Ask HN: What projects are you working on?

I'm a business guy not a technical guy, so these projects will reflect that. By day, I'm a consultant helping mid-sized companies build growth management systems, so these projects reflect that a little as well.

There are 3 markets here - Coaching, Tourism, Barristers - so I'd love to hear from anybody also playing in those spaces.

1) I'm building the business system for a business coaching organisation. They're nominally competitors of mine, but I think they have a great niche and expertise and more clients would benefit if they had a systemised approach. This might scale for other coaching / consulting companies.

2) I'm researching micro-operators in the Travel and Tourism space, to see if an approach to strategy and traction I built for a similar organisation can be shared at scale and at their price point. Finding it challenging, because many of these micro businesses don't want to grow / invest in growth.

3) Early market feedback from Barristers indicates their 'business' training is inadequate. I've developed an overview for building a Bar practice from pre-startup to a thriving specialisation, and am currently talking with potential partners in their area of specialty (eg, personal financial planning).

So my focus is seeking scale. These aren't going to disrupt the world, but they're also 'not another to-do list app' so I feel I'm helping.

1) http://trevorb.cloudapp.net:3000/ personal dashboard to read hackernews/reddit/web comics without seeing the same post twice (I swear I can waste time 10x more efficiently)

2) http://trevorb.cloudapp.net:3001/ mmo type game exploring webgl, socketio and just experimenting

Something of a cross between reddit and craigslist. Not live yet, still sorting out voting. Hopefully eventually though.

I recently launched Steam Profile Lookup!

https://steamprofilelookup.com/steamid/76561197982486517

Fraud is a big problem in the steam trading scene and this tool basically allows people to do a quick background check before they trade.

This is my first real project that I've been able to put in front of users and it's been a blast. I've found it's a lot more enjoyable for me to have actual users trying stuff out rather than just building internal tools. Getting feedback, trying stuff, and running tests is just deeply satisfying. It's also really forced me to write good, production grade code.

Something where people can talk about their projects that they're working on:

http://glitchclub.com

I'm working on wits (written in the stars) - an app that takes western astrology into today's mobile platforms. It's kinda sad that there aren't any proper astrology apps in stores today. http://astrowits.com

I'm working on a network flow monitoring system called Cistern [0]. Part of it is a time series storage engine called Catena [1]. I've also written a few protocol implementations for it, including sFlow v5 [2] and SNMP [3].

[0] https://github.com/PreetamJinka/cistern

[1] https://github.com/PreetamJinka/catena

[2] https://github.com/PreetamJinka/sflow

[3] https://github.com/PreetamJinka/snmp

- Building an entity-component framework in C++ and making Space Invaders. No code because it's literally terrible but here's some "gameplay footage" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxQZz0yr4V4

- Building a forum that's a sort-of-but-not-entirely HN clone in PHP. It's a free app on Pagodabox and still mostly doesn't work but assuming it's awake what there is of it is here: http://original-oak.gopagoda.io/ This might wind up being my final project this semester, and if it is I will post it here, or maybe not I don't know.

- Unity tutorials and ragequitting/restarting Handmade Hero all the time.

A proof-of-concept for a multi-platform, secure, distributed, client-side chat application called Toc Messenger: http://lewisl9029.github.io/toc

Built with web technologies such as Ionic, Telehash and remoteStorage.

It's very bare-bones and severely under-optimized right now (have fun downloading 4MB of code lol...), but I have some pretty ambitious features planned for launch such as simultaneous logins, group chat, voice/video chat, file transfers, some kind of email-based user on-boarding process (I'm looking at integrating Persona), and peer discovery using the Bittorrent DHT over the internet as well as automatic discovery for clients on the local network.

And yes, of course it will be open-source. =)

A service which is a cross between git and dropbox with client side encryption and deduplication.

The clients are GPL open source with a cli client underway here https://github.com/buppyio/buppy

My server is private but based on a kubernetes cluster. I hope to add a server version people can setup themselves if they don't want to pay for the official server.

Still too wip for alpha, but I want to announce and get alpha testers soon.

https://StatusGator.io It monitors the status pages of various cloud services and then alerts you.

http://BrushbackApp.com Baseball news app for iOS and Android.

http://taxstax.com Tax withholding service for contractors.

