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Ask HN: What are you working on right now?

9 pointsmarcomassaro40 comments

Well HN - what are you working on right now? Looking to see some new ideas and what everyone in the community is up to...

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Its called Padseeker, my first startup - http://padseeker.com/

It's a web app that makes building a website for real estate as easy as starting a blog. Plan is to enter beta November 2012. I was featured on Jason Cohen's podcast in a very long interview a couple of months ago - http://blog.asmartbear.com/sb-live-6.html

While not officially in beta if you want to try it out you can create an account. I would love feedback from HN readers. We are going for ease of use, you should have a site built within 10 minutes.

http://padseeker.com/signup

I am working on integrating location based casual groups in my current app Finderous (http://www.findero.us). Features that I am implementing: 1. Multilevel groups. i.e. groups at city/county/state/country levels. 2. Open/Closed groups. Anybody can join an open groups. And if you have a passphrase, you can join a closed groups. 3. Multiple threads in each groups.

Pretty exciting the way it is shaping up.

Fixing bugs and working on the new version of Croppola: A intelligent image cropping app for iOS http://tinyurl.com/croppola-ios. Also building a new app similar to Croppola that allows us to intelligently crop images while we shoot them from camera.

Finishing up integration of https://github.com/kstenerud/KSCrash/tree/feature/new-struct... into our app.

It does zombie detection in the wild now!

I'm working on matchist (http://matchist.com), a service for freelance developers that provides them with quality clients and projects, and gets them paid on time, every time.

Building a CRM/Sign in system for groups. Will let groups have events, set membership expiration, process payments, and measure effectiveness of advertising and referrals as well as manage their email list

I am working on Airball - http://airball.in - an elegant dribbble viewer built with Backbone.js.

I am also trying to make a Titanium desktop app out of it.

Looks great. Clean and easy to use. Whats the reason for creating? Side project? Something else?

The main reason for building Airball was to teach myself backbone.js.

Fixing a few (mostly mobile) bugs and trying my damndest to market http://flapcast.com -- A web app for streaming and sharing your podcasts.

Interesting - is Podcasting still something that people record / listen to? I'm uneducated in that area and am wondering (I feel like with all the social media, video etc podcasting has taken a backseat - am I wrong?)

The podcasting world is huge and very, very active. I love podcasts because I'm a big multitasker and they are a great way to learn new things while doing something else. They're awesome for catching up on tech news (e.g. the 'This week in' podcasts; Buzz out loud; there's even a Hacker News podcast), or learn new things (NPR's Fresh Air and KERA's Think Podcast are some of my favorites for great discussions on random topics), or just for fun (there are lots of great comedians that have podcasts such as Joe Rogan or Marc Maron). In fact, the podcast-o-sphere is so large that it can be hard to decide what to listen to, which is why I'd like to build out Flapcast.com as a sort of social network for sharing your favorite podcasts (I've already implemented the basics of this but there's lots of work to be done).

Got it. If it is as big as you mention with no aggregation source for podcasts then kill it!

This is fantastic! Bookmarked!

Reminds me of the days of frame navigations!

The podcasts listed on the landing page are scrunched together so that the tops of each are being cut off, rendering them illegible.

(Ubuntu and Chromium)

Thanks, I'll check it out.

I've fixed the display issue, but I remember now talking with a user who couldn't get podcasts to play in Ubuntu/Chromum -- Unfortunately, its a licensing issue and my hands are tied :( Chromium users will have to use Firefox or another browser to actually play content.

Adding an HTML5 Pacman widget to function as my blog's header. Eat all the text, new text pops in. - http://cautery.blogspot.com/

Why use blogger over Tumblr? Any reason?

I started that blog a couple years before Tumblr was founded. I had a Tumblr site for a while just for tech experiments ("bits on the wire"), but decided to merge them. They may have improved since then, but at the time I didn't like the sharing system (pages with 100s of "shared by bob, shared by jane), or the content ("fuck yeah this, fuck yeah that").

Has the community and layout improved, then?

I personally don't blog - its something I've been wanting to get into. Just seems nowadays Tumblr is the norm since its easy, shareable, social yadda yadda

I played this for way too long, namely because I liked the quotes.

Then I realized I need to just go read some quotes.

I'm working on http://www.couchster.com

Currently working on resolving some CSS issues and a few other code problems.

Thanks for sharing. Only for New Orleans right now?

Yeah, New Orleans is our test market. Plan is to show proof of concept with some traction there, then get some funding to expand regionally.

Cool - best of luck

Working on a domain model framework called Dartling. https://github.com/dzenanr/dartling

I'm working on a social network for startups http://www.investopad.com/

Retrofitting older web apps into a new responsive design that adjusts well for iOS and Android

I'm working on a social card game platform targeting web / Facebook, phones, and tablets.

I'm working on a service that handles drip email marketing for businesses.

I'm working on staff timekeeping solutions for small business.

Andrew Ng's Machine Learning course. Pretty good I might add.

Changing recruiting. I am working on a new recruitment tool.

fixing indian education system

how ?

I'm starting new startup where i will offer education facilities in fun manner. I cant fully disclose all my idea since it under development , but soon i will keep it in HN for review. Btw, since gaining users in not an easy thing so i currently implemented approach which provides college lecture notes etc. So, i got some good feedback and users. And i will expand it soon after my exams. Site : http://www.paredusys.com ( under development,signup is shutdown for some moments )

That's a pretty bold move. How?

Building Nuuton.(nuuton.com)

Trying to figure out how it was that my big dumb self not only deleted one of my Slicehosts (on purpose) but also apparently deleted the backups of the database that were exported, the other host to which I was making longer term backups, and my backups of the backups all within the past month.

Alternately, trying to find caches of the content. I had some 'An Extremely Gentle Introduction to x" type of posts on the blog that people seem to be missing. :-\

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