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What are you working on? | Eliezer: Same ol', same ol', still saving the world. http://singinst.org/ |
What are you working on? | hikari17: I'm working on getting our bootstrapped genealogy research site ready for private beta: http://www.genlighten.com. |
What are you working on? | joshsharp: Working my day job at http://recursive.com.auCurrent side project is http://twitterscribe.com, an archive for your tweets that exports in PDF and CSV. (Yes, another Twitter-related app.) I have some things like OAuth to integrate, then we're going to publish custom books of your tweets.Hopefully that'll brin... |
What are you working on? | Zak: I'm working on newer and better software for controlling stage and club lighting. It's still in the early stages, so the final form of the product(s) isn't clear to me yet. A likely initial release will be aimed at the club market, currently dominated by Martin LightJockey since a decent offering there won't requi... |
What are you working on? | peregrine: I spend most of my time working at http://www.directsupplycareers.com/careers/ (if your thinking about applying I can refer so drop me a line) and I spend the rest of my time working on a maps/weather mashup.Until I go to school that is then I split my time between them. |
What are you working on? | mrtron: Recently put together http://www.twitpare.com as a fun app for all. |
What are you working on? | dill_day: I'm doing a NSF `Research Experiences for Undergraduates' thing at school... the project is trying to help out with an optimizing compiler for Linear Algebra kernels.For a personal project I've been working on compiling Scheme to JVM bytecode; I'm fixing bugs in my syntax-rules implementation right now. My c... |
What are you working on? | anon17: Testing mining and simulation products written in C and .NET for a mid-sized software house. |
What are you working on? | andrewtj: I'm working on two DNS Service Discovery related projects at the moment.The first is a Wide Area Bonjour hosting service which will be of interest if you have a few Macs that you wish could find each other when they're not the same LAN. I'm hopeful it'll become my income stream in the near future: http://glob... |
What are you working on? | thunk: I'm trying to solve, once and for all, the problem of hacking music on a computer, using Lisp and a couple venerable libs. You'll all be the first to know when I release the alpha (very soon). |
What are you working on? | J3nnings: A small business selling stickers: http://www.supplycrate.com
A ventrilo status website (taught myself codeigniter): http:///www.ventstatus.com
A ajax risk clone (using codeigniter and learning jquery): no domain |
What are you working on? | dawie: Docley (http://docley.com/): Simple Document Management |
What are you working on? | jellisjapan: I've been slowly creating a site to help japanese students learn kanji reading and context at readthekanji.com. I'm quite happy with it as it gets much better with every release and I'm learning a lot as I go. |
What are you working on? | adbachman: Incorporating a non-profit hackerspace in Baltimore, Maryland and preparing to sign a lease on a workshop. http://baltimorenode.org |
What are you working on? | newsio: On my nights and weekends, I am trying to get the pieces aligned for a mobile news startup, and stumbling on the back-end challenges (not surprising, considering I am not a hacker). |
What are you working on? | apinstein: Working on Neybor, an Automated Real Estate Marketing platform: http://neybor.com.Working on PHP framework as well that I use for Neybor and other projects at http://phocoa.com. |
What are you working on? | plinkplonk: I am doing something slightly weird. (I can talk about this on HN, but I am keeping it quiet otherwise).I read an article on Slashdot about John Carmack where he said, (emphasis mine)" After I took the job at Softdisk, I was happy. I was programming, or reading about programming, or talking about program... |
What are you working on? | swolchok: Seeing if Hex-Rays' decompiler plugin (http://www.hex-rays.com/decompiler.shtml) for IDA Pro (http://www.hex-rays.com/idapro) can be reimplemented in Python with little work for much benefit, following the Pareto Principle. Not really cloning their work; rather, noting that IDA does not expose even trivial da... |
What are you working on? | endtime: I'm working for Microsoft this summer on the team developing some of the Office web apps...specifically, I'm working on the Word Viewer.I'm also working on a startup that hopes to launch this fall. |
What are you working on? | ctingom: Working on my first startup after spending 11 years designing web sites. My startup is a time tracking application called Minuteglass. It's been an adventure. I can't wait to do one of those posts on HN where I ask people to review it.http://www.minuteglass.com/ |
What are you working on? | jpierce420: Just joined an open source project, a p2p client for eDonkey, and eventually bit torrent and others. It is an older project that went proprietary/closed-source and failed, and we're breathing new life into it starting with the old open source code base. We're about done cleaning it all up, and will start o... |
