Propose HN: Screenshot Saturday - <AUTHOR> We talk a lot about ideas and there is "Show HN" for when you reach a somewhat working state, but what about in between? There seem to be many people struggling with motivation to continue on their side projects, so how about having a weekly post where you can post a progress screenshot?
The concept is based on Reddit's "screenshot saturday" meant for indie game devs. For example the most recent one is here: http://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/22tpar/screenshot_saturday_166_better_than_pax/
So if you like the idea, please post a screenshot and a few words of explanation on what you have been working on for the past week. <comment><USER3> I've been creating something completely reckless for the last two weekends.

Screenshot: [http://i.imgur.com/y5b4Yy7.png](http://i.imgur.com/y5b4Yy7.png)

Github: [https://github.com/kijin/qade](https://github.com/kijin/qade) (MIT License)

QADE (Quick and Dirty Editor) allows anyone who can access it over the web to view and/or edit any file that the web server process has access to, as well as execute any arbitrary shell command and view the result right on the web page (via the "Console" tab). It's written in good ol' spaghetti PHP with a generous topping of AJAX. Because why not? The idea is insane to begin with, anyway.

The screenshot shows QADE editing itself over the web. The webshell lets me commit my changes and push it to Github, right in the comfort of a web browser. The editor component is ACE, which provides syntax highlighting for every language I care about as well as a regexp-enabled find & replace function.

The "New" button currently doesn't work, so you have to use the webshell and `touch` files that you want to create.

All in all, it's a security nightmare, and it's supposed to be. It might have some legitimate uses if you put it behind TLS, a good firewall, a chroot and HTTP authentication, but you really shouldn't take any chances with it unless you know what you're doing. If anybody uploads QADE to a shared server that you control, kick them out ASAP ;)

<comment><USER4> I think this is super cool. I've been looking for an editor that lets you do everything you need to in the browser.

Ideally this would let you write code and switch quickly between your site and the editor, like an IDE's run button, but all within the same browser tab - <USER2> did a quick (and very crude) jsfiddle to show this: [http://jsfiddle.net/RyT3w/1/](http://jsfiddle.net/RyT3w/1/).

Like you say there are security issues but that isn't a big deal with local web dev or within a company that has firewalls to the outside world.

<comment><USER3> I just open the live website in a different tab (browser tab, not editor tab) and use keyboard shortcuts to switch between browser tabs. It's the only way that is guaranteed to work. I could try loading the live website in an iframe inside the editor, but it will break if the live website uses X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN and the editor is located on a different hostname (which it really should be for security's sake).

<comment><USER4> Cool, didn't know about X-Frame-Options. Either way, it'd be cool if there was a good option for when you don't have access to ssh or aren't comfortable with it, which it seems like this could fill.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER5> [http://imgur.com/a/agRne](http://imgur.com/a/agRne)

The app is called Fora. At first glance, an open source version of Medium. But it's really much more. I am struggling with how to describe it (which is extremely important), perhaps HN could help here.

Idea: Most information (such as music, movies, blogs or products) is typically stored in database tables having various structures. Fora lets people define these tables, describe how it needs to be formatted on screen, and build communities around them. So for example, Medium.com will be a structure having Cover (image), Post Title(string), Content (html) and Comments (string).

Code: [https://github.com/jeswin/fora](https://github.com/jeswin/fora)

<comment><USER4> Get yourself a package.json! Then you can simplify your long list of dependencies to just one "npm install".

Am I on the right track by saying this is medium for all different mediums?

As a musician and sometimes songwriter, I think it'd be really cool to be able to share songs in a user-friendly and visually appealing way, like medium does for stories. I imagine a lot of other artistic disciplines would be the same.

<comment><USER5> Yup. This is kind of medium for all mediums!

\- If you don't find the type (or medium) you need, you could create a new type yourself. And if you made a new one for Songs (say with Title, Lyrics, Date and Band name), it becomes available to everyone on the site.

\- You could customize a type further with Javascript, which the app executes inside a sandbox. That let's you do, for instance, downloading and attaching a band's picture when someone adds a new song.

package.json is on my todo list. I've been sitting on it for way too long. :)

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER6> I've been working on an Android version of an ambient noise web app I made called A Soft Murmur [1]

Screenshots:

[http://i.imgur.com/HAGYYAO.png](http://i.imgur.com/HAGYYAO.png)

[http://i.imgur.com/acaa12P.png](http://i.imgur.com/acaa12P.png)

I'm planning on releasing a free version with 3 sounds and a 2.99 version with 10 sounds and timers and other features from the web version. I've never sold software before, so I pretty much have no idea what I'm doing when it comes to the marketing side of things. I have a suspicion the most lucrative approach would be based around in-app-purchases, but I really dislike those.

I'm building using Phonegap/cordova [2] which I have mixed feelings about as a toolkit. Phonegap media elements, which I'm using pretty extensively, are buggy and feature poor on Android, especially the older APIs. On the other hand, I'm nowhere close to being able to build an app like this natively, so I should be grateful the platform exists at all (!)

I'm working hard to make the user experience seamless, easy and smooth. I think the end product will be something I'll enjoy using.

[1] [http://asoftmurmur.com](http://asoftmurmur.com)

[2] [http://phonegap.com/](http://phonegap.com/)

<comment><USER7> I really like this idea a lot! Please continue, and I hope you release soon.

I'd throw 3 bucks at that! 8)

<comment><USER6> Thanks!

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER8> [http://skylerlipthay.com/images/honeycast_screenshot.png](http://skylerlipthay.com/images/honeycast_screenshot.png)

It's an OS X application called Honeycast for composing audio/video layers and broadcasting (much like XSplit for Windows). The screenshot shows a session with a couple screen region snapshots and a webcam's video being composited.

I have been working on buttery smooth 60FPS screen capture (really tricky on these retina Macbooks with underpowered GPUs). It's looking great.

Now, I'm working on the RTMP protocol to communicate with video streaming servers (Twitch.tv, Justin.tv, YouTube, etc.).

I'm hoping to release to the App Store soon. The closest solution like Honeycast on Mac is the $500 Wirecast. I think there are a group of people that could benefit from a cheaper solution!

<comment><USER9> I'm very interested! The current "solution" is CamTwist + Adobe FMLE.

</comment></comment><comment><AUTHOR> My personal thing is a landing page I am putting up for personalized chopsticks: [http://i.imgur.com/DyFIItZ.png](http://i.imgur.com/DyFIItZ.png)

Hopefully I can get it launched next week and see if I can get some orders. I used these chopsticks as an extra gift to current customers and they seemed to like it and were wanting to order more, so that's why I decided to work on a separate page for those.

<comment><USER10> Nice. Some large hi-res photos showing the design would be awesome.

<comment><AUTHOR> Used the free trial of After Effects and a rotating display stand to make a spinning video of them: [http://www.namechopsticks.com/static/chopsticks.mp4](http://www.namechopsticks.com/static/chopsticks.mp4)

I was thinking of using them as a moving background, but that didn't seem to work out on iOS as it won't autoplay videos. Was fun though.

<comment><USER11> How about [http://www.divergentmedia.com/phosphor](http://www.divergentmedia.com/phosphor) ? Always worked for our animated videos, anyway.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER12> [http://imgur.com/AM11LCz](http://imgur.com/AM11LCz)

Working on my website for my wedding. Using it as an opportunity to teach myself Django, so that I can make mistakes here before I start using it for a work project. Right now, I'm working on adding the ability to RSVP for events.

It's been really great to learn how to use Docker, Redis, Postgres, etc. to make this come together. Overkill likely, but still fun. :-)

<comment><USER13> Looks great, one tip is that its nuptials not nuptuals. Congrats!

<comment><USER12> Fixed!

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER14> I just sent out a PCB to fab: [https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/538662/dorkbotboard.png](https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/538662/dorkbotboard.png)

It's an open-source pocketable e-paper device with an (Arduino compatible) ATmega, USB transceiver, Real Time Clock, FRAM, and coin cell Li-Ion rechargeable via USB. It also has five buttons along the top. Whole thing should be around 4mm thick. Repo here: [http://github.com/Hylian/arducard](http://github.com/Hylian/arducard)

Some potential applications: QR codes, barcodes for rewards cards, Google Auth OTP, text terminal for a Raspberry Pi, etc.

Unfortunately, it seems I missed a certain small detail... [https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/538662/missedtrace.png](https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/538662/missedtrace.png)

<comment><USER15> I was speccing out something like this a couple months ago (for TOTP), but never got past the planning stage. This looks awesome!

<comment><USER14> Thanks!

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER16> I'm using the iPhone 5s 120 FPS camera to take a really fast panorama:

did my first test in this video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwAOXroBL-k](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwAOXroBL-k)

and here is the result [https://www.dropbox.com/s/ggk0b0fmcvfp77x/photo.JPG](https://www.dropbox.com/s/ggk0b0fmcvfp77x/photo.JPG)

looking forward for daylight. should produce much better results.

<comment><USER17> Pretty cool!

</comment></comment><comment><USER18> Screenshot: [https://github.com/pavben/WebIRC#screenshot](https://github.com/pavben/WebIRC#screenshot)

GitHub: [https://github.com/pavben/WebIRC](https://github.com/pavben/WebIRC)

I decided to blend an IRC client and a BNC into one, and build this from scratch in Node.js with an AngularJS frontend. Run it on your server and stay connected to IRC 24/7 while hiding your home IP behind the server. Access the same session (server connections, open channels, PMs) from work/home/iPad simultaneously and have them kept perfectly in sync :)

<comment><USER19> Have you seen Subway ( [https://github.com/thedjpetersen/subway](https://github.com/thedjpetersen/subway) )? If so do you have different goals with your project?

