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Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

• protdum 6y ago
  Community driven movie recommendation app - check it out https://www.movvio.com https://www.movvio.com Now the biggest challenge is to how to get ppl to subscribe for Early bird access while we are finishing the app :(
  • karmakaze 6y ago
    As a developer, I'm curious to know how 'Step 3' is supposed to work compared to other ways making recommendations. One of the big problems I have with recommendations is recommending things I've already watched. Netflix used to be so good at the start, now my tastes are just pooled in with what everyone else is watching now.
    • protdum 6y ago
      So, when you join the app, you will go through onboarding flow where we try to understand your movie genre interests, as well as, you can opt-in to give suggestions in the future (this way you become part of community). So, once you submit a request, app will send those request to selected ppl from the community asking for a good suggestion. Once they suggest movie/TV show/series, you will be notified and will be able to pick those that you like/dislike. App will try to understand who are ppl from the community which suggestions you liked the most and in the future will connect you profiles similar to those people. That way you will have your unique path. The main reason for this is when we did PoC most of the participants stressed that they take suggestions from people they know and share similar taste. But again, we are in stage of releasing our MVP, so I'm sure there will be more things to learn :) Hey, why not subscribe for "Early access" and help us crack that part :)
• non-entity 6y ago
  I've been diving into digital communications, particularly VLC (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visible_light_communication https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visible_light_communication) There is some decent information out there about it including open source solutions and many good papers (unfortunately some paywalled) and I've been working on a very primitive prototype, but I've been pretty distracted. I've also ordered some books on VLC, digital communications that cover theory as well as some more applied ones. I do hate how many of the books are either textbooks or associated with standards that seem to make them very expensive. Unfortunately sooner or later, I'll have to face my extremely weak math ability, which I'm dreading. Behind that I have a ton of side projects backlogged ranging from more digital communications and hardware stuff, to retrocomputing projects, to some ML stuff I want to try.
• saluki 6y ago
  Learning Tailwind CSS, alpine.js and livewire and finally finishing my SaaS.
• seanwilson 6y ago
  I'm tinkering with a single player word game in HTML5. Feedback welcome. :) https://seanwilson.itch.io/wordoid https://seanwilson.itch.io/wordoid I've tried to make it intuitive enough that you don't have to read a page of instructions first but let me know if I've missed the mark. I'm hoping you can learn the gameplay mechanics as you play. I'm not using any web frameworks for this which was actually fun to do. It gave me a chance to improve my understanding of CSS animations + reflows, and catch up with changes to JavaScript.
  • CoreFailure 6y ago
    Just played with it for a few minutes, I liked it! The only bit that occasionally tripped me up was going diagonally in my word construction, but I got the hang of it after a few rounds. One thing that may make this easier is beveling the edges of the tiles slightly so you don't accidentally select letters on either side of the diagonal unintentionally.
    • seanwilson 6y ago
      Great, thanks for the feedback! > One thing that may make this easier is beveling the edges of the tiles slightly so you don't accidentally select letters on either side of the diagonal unintentionally. Thanks, I'll have a play with that. If you use your web devtools to inspect the HTML, you should see over each letter tile, there's actually an invisible tile on top of each one at a 45 degree angle that's being used as the real touch/mouse target for selecting letters (as accidental selection is awful if you use the actual tile as the target). Maybe there's a more reliable way but playing with the target shapes and sizes will probably help.
  • jcheng 6y ago
    Really fun, very polished! Stream of consciousness feedback: After a few levels I found clusters of letters I was having trouble with building up over time (there was an “X” right in the middle, and like six “I”s clumped up). I found myself wishing there was some mechanic that could clear them out. Maybe that would make it too easy though. I really love the animation when you make it to the next level, very satisfying. On mobile safari, holding your finger on a tile for too long causes a text selection. I’d love a “zen mode” with no timer!
• Kkoala 6y ago
  I made a website to connect and chat with people who are listening to the same song right now on Spotify. https://tunemeet.com https://tunemeet.com
  • excalibur 6y ago
    This is interesting, kudos.
  • jacobedawson 6y ago
    Would need a pretty vicious critical mass but I like the idea :)
    • Kkoala 6y ago
      Yeah, planning to promote it on Reddit and ProductHunt so hopefully can gather more users and reach the critical mass.
• colebowl 6y ago
  I'm building TidyCloud. It's a toolset on top of common cloud storage drives to provide cross platform search, duplicate identification, security risk identification and usage statistics/analytics across your files stored in the cloud https://tidycloud.app https://tidycloud.app I'm looking for beta users if you dig the idea and want to help out a feel HNer.
  • nfour 6y ago
    Looks valuable! I've a question. I'm building something which stores encrypted app data through a user provided cloud storage login. Could TidyCloud allow for a user to OAuth login and request permission to store files across many storage providers (to ensure availability)?
    • colebowl 6y ago
      Cross provider sync is on our roadmap but not available yet. If you want, send me an email with some more details and I'll look into the feasibility.
• closed 6y ago
  porting the R library dplyr to python. :) (I set aside 2020 to work on this, but quarantine definitely created much more time for it) https://github.com/machow/siuba https://github.com/machow/siuba
• dangoljames 6y ago
  So much stuff. New raspberry pi 4, that and.. ...Exploring Alpine Linux ...Exploring NixOS ...Exploring Lightweight Linux Containers/VMs ...Writing a Hacker News Crawler ...Continuing my sometimes-paying (wx)python work pretty much the usual, actually...
  • mraza007 6y ago
    I actually wrote a simple hn script that sends me top stories everyday. If you wanna check it out let me know
• cwaffles 6y ago
  I'm working a simple online faxing service[0] that doesn't ask for your email, and sends faxing quickly. Not free, but 0.20/page. Still working on converting the in memory db to sqlite. Feedback would be great.
  • mraza007 6y ago
    How are you implementing that. It sounds really cool
  • edoceo 6y ago
    Where is the service? You didn't link us
  • conductr 6y ago
    Is there an actual per page variable cost incurred to provide this service? Assuming no, as consumer of these types of services I would like to see a pricing formula that doesn't get so expensive for larger page count documents. Even something like $1 + $0.05 per page would be nice and solves your micro transaction dilemma on <3-4 page faxes.
• almostarockstar 6y ago
  My cofounder and I threw together a virtual table quiz platform. We stream the questions on YouTube live and accept the answers through a web app I built. We've been able to host quizzes with over 250 teams, scoring their answers in real time. The scoreboard is auto generated and players can make a contribution with stripe. So far we've given over 6k euros to various local charities. I'm very proud of what we've achieved so far.
  • polishdude20 6y ago
    Is this the thing three blue one brown uses for his live streams?
    • almostarockstar 6y ago
      No. Right now it's just our two weekly quizzes (Tuesday and Friday) from Ireland, one quiz from California (Friday) and a couple corporate quizzes we host for companies, maybe one every two weeks.
• cellularmitosis 6y ago
  A simple spaced-repetition flashcard system, where the flashcard decks are github gists. I know Anki and other alternatives exist, but after having written my own private wiki (10 years ago!), I have found value in DIY'ing important tools.
  • charlieegan3 6y ago
    Would you ever open the tool to the public?
    • cellularmitosis 6y ago
      As soon as it is working!
• certera 6y ago
  Was working on this before the virus, but still am actively developing it. https://docs.certera.io https://docs.certera.io It's a central place to monitor, issue, renew, revoke your Let's Encrypt certificates.
  • karmakaze 6y ago
    This seems interesting. I also saw Caddy 2 which seems to have a lot of functions (with handling certs as one) and it's good to have something that's complementary with other software. Also nice write-up on the 'source available' licensing rationale.
    • certera 6y ago
      I've been following Caddy and what they're doing makes sense. Certera aims to fill a gap in centralizing and managing LE certs and allowing those certs to be used in more places and scenarios.
• karmakaze 6y ago
  I've registered a few domain names for soon-to-start projects: - cheatsheetsdb.com - crowdsource them by topic, up/down votes to see which are good - ispecsdb.com - similar to above but for various product specs - stackflows.com - something to connect a slack channel's messages as input to a Kanban-like-board workflow (unclear use cases/design) Past projects: (welcome any comments/suggestions) [0] https://statuspages.me https://statuspages.me (all the statuspages on one page), [1] https://gitgrep.com https://gitgrep.com (hosted git search), [2] https://quicklog.io https://quicklog.io (high-level events to narrow log viewing)
  • karmakaze 6y ago
    I put up an MVP for cheatsheetsdb.com, it's live! Please add your favorite cheatsheets (but not tutorials, guides, or other long form content). https://cheatsheetsdb.com https://cheatsheetsdb.com
• ijustwanttovote 6y ago
  - Writing posts on my personal blog https://www.michael1e.com https://www.michael1e.com - Reading stock trading books - Updating my personal management workflow
• yellowapple 6y ago
  I still have my day job (working from home), so I haven't had too much time to pursue side projects, but I've been doing a lot of reading lately on Nintendo 64 internals (esp. around the RCP and the microcode thereof) and homebrew, and it's got my head ticking. If all goes well I should be getting an EverDrive-64 X7¹ in the mail in a couple weeks, which will be a boon for (hopefully) eventually putting all that reading into practice. No practical benefit to this per se, but it does seem to be an interesting potential foray into embedded programming, which has always been a gap in my knowledge that I've wanted to fill. I've also been on-and-off learning Zig, both in support of the above (Zig on the N64 seems to be uncharted territory that I'd love to help explore) and in support of development of a Tcl-like programming/scripting/config language (iterating on my learnings from an earlier project of mine² implementing such a language on top of Erlang/OTP); the latter's something that's been bouncing around in my head for a few years now, and I feel like I'm at the point where I'm ready to start bouncing those ideas into an Emacs buffer, lol (especially now that I've found what seems to be the right host language in which to implement it). EDIT: oh, and early into quarantine I did submit my first ever patch to wine-staging³ (with quite a bit of help from a couple others, including one of the wine-staging maintainers) to fix a mouse cursor/movement bug in Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord under Wine/Proton. It's a small patch, but it's my patch nonetheless, and it's a surreal and proud feeling to see my name in the commits for software I use almost daily. It's also helped demystify Wine a bit for me, and I look forward to continuing to do my part to make it better. ---- ¹: https://krikzz.com/store/home/55-everdrive-64-x7.html https://krikzz.com/store/home/55-everdrive-64-x7.html ²: https://otpcl.github.io https://otpcl.github.io ³: https://github.com/wine-staging/wine-staging/blob/master/patches/user32-GetMouseMovePointsEx/0001-user32-Partially-implement-GetMouseMovePointsEx.patch https://github.com/wine-staging/wine-staging/blob/master/pat...
  • bleakgadfly 6y ago
    As someone doing mostly C development at work I've really come to enjoy Zig in my side projects at home. At work we are moving a lot of newer development to Rust, which makes sense in terms of safety, the speed we want from C and "modernising"/becoming more attractive as an employer. However, when I'm doing projects for my own amusement at home I want something that doesn't feel like work, and getting into Zig and have something working took me no time. It's so easy to interface with C libraries that I can spin up most things with existing C libraries for the things Zig doesn't already provide itself.
• DanielGeisler 6y ago
  I'm working for the Azimuth Project modeling the Coronavirus and deploying a new math web server for them.I'm learning Category Theory at https://categorytheory.zulipchat.com/ https://categorytheory.zulipchat.com/. Both are projects supported by mathematician John Baez. The Azimuth Project is righteous as they supported the copying of climate data from the US government when Trump came into office.
• iambvk 6y ago
  I wrote a browser extension and command-line tool for password-store. See https://github.com/bvk/past https://github.com/bvk/past
• etiennebch 6y ago
  SEC filings browser. Currently just a prototype: displays the most recent filings as they occur
  • robodale 6y ago
    Do you read directly from SEC's EDGAR system?
    • etiennebch 6y ago
      Yep. Currently, I only parse their RSS feed. Later, I want to extract and organize information in a way that's easy to search, look at and save.
  • AlwaysBCoding 6y ago
    Possibly unrelated but I would pay $ for a one-click earnings call app. Type in a stock ticker, get the most recent earnings call in an audio player in one second.
    • etiennebch 6y ago
      Thank you, great insight, I'll give it a thought. I want to have a focused, narrow scope for the MVP, but I think finding and digging (public!) financial information is a mess currently, even with all the apps, blogs, yahoo finance and the likes out there
• LeegleechN 6y ago
  Learning electric guitar and toying with the idea of making a trainer game/app, primarily for practicing chords. Realtime chord detection is not too difficult for a single person to implement, but at the same time it is not a commodity technology either.
  • slantyyz 6y ago
    Rocksmith pretty good and goes on sale on Steam regularly, if you end up finding that building something will take too much time.