I'm going to be making my first Ruby Gem. It's going to enable easy lookup of weather forecasts. I want to unite geocoding APIs and weather APIs, basically.

It started from a simple "whats the weather" app I wanted to make to learn Sinatra, and then I realized I could turn everything I was doing into a gem and that would be kind of cool, and definitely new for me. It's simple, but I figure if I do a good job it will be useful to someone, as there don't seem to be a ton of (well-documented) options for this kind of gem out there.

A personal banking assistant you communicate with using natural language. (Using speech recognition, NLP, and ML).

https://www.wealth.ai/

Will launch in a few months.

I'm making a countdown timer for my university's transit system.

https://github.com/jbwashington/BusHog

I find myself making a series of countdown timers in the morning based off my class/bus schedule, I figured I would cut out all the bloated map UI and pull data straight from the school's bus API.

Working on making Portfolio, a sweet way to keep up-to-date with your stocks.

Would love feedback if you're on an iPhone: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/portfolio-instantly-know-wha...

Been working on https://fris.bi for a while - it's a WebRTC group video chat app.

Would love anyones feedback!

Together with another dev I am buildung the file sharing and editing service we always wanted to use.

Editing-support for lots of file-types, encryption, git-like workflow, are some of the things we Plan to implement.

Together with another dev I am building the file sharing and editing service we always wanted to use.

Editing-support for lots of file-types, encryption, git-like workflow, are some of the things we plan to implement.

Been working on http://www.soundshelter.net

Sound Shelter is a platform for electronic music lovers to recommend their favourite vinyl records to each other.

We then use the recommendations to build a personalised feed full of music we think they'll love.

An ebook that'll function as a guide as to how to quit law and code based on my experience.

http://www.quitlawandcode.com

A lot of things at once. I'm finally committing to finishing them in order.

A) My personal CMS. Standard CMS but outputs a static website. Kind of a static site generator without going through all the "put file in folder run [jekyll/bootstrap] whatever to generate site and upload via ftp" hassle. Just blog like you normally would if using wordpress or medium.

B) A couple of SMS applications to generate some money on the side for me. Junk apps along the lines of "send 'quiz me' to 7890 to get a new quiz everyday". They are big (huuuge) in some parts of the world still.

C) An android app to create a single image from two images. This is just to learn android development.

D) A firefox addon for...

Sigh. I should probably shut up and go back to working on this stuff.

Heaps.

1) A framework (edencoder/eden) 2) A (sort of) imageboard https://www.1eden.com 3) An online marketplace (adlist) 4) A rental management software

... and a full time job

I'm working on a sort of DAW-ish thing for iPad. Except it's not really a DAW — more of a musical sketchpad. When I was sitting down and thinking of what I would like in a music creation app, I thought of two things. First, the typical DAW grid structure (and sheet music before it) is far too rigid for modern music. It's really hard to annotate music with syncopation, pitch bends, and fluid rhythms unless you already have the song in your head — and even then, it takes forever. Second, the feedback loop in most DAWs is really large. By the time you've pecked away at your piano roll and fiddled with the dozens of switches, your song is no longer fresh in your head.

In other words, I wanted something akin to musical clay: a very simple, very malleable representation of music in space that focuses entirely on ease of interaction.

With my app, I try to solve both of these problems. In regards to the former, you have the option of drawing every note arbitrarily in pitch or time, as simply as in an ordinary drawing app. (Snapping is an option, too.) And as for the latter, the whole thing is a scroll view, so panning and zooming are incredibly simple. Furthermore, you have immediate access to undo/redo and can also rewind to the last place you played from, meaning that iterating on your ideas takes only a few seconds as opposed to the arduous process of controlling a DAW. The UI tries to get out of your way as much as humanly possible.

I should emphasize that this won't be production software; the music you create will sound like MIDI. Rather, my goal here is to make an app that you can freely sketch and create musical ideas in, which can then be used as a rough draft for working with a more featureful DAW.

Performance is a top priority, and I'm targeting 60fps on my iPad 3.

Screenshot with rough "programmer" UI: http://cl.ly/image/1I0y0G2v0b2T/IMG_0281.PNG

Depending on my work ethic, I expect to release in a month or three.

Building a platform to assist in marketing some vacant office space we are buying in Atlanta. Will then try to take on CoStar.