What's the startup, project you're working on right now?<p>I'm working on ONE, which is a collaboration platform for projects, tasks, invoices, ...<p>Want to bring some of the YC spirit back here, so many posts about normal internet stuff.
Client's print server crashed in the middle of the night. Month end accounting batch (written by idiots) updated databases before encountering dead end at printing. Accounting wants their reports, but there aren't any. Can't restore because sales & fulfillment have already done many database updates before I was called. Not sure what to do.<p>Today I was going to add a few features to my web app. Instead, I guess I'll be changing 20 year old programs to not update databases, but print reports. I think. Not sure.<p>So I thought I would just have a cup of Columbian Supreme, a donut, and a quick visit here. Makes about as much sense as anything else.<p>(If only this were an April Fools joke.)
I'm working on an online comedy troupe. Basically, there will be a blog that a cast of 7 contributors have authorship access to. All of their contributions are rated by the audience, and a the end of the week, the lowest scoring member gets axed, while a high performing member of the community gets promoted.<p>It's name? <a href="http://www.chompchompdead.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.chompchompdead.com</a> . It's roughly what happens when you get eaten by a shark.<p>We should be launching in about two weeks with a full cast of mostly professional writers.
- Selling, improving and supporting ViEmu and Codekana:<p><a href="http://www.viemu.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.viemu.com</a><p><a href="http://www.codekana.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.codekana.com</a><p>- A few months into a new start-up in the mobile space, Kimua, working towards having a prototype by the summer (my partner and I have hired two programmers, so I don't have to do any of the coding here!):<p><a href="http://www.kimua.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.kimua.com</a> (still nothing really to see here)<p>- Doing some heavy research in functional programming for my work-in-progress text editor (codename 'ngedit', the final actual name will probably be 'kodumi'):<p><a href="http://www.kodumi.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.kodumi.com</a><p><a href="http://www.ngedit.com/ngedit.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.ngedit.com/ngedit.html</a><p>- Trying to prioritize the above tasks appropriately. Some days it's difficult to get anything done just by the sheer size of my "to do" list.
I'm building better MRI reconstruction software. Most existing software does a filtered FFT + standard image processing. This throws away information solely because radiologists and other humans can't use it directly.<p>I'm trying to extract that information and turn it into something usable by humans.
I know it's not exactly a Hacker Startup, but my wife and I have been building www.realphotography.com steadily over the past year<p>We've tried to leverage the internet and digital media as much as possible: the business has a blog, the vast majority of our promotion is on the internet, we sell the digital files, all proofing is done online. But I'd happily solicit any feedback from the resident hackers as to how we could do this even better.<p>And I'd like to head off the comments about Flash, yes we're aware of the disadvantages, and you'll see we do off a non-flash site for weddings. ;)
I'm working on a photo hosting service, <a href="http://Simplebucket.com" rel="nofollow">http://Simplebucket.com</a>
Basically, I relaunched the service on March 20th with a new interface, look and a bunch of other features. Now I'm working on a feature "Beeps" for our next release. "Beeps" is the social part of Simplebucket. That's all I can say for now.
I am currently researching an idea.<p>PROBLEM: Search results are full of noise.<p>PROPOSED SOLUTION: (1) Take a raw search feed; (2) Give searchers a tool that enables them to maintain a persistent search state (i.e., it keeps track of your previous queries and all the results you have clicked on while using the tool); (3) Use results from user data to aid in constructing a better ranking of the raw search feed.<p>The seed for this idea came from a link given to me by one of the professors at BGSU: <a href="http://research.microsoft.com/~merrie/collaborative_search.html" rel="nofollow">http://research.microsoft.com/~merrie/collaborative_search.h...</a>
At my day job: Just finished a django checkout/cart system for one of our websites (www.bigfootsnowshoes.com) and working on a new site and more Python/Django apps. Been using Python full time for the past 3 months and loving it. I hate fixing/updating old PHP code now :(<p>At night: A service that will help locals find what they want more easily for things like going out for a fun night, events, etc. Think a better Yellowpages. Where I am, nothing like this exists so it's something I will be using for myself as well. Plus it's a fun learning<p>And just as I was writing this post I got my Python in a nutshell book on my desk. Yay :)
I'm working on a small project related to baby naming which is a toy to get me familiar with RoR and experiment with building a registrationless user experience.<p>It's just an evening project and should be online later this week on Heroku.
A more trustworthy, controlled reviews and question-answer site geared towards preexisting mailing lists like those in big companies: <a href="http://www.askurpals.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.askurpals.com/</a>
I'm consulting for a really large client, teaching teams how to deliver technology quickly, so I'm not working on my startup. I don't believe you can do a startup half-way.<p>But in my spare time I'm thinking about writing a book about how to run Agile projects in large organizations. If anybody is interested, drop me a line. My email is in my profile.