<comment><USER18> Assuming Subway also supports concurrent web sessions from multiple devices, it comes down to the design. I'm going for more of a classic/low-level mIRC feel with a focus on simplicity/minimalism while pleasing the IRC power users. Larger/easier to read text while being able to fit more of it is nice, imo. Not sure why they opted for the opposite.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER20> An awesome idea!

[http://img691.imageshack.us/img691/1600/hahz.png](http://img691.imageshack.us/img691/1600/hahz.png)

That's a WIP port of Conception in Go. It's an experimental code editor/live development environment tool.

What you see is an experiment at creating a Sublime Text/Atom-like fixed UI, with the list of Go packages in a tree view on the left, code in the middle, and various _live_ widgets on the right. For instance, you can see a live git diff, the type of variable under your cursor, and various other debug things related to the parsed AST.

Unfinished Code: [https://github.com/shurcooL/Conception- go/commits/master](https://github.com/shurcooL/Conception-go/commits/master)

<comment><USER21> What monitor do you have?

</comment></comment><comment><USER22> [http://imgur.com/1wEQJqu](http://imgur.com/1wEQJqu)

This is mine. 2 weeks ago I set out to learn how to write android apps, and do gaze tracking. Story here: [http://blog.chewxy.com/2014/04/08/eyetracking- jetpack-joyrid...](http://blog.chewxy.com/2014/04/08/eyetracking-jetpack- joyride-smash-hit-and-dungeon-keeper/)

The result is [http://eyemap.io](http://eyemap.io). It's a simple-to-use, affordable gaze tracking analytics system with your tablet. I'm still testing if people actually want the service. It's hard to make sense of it, because people sign up to the mailing list but nobody would pay for it.

<comment><USER23> How accurate is the tracking? Recently tried to do gaze tracking on an iPad for a hackathon and whilst we were able to detect viewing direction (left, right, up, down) getting an actual pixel info was nearly impossible. We had stable and good eye corner and pupil detection, the problem was the movements were just so small the data got extremely noisy.

Curious how you approached that!

<comment><USER22> I used something like 4 different algorithms in the end to approximate the pixel location. A voting algorithm + smoothing algorithm is also used to find the final pixel location.

What I did to measure accuracy was to draw targets on the screen, and focus my eyes on them. The error the absolute distance from the estimated pixel to the actual target pixel.

To answer your question - on a Nexus 10, there is a expected error of about 0 to 160 pixels radius in office lighting conditions.

As for small movements, I use the full resolution video of 1344xwhatever, which gives a lot more leeway in terms of movements. The movements are then smoothed over time using a moving average over 8 frames, and another smoothing algo uses a pyramid kernel.

TL;DR: lots of algorithm. Quite a number are dodgy.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER24> I've been working on a new way of structuring data which results in fast, easy querying (here, of semantic data).

Here is a screenshot of the result of a query for "all museums in Paris that have art by Picasso."

[http://imgur.com/Cskqx0f](http://imgur.com/Cskqx0f)

And here: European countries with a life expectancy less than 83, along with a graph of another one of the columns

[http://imgur.com/NhgVtW5](http://imgur.com/NhgVtW5)

These are from the Windows app, but that may never be released. The web app is coming along really well and much faster than I expected. In any case, I'm really happy with how the it's going overall.

<comment><USER25> I'd like to hear more. Is this open source? I'm interested in semantic data, and how that's used. Do you have any recommended example sources to learn how to go it?

<comment><USER24> Sure -- my email is in my profile.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER26> Might as well.

[http://imgur.com/9XRwLNk.png](http://imgur.com/9XRwLNk.png)

Fixing up Drag and Drop File moving. bacon.txt is being dragged from /home/lerc/Notanos/apps and being held over ~/Notanos The dashed line around the window indicates the destination for the drop. (holding over a folder icon would reduce the dashed border to just around the folder icon)

[edit] And because I made this screenshot just after midnight, I spotted a bug in the clock display. hour 0 should display 12 for am/pm mode.

</comment><comment><USER27> [http://i.imgur.com/IKshtxL.png](http://i.imgur.com/IKshtxL.png)

Working on adding Multiplayer to Infinite Flight[0] (Flight Simulator for iOS/Android)

This screenshot shows work in progress with an expanding group of beta testers. It's been really fun working on this so far. I've been spending the past week implementing automated policing tied to a reputation system that gradually unlocks airports and airplanes.

[0] [http://www.infinite-flight.com](http://www.infinite-flight.com)

<comment><USER28> Nice work! I've been looking for a good flight simulator for Android (X-plane is nice but feels amazingly limited).

What is this written in? Would it be possible to port it to Harmattan?

<comment><USER27> Thanks! It's written in C#, we use Xamarin to target both iOS and Android. We also have a PC version running on standard MS.NET

I'm not familiar with Harmattan.

<comment><USER29> That's really cool! I didn't expect that you could use Xamarin for such games. Are you by any chance planning a Windows/Windows Phone release?

<comment><USER27> We were on Windows Phone but stopped maintaining the app a year ago because XNA was dropped by Microsoft.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER30> [http://imgur.com/a/U6W2r](http://imgur.com/a/U6W2r)

Nothing really special here. Being a perfectionist I haven't been able to find any expense-tracker apps that I like. Most have either to much stuff going on, or are too focused on being pretty. Or are too 'budget' inspired. I don't have any spend-too-much problems, I just want to keep track of my expenses out of pure interest in recording stuff. So there is no budget-functionality, only pure minimal expense-income tracking. Just the way I want it.

Since I am travelling I've also made it so that I can easy input the expenses in the currency but at the same time always have a converted "main currency" visible. I haven't been able to find another app that did that in a smooth way.

I will have some basic charts also in the future, dropbox sync etc.

<comment><USER31> Spendy looks like something I would love to use too. Where is it available?

<comment><USER30> It's not available yet, I am still building it. I've been using the "prototype" for myself. I am hoping to have v1.0 done in a couple of weeks though.

If you want I can notify you on email/twitter/etc when it's done.

<comment><USER32> I would like to be notified too. Spendy seems like a great app for keeping track of what you have spent while traveling. :-) @flexd on Twitter.

<comment><USER30> In case I accidentally forget about the newly created notify-list you can follow me at @jontelang. I rarely post so I won't be any clutter. ^

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER33> Working on a new pelican (python static site generator like jekyll) theme with a minimal old book style, with renaissance serif fonts, text decorations, etc. Not a designer, so I'm having a bit of trouble but I think I did fairly well so far! Comments appreciated.

[https://github.com/makmanalp/fleuron](https://github.com/makmanalp/fleuron) (screenshot included!)

<comment><USER34> Hey, I've just published jstatico[1], yet another static site generator. I wanted to ask if it's ok to fork and modify this to create an example site to use with my generator. I use nunjucks so porting should be trivial.

In the readme of the repo, you said:

> You can reuse it freely, I only ask that you keep the

> attribution text and link on the bottom as is

but you don't have a license. So, I wasn't sure if you'd allow "repurposing" too.

[1]: [https://github.com/egeozcan/jstatico](https://github.com/egeozcan/jstatico)

<comment><USER33> Sure, you can fork this. I'd love that. But beware, this is really early stage and I wouldn't trust it to be complete. The markup is really a horrendous hackjob and hasn't been rigorously tested in older browsers.

I added a BSD 3 clause license with an extra clause that you can read here: [https://github.com/makmanalp/fleuron/blob/master/LICENSE](https://github.com/makmanalp/fleuron/blob/master/LICENSE)

Basically if you modify in any way and it looks visually quite similar, please keep my original attribution text and URL visible. Deal? Man, licensing is hard!

<comment><USER34> Thank you for adding a license. I don't mind the state, I'm just experimenting too. About the terms... Of course it's a deal =)

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER35> [http://imgur.com/O1YnLed](http://imgur.com/O1YnLed)

I'm writing a software synthesizer (a VST instrument plugin). I've been working solely on the DSP (audio processing) code for a while, and am shifting gears to work on the user interface.

The synthesis algorithm, roughly, is that the graph on top describes a Lissajous curve which is used to shape the phase of a cosine oscillator, and there are two cycles of said oscillator displayed underneath the curve. The knobs underneath it are the parameters for adjusting the curve shape.

The UI is all OpenGL 3.2 using a convenience toolkit I rolled myself (for layouts, event dispatching, etc). Currently working on hooking the UI into the DSP side of things.

<comment><USER36> Any guides on how to do this? I'm a programmer and my brother is a music producer.... he has a few ideas for plugins but I couldn't find any libraries online! Thanks!

<comment><USER35> The two main resources I refer to (and hang out around and in) are:

the KVR DSP forum: [http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=33](http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=33)

and the music-dsp mailing list: [http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/music- dsp](http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/music-dsp)

Even armed with all the resources in the world, though, I cannot stress how important just jumping in is. Write a couple of basic plugins and you'll get a really good feel for how the pieces fit together, what's important in the algorithms, etc.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER28> [http://skyler.io/FreeJam.png](http://skyler.io/FreeJam.png)

I've been working on a cross-platform multitrack audio editor, because it frustrated me that most open-source audio editors work with either synthesized audio or recorded audio but not both.

