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Ask HN: On which project you're working right now?

20 points| anujkk | 14 years ago | reply

Just curious about what HN Community is coding these days.

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[+] david927|14 years ago|reply
A database that looks and acts like a spreadsheet. You can say Person.Name or you can say Person.A5. Every cell can itself be another spreadsheet/table. So you can query Person.A5.C3 or Person.Kids.Age. A query of :"Ahoj" will get any instances of that value in O(1) in any column of any table.

Each query/command is a single HTTP GET request. The spreadsheet is all done in pure canvas, and there's a JS equivalent for the backend, so it can work off-line and synch up.

[+] anujkk|14 years ago|reply
How is this being implemented? Is it a server side database and client communicate to it using HTTP Get request? Does it use POST and PUT requests too for modifying it(as in the case of REST?

Also, I'm confused about "spreadsheet is all done in pure canvas". Are you talking about canvas of HTML5?

[+] mahmud|14 years ago|reply
Sounds like javascript. foo["bar"] is same as foo.bar.
[+] amccloud|14 years ago|reply
http://pixelcloud.com A simple way for design teams to collaborate and share what they’re working on. :)

The stack: Python, Django, Backbone.js, MySQL, Solr, Redis, Nginx, Gunicorn.

The integration between Django and Backbone.js was a b*tch. I'll hopefully be osing two small apps that make it a breeze for others.

[+] dchuk|14 years ago|reply
1) Building and growing the most kickass SEO research and competition analysis tool on the market: http://serpiq.com

2) (attempting to) Revive a forum for SaaS builders I started a few months back: http://www.saasaholics.com

[+] trussi|14 years ago|reply
I signed up for SerpIQ. Clean UI, but the UX needs work. You present good data, if the user knew what to do with it. Close the loop and tell me. Don't make me become an SEM expert. You're the expert. Just tell me what I should do with the results. Then you have a killer product.

I bounced from SaaSaholics once I saw it was a generic message board. That won't cut it these days. Gotta have a more social UI.

[+] blazzar|14 years ago|reply
Just about to release my first little site http://reviewport.net (holding/basic info page at the mo)

LAMP stack - never touched any of them before building this and the only ever other code I wrote was a little ASP about 10 years ago (when I say little it was one recruitment site). So this has been a real learning experience.

[+] solost|14 years ago|reply
I am working on http://www.shallwecoupon.com - I launched it last month and am continuing to work on the finish of the site (I still have about 600 logos to update) before I go back and start adding incrimental functionality.

It took 30 days to build and implement, I am pretty please with the results so far. Thoughts?

[+] gaius|14 years ago|reply
I have a little project I call Operation Foothold, which is about removing blockers to enterprise adoption of OCaml. So far I have useful Oracle bindings, and have started work on a Coherence binding. This project is briefly on-hold while I re-learn C++... More on my blog at http://gaiustech.wordpress.com/
[+] struppi|14 years ago|reply
Data visualization in .NET for a client (I'm a freelancer). http://gclimbing.com (written in Java with a custom web framework) and my blog as side projects. I also want to start another little side project, either in Ruby on Rails (I want to learn it) or in Java - not sure yet.
[+] anujkk|14 years ago|reply
Any ideas for your new project? I'm also looking for same but for practicing python.
[+] PedroCandeias|14 years ago|reply
Right now I'm consulting (got to update my profile) for a client in the rent-a-car business. On the side, I'm still chipping away at a new version of threddie, my little chat/brainstorm app. All of it in the familiar lamp stack.

I'm also trying to find the time to go through Zed's Learn Python the Hard Way.

[+] joshfinnie|14 years ago|reply
I am working on Version 2 of BeerLedge.com. Now that Untappd has become more popular I am trying to work through some code where I can differentiate myself.

It started as an exercise to learn python (using the Flask micro-framework), but I have really fallen for the idea and love working on it.

[+] rudasn|14 years ago|reply
I am working on a video bookmarking site http://mytubemarks.com (beta) and examining the possibilities for a new type of a classifieds website.

What are you working on?

[+] martinshen|14 years ago|reply
Moved to SF a few months ago and got some traction/funds. Working on UpOut: discover fun now. Looking to hire employee #1.. equity + pay. Email me if interested.. martin at UpOut
[+] dmm|14 years ago|reply
I have two big projects: a parallel raster(map) reprojector that does some interesting resampling and a semantic web representation of the nation's geospatial datasets.
[+] joshfinnie|14 years ago|reply
Not sure why you were downvoted. These sound like some very interesting projects. Would love to hear more about where you are going with the web represenatation of geodata!
[+] JamieLewis|14 years ago|reply
Right now, I am currently designing/writing a game for Android, mainly as an exercise to get me back into game programming.
[+] Egregore|14 years ago|reply
I'm doing an ExtJs (a rich JavaScript framework) project right now.
[+] callmeed|14 years ago|reply
Cilantro: "about.me for restaurants"