On some S60 code for a paying client. Improving code not originally written by me. Oh the joys of C++ and Symbian!<p>Lately I have been doing quite a lot of MIDP Java development for the same client, and it was quite a bit more enjoyable. With great powers come great responsibilities.
I'm working on bug.gd, our error search engine.<p>Specifically, we just announced/launched an experimental tool for (any) Python interactive interpreter. Whenever you run into an error, you can do a quick search for how other people got past the same error.
I working on mobtropolis. <a href="http://www.mobtropolis.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.mobtropolis.com</a> ,
which makes it easy to photo stream your experiences, big or small, and inspire friends or strangers to try new things.<p>I had posted it earlier, and took most of the suggestions, though still working on some of them. <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=109155" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=109155</a><p>Since then, I've added facebook integration, and not just a new look and feel, but made it more "me-centric". Just working on getting some bugs ironed out, and will be rewriting the incomplete "tour" section today.
rewriting the server software behind a psudo first person shooter game in flash.
<a href="http://www.ultrakillz.com/play" rel="nofollow">http://www.ultrakillz.com/play</a><p>Note the current version is prone to restarts...
Checking stats after a new release of <a href="http://www.tudumo.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.tudumo.com</a>
It's a to-do list. Seriously, because there weren't enough. Unique, like the others :)
Finishing my degree.<p>And, putting together a Meetup in Mountain View the evening before Startup School: <a href="http://entrepreneur.meetup.com/1737/" rel="nofollow">http://entrepreneur.meetup.com/1737/</a>
I'm working on a hosted load testing solution. The idea is to make it easy to find scalability issues in advance, like the signup scalability issue HN had when it was TechCrunch'd. The tests will require no hardware, be on-demand, and use an open source tool people might already be using. It should make the process ridiculously easy and scalable if I get things right.
I'm working on a web based group insurance (employee benefits) platform for the Canadian market. Right now, this market is dominated by enterprise software. Further barriers to entry basically revolve around needing to be established to be trusted.<p>I have the connections, and have recognized that massive inefficiencies can be capitalized on by an upstart with the right knowledge.<p>Wish me luck.
I'm working on a categorization/data mining project using Java JOONE for the neural network. Not as hard as it sounds (most of the time). Must finish this project today or tomorrow so I can get enough money to fuel our startup (<a href="http://www.awesomehighlighter.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.awesomehighlighter.com</a>) for the next couple of months.
Working on a "souce code annotating debugger" for an esoteric programming language.<p>So instead of painfully stepping through your code line by line, you just press M-t inside a function definition and voilà: it shows you what goes on inside the function, using some example inputs to annotate the source code in a new Emacs buffer.
I'm working on a startup. www.hybir.com (not much there yet)<p>A really different approach to online backups. My nightly full backups take only a couple of minutes over broadband...<p>Right now I'm porting C# code to win32 C/C++. .Net has some really nasty bugs. So half my code is already in win32 C/C++.<p>I will give away some free subscriptions here when I am ready.
Right now, an EEP for Unicode support in Erlang.
(EEPs are like PEPs in the Python world).<p>Apart from that, I've got about 10 other things on my "current stuff" list, most to do with Hypernumbers (<a href="http://hypernumbers.com" rel="nofollow">http://hypernumbers.com</a>), but there's a couple of Arc-related things as well.
I'm working on a member management system targeting a small niche market. Currently waiting on design revisions, my designer is coming up with some pretty unique stuff so I don't want to code too much since a lot will need to be rewritten around his designs.
Rapid application development in web applications. I'm developing an embedded domain-specific language in Haskell that basically constitutes application metadata which then gets converted to Ruby, Perl, Python, or PHP.
On my spare time I am working on a litle Android app. Financial and stock market information. Just for fun. Not going to make it it time to submit for the competition thou. I am one-two months away to have something useful.<p>I also want to work on something else, but as a project it would very involving, and I will need to work on it full time, and with partners. Unfortunately I am a H-1B servitor, and can't just take long breaks from my job.<p>Ah, and my full time job (mobile tv and multimedia, working on java and lua). Not bad, as I am actually working on advanced stuff.
Currently working on my lead generation business n2neuron.com (site is woefully incomplete and doesn't represent much of what we do, but ok because our business is conducted on the numerous content sites).<p>Working on my client lead-flow. Trying to break the 100 sales/day mark.<p>Setting up new content sites to generate more free advertising.<p>Billing upstream clients, paying downstream advertising vendors.<p>Trying to convince my partner to leave his full-time job at Dell.<p>General day-to-day business stuff, I suppose.<p>Building an "excess data" exchange to re-market unsold lead data, which is kind of cool.