Code: [https://github.com/skykooler/FreeJam](https://github.com/skykooler/FreeJam)

</comment><comment><USER37> Cool idea!

Isomer, an isometric graphics library for HTML5 canvas.

Screenshot: [https://cloudup.com/ca2TeFocl6F](https://cloudup.com/ca2TeFocl6F)

I'm _almost_ ready to release. I've been working on the docs here ([http://jdan.github.io/isomer/](http://jdan.github.io/isomer/)), but the code is still private.

<comment><USER38> Very nice work. A suggestion: keep the generalized library open source and a separate implementation that lets you use your library for charting as something private that you sell.

</comment></comment><comment><USER39> I'm working on a knowledge graph + NLP interface.

[http://i.imgur.com/r10Yn8v.png](http://i.imgur.com/r10Yn8v.png)

<comment><USER40> This is really cool! Are you building it from scratch or is there some existing knowledge graph you're building on top of?

<comment><USER39> Thanks! We bootstrap the knowledge graph with WordNet and then build on top of it with knowledge extracted from Wikepedia and generic web pages. There is also a conversational interface to allow users to directly insert facts.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER41> [https://www.dropbox.com/s/003qnx5b8fftwl7/screen001.png](https://www.dropbox.com/s/003qnx5b8fftwl7/screen001.png)

[https://www.dropbox.com/s/55qvqn273rw99t1/worldgen.png](https://www.dropbox.com/s/55qvqn273rw99t1/worldgen.png)

I am slowly (due to eleven month old twins) but steadily working on a new version of my now-ancient but still active (in a niche sense) multiplayer political strategy game.

It uses a pretty cool random world generator (second link).

</comment><comment><USER42> Bash-like CoffeeScript shell on any website with pull-based UNIXy pipes & server-side command history. It was a lot of fun to get the streams between infinite processes to work right.

[https://twitter.com/tectonic/status/448565716761837568/photo...](https://twitter.com/tectonic/status/448565716761837568/photo/1)

</comment><comment><USER43> [http://i.imgur.com/TKez9Wi.png](http://i.imgur.com/TKez9Wi.png)

Finding a job can be difficult and managing the application / search process has always been a pain point for me.

I'm working on a personal app to help me find a job and manage the application process for it.

I've scraped and indexed all of the Hacker News "Who is hiring" threads since January 2013 and am putting support in for Github Jobs and Careers 2.0 to get a pretty decent list of companies I may want to work for.

The next piece is to add a tracking system to help me manage phone screens, followups, note taking, etc.

I've been learning about machine learning and slowly training it to filter out jobs at places that I wouldn't like.

Also if you're hiring, I'd love to chat: firstname.lastname@example.com.

<comment><USER44> Do you plan on making it public at some point ?

Looks like a really good idea.

<comment><USER43> I do! My goal is to open source it when my job hunt is finished or maybe host it somewhere (already has registration and login).

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER45> Not a screenshot, but a js mockup of a new service I am working on with a few others.

[http://junk.arandomurl.com/](http://junk.arandomurl.com/)

In PouchDB We have a client side database that syncs in real time / works offline etc, but getting the server side of it setup for application users is still a hassle, this is gonna be a service (and an open source app), that deals with users authentication and datatase provisioning.

I want to get it to the place where you pretty much just sign up, include some js into your app and your uses have offline capable real time syncing application, some what along the lines of firebase except with a more capable offline experience (and open source)

<comment><USER46> Just so you know, you have a name conflict with another open source project of an entirely different domain[1]. This may or may not matter to you.

[1] [http://www.irc-wiki.org/Janus](http://www.irc-wiki.org/Janus)

<comment><USER45> Ah cheers, its probably just a codename for now anyway, I couldnt find any domains I like. I liked it being named after a satellite since its used to communicate between 2 instances 'on the ground' (offline)

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER47> I've been working on a desktop PHP editor written in PHP (you read that correctly ;) using wxPHP (uses wxWidgets):

[https://camo.githubusercontent.com/be79881a1e77b79e3a24ce88d...](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/be79881a1e77b79e3a24ce88d6d54e065da315cb/687474703a2f2f77787068702e6f72672f696d616765732f7374617469632f6170706c69636174696f6e2d6772656173652d617263686c696e7578352e706e67)

Currently focusing on the xdebugd side which is an xdebug proxy but with a web interface. I'll post a screenshot of that next Saturday I hope!

edit: [https://github.com/AndrewRose/Grease](https://github.com/AndrewRose/Grease)

</comment><comment><USER48> Working on a new version of Twin Cities Transit, which delivers real-time departure information, rider alerts, and route maps, specifically for mobile users.

iOS Screenshots: [http://imgur.com/a/TO2Pf](http://imgur.com/a/TO2Pf)

Beta: [http://beta.tctransit.com](http://beta.tctransit.com)

I'm shooting to get this new release out before the Green Line extension to the light rail starts running this summer.

On top of a new design, I'm spending a bit of time migrating old framework code to Laravel, allowing for better unit testing, stability, rapid database updates, and a nice workflow for building out new features.

It's been fun.

</comment><comment><USER38> I'm writing documentation for my Heroku SSL Purchase and Installation add-on: ExpeditedSSL.

[http://bit.ly/1gpcB95](http://bit.ly/1gpcB95)

The add-on makes it dead easy to put SSL onto your Heroku app-instance.

<comment><USER49> I need this in my life. I deploy SSL so frequently, I would love it.

<comment><USER38> Check out this demo video I made of it here: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcyR7Yus4pc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcyR7Yus4pc)

If you're still interested after seeing how it works, my email is in the YouTube description. The add-on is still in restricted access while it moves through the Heroku approval process.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER50> [http://drp.io/geWI](http://drp.io/geWI)

Finishing touches on a new music search engine

<comment><USER51> I searched for your site and found lots of pages about vibrators - not sure if that's a good or bad thing.

</comment></comment><comment> jarek-foksa [http://i.imgur.com/zq2zVI1.png](http://i.imgur.com/zq2zVI1.png)

[http://i.imgur.com/0xWZm8z.png](http://i.imgur.com/0xWZm8z.png)

I'm working on a vector graphics editor simillar to Expression Design and Inkscape. The project is written primarly in ECMAScript 6 (via Traceur) and will be shipped on Chrome Web Store, Mac App Store and Play Store later this year.

</comment><comment><USER52> [http://i.imgur.com/zmrDFoY.png](http://i.imgur.com/zmrDFoY.png)

I'm a day late, but I had this tab open all yesterday, so close enough. Currently working on Fortune, an iOS app. The premise is that sometimes you just need some sort of fortune/pick-me-up/inspirational message. Fortune sends you a random user-submitted fortune at a random time during the day, and also allows you to submit fortunes that will be sent out to users.

Pulling the screen up ([http://i.imgur.com/CC5OKar.png](http://i.imgur.com/CC5OKar.png)) reveals the interface for giving a fortune, while pulling the screen down ([http://i.imgur.com/Cm3qgJs.png](http://i.imgur.com/Cm3qgJs.png)) reveals the interface for taking a fortune.

It uses Parse.com as a backend, and I'm currently working on reducing the total number of API requests.

One of the problems I'm anticipating is how to prevent users from submitting negative fortunes. I'm looking into doing sentiment analysis on fortunes as they're submitted, but I'm open to any suggestions.

</comment><comment><USER53> [http://imgur.com/wPiLY0u](http://imgur.com/wPiLY0u)

Chinese Text Analyser: [http://www.chinesetextanalyser.com/](http://www.chinesetextanalyser.com/)

A tool for analysing and segmenting Chinese text to help identify content appropriate for your vocab level and help prioritise which words in a given piece of text you should learn.

It also opens large text files instantly.

<comment><USER54> From the screnshot that looks really cool, but the main use case I would have is ancient Chinese and I'm unconvinced the analysis would remain accurate with ancient Chinese grammar. Also, there's no Linux version. :( Good job though... from an Australian in China.

<comment><USER53> Not yet, but I've made sure that it runs under Wine (albeit with a few quirks mostly related to transparent images). A native version will be coming later.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER55> I wasn't aware /r/gamedev invented Screenshot Saturday, but I do know it's very popular among all game developers[0]. I like the idea of a similar weekly tradition for HN. Weekly feedback is great motivation, and the ideas that come out of here are often superb. That being said, screenshots are not the best format for every progress report. It works well for game developers because such a large part of games is visual, but that's not the case for a lot of things hackers might be working on. Something like "Side Project Saturday[1]" would work much better.

Another problem is agreeing on who would post these weekly threads. If something semi-official wasn't decided on people may race to be the first to post every Saturday because of the guaranteed karma, which would lead to threads starting at pessimal times. While the optimal time would be 9 AM EST[2] for maximum exposure, people might be posting the second it turns midnight (or even earlier), which would lead to empty threads and ultimately the death of the tradition. Perhaps a novelty account could be created just for the sake of posting these threads with no affiliation to anyone in it's bio, in the same way there's the user "whoshiring"[3].