    • LeegleechN 6y ago
      I'm using Rocksmith and Yousician (the free version), but I think there's room to improve over what both of them provide for practice / exercises. For learning and performing songs they're definitely the best due to the sheer amount of content they have. I'm very early in my learning journey so I'm not concerned that developing a prototype version I could use for myself will take too long (it could be that I'm underestimating the difficulty of the problem). I was already able to slap together most of the "glue" code in Unity in a couple hours, and given my signal processing background I have solid ideas for how to approach the difficult algorithmic parts.
      • slantyyz 6y ago
        Since you have a signal processing background... what would be super cool is if there was a tool that could analyze all the chords in a song file (e.g., mp3) and magically create a Rocksmith/Guitar Hero style "racetrack" for practicing. DLC can get expensive quite fast, and songs you want to play may not always be available without modding/hacks/cracks, etc.
        • LeegleechN 6y ago
          I'll keep this in mind! It is a tremendously more difficult problem though due to all the other instruments (including voice), distortion, etc. in real music tracks compared to a clean guitar signal. This is when you would have to break out the neural networks. Machine learning happens to be my day job so it's not impossible! But for now I'm keeping my target scope small :)
• schappim 6y ago
  I wrote some Shopify Apps[1] (to scratch a personal need) that lets you run real Ruby scripts on your Shopify site. Working on a robot pincking and packing system to fulfill e-commerce orders[2][3][4]. [1] https://apps.shopify.com/cockatoo https://apps.shopify.com/cockatoo [2] https://schappi.com/experiments/user-servo-to-move-product-out-of-slot/ https://schappi.com/experiments/user-servo-to-move-product-o... [3] https://schappi.com/experiments/robtic-shelf/ https://schappi.com/experiments/robtic-shelf/ [4] https://schappi.com/experiments/finger-manipulator-mk3/ https://schappi.com/experiments/finger-manipulator-mk3/
• iBelieve 6y ago
  I've been working on a toy Lispy language and self-hosting compiler that targets JS. My goal is to explore building a full-stack web framework with a template compiler similar to Svelte that runs minimal JS on the frontend. https://github.com/iBelieve/knight https://github.com/iBelieve/knight
• ericmcer 6y ago
  Options trading robot, it is currently doing ok in simulations but I am too scared to give it real money. I have never written so many tests for such a small amount of code before.
  • moneywoes 6y ago
    Was working on something similar myself, what is your tech stack?
    • ericmcer 6y ago
      NodeJS wrote a custom little api for cheddarflow and Robinhood so it can check unusual options activity and contract prices instantly(ish)
  • cik 6y ago
    It's cathartic. I've been running one for 3 years now. Just turn it on, there's no other way to learn.
  • dehrmann 6y ago
    > I am too scared to give it real money You should be. I hedged a bit recently with some options. Options can be low-volume, so the bid/ask spread alone can kill you. Read that bit again. If you're not accounting for the spread, you might get killed. They're also incredibly volatile right now. I've had days +/- 30%. I'm not sure if someone like Robinhood goes lower, but a contract is for 100 shares, so the min bet is big.
    • edoceo 6y ago
      Always 100 shares
    • ericmcer 6y ago
      Yeh your right, It’s programmed to not mess with anything where the bid ask is >3%. Otherwise yeah, it would get eaten alive. It uses a combination of unusual options flow and some basic technical analysis to make trades and has been doing well so far but... it is easy to lose a lot quickly if ya blow it.
• kyle_morris_ 6y ago
  Mobility. I'm in my 30's and have always struggled with how flexible I am. Since lockdown I've spent just about every evening mobilizing anything that feels tight or uncomfortable has been a game changer. I'm finding that I feel physically pretty great, less tight, aches/pains have faded away though there are still a few old injuries I'm working through. Lockdown has been hugely helpful in maintaining the habit: kids go down in the evening, take the dog for a walk and stretch until you go to sleep has been a great way to unwind. If you're looking to get started, I initially followed this guy's[0] youtube channel for a month, then started doing what felt right for me. [0] - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU0DZhN-8KFLYO6beSaYljg https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU0DZhN-8KFLYO6beSaYljg
  • Jemaclus 6y ago
    This is a great tip. Love it. Thank you! Hope you can touch your toes!
• travbrack 6y ago
  I was inspired by Youtuber Device Orchestra to try turning a sonic toothbrush into a synthesizer. I got it to work and have made a couple videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtBIAIUupbJChgrajTvapSQ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtBIAIUupbJChgrajTvapSQ In case anyone cares I'm sending MIDI to an Arduino board which I programmed to handle the events using a MIDI library. I then convert the midi notes to a frequency which I pulse on two digital pins driving an H bridge, which I hook up directly to the coil on the brush.
  • nrzd 6y ago
    Amazing! I love it!!
  • skimberk1 6y ago
    This is so cool!! I love the video production
• lbutler 6y ago
  I've mostly been learning/practicing my French. My wife is due to have our first child in six weeks and she is keen for our children to speak French and English. Besides all the benefits of being bilingual, I mostly fear my wife and children will tease me in French with me none the wiser!
• mycentstoo 6y ago
  I've starting picking back up the piano. Currently working through Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag and Beethoven's Moonlight (1st movement) after taking years off. I did spend sometime looking at Flutter too.
  • intpbro 6y ago
    How is it? Always wanted to learn
    • mycentstoo 6y ago
      Flutter is pretty great. Code development is faster in my opinion when compared with React Native. Dart is fairly similar to JS but that's probably the biggest learning curve.
• pedalpete 6y ago
  An app that let's you track details about your day and your sleep, and then runs a bit of AI to try recognize trends in what may be affecting your sleep positively or negatively. https://withbliss.net https://withbliss.net - also playing with some hardware and building an EEG.
• julee04 6y ago
  I'm creating (and just soft-launched!) a micro-learning site called smalltuts: https://smalltuts.com/ https://smalltuts.com/ The concept is simple: If twitter + youtube had a baby for learning. An interesting side effect: I've personally had a hard time getting started with writing, and ever since I've launched smalltuts, I've created a new course almost every day.
  • ramesh457 6y ago
    I really like the concept! The "mark as done" really helps track things. Would've personally preferred if the items collapsed as you marked them as complete. As one of the examples show this is the perfect way to convey installation / setup guides! Look forward to how you take the idea forward!
• jayfk 6y ago
  A modern documentation viewer: https://dok.dev/ https://dok.dev/
• DmitryOlshansky 6y ago
  A digital coin w/o blockchain: https://github.com/glow-stack/vbjt https://github.com/glow-stack/vbjt And it’s basically done and usable. I will likely do ICO soonish.
• cableshaft 6y ago
  I'm working full time, but when I'm not, I'm either working on a few board game designs I can playtest against myself, or working on an update to my Proximity 2 game that I released on Xbox 360 a long time ago. Video trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yqe0hS7AvOE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yqe0hS7AvOE Wasn't paying too close of attention to Monogame for the longest time, so the XNA code stayed dormant for years, but then I finally sat down to see how hard it was to port it to Monogame and I had it running in 24 hours. So I decided to sit down and rework and clean up the UI, upscale all the graphics (requiring me to remake them in Illustrator, since I originally made them in 720p in Photoshop), adding support for up to 6 players, support for localization to more languages, adding in-game achievements, adding new game modes (still trying to get a single player mode that feels good), support for larger maps, and recently trying to get socket programming working so I can add IP-based online multiplayer (maybe eventually with a server for a later release, we'll see). Also debating switching the graphics to 3D, but that may be too much, and I'm not so confident I can rewrite shader code for each platform. I had trouble as it is getting a line effect I had in XNA working in Monogame on Windows. Planning to release it on Windows and Mac first, and then expand out from there. Probably mobile (I released it once on iPhone but it was a port to Objective-C and that code is now ancient), then hopefully get it on the Nintendo Switch before the next console generation, then probably Playstation and Xbox.
• benoror 6y ago
  Working on a Low-code / No-code tool based on GraphQL tech! Preview here: https://www.baseql.com/ https://www.baseql.com/
• zholito 6y ago
  Team of 3 building aggregator for online car ads in Latam country. Target is to make a transparent price listing based on actual online offerings. https://carropedia.con https://carropedia.con
• carapace 6y ago
  I'm working on what I'm calling a "provenance server" that tracks the spread of information. It's a little hard to explain. In my notes I wrote "better Twitter" and "no bullshit". Rather than track people surreptitiously it's completely public and voluntary. It allows for feedback to let people "+1" items on several dimensions (basically a big bag of emotional adjectives) and I want to rank the "truthiness" of facts, from physical laws and math (at one end) to opinion and interpretation at the other, with a (metaphorical) low-pass filter for BS and crap. All information on the network is public, there is no walled garden or silo. The idea is to think things out together, in public, avoiding repetition and noise.
• solresol 6y ago
  Building https://triage.dentist/ https://triage.dentist/ -- trying to make the most cost-effective teledentistry platform. While dentists can't practice, it's much easier to get time with them to figure out what they need and don't currently have.
  • iends 6y ago
    The person in the photo you are using is not properly wearing their mask.
    • solresol 6y ago
      I think it's a pre-covid stock photograph, but yeah... I hadn't noticed that before.
• marz0 6y ago
  Initially worked on a game very similar to Avalon / The Resistance but using different concepts for good and bad (Firefighters vs Arsonists). Lost interest in this eventually since playing Avalon on netgames.io with friends has been good enough despite a few minor bugs. Started a different side project that attempts to create a large collection of newsletters: https://www.radletters.com/ https://www.radletters.com/ Also learning more about Docker and Kubernetes to get a better sense of how the architecture works.
• kchoudhu 6y ago
  Survival mostly, I have kids and a fulltime job.
  • tarellel 6y ago
    I completely agree, I have 4 kids and a full time job. Helping them with their homework all day is a full time job as it is. My teams manager has noticed a reduction is everyone’s productivity; due to kids, mental health, stress, etc and has been quite forgiving so far as long as we’re clearly getting work done.
  • senectus1 6y ago
    same. I have a bunch of things I'd love to do like others seem to be (whats this "free time" thing?), but I get kids organised, work, get dinner ready, sleep. my only real "down time" is taken up by an hour of predawn cycling atm
  • rock_artist 6y ago
    Having a child running while you try to solve something or in a video meeting sure doesn’t help. But in the time I had I’ve been able to make my child a simple drawing app for the iPad as many of them are too complicated or too formed. Hope to finish it and releasing though.
  • jsshah 6y ago
    I have two kids (3 and 7) and we both work ... with multiple work meetings .. zoom based school ... homeworks ... managing fights between the kids ... and endless cooking and cleaning .. leaves me with very little time ... I told my team at work that I am at 10% of my productivity and they have been extremely supportive ...
  • boraoztunc 6y ago
    Good luck!
  • benja123 6y ago
    I definitely get that. We were pretty lucky - we were able to bring in a babysitter in the morning which was really helpful (still allowed here in IL). Also when our first child was born my wife and I had a business together so we had a routine from then that we could fall back on. It's really hard, but it mostly involves insane levels of cooperation - and giving each other equal times to work and take care of the kids. The one thing that would have made our lives much easier would have been a way to share office calendars (different companies) so that if either one of us had a meeting at any given time it was booked off for the other one.
• eloisius 6y ago
  Learning Taylor Swift songs on the ukulele. How do I get VC money for this?
  • drgenus 6y ago
    I'm learning Jay Chou songs on the ukulele. Let's do a collab, maybe there's some synergy here.
  • dehrmann 6y ago
    21 Pilots and Train are good pop artists with ukulele songs.
  • jackkinsella 6y ago
    Also learning the uke. I wonder what hacks you've figured out? My first insight was: - it's easiest to remember chords when you think of them as fundamental ur-shapes with the "bar" shifted up (sometimes requiring additional fingers)
• pradyuprasad 6y ago
  Started an economics newsletter. pradyuprasad.substack.com/
• beckler 6y ago
  I built myself a decent guitar pedalboard out of a bunch of scrap I had sitting around from other projects around the house. I find woodworking quite therapeutic!
• donnie3000 6y ago
  I started an ambient radio station — http://moss.garden http://moss.garden A sort of sonic wallpaper to accompany work or daily activities.
  • intpbro 6y ago
    Neat. Love the domain too
  • Mr_Sweater 6y ago
    Thats very cool, I sort of started doing the same thing with black/death metal. Care to share your source?
    • donnie3000 6y ago
      Using radio.co and will eventually move to Icecast. Would love to check out your station, a friend of mine started one for lofi hiphop — https://loft.radio https://loft.radio
  • keyle 6y ago
    So you pay $49 a month to stream your own music?
• tanin 6y ago
  I'm working on a programmable tooltip on Mac OS X (https://github.com/tanin47/tip https://github.com/tanin47/tip), as in you can write your own script (ruby/python/bash) to provide tooltip items. It's my first real app on Mac OS X. I started the app before the covid crisis though. But these days I have so much time to iterate on it...
• sudhirj 6y ago
  Building the Redis API using DynamoDB as the storage backend. I want a way to have storage that can handle any load without having to provision server or pay when it wasn’t being used. Dynamo is superb, but the API is too low level and arcane to use directly. Want to try selling licenses as well, let’s see if I can do open source full time.
