, no I have not, but always interesting to look at similar tools. I'm more interested in going in the gaming direction though (like trying to follow a song singing/whistling, or by making it multiplayer somehow) I was inspired by plink (by dinahmoe)
sfdev14
I'm working on an app to help me find a job: http://i.imgur.com/sam9Cgt.png

I'm using it right now to search through a year's worth of HN "Who's hiring" threads and starring places that I want to work at / hiding those that match criteria that I don't want.

Pretty soon I'll be adding the "application management" piece to it so that I can start to track my applications, correspondences, phone screens, etc.

https://medium.com/@sfdev14

Backbone.js frontend powered by a Rails API with MongoDB as the datastore. Wanna hire me? sfdev14@gmail.com

syjer
Working on a agile task tracker with some friends (similar to trello, but more dev oriented): http://imgur.com/a/4PF4z .

(written with spring mvc for the server side, angularjs for the client side, use websocket/socks.js).

Will be available as a open source project.

hrbrtglm
I like the UI a lot actually. Really nice. What are the parts making this one more dev oriented ?
syjer
It's still work in progress, but compared to trello:

- it has a flexible tagging system which combined with the search can provide some nice filtering views (on the board view the filtering is done client side and it's applied in real time on new or updated content)

- use of github flavored markdown for comments and description (and code highlight)

- multiple login are supported (at the moment we have oauth2 for google/github/bitbucket, mozilla persona, ldap)

- support for categorizing the tickets in milestones (and a dedicated milestones view)

- a permission system which is quite fine grained

- it's not a SaaS

leemcalilly
Working on a Shopify backend for my startup http://originalfuzz.com. We make handwoven Peruvian guitar straps.

Here's my local dev setup: http://i.imgur.com/cb0WuDH.png

New backend uses node and grunt along with the shopify theme manager. I can develop locally and keep it in git. Grunt watches the changes and the shopify theme manager uploads the new files. So I'm able to develop locally with haml and sass and deploy to my Shopify store as I work.

Also using https://github.com/toolsforliving/foundationify to integrate Foundation with Shopify. It's a good setup for anyone that needs to make an e-commerce site.

fiblye
I'm working on a game titled Aerannis about a female assassin who may or may not be schizophrenic. She fears that she's losing touch with reality entirely and trapped in a world of her own delusions, but comes to realize that she may really just be the center of a global conspiracy.

http://i.imgur.com/Li0guL8.png

http://i.imgur.com/Sstch17.gif

http://i.imgur.com/j0yUGI8.png

http://i.imgur.com/tE5nfAU.png

Nothing as complex or inventive as the other projects here, but it's all that I'm working on at the moment.

omarhegazy
Fucking awesome art, dude.

Any gameplay vids? Demos?

What are you deving in? What platforms do you hope to release for?

fiblye
I'm a few months away from releasing a demo and I haven't recorded any videos in a while. I'm making fairly rapid progress on it, so any videos I have are tremendously out of date.

I'm making it in Lua/Love2d and I'll be releasing it for Windows/OS X/Linux. Love apparently works on Android as well, so I'll see if I can port it to that after I finish it.

mden
Awesome work! How do you plan to distribute it?

Also I love how the traffic light seems to have eyes. Pretty creepy.

fiblye
If all goes well, being greenlit and selling through Steam would be nice. The Humble Store seems to be another good option.

And yeah, every object in this universe serves as a sentient surveillance device.

ttty
Is working in the browser?
eccp
looks awesome! ... best of luck
Ryel
This has been my first project working server-side. It's like, more complex than Pinterest and less complex than Tumblr.

http://imgur.com/sQkJPcI

One thing I have really enjoyed in this app is having built something in an industry which I have 0 knowledge and almost 0 interest. (fashion, beauty, health). I believe it's allowed me to build much more effectively and detach many of the emotions from building and any preconceived ideas about a particular industry. I normally work in front-end and because I'm looking for a job now I've seen a lot of employers give me a stink eye when I dont have experience in a particular industry or even an interest. I think it's odd and I can see their concerns but I also sometimes like to point out that I can also add to the team something nobody else can, a fresh perspective.

In order to stay motivated I have found inspiration not through the industry and the space itself, but through efficiency and learning new tools that power this website. One of the things I'm most proud is a prototype of a client side feature in which I'll be allowing users to create 'hotspots' anywhere in the image they upload. A typical use-case would be for a user to create a hotspot over a particular item of clothing or accessory and reference a referral link to that product. I've also re-created this hotspot feature in mobile and in videos on top of the Youtube API.

stripeofmirrors
Working on a mitre sled experiment for use on a table saw. This will allow me to get precise mitres between wood panels. Using Rhino3D/Grasshopper. A few more real-world tests before I redesign it parametrically.

http://i.imgur.com/McFWvHl.png