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Ask HN: What project (not launched yet) are you working on at the moment?

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Would love to find out what people are (quietly) working on at the moment! Something that hasn't launched yet! :) Maybe you don't want to give details, but how about a teaser?

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A pub/bar crawl iPhone app which uses London Underground lines for routes. The code is all up on GitHub [1] if you'd like to build and try it out, but if you'd like to just see how I did the interaction (I'm quite pleased with how slick it's turned out) here is a not-too-out-of-date gif I put on dribbble: http://dribbble.com/shots/1326115-London-Pub-Crawl-Interacti...

[1] https://github.com/basicallydan/pub-crawl-london - Before anybody points it out, the API keys I've left in the code will be deleted before I release this, and I'll use new ones - don't worry :) it's just easier this way than having to set up some kinda build system for such a small project.

Working on this new project SWEAT ME. PROBLEM: a group of people want to find the best fitness classes to take and share the class / time / type of class with friends. I am working on an MVP to make this using FB login / bootstrap 3 / backbone js. It is for a group of 100 people and all these people work for a company. Hopefully i want to show the company and at some point have them endorse the app and use the user data to make better products. I am pursuing 3/4 luxury health clubs for their class schedules.

An old video (vhs) to digital conversion project with a nice little app that lets you share old memories with friends and family as well as add in a bunch of "digital" memories, and do cool albums with a TaskRabbit-esque video editing/media management service.

Law firm brokerage website

I've got an idea for a cool photo management organization tool that I haven't started working on yet.

Let's Chat, a chat app for small teams: https://github.com/sdelements/lets-chat

It currently looks something like this: http://i.imgur.com/Lwp2K01.png

Still a work in progress though!

Looks cool, might have to play around with it / fork it. I know that company I worked for wanted to do move away from the IRC channel hosted by one of our contractors to a system we controlled.

Sounds awesome! That's pretty much what we went through. We wanted something easy enough to use with all our data staying with us.

Like HipChat?

Yea sorta, but you get to host it on your own server and keep all your data.

Currently working on Fit Coach: http://www.fitcoachapp.com

It's software for personal trainers and nutritionists that allow them to put together workouts, meal plans, and also help out with billing.

I'm hoping to get it out there before the new year.

Introduction to Python, an open resource for teaching and learning Python: http://introtopython.org

It's not complete enough for someone to learn Python entirely from the site yet, but there's enough there to see where it's going.

How will this differ from say, Learn Python the Hard Way or codecademy?

Good question. I started http://introtopython.org after watching my students be unsuccessful in most of the existing courses. They need a little more direction than LPTHW offers, and they aren't quite ready to keep pace with a Coursera or Udacity course. Some of the key features of introtopython:

- It is completely open source. This offers a number of advantages, that I'd be happy to specify.

- It starts with no assumption of prior knowledge. When introtopython is mature, someone who has just heard of Python should be able to install Python on their own system, and start working through the lessons and exercises, and progress straight through to the Projects.

- It has a short series of Exercises and Challenges after each new topic. As these grow in number and quality, there should be room for people who need more practice on each topic to progress slowly through the topics, while students who learn faster can progress at their own pace.

- As the collection of projects grows, the site can be useful to more experienced programmers as well. I am looking forward to writing a section on Django. Someone who already knows Python but hasn't used Django might find just the writeup on Django really useful. A better example might be the Basemap example that has already been written. If you know Python but haven't used matplotlib or Basemap, you might really like this writeup: http://introtopython.org/visualization_earthquakes.html

Yearloop - A dropbox-based service that emails you photos from a year ago, 2 years ago, etc. If you miss everpix or have played around with timehop you might like it. Hit me up if you want to help with testing! This thing is alpha-quality, but is read only and won't hurt your pictures.

Throw an email up in your profile and I would be willing, sounds pretty cool!

do you know about Picturelife?

I just signed up and am kicking the tires now. Thanks!

Working on a side-project development-log type service (http://capsulr.com), but I think I need to iterate on it a bit more for other people to find it useful (though it's working well for me :/)

RAW-only photo backup. We are develop app not like everpix, dropbox, 500px, flickr, etc. We are long term backup for huge sizes. We use Amazon Glacier for RAW formats and S3 for previews/sharing. Close to first private release, can't wait for it :)

http://teen2geek.com

Just a teen development initiative that includes a site for learning development, an internship board, and a social news platform

http://www.perfectlearn.com Topic map-based personal learning environment with extensive semantic web integration (for both web and mobile).

looks great! Liked the mock-ups.. would love to see a real screenshot. How far are you into it? Looks like you've been building it for awhile?

I'm doing a voice-guide tour app. And it will kick ass.

I met a guy the other night working on something called Toursome: http://tourso.me/ - are you in London by any chance? If so, you definitely need to meet him because he's looking to speak to more devs or people relevant to his work. Email me dan [at] danielhough.co.uk, I'll intro you if you like.

We're in Barcelona.

Death Throe, the first 'game lab' for Self Experiments: http://selfexperiments.com

YATD (yet another to-do list). But with an emphasis on what me and my family need. It could end up being something entirely different. :)

Written in YAL? :)

LOL

A multiplayer real-time coding/strategy game.

A web-based todo list with Vim bindings. Something with yanking, pasting, deleting, and creating lists.

a beautiful webmail with emphasis on UX: http://dolphyn.io/

source code: https://github.com/dolphyn/dolphyn

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