What are you working on? | chedigitz: Just resigned from my 9-5 to focus full time on my baby GMTV, a sketch comedy series on YouTube, and other fun projects. Currently, Building a sound stage in my loft for filming.project 2 - a music aggregator that delivers new hip-hop tracks being discussed on twitter, the goal is to rank based on conversati... |
What are you working on? | vitaminj: Slightly off the beaten track - I'm currently in a small developing country in Southeast Asia working on renewable energy projects for rural villages. I've been here for 4 months and am absolutely loving it... it's actually a satisfying use of an electrical engineering degree! |
What are you working on? | yummyfajitas: Trying to make MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) suck less.Also working on a tool to make scientific collaboration easier. |
What are you working on? | Pistos2: Continuing on with my console editor ( http://purepistos.net/diakonos/ ). Aiming to get it to live up to being billed "A Linux editor for the masses". A recent version formalized an extension system (even though it has been extensible with Ruby for a long while now). Upcoming roadmap items: modes; window sp... |
What are you working on? | bkrausz: Trying to brand myself and build up my consulting business (basic web consulting with a niche-market twist). |
What are you working on? | bgnm2000: Learning ruby to start a few more projects, and excycle.com, as well as working part time |
What are you working on? | ddemchuk: I've mentioned this in another comment here before, but I'm working on a social book summary website. Users can search for or submit up to 500-word summaries, vote on their favorites, and leave comments on them as well. It emerged from my frustration in trying to refresh my memory for books I've already read.... |
What are you working on? | dgallagher: I'm working on a startup that's, well, it's a secret. Not everybody is going to tell. ;)Last November I was laid off from my job. Haven't been able to find a new one, so I've been teaching myself to code in the meantime. It's a completely different field but I'm in love with it. :) I come from a mixed... |
What are you working on? | flooha: Trying to make building customized websites suck less. Have you ever tried to build a MediaWiki site with extensions, or an osCommerce/Zencart site with contributions? It sucks so bad, I'd rather claw my eyes out. Most of the installation instructions consist of:Open this file.
Find this code.
Paste this code... |
What are you working on? | Ixiaus: As is the theme with the hackers here, I gave my letter of resignation last week to my employers and will be working full time on some underground/blackhat technology that I've developed.I will also be working on a few of my startup ideas; I am also going to pursue my self-education full time (as in 2 days per ... |
What are you working on? | utku_karatas: Wow. So noone here working on an IDE or text editor? Anyway I do :-)Recently decided to give a break on my degree (physics) and finalize my neverending Python IDE (Windows only - sorry :-)) while making buck on Django gigs for the bills. I don't even remember when I actually started on that. Must be the b... |
What are you working on? | bemmu: Adding features to my MySpace application that turned out to be surprisingly popular (http://bit.ly/mDZYb). Specifically I want to let users see who lives near them, and maybe get some dating aspects going. Also playing some more with the Twitter API after our first failed project with it, let's see if I'll get ... |
What are you working on? | tobych: Academic start-up: Multicriteria Mapping.I'm in Poulsbo, a Norwegian settlement just across Puget Sound from Seattle, WA, USA, working (remotely) with Andy Stirling (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Stirling) at SPRU, University of Sussex, Brighton, England, on his Multicriteria Mapping (http://www.multicriter... |
What are you working on? | JimmyL: Just graduated, so working on getting a job (anyone in Toronto?).In the meantime, brushing up on my Python with Project Euler and a Kenken solver. |
What are you working on? | eserorg: In the oil business: http://eser.org |
What are you working on? | jlongster: Finish porting Gambit Scheme to the iPhone so I can quickly develop apps with technologies I'm familiar with.http://jlongster.com/blog/2009/06/17/write-apps-iphone-schem... |
What are you working on? | alyssumclimbs: Working on http://flowmingle.comFlowMingle is a group oriented online dating site that leads a small, local group of singles through a guided introduction process. I'm working with two other full-time partners in Lexington, Ky. Specifically, at this moment we are integrating the ability to sign-up and ... |
What are you working on? | tapostrophemo: Working the day job (in-house dev. at Nationwide Insurance).In process of incorporating an LLC with a businesss partner; our first project will deal with web widgets...should be live (selling from day 1) by the end of the summer.Fun recent project was a thing I threw together "in a weekend" to make findi... |
What are you working on? | spencerfry: I run a 3 person startup full-time: http://www.carbonmade.comAnd then on the side I run a small design blog: http://www.burstoid.com |
Building Startups: A few big ones, or many smaller ones? | credo: my answer is neither.
