TechEcho

Hello, I have been lurking HN for some time now, and have finally found an opportunity to make a contribution. A friend of mine is going to be starting her first programming job in the middle of July and she lacks confidence in her skills, so I decided to work together with her until then and create a production ready project together. Since the good folks on this site always seem to need something built, I figured it was best to ask here and see if we could make someones day a little bit better. :)Some info about our skills:-me: worked for about 2 years in Java web application development, so I am familiar with things like Spring, Hibernate, templating engines, JUnit, Apache CXF, Apache web server and Apache Tomcat, CSS, Html, JavaScript and databases(particularly MySQL).-her: she is going to start her first full time job as a developer in 2 weeks, these are some of the things she knows: core Java, HTML, CSS, EJB 3, JPA and JPQL (I believe she has some EclipseLink experience), Glassfish and Tomcat and some knowledge of databasesGiven our 2 skill sets, I believe we could handle best building a web application or a web service, though we are open to other things if they are within our power to build.Hope we can be of assistance to some of you.tl;dr: we are 2 java developers looking to donate about 2 weeks of our time to building something that you need free of charge.Regards, VladP.S.: if there are project details that you are not comfortable discussing in the comments, to get my e-mail you just add .ro to the end of my HN username and add at gmail.com.

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mikepintoalmost 13 years ago

Restaurant Listing WebsiteI have all of the data on an excel spread sheet pertaining to my sample area. I have 90 Restaurants, the operating hours, the prices of food, the types of food, the addresses, contact info.A website that could show people what they could eat based off of the amount of time they have available, the amount of money they have, and the types of food they would like to eat.The website or app would be able to produce results based off of the constraints provided by the user, and my data.Show Operating hours and update in real timeShow directions to and from restaurantList genres of Food and Drink TypeShow User comments and recommendations by integrating Yelp, Foursquare, TwitterBusiness Model would offer restaurants a subscription service to offer deals, news, to users. Advertisements may also be streamed to generate additional revenue.

alliemalmost 13 years ago

An open source web app/tool for adult film actresses/actors to easily make their own monthly subscription based websites with an api that people can use as a basis for a smart phone app that does the same thing.Pain Points: 1)Adult Actors/Actresses get maybe 1% of the long term returns on the content they appear in.2)Making their own site, setting up a way to let clients pay, and figuring out how to get streaming videos to work, are all way too hard for the average performer and lead to them being stuck accepting the 1% mentioned above.Note: I would use it for my site, as I am also an adult film actress (a transgender one) and this is something I plan to build for myself and my peers at some point in the future, and it would be great to just contribute to the open source project rather than starting from scratch.

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ecubedalmost 13 years ago

Build something that not just an individual needs, but that the entire community needs. And bonus points for open sourcing it. Rather than asking what HN needs, instead think of what YOU need. I'm currently working on a project that I think other people would benefit from, but worst case scenario if I'm the only user, it's going to make my life a hell of a lot easier. Try and do the same. Obviously theres something you encounter in everyday life that you think sucks and could be fixed through a java app. Do that, open source it, and everyone wins.

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ig1almost 13 years ago

A good geocoder.Geonames has a good dataset of locations, and OpenStreetMaps has the regional boundary data.So given something like "Boston, Massachusetts, USA" would take all the locations within the boundary box of "USA" and find the closest match to "Massachusetts" (using something like soundex), and then within Massachusetts find the closest match to "Boston" and return the long/lat.

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jfaucettalmost 13 years ago

I'd love to have a simple newsletter tool, with a backend administration interface that clients could use (WYSIWYG editor, etc).

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taligentalmost 13 years ago

How about building an open source activity stream app ?<a href="http://500.co/2011/02/08/build-a-killer-product-faster-the-secret-of-user-activity-streams-and-cohort-metrics/" rel="nofollow">http://500.co/2011/02/08/build-a-killer-product-faster-the-s...</a>Use Twitter Bootstrap for the UI and just have a simple generic REST service you can push activity events to. This would also allow you to get some exposure into WebSockets. Maybe even try and do it in Play, Grails, Vert.x etc for something different.You could even turn it into a little startup.

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shastyalmost 13 years ago

How about a front end to MongoDB?

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mikepintoalmost 13 years ago

alliemalmost 13 years ago

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ig1almost 13 years ago

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jfaucettalmost 13 years ago

I'd love to have a simple newsletter tool, with a backend administration interface that clients could use (WYSIWYG editor, etc).

Ask HN: Anything that you want built from 2 Java programmers free of charge?

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Ask HN: Anything that you want built from 2 Java programmers free of charge?

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