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Ask HN: What website project are you working on?

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So many news posts, so few people talking about what they are doing. What website are you working right now?

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I just finished building this for a client: http://sftheaterbuzz.org/

It's a little sad because there are no reviews yet...but I don't think he's had time to promote it yet.

That, is awesome.

Agreed.

Agreed ^ 2.

I like this site. Question: I can't tell from the source if you are using a CMS of any kind or if this is custom developed in Django or similar. Care to reveal what you used?

It's all custom Django, good guess on that one. I do use my fair share of external Django apps though. Ignoring the built in Django apps, My INSTALLED_APPS list has 10 unmodified external reusable apps, and 11 internal apps, which include ones I built myself and a few reusable apps I had to modify.

Thanks to everyone for the positive comments.

A minor tip: create a 404.html that matches the look of the site. Right now you're serving the one from the Django admin :)

I like the look of this site. Who did the visual design/graphics?

My friend Kim Nguyen did the design: http://twitter.com/3am_studio

She's pretty awesome.

That's cool, I'm working on a 'buzz' site as well for the edinburgh festivals, though we're doing some AI magic to pull in crowdsourced reviews and classify them with star ratings. It's jolly good fun, though working with thesps is doing my head in.

(No URL 'cos it ain't finished yet!)

Just in my spare time, but working on a subway/train route finder for the Tokyo trains

http://trains.jp/

There are others out there, but trying to make one that is super easy to use. Still very much a work in progress, but any feedback would be appreciated!

How on earth did you nail that domain name? .jp must be virgin lands!

A little - tho most of the good ones are taken. Just lucky I think - it was previously registered, but lapsed.

I'm working on an app to track work orders for a client. Not exactly riveting, but it's my first real gig and it feels really good to get paid to program.

http://woodgears.ca http://chartgame.com

Oh hello fellow UW-er :)

very nice, i will come back to the woodworking site when life allows me to put it to use. thx.

http://woodgears.ca/marbleadd/index.html

Awesome!

Still working hard on http://xp-dev.com/

Just opened up sign-ups for a new platform release which is going to begin next week:

http://www.xp-dev.com/blogs/view/704/xp-dev-com-version-40-b...

This is the site where the GS employee uploaded his "stolen" code, right?

yeah..

some more details (if you want to know):

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aSDx...

Interactive map of United States midcontinent onshore oil and natural gas wells: http://hydrocarbon.search.eser.org/

Used for identifying infill drilling locations.

Updated daily with new well locations.

Working on adding Canada, shale plays, and Gulf of Mexico offshore wells.

Using Memcached on Amazon EC2 + openlayers + Google WGS84 tiles.

Just finished building an iPhone app that is awaiting Apple's approval now: http://www.pinglater.com/

We're doing a 1 day web app event this weekend, so I'll be able to share more about everyone's apps soon!

http://mancalatime.com where you can play your friends online over the internet.

Good or Evil db - in "private" beta you can use this link if you're really interested.

http://goodorevildb.com/do/register?key=chestermcgester

And then a bizarre jython app that I will probably open source. Yeah, I know I should concentrate on just one thing. Oh well.

Working on http://www.beachionary.com/ a social guide for beaches and organizing summer holidays. It's the middle of the summer and still on private alpha though :|

My 1st ever site! =) http://www.ComoEstaEso.com

Check it out tomorrow during daylight!

JAJAJAJAJAJAJA JAJAJA -elguason

Module called Boost for Drupal. http://drupal.org/project/boost In short it's a poormans-squid/poormans-varnish; it creates a html cache for dynamic pages. It's fairly sophisticated, going to have it support the caching of AJAX JSON in the near future; among other things.

After years of writing Manufacturing, Retail and Financial Backend/Middleware, I'm working on the following exclusively (for better or worse).

