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Just curious about what HN Community is coding these days.

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.

Sounds like javascript. foo["bar"] is same as foo.bar.

There is a lot of overlap with Javascript. For example, you can also get your results in JSON.

If you take a cell and for its child you fill in just A1, you get back the scalar (x.A1 is the same as x in this case); but if you fill in A1, A2, A3 you get back the array [x,y,z] and can access it with an index; if you fill in A1, B1, C1, you get back the object: {A:"x",B:"y",C:"z"}; and of course, if you do both, you get an array of objects.

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?

It has two components: server-side in NodeJS (parsing), C++ transaction server, TokyoCabinet. Yeah, it's (roughly) RESTful.

The UI is spreadsheet in HTML5 Canvas: http://kayia.org (but this is for development -- it's very early)

The project is hosted on Github: https://github.com/david927/Kayia

As far as I am getting it the UI is nothing but an online spreadsheet application. It is just one way to use the actual database, say an example product. The actual database can be accessed through any language through http calls to create other kind of products. Basically a webDB that can be accessed using RESTful API.

You're right, but the UI is more than that. In the version coming in a few more weeks, there will be two more objects on the right side: a property box and another smaller spreadsheet. The smaller spreadsheet is the editor of the current cell. Ctrl-click on any cell and it will zoom in (make that smaller spreadsheet the main one), and the query goes fromm, say, Person to Person.C3. Shift-click on any cell and it will do a filter/QBE for all rows with that value, etc.

The spreadsheet is the data editor, but it's much more powerful than what you currently see. Otherwise, you're right, you can create what you want; one app I want to do is a better version of Google Wave once the authorization module is plugged in.

I should add, the syntax is also "spreadsheet-like." You can do an anonymous insert and it will assign the next free row ID (say 4) and column name (say G), if needed. You can refer to any data point, say Person column Age, row ID of 5 as: Person.Age5 or Person.C5 if that's the third column (it adds column names by default).

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.

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

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.

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.

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?

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/

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.

Any ideas for your new project? I'm also looking for same but for practicing python.

It's really just a little twitter-like web app. Nothing big or special, but maybe I'll put it online when done - just to ensure my web server doesn't get bored ;)

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.

And the downvote was for...?

Probably nothing. What you're doing is interesting. Those icons are close together; it might have been an attempted upvote.

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.

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?

Porting of some C++ network code for a client.

http://olekbeluga.com/notepad/notebook_mockup.html as a hobby.

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

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.

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!

Right now I'm totally focused on what we like to call "ZenDesk for voice" - http://talkdeskapp.com

Right now, I am currently designing/writing a game for Android, mainly as an exercise to get me back into game programming.

http://fileslap.com - a file sharing site. Adding features, mostly.

Really nice service with a beautiful UX. :)

I'm doing an ExtJs (a rich JavaScript framework) project right now.

Cilantro: "about.me for restaurants"

Working on http://gopollgo.com -- would love any and all feedback!

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