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Ask HN: What is your side project?

36 points by max0563 10y ago

codr4life 10y ago
Currently most active is Lifoo (https://github.com/codr4life/lifoo https://github.com/codr4life/lifoo), a Lisp/Forth-inspired language that's embedded in, and compiles to Common Lisp. Good luck trying to generate funny money from of that idea :) Still, I wouldn't change the experience for anything; it might be imperfect, but this one is mine; no more squeezing ideas into what someone else once thought was possible.
roschdal 10y ago
https://play.freeciv.org https://play.freeciv.org
hankewi 10y ago
When planning a yearly roadtrip with with our buddies in a mix of email, WhatsApp and Doodle we figured this should be solved more easily: JayPads (https://jaypad.de/ https://jaypad.de/), a tiny mix of Slack and Doodle/Post-Its, requiring no logins or downloads, is the first step.
sjs382 10y ago
SendToMyCloud -- A public inbox for your Dropbox or Google Drive. Launched here on HN a little more than 2 years ago. https://sendtomycloud.com https://sendtomycloud.com (among others mentioned in my HN profile)
NicoJuicy 10y ago
http://tagly.azurewebsites.net http://tagly.azurewebsites.net it's like HN with tags, but does a lot more. Currently use it as a bookmark webapp as I continue to expand it's functionality
andriussev 10y ago
Currently improving my postcard sending service - https://postbirdy.com https://postbirdy.com . Which is not really something special, just a fairly basic, yet functional service with my attempt to try making it quite fast and not hated by google PageSpeed Insights. Also working on a simple service of screenshotting a website from multiple browsers (well, technically just emulating size and user agent with possibly PhantomJS). Not yet live, maybe in a week or two. Taking my time!
Miktor 10y ago
A tiny GUI automation scripting language (five commands) built on top of Python 3 and Pyautogui that will enable me to automate more than 50% of my current data entry job. :D
bhu1st 10y ago
Building mobile apps for http://baghchal.net http://baghchal.net (it's a board game), but struggling to find out proper business model for it. If anyone gets any ideas on a quick look I'd appreciate a comment.
jwho82 10y ago
https://logmyhours.com https://logmyhours.com Time tracking, invoicing, project & employee management. Launched it in Aug 2015, and launched the app last Aug. Hoping to go full time in the next 12 months if things work out.
- exolymph 10y ago
  How's your traction so far?
  - jwho82 10y ago
    Bit slow at first, but doing pretty good now. Been maintaining around 10% growth MoM since Jan 2015. This month has been awesome though, almost doubled last month's revenue!
- bbcbasic 10y ago
  Whats the USP?
  - jwho82 10y ago
    Cheaper than most of the competition, easy to use, and epic customer service (Doesn't everyone say this though?). Basically I reach out to every new user to see if LMH is working out for them, and if there's anything missing or any challenges they might have encountered. I had one user with a few employees that was looking to switch over from one of our big competitors, and he really needed timesheet tags and timesheet approval & locking. I managed to build most of the timesheet tagging while in China on holidays :) and had the locking/approval system in later that week. I have a few more exciting things I want to do once most of the main features have been built and I'm working full time on this. Currently doing around 20 hours a week.
sprobertson 10y ago
https://github.com/spro/practical-pytorch https://github.com/spro/practical-pytorch A tutorial series to help people learn how to use machine learning (especially RNNs) for NLP tasks.
bartligthart 10y ago
http://goodfood.tips http://goodfood.tips A website where I create city food guides. Currently with a nice collection of food articles about that city. Thinking about adding a checklist thingy for dishes to eat when you are for example in Bangkok.
- mthink 10y ago
  Heads up, getting a SSL cert error ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID
  - bartligthart 10y ago
    Thanks
mickaelkerjean 10y ago
http://www.spotlive.io http://www.spotlive.io A market place for bands to get gigs in Australia
tantanel 10y ago
Currently building a GUI for the Composer package manager (PHP) - https://getcomposercat.com https://getcomposercat.com It's not released yet but starting to get there.
deleted 10y ago
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patrickgordon 10y ago
SimpleRM, a sort of a personal CRM for friendships/colleagues/etc. I'm re-doing the frontend right now as the currently available version was from when I started learning React... have come a long way since. http://simplerm.co/ http://simplerm.co/ (it is available in https but my certs expired and I forgot to do them over the weekend :grimacing:)
exolymph 10y ago
A cyberpunk newsletter: https://www.exolymph.news/ https://www.exolymph.news/ Sadly I had to reduce frequency from 3x per week to once a week, but I'm going to keep on keepin' on.
phlai 10y ago
EngageKit, visioned to be a customer engagement platform. Currently only the knowledge base feature is built in. The other features are still wip. https://engagekit.com https://engagekit.com
Jonovono 10y ago
Plusaroo (http://plusaroo.com/ http://plusaroo.com/): Easily plus songs on Spotify with a Mac menu bar button and keyboard shortcut. Rekindlr (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/rekindlr/id1072608462?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/rekindlr/id1072608462?mt=8): Power user app for Tinder users. Sort your matches by distance, last active and age.