Right now I'm in the middle of a study group that I started here at work. We're studying Graham's book "ANSI Common Lisp" and studying inference in particular, so we're also covering some of "Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming".<p>After that's done, I'm going to either spend some time working on the Netflix Prize (just to learn more, not in a real attempt to win) or doing some music programming in either Lisp, using the Common Music API, or Mathematica.
It's not a startup, but it's something I've been thinking about doing for a while. It's a collection of articles on the topic, "Things I wish I had known before my 1st startup" You can check it out at bizglue.wordpress.com. A lot of the articles came from YC, but several came from other, random sources. It's not really a blog - more of a personal business catalog to help me in my next startup.
<shameless_plug><p>Startup that makes a gaming platform. >1 million hits per day. Alexa ranking of <1000. <a href="http://gg-game.com" rel="nofollow">http://gg-game.com</a> and <a href="http://garena.com" rel="nofollow">http://garena.com</a><p>We're also trying to grow the team. If you're a hacker in Singapore or South East Asia, I'd love to get in touch with you! =)<p></shameless_plug>
The online store/catalog in AWDR was non-interesting so I'm iterating a clone of Buxfer's iPhone webapp (while I teach myself Ruby-on-Rails). I have no intention of competing against Buxfer - I use their app for real expense reporting instead of my crude app - their iPhone application is a excellent example of a iPhone webapp.
I am working on our property management application / rental property listing service startup, <a href="http://www.propertystampede.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.propertystampede.com</a>.<p>I focus on capturing users and marketing, writing for the blog at <a href="http://www.stampedeblog.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.stampedeblog.com</a>.
Trying to write an ms exchange killer.
So many languages I want to learn, and never seem to have any time to start. (Right now on the list: Ada, Erlang, Python, Ocaml, C/C#/D/ObjC, Effiel, Smalltalk).<p>Was trying to do the android competition but too much junk happened in my life the past month that kept me from starting that idea.
Setting up a cash bonus plan for my team to clean up our code base. $5 for quarantined methods or blocks that just need to be deleted, $10 for deprecated blocks that need to be extracted from active code, and $25 for useful rewrites of badly designed methods. 3 days cut the fat code cash cookoff!
A centralized syslog database with rule based systems to block malevolent sorts at our firewall boundaries. Didn't like any of the solutions I found to scratch my itch.<p>(Ok,not technically a start up, I started up many years ago. Been there, done that, forgot to sell the company.)
I rarely share details, but I will for once.<p>I am working on version 2 of a simple tool for a friend that he uses for some contract work in the statistical analysis field.<p>Version 1 was a Java app and minimally featured, version 2 is web based, done in Django and intended to be a lot more robust.
Doing freelance graphic design work so I can save some money for a startup with a killer, obvious idea, but no one has done it in Jamaica yet... I'm talking disruptive stuff.<p>But then many great ideas in history seem obvious in retrospect.
I do visual effects and animation. Currently wrapping up a Pringles commercial. Can't show the spot but my other work is here: <a href="http://chriskelley.tv/work/" rel="nofollow">http://chriskelley.tv/work/</a>
I'm working on a webapp to let people create their own games. Just finished e-mailing with a prospective cofounder (he turned me down, sigh), now going to start coding up some enhancements to collision detection.
Experimenting on a web app for people to "quickly and easily" share the stuff in their heads either with words, numbers, or pictures. Very vague at this point. Still working out some details.<p>Keywords: functional frictionless.
Building a better dzone, mostly just to learn the Apache Wicket framework. I like the idea of dzone, but I hate the layout of the site, and I can't be the only one.<p>I might re-implement it in Django though, just for fun.
Polishing up my Facebook Cross Number Puzzle app <a href="http://apps.facebook.com/xnumber_puzzle" rel="nofollow">http://apps.facebook.com/xnumber_puzzle</a> before submitting to FB App Directory
finishing up the last of our politics stuff: <a href="http://poliquiz.com" rel="nofollow">http://poliquiz.com</a> and <a href="http://www.fantasycongress.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.fantasycongress.com</a><p>trying to figure out what changes need to occur to our YC app to make it more understandable
working on a tool related to the medical insurance billing industry.<p>not reinventing the wheel, just hoping to make some money so i can afford to reinvent the wheel later. :)
Customizing a Live Linux CD (for a client) writing a press release (for a client), finishing the SEO for a website (for a client) and teaching myself Ruby (FOR ME).