• dehrmann 6y ago
  Digitizing some old family movies. On the lockdown front, it's been nice seen pictures of family. Technically, I've had a number of side quests along the way that were more challenging than actually digitizing the old tapes. If you're thinking about doing the same, for formats and media, I settled on: DVDs: yes, they're old, but they support more resolution than VHS, and practically every new Bluray player still plays them. Also, DVDs support 352x480 resolution. It's still more than VHS, and you can squeeze more content on the disc or encode it at a higher quality. VP9+Opus+webm on a DVD. This codec/container combo is supported by Firefox, Chrome, Windows Media Player, and Android, so while new, I expected it to be supported for a long time. AV1 looks promising, but probably not ready. I'm not bothering, but for iOS, use x264 and AAC in an mp4 container. Those were the only modern codecs and containers I got to work. Also, Apple, x264 and x265 are good, and all, but there's no excuse to not support VP9. I'm saving the unencoded files as ffv1/flac in an mkv container. For the actual DVDs, I'm using MDisc archival media.
• futurefocused 6y ago
  I'm collecting insights on the impact of coronavirus on the future of various aspects of our world: https://postcovidfuture.com/ https://postcovidfuture.com/ . If anyone took this time to write anything on this topic, please share. I'll be happy to add it to the list.
• imvetri 6y ago
  Taking a break for the rest of the lockdown from this https://github.com/imvetri/ui-editor https://github.com/imvetri/ui-editor
• nunez 6y ago
  Also made my own bread. I stale it for four days and make French toast with it. It is night and day better than using store-bought bread. I also ported a set of APIs I wrote in Ruby over to Python so I could finally learn Python. Mission accomplished!
• kstenerud 6y ago
  I've been continuing with Concise Encoding [1], which is a twin format for storing/transmitting ad-hoc hierarchical data (similar to JSON). Key points: - It has a binary format (smaller) and 100% compatible text format (readable). Machines work in binary and convert on-the-fly only when a human needs to see or modify it. - Supports all of the basic data types needed on a modern system. - Supports recursive data. - Future proof - Fully specified [2] [3] [1] https://github.com/kstenerud/concise-encoding/#concise-encoding https://github.com/kstenerud/concise-encoding/#concise-encod... [2] https://github.com/kstenerud/concise-encoding/blob/master/cbe-specification.md https://github.com/kstenerud/concise-encoding/blob/master/cb... [3] https://github.com/kstenerud/concise-encoding/blob/master/cte-specification.md https://github.com/kstenerud/concise-encoding/blob/master/ct... Example (text format): c1 // _ct is the creation time, in this case referring to the entire document (_ct = 2019-9-1/22:14:01) { /* Comments look very C-like, except: /* Nested comments are allowed! */ Note: Markup comments use <* and *> (shown later). */ // Notice that there are no commas in maps and lists (metadata_about_a_list = "something interesting about a_list") a_list = [1 2 "a string"] map = {2=two 3=3000 1=one} string = "A string value" boolean = @true "binary int" = -0b10001011 "octal int" = 0o644 "regular int" = -10000000 "hex int" = 0xfffe0001 "decimal float" = -14.125 "hex float" = 0x5.1ec4p20 uuid = @f1ce4567-e89b-12d3-a456-426655440000 date = 2019-7-1 time = 18:04:00.940231541/E/Prague timestamp = 2010-7-15/13:28:15.415942344/Z nil = @nil bytes = b"10ff389add004f4f91" url = u"https://example.com/" email = u"mailto:me@somewhere.com" 1.5 = "Keys don't have to be strings" long-string = `ZZZ A backtick induces verbatim processing, which in this case will continue until three Z characters are encountered, similar to how here documents in bash work. You can put anything in here, including double-quote ("), or even more backticks (`). Verbatim processing stops at the end sequence, which in this case is three Z characters, specified earlier as a sentinel.ZZZ marked_object = &tag1 { description = "This map will be referenced later using #tag1" value = -@inf child_elements = @nil recursive = #tag1 } ref1 = #tag1 ref2 = #tag1 outside_ref = #u"https://somewhere.else.com/path/to/document.cte#some_tag" // The markup type is good for presentation data html_compatible = (xml-doctype=[html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" u"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"]) <html xmlns=u"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang=en | <body| Please choose from the following widgets: <div id=parent style=normal ref-id=1 | <* Here we use a backtick to induce verbatim processing. In this case, "##" is chosen as the ending sequence *> <script| `## document.getElementById('parent').insertAdjacentHTML('beforeend', '<div id="idChild"> content </div>'); ##> > > > }
• phumbe 6y ago
  I shipped an MVP of an instant messaging app that re-imagines the dynamics of chat. Your conversation is no longer limited to the vertical direction. It can expand in the horizontal direction to separate different but simultaneous topics! https://xpanxn.com https://xpanxn.com I also did a couple of Show HN posts for it. Didn't get much traction with either, but it's ok because I think my next steps are to revise the landing page and get a more proper UI. Feedback is very welcome!
  • dhalp 6y ago
    Whats the main differentiator between this and traditional threads in a service like slack?
    • phumbe 6y ago
      I think the differentiator is two-fold. 1. Threads aren't secondary. There's no secondary window, and threads don't get lost in the amalgamation of main window messages. All threads are presented equally, which brings me to... 2. It's visual. You see the entire graph -- how the conversation flows -- and you directly interact with the chat canvas.
  • godelski 6y ago
    > Feedback is very welcome! I don't get it. Are you threading but just making threads side by side? The demo isn't making much sense because logically they could be all vertical. And if you're just placing threads to the side, doesn't this require the main thread to be squeezed? I can't imagine this would look good on a phone except in landscape. But I haven't used landscape since I had a physical keyboard. Everything you have tells me this is what you're doing: a style change. I think the demo needs a more clear example. What does it look like? The demo should make it abundantly clear what's happening and what your product solves. That's your 1 minute to get me hooked and read more. To get me to try it. New styles, even if more efficient, have more friction, because it is new and things aren't where you expect. Your demo needs to show that it is worth the friction.
    • phumbe 6y ago
• qppo 6y ago
  A funk band. If you're in the east bay and looking for a remote jam, let me know
• itpragmatik 6y ago
  Building: - a native iOS personal finance app while learning Swift/Xcode/UX - Backed by two REST API services (one is auth service and other one that manages the finances) written in Spring Boot; running on docker-compose on AWS ec2 - Learning how to run these two services behind nginx proxy and on SSL - using mkcert on local box and letsencrypt on aws ec2.
• ashtonkem 6y ago
  I took up the French Horn to get away from the computer. Surprisingly cheap to rent from an appreciative local business, and it’s been nice focusing on something artistic and separate from my career during lunch.
• westoncb 6y ago
  I've been building a minimal social CAD tool / platformer game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qBOXfzHybU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qBOXfzHybU (Built with three.js / react-three-fiber, and a simple Node backend.)
  • hariharasudhan 6y ago
    if you're using react then definitely checkout https://www.bytehub.dev/ https://www.bytehub.dev/ for some cool react components
• mackbrowne 6y ago
  https://what-to-do-in-quarantine.web.app https://what-to-do-in-quarantine.web.app I wanted to mess around and learn some new techniques. I created an app that will help you decide what to do while on lockdown. Users can submit their own ideas to the pool.
• jeremymcanally 6y ago
  It's not exactly a tech side project, but I recorded a 30 minute comedy special in my garage that's freely streamable. I was hoping to use it to raise some cash for COVID relief through ads, Google keeps denying my AdSense activation, so now I'm hoping someone at least donates to World Central Kitchen or buys a download version: https://insidejokes.org https://insidejokes.org Now with that shipped, I'm thinking about some actual code projects. :)
• airstrike 6y ago
  Learning F#. If anyone has good resources they'd like to point me to, I'm all ears
• nodesocket 6y ago
  I bought a cheap used HP Proliant ML350p server on ebay for my home rig. 8 cores, 32 GB of memory, and 6X SAS drives in RAID 10. Run xcp-ng[1] virtualization: 4x VM's running a Kubernetes cluster; three workers and a master. - Traefik load balancer in the Kubernetes cluster - Consul in the Kubernetes cluster for Traefik - GitTea[2] in the Kubernetes cluster FreeNAS[3] VM Plex[4] VM VPN[5] VM [1] https://xcp-ng.org/ [2] https://gitea.io/en-us/ [3] https://www.freenas.org/ [4] https://www.plex.tv/ [5] https://github.com/hwdsl2/setup-ipsec-vpn
• nikanj 6y ago
  My mental health and wellbeing. Don't pile on more work when things are already really hard.
• medievalMoose 6y ago
  Private pilot ground school online. Free @ https://fly8ma.com/courses/pplgs/ https://fly8ma.com/courses/pplgs/
• KFC_Manager 6y ago
  Working on a pure email group challenge product. Basically you sign up with friends to complete a challenge and the product is almost entirely delivered through emails.
• enos_feedler 6y ago
  Working on a compiler for human-centric programs.
• ollerac 6y ago
  I just made some bread the other day. I'm also trying to get Remake off the ground: https://remaketheweb.com/ https://remaketheweb.com/ Currently working on 3 intro blog posts, as well as coming up with a sustainable pricing model.
• econcon 6y ago
  Converting Plastic Waste into 3d printer filament https://medium.com/endless-filament/make-your-filament-at-home-for-cheap-6c908bb09922 https://medium.com/endless-filament/make-your-filament-at-ho... Hopefully, this will reduce the use of virgin plastic for creating art pieces in 3d printing community and you might be able to create beautiful and useful things out of waste plastic while cleaning plastic waste from the environment. It's a profitable business. I worked on this in my free time during quarantine. I want to make the project more accessible so people around the world can develop local recycling unit. There is lots of work which needs to be done including making parts more standardized, demonstrating how parts fight together in a visual way and also have a microcontroller firmware to control diameter of filament. I don't have much experience with microcontrollers but I've ideas, so we'll see.
  • mcv 6y ago
    This is a really cool idea. I originally hoped it was about recycling your own plastic waste into filament for your own home printing, but I guess that's a bit too much to expect.
    • econcon 6y ago
      It's possible to do this if you've a shredder and sorted plastic waste.
  • kanwisher 6y ago
    I’ve been looking into Precious Plastic project. They have a lot of open source parts to recycling plastic. I couldn’t find any proof it was actually cost effective? How did you come to compute it’s profitable? Https://preciousplastic.com
    • econcon 6y ago
      I've a video in my post where I am creating filament and I also sold the filament on e-commerce websites. https://youtu.be/Xirli3qDJlU https://youtu.be/Xirli3qDJlU
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• ericmccarthy7 6y ago
  Built a simple web app for my girlfriend and I to "rate" our dates and add photos. That way we can look back and have a nice digitized archive of time we spent with each other. Sounds dumb but could be nice one day in the future to be able to look back at it. Also wrote it in Rust so I'm learning a new language while I'm at it.
• phreeza 6y ago
  I'm currently working on a script to measure the rotation speed of a record player turntable from videos.
• tele_ski 6y ago
  Adding automation and code coverage to my c++17 libraries I've been refining. I've used them for years but never spent the time to polish them, it really does seem to make them feel more substantial when the CI completes on a commit with tests and coverage in the green.
• DanHulton 6y ago
  A SaaS starter kit built with Nodejs/Express and Vue, called Nodewood. https://nodewood.com https://nodewood.com Hopefully I can get it rolled out in time to help other folks with their quarantine side projects!
  • coopsmgoops 6y ago
    An impressive amount of features going on there. The price is per month or annual?
    • DanHulton 6y ago
      Thanks! The price gives you an annual license for upgrades. If you still want upgrades after a year, I'm thinking a 50% "re-subscribe" cost for another year.
• vpj 6y ago
  Coded up a PyTorch GPU implementation to rank Texas holdem poker hands (7 cards), and some models to predict the poker probabilities. https://github.com/lab-ml/poker https://github.com/lab-ml/poker
• jackkinsella 6y ago
  After falling in love with the Destroy All Software style of genuinely advanced, all-encompassing programming screencasts, I started a YouTube channel with my own twist on the theme: Screencasts situated inside a decade-old, profitable, production web app, ones that emphasize actual workflow. I've been an indie-hacker for 10 years so have seen the effects of my programming decisions over the same period. I've seen how fads come and go, sometimes wreaking havoc. I've also seen how coding decisions affect business (such as strategies to transform data into seo at scales of 10k+ items). I've seen how to keep something running day-and-night as if your livelihood depended on it - since it very much does. That's the game plan anyway. I'm five episodes in: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UC17mJJnvzAa_e9qQqLIfIeQ https://m.youtube.com/channel/UC17mJJnvzAa_e9qQqLIfIeQ For fun I took up the tenor ukulele. Compared to any other instrument I've tried, it's got a much kinder learning curve. You can sound alright playing four-chord rock and pop songs in easier keys like C major after a month.