OhSoHumble 10y ago
One project is Padmapper for affordable housing since the affordable housing sites built by government contractors are not great. https://github.com/codeforsanjose/findahome https://github.com/codeforsanjose/findahome Another project is the programmatic serving of California drought data via a JSON api. https://github.com/codeforsanjose/calidrought https://github.com/codeforsanjose/calidrought I also am thinking of a tiny little golang website that helps people organize board game parties - basically a wrapper around meetup.com. As far as non-tech projects, I want to make a bar cart I own prettier by lining the inside of its top tray with an LED strip.
Rodeoclash 10y ago
https://cineargus.com/ https://cineargus.com/ Follow directors, script writers and DOPs on movies and get alerted when new movies they work on come out. I wrote it mainly for myself. When I sit down to watch a movie I decide on what I want to watch based more and more on who made it rather than what it's about. E.g. Taylor Sheridan wrote "Sicario". Based on how much I enjoyed that movie, I knew I would likely want to watch "Hell or High Water". Still a bit incomplete, I haven't written the "how it works" section yet. But you can search for movies and find people that worked on them, follow them and get alerts.
jfajobi 10y ago
https://www.skipthestamps.com/ https://www.skipthestamps.com/ A simple tool to send people postcards (either anonymously or signed). Choose from 5 of my preset photos or upload your own. Mainly wrote it because I always had issues abandoning side projects before I ever released it to the world. I also wanted to get more comfortable with React.
kazinator 10y ago
SOFTWARE: TXR: data munging and system scripting language, in active development since mid 2009. Contains innovative Lisp dialect and original document pattern matching language. http://nongnu.org/txr http://nongnu.org/txr NON-SOFTWARE: Currently subtitling an epic 1980's Japanese rock concert video of the group Show-Ya. Captioning of the original language done. English translation done for the first song.
garysieling 10y ago
https://www.FindLectures.com https://www.FindLectures.com - collection of academic & conference talks, historical speeches, documentaries that I'm curating.
zazpowered 10y ago
https://senzu.io https://senzu.io - Learn how to manage your personal finances
- payamb 10y ago
  https://senzu.io/budgeting?salary=3&state=AA https://senzu.io/budgeting?salary=3&state=AA Check this out
soulchild37 10y ago
https://sweatshops.github.io/Komuter_Page/ https://sweatshops.github.io/Komuter_Page/ An iOS app to show schedule of upcoming train in my country, I built it because I got frustrated waiting train as the train intervals is 30-45 minutes in my country, many time spent wasting for waiting train lol.
tmaly 10y ago
https://bestfoodnearme.com https://bestfoodnearme.com food dishes by location. I wanted a way to find great food without having to read reviews. I am launching a redesign in 2 months
mrhichem 10y ago
https://www.scyware.com https://www.scyware.com Automated trading bots and indicators for the cTrader platform. Profitable since 2013
Bumerang 10y ago
https://dilectee.com https://dilectee.com Site to help people with their decisions. I created it as a way to learn web development (React, Django), since I'm coming from system programming.
thakobyan 10y ago
https://booknshelf.com https://booknshelf.com A website to help people discover great books and bookshelves on different topics. It's also a place to keep track of your books, creating shelves and staying organized with your readings!
pucinators 10y ago
http://fooltools.net/ http://fooltools.net/ Simple online tool site, created as excersize, from tasks I needed
MikeTV 10y ago
https://www.versionsql.com https://www.versionsql.com Version control add-in for SQL Server Management Studio.
edmundo 10y ago
My last side project was this free Tumblr Theme called Dark Side inspired by the Star Wars franchise. Got about 750 active installs in the first month, pretty happy about it: https://www.tumblr.com/theme/40329 https://www.tumblr.com/theme/40329 I also released on GitHub in case people want to fork and customise it: https://github.com/edmundojr/tumblr-darkside https://github.com/edmundojr/tumblr-darkside
swlkr 10y ago
http://new-app-site.herokuapp.com/ http://new-app-site.herokuapp.com/ It's a way for app developers (and iMessage app developers) to promote their apps without making a whole website themselves.
deleted 10y ago
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wirddin 10y ago
https://matchr.in https://matchr.in An app which connects you with an anonymous person who might share the same interests as you. Once you're comfortable, you can unlock each other's profiles. Done with most of the programming.
akeruu 10y ago
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=be.nebuleux.jtrains.android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=be.nebuleux.jt... jTrains is an offline tool to plan railways trip in Japan. I developed it for my own needs but figured people might like it so I ended up publishing it on the Google Play Store. It is a bit rough on the edges but I very much welcome any suggestions for improvement.
herbst 10y ago
Right now i am working on https://ForwardMX.io https://ForwardMX.io