To follow the rules of this thread: This week I've been working on my Snapchat Marketing SaaS app. I recently lost a lot of my backend work, so rather than immediately rewrite the code I lost I'm focusing on the frontend part to keep my morale high. Here's a screenshot: [http://i.imgur.com/d3La9td.png](http://i.imgur.com/d3La9td.png)

Edit: Oh yeah, I also forked "HN Special" and added the ability to save posts for later: [https://github.com/gabrielecirulli/hn- special/pull/58#issuec...](https://github.com/gabrielecirulli/hn- special/pull/58#issuecomment-40299117)

[0] [https://twitter.com/search?q=screenshotsaturday](https://twitter.com/search?q=screenshotsaturday)

[1] It even follows the "S" formation!

[2] [http://nathanael.hevenet.com/the-best-time-to-post-on- hacker...](http://nathanael.hevenet.com/the-best-time-to-post-on-hacker-news- a-comprehensive-answer/)

[3] [https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=whoishiring](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=whoishiring)

</comment><comment><USER56> Product name is called scaleqa.

We are building an end to end solution targeted at assisting manual testing. Manual tester can record, assert, playback in multiple platforms his scenarios. We are in final stage of beta and plan to show to few startups for feedback. Currently we are able to create tests for 70% of the scenarios of desktop websites. That percentage can be improved as we go ahead. Following are the screenshots of record and dashboard.

[http://imgur.com/65X28Yv,JhZX9xX#0](http://imgur.com/65X28Yv,JhZX9xX#0) [http://imgur.com/65X28Yv,JhZX9xX#1](http://imgur.com/65X28Yv,JhZX9xX#1)

We are using modified version of sebuilder as record engine addon while a website integrated with addon as test dashboard. Manual testers we spoke to were enthusiastic about saving time significantly during build release where there are large number of tests run every week or once in 2 days.

</comment><comment><USER57> [http://i.imgur.com/jkVY51F.png](http://i.imgur.com/jkVY51F.png)

I'm developing Computer Aided Manufacturing system in the browser (chrome Application for the USB connexion). And I developed the embedded code for the controller too. [https://github.com/nraynaud/webgcode](https://github.com/nraynaud/webgcode) [http://nraynaud.github.io/webgcode/](http://nraynaud.github.io/webgcode/) (for a taste of g-code)

last week I worked on some pocketing and lettering code : [http://nraynaud.github.io/webgcode/text.html](http://nraynaud.github.io/webgcode/text.html) (it's a excuse to introduce Ember into the codebase and learn it). The display is multi Level Of Details (it's visible when scrolling quickly), and the computation is done with a worker pool.

<comment><USER58> Reminds me of playing with RhinoCAM and CNC routing during a digital fabrication course in college.

<comment><USER57> that's the spirit

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER59> I love the idea of this, it's definitely motivational and I'm sure many of us could do with such motivation.

I know it's not Saturday, but... after seeing this thread I've decided to continue work on my Pebble watchface, Purr.

[https://github.com/jbrooksuk/Purr](https://github.com/jbrooksuk/Purr)

It was covered on TechCrunch back in January which I'm really proud of. [http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/31/purr-pebble-smartwatch- app-...](http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/31/purr-pebble-smartwatch-app-vibrates- your-life-away-in-5-minute-chunks/)

And of course, the screenshot: [https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jbrooksuk/Purr/master/pebb...](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jbrooksuk/Purr/master/pebble- screenshot_2014-02-02_16-26-27.png) (not much to see)

</comment><comment><USER60> Cool idea. [http://test.gmbl.io/static/img/displays/ScreenShot1.png](http://test.gmbl.io/static/img/displays/ScreenShot1.png)

I've been building a football (soccer) stats site to teach myself to code. Python/Django. The main gist was I had stuff I did every week in spreadsheets to facilitate my losing money ( ;-) ) at the weekend, and wanted to automate it. Built a python program, realised it'd be nicer if it had a web interface, enter Django... spoke to some friends who asked if they could use it once they were done, and here we are.

No ads, no affiliate links (things that are genuinely horrible, if you're just looking for the stats, especially at work). For having started to learn to code less than a year ago, I'm pretty pleased. It'll soft launch before the end of the season.

</comment><comment><USER61> CloudHelix is in beta with a portal and data platform for network visibility and control - top talkers, dDoS detection, and mitigation hooks.

[http://avi.net/ch-device.png](http://avi.net/ch-device.png) (device overview) [http://avi.net/ch-ports.png](http://avi.net/ch-ports.png) (graph/table for one dimension) [http://avi.net/ch-query.png](http://avi.net/ch-query.png) (it's all SQL underneath)

We're focusing more towards networks but can do host data also (the screenshots are from a Usenet server). The UI is just a shim on top of postgres, which itself is a frontend to the clustered DBs running things on the backend.

Feel free to ping me (avi at cloudhelix.com) if you want to play around.

</comment><comment><USER62> I read somewhere about 'the kernel trick' (a machine learning concept used in vector classification), and decided to implement a few major distances (euclidean, absolute and dot product) and see what they would actually look like.

Here are 100 cases of the Iris dataset in a 'euclidean kernel': [https://twitter.com/adrnsly/status/455305310488363008/photo/...](https://twitter.com/adrnsly/status/455305310488363008/photo/1)

Turns out 'the kernel trick' and KNN classifiers can be chained endlessly in a recursive structure (as long as you build and propagate your neighbourhoods right!), which means they can be used as an activation system in a neural network (as opposed to the sigmoid or hypertan functions).

</comment><comment><USER63> [http://i.imgur.com/cLpWHc2.png](http://i.imgur.com/cLpWHc2.png)

Here you go, a test run for private quant machine learning delta neutral trading algo for sp500.

Note: The numbers are for this short run only so don't draw any conlcusions from the training range shown etc.

<comment><USER64> If you're willing to share, what's your approach? Are you using sklearn or doing any training on a GPU?

</comment></comment><comment><USER65> "Visionary - thinking tools for entrepreneurs and creators"

Screenshot: [http://ormind.co/wp- content/uploads/visionary.png](http://ormind.co/wp- content/uploads/visionary.png)

Prototype: [http://digitalmind.io/visionary/](http://digitalmind.io/visionary/)

Visionary is my upcoming startup – it is a mindmapping tool for entrepreneurs and creative people. You can use it to generate ideas, create plans, organize information, etc.

The goal is to make the perfect mindmapping tool. There will be business model canvas, and prompts for creative thinkning based on ideas of Edward De Bono, and all kinds of awesome features to help people think and invent ideas.

</comment><comment><USER66> This is my side project. [https://github.com/ragsagar/django- tasklist](https://github.com/ragsagar/django-tasklist) It is in a very infant stage. We used various task management apps, But most of them were too complicated. Gradually our IT Manager started using google spreadsheet to assign tasks which I didnt like much. So I started this side project, which we are using it now for managing our tasks. Screenshot: [https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ragsagar/django- tasklist/m...](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ragsagar/django- tasklist/master/screenshots/tasklist_screenshot.png)

</comment><comment><USER67> Nice idea. Reminds me of those "post a screenshot of your desktop" threads you used to see on forums.

I've been working on Rokumo, an automated gift-shopping service:

[http://i.imgur.com/ZzGpeVd.png](http://i.imgur.com/ZzGpeVd.png)

<comment><USER68> I think this could be a really useful tool for relationship management - almost like BloomThat with a schedule. Perhaps you could pitch this to businesses that need to impress their clients and create pre-scheduled gift sets. For example, send flowers for your prospective clients' birthday, send chocolates and a thank-you after a meeting, etc.

<comment><USER67> Maybe. That's what most people use GiftsOnTime (our biggest competitor) for, actually.

<comment><USER68> Just checked out their website. It's really unclear how they could help a mom- and-pop small business - maybe this could be your niche. If it's something you'd be interested in, why not put together a few gift packages (or better, series of gifts) that could be useful in courting a new landlord/potential investor, etc? You could differentiate yourself by clearly explaining why your gift series would be useful to someone who pays for your service.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER69> :) [http://i.imgur.com/kcrt5iJ.png](http://i.imgur.com/kcrt5iJ.png)

Working on my toy functional language in Ruby [1]. Gives constant-space recursion, true higher orderism and homoiconicity in a Ruby environment. I've used it to create a static site generator, which I use to post snippets of code I've been working on [2]. It's a tad rough around the edges, but I hope to have it pretty usable soon!

[1] [https://github.com/bobjflong/drog_lisp](https://github.com/bobjflong/drog_lisp)

[2] [http://bobjflong.co/](http://bobjflong.co/)

</comment><comment><USER70> I'm building a cool xkcd web client:

prototype: [https://api.monosnap.com/image/download?id=hZZrJ4zp5DyOR5HNo...](https://api.monosnap.com/image/download?id=hZZrJ4zp5DyOR5HNokLUKcjkIMWxhm)

It will allow users to: \- See which ones the have read (kind of like email) \- Favourite comics \- Discuss them in comment thread \- Search through the comics (using title, number, alt-text and transcript) \- Set up notification schedules, e.g. "Put a random comic in IRC at 2 o'clock every weekday" or "Email me the latest comic when it comes out"

I will hopefully be launching it within the next few months... :)

</comment><comment><USER71> Awesome idea.

This week as been all about getting a second version stamped and out (nowhere near a finished version or even 1.0, but a 0.2 version)

I've been working on [https://ghostream.com](https://ghostream.com) a framework for constructing stream processing systems. Getting a first draft of the website ([http://imgur.com/ujsmjJz](http://imgur.com/ujsmjJz)) and the documentation (although there is still much to do)

And after that, lots of bug fixes and environment clean ups (code coverage pipeline / static analysis etc.) Managed to knock down quite a few little bugs that way.

