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Hutility Integrated Techsystems - https://hutility.com | Software Developer | Mississauga, Ontario, Canada - ONSITE | Full-time

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Experiencing the same issue on Android/Chrome. Nice site btw :)

It's funny, Notedock[1], one of the things I'm currently working on is kinda like what you've described. The original vision at least.

It's currently being offered as something like a self-hosted wiki or similar as you say, but has some hidden, unadvertised "social" features.

Like sharing pages to other sites in the Notedock system. And pages can also be public (you can choose to set individual pages as public or private). Here's an example of my "public" site: https://jb.notedock.com/public Members of that site, and the members of sites each page is shared to can add to the Comments section. But for public pages, there's also a Disqus[2] option at the end (which I've turned off for my public site).

The original vision also included being able to "follow Notedocks" instead of "follow users" like you've described. What I didn't have in mind was the Medium type comments and "forking". So it's leading me to think that we probably have/had the same inspiration, but different ways of implementing this.

[1] https://notedock.com

[2] http://disqus.com/

I was thinking of setting up a site similar to yours. I even got a domain and set up a launchrock page [1].

But after a couple of months (still haven't started it), I'm finding that putting up a google doc/hackpad/blog post is a lot less friction. The nice thing about having a centralized place like yours (and the one I intended to build), is that the ideas wouldn't be fragmented into different sites/docs.

If anyone's interested in using the domain (unused.me) for an idea site, let me know, I'd gladly give it up :)

[1] http://signup.unused.me/

Agree with everyone saying to use something like Trello, Asana, Google Docs, etc.

Unless you need a "special" CRM feature, I think you can get by on using a generic tool that fits your workflow, and is simpler to get going with.

I'm building Notedock[0], it's really a general tool underneath all messaging on the homepage. I actually use it as a CRM, with a page for each contact (you can put all relevant details here, discussions, contact info, etc.)

If anyone's interested, send me an email and I can show how I get by with this "CRM".

[0] https://notedock.com

I use Stripe Checkout myself, but I think if you make your own form you're be able to leave 'remember me' out. Correct me if I'm wrong though, haven't made a custom form in a while.

https://stripe.com/docs/tutorials/forms

I use bootstrap and either customize the css, or use something from bootswatch.com

When you guys use ThemeForest themes for a Saas app, do you get the extended license?

The license details are a little murky, so I'm not sure, but leaning towards it being the extended license that's needed.

I built a web app to do something like this for myself. Now slowly rolling it out to users other than myself.

https://jots.me

It's not as visual as the Seinfeld calendar but it works great for what I use it for. I use it to record what I've done for work, my side projects, exercise logs, etc. I even use it to roughly track expenses.

It keeps me motivated to keep adding entries for my projects, so I guess that helps with procrastination. At the least it gets me to do something daily so it can be recorded.

I've found that having a "Done" list in addition to a todo-list works for me.

I have Trello as a todo list and used to use iDoneThis as my "Done" list. With iDoneThis, all the projects and other stuff I was working on would get lumped together. I wanted to be able to separate projects, but still be able to see them all together in one feed.

I ended up making a web app to do this for myself and have been using it for the past few months. Just decided to open it up for other people to use a few weeks ago, so I've been collecting some emails. It's at https://jots.me

I have some beta users right now, so if anyone's interested in trying it out, use this signup link for HN: https://jots.me/signup?code=hn5

It gives you 5 "cards" (what would be calendars in iDoneThis) so you can separate 5 different projects.

http://clipchoose.com - Let's you make polls with YouTube videos

Not exactly a new kind of search engine, but http://www.millionshort.com

I think it strips out the top however many results you get from google. It can possibly (depending on the search), get rid of SEO heavy results that don't have much useful content.

I do the same. Is there some sort of program/system you use to look up stuff you've bookmarked? I'm thinking I'd like something to set tags/keywords to each bookmark so I can look them up a bit easier later on.

Whatever language you choose, I think you need to at least be able to work a little with javascript, since it's ubiquitous on the web.

As for myself, I picked Java and GWT for a first app since I'm familiar with Java. Going this route exposed me to the full stack of web development(front/back, server admin, security, databases, etc.) rather than staying confined to a language specific tutorial. In the process I found I needed to use javascript quite a bit (using Facebook APIs, integrating with Mixpanel for analytics, etc.) Now I'm looking to learn more javascript, as well as a sexier web language like python or ruby haha.

Anyway, the front-end of a web application will be HTML, CSS and javascript; the backend is what will have the other languages like php, ruby, etc.

Made http://www.clipchoose.com in May.

Never intended it to be profitable, more of a learning experience (first webapp).

May have gotten it from a site such as themeforest.

Haha yeah, real-time for sure. I don't go shopping much myself, but it is something my friends say they would use. Maybe that's why I haven't gotten around to doing it...

If someone were to do something like it, it would definitely be tricky at the start.

Regarding the voting, I actually had a mobile app idea a while back, that I never got around to coding.

The concept was snapping pictures of clothing through the app, of clothing you want to buy, but couldn't decide on which to buy. Then other people would come in and vote on which piece you should buy. Ideally, you would be able to get feedback/poll results within a few minutes of posting. Of course, this would depend on having a large user base for it work properly.

I don't know how it would fit into what you're doing right now, maybe the same kind of thing but for what you're going to wear today (instead of what you're going to buy).

Hah, found #6 very true ("If you listen to foreign music, it distracts you less."). Works for me with studying and coding.

Over the past year I've had so many different ideas floating around in my head, and read many books, but never actually implemented anything. I had a week break between terms in school, so I decided to code up something simple and actually deploy to a live environment for once.

Not expecting millions of users to come flooding to my webapp, this was just my way of getting a foot in the door of this apps/startups/entrepreneurship world. I've learned a lot over the process of building and deploying this project, and hopefully it will spark me to stop daydreaming and start doing.

There are a lot of poll sites out there, but I haven't found a good one that incorporated videos easily. I wondered why there weren't such sites, and thought it could be that no one finds a use for them. So this is my attempt at an MVP, just testing to see if people would make use of video polling. I'd love any suggestions, comments or criticism as this is still a work in progress.