• awfulaxolotl 6y ago
  A multiplayer game where everything's text, the points don't matter, and players can program any region of the world with arbitrary WebAssembly. Can be played in a browser or terminal.
• SamWhited 6y ago
  A mix of playing Piano, working on an set of XMPP related libraries and tools in Go, and trying to get a handful of internet drafts accepted by various IETF working groups. Digital piano lessons over meet.jit.si aren't as great as in person, but at least I'm able to keep up with it. Currently working on Liebesträume and Handel's Sarabande on the classical side of things and In The Mood on the jazz side. The XMPP library is going well and I'm hopefully about to start rewriting the authentication bits: https://mellium.im/xmpp/ https://mellium.im/xmpp/ And finally, I've got some I-Ds submitted and in discussion in the IETF's TLS and KITTEN working groups. One that documents best practices for authentication and password hashing and storage: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-whited-kitten-password-storage/ https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-whited-kitten-passwor... and one that defines a channel binding mechanism for making tokens and secrets only valid over a specific TLS session (right now it's specific to SCRAM based auth, but that will likely change soon): https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-whited-tls-channel-bindings-for-tls13/ https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-whited-tls-channel-bi...
• davinci26 6y ago
  I am working on my new year resolutions and learn to invest in individual stocks. I am slightly biased towards tech companies. Why I am doing this: - Improve my business (learn about different business models) - Improve my product sense - Hearing good CEOs talking at their investors is a great lesson. What I am building: - Use Azure to automate stuff and set up notifications for events I am interested in. - Use python to backtest strategies. I wrote this thing last week https://medium.com/@davinci260/why-only-buy-when-you-can-also-sell-39e318c35f5a https://medium.com/@davinci260/why-only-buy-when-you-can-als...
  • smabie 6y ago
    I believe there's an error in your cagr function: I didn't look at how it's used too closely, but whenever you see 365 in financial code it's usually an error. It would be more appropriate to use 252, the average number of trading days for US equity exchanges, instead of 365. I have some questions regarding the article: How are you hedging? What instrument are you hedging with? Also, how much leverage are you taking on? If you're not selling out any original shares and shorting an equal amount of some other shares (see my first question), you're taking on 2x leverage. As such, you're not really comparing apples to apples. Moreover, Puru Saxena is not really doing what your blog is describing. What he's doing (at least according to some Twitter posts I read), is holding a market neutral portfolio where the long side consists of specific stocks he likes and the short side an ETF to hedge the geography exposure. Because he's investing in high beta tech stocks, he can lower his beta and his geography exposure through shorting the appropriate ETF. This is a smart strategy, but is only going to work on high beta companies. Anyways, in general, we do not want to look at returns when analyzing an investment strategy. Instead, we should look at the Sharpe ratio. While I don't have enough information to say whether your results are correct, honestly, they don't pass the smell test. I feel like the EMA window is overfit, your CAGR is being boosted by the use of 365 instead of 252, and I suspect that you are taking on leverage, which might be also boosting your returns. Also looking at the code, it's needlessly complex because you're dealing with actual shares and such. A better method is to just deal with returns directly and represent your portfolio as a vector of weights, the sum of the absolute values should add up to zero with no leverage. The type of hedging you describe in your example is equivalent to just selling the shares, but a little worse. You're paying interest on your shorts, so you're losing 2% annually from holding shares and shorting some other shares. There's literally no reason why you would want to hold both a long and short position on a stock. I recommend you check out Quantopian (https://www.quantopian.com/ https://www.quantopian.com/). It makes your life so much easier and they have all the data, plus great risk models and alpha factor generation tools. Also as a fellow software engineer interested in finance, you might like my financial blog, https://cryptm.org/ https://cryptm.org/.
• mister_hn 6y ago
  Parenting. A full time work from home setup with children at-home is already draining energies
• l0b0 6y ago
  Trying to create a mouse mat from tōtara wood, by cutting it into thin diamonds and gluing them together. It's been tricky to get the slices properly flat with the tools at my disposal, but it could be an interesting result.
• darcys22 6y ago
  I’m building an open source accounting system with rpc endpoints being the primary method for inputting data and a SQL database that can be queried easily. GoDBLedger: https://godbledger.com/ https://godbledger.com/ https://github.com/darcys22/godbledger https://github.com/darcys22/godbledger For the most part that backend of the system is working how I want. I now need to build more front end ways to communicate to it. One of the front end methods I’m working on is programmable journal entries. So you write your journal entries in a JavaScript file which gets executed in the context of the accounting system so you will have full access to the account balances. However this is still early stages: Yurnell: https://github.com/darcys22/yurnell https://github.com/darcys22/yurnell
• anilgulecha 6y ago
  A realtime collaborative writing suite. Documents, Novels, screenplays. Everything is validated by schemas, and there are hooks throughout. I find the tech really cool - google docs like. Fine-tuning the end UX at the moment. If this is something you'd use or try out, pls ping me: anil.verve @ gmail.
  • anchpop 6y ago
    Cool! I'm working on something like this also. Although for me it was just a way to learn about CRDTs
• ChicagoBoy11 6y ago
  Ended up watching some of the F1 guys play videogames and thought it was kinda funny but pretty stupid. Then I kept watching it... and became a little obsessed. Now it's turned into my time pit (outside of work hours) through a mixture of watching better drivers to learn from them, optimizing my rig and recording setup to allow me to be fully immersed in VR while still capturing video with all sorts of interesting overlays, and trying to mitigate a huge temptation to spend a lot more money on making my setup more elaborate.
• realbarack 6y ago
  I've been trying to become a better Clojure programmer, so have been attempting to use Clojure and Clojurescript almost exclusively for my side projects, especially since I don't use it at work. First I built a real-time version of the board game Gobblet, a pretty cool two-player board game I learned about recently (Kinda like Connect 4 with a surprisingly interesting twist). After getting it to the point where I could play with my friend over the internet I moved on. Now I'm working on a GIS project. I'm really slow at getting things done with Clojure but I can tell I'm getting faster. I've also been enjoying lunchtime and evening walks. Something about going on walks seems to generate many project ideas for me. As a result, my list of projects to work on has been growing way faster than my ability to actually complete those projects.
• snow_mac 6y ago
  Survival and not drinking to much coffee
  • holler 6y ago
    I feel this...
• craig 6y ago
  I've been working on https://github.com/hobochild/clementine https://github.com/hobochild/clementine, it's a self-hosted graphql anayltics platform. Basically a "free" replacement of Apollo manager. Also starting to work on a slack alternative for small business. I've found alot of companies are using Whatsapp group chats for business and I think there maybe a market. You can read my initial thoughts here. https://hobochild.com/posts/chat https://hobochild.com/posts/chat
• jacquesm 6y ago
  Restore an old grand piano, play that grand piano, finally learning to read notes properly. So far so good, it's pretty good to play now, still need more action regulation. The piano had been stored on its side for years, lots of transport, water and insect damage. Current project: Intermezzo no. 6 by David Benoit: https://open.spotify.com/track/0MJ4ikwkXV4lJiRjklWhS9 https://open.spotify.com/track/0MJ4ikwkXV4lJiRjklWhS9 (sorry, can't find a youtube link). Total spent: $100 for the piano, $100 to transport it, $50 to buy string steel to replace the strings that had broken. There is still some worn felt in there as well that will need replacing, mostly on the hammer rest bar and the bottom of the jack support bar. Shaping the hammers was a tricky job (they'd worn down quite a bit, to the point where the original shape was hard to determine). All in all very satisfying.
  • polyterative 6y ago
    old pianos sound great, keep the strings that still work
    • jacquesm 6y ago
      Definitely. Lots of water damage though, quite a few of them have been attacked by rust and it is hard to remove the rust without significantly weakening the strings. Endless patience. Today I set all the hammers so the una corda pedal works as intended, not that I use it but I felt it looked like crap with all those irregular spacings. This instrument has had a very rough life. I should have made 'before' and 'after' pictures. It's a cheap DDR product, even so it just hurt to see it in that shape. It's a 'Zimmermann' they have a bed reputation (deservedly so, the action really is poorly manufactured) but with a lot of tweaking you can get it to work quite well, definitely above the level that I'm at in playing so that is good enough.
  • mikorym 6y ago
    I'm guessing the piano is in pretty bad shape? Generally, people don't realise that pianos that don't get restored have something of an expiry date. I know that if it's 80 years old and has never been restored, then it's considered to be unusable. But I guess if you put in really hard work one can? Conversely, old pianos in good shape sound great. I think that's my issue with Yamaha grands. They sound soulless. Steinway pianos for example have to be restored with Steinway parts to have resale value. I guess that's why you get such high prices for them.
• eropple 6y ago
  I've streamed live events for my local fighting game community for years and run charity events here and there, but COVID left a gap for my favorite game (Tekken 7) and I've decided that what better time than now to become a tournament organizer? So now I run something of a madhouse stream, with four total PCs and two separate lobbies to keep things flowing (nobody runs games as fast as we do) and it's genuinely an absolute blast to do. Our events are open to the entire East Coast and last week we had 26 players from the US northeast. It is a good time to learn this stuff because it also helps my local community and others get in touch and start finding new players to play for now--and hopefully hang out with/play in person once COVID is lifted. https://twitch.tv/tracecomplete https://twitch.tv/tracecomplete https://tracecomplete.challonge.com https://tracecomplete.challonge.com
• edoceo 6y ago
  Building an init system for Linux. Someone on here asked "how hard could it be". I aim to find out.
• leorio 6y ago
  I'm working on blocksnacks.com - Newsletter and website to track public opinions on Bitcoin.
• stfurkan 6y ago
  https://gez.la https://gez.la - Open Source Virtual Tour Database https://github.com/stfurkan/gez https://github.com/stfurkan/gez https://pancovid19.com https://pancovid19.com - Coronavirus (COVID-19) Statistics Dashboard https://github.com/stfurkan/pancovid19 https://github.com/stfurkan/pancovid19
• manic85 6y ago
  I’m creating an artistic streaming video side project called “Mermaid Mukbang”
• manic85 6y ago
  Creating a streaming video art project called “Mermaid Mukbang”
• lostmsu 6y ago
  https://home-trial.losttech.software/ https://home-trial.losttech.software/ - randomized at-home trial for vitamins and other remedies, that could help your body manage COVID-19 without ending up in a hospital. (requires registration with email only)
• wmichelin 6y ago
  I got an iPad and the pencil and I'm drawing a lot. It's super relaxing and fun to see the finished product. Plus, this is my first time really doing digital art so I'm blown away by how sophisticated the tooling is.
  • jez 6y ago
    Do you have app / tool / resource recommendations?
    • notamy 6y ago
      In the iPad space, Procreate[0] is really good! [0] https://procreate.art/ https://procreate.art/
    • netgusto 6y ago
      * Procreate * Adobe Fresco for its amazing watercolour experience * Concepts for vector doodling on an infinite canvas (Mischief-like)
    • icipiracy 6y ago
      If you'd be interested, you might want to join a beta test for a collaborative design for iPad: https://www.apance.com https://www.apance.com
• brogrammer2018 6y ago
  I'm updating free programming books Link: https://books.GoalKicker.com https://books.GoalKicker.com
• benja123 6y ago
  https://readastorytome.com https://readastorytome.com I did a show hackernews a month ago and it did pretty well. It's been pretty great since then. I have had people write to me thank you emails and some pretty cool stories like one grandparent that told me they used it to read to their newly born grandchild! On top of that it has got me back into programming which I don't do in my day job and it finally gave me a project where I can use Phoenix liveview. Now as a family we have also got into baking bread - we didn't realize how easy it is to make good bread at home and it just taste so much better. It's been a lot of fun and the kids love doing it with us.
• ryannevius 6y ago
  I made a few digital Montessori tools for my wife and her students. Somewhat unexpectedly, it's seeing about 15k visitors per day: https://montessori.tools/ https://montessori.tools/ There's a lot more I would like to build, but "real work" takes priority.
• sosodev 6y ago
  I’ve been working on a simple document store API: https://quickstash.io https://quickstash.io
  • keyle 6y ago
    Neat!
    • sosodev 6y ago
      Thanks :) I’d love to hear any feedback you might have.
• jackyinger 6y ago
  On top of working from home... Tilting once again at the windmills of mechanical CAD software. I’ve gotten further than ever before in the coding, and in past attempts built up good knowledge on topological data structures, mathematics of splines, and solving systems of polynomial equations. Also doing just-for-fun things like playing the guitar, working on a boat design (and learning strength of materials), biking, cooking, etc.
• EllipticCurve 6y ago
  A compiler for my own little language: https://github.com/MauriceGit/compiler https://github.com/MauriceGit/compiler
• karanke 6y ago
  Creating a newsletter about reframing our relationship with pop culture at https://reframing.substack.com/ https://reframing.substack.com/. I plan to publish every Friday.
• OatsAndHoney 6y ago
  Studying algorithms, math, and physics. That’s it.
