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Ask HN: What are you currently working on?

by onuryavuz on 6/5/15, 5:57 PM with 30 comments

Let's talk about the project/startup/business you are currently working on.

Please include :

Name of the project and URL Elevator pitch or simply a explainer video

Any details you want to add: What stage are you in? How many employees or founders?

Are you looking for anything? (Feedback/Hiring/Investment)

  • by japhyr on 6/5/15, 6:40 PM

    I just resumed work on Open Competencies, which allows anyone to openly create, share, and revise education standards.

    Education standards are currently a cobbled-together set developed by independent bodies. We have Math and English standards from Common Core, Next Generation Science Standards developed by a different group, and so on. Open Competencies allows people to develop a set of standards that all have the same structure, which will be significantly beneficial when developing curriculum and other educational infrastructure. (This project is not a reaction to Common Core; the issue of inconsistent standards has been a longstanding problem in education.)

    The project is live at http://opencompetencies.org, and the code lives on github at https://github.com/openlearningtools/opencompetencies.

  • by canterburry on 6/5/15, 8:31 PM

    Name: Practive

    Elevator Pitch: Gives you enough insight into problems your customers are experiencing in realtime so that you can call them right away to make it right, instead of waiting for them to call you...or worse, leave your platform.

    Stage: 10% & 2 founders - Integrated with Stripe, MixPanel, Mandrill, Gmail, MailChimp, Desk.com and Zendesk. Ingesting and correlating datapoints with customer profiles in order to trigger automated alerts.

    Data is again siloed in third party partner systems. Time to bring it all back home and see the end to end customer experience and act on problems regardless of where they happen. Today's modern SaaS platforms generate enough data for customer service or success reps to spot problems in real time and be proactive about helping customers. We have the data, we just need to look at it.

    Looking for: Feedback, Beta customers, Investors

  • by sjs382 on 6/5/15, 8:48 PM

    Name: Send To My Cloud https://SendToMyCloud.com

    Send To My Cloud solves the "How can I have people send me large files?" problem, for users of Dropbox of Google Drive. This problem usually exists for designers, scrapbookers, contest organizers, etc. The "How do I send large files?" problem is already solved for GDrive and Dropbox users, so we don't attempt to solve it.

    Stage: Solo founder, making a few bucks on the side. Not looking for help, investment or partners.

    Looking for: Customers!

    ---

    I'm also working on a word game for Android and iOS. Hopefully I'll launch soon.

  • by archagon on 6/6/15, 12:00 AM

    I've mentioned this I other recent threads so I don't want to sound like a broken record, but oh well. I'm working on an finger-drawing-infinite-canvas-DAW-ish sort of thing for iPad that makes sketching out musical ideas a whole lot easier — especially if you can't play a musical instrument very well. I feel there aren't a whole lot of ways for non-instrumentalists to experiment with music in an environment with a tight, intuitive feedback loop, which makes music a daunting field to get into as compared to other creative fields like writing or painting. This app isn't for kids, though; I'm making it largely for my own use, since I have a ton of musical ideas but none of the instrumental chops to iterate on them or put them into practice. Everything runs on MIDI, and I even added support for microtonal scales the other day (via .scl files), just 'cause. Dunno when it'll be out, but I'm hoping in a few months. After that, I expect to keep updating and expanding it for as long as I use it myself, which should be many years.

    Early demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra8OvnoxKQw

    (Sorry about the dissonance, I was just putting down notes at random!)

  • by tixocloud on 6/5/15, 7:36 PM

    Name: Insightico (http://getinsightico.com)

    Elevator Pitch: Helping businesses get new insights and understand the markets their in.

    Stage: MVP - 2 founders and 0 employees

    Looking for: Feedback and Investment

    Sign up on our home page and we'll send you a link to test things out (We just wanted to respect those who had previously signed up). We've had several users tell us it's useful so far but we would like to build out more functionality.

  • by chaudhary27 on 6/5/15, 8:28 PM

    Name: Carmatic (http://www.carmatic.co), @trycarmatic

    Elevator Pitch: (On-demand car repair) Help car owners live stress free life by providing an end-to-end car repair service

    Stage: MVP - Solo Founder

    Would love to chat with anyone who is interested in the car repair industry and understands the pain point of getting maintenance/repair for your car. Also, any feedback will be incredibly helpful.

  • by chrisrickard on 6/5/15, 11:11 PM

    Name: Dayswork

    Pitch: Good software estimates are hard, get time estimates from real industry experts. Submit your brief (we also help you refine it etc.), choose how many estimates you'd like (2, 4, or 6), and then view & compare your project time estimates results from our experts.

