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TonDone | Laravel/PHP Mid/Senior Developer/Engineer | REMOTE (USA) | Full-time ($75k-$120k)

At TonDone (https://tondone.com), we believe in enhancing businesses with the most innovative solutions that would help businesses be more efficient. We are working to build a team with a passion for solving problems and moving quickly, and we are looking for people to help us.

Each day our customers rely on TonDone across their entire workforces, and you'll help us keep it going with your skills in Laravel, PHP, jQuery, JavaScript to make improvements and features changes to our application

You'd be joining a team of thoughtful leaders and experienced engineers with HQ in Akron, OH and distributed across the United States.

Apply here: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tondone/jobs/ or here https://angel.co/l/2xbW4M

Thank you so much for your comment! Yes, that functionality is meant for people who aren't comfortable speaking or just mute. It would work perfectly for your case too!

We want to release an android version asap, we just need more early access/Beta sign ups to the form on our website. Since this is all open-source voluntary for now, it's a huge investment of time and effort

I know!! I wish I had infinite time and money, so I could just build apps that would be useful for people! :) Please fill out the form on the website so if I get at least 100 interested android users, I will go ahead and start building that as well

@_ink_ it is definitely possible to add that feature too. I think our focus is on the 90% of uses, but is that something that would be helpful for you?

@Vladimof thanks for your comment, it's an app for the deaf. Though a lidar object detection app for the blind would be awesome. Have you seen something like that already?

Yup video calling is a game changer, a lot of signs require two hands so it's still challenging even with video calling!

Jade thank you! I feel like I have this amazing opportunity to learn from everyone, from all around the world, so I might as well encourage more people to comment so I can learn from everyone's knowledge and experience :)

Jade! Yo thank you so much for helping everyone here be more educated about using the right terminology. We all have a lot of learning to do, the other day I learnt to use "wheelchair user" instead of the commonly mistaken "wheelchair bound" terminology

Ah ok, I got excited for a minute. But yeah I totally agree about a11y first!

Holy moly thats a great idea, thanks for your comment! I will provide this functionality for free for you (and everyone else if its not too difficult) if you can help me test it, so I can figure out the science. I kinda have an idea, because I have studied the science behind sounds quite a bit. Can you reach out to me at hi@deafassistant.com ?

Great work! Thanks for sharing and making it Open Source!

Exactly, the app is a compliment to the native "Sound Recognition", they don't step on each other's toes. We don't 100% endorse that functionality because we don't want to be liable for inaccuracies or weaknesses in that functionality

Thank you for your comment! Great question that I should have mentioned in my comment, if the app is open-source and free, we don't have ads, we collect no information, how do we make money?

We are hoping to hit >10k active monthly users and an organically growing user base to justify putting in more time and personal money to create an AR module and an "Experience" module that uses Machine Learning. We hope to provide those as freemium features because those will require significantly more time to add, but will be an absolute game changer to Deaf Tech! So please share it with your friends so we can make the dream a reality! :)

Ah Sherlocking! That's a great question. There's no guarantee obviously, you got to take risks. The biggest one is if you put in so much work but no uses the app at all. If I got sherlocked, I would take it as a compliment, that I made something worth being sherlocked! :D

Dude thank you for catching that bug, I will push out an update today! :)

Dude wait, did You create Sim Daltonism? I am a HUGE fan of that app, especially since I am also color blind :D

Hey Jemm from Canada! The app is currently only available for iOS right now. We haven't built it for Android yet since the app is free. So the form is for us to see how many people would actually download it if we build it for Android.

So please fill out the form with your info, and share the form with anyone who would also want it for Android.

Thank you for your comment! Great question, if the app is open-source and free, we don't have ads, we collect no information, how do we make money?

We are hoping to hit >10k active monthly users and a organically growing user base to justify putting in more time and personal money to create an AR module and an "Experience" module that uses Machine Learning. We hope to provide those as freemium features because those will require significantly more time to add, but will be an absolute game changer to Deaf Tech! So please share it with your friends so we can make the dream a reality! :)

Thanks for your comment! The app doesn't perform any of those sound recognition features, it currently acts as a compliment to those features :)

Thank you for your comment u/ThePowerOfFuet Great question! Currently the sound recognition doesn't just measure "loud noises" or allow you to set a threshold above which to be alerted. You have to currently specify which sounds to select, and then the accuracy of those are also not that great. This app behaves like "alerting devices" that Deaf users currently pay to purchase, having to purchase and manage another gadget.

Great question, if the app is open-source and free, we don't have ads, we collect no information, how do we make money? We are hoping to hit >10k active monthly users and a organically growing user base to justify putting in more time and personal money to create an AR module and an "Experience" module that uses Machine Learning. We hope to provide those as freemium features because those will require significantly more time to add, but will be an absolute game changer to Deaf Tech!

Hey Davide thank you for your comment! Currently it just helps you BeAware of all noises that hit the noise threshold (60-90 decibels) that you set on your phone. We want to use ML in the next version to allow users to select what sounds they want to be alerted to "Baby Crying", "Fire Alarm", "Microwave beeping", etc.

OMG Yes, thank you for your comment! You're right! That's exactly why we have added the ability to "Mark alert as critical" so that it will increase priority and provide notification even if your phone is in Do Not Disturb or Focus mode

Oh yes you're right, thank you so much for your comment!

Sorry it was past midnight & did this post really quick because I didn't think this post would pick up at all! Lol but yes, parents, baby sitters, deaf grand parents, etc.

We are also looking to add more languages, but we need help from volunteers to verify those translations. So feel free to message us through the app or email us at hi@deafassistant.com !

Hey HN! After months of work and over 1000 hours of research, design & development, we just released BeAware, an open-source & free Deaf Assistant iPhone app!

- BeAware uses the in-built hardware to alert Deaf users of knocks on doors, baby crying for a deaf moms, sirens blaring for deaf delivery drivers. Earlier deaf users would have to purchase a separate "alerting devices" which would vibrate or flash LED's, something that they can do with this app now, even while it's running in the background in low power mode!

- The app also performs highly performant Speech To Text in ~15 languages, even without an internet connection, designed to work great in the time of the pandemic. (Includes Arabic, Ukrainian, Chinese Simplified & Traditional, Spanish, French, ...)

- The notepad feature allows users to type, or use pre-written phrases to display text to others who don't know ASL. It's super unique to where it allows the Deaf user to dictate the text through active audio and video calls!

The app was designed to make their everyday lives easier and more inclusive. We'd love to get your feedback, and for your to share it with your friends :) Just tap the download button on the website. We plan to add AR and ML to the app if we get some traction & interest to enhance the deaf experience.