• robmerki 6y ago
  https://adhdpro.xyz/ https://adhdpro.xyz/ It's a book for adult professionals who suffer from ADHD & distractions. The literature for ADHD is mostly geared towards parents or is too scientific. I'm writing down all of the strategies and tips that I have learned from countless therapists, doctors, specialists, friends, and articles.
• dnr 6y ago
  Finally got time and motivation to continue working on my collaborative crossword puzzle app: https://squares.io/ https://squares.io/
  • neil_s 6y ago
    This is exactly what I've been looking for, thanks for making!
• micael_dias 6y ago
  I've built https://opusone.ai/resume-builder https://opusone.ai/resume-builder over the past two months while still working my full time job. Now the hard part, marketing.
  • keyle 6y ago
    This is really nice. I made my own as well, but 1/10th of yours (but free) at https://rzume.co https://rzume.co
    • dan1234 6y ago
      I wouldn’t be able to use yours because the only sign up option is with a google account. Ideally, I’d be able to use the service and then create an account (without google) if I chose to save my result.
      • keyle 6y ago
        I can absolutely appreciate that but as a single person project some choices have to be made to make any project polished and makeable in a short period. I chose Firebase for that one.
  • jacob_rezi 6y ago
    Yea gunna be really hard to get people to use it! you can take a look at our work too http://rezi.io/ http://rezi.io/ Happy to share any ideas
    • lrip13 6y ago
      I'm not sure to understand why a subscription business model is more adequate than a one time payment for a resume service. Who would need to update his resume every month ?
  • niyazpk 6y ago
    Looks great! I am not an expert on this, but I feel like your pricing model is very well thought out. Good work, and good luck!
• scottrogowski 6y ago
  https://decadent.games https://decadent.games Real-time board games over webRTC video chat. I have chess, checkers, and a scrabble clone. I've passed it around to friends and to some low traffic forums. The rendering library is a bit heavy for a board game (it makes my laptop's fan spin :)) so I'm fixing that before I share it more widely
  • neil_s 6y ago
    This is exactly what I was thinking of building, except with newer games like Spyfall, Codenames and Avalon! Would love to see those games on your site, or help build them if I can.
    • scottrogowski 6y ago
      We should talk. The architecture is abstracted to make it easy to add any turn-based game onto it. Or at least that's the hope :). I'll send you an email.
• matthewhartmans 6y ago
  I built a game for Android using Google's Speech to Text API. It's called Nonsense :) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nonsense.twa&ref=producthunt https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nonsense.twa&r...
• lsb 6y ago
  Before starting the fast.ai deep learning course, I made a light pollution map as topography. I channelled the panic about contagion into finding somewhere with low human activity: https://leebutterman.com/light-pollution-topography/ https://leebutterman.com/light-pollution-topography/ The fast.ai course is super cool though
• yoaviram 6y ago
  I've built https://TimeForMe.today https://TimeForMe.today, a search engine for well-being sessions taking place online. From Yoga and Meditation to Taekwondo or and Dance. The website is free and many of the sessions listed are also free. Any feedback is welcome!
• luos 6y ago
  I am making a self hosted or maybe hosted website where you can just import youtube/your videos and you get a link to a podcast feed. None of the existing ones worked for me and I like to listen podcasts before sleeping, and there are a lot of channels which don't need the video part. It's not public yet, but let me know your thoughts about the idea.
  • hopesthoughts 6y ago
    I definitely could use something like this! Or more specifically, something that will take a channel's RSS feed and convert it to the podcast format for my podcatcher.
• smabie 6y ago
  Working on my blog, https://cryptm.org/ https://cryptm.org/ and just released the 0.1 release of my new programming language, xs: https://cryptm.org/xs/ https://cryptm.org/xs/
• boraoztunc 6y ago
  I'm curating resources, like digital tools, articles, new with remote jobs on a free newsletter, publishing weekly. https://remotejobscenter.substack.com https://remotejobscenter.substack.com
• rabbitss 6y ago
  https://within.fund https://within.fund Not really a fund, more a play on funding within. It's a framework for companies to let their employees start companies internally, to be spun out. Been slowly working on it through pioneer.app. Inspired by lots of projects at big companies that are great but just don't fit.
• gmitrev 6y ago
  I've been working on a portfolio-visualizer kinda tool - https://stonksfolio.com https://stonksfolio.com. It's still missing a lot of features but is already somewhat usable.
• sdenton4 6y ago
  I'm writing a role playing game about the utility of wizards in feudal labor economics. (Also, improving my bird song classifier.)
  • pmayrgundter 6y ago
    Sounds interesting :) Sharing progress somewhere?
    • sdenton4 6y ago
      Send me an email (username at gmail) and I'll be happy to share a draft. :)
• artiscode 6y ago
  I did not get any extra time as both my and I wife work remotely and we're both employed in the tech sector. We got busier as daycare and school closed down(three kids). I invested all my spare time into gardening. I learned how to level ground, how to garden and take care of plants. Interestingly I did not learn anything tech related.
• _evnc 6y ago
  I’m building a bidet: https://github.com/evancohen/bidet https://github.com/evancohen/bidet
• vladvasiliu 6y ago
  I'm building a small tool to automate authorizing and revoking AWS Security group rules. I've been working from home on a sometimes unstable connection, so I've been using Mosh a lot. It was a bit tedious to update the security groups manually whenever my IP changed, and I'm also in the process of learning Rust, so this looked like a good project. It's not yet operational, though. https://github.com/vladvasiliu/aws_ssh https://github.com/vladvasiliu/aws_ssh
• spookyuser 6y ago
  (1) Have recently started learning how to touch type, I figure if I leave the pandemic alive and with that extra skill it will be a huge win. (2) In march I spent way to long on an extension that adds Hacker News Comments to Goodreads https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-reads-for-goodread/ohkekgnmihdgcfflheadklfihdaibdcb https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-reads-for-g...
• code-faster 6y ago
  I started a blog, https://codefaster.substack.com https://codefaster.substack.com, to share a passion of mine: developer productivity. It's something I've done for myself for the past 9 years, reading countless books, trying enumerable tools, and even inventing a few originsl techniques. Now I want to help others who want to be more productive, especially now that corona has accelerated the need for automation.
• nishparadox 6y ago
  I am trying to add a few neat math animations to my personal tool "panim", especially implementing boid. (Of course, highly inspired from "manim" by Grant Sanderson, but with a bit different intention). https://github.com/NISH1001/panim https://github.com/NISH1001/panim
• RBerenguel 6y ago
  I've used the time to finish a few personal tools/projects I had only in my head or task manager (all in Python). I have actively tried to avoid more "work related" side projects, so I have avoided any Scala or data engineering related ideas I've had also for a while. - A project templating system based on a single Markdown file: (https://github.com/rberenguel/motllo https://github.com/rberenguel/motllo) - Generating a graph visualisation of my notes in the app Bear, with Graphviz (https://github.com/rberenguel/bear-note-graph https://github.com/rberenguel/bear-note-graph) - A task-executiont tool, a bit like make (https://github.com/rberenguel/paque https://github.com/rberenguel/paque) I have also brushed up on D3.js (for a project which hasn't appeared yet, but the result will also be used for the notes graph as an alternative to Graphviz) and generative coding (using p5js and threejs, the latter for fragment shader fractal stuff, https://github.com/rberenguel/sketches https://github.com/rberenguel/sketches, most are still not up there, but only around my twitter feed). The generative coding path is also taking me towards tone.js and ORCΛ, but so far I have only dabbled in them. I have also tried to spend a bit less time close to the computer per se (the generative "exploration" is done on my iPad mini in the sofa while watching something, for a start), and I have also tried to play some more music (ukulele, harmonica) Edit: I always forget comments here are not written in Markdown
  • taliesinb 6y ago
    Nice. Also a Bear fan. I've actually tried your Graphviz code before! I just wish there was an opensource Zettelkasten-ish platform like Bear that I can customize to by extra nerdy preferences.
    • RBerenguel 6y ago
      Likewise, although I have several requirements (offline available, Mac/iOS, nice-looking, Markdown...) that eventually rule out anything. Thanks for trying! If you have any suggestion please let me know :)
• nerdlogic 6y ago
  I made yet another simulation of the spread of a disease: https://tsan.me/post/modeling-and-simulating-a-pandemic/ https://tsan.me/post/modeling-and-simulating-a-pandemic/
  • happppy 6y ago
    It killed my browser
    • nerdlogic 6y ago
      oops... that's not good. Thanks for letting me know.
• koozz 6y ago
  Work continues, seeing the kids a lot more. Reading all sorts of programming books and having a go on Rust with something simple but helping in my daily workflow. https://crates.io/crates/mgit https://crates.io/crates/mgit
• niftylettuce 6y ago
  https://forwardemail.net https://forwardemail.net
  • dananjaya86 6y ago
    Does it do webhooks? (As in email forwarding to an HTTP/2 endpoint) I am looking for a cheaper alternative to Mailgun.
    • niftylettuce 6y ago
      I'm releasing webhook support probably in the next 48 hours. Email me at webhooks@forwardemail.net if you want notified when its up.
    • niftylettuce 6y ago
      I just released webhook support! See https://forwardemail.net/free-email-webhooks https://forwardemail.net/free-email-webhooks and https://forwardemail.net/en/faq#do-you-support-webhooks https://forwardemail.net/en/faq#do-you-support-webhooks.
  • secretsinger 6y ago
    ha, that's awesome! I started using this for my side project a couple of days ago (found you via google). Great product, really useful.
    • niftylettuce 6y ago
      Thanks, if you need anything ever or any feature requests just ping me at niftylettuce@gmail.com
• Spearchucker 6y ago
  Built a water wheel for my pond from an old scooter wheel. Build a Japanese style bridge for my pond. Built an outdoor cupboard for my balcony where I can keep my martial arts gear (I train on the balcony). Building a little shed for our bicycles and the roof box for the car. Computer work has been limited to work stuff.
• rexf 6y ago
  Updating https://cpechecklist.com/ https://cpechecklist.com/ - a site for US public accountants to stay on top of license requirements. The site isn't really for the HN crowd, but it's been a great experience using Vue/Nuxt on Netlify to serve my static site for free.
• notamy 6y ago
  Started building my own tool for TTRPG/worldbuilding/... note-taking, partly from wanting to do it, but mostly because solutions like "Google Docs" didn't scale well...
• igeligel_dev 6y ago
  Building stuff in the apartment and plant care :) On the technical side I am working on https://getworkrecognized.com https://getworkrecognized.com - a work achievement tracker with email reminders (soon) and a nice interface to create Self-Reviews/Brag sheets that will ultimately help you with your next promotion/performance review cycle.
• bsldld 6y ago
  Attempting an opensource non-profit moonshot project to reduce student debt and increase salary of everyone involved in that student's education. It is at a very early stage. Trying to get as much inputs from everyone who matters. Details are here: https://gitlab.com/bsldld/s/-/blob/master/README.md https://gitlab.com/bsldld/s/-/blob/master/README.md Everyone is welcome to join.
• japanuspus 6y ago
  Build a hanging bed-cave for/together with my 12yo. Researched scout activities for after summer holidays.
• zachwill 6y ago
  Scraping Blinkist and PodcastNotes!
• petre 6y ago
  Building an all road bike, rebuilding a mountain bike. Too much screen time, a break from computer screens is always welcome.
• h3n 6y ago
  I am building an app for fire departments. Currently targeted at the german market. The problem nearly every fire department which is based on volunteers have, is that it's hard to learn the location of all items on the different vehicles. So i build a small quizz app to support the fire departments with this. Now every fireman can learn the location of the items on the go. German website: http://fahrzeugkunde.hvoss.dev/ http://fahrzeugkunde.hvoss.dev/ Techstack: App: Flutter Backend: Spring-Boot + Vaadin
  • itsmeamario 6y ago
    Would you recommend Vaadin? I've never heard of it but looks really interesting. What are the advantages vs let's say springboot + angular?
    • jtms 6y ago
      Not the OP, but figured I’d weigh in... I found it to be extremely productive when I used it for about 6 months. Only downside is that it’s not open source and some of its features are not free.
    • feu 6y ago
      I wouldn't recommend Vaadin. I worked on a work project using Vaadin 10+. Despite 10 and 14 being LTS releases they felt like they should still be in beta, my team ran into countless bugs. Vaadin didn't fix any of these bugs with any sense of urgency, even with a paid support contract (obviously less relevant for a side project). Working on that project almost made me leave the company, and the use of Vaadin was a significant factor in that.
      • itsmeamario 6y ago
        Thanks for sharing you experience. At the end I think I'll just stick to learning Angular.
