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."
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.
I'm working on a web-app which starts like a feature-rich to-do list app, but shifts the focus towards planning out larger life goals, and tracking progress:
In particular this week, I've been working on solidifying the quantification side of the app (see the first two screenshots) - i.e. making day-to-day productivity (and lack of productivity!) towards big goals something that's measurable and the user can be held accountable for as they look back over past performance.
I've added more of an explanation to the imgur captions.
The site's currently in a launched-but-heavy-iterating stage at https://nachapp.com
Just wanted to say that the time, effort and thought you have put in this project is a very apparent once you spend a few minutes poking through the UI.
Excellent execution.
I like how as a new user, you get to start 'simply' (no trackers or readings or due dates or targets) and the UI is not overwhelming and add those things as/when you need them.
The dexterity of the application is not obvious when you see /use it for the first time (I think this is a 'good' thing in that you have managed to successfully keep the UI 'simple' while providing all the bells and whistles for when needed)
Great job, keep it up, this looks helpful and I'll probably be using it.
I've been playing around with this concept for a couple of years (never having executed) and was expecting to be disappointed but this is very thoughtfully executed. I only wish this was open source :)
I spotted this on Saturday and have been using it since. Honestly, excellent. To-do lists and productivity apps seem to be a dime a dozen, and I've tried them all. They're generally shit. Yours is the best I've seen, so I've converted to paying.
I filed a little bug report with a few issues I spotted, but nothing breaking. I hope you get enough traffic to make it worth more of your time. Thanks.
Just wanted to reply - I just signed up and started working with it ... this is the power / analytics of a todo app that I've been wanting, well done! I'll send some feedback through the contact form once I play with it a little more.
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.
Nothing really fancy like other people here. I'm making an admin template based on bootstrap. It's my first attempt at it and I plan to sell it on wrapbootstrap/themeforest (if they find it good enough for their marketplace).
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.
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.
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.
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.
Highschooler here building a reddit bot that can be summoned to create posters, tshirts, mugs, mousepads, etc from images and comments posted on reddit.
It's around 70% done. The hard parts: creating the posters from comments (imagemagick) and creating a product page (zazzle api) are both done.
Now i'm just working on getting a rabbitmq cluster up and running so that it can process multiple comments at once.
Also working on the design of the the items because right now it's pretty bland with just b/w text.
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
Huh, been getting a lot of hits on imgur.
If anyone's curious, the repo is here. I'd totally love any suggestions! I'm doing a lot of this stuff for the first time.
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.
I'm building a book-reader app using the Spritz API. I started this at LAHacks with help from Spritz developers, but I've decided to keep working on it and try to get it in the App Store.
If you don't know what Spritz is, it's a technology / service to let you read more efficiently, by displaying each word in the same place. Your eyes don't need to scan to find the next word, and most people can increase their reading speeds by a lot because of this. Many dyslexics find reading with Spritz far more comfortable than reading printed text. I'm not going to argue it's use for reading in ranges upwards of 1000 wpm, but I do think it's comfortable and usable for general reading (300 - 400 wpm personally).
Features already integrated:
- Chapters.
- Change the speed as you're reading with a slider. Most Spritz applications don't have this, and it's a shame.
- Pause, play, jump back a few words.
Things left to do:
- EPUB & MOBI support. Shouldn't be too hard. Currently it just reads TXT documents.
- Add Books. From URL initially, next step will be GDrive + Dropbox.
- Bookmarks. Very easy to do with .txt documents, maybe a bit different for e-book formats.
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.
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.
I'm writing an iPad app for Mediabrowser 3 (mediabrowser3.com) with another developer. Mediabrowser is in the same space as Plex and XBMC. If everything goes well we plan on launching later this month.
We have invested a lot of time and effort into making the app fast. Our mantra from the very beginning was that speed was going to be a keystone feature for our app. The fluidity of scrolling in our views was one of the main things we focused on. We wrote test code that continuously scrolls our views up and down while we profile it. We are utilizing Path's FastImageCache along with a lot of other caching to get the performance levels that we wanted.