<comment><USER72> Interesting. I'm still searching for a powerful, yet simple to use stream processing library. Which projects inspired you to write ghostream.com?

<comment><USER71> I've played with a variety of frameworks (Storm and IBM Infosphere Streams are probably the two I have worked with the most) - In my previous job I was in a team which designed and developed our own (and later integrated partly with IBM Streams) I took down many lessons from the initial creation, the later integration and the work following that. ghostream was born out of those lessons.

Mostly I found the follow problems with existing frameworks :

\- Tied to an execution environment - Storm with ZooKeeper and Streams with their own custom one. This makes it very difficult to use either for small projects - and limits integration choices when scaling.

\- Resource hogs - The IBM Streams environment is a huge resource hog, I never really got that far with Storm but the number of dependencies it required just to get something up and running provided a similar sense of dread.

\- Easy to debug/optimization - Streams has the best tools for this at the moment but they are all heavily tied to the execution environment. I'm hoping with ghostream that structures can be built at the protocol level to provide a way to build tools on top - not tied to any particular environment.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER73> [http://imgur.com/U60b29g.png](http://imgur.com/U60b29g.png)

In my spare time, I'm working on [http://fivestar.io](http://fivestar.io), which gives you the best Amazon item for a query and breaks it down by price range. So you can find the 'best' product based on relevance, popularity, reviews, and cost, without having to compare reviews and popularity yourself.

The results still need some work; sometimes Amazon's API returns illogical price brackets, so a fallback is necessary, but I'm pretty happy with it at the moment.

<comment><USER74> That's a really good idea.

</comment></comment><comment><USER75> [http://imgur.com/xnGYVgR](http://imgur.com/xnGYVgR)

Finally got a working sort for an implementation of a closure table for a forum project. Horribly inefficient though.

Riveting, I know.

Also, this is a great idea.

<comment><USER76> ...wait, what?

<comment><USER75> It's a way of representing trees (like nested comments) in SQL: [http://karwin.blogspot.com/2010/03/rendering-trees-with- clos...](http://karwin.blogspot.com/2010/03/rendering-trees-with-closure- tables.html)

Unfortunately, while it works, it requires extra effort to sort the results properly.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER77> [http://i.imgur.com/T8pADs1.jpg](http://i.imgur.com/T8pADs1.jpg)

The python flask app finds music on your computer and scrapes as much data as as possible from sources like last.fm, discogs, iTunes and musicbrainz. You can upload music as well if you like, it will read tags and transcode it for you.

You can edit tags, search (really fast), stream and find related tunes. Ideally I want to analyse my music history to build a true smart playlist, also maybe connecting this up to sabnzbd for missing albums.

If only I could make a pretty UI...

</comment><comment><USER78> [http://bryan.cx/ahgJ/4iaCKPjJ](http://bryan.cx/ahgJ/4iaCKPjJ)

Group chat built for design teams - Discuss, draw or annotate design concepts with your team in real time.

My team currently uses HipChat but we do a lot of design work and are constantly switching to Jing or Skitch to screenshot, markup and then post a link in HipChat. I'm just testing the idea that it would be nice to be able to screenshot, annotate and draw on any image right within your team chat room.

Still need to name it though... Any ideas?

</comment><comment><USER79> Although it's Sunday, I'm a bit late but I liked the idea so much. I found some of the projects listed here extremely interesting.

I'm in the (unfortunately long) process of learning rails among other things. I'm building a small medical office/patient management application based on what I'm learning. Here is sshot[1].

[1] [http://atmosx.clarify-it.com/d/9mgq2c](http://atmosx.clarify- it.com/d/9mgq2c)

</comment><comment><USER80> Working on my toy language again, building the tutorial along with language features (helps me reason better about real-world use cases).

Tutorial Screenshot: [https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6014562/dev/np-04132.png](https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6014562/dev/np-04132.png)

Tutorial (not a lot to see yet): [http://np-lang.org/tutorial](http://np- lang.org/tutorial)

</comment><comment><USER81> [http://i.imgur.com/Dqltejx.png](http://i.imgur.com/Dqltejx.png)

I've been working on redesigning and adding new features to [http://www.speedsums.com](http://www.speedsums.com), which you may remember seeing on HN a couple of months ago.

This is actually bad because I really should be studying for university exams right now, but this is just so much more fun and instantly gratifying :(

</comment><comment><USER82> I have been working on this for a while. Trying to find some ways to get some traction. maybe HN can help www.snailmailpics.com/dropboxhome

<comment><USER83> This is cool. I would use it if it was on my city (in Brazil). But I don't know how to market it.

</comment></comment><comment><USER84> I am implementing "Question Library" feature in my Remote Interview App[0] (currently in beta)

Screenshot: [https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/33634515/screenshotsat_1...](https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/33634515/screenshotsat_13-4.jpg)

[0][http://remoteinterview.io](http://remoteinterview.io)

</comment><comment><USER85> We are working on a Bitcoin analysis service. This is a screenshot of a tool for following the flow of Bitcoins over time: [http://i.imgur.com/3FMKMdR.png](http://i.imgur.com/3FMKMdR.png). You can try it out at [http://www.quantabytes.com](http://www.quantabytes.com).

</comment><comment><USER86> I'm working on feenbox, a service to receive feeds on your inbox, with geek- friendly features.

It's about a week close to alpha launch. Would you be interested if I make a call for alpha users on HN?

[https://www.dropbox.com/s/gcdsdivdk6d5lxt/feenbox.png](https://www.dropbox.com/s/gcdsdivdk6d5lxt/feenbox.png)

<comment><USER44> I would be interested, I'm getting daily HN mail and I use [http://theoldreader.com/](http://theoldreader.com/) but I have to many feeds to read them all so a mail would be nice.

</comment></comment><comment><USER87> This is somewhat late for Screenshot Saturday, however I have been working on Retailius. The goal is to disrupt the retail industry through the point of sale.

The website (in the process of learning front end development) is viewable at www.retailius.com. As of right now, it is a static prototype consisting of Keynote-linked wireframes.

</comment><comment><USER88> I think I broke it.

[http://imgur.com/GFbIQKf.png](http://imgur.com/GFbIQKf.png)

</comment><comment><USER89> Working on Resumetory.com - A place to manage your resumes and make applying to jobs easier.

Very early screenshot so doesn't look sexy: [http://imgur.com/1mDkIpX](http://imgur.com/1mDkIpX)

</comment><comment><USER90> I've been compositing some 3d prototypes of our invisible keyboard project into photos for our website.

[http://airtype.io/img/houndstooth.jpg](http://airtype.io/img/houndstooth.jpg)

</comment><comment><USER91> A World Cup betting app, to play among friends! Built with NodeJS (backend), Firebase (real-time chat), and Meteor (front).

[http://i.imgur.com/79zO1YZ.png](http://i.imgur.com/79zO1YZ.png)

<comment><USER92> Out of interest, how are you getting your data changes at the NodeJS level to automatically propagate to the Meteor clients? Or by "NodeJS" do you mean you're using the full Meteor stack?

</comment></comment><comment><USER93> Having architecture discussion for new software today: [https://mediacru.sh/VPK1PBGdKFrj](https://mediacru.sh/VPK1PBGdKFrj)

</comment><comment><USER94> WIP SaaS for climate controllers

[http://i.imgur.com/QMr3m8B.png](http://i.imgur.com/QMr3m8B.png)

</comment><comment><USER95> I have nothing to post but i really like the idea, especially considering the replies you got.

</comment><comment><USER96> this thread rules! i feel motivated to have something for next Saturday.

</comment><comment><USER97> Nice Idea..

</comment><comment><USER98> Nothing to do with reddit, the real thing: [http://screenshotsaturday.com/](http://screenshotsaturday.com/)</comment>


Ask HN: Can you help me understand why I am so tired? - <AUTHOR> I have been working the same job as a Linux systems admin for about 5 years now. It's time for a move due to company politics and to move I need to study and get in gear.
The problem is even if I sleep 8-9 hours a night I find that I get very drowsy at work. I usually drink coffee in the morning and tea in the evening.  Maybe 600-900mg of caffeine a day.
I didn't always feel so tired at work but I do now.
After work I tend to come home and go back on the computer to catch up on non work things.  I'm a hobbyist and the computer is what I like. But even here I still get quite tired. I do tend to feel pretty drained when I get home.  Such as now after my day my eyes are droopy and stuff and I didn't even do all that much since it was a Friday.
I usually tend to not sleep a lot but have tried to sleep more on a few nights to see if it helps. I feel better in the morning and for most of the day but the tiredness comes.
On the weekend when I get on the computer after some time I again get pretty tired. It's so cold out I can't do much outside.
I don't know if I really now just no longer like computers or I am literally exhausted of computers and never give myself a break. I am almost always interacting with one.  Even my away from computer time before bed is sent reading on a kindle which is a computer.
Does anybody have any ideas?
I have some great opportunities coming up that I need to study for but I am just so shot. <comment><USER2> As others said, see a doctor, exercise, diet, etc.

But what made my eyes pop was the amount of caffeine. 600-900mg is way too much and pretty sure it is affecting your sleep. First result from google [1] gives an upper limit of 400mg per day. Try not to drink any coffee/tea/colas after 2pm (or whatever makes sense for the time you go to bed) and cut the amount in total. 400mg is still about 4 coffees.