• figbert 6y ago
  Kind of a circular activity, but I'm working on an app to help me be productive in quarantine. Planning on making a "Show HN" announcement in a week or to, but for now you can find details at: https://txtodo.app https://txtodo.app
• johnys 6y ago
  Built a site to connect startups with free MBA interns for the summer (https://hireastartupmba.com/intern-stipend https://hireastartupmba.com/intern-stipend). I’m an engineer exploring “the dark side” and saw a lot of classmates losing internships because of covid. Contrary to the bad rap I feel that MBAs get amongst hackers, I’ve been pleasantly surprised how kind, scrappy, and effective my classmates are when applied to the right work “around the tech” e.g. marketing, running numbers, and fuzzy stuff that is important as companies grow. Grew larger than we expected to a lot of other schools. One disappointment: I wanted to call it “Hire the Dark Side,” but couldn’t find a single MBA who understood the joke!
• dyu 6y ago
  clquery, a SQL interface to cloud resources. Using SQL and tables to interact with AWS (and eventually others) makes it easier to quickly query and join across various resources and services without needing to remember how to make and parse the underlying API. `pip install clquery` or https://github.com/dongting/clquery https://github.com/dongting/clquery
• ells1231 6y ago
  I've been working on a my new Hacker News client for Android, called Panda! It's still early days but has the basic features done and the extra lockdown time is definitely helping build out the more needed features (you can't currently log in to your hacker news account but that's coming soon) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.co.elliotmurray.hackernews https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.co.elliotmu...
• rodp 6y ago
  https://debubble.me https://debubble.me Frustrated by filter bubbles and the general state of online debate, especially on Twitter, I made Debubble. It’s a publishing tool that will let you challenge another Twitter user to a debate. If they accept, the two of you will be able to engage in a public but distraction-free conversation. Debubble will make sure you wait for your turn before you can deliver your arguments. It will also limit each response to 1500 characters (roughly one page) and the entire debate to 12 turns. Instead of cheering for their side like sports fans, registered readers will be able to signal the value they got from your conversation by starring the whole debate. I haven’t properly tried to launch it yet, as my day job and kids are keeping me very busy at the moment.
  • caetris1 6y ago
    This is an awesome idea. Nice work.
    • rodp 6y ago
      Thank you!
  • bjg 6y ago
    I love the idea, looks like it requires a very large amount of twitter permissions on login though?
    • rodp 6y ago
      Thanks! The app lets users send tweets or DMs and I didn’t find an obvious way to narrow the required permissions down to just that. But a few people have now pointed this issue out and I think I will just remove that functionality and require only read permissions.
      • ddevault 6y ago
        You can also send users back through the oauth flow to up their permissions the first time they try to use the feature.
• bleakgadfly 6y ago
  Started on these at mid-March when the recommendation for quarantine came in effect in my country. Most are incomplete and WIP (I love switching back and forth between projects): - Slack RTM bot which picks up my morning and goodbye messages in our channel and stash the duration into our time registration system so I don't have to do it manually. Using Slack library for Go, compiled to C library using gccgo for C ABI compatibility, then using Zig's cImport functionality to develop the bot in Zig (because why do it the easy way) - mbedTLS bindings to Zig (Zig can generate alot of this out of the box, but I'm tailoring it by hand) - HTTP/1.1 client in Zig, ties into the mbedTLS bindings I want to provide TLS support
• abrichr 6y ago
  Visual Contract Tracing with AI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4pyEu5milo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4pyEu5milo OnCovid19.com: http://oncovid19.com/ http://oncovid19.com/
• Karupan 6y ago
  I made a tiny service to embed CLOC stats for GitHub repos as an image in the project’s docs - https://git-cloc.fly.dev https://git-cloc.fly.dev Also enrolled for the science of well-being course on Coursera last week. Eye opening in some aspects so far!
• shorting24x7 6y ago
  SaaS for creating, editing and publishing audio content for global audiences http://narrationbox.com/ http://narrationbox.com/. Still building a ton of features into it like audio widgets for news sites and blogs, audio editor. Basically making it end-to-end for audio content creators. Also reading Elon Musk's biography.
• solof 6y ago
  An app to connect women travelling solo. I've seen women posting on solo travelling facebook groups their current or next location and PM each other, especially in non-english language groups. With the app, you would receive a notification when a new traveller (speaking your native tongue or not) is close using geolocation, then you check their facebook profile and message them (via messenger). No need to display the app: you just wait for the notifications (which frequency can be changed). This is my idea for solving the egg & chicken problem, so obviously the app doesn't display ads (and is free).
  • INTPenis 6y ago
    Well what is it called? I'm active on camping forums where this might be useful
    • solof 6y ago
      App is still in development and will be ready as soon as we can travel out from Europe Could you tell me more about the camping forums ? Are you from the US ? solofapp@gmail.com
      • INTPenis 6y ago
        I always camp by bicycle and my favorite forum is the subreddit bicycletouring. I mainly use reddit for discussions like that. When you're ready, I suggest you post a link to the app on some reddit boards. Please.
      • johnmarinelli 6y ago
        I'm sorry that my mind is in the gutter but the email reads "Solo Fap" to me, you may want to consider changing it because there are probably plenty of other lonely 20-somethings whose minds are also in the gutter
        • solof 6y ago
          Aha thanks for the heads up, I won't make this mistake again.
• tunesmith 6y ago
  Creative writing website for people to write silly hyperfiction novels together. It's closed beta, but over the last month a handful of us have written about eighty chapters totaling about the length of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. We're slowly looking for more writers that like doing round-robin-ish fiction like that. The site ends up owning the content but it's doubtful it will ever end up truly publication quality - it's mostly about just the fun of riffing off each other's submissions. The first version of the site existed almost 25 years ago so there are a lot of in-progress stories, I just brought it back to life with updated tech because of the virus.
  • strongbond 6y ago
    I know it's a closed beta, but would be interested in (at least) reading it.
    • tunesmith 6y ago
      I dropped you an email.
• w1nter 6y ago
  A mobile app for the Joking Hazard card game https://jokinghazard.app/ https://jokinghazard.app/ (skip the signup page https://get.jokinghazard.app/start https://get.jokinghazard.app/start). A fun way to socialise when everyone is staying at home.
• ylere 6y ago
  https://wearehearted.com https://wearehearted.com A platform that brings together people that are mentally struggling with isolation due to Corona with screened volunteers ("Hearts") that have a professional background in psychotherapy or social work (for free). The technical implementation is a huge hack right now but it works and our 50+ hearts are having video sessions with people from all over the world every day!
• mishu2 6y ago
  I've launched a side project to let people track the outcome promises/predictions made by public figures and popular Twitter accounts, as I find unrealistic predictions and outright lies can be very damaging: https://ontherecord.live https://ontherecord.live The stack is Django + Gunicorn / nginx, PostgreSQL and some Intercooler.js and vanilla JS to make the experience smoother. I've also been trying to learn Elixir + Phoenix, as I find some of the concepts (e.g. LiveView) very promising.
  • jeremiecoullon 6y ago
    Really cool idea!
    • mishu2 6y ago
      Thank you! Also, there are no user accounts so all submissions/votes are anonymous, in case anyone wants to submit something they're interested in.
  • rjachuthan 6y ago
    This is really a cool project. How are you determining whether a given post from someone is a promise/prediction? Are you doing this manually?
    • mishu2 6y ago
      Thank you! I handle this at the moment by requiring manual approval before the content becomes visible on the website (I customized the Django Admin interface a bit), but should the number of quotes become unmanageable I'll start looking for other moderators. Edit: Also, we try to follow our guidelines on what a promise/prediction should be, you can find them on the 'How it works' page.
  • jimmySixDOF 6y ago
    You could add a section for post-checking of /r/futureology type techno media sensational claims about how this or that ground breaking new xyz which works great in the lab on rats etc and will fix everything for you! These overly optimistic/negative press releases can also be damaging to public understanding over time.
• Pietbull 6y ago
  Built a platform for people to play social games with friends and family over Skype/Zoom. https://ziago.co https://ziago.co So far 8 games, adding more weekly. Games follow the same code patterns, so about a week to add one. Everything runs on Firebase, needed something to launch quickly with real-time capabilities. Vue on front-end. Would love some feedback.
  • speps 6y ago
    Add more family friendly ones. A simple way to do a pub quiz type of game would be awesome! We do one but showing the questions on screen would be great.
    • Pietbull 6y ago
      Absolutely, quiz type games will be great on this. Yes working hard on more non-drinking games. Tx.
  • neil_s 6y ago
    This is pretty much what I wanted to build, but with way nicer design! Looking forward to playing with it on our next games night.
    • Pietbull 6y ago
      Tx, I'm a designer by trade so that helps.
  • RossTennis 6y ago
    Would you have an email address or another way of contacting you? Your contact form / suggest a game links appear inactive at present. Would love to discuss something with you.
  • take_a_breath 6y ago
    This looks great. I love the focus on "party games". What about adding poker or even making a dedicated poker app? I'm in a weekly, virtual poker game that is a mashup of different tools.
• franze 6y ago
  https://www.securrr.app https://www.securrr.app A secure URL shortener for sharing passport, Id, credit card pics and scans. Complete with client side encryption, censoring tool, gdpr compliant. Stack is gatsby, react and some Ruby. 1 month until launch. currently needing lawyers and security experts to vet it.
  • franze 6y ago
    Idea came after I asked in a startup forum "have you ever sent your passport via email?" Which was 99% positive. Sending passports via email is just not a good idea.
• freeslugs 6y ago
  I built my mom a mother's day gift https://get-telephony.now.sh/ https://get-telephony.now.sh/
• Bafno 6y ago
  We've launched a series of challenges ( 30 riddles and puzzles) themed around a guy named Larry who is in quarantine with his pet hedghehog, for people stuck at home to complete! https://www.lockdownwithlarry.com https://www.lockdownwithlarry.com This is built in React and backed by Firebase.
  • neil_s 6y ago
    This seems promising! I'm usually decent at puzzles but am stuck on the first one and don't have enough confidence in the puzzle quality to donate to see the first hint.
• Lukas_Skywalker 6y ago
  I'm a teacher, and these days I frequently need to email the grades to my students. I created a tool where you can upload a spreadsheet containing name, email, grade, etc of the students and write an email template that references those columns. You can try it here: https://sheetmailer.io https://sheetmailer.io (you get 30 free emails to start).
• CommanderData 6y ago
  Building a Pretzel stand with my work colleague / friend. Not sold on the economic of the business, don't think there's much money in pretzels.
• brutherford 6y ago
  As an avid golfer unable to play, I spent some time putting together https://londongolfcourses.com https://londongolfcourses.com to help other local golfers find a course to play.
• ljvmiranda 6y ago
  Create personalized and unique 8-bit sprites from your name using Cellular Automata! https://ljvmiranda921.github.io/sprites-as-a-service https://ljvmiranda921.github.io/sprites-as-a-service Github: https://github.com/ljvmiranda921/sprites-as-a-service https://github.com/ljvmiranda921/sprites-as-a-service Perfect substitute for Github avatars or random profile pics! I learned Vue and frontend just for this hehe. Good experience so far! Lmk your thoughts!
  • severak_cz 6y ago
    this reminds me MonsterID by splitbrain - https://www.splitbrain.org/projects/monsterid https://www.splitbrain.org/projects/monsterid
    • ljvmiranda 6y ago
      yeah! The idea is the same! Hope you liked it!
• danfang 6y ago
  I've been trying to build a better, more expressive messenger: https://get.thread-app.com https://get.thread-app.com
• skocznymroczny 6y ago
  Working on a simple 3D game engine. Not going for some advanced rendering techniques, just want to have a map you can walk around. Have implemented the map loading (map from Unity Asset Store) some basic postprocessing effects, sky and skeletal animation so that I can have people walking around. Using D and OpenGL. Might rewrite it to WebGPU in the future when it gets more stable. https://imgur.com/jAIf6wt https://imgur.com/jAIf6wt
• ISL 6y ago
  https://findthemasks.com/ https://findthemasks.com/ -- part of a team of people helping PPE get where it needs to go . Have a look at the project here: https://github.com/findthemasks/findthemasks https://github.com/findthemasks/findthemasks Drop us a PR if you see something that can be better.
• shuhari 6y ago
  I've been building a "Reddit for research". https://asone.ai https://asone.ai
  • KKPMW 6y ago
    I love the design. But even after reading the "about" section I am still confused on how it works.
    • shuhari 6y ago
      Thanks! What is confusing if I may ask?
• nikaspran 6y ago
  I've built a small VSCode extension to query TypeScript and JavaScript abstract syntax tree via esquery: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=nikaspran.ast-query https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=nikaspra... It's been an awesome exercise and I've been quite impressed by the API available to extensions.
• gherkinnn 6y ago
  - Cook more, eat better - Sleep more / better - Started running with a coach again (ok where I live) - Finding a new job - Started using Headspace - Re-learning some maths All in all very happy with the current situation.
• nickspicer1993 6y ago
  https://productpedia.co.uk/ https://productpedia.co.uk/ A way to catalog all possible product categories and for people to vote which is the best product to buy for each category.