36 points by max0563 10y ago

Currently most active is Lifoo (https://github.com/codr4life/lifoo https://github.com/codr4life/lifoo), a Lisp/Forth-inspired language that's embedded in, and compiles to Common Lisp. Good luck trying to generate funny money from of that idea :) Still, I wouldn't change the experience for anything; it might be imperfect, but this one is mine; no more squeezing ideas into what someone else once thought was possible.

roschdal 10y ago

https://play.freeciv.org https://play.freeciv.org

hankewi 10y ago

When planning a yearly roadtrip with with our buddies in a mix of email, WhatsApp and Doodle we figured this should be solved more easily: JayPads (https://jaypad.de/ https://jaypad.de/), a tiny mix of Slack and Doodle/Post-Its, requiring no logins or downloads, is the first step.

sjs382 10y ago

SendToMyCloud -- A public inbox for your Dropbox or Google Drive. Launched here on HN a little more than 2 years ago. https://sendtomycloud.com https://sendtomycloud.com (among others mentioned in my HN profile)

NicoJuicy 10y ago

http://tagly.azurewebsites.net http://tagly.azurewebsites.net it's like HN with tags, but does a lot more. Currently use it as a bookmark webapp as I continue to expand it's functionality

andriussev 10y ago

Currently improving my postcard sending service - https://postbirdy.com https://postbirdy.com . Which is not really something special, just a fairly basic, yet functional service with my attempt to try making it quite fast and not hated by google PageSpeed Insights. Also working on a simple service of screenshotting a website from multiple browsers (well, technically just emulating size and user agent with possibly PhantomJS). Not yet live, maybe in a week or two. Taking my time!