We are considering writing a new backend for our client app so we can launch a similar app for XBMC as well.
Added a set of questions that customers can answer after starting their Candy Japan subscription. Hopefully this will let me understand them better and help with setting the tone in the way I write, possibly influence product choices and help with marketing.
It's amazing what a nice bunch my customers are. Out of 500 subscribers already 70 have volunteered their time to answer the question set that I just sent out. For typical ecommerce emails, 14% might be the number of people who open an email, but here they not only opened, but clicked through some obscure link on the bottom and spent time answering a long questionnaire for me.
I haven't collected the answers yet, but here are the questions.
- Why they subscribed
- Who will eat the candies?
- Do they have kids?
- Are they into anime?
- Have they been to Japan?
- What are their hobbies?
Also included some that might help with online advertising:
- Age
- Gender
- Education level
- Married?
- Social networks they use
- Other websites they visit (5 people mentioned Hacker News)
I'm thinking of writing up a blog post describing what I learned, will post it later.
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.
I'm working on a mini-spreadsheet app for Android. The core idea is to keep notes in a key-value format and do basic spreadsheet functions. I have a prototype but not sure if anyone wants it and if I should invest more time to finish it. Here's a screenshot: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B17zGMpsqZu-clk1RkNfSnNxLXc/.... So, anyone wants this?
[+] [-] fiblye|12 years ago|reply
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|12 years ago|reply
Any gameplay vids? Demos?
What are you deving in? What platforms do you hope to release for?
[+] [-] ttty|12 years ago|reply
[+] [-] eccp|12 years ago|reply
[+] [-] jamesisaac|12 years ago|reply
http://imgur.com/a/tSPHP
In particular this week, I've been working on solidifying the quantification side of the app (see the first two screenshots) - i.e. making day-to-day productivity (and lack of productivity!) towards big goals something that's measurable and the user can be held accountable for as they look back over past performance.
I've added more of an explanation to the imgur captions.
The site's currently in a launched-but-heavy-iterating stage at https://nachapp.com
[+] [-] maineldc|12 years ago|reply
[+] [-] ark15|12 years ago|reply
I like how as a new user, you get to start 'simply' (no trackers or readings or due dates or targets) and the UI is not overwhelming and add those things as/when you need them.
The dexterity of the application is not obvious when you see /use it for the first time (I think this is a 'good' thing in that you have managed to successfully keep the UI 'simple' while providing all the bells and whistles for when needed)
Great job, keep it up, this looks helpful and I'll probably be using it.
[+] [-] smokestack|12 years ago|reply
[+] [-] lazzlazzlazz|12 years ago|reply
I filed a little bug report with a few issues I spotted, but nothing breaking. I hope you get enough traffic to make it worth more of your time. Thanks.
[+] [-] mkal_tsr|12 years ago|reply
[+] [-] aaron987|12 years ago|reply
[+] [-] PeterOliver|12 years ago|reply
[+] [-] bananamansion|12 years ago|reply
[+] [-] JamieLewis|12 years ago|reply
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|12 years ago|reply
[+] [-] pyvek|12 years ago|reply
http://i.imgur.com/Q12ACJu.png
http://i.imgur.com/7gqyQiN.png
http://i.imgur.com/sEVu6lG.png
[+] [-] alexgaribay|12 years ago|reply
[+] [-] ttty|12 years ago|reply
[+] [-] sfdev14|12 years ago|reply
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? [email protected]
[+] [-] mkal_tsr|12 years ago|reply
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 :-)
[+] [-] theboss|12 years ago|reply
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.
[+] [-] aaron987|12 years ago|reply
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.
[+] [-] will_lam|12 years ago|reply
[+] [-] suhailpatel|12 years ago|reply
[+] [-] kevinsundar|12 years ago|reply
It's around 70% done. The hard parts: creating the posters from comments (imagemagick) and creating a product page (zazzle api) are both done.
Now i'm just working on getting a rabbitmq cluster up and running so that it can process multiple comments at once. Also working on the design of the the items because right now it's pretty bland with just b/w text.
