Ask HN: What are you working on right now?

I do 2d side scrolling game in html5. It's supposed to be arcade rpg, with quests, dialogs, and upgrading your ship instead of leveling up (maybe later I'll add skills like hacking). Moving works like in asteorids, but there's huge flying city to fly through instead of asteroids. Theme is postapocalyptic.

I have working prototype using only canvas, and one using webgl, there's just tutorial and one simple quest and I need to develop better events system to write quests more easily.

Demo is here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/44884054/dema/current/ma...

Quest system is using my https://github.com/ajuc/pefjs library - works similary to jbpm, but it's much simpler and has much less features (no subprocesses, no persistence, no transactions). I use slightly modified https://code.google.com/p/jsdot/ graph editor to create quests (nodes are waiting states, edges are transitions between states with conditions on them).

The game works, but isn't fast enough, so now I work on using webgl for more stuff. For now I have nice way to draw huge tiled maps using webgl ( https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/44884054/dema/current/al... ) - it's huge map of 4096x4096 tiles 64px x 64px each, and I only need to draw 2 triangles using 2 textures to do that.

Now I plan to keep objects data in another texture, redraw to it each frame calculating physics and collision detection in fragment shaders, and draw static vertex buffer with that texture to have moving objects.

I procrastinate heavily, should just make the game instead of all that tech.

And I certainly need better graphic.

I am going through coursera's startup engineering course and can't decide what to focus on for my final project:

A medical startup, unsexy, but looks likes it could be very, very profitable. I have no domain knowledge for about half of this idea, but I have an experience Doc who can cover that part, and is excited about the possibilities.

An educational startup, something very close to my heart, where I have a lot of domain knowledge and experience. I also think I have struck upon a rock solid business model that can make me money (think lifestyle business, but a little higher) yet allows me to create a business that I would be very ethically proud of.

I have worked on below side projects in last 4 years and made $0 seriously

1. Intranet search engine - Shut down 2. Followyours.com - You can follow topics and you would get updates on the topic - It would get it from different sources and analyse based on social signals based of retweets, likes etc.. - Shut down 3. InstantExamResults (http://www.instantexamresults.com/) - to publish results of university students - Got interest from few universities but no one is willing to pay as there are sites which publish results for free. 4. ConceptsA2 (http://www.conceptsa2z.com/) - A site to teach math for school students in India - Going to shut down as there is no +ve response among students.

As they say, I think I have not worked on the problems that people are happy to pay to get it solved.

Now I am thinking of working in progress tracker application for online learners and teachers. Launched the landing page to verify the interest from online teachers. http://unbouncepages.com/online-teachers/

Sent mail to around Authors on Udemy(as Google adwords have become costly). Got interest from only 1 guy. Will be sending mails to online teachers for another month.Based on the interest, I would decide whether to continue on this project or not.

An iOS app for the "Unibus" timetable at my University. It solves an itch I had about how long it takes to get the bus times plus how crap the apps look (i.e. https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/bus-catcher-warwick-uni/id35...). Moreover I wanted to flesh out my portfolio of apps to hopefully delve into some freelance work soon.

I don't have a link, but here are some pictures: https://i.freeih.com/7279/iphone_screenshot_3.png https://i.freeih.com/7278/iphone_screenshot.png

The hosting website was made by a member of HN, as was the service that created the product placement of screenshots. Thanks HN! ;)

The 2 MVP's that I'm working on currently are :-

http://www.postalcandy.co.uk

Was just using this to gauge interest but have shipped quite a few orders already through the MVP setup. Working on a much better branded site with some decent product photos. I would love it if this worked out!

http://www.foundcamera.com

This has exploded with popularity lately and I have a backlog of 100+ items to post! Considering implementing gravity forms to allow user generated content or completely rebuilding the site with better blog post section to encourage people to comment & discuss.

Open Source Enterprise Social Networking, Collaboration and Knowledge Management'ish stuff. Specifically, Quoddy[1] and Neddick[2].