Maintaining Version 2.x & Building the All New Version (3.0) of http://www.inkedmag.com

Continuing the build of Version 2.x of http://www.surfacemag.com

and soon to be working on a brand new Version 2.x of http://www.tokion.com (currently a simple set of splash pages)

All for publishers in NYC. I do so wish they would acquire a technical journal, or some form of academics research journal(s). Fashion & Sub Cultures are interesting for those in said cultures but it doesn't mean that I wouldn't find more scholarly/research minded content/environments more interesting.

I'm working on two things right now ( http://web2.0collage.com & http://pcfspam.com ) I'm hoping to wrap up the first (a lot of it was an experiment into how to do basic PR) and get started on the second after exams.

A little gardening website - http://gardenobserver.com

Trying to track late blight on tomatoes. http://gardenobserver.com/report/map. Anyone having pest problems in their gardens? Hook me up!

I'm working on http://www.getpersonas.com, trying to make it better for the community. Small release tomorrow!

Also working on http://www.mozilla.com/mobile, got some updates for a future release.

Getpersonas is pretty. It pleases my eyes.

http://tweeteorites.com/

It tracks your friends' favorites on Twitter, and suggests interesting people for you to follow based on favorites and your social network structure.

This is cool :) Really clean design!

http://socialfact.com -- collaborative thinking and blogging

Building a noise filter for Twitter: http://www.philtro.com

Very very interesting.

If it's not supposed to be secret, how does it work? Does it look for similarity of what you like or does it weight people in your feed and just skip x% of tweets from heavy low-value tweeters?

My instant thought is it simply trains a naive Bayes or similar spam classification algorithm on the tweets you label ;)

Actually, that's exactly what I did in the early stages of the project. Once I started getting some traction earlier this year, it made sense to start putting some real effort into building a much better engine.

Today, that's still one of the methods we employ but it's certainly not enough to make solid recommendations or wrap IP around... so, I've built a team of people much smarter than me to help take this thing to the next level. :)

Well, most of the "secret sauce" is wrapped into the algorithms that we've built so I can't say too much. In general, we're able to learn what topics you're interested in via data that we collect through your implicit and explicit actions. (i.e., we're learning about you by watching who you tend to interact with, retweet, what topics you tend to click through on, who you follow, etc.)

We've been building and improving the algorithm for a few months now -- it's certainly got a long way to go still but, on the other hand, it's certainly come along way so far. :)

FYI for others, there's also http://filttr.com

Got energized again to work on my Web service-backed iPhone app http://istockplay.com

Does this count?

I'll admit that, right now, it's little more than a tech demo for my iPhone libraries:

http://github.com/costan/zergsupport - iPhone-side

http://github.com/costan/imobile - Rails server-side

Still working nights and weekends on http://www.genlighten.com, our "Etsy for Genealogy Document Retrieval" app.

would be interested in talking to you about an upcoming project. nice job!

info at zoodlabs dot com

Playing with Google App Engine (& hence Python), very nice platform for quickly putting together small web apps:

http://rmmbr.appspot.com/ - SMS notes (reminders etc) to your inbox

http://therealurl.appspot.com/ - send a URL, get a JSON response with the unshortened version + page title

Just launched Merecal, a site for tracking upcoming and new releases in books, movies, music and video games. It uses your favorite artists, authors, actors, directors, publishers, etc. to notify you when the releases you're likely to care about become available for pre-order or actually release.

http://merecal.com/

Very useful, well done.

Hope you don't live in North Carolina.

Working on the site for the club I'm in at school: http://urbangaming.org

Not much info on there but the new site will be up in exactly 1 week so stay tuned. You can check out our Facebook page for more info: http://facebook.com/urbangaming

http://www.whichishotter.com

Simple site for me to learn Rails. Took the "solve a problem" idea to "which of these two [X] look better?" (for outfits, haircuts...whatever). Get a crowd to vote to get more opinions. The initial people are uploading some unexpected things though.

Just launched our latest version of SchoolRack a few days ago. It connects teachers with their students and parents. Lets them upload files, create discussion boards, create homework assignments, etc...

http://schoolrack.com

Working on http://www.ratemystudentrental.com and a new tool that stemmed from our internal systems, http://www.leadnuke.com

I, with my partners, am working on http://www.snapact.com/ in the midst of creating a better API in order to create more clients for more platforms. Fun and exciting (to me) stuff.

http://www.you-compete.com

working on the beta version of Leftos (LEssons For The Opposite Sex) http://leftos.com -- an online dating/relationship advice social network. Building this for a client.