• Jack5500 6y ago
  we're building an implementation of Pictionary you can play with your friends online from home: https://www.supersketchy.party https://www.supersketchy.party Works with Vue & WebSockets. Still very early, though.
• unglaublich 6y ago
  - Baking bread, brewing beer, making Kimchi and stews... these things that take time but have such tasty results. - Re-learning feedback control and linear algebra, then implementing them in C++. - Learning to fully maintain my road bike: replacing the chain, gears, shifter cables, etc. I still don't like dirty hands.
• filleokus 6y ago
  I installed Blender and started learning to do simple 3D modelling. Really satisfying to get things right, and also frustrating in an almost funny way, it feels like when I started out programming "I just wanna put a button here, how hard can it be!?!?". A plus side these days is that it takes enormous amounts of time. For people interested in starting out: My 2019 13" MBP is fast enough for it to be fun, at least for now. So you don't need to worry too much about GPU performance.
  • anthonybennis 6y ago
    I go through phases of investing time in Blender & creating 3D renders. Plan is to create a CG 3 panel type comic. I've always wanted to do this and even though working from home, there's more time in day due to no commute. Love all the changes in 2.8 and enjoy learning the tool as much as I do creating with it.
• langitbiru 6y ago
  Mamba (https://mamba.black https://mamba.black), the Pythonic blockchain development framework. It's like Truffle framework (https://trufflesuite.com https://trufflesuite.com). If Truffle is Solidity+web3.js, Mamba is Vyper+web3.py. Prior to Covid-19, I barely got a time to work on it. Now I have plenty of time to work on it.
• BeniBoy 6y ago
  Non tech-related, but I have been building a touring bicycle. Very satisfying to get to learn the standards, choose the parts, assemble. Even builded my own wheels! And now I am fixing my friends bike with the tools I have accumulated. Getting a little off the computer was nice, plus this summer local bike touring will propably be the only option. Can't wait!
• sideproject 6y ago
  https://www.newsy.co https://www.newsy.co I launched it a month ago. It's a tool that converts your un-used domains into something useful. By something useful, I mean a self-running automated content aggregator with lots of bells and whistles to keep it running (e.g. membership, newsletters, ads). I had way too many domain names that are not being used. I wanted to make some use of them without having to maintain them and spending time on it. Now I have all of my 25 un-used domains. :)
  • nunorbatista 6y ago
    This is a great idea. Are you finding traction? I can try a couple of my domains here.
    • sideproject 6y ago
      Yeah going quite well so far. Haven’t done too much marketing. Let me know if there’s anything I can help you with!
      • Taurenking 6y ago
        Is there support for adding ads or monetizing ones community? Great project btw!
        • sideproject 6y ago
          Yes! https://help.newsy.co/monetize https://help.newsy.co/monetize
  • Jsharm 6y ago
    Can you publish your own content alongside the RSS feed articles? Or is it purely aggregation?
    • sideproject 6y ago
      Aggregation at the moment. I suppose you can add your own RSS feeds?
• jinpan 6y ago
  I've been working on a coronavirus simulator in rust/wasm. https://coronavirus.simrnd.com/about/ https://coronavirus.simrnd.com/about/ is a draft of the intentions of the project, and the source code is at https://github.com/jinpan/covid-simulations https://github.com/jinpan/covid-simulations. https://imgur.com/a/wFTq7lD https://imgur.com/a/wFTq7lD is a screen recording of a shopping scenario. I'm aiming to publish a blog post with some initial simulation results by the end of the week.
• constexpr 6y ago
  Shaking up the JavaScript build tool ecosystem with https://github.com/evanw/esbuild https://github.com/evanw/esbuild, a bundler and minifier that's 10x-100x faster than industry-standard ones (Webpack/Rollup/Parcel).
  • vosper 6y ago
    This looks cool, and your pandemic commit rate is impressive :)
• ssttoo 6y ago
  Mostly soldering, building audio gear from kits. Two Neve 1073 microphone preamp clones and one UA 1176 compressor clone (still working on the second).
• darkseid 6y ago
  I've been working on a little tool for freelancers/consultants (maybe sales people too!). It's designed to make it easier for their clients to book a call/meeting with them, saving them the email ping pong to find a time slot that works for both of them. Here it is - https://timeslot.co https://timeslot.co Would love to chat with anyone who might find this useful!
  • zebnyc 6y ago
    How does this differ from services like calendly?
    • darkseid 6y ago
      I think Timeslot is cleaner UI wise. In terms of features, I'm still figuring this out, so open to suggestions! If you're currently using another scheduling app, I'd love to pick your brain on what I can add that's missing from these others :)
• thallian 6y ago
  Working on my own toy linux distribution and writing a (very) barebones package manager for it[0]. Also a simple music streaming server which caters exactly to my needs without taking care of others (now writing a client for it)[1]. Plus learning godot to write a small 2D game with my brother's band :D And learning Georgian letters (they are beautiful). [0]: https://code.vanwa.ch/sebastian/tsa https://code.vanwa.ch/sebastian/tsa [1]: https://code.vanwa.ch/sebastian/stray https://code.vanwa.ch/sebastian/stray
• swyx 6y ago
  I'm writing a career advice book for early career developers. https://gumroad.com/l/bAZJq https://gumroad.com/l/bAZJq It's my first book, and I have to fight a lot of impostor syndrome to give nontechnical advice (because its context dependent and who am I to give it). But the feedback for my prior writing indicates there's some sort of demand for this, and I do believe that the "soft skills" side of early dev careers aren't talked about enough. There's a lot of "break into tech" and then "go from engineer to engineering manager" content out there. I'm trying to fill the space in between. We'll see how it goes... aiming to launch June 1st.
• avipars 6y ago
  Working on my app, https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aviparshan.converter https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aviparshan... It's a powerful unit converter for android. Right now, I am adding support for more languages and going through a bunch of feature requests.
• richardgill88 6y ago
  I built a powerful programmable recipe website. (WIP) You write recipes in markdown, you can template in variables from javascript using handlebars. Here is a recipe with a slider, it updates all the amounts in both the ingredients table and inline in the instructions themselves as you move the slider. https://programmablerecipes.com/recipes/richardgill/bread-ahead-sourdough https://programmablerecipes.com/recipes/richardgill/bread-ah...
  • jka 6y ago
    This is a nice project, thanks for sharing :) Here are a couple of resources related to quantity scaling and rendering, in case they're of interest and/or useful to you: - https://www.jsward.com/cooking/style.shtml https://www.jsward.com/cooking/style.shtml - "The Metric Kitchen: Style guide for metric recipes" - https://github.com/ben-ng/convert-units https://github.com/ben-ng/convert-units - a nice JavaScrit library for unit conversion and 'best unit' selection
    • richardgill88 6y ago
      Thanks for the resources!
• adim86 6y ago
  I have been working on a lot of side projects actually. The first is a Corona app that I built to dump all my research and frustration when the lockdown first happened. When I realized I could not publish it to the app store I reached out to the CDC in West Africa and they are picking up the app. That was exciting. The second project is a custom deck of cards, but instead of the Typical King, Queen and Jack it is royalty from Nigeria and has had an amazing response on Kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ifeanyichu/natives-playing-cards/ https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ifeanyichu/natives-play...
  • hardlianotion 6y ago
    Justly so. The Benin mask is beautiful. I will certainly back that.
    • adim86 6y ago
      Hahaha, glad you like it. Thanks for the support
• nicwest 6y ago
  I'm investigating the way that encounter difficulty is estimated in Dungeons and Dragons. I've felt for a long time that the influence the number of opposing monsters have is somewhat exaggerated.
• ParanoidShroom 6y ago
  A reverse image search for detecting dirt XTC with machine learning. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=be.harmreduction.pillscanner https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=be.harmreducti...
• shinycode 6y ago
  I've finished my Bullet Journal iOS app. I've never really found an iOS app that allowed me to managed tasks like my paper Bullet Journal (which is to heavy to carry around all the time). https://bulletweek.app https://bulletweek.app Also I'm using a lot the timer with my Apple Watch and I needed something faster than the built in timer and I can't every time use Siri. So I made one fast is more fun & faster as well with multiple mode: https://primetimer.app https://primetimer.app
• davidgatti 6y ago
  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgRepT4AO6mGsJaWsS_mHbA https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgRepT4AO6mGsJaWsS_mHbA Started a YouTube channel, where I show how I work on AWS. Completely unstructured, the video are just a memory dumps in a hope to give some frame of reference to new AWS people, or to give some ideas to those that already know a bit of AWS. ps. Bread, I remember the days I eat it :D
• crankysiren 6y ago
  homeschooling my kids
• sgottit 6y ago
  https://umbra.replay.software/ https://umbra.replay.software/ Spent some time learning Swift UI to build a mac app to manage dark mode & matching wallpapers.
• hitchnsmile 6y ago
  [NSFW] https://clicy.app https://clicy.app - Adult relations library. Still in the early stages so not much content.
  • woutr_be 6y ago
    Out of interest; what kind of "full experience" is provided when I do disable my ad blocker? Are ads part of the experience?
• noncoml 6y ago
  Went few layers lower and play with electronics. Building an MCU controlled constant current load.
• phoe-krk 6y ago
  A book named "The Common Lisp Condition System", to be published later this year. Abstract: This book is intended to be a tutorial that teaches the functioning and example uses of the Common Lisp condition system. It is aimed at beginning and intermediate Lisp programmers, as well as intermediate programmers of other programming languages. It is intended to supplement already existing material for studying Common Lisp as a language by providing detailed information about the Lisp condition system and its control flow mechanisms, as well as description of an example ANSI-conforming implementation of the condition system.
• bartligthart 6y ago
  Created a Lighthouse tracking tool. Takes a Google Lighthouse test every night. Give you a report every Monday morning. It's free to use till I figure out if people really want this tool. https://pages100.com/ https://pages100.com/
• pdinny 6y ago
  A movie recommender (item-item) that recommends movies similar to a proposed movie. The similarity is based on tags, specifically the tag genome created by GroupLens. This is mostly because I have a personal need for this and I would like alternatives to existing movie recommendation services, but I may make it available online if time permits. A second step would be to introduce an example critiquing aspect, allowing for interactions like "show me movies similar to 'Crimson Peak' but with less horror". All of this is based on the MovieLens 25M dataset and an accompanying article (http://files.grouplens.org/papers/tag_genome.pdf http://files.grouplens.org/papers/tag_genome.pdf) describing a recommender called 'Movie Tuner' that is no longer available. It will be fun to tune the recommendations based on my own preferences. For example I don't need an algorithm to suggest movies that have the same actor/director. Initial results are encouraging.
• Jdam 6y ago
  I'm a huge aviation nerd and super curious about the impact of covid on that market. I've built a website that tracks which aircraft type flew where over the last days and what the average number of flights per day for that type is and was: http://www.flightstats.pro/ http://www.flightstats.pro/ It already works well, but there's still a lot to do, like showing aircraft routes on a map. The overall data provides a nice trend that is statistically stable, but since free aircraft data is hard to come by, coverage of regions that are not Europe or North America is not that great unfortunately.
• angt 6y ago
  A few things, but I'm pretty happy with https://github.com/angt/secret https://github.com/angt/secret, a tiny commandline tool to store/generate your secrets :)
• huntedman 6y ago
  Chord Guru -> a webapp made with react, that helps you memorize/practice chords. With desktop chrome, you can even plug in a midi controller. https://chord.guru https://chord.guru
• apvarun 6y ago
  Revamped https://confs.space https://confs.space A place to find development related conference talk videos to keep you learning new things each day
• scary-size 6y ago
  I've finally started a blog to republish my Medium posts: https://franz.hamburg https://franz.hamburg Also I'm working on a small server side analytics solution: https://franz.hamburg/writing/visits-from-page-views.html https://franz.hamburg/writing/visits-from-page-views.html And of course: bread.
• elihu 6y ago
  I've been working on converting a Mazda RX-8 to electric. At the moment, that mostly amounts to making battery boxes to go in the various empty spaces by tig welding aluminum (which I had no experience with prior to this project). The general plan is to use about 400 pounds of lithium iron phosphate cells, spread between the spaces under the right and left rear passenger seats where the gas tank used to be and the engine compartment (mostly approximately where the radiator was). I'm using a Netgain Hyper9 AC motor (144 volt version). I haven't decided what I'll do for charging and battery management. I plan to order an adapter from CanEV to interface to the transmission so I'll be able to keep the stickshift.
  • PopeDotNinja 6y ago
    Neat! I'll be extra impressed if you make it a rotary electric.
    • elihu 6y ago
      Well, any typical electric motor could trivially be considered a "rotary". I did save one of the rotors from the engine. Maybe I can think of some whimsical use for it, like cut a thin slice off it and weld it to something as a sort of decoration.
  • munsters 6y ago
    Very cool! What do you expect the range to be with that setup?