ymmvInstead of a "a few smaller ones" or "larger start-ups", imo starting with just one startup would be a better idea.It is easier to do a good job on one startup if you're focusing solely on that startup (especially since your definition of a small startup includes startups that could tak... |
Building Startups: A few big ones, or many smaller ones? | pg: You can't determine ahead of time what the size will be, because projects grow. Most huge companies started out as something much smaller. |
What are you working on? | justlearning: reading everyone's tasks on hand, i feel like an ant standing in a herd of mammoths.anyways,I am working thru clojure -using the only book available. reading some code. unlearning OOPS...and trying to make sense of the marsh of doing many things and not accomplishing anything.in one word - struggling. |
What are you working on? | GeneralMaximus: Building a full text search tool for Haiku (http://haiku-os.org). Fun times :) |
What are you working on? | billclerico: wepay.com |
What are you working on? | paraschopra: Been working on Wingify (http://www.wingify.com/), a behavioral targeting, real time analytics and website optimization software. Lots of learning on the way: Design of Experiments, Tokyo Cabinet, Distributed System Wide Job Queue, Scaling, etc. etc.Aim is to make best on site measurement and targeting app... |
Building Startups: A few big ones, or many smaller ones? | chaosprophet: If you measure the size of a startup by time to public beta, then you are making a fundamental mistake. The thing is, before you go public, you can spend as much or as little time as you want, but once you are public and people actually star using your stuff, you will have to continuously iterate and refi... |
Building Startups: A few big ones, or many smaller ones? | inerte: How much time it took you to think about this question? 1 hour? A day if we count an event that happened today? A year, since you've decided to follow a certain path? A whole life maybe, if you think everything you did and everything you are lead to this question?The same questions can be applied to your startu... |
What are you working on? | johnwatson11218: I'm working on a web based blackjack program. I have a beta up at http://www.barracudafix.com . My idea is to make it easy to learn card counting with this free webapp. I'm using java, spring, mysql, and dojo.
I'm thinking of porting the ajax stuff over to jquery. |
What are you working on? | emmett: Justin.tv. Who would have guessed that 2.5 years after putting a camera on Justin's head, we'd still be going strong? I was really expecting more of a blaze of glory followed by immediate failure, not a sustainable business. |
What are you working on? | jrussino: I'm leaving San Francisco at the end of the month to begin a Master's program in Mechanical Engineering at John's Hopkins University. My undergraduate work was (mostly) in Biology/Neuroscience, but I realized late in the game that I was much more interested in doing engineering-type work. My primary area of i... |
What are you working on? | tlrobinson: http://280atlas.com/ - You've probably seen this by now.http://narwhaljs.org/ + http://jackjs.org/ + https://wiki.mozilla.org/ServerJS- Attempting to make JavaScript more usable on the server and other non-browser contexts. Bringing it up to par with Ruby, Python, etc. Includes a standard library, package m... |
What are you working on? | neuromanta: I'm fresh out from college, having an Msc in information engineering. I have a job, working as a researcher trainee. In my free time I'm working on a game with pygame, and collaborating in an open source project, a software which helps localization. |
What are you working on? | david927: A new approach to the relational database. Relationships are handled differently allowing them to change on the fly. And the query language is straight-forward; no joins, etc.We should reach private alpha by the end of August. It's a start-up in Prague, Czech Republic, but strangely all four of us are Ameri... |
What are you working on? | emilis_info: I am developing a web wiki with a WYSIWYG user interface. It has an in-place editor instead of forms and textareas (stole some ideas from Zim desktop wiki).I am also creating a new programming language for the wiki - a mixture of many ideas from lisp, python and other. The language can be expressed by HTML... |
What are you working on? | evgen: I am currently working on what is turning out to be a somewhat funky graph-database in Erlang that will be used to power the semantic recommendation engine for a news/questions/info site targeted at a professionals and industry people in a particular market. |
Article where a Meetup.com guy was talking about taking it 100% paid? | startupcomment: Is this what you were looking for?http://www.intuitive.com/blog/change_your_business_model_and...This post offers some excellent advice. |
Building Startups: A few big ones, or many smaller ones? | staunch: I would limit yourself to 3-4 months for a beta at the outside. I don't know about you, but I have trouble working on something for longer than that without getting some real feedback. That doesn't mean you have to do something small. The first version of Google could have been done in 3-4 months.I think it's ... |
What are you working on? | raquo: I'm trying to create a web analytics SaaS for blogs that is usable and provides some publishing-specific metrics (unlike GA and most other services). I started it because I love design and visualization and it was a pain for me to derive any insights from available web analytics services. |
What are you working on? | mv: I have been learning Python by implementing genetic algorithms.. Anyone else interested in machine learning? I'd love having someone to shoot ideas with. I'm in medical school so most of my friends don't know too much about programming.moejoe16.geo@yahoo.com (this is my spambox that i only check when expecting emai... |
What are you working on? | 8plot: I'm working on revolutionizing the fiction publishing industry. |
What are you working on? | tome: Trying to polish off metapaw-dip in my spare time http://www.metapaw.co.uk/projects/metapaw-dip/ |