Here's a screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/8SOMHBl.jpg
[+] [-] bglazer|12 years ago|reply
[+] [-] bichiliad|12 years ago|reply
Screenshots here: http://imgur.com/a/uw8I1#0
[1]: http://www.wrct.org/ [2]: http://designmodo.github.io/Flat-UI/
[+] [-] bichiliad|12 years ago|reply
https://github.com/bichiliad/warmd
[+] [-] Ryel|12 years ago|reply
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.
[+] [-] granttimmerman|12 years ago|reply
I just finished my portfolio website http://grant.cm
Github: https://github.com/grant/grant.cm
[+] [-] ekmartin|12 years ago|reply
[+] [-] ecolner|12 years ago|reply
[+] [-] clay_to_n|12 years ago|reply
Main view when paused: http://imgur.com/2IyQkSG
Main view when reading: http://imgur.com/yukcvyW
If you don't know what Spritz is, it's a technology / service to let you read more efficiently, by displaying each word in the same place. Your eyes don't need to scan to find the next word, and most people can increase their reading speeds by a lot because of this. Many dyslexics find reading with Spritz far more comfortable than reading printed text. I'm not going to argue it's use for reading in ranges upwards of 1000 wpm, but I do think it's comfortable and usable for general reading (300 - 400 wpm personally).
Features already integrated:
- Chapters.
- Change the speed as you're reading with a slider. Most Spritz applications don't have this, and it's a shame.
- Pause, play, jump back a few words.
Things left to do:
- EPUB & MOBI support. Shouldn't be too hard. Currently it just reads TXT documents.
- Add Books. From URL initially, next step will be GDrive + Dropbox.
- Bookmarks. Very easy to do with .txt documents, maybe a bit different for e-book formats.
[+] [-] ac1294|12 years ago|reply
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
[+] [-] joshmn|12 years ago|reply
[+] [-] Aaronn|12 years ago|reply
[+] [-] robhack|12 years ago|reply
[+] [-] gue5t|12 years ago|reply
[+] [-] hexa-|12 years ago|reply
[+] [-] stripeofmirrors|12 years ago|reply
http://i.imgur.com/McFWvHl.png
[+] [-] hrbrtglm|12 years ago|reply
The CRM webapp I'm working on with the basic features I think such a system should have :
[+] [-] tuananh|12 years ago|reply
[+] [-] Simucal|12 years ago|reply
http://i.imgur.com/xCyfnjt.png
http://i.imgur.com/RNAUaNN.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/n3j11jI.png
http://i.imgur.com/mA4JTNu.png
We have invested a lot of time and effort into making the app fast. Our mantra from the very beginning was that speed was going to be a keystone feature for our app. The fluidity of scrolling in our views was one of the main things we focused on. We wrote test code that continuously scrolls our views up and down while we profile it. We are utilizing Path's FastImageCache along with a lot of other caching to get the performance levels that we wanted.
We are considering writing a new backend for our client app so we can launch a similar app for XBMC as well.
[+] [-] antr|12 years ago|reply
[+] [-] clxl|12 years ago|reply
I'm working on a command line spreadsheet app. Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/snyBhYH.png
[+] [-] bemmu|12 years ago|reply
http://i.imgur.com/3wNZrSN.png
It's amazing what a nice bunch my customers are. Out of 500 subscribers already 70 have volunteered their time to answer the question set that I just sent out. For typical ecommerce emails, 14% might be the number of people who open an email, but here they not only opened, but clicked through some obscure link on the bottom and spent time answering a long questionnaire for me.
I haven't collected the answers yet, but here are the questions.
- Why they subscribed
- Who will eat the candies?
- Do they have kids?
- Are they into anime?
- Have they been to Japan?
- What are their hobbies?
Also included some that might help with online advertising:
- Age
- Gender
- Education level
- Married?
- Social networks they use
- Other websites they visit (5 people mentioned Hacker News)
I'm thinking of writing up a blog post describing what I learned, will post it later.
[+] [-] Joyfield|12 years ago|reply
[+] [-] leemcalilly|12 years ago|reply
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.
[+] [-] realrocker|12 years ago|reply