    Target(s): Non tech peeps wanting a "ballpark" dev. time estimate. Or, devs/agencies wanting to sanity check an estimate they have already done.

    Stage: MVP - Solo founder.

    Love to get feedback on this... The main idea behind it is: Estimates are hard, some other opinions would be good. Properly defining & communicating requirements is also super hard - so the submission workflow goes deep into that (with clear examples etc).

    Would love feedback on pricing... How much would you pay to get 2 time estimates on a software project (from experts, familiar with the tech etc.)?

  • by seekingcharlie on 6/5/15, 8:06 PM

    Name: Debugging Design

    Elevator Pitch: Ebook on UI/UX Design for Developers

    Stage: 60% of content complete. Creating video content now for premium tier.

    Would LOVE for more user feedback, specifically anyone interested in telling me what they struggle with design-wise & what they would love to see in a resource.

    hello@angelasmith.com.au

  • by andersthue on 6/5/15, 9:08 PM

    I am working on the app for my newly invented method and way to work called TimeBlock.

    It's a lot of entrepreneurial ways of working mixed and simplified into a method I can explain in twenty minutes.

    The website and SaaS app is available at http://timeblock.com

    I have pitched the method to around 30 companies, half of those are working after the method now (ranging from 1 to 60 employees) and of those, 6 is using the app (two are paying customers \o/)

    I am looking for podcast and blogs who would like to talk about the method and how it helps Makers and Managers become happier and more effective.

  • by Jeremy1026 on 6/5/15, 6:59 PM

    Building up my consultancy business.

    http://jcurcioconsulting.com

    Custom web and mobile development, primarily working with small businesses in Maryland.

    Feedback on the website is always welcomed.

  • by krapp on 6/6/15, 3:01 AM

    Continuing towards my goal of actually finishing a game this year, here is a still unfinished attempt at Space Invaders[0] in C++ and SDL, and the barebones entity-component system i'm testing with it[1].

    [0]https://bitbucket.org/kennethrapp/spaceinvaders

    [1]https://bitbucket.org/kennethrapp/ecsframework

  • by seanmcdirmid on 6/6/15, 2:36 AM

    I am working on a new programming language aptly named "A Programmer Experience," or APX (like APL, but with an X!). It supports (or will support) live programming, aggressive type inference in the presence of subtyping, multi-core execution without locking, and a declarative state model that can deal with side effects. Oh, and it comes with an editor that supports live meta-text (like LightTable and Flogo II) and niceties like code completion (type inference is good for that).

  • by tekknolagi on 6/5/15, 11:53 PM

    Name: Max's Guide to Programming (with C)

    Pitch: I have not found a good resource for learning to code or even learning C in general. I decided to start writing a textbook to help my friends who are new to the field.

    Target(s): People who are new to the field or new to C.

    Stage: Sole writer. Am looking for feedback if you have time to read over! It's very early stage.

  • by edoceo on 6/5/15, 11:55 PM

    http://ars.io - resume/hiring tools, alpha, side project http://www.discuss.io - customer interview platform - mature, 3 founders, 11 employees, funded, profit

  • by soham on 6/5/15, 6:13 PM

    (You didn't say why you want to talk about this)

    Name: Interview Kickstart (http://InterviewKickstart.com)

    Elevator Pitch: Nail your next coding interview.

    Stage: Bootstrapped. Profitable.

    Employees: One fulltime (me) and about 18 people contracting (teachers, interviewers)

    Looking for: Feedback.

  • by yen223 on 6/6/15, 2:29 AM

    Name: Skyrunner

    I'm working on a way to bring the power of IPython Notebooks to the non-hacker crowd - think scientists, researchers and analysts.

    It's still very much a work in progress, but I would appreciate any feedback about features you'd like to see and frustrations you'd like to resolve.

  • by Buetol on 6/5/15, 9:00 PM

    http://dam.io/real/

    It's a game where you can play on your own drawings

    It's not really ready for non-ultra-technical users but it's quite nice! You can send me drawings if you like it!

  • by flippant on 6/6/15, 12:09 AM

    I've wasted ~10 hours trying to create a server implementation for Agar.io in Haskell. I haven't got very far, but I've learned that live streaming the process helps me stay motivated.

  • by voiceclonr on 6/5/15, 10:16 PM

    Name: www.voiceclonr.com

    A fun text to speech side project with some famous voices. Only looking for feedback and see how I make it interesting (or if it is even worthwhile to spend more time into it:)

  • by shojib on 6/5/15, 8:48 PM

    I am working a micro business. I am also an event which is helping the poor child.two of my friend are the founder of this project ...we need more worker...