[1] [http://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-living/nutrition-and- healt...](http://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-living/nutrition-and-healthy- eating/in-depth/caffeine/art-20045678)

<comment><USER3> 600-900mg of caffeine is the equivalent of 6-9 cups of coffee or 7-11 red bull energy drinks.

Like you said that is way too much.

</comment></comment><comment><USER4> I'm guessing you don't exercise and are in terrible shape and over 25? As you age, the body loses muscle and muscle plays an important part in making you feel right by regulating hormones like insulin etc.

If you spend your life indoors you most certainly have vitamin-D deficiency, which leads to testosterone deficiency, which quickens muscle loss.

Sedentary work without other activities is a recipe for feeling terrible, don't be surprised.

</comment><comment><USER5> For me, I gained some weight recently and got a mild case of sleep apnea. I discovered it using an android app to monitor my snoring. It was devastating hearing myself gasp for air at night! Sleeping on my side help reduce my snoring, that combined with quitting drinking and smoking, just a little bit of exercises, and a good diet reinvigorated my energy. I now get up naturally without an alarm clock around 6am to 7am, where before I'd sleep in til 10am and still be tired all day. I also eliminated coffee but only because it was a trigger for smoking and I'd like to go back to it some day. Of course talk to your doctor, but I was able to get well and avoid a doctors appointment. I knew he was just going to tell me to lose weight, quit drinking and smoking anyway. Who knew that could be so good for me, right? :)

<comment><USER6> Great job! What app?

<comment><USER7> I haven't really used the noise tracking/snore detection stuff, but I've been using Sleep as Android for a few years: [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.urbandroid...](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.urbandroid.sleep)

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER8> Caffeine's effects on iron absorption: [http://www.livestrong.com/article/427404-caffeines-effect- on...](http://www.livestrong.com/article/427404-caffeines-effect-on-iron- absorption/)

Effects of iron deficiency: [http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/health- topics/topics/ida/sig...](http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/health- topics/topics/ida/signs)

Also keep in mind that iodine and vitamin D are easy to be deficient in depending on what you're eating. But I have no idea if that is associated with what you're experiencing. Ask a health care person, someone who will do more than treat symptoms too.

</comment><comment><USER9> When you're feeling tired try going for a short walk or running an errand (if you can get away). I find a quick walk or running an errand, especially if it's cold out picks me up from feeling tired.

Try taking a full day off from devices on a weekend day or maybe both days. Pick up some hobbies with less screen time.

When you are on the screen try to limit the time you have so maybe give yourself a half hour to get X complete and work against a timer. If you're doing interesting work usually you're excited to keep going/make progress. I use the pomadoro technique (work 25 min/5 min break) and sometimes if I'm making progress I just keep going through the breaks.

Also coding all day and most of the night is probably too much. Typically you only have X hours of productivity per day so if you exceed that you will feel tired sluggish and want to give up. So maybe code in smaller sprints to make the most of your time.

There are plenty of evenings I'd like to code more or do a tutorial, but I'm out of cognitive energy and just don't have anything left.

I would try coding less, making the most of the time you allow yourself on screen time. Exercise more, take breaks, get out in the cold, try a shower to wake up and see how that goes.

</comment><comment><USER10> Id just say after juggling family, new startup incubation and day job & surviving this, here are some takeaways:

1\. Stay Really Hydrated. A lot of tiredness is thirst and muscles being sore from not having enough water. A good way to determine this is to do about 30 jumping jacks next to your desk and about 20 high-knees (I Kid you not). If your muscles burn, you havent had enough water and that probably also led to sleep problems.

2\. Take power naps which remove mental stress. Here's a technique: Start counting down from 100 very slowly. After each number, repeat to yourself quietly SLOW DOWN. Dont say "RELAX" or "I NEED TO SLEEP" or any of that crap. Just say SLOW DOWN. All the brain needs to do is to slow down.

3\. Cut out the caffeine and Start EXERCISING. Download the "7 minute workout" app on Android. Its a great uncomfortable routine which'll have your heart pumping in 7 minutes. You'll suddenly feel hungrier about 30 min after this and itll get the habit started

4\. Increase circulation at home - stale air is tiring

5\. Eat the right food. Also have an Organic protein supplement (like Orgain) from Costco.

This worked for me.

<comment><USER11> >1\. Stay Really Hydrated. A lot of tiredness is thirst and muscles being sore from not having enough water. A good way to determine this is to do about 30 jumping jacks next to your desk and about 20 high-knees (I Kid you not). If your muscles burn, you havent had enough water and that probably also led to sleep problems.

Nonsense. Complete nonsense.

<comment><USER10> @jf22, you're entitled to your opinion. I'm telling you what worked for me.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER12> I think you should consult with a doctor as people have said.

You should also consider trying something that breaks your current schedule because it isn't working for you. Every year I try something new. This year I have been going to sleep before 10pm and get up at 6:30am. This has been a sort of revelation for me in terms of feeling better throughout the day, but it might not work for you.

It sounds job related to me. You should force yourself to get up for more frequent drinks of water/walks around the office and, whether you want to or not, you should probably stop using a computer in the evenings perhaps a few days per week. See what that does for your mood. If you do this for 3 or 4 weeks and nothing really changes, then you can explore other reasons for your exhaustion.

My routine requires me to walk about an hour a day and I exercise once a week (not hardcore by any means). That might help as well.

Anyway I can relate. I often feel that way but I think it is due to work pressure.

</comment><comment><USER13> Have you considered seasonal affective disorder? [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasonal_affective_disorder](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasonal_affective_disorder)

You mentioned the cold. I find my energy levels are a lot lower when there is less sunlight.

<comment><USER14> You can get lightboxes to have at your desk to help counter this - my mother has one and finds it helpful, though I haven't used them myself.

</comment></comment><comment><USER15> I've suffered from something very similar, other people have advised getting some exercise and you should definitely do that, I've found it helps.

You mention that you don't sleep very much and tried to sleep more for a few nights, try to continue that for a couple of weeks and see how you feel.

Something that often isn't mentioned with respect to sleep is consistency, go to bed at the same time and get up at the same time, every day - even on weekends. I personally struggle a lot with this one, but it has helped me a lot when I adhere to it. Even when I don't manage to go to bed at the same time on the weekend, I make sure I'm at most an hour late.

Good luck!

</comment><comment><USER16> Cut caffeine. You may feel strong withdraw, but it sounds like you've burned your adrenals.

Don't force yourself exercising, the energy you'll have by fixing your diet/nutrition will force you by itself.

Sleep -> nutrition -> excercise -> habbits. In this order, the one enforces the other and you'll build momentum which enfiorces even more this positive loop.

\- cut carbs (try keto?), grains, wheat and processed foods

\- melatonin 1-3 mg one hour before bed

\- vitamin d up to 10k UI

\- omega 3

\- magnesium 400-800 mg

Basically, you'll reduce inflamation (do you feel depressed?) fixing any chronic fatigue.

The other will come by itself, just experiment and iterate.

</comment><comment><USER17> You might also consider getting a sleep study. If you "sleep" 8-9 hours a night, and aren't rested, it's possible you're not getting good sleep, and have sleep apnea.

<comment><AUTHOR> Yeah I was just reading about them. See when I go and read about sleep studies and stuff I wake up and I am not tired anymore.

</comment></comment><comment><USER18> Do you snore? You may be having some sleep apnea.

It might be thyroid.

It might be some mood disorder.

I'm (obviously) not a doctor and you should probably see one. This is the kind of thing that they're happy to see people about.

</comment><comment><USER19> Sounds like you should find some way to get some exercise.

A visit to a doctor may also be in order. What you describe sounds to me (IANAD) outside the range of normal tiredness.

<comment><AUTHOR> Thanks. Exercise sounds like it could help.

</comment></comment><comment><USER20> Like many others have suggested see a doctor ASAP.

Based on what you've written, it would appear that you don't get much exercise and might be overweight and eating too many processed foods, carbs, etc.

I've been a similar situation and the diagnosis was pre-diabetes due to poor eating habits, lack of exercise ... and depression. Depression is a real disease - not just a mental state.

There's far more to life than technology. Take up a sport or some outdoor activity. Enjoy the fresh air and company of others.

</comment><comment><USER21> You should definitely consult a doctor, just to exclude all the possible physiological reasons, for example diabetes.

After that you can consider psychological mechanisms, for example a defense reaction against forthcoming job change and it's requirements (learning new things). It sounds like a stressful situation and your reaction is quite common among people in similar situations. So it's absolutely ok to seek professional help, instead of trying to find a solution on your own.

</comment><comment><USER22> Something you can begin tomorrow - start exercising. Honestly do anything active. Running, martial arts, crossfit, ultimate frisbee, etc. - it will make you more energetic.

</comment><comment><USER23> I have experienced/do experience more or less the same problem you describe. I find forcing my self to go for a brisk, short (4-6k) walk in the morning after I wake up and several times throughout the day when I start getting tired helps.

A more recent thing I've been trying is taking (ar)modafinil 50mg 2x a day (7am and 11am). It has been working wonders for me for the past month, taken 3x a week (every other day [mon, wed, fri]).

</comment><comment><USER24> As people have said, eliminate the obvious first--see a physician. I have held a couple of jobs where I found it difficult to stay awake after lunch. Eventually I understood that this must mean it was time to move on. You may be burned out not on computers but on your particular job.