What are you working on? | jasonkester: Polishing Twiddla. It's amazing how much work you can put into something and have it still look sort of the same from the outside. It does a lot more though, and it does it a lot better. Our customer service load is as low as it's ever been...I'll be tweaking the revenue model a bit over the summer, to ... |
What are you working on? | davidw: Not as much as I'd like to be. Lots of consulting, and http://BikeChatter.com for fun. Hopefully going to be doing some more with Hecl soon. Being a dad takes up a lot of time. |
Best approach for taking on well funded competitors ? | jacquesm: I've been in that situation, but we were 'all in', so, no part timers, just full timers.Our competitor was funded with 30M and had two major brands supporting them through bundling deals. If it had not been for major mistakes on their side (fancy office, some idiot MBA as a CEO, out of control burn rate) I do... |
What are you working on? | nagoff: Trying to get everything ready for our recently announced launch in August (www.psonar.com) |
Best approach for taking on well funded competitors ? | bdfh42: $5m funding means someone thinks the idea might have legs - so outrun them!Difficult to do just part time but with a simpler approach you might just be able to do it but only if you release - then you can keep releasing with each step putting distance between you and them. |
What are you working on? | rs: Working full time on a new version of http://xp-dev.com/ - the new platform should be out in a few weeks and should do everything that everyone has been asking for (will be easier to use as well). Git hosting will be coming up as well (Mercurial later on).After the recent debacle with stolen code and what not (took... |
What are you working on? | jacquesm: A way to tag text using google backwards. Don't ask :) |
Price discrimination | rs: A slight side step from the main discussion (do apologise for that), but does anyone know whether price discrimination is regulated/protected for consumers ? Just wondering if there's a legal side to it. i.e. is there a limit to how much a seller can price discriminate ? etc |
Best approach for taking on well funded competitors ? | Dobbs: Look the idea's are really simple. You just have to do it better, faster and cheaper.It might be simple but that doesn't mean its easy. Hard work is what it comes down to. |
Best approach for taking on well funded competitors ? | kneath: My advice - launch soon and start making money (charge as soon as possible - tomorrow preferably). There's a unique advantage to not having funding: when you make money, it's all yours.You should also keep in mind that funded companies are going for the "home run" — which means they're far more likely to keep ... |
Help My Survey | ErrantX: clicky linkhttp://www.errant.me.uk/survey |
Best approach for taking on well funded competitors ? | mtkd: There is always something you can do better than a competitor no matter how well they are funded compared to you. |
Startup vs Girlfriend | Slavo: Go with the girl, man. I'm surprised most people would even think about this. You'll always have a great idea to work on, but once you get older, it won't be that easy to find a soulmate. I'm getting the feeling this misunderstood entrepreneurship costs more and more for young people. People are always, ALWAYS, ... |
What are you working on? | lvv: After keep saying to myself - C++ is good enough, I wound up in having all my projects being in different language: http://volnitsky.com/project (bash, python, c++) |
What's your favorite site for hacking on things other than computers? | Banzai10: Basically I like to hack on moneyhttp://www.getrichslowly.com
http://www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com
http://www.budgetpulse.combut I will be starting to hack in internal designs also, because want to buy an apartment ;) |
Best approach for taking on well funded competitors ? | edw519: "Their service has more bells and whistles, but mine is much simpler and quicker to use."You just answered your own question. You must focus your marketing on "simpler and quicker" to the exclusion of everything else. (Either "simpler" or "quicker" would be even better, focusing on one thing.)Jack Trout, in "... |
Best approach for taking on well funded competitors ? | bsaunder: I'd take a little more time to position yourself against them. If your service is simpler and quicker, it would seem that you may be able to poach their customers. Kinda like your competitor has generated your marketing leads for you.Perhaps you could make it easy for their customers to migrate to your new ... |
What are you working on? | fuzzythinker: Thinking of continuing to work on my javascript physics engine: http://fuzzthink.com/openjs or starting something else. |
What sites, e.g. experts-exchange.com, would you remove from Google? | compay: Here in Argentina, if you search in Spanish, todoar.com.ar comes up in the top 10 for almost everything. I'll hand it to the owners, they know how to do SEO. The problem is there's no useful content on any of their ad-ridden pages. |
What sites, e.g. experts-exchange.com, would you remove from Google? | jacquesm: All the stores that have been spidered
(amazon.com etc)Googles own sites
(youtube.com, images.google.com, etc)All the cloaked sites (sites that will redirect you after landing, or that show you different content than they showed the search engine)All the spammers
(you've already mentioned experts xchg,... |
What sites, e.g. experts-exchange.com, would you remove from Google? | FreeRadical: mahalo |
What sites, e.g. experts-exchange.com, would you remove from Google? | AhmadH: about.com |
What sites, e.g. experts-exchange.com, would you remove from Google? | skolor: Its funny you mention experts-exchange. Whenever I see that as a search result, its usually a relief. I have yet to see an experts-exchange page that did not have the information I was looking for on it, even though they do make it rather difficult to find (You have to scroll all the way to the bottom to see th... |
The future of medicine and IT | karatchov: A piece of advice from a med student: focus on your studies !