Miktor 10y ago

A tiny GUI automation scripting language (five commands) built on top of Python 3 and Pyautogui that will enable me to automate more than 50% of my current data entry job. :D

bhu1st 10y ago

Building mobile apps for http://baghchal.net http://baghchal.net (it's a board game), but struggling to find out proper business model for it. If anyone gets any ideas on a quick look I'd appreciate a comment.

jwho82 10y ago

https://logmyhours.com https://logmyhours.com Time tracking, invoicing, project & employee management. Launched it in Aug 2015, and launched the app last Aug. Hoping to go full time in the next 12 months if things work out.

exolymph 10y ago
How's your traction so far?
- jwho82 10y ago
  Bit slow at first, but doing pretty good now. Been maintaining around 10% growth MoM since Jan 2015. This month has been awesome though, almost doubled last month's revenue!
bbcbasic 10y ago
Whats the USP?
- jwho82 10y ago
  Cheaper than most of the competition, easy to use, and epic customer service (Doesn't everyone say this though?). Basically I reach out to every new user to see if LMH is working out for them, and if there's anything missing or any challenges they might have encountered. I had one user with a few employees that was looking to switch over from one of our big competitors, and he really needed timesheet tags and timesheet approval & locking. I managed to build most of the timesheet tagging while in China on holidays :) and had the locking/approval system in later that week. I have a few more exciting things I want to do once most of the main features have been built and I'm working full time on this. Currently doing around 20 hours a week.

sprobertson 10y ago

https://github.com/spro/practical-pytorch https://github.com/spro/practical-pytorch A tutorial series to help people learn how to use machine learning (especially RNNs) for NLP tasks.

bartligthart 10y ago

http://goodfood.tips http://goodfood.tips A website where I create city food guides. Currently with a nice collection of food articles about that city. Thinking about adding a checklist thingy for dishes to eat when you are for example in Bangkok.

mthink 10y ago
Heads up, getting a SSL cert error ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID
- bartligthart 10y ago
  Thanks

mickaelkerjean 10y ago

http://www.spotlive.io http://www.spotlive.io A market place for bands to get gigs in Australia

tantanel 10y ago

Currently building a GUI for the Composer package manager (PHP) - https://getcomposercat.com https://getcomposercat.com It's not released yet but starting to get there.

deleted 10y ago

[deleted]

patrickgordon 10y ago

SimpleRM, a sort of a personal CRM for friendships/colleagues/etc. I'm re-doing the frontend right now as the currently available version was from when I started learning React... have come a long way since. http://simplerm.co/ http://simplerm.co/ (it is available in https but my certs expired and I forgot to do them over the weekend :grimacing:)

exolymph 10y ago

A cyberpunk newsletter: https://www.exolymph.news/ https://www.exolymph.news/ Sadly I had to reduce frequency from 3x per week to once a week, but I'm going to keep on keepin' on.

phlai 10y ago

EngageKit, visioned to be a customer engagement platform. Currently only the knowledge base feature is built in. The other features are still wip. https://engagekit.com https://engagekit.com

Jonovono 10y ago

Plusaroo (http://plusaroo.com/ http://plusaroo.com/): Easily plus songs on Spotify with a Mac menu bar button and keyboard shortcut. Rekindlr (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/rekindlr/id1072608462?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/rekindlr/id1072608462?mt=8): Power user app for Tinder users. Sort your matches by distance, last active and age.

OhSoHumble 10y ago

One project is Padmapper for affordable housing since the affordable housing sites built by government contractors are not great. https://github.com/codeforsanjose/findahome https://github.com/codeforsanjose/findahome Another project is the programmatic serving of California drought data via a JSON api. https://github.com/codeforsanjose/calidrought https://github.com/codeforsanjose/calidrought I also am thinking of a tiny little golang website that helps people organize board game parties - basically a wrapper around meetup.com. As far as non-tech projects, I want to make a bar cart I own prettier by lining the inside of its top tray with an LED strip.