<comment><USER25> IMHOP I'd eliminate the 6-900 milligrams of caffeine and get a little exercise before I want to the doctor to find out what's wrong. It's kind of like driving your car with a flat tire and then calling a mechanic to find out why it's going so slow.

</comment></comment><comment><USER26> I'm going to say keep drinking caffeine, but not more than what you already consume.

Exercise. Aerobic > anaerobic.

Take breaks from the computer every now and then for long periods of time, perhaps on the weekend.

Change up your routine.

Make sure you have a good bed, good sleeping posture, and that you aren't interrupted while sleeping.

</comment><comment><USER27> Something like this happened to me last year. I used to feel tired, almost constantly. My doctor eventually recommended a full screen blood test which showed my Vitamin-D level to be severely deficient and testosterone was on the low end.

Get yourself checked, and soon.

</comment><comment><USER28> Afternoon tiredness could be a sign of low testosterone(assuming you are a man). I am know two people who have been diagnosed like this and that was a common symptom.

Of course it would be better to see a doctor then to ask a bunch of nerds on hacker news.

</comment><comment><USER29> In addition to needing a break, you may also have a mineral or vitamin deficiency (for example, B12). Most are easy to find if you head over and get a bunch of blood tests from your doc which will help turn up anything missing.

</comment><comment><USER30> * Exercise more * Don't drink caffeine after 4pm - try peppermint/herbal teas * Stop looking at all screens an hour before bed * Go to sleep & wake up at the exact same time every day/night

</comment><comment><USER31> you may consider the following:

1\. once you wake up, try to get out of your bed and do not snooze your clock.

2\. figure out your sleep cycle. don't wake yourself up in deep sleeping.

3\. make yourself sweat (aka exercise) especially after long hours of work. then have protein powder.

4\. give yourself a 1-week vacation which you do not drink coffee at all. you are likely feel that the 1st coffee after your vacation is like a needle poking your face.

5\. see a doctor (but honestly they might not know why) however you should get your blood tested and you may find out why you are so tired. maybe it is your nitrition.

</comment><comment><USER32> To rule out B12, take some B12. If you can, avoid the generic cyanoco- type, get the _methyl_ cobalamin. You can just put it under your tongue.

<comment><USER33> Why avoid it? The only type I've ever seen is the cyanocobalamin and similar.

What's the difference between the two?

<comment><USER32> Oh it's certainly better than none, I didn't mean to imply you shouldn't take it. Take B12 any way you can. It just didn't have the same kick. Just anecdotally, I have found the methyl- much stronger, like 1 cup coffee vs 1 can soda. You only have to try it once to see if you can tell.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER34> Fatigue is a symptom for which there are myriad causes.

Find a good doctor or naturopath and get professional support.

Absent of that you're just guessing.

</comment><comment><USER35> How much water do you drink during the day and how much do you exercise? What are your eating habits? Do you drink alcohol?

</comment><comment><USER36> My guess, and of course this can be no more than a guess, is that you are depressed because of loneliness.</comment>


Instead of Hiring Three People, I Sent the IRS $170,000. Government, FTW - <AUTHOR> http://observer.com/2016/04/instead-of-hiring-three-people-i-sent-the-irs-170000-government-ftw/ <comment><USER2> If this is a known issue then why doesn't he take steps to combat it. He could refrain from stocking up on inventory prior to the end of a tax period for a start. Sure keep stock on hand but don't get a years worth of stock sitting in warehouse if you are going to get a tax bill because of it.

I also feel it is a bit disingenuous, he wasn't overtaxed, he paid the correct amount of tax, however this financial year he will have the sales of the goods that he already paid tax on, so proportionally next years tax bill will be less.

Also he says he could have hired 3 qualified employees. How did they get qualified? Well they probably paid through the nose for a college education in the US, but to prepare them for that I imagine they attended a state funded education system first.

Its easy to blame IRS/tax but taxation is not the problem and the article even comes close to the actual problem and that is how the government spends tax revenue. And that is something much harder to argue against.

</comment><comment><USER3> Founded several companies, employs more than 20 people, IN TOTAL??? Sorry, he's not the one percent. He's part of the business owners state and federal governments should be supporting instead of allowing bigger corporations and richer people to offshore their companies, hide their assets in tax havens, get tax breaks by intensive lobbying or get tax holidays when they bring their offshore money back.

America's in a sorry state when small and medium business owners get brainwashed by politicians into hating the middle class and the poor for wanting social justice. Even "Social Justice" is a condescending term these days...

</comment><comment><USER4> He's founded several companies, and he's paying the taxes on them with a personal check? Is he doing that all as a sole proprietor and filing everything on a schedule C? Apparently the one thing he didn't hire was an accountant.

</comment><comment><USER5> Most people are talking about corporate welfare and capital gains tax when they talk about the "rich don't pay taxes" The funny thing is he forgets that for the first $9,225 he only pays 10% just like the guy that only made that much.

</comment><comment><USER5> Needs to learn the definition of bureaucracy as in hiring bureaucrats aka jobs. Don't get me wrong I see his point about inventory, but arguing I didn't hire more people because the government hired them with my tax money is kind of minimal argument. If your kind of neutral about who hires people.</comment>


The iPad DJ: @ranajune  - <AUTHOR> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHPmcU13_mU&feature=youtu.be

<comment><USER2> Scoble's video is cool, but I'd like to hear Rana play an actual one-hour set with these (and live mixing of various audio tracks.) I'm a little skeptical as to whether or not it'd be really repetitive and/or possible to really rock a full set with iPad controllers unless they're controlling Ableton or some other DAW/DJ software. The lack of MIDI sync from iPad to iPad also has to be a huge pain point for any serious controllerism.

<comment><USER3> I think the ipad as a midi controller would be much more compelling. There wasn't much in the way of blending going on in the video which, for me at least, constitutes about half of what being an edm DJ is about (the other half being track selection).

</comment></comment><comment><USER4> I always thought it was taboo to use the default samples that came with an app, but she seems to be perfectly fine with it. I thought one of the things DJs prided themselves on was their ability to find unique samples to integrate into their shows. However, I'm guessing at this point the default sample library is pretty extensive...

<comment><USER5> She points out that it is usually taboo, but for this project she wanted to limit herself to sounds available in the app store. Don't ask me why.

</comment></comment><comment><USER6> Did she program it?

<comment><USER7> No, that one is the Korg app I believe. This one [1], however, does allow you to create your own OSC controllers.

[1] <http://hexler.net/software/touchosc>

<comment><USER5> Yea, it's the Korg Electribe. Fun app.</comment></comment></comment>


Ask HN: Do we have a federated blogging platform - <AUTHOR> I use both mastodon and diaspora. Is there a blogging platform in properly federated way such that comments and collaboration works? <comment><USER2> Friendica?</comment>


WebDSL – Domain-Specific Language for Web Applications - <AUTHOR> http://webdsl.org/ <comment><USER2> In case you were searching for it too - here's a tutorial that demonstrates practical usage: [http://webdsl.org/tutorial-event-planner-files/webdsl- tutori...](http://webdsl.org/tutorial-event-planner-files/webdsl-tutorial.pdf)

This looks like a lot of complexity squeezed into something that is quickly becoming much more than a DSL.

</comment><comment><USER3> This seems such a Java thing to do. Everything about it makes my skin crawl.

I'd love to hear some real-world experience.

<comment><USER4> Why is this a Java thing to do? Seems like the linguistic's way of solving complexity. (in fact this is a product originating from the linguistic department of the Techn. University of Delft)

<comment><USER2> I think the Java thing about it is to create an external language to compensate for the deficiencies of the actual language in writing declarative code.

For most of the examples, you could probably easily write type-safe Scala code that does exactly the same, while still being flexible enough to handle the cases that the DSL doesn't currently handle.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER5> Does not look like my cup of tea, but I'm trying to reserve judgement. Anyone have any experience with this?</comment>


Apache NetBeans Proposal - <AUTHOR> https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/NetBeansProposal <comment><USER2> Is it me or has Apache increasingly become the place open source projects of big companies go to die? OpenOffice, Geronimo, Harmony, Wave, etc.pp.

I really think that Apache should stop incubating projects which were essentially discarded by their corporate owners. Successful OSS projects are either community projects from day one (HTTPd etc) or require (at least initially) strong interest and involvement of the company that donates the code. How can you expect a community to magically develop around an abandoned project?

<comment><USER3> It is not you. If you look closely at Apache projects. They are mostly Java type projects in various state of completion. Some are either failed at corporates and hence dumped there (struts, cordova and so on) or too experimental and hence good place get wider audience. If successful the main sponsor will add proprietary features/components and sell product and/or support(e.g Hadoop ecosystem components).

Some exceptions to this are Apache Http server, tomcat, svn etc.

<comment><USER4> There are plenty of live and popular Apache projects that get plenty of press time: Zookeeper, Hadooop, CouchDB, Cassandra, Storm, Cloudstack, SpamAssassin, Lucene(! -- the guts of ElasticSearch), Spark, .. hell, the list is fairly endless.

Yes they adopt a lot of code (OpenOffice!) and weird abstract crapware, but this is not quite the norm. If you measure the success of the average Apache project, I'm certain it is vastly higher than any comparable organization, although I'm not sure who you could compare Apache to.. GNU?

<comment><USER3> Not much to disagree here. The success of Apache Http and Tomcat server will itself lift average success rate by quite a bit. Others if successful are mainly a vendor driven version of software.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER5> The license will be changed to Apache License and this is great.