Since you have a good computer experience, there is little chance that you lose your IT/Programming knowledge if you just focus on your medecine.
BUT, there are much higher risks that you end up with a poor medecine knowledge if you try to mix it ... |
What sites, e.g. experts-exchange.com, would you remove from Google? | KWD: I've often thought that if you removed any site that uses Google Adsense you'd get much better results. |
What sites, e.g. experts-exchange.com, would you remove from Google? | JshWright: Seems like it wouldn't be too hard to whip up an extension (or just a greasemonkey script) to append "-site:blah.com" entries to all google searches, according to a user defined list.In fact, I'd be surprised if such an extension didn't already exist (I'm not interested enough to go look...) |
What sites, e.g. experts-exchange.com, would you remove from Google? | pert: The price comparison sites that don't contain reviews but do manage to come high up in a Google search for 'X reviews'. |
What happens to your Facebook account when you die? | danw: There is a special 'In Memoriam' mode apparently, although I have yet to see it. |
What happens to your Facebook account when you die? | trickjarrett: Digital assets after death are still handled extremely poorly. In most cases your information on the digital servers is your property, so you should be able to direct your executor / executrix to notify the necessary sites and have them act accordingly. However the action is not going to be speedy.My opti... |
What happens to your Facebook account when you die? | jm4: There could be other reasons why they retain data. For example, it could be to maintain data integrity. Let's say you've sent messages to people, left comments, written on walls, etc. When you delete your account it's going to be much easier to flip a flag somewhere to indicate that the account is no longer active... |
What happens to your Facebook account when you die? | profquail: I don't think that your family can request control of your account, but they can request that it is deleted (or hidden, I don't know what FB does internally).I've had friends who've passed away, and their facebook is still up; people write messages on their wall every once in a while saying that they miss th... |
Best approach for taking on well funded competitors ? | fleaflicker: don't worry about what they're doing and stay focused on whatever it was that motivated you to start in the first place.nothing has really changed other than your perception.fleaflicker launched in august 2005. i was 23 and living with my parents. that same year, fox sports, protrade ($10M in funding plus ... |
Best approach for taking on well funded competitors ? | mdasen: The big question is: does funding help? With funding you can hire more developers, but that may or may not help depending on what you're doing. Is your project capital heavy (ie. do you have to pay lots of money for servers and such)?If you aren't going to be hiring more developers and your service doesn't re... |
What are you working on? | abyssknight: Honestly, I wish I was working on something outside of the office. The reality is I wish I was working on something worthwhile while I'm in the office. Lately the job has become a job again, and although it pays the bills, its still meaningless work. Building the same applications ten different ways for te... |
What happens to your Facebook account when you die? | tokenadult: This is the reason my wife and I share Facebook passwords. Presumably, if one of us dies, the other one will want to be able to rapidly revise the Facebook page of the other. Maybe Facebook will die before either of us, but it's good to plan ahead.It's also possible to entirely delete a Facebook account.htt... |
What sites, e.g. experts-exchange.com, would you remove from Google? | Mankhool: If Google won't filter the garbage out of the results why doesn't someone build something that will, for example, instantly remove any webpage that hasn't been updated since 1999 etc.etc. Off topic yes, but I find most of the sites that come up, well, useless. |
What sites, e.g. experts-exchange.com, would you remove from Google? | viraptor: swik.net - For some reason I see it's "search" pages every day in search results. Put two protocol names together, or a language + protocol and you're almost guaranteed to get it in the second place :/scribd - They hide your search phrases somewhere in the page, so that you can think you've found exactly what... |
What are you working on? | HeyLaughingBoy: I'm building small, portable, high-efficiency LED-based lights these days. Unlike most of my "toy projects" I have real uses for high intensity, battery powered lighting.Current one now in design is a belt-mounted light powered by a 3-AA battery. |
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