[1]: https://github.com/fogbeam/Quoddy

[2]: https://github.com/fogbeam/Neddick

I'd link to the demo sites, but both are running fairly old versions of their respective codebases, and I'm not quite ready to refresh them. Just a few more bugs to fix, then we're tagging releases of both projects, and updating the demo servers, etc. But it will probably be another week or two at this rate.

I'm working on a simplest-possible rss reader you can actually host yourself (locally, and trivially) with node:

https://github.com/harold/rss-box

I've been using it exclusively since the Google Reader shutdown, and really enjoying it.

I'm also working on a redesign of my website, where I'm building up some infrastructure around distributing some electronic music building blocks (soundpacks):

http://danceliquid.com

An iPad app for speed-reading ePubs: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/velocireader-ebook-reader/id...

I made this because I wanted to speed-read on my iPad but I couldn't find any app that had even the bare bones of typographic practice in place. I just launched a minimal viable v1.0 a few days ago and am now polishing up some UI and interaction edge-cases.

I started http://lindavista.tv a few day ago, New Music Television from Latin America. It's a real-time music video leaderboard and tv platform for latin american music, style, art, and culture.

The tech stack is all Node, so it's been pretty awesome. I'm getting a little traction, mostly from bands from Chile, got one sign-in a few hours ago, but I'm still finding the business model.

A few days ago, I started working on a Rails based CMS:

https://github.com/cmpolis/zencms

I've been working with a design company for a while and haven't been satisfied with the CMS's that we have been using, mostly Wordpress. I feel like there's a better way to do it, so I'm hacking!

I'm still working away on http://des.sk which is my little project to bring contacts, tasks, documents, calendar and email all into a single place.

I love doing little experiments with all the features too, like sortable lists in documents or dynamic content in the calendar.

Performance Analytics - https://www.fueldeck.com

Helps in understanding user behaviour (engagement, conversion) based on your app performance wrt different platforms, geography, browsers etc. Still in private beta. Feedback is welcome.

http://ezsend.it - the quickest, easiest way to print a stamp or shipping label. I'm using the easypost API and focusing on UX. highlights include reverse geocoding for less typing and showing the closest drop off location.

This is the beta I am working on: http://booky.quintopiso.com.ar

Two friends and I are the only users. Before I release it publicly, I want to make it better an add a few more bookstores/sellers.

Cloning Hacker News (or something like it) in Laravel 4.

All I can offer is a screenshot, which is objectively terrible because I just started more or less recently: http://imgur.com/RI9GM5r

http://www.feedsapi.org - It is a service to Get The Full Content of Your Favourite News , RSS Feeds And Blogs Delivered To Any Email, Apps or RSS Readers In Real Time

I just started my first "real" job as a software engineer (did some freelancing and remote work in college) so I have had to put some of my side projects on hold. But I am working on the 2nd draft of my novel!

Prototype for peer-to-peer auction classifieds in Phoenix Arizona.

http://www.openvalleymarket.com

http://phdtree.org/, a Wiki project to document the academic family tree of PhDs worldwide

http://github.com/Retsly - A PaaS API for RETS (Real Estate Transaction Standard).

TextTeaser (http://www.textteaser.com/), an Automatic Summarization API.

A branch and bound algorithm for the Warehouse location problems in Coursera's Discrete Optimization class.

Identity Management security product (who can access what, when, and how). No site yet to offer.

just trying my hands with Django, jquery, Ajax etc and developing a clone to imdb site for learning purpose.

I've been working on a scriptable window manager for Mac OS X called Zephyros - https://github.com/sdegutis/zephyros

By scriptable I mean you can write your scripts in almost any language, and there are already built-in libraries in Ruby, Python, Clojure, Go, and JavaScript for doing it.

By "window manager" I mean you can move around windows and resize them and stuff using a programmatic API. And you can bind global hot-keys to your callbacks in whatever language you're using.

(1) A very special woman. (2) Retracing the travels of my great grandfather from a set of 120 year old postcards around Europe as a sort of photography 'then and now' project, donating imagery to libraries and museums along the way. (3) Writing a history of the region of far southwest China. (4) Learning about construction and sustainable building in preparation for building a house. (5) Buying new test locks and practising lock picking after getting addicted to the sport at OHM2013.