What I'm wondering is if they will succeed in keeping it very focused monolith as it is now, or some "design by commitee" will make it buggy monstrosity like Eclipse.

<comment><USER6> Exactly. I no longer use an IDE unless I have to (mostly a vim person), but if I were to choose one I'd take Netbeans. It's always been the most "put together". Easy to install, very focused, and the layout just makes sense. Despite my preference of non-JVM for execution (mainly b/c I go for performance vs. ease of coding), I like that Netbeans basically can run with almost identical look and feel on almost any platform with a functional JVM. I was always impressed that they were able to get the GUI to feel the same cross-platform, which even on Java isn't always easy to do. I hope Netbeans is able to keep its mojo intact. I was worried about the Oracle custodians...and now we might have to worry about a committee which could be just as dangerous.

<comment><USER7> Have you ever used IntelliJ IDEA? It seems to meet all your requirements: it looks and feels identical on all platforms with a JVM, it's very focused and "put together", and the layout just makes sense. In fact I only mention this after spending the last month trying out all three (Eclipse, NetBeans, IDEA) and settling on IDEA for these reasons and a few more (especially how it indexes the whole universe and gives you smart autocompletion in every place imaginable). And the Community Edition is free, if price is a concern.

<comment><USER8> Having used both NetBeans and IntellIJ, I greatly prefer NetBeans. What drove me up the wall with IntelliJ was the poor Maven integration.

Maven projects are first-class citizens of NetBeans, which means that NetBeans can read POM files as NetBeans project files. NetBeans generates a small supplemental file (nbactions.xml) to cover the few project-related things the POM doesn't store (such as the name of the default main class or the path to the JVM), and it duplicates no information. IntelliJ, on the other hand, uses its own project format exclusively, it duplicates everything, and the IntelliJ project file regularly falls out of sync with the POM and has to be re-synced, which can be a nightmare.

At the company where we used IntelliJ, I ended up just using IntelliJ as an editor, and I did all my building by executing mvn on the command line (and we, as a company-wide thing, never ran projects in IntelliJ: we had special scripts for that). And the only reason I used IntelliJ there was because our coding standards were defined as an IntelliJ config file; if not for that, I would've just used NetBeans.

IntelliJ _might_ be a better editor than NetBeans, and that's debatable because NetBeans is also a really good editor, but I simply cannot stand using IntelliJ for anything other than editing, while NetBeans handles non-editing tasks beautifully.

<comment><USER9> "Having used both NetBeans and IntellIJ, I greatly prefer NetBeans"

Me too, even for C++. Wish it had Dlang integration too.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER10> NetBeans was the first IDE we used in college (circa 2006). It's ridiculously easy to get setup, as opposed to Eclipse which I've always disliked.

<comment><USER11> Me too. I think eclipse is too complicated for a college student who's just upgrading from text editors or BlueJ. Netbeans is still my go-to IDE for prototyping stuff or writing simple stuff that dont need me handling multiple branches at once. The only reason its not my main IDE is the lack of workspaces and/or multiple instances (I did make it work once but its too tedious to set up again).

One of my favorite analogies is that Netbeans is the iOS of the IDEs and Eclipse is the Android. Eclipse supports way fore features than Netbeans but Netbeans "just works".

</comment></comment><comment><USER12> I have always felt NetBeans lagged behind Eclipse (and Idea) under Sun and even more so under Oracle. I think transferring to Apache would be a good thing overall for the NetBeans project.

<comment><AUTHOR> I personally enjoy NetBeans more than Eclipse or any other Java IDE. There is something about Eclipse interface I just hate. But it always felt "less pluggable" and harder to customize than other prominent IDE. But it looks like it will definitely loose momentum without any real corporate support.

All in all, languages "shouldn't have IDE". They should provide services as separate apps that should be pluggable and used in any editor. That's something Go did well as it provides a code completion server and code quality tools and any dev can make a plugin out of them for any editor.

It makes things easier to develop and maintain for service developers, plugin developers and IDE developers.

I would love to be able to use Netbeans features without using Netbean itself, without being tied to the IDE.

<comment><USER13> There's actually now a common specification for language services (pioneered by Microsoft for Visual Studio Code), and Red Hat are implementing it for Eclipse:

[https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat- coden...](https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-codenvy-and- microsoft-collaborate-language-server-protocol)

I don't whether anyone is working on this for Netbeans, though.

<comment><USER14> Codenvy has added it into Che - shipping in a few weeks. Red Hat is adding it into Eclipse. And IBM is adding it into Orion. There is collaboration from Microsoft, Mulesoft, Salesforce, Zend, IBM, Red Hat and Typefox around the language services and proposal.

The big piece that is missing is a language server registry so that any tool can discover, install and register locally a language service. That will come next.

<comment><USER15> > The big piece that is missing is a language server registry so that any tool > can discover, install and register locally a language service. That will > come next.

According to the link:

> Language server registry: Language servers are published as part of a global > registry, built by Codenvy as an Eclipse project and hosted by the Eclipse > Foundation, to make language servers discoverable for any tool to consume.

Sounds pretty cool. It's certainly a sad state of affairs when we look at existing projects like [http://editorconfig.org](http://editorconfig.org) and see that it only really covers indentation; we programmers should be those most able to configure and improve our own tools!

I really think there's a _lot_ of low-hanging fruit for improving the programming workflow, and I think it begins by decoupling basic functionality like this from the monolithic IDEs they've traditionally inhabited.

<comment> john-waterwood We're able but we don't do it, since there's a 9 to 5 job with a manager that always screams we work to slowly, and then after work we have to pick up kids, do the dishes and what have you.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER16> Time to buy some JetBrains stock..

<comment><USER17> Why?

If anything Netbeans should be more attractive if it is released from Oracle.

<comment><USER18> > If anything Netbeans should be more attractive if it is released from > Oracle.

Until the community around it solidifies and proves that it is committed and capable, it will probably be _less_ attractive than when it was backed by Oracle.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER19> The license changing to Apache is probably a good thing in the long run. The committer list in the proposal is roughly 1/3 Oracle. One can only hope they continue to be committed to it. It is certainly an ominous sign for the Java community in general that the designated steward is divesting tooling.

</comment><comment><USER20> I think Oracle is disappointed how their ownership of Java is not as powerful as hoped though costing them a lot. The tooling and enterprise workflow probably eats a lot of manpower.

Netbeans was always great for the more advanced Java platform features since it was "officially" supported and often the demo implementation for them.

I hope Oracle will continue invest in it because it is a polished platform. The profiling and sampling tools shared with visualvm are awesome.

Or maybe Oracle is just loosening the governance grip on the platform allowing some control for other organisations invested in the platform.

Time will tell.

</comment><comment><USER21> I like NetBeans and I like Apache [http://robertjliguori.blogspot.com/2016/09/apache- netbeans-w...](http://robertjliguori.blogspot.com/2016/09/apache-netbeans- where-only-good-gets.html)

</comment><comment><USER21> I like NetBeans [http://robertjliguori.blogspot.com/2016/09/apache- netbeans-w...](http://robertjliguori.blogspot.com/2016/09/apache-netbeans- where-only-good-gets.html)

</comment><comment><USER22> Good news overall, at least with Apache the project stands a chance of continuing. Oracle has shown to be a poor manager of open-source projects.

Maybe we can even get a proper Python plugin out of this ;-)

</comment><comment><USER23> This worked out well for OpenOffice.org, Cassandra, Wave, Groovy...

</comment><comment><USER24> Oracle transfers their software to the Apache Foundation: what could _possibly_ go wrong?

<comment><USER25> What are you referring to?

<comment><USER26> Surely to Apache OpenOffice, which hasn't yet built a strong development community under the ASF's umbrella.

<comment><USER27> "Yet". I'm sure it will... just give it more time

<comment><USER28> How much are you thinking? That is, at what point is your claim testable?</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment>


Show HN: LavaSend - SnapChat for documents - <AUTHOR>

LavaSend allows you to send a document, currently text based like PDF/Word/etc but plans for other stuff in the future, and you have full control over what the receiver can do.
You can make the document die after a few seconds/minutes/days, like SnapChat does with pics, or you can allow them to open the document x number of times. Once the conditions are met the document is securely destroyed on all devices and the server.
https://lavasend.com
Common Questions:
Q: How can you promise security against screen-shots, screen-recording, etc.? A: There's never going to be a 100% for sure way to protect yourself from someone copying something you send them. Our main goal at LavaSend is to protect our users, and in that respect case law on the use of screenshots is sketchy at best. No digital record of the conversation exists after the requested conditions are met for deletion to be subpoenaed by a court of law.
Q: What is the problem you are solving? A: The problem being solved is being able to send a document to another person without fear that the document can be used against you, mainly in a court of law. In the example of a lawyer, they can send their client documents for review without those documents being subject to legal data retention laws.  I also foresee LavaSend being used in ways we never expected or intended. The idea of private/secure communication is widespread.
Q: Its fairly easy to lock a spreadsheet, word document, or PDF, so what makes LavaSend a better option? A: Locking a spreadsheet doesn't keep it from being unlocked by the receiver and keeping it to use against you.
Q: Are there any services that lawyers currently use similar to this? A: There are several services that promise secure end to end encryption of communications, including documents, but none, that we have found, in a SnapChat type format. <comment><AUTHOR> Clickable link: [https://lavasend.com](https://lavasend.com)</comment>