Rodeoclash 10y ago

https://cineargus.com/ https://cineargus.com/ Follow directors, script writers and DOPs on movies and get alerted when new movies they work on come out. I wrote it mainly for myself. When I sit down to watch a movie I decide on what I want to watch based more and more on who made it rather than what it's about. E.g. Taylor Sheridan wrote "Sicario". Based on how much I enjoyed that movie, I knew I would likely want to watch "Hell or High Water". Still a bit incomplete, I haven't written the "how it works" section yet. But you can search for movies and find people that worked on them, follow them and get alerts.

jfajobi 10y ago

https://www.skipthestamps.com/ https://www.skipthestamps.com/ A simple tool to send people postcards (either anonymously or signed). Choose from 5 of my preset photos or upload your own. Mainly wrote it because I always had issues abandoning side projects before I ever released it to the world. I also wanted to get more comfortable with React.

kazinator 10y ago

SOFTWARE: TXR: data munging and system scripting language, in active development since mid 2009. Contains innovative Lisp dialect and original document pattern matching language. http://nongnu.org/txr http://nongnu.org/txr NON-SOFTWARE: Currently subtitling an epic 1980's Japanese rock concert video of the group Show-Ya. Captioning of the original language done. English translation done for the first song.

garysieling 10y ago

https://www.FindLectures.com https://www.FindLectures.com - collection of academic & conference talks, historical speeches, documentaries that I'm curating.

zazpowered 10y ago

https://senzu.io https://senzu.io - Learn how to manage your personal finances

payamb 10y ago
https://senzu.io/budgeting?salary=3&state=AA https://senzu.io/budgeting?salary=3&state=AA Check this out

soulchild37 10y ago

https://sweatshops.github.io/Komuter_Page/ https://sweatshops.github.io/Komuter_Page/ An iOS app to show schedule of upcoming train in my country, I built it because I got frustrated waiting train as the train intervals is 30-45 minutes in my country, many time spent wasting for waiting train lol.

tmaly 10y ago

https://bestfoodnearme.com https://bestfoodnearme.com food dishes by location. I wanted a way to find great food without having to read reviews. I am launching a redesign in 2 months

mrhichem 10y ago

https://www.scyware.com https://www.scyware.com Automated trading bots and indicators for the cTrader platform. Profitable since 2013

Bumerang 10y ago

https://dilectee.com https://dilectee.com Site to help people with their decisions. I created it as a way to learn web development (React, Django), since I'm coming from system programming.

thakobyan 10y ago

https://booknshelf.com https://booknshelf.com A website to help people discover great books and bookshelves on different topics. It's also a place to keep track of your books, creating shelves and staying organized with your readings!

pucinators 10y ago

http://fooltools.net/ http://fooltools.net/ Simple online tool site, created as excersize, from tasks I needed

MikeTV 10y ago

https://www.versionsql.com https://www.versionsql.com Version control add-in for SQL Server Management Studio.

edmundo 10y ago

My last side project was this free Tumblr Theme called Dark Side inspired by the Star Wars franchise. Got about 750 active installs in the first month, pretty happy about it: https://www.tumblr.com/theme/40329 https://www.tumblr.com/theme/40329 I also released on GitHub in case people want to fork and customise it: https://github.com/edmundojr/tumblr-darkside https://github.com/edmundojr/tumblr-darkside

swlkr 10y ago

http://new-app-site.herokuapp.com/ http://new-app-site.herokuapp.com/ It's a way for app developers (and iMessage app developers) to promote their apps without making a whole website themselves.

deleted 10y ago

[deleted]

wirddin 10y ago

https://matchr.in https://matchr.in An app which connects you with an anonymous person who might share the same interests as you. Once you're comfortable, you can unlock each other's profiles. Done with most of the programming.

akeruu 10y ago

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=be.nebuleux.jtrains.android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=be.nebuleux.jt... jTrains is an offline tool to plan railways trip in Japan. I developed it for my own needs but figured people might like it so I ended up publishing it on the Google Play Store. It is a bit rough on the edges but I very much welcome any suggestions for improvement.

herbst 10y ago

Right now i am working on https://ForwardMX.io https://ForwardMX.io