Did you build that on a framework or do it from scratch?

I'm trying to see how many people go with existing frameworks for this sort of thing.

built completely from scratch, no framework.

The name sounds like it's a site for liberals...or an operating system for left-handed people. Or a cereal. Or something. It doesn't sound like a name for what it is.

This week, at http://hubpages.com we rolled out a table capsule that fits in nicely with our hubtool, our user interface for designing wikipedia-like articles.

http://confess2.me/ a personal project i whipped up in a weekend as a learning exercise (and a blatant rip off of similar sites out there)

Working on a new homepage for http://shoptalkapp.com, since you helpful HN reviewers pointed out last week that it is lacking. :)

http://www.vivapixel.com - Photo and video hosting/sharing site.

Currently working on simple posting to tumblr and posterous

fun little text editor called WHOAD (sort of like woah dude or word heuristic occurrence analysis diagram). Trying it in flex v.s. the jquery version I currently have.

Just wrapping up new home and pricing page for our photo sales app: http://www.nextproof.com/pricing/

probably going to do a One Day App on saturday, thinking of using our short url as the domain. http://post.ly/1WGW

I'm a cubicle-dweller by day, but in my nights and weekends I'm building:

http://www.familymatic.com

http://www.twiddla.com/

Mostly working on the social interface around the pricing model, trying to get the subscription process smoothed out. It's a fun little puzzle, trying to get people from "this is cool" to "I should sign up for this" to "I should pay money for this".

After that, there are a couple new big pieces in the works...

http://taskulus.com. It's barely working right now and mainly for testing deployment and such

We just did a "Review my app" here on HN. http://flooha.com

It's a place where open source developers can upload their add-ons (and apps in the future) and users can add their software to their website just by clicking. We hope to bring a much bigger, immediate, and organized user base to open source developers.

http://tshirtthis.com/ - rss to headline tshirts on demand - not yet in beta

Not sure if I understand this. The title of each RSS item can be purchased as a tshirt?

Also, how do you get the tshirts printed? Do you do it yourself or outsource to another company? (curious for my own tshirt needs)

Rss feed titles in a specific font & a logo. We have a special arrangement with a facility that does this.

http://www.mybroadwaydreams.com small joomla project i'm working on for a broadway foundation

http://www.v2interactive.net working onmy design firms webpage in joomla to meet web 2.0 standards

When I have time after work. http://leaguesmart.com

Many years ago (just as the web was taking off) I was the database guy for a local soccer association. I always liked the idea of abstracting all that out to a general purpose application but never acted on it. Good luck!

http://analytics4i.appspot.com Google Analytics web interface for the iPhone.

Feature list is still very short and I'm having some trouble with OAuth on GAE.

I'm working on http://www.mosambe.com a place where people and companies network to find better opertunities.

Feedback is highly appriciated.

Thanks :)

http://benchcoach.com

http://www.flowdock.com/, real-time communication & collaboration app for teams. Still work to do before open beta.

I just created http://stonertweets.com for a client. This is to build buzz around a community and help promote a movie.

http://shutterscouts.com -- an idea management and weather forecasting service for (landscape) photographers.

I've been working on http://totdo.com a very simple todo manager. Pronounced TooTeeDoo :). It's in beta of course.

url sharing and personal archiving framework

http://urls.matthewm.boedicker.org/

http://send2twitter.com - a very simple but efficient email-to-twitter gateway using oauth.

Completing a redesign of http://www.localphone.com/ — a VoIP start-up I work for.

working on http://mosambe.com :)

It will hopefully get some traction soon.

http://webgeek.io/ - Shipped one day ago..

http://www.rockdex.com

some awesomeness that lets companies make money whenever people go to their competitor's websites. there is no site at all and no user interaction

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