    • elihu 6y ago
      Maybe a hundred miles if I'm lucky. Lithium iron phosphate isn't as good as, say, modern Tesla batteries in terms of energy density, but they're a good choice for conversions because they're much less likely to catch on fire if something goes wrong. I could get better range with more batteries, but I also didn't want to increase the total weight of the vehicle by more than a few hundred pounds, just to stay within design tolerances. (The RX-8 is about 3,000 pounds normally, which is pretty light for that sort of car. A Miata would probably be an even better choice, as it's around 2,000 pounds. It's hard to find newer Miatas for a reasonable price, though. RX-8's can be had pretty cheap because the rotary engine is easy to destroy if you don't maintain it properly and even in the best case usually needs to be rebuilt every 100,000 miles or so to replace worn apex seals. So, there are a lot of used RX-8's on the market that need engine work.)
• bouk 6y ago
  I just released https://gizmopack.app https://gizmopack.app, which adds a bunch of useful new actions to Shortcuts on iOS.
• jansan 6y ago
  I am restoring old teak wood garden furniture. This involves cleaning and sanding the wood, polishing brass parts, and replacing the fabric if there is any. The results are absolutely stunning. It's not that difficult but a bit time consuming.
• bmsleight_ 6y ago
  Inspired by article in Private Eye as well as a need to improve my own mental health during lockdown. Not only have I done five portions of fun a day. I wrote an app/website to help anyone journal Five Fun Things a day. https://fivefunthings.com https://fivefunthings.com
• buraksarica 6y ago
  For a one screen setup, I couldn't find a free and easy way to sync my slide notes on my ipad. So i built this: https://slidepal.net https://slidepal.net It helps you to sync slide notes of PowerPoint slideshow to any device. Now i am working on google slides add-on.
• vizmuz 6y ago
  I am discovering the web audio api. I currently build a music visualizer. It reads the audio output. You can then visualizer music from any source
• davidkuennen 6y ago
  https://stockevents.app/ https://stockevents.app/ Already 5000+ downloads and many subscriptions. It's an app for stocks that focuses on displaying important events in a timline like manner instead of a watchlit.
  • 1ark 6y ago
    Very nice, been looking for this! Thank you. Out of curiosity, where do you get the data for this?
    • davidkuennen 6y ago
      Thank you! Feedback always welcome btw. I get my data from https://iexcloud.io/ https://iexcloud.io/, but I plan to extend to other data sources as well, since you can't really get all the data you need from one data source.
• suyjuris 6y ago
  Nothing too fancy, I have been writing/rewriting some of my personal libraries. I finally gave in and wrote an OpenGL abstraction, because dealing with shaders manually was such a pain. Now I am working on a simple GPU font renderer, which is hopefully easier to use than my earlier CPU rasterisation based approaches (no need to snap to pixel raster or to pack things into a texture, can deal with both small and gigantic letters).
• etherio 6y ago
  I've been building a website [0] with a few scientists with practical information on how to prevent the pandemic with the right gestures. [0] https://en.adioscorona.org https://en.adioscorona.org
• dukeofharen 6y ago
  Since all gyms are closed in my country, I've converted my attic in a "make shift" gym. I've placed a desk, installed Ubuntu on an old laptop, placed a screen, put down a mat and some dumbells and just watch cardio and resistance workouts on YouTube. It's a great way to keep myself in shape and to break the day because I work from home all days.
  • tkgally 6y ago
    I'm doing something similar. In normal times, I go to the gym every day or two and work out for an hour and a quarter. Since I'm now home all day, I've been doing bodyweight and dumbbell workouts next to my desk for fifteen or twenty minutes several times a day. They break up the monotony and refresh my mind for the next round of work. I also fit in extra exercise during Zoom meetings that I only need to listen to. The result has been that I am staying in shape despite being indoors all day. The staggered workouts may be more effective at building muscle than my usual gym sessions, too. The greatest benefit of the exercise, though, is the mood elevation.
• mettamage 6y ago
  I'm trying to get myself to wake up at 06:00 AM to go for an early 20 minute morning run. As an insomniac this has proven to be really difficult. But I really like running, even when I'm out of shape, as it has been a part since I was a kid. I think I'm inching towards a stable rhythm though, but time will tell. I always need 2 months of a stable rhythm to be fully sure that I got a rhythm locked in. Here is what I figured out so far: - Magnesium before sleeping - Vitamin D when I wake up, especially now since I'm sitting inside all the time. - Obviously basic sleep hygiene that all the popular blog posts write about (fun fact: I use Iris instead of Flux, it dims the screen even more). - Melatonin when I can already tell I won't be able to sleep anytime soon. I used to try to fall asleep on my own strength for way too long. Things I've tried: meditation (my username is derived from it), progressive muscle relaxation, not thinking about anything (I am quite good at this), visualizations of being in familiar places, exercise and going to the doctor. It all doesn't work. What does work: melatonin. Only since recently I've been a bit more aggressive with it (after 25+ years of sleep issues). This leaves me with one issue: sometimes I wake up after 4 hours of sleep. My usual way of dealing with this is being awake for another 4 hours, so I can sleep my second quartet of hours. The problem: I wake up around 11:00 AM when I go to bed around 11:00 PM. So what I'm trying now, since my lifestyle supports it, is waking up between 04:00 AM and 06:00 AM so that I have enough leeway to sleep a bit more. I'm starting a job soon and I have to be 09:00 AM in the office. This is my makeshift solution. I hope it works.
  • PaulBGD_ 6y ago
    How does the vitamin D help? More energetic/awake?
    • mettamage 6y ago
      ===== Melatonin ====== The effects of melatonin are super noticeable. It's like taking drugs: you pop a pill, and feel different 30 minutes later. Melatonin makes me feel drowsy. There is no placebo here. After 15 to 20 minutes, I always get irritated and ask myself: why doesn't it work?! It does, just a bit later. ===== Vitamin D ====== Sorry that I'm sourceless on this. I read somewhere that melatonin and vitamin D are inversely related in their cycles of when they peak. Someone suggested to take it in the morning. Regardless of whether the timing is off or right, vitamin D is needed to not be depressed [1]. So this part might be a placebo (like I care, I'm pragmatic) and at best it does something. I do notice that it indeed prevents me from feeling like shit by virtue of sitting inside all the time. That also might be a placebo (I still don't care, placebo's are demonized and it's a competitive advantage if you accept it). The trend has been going on for 2 weeks now. [1] Note: there are way more sources. I just did a quick Google search and picked the first URL I could find. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29943744 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29943744
• talkinghead 6y ago
  https://www.oceanwaves.io https://www.oceanwaves.io make music together with your friends using just your web browser got a bunch of buzz during lockdown
• RangerScience 6y ago
  We're taking https://www.brian.bot/ https://www.brian.bot/ and making a domestic violence chat line (and a few other things).
• squeakynick 6y ago
  Writing simple multiplayer games using just Notepad++ as my dev environment. Two games so far: Multi-Armed-Bandit http://datagenetics.com/blog/may12020/index.html http://datagenetics.com/blog/may12020/index.html Space Miner http://datagenetics.com/blog/april12020/index.html http://datagenetics.com/blog/april12020/index.html
• spirobel 6y ago
  A Plugin for discourse that makes it easier for students to enter Math equations: https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-math-editor-user-friendly-equations/149363 https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-math-editor-user-frie... I also work on other discourse plugins. if anyone wants to chat about creating discourse plugins please send me a message on meta.discourse.org.
• foxfired 6y ago
  Ah man, am I too late? I had an idea to create a website that shows you how much sugar is in a product. I was too excited and bought the domain name: https://sugarglot.com https://sugarglot.com The domain name stayed dormant for 6 months, until the quarantine. I created a minimal working product with no design but it works. This product already exists in the market. But all apps fail at nailing two main problems. 1 - Seamless fast search. 2 - Graphically conveying the sugar measure. The first one is what I really worked on, to make it fast and intuitive. Still needs improvements. The second one is still a work in progress since I am no designer.
  • r0b05 6y ago
    It is a good initiative but I am not convinced. This already exists so the need is not pressing. How did you think of monetizing?
    • foxfired 6y ago
      No monetizing scheme so far. I think even if it ends up as a public service, it will be good enough. I still don't know how to visually convey sugar. In a matter that is more dramatic. Working on some animations for now.
• collyw 6y ago
  Quarantine has made me realise how little free time I actually have. I am supposed to be doing a basic database for a friends lab. It's turning out to be mainly a data validation and cleaning project. Without a cycle to work, a cycle back from work to split up my day I have really little motivation to sit more hours coding after I have cooked dinner and eaten. I should get on with it though.
• zhte415 6y ago
  Building a rabbit hutch and nice area for running with protection against predatory birds. Working with a friend who went back to the farm three years ago - for context at 40 he's the youngest person in the village - on local country cooking, sustainable farming, and promoting the area as an attractive break-away resort to breathe some prosperity into what is a really quite sustenance area. And of course my non-side project that I decided to dive in to at exactly the worst time in a decade. Oh well. But optimistic on that.
• potatofarmer45 6y ago
  I found a free espresso machine on craigslist (Gaggia Classic). It was old, rusty and "wasn't working". Spent time researching the model, took it apart and de-rusted and cleaned every part. Now it makes delicious coffee. Totally worth it
  • eps 6y ago
    Next logical step is to put NetBSD on it :)
• johnmarinelli 6y ago
  I've been working on an audiovisual project that gets data directly from Ableton Live and feeds it into my THREE.js app. You can see a couple of demos here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9k1pv6hhGE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9k1pv6hhGE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pxj8g_Y1BtA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pxj8g_Y1BtA
• bgdam 6y ago
  I'm building a simple analytics tool for client rendered applications (mostly SPAs). The idea is to make it possible to track user action on the client side (through URL changes and button/link clicks and form submissions), without requiring a developer to go through and add event tracking everywhere, while also not collecting information that would require GDPR/Data Privacy notices to be accepted by the end user. Doesn't have a website or even a working MVP yet, but if anybody is interested in giving it a whirl when it's 'ready', my email is in my profile.
• toyg 6y ago
  I could tell you but then I'd have to kill you. More seriously, I'm trying to get in the habit of not talking about any side project I've not shipped yet, since when I "announce" them in advance I end up not shipping anything. Turns out this might actually have a basis in science, as recent studies allege that the brain "discharges" some energy/motivation when one talks about future plans.
  • PaywallBuster 6y ago
    I read the opposite somewhere. Telling your plans to friends/relatives makes you accountable to deliver.
  • r0b05 6y ago
    I tend to agree. When you've announced your project you feel like a weight has been lifted and you got something done. Then you go do something else. Better to announce your success rather than your plans. This is true for life in general, imo.
  • johnmarinelli 6y ago
    I used to do this, but I've found that having a little bit of social accountability helps more than having absolutely zero. I like to play mysterious and make small morsels of what I work on public as time goes on
    • dmos62 6y ago
      Interestingly, I don't find social accountability a good motivator. It motivates me to continue, but it stresses me out as well, and when I put the two together I don't come out motivated.
  • petargyurov 6y ago
    My theory is that when we talk or in some cases even think about future plans, it gives us a sense of acomplishment before having done anything. Then we keep doing it because falling in love with an idea is easier than putting in the work to do it. And before you know it it's been a year and you're still just talking about it.
• iraldir 6y ago
  Creating a SAAS that works sort of like a trello board to organise your travels, with each "ticket" being a Stay, a transport or an activity ("visiting the old street"). Get easy access to the location of everything you're about to do, and with the card system it's easy to reorganise your holiday on the go if you realise rain is going to ruin a prepared activity. Almost finished the MVP, one more 3 days weekend and that should be it. Next.js + Mongodb + Auth0 + Stripe + TailwindCSS
• justavm 6y ago
  Got Kotlin working on STM32 based bluepill board($2).
• r0b05 6y ago
  I am getting to know the local birds, growing 2 plants and learning machine learning. Soon, hopefully, I will start building some side apps using ml and maybe teach it to the birds.
  • jmkni 6y ago
    Where I'm from, birds is slang for women. Was very confused reading your comment for a second.
    • r0b05 6y ago
      Well I wish it was the birds you are referring to but I am confined to pigeons.
• mcjiggerlog 6y ago
  I built an emoji picker for linux - https://github.com/tom-james-watson/emote https://github.com/tom-james-watson/emote. I was frustrated there didn't seem to be any decent desktop-agnostic solutions that work in all apps, so I decided to give it a go myself.
• mcv 6y ago
  I work from home, teach my kids, and play EU4 to relax[0]. That's pretty much all my life is, at the moment. My 11 year old son has decided we wants to make a table for his younger brother, so that might turn into a side project for me. If I'm lucky it turns into a side project for our carpenter neighbour instead. [0] Yesterday after a disappointing job offer, I declared war on everybody.
  • tunnuz 6y ago
    Sorry to hear that dude, I hope things turn around for you <3
    • mcv 6y ago
      Don't feel sorry for me. I still have it better than most.
  • chosenbreed37 6y ago
    > [0] Yesterday after a disappointing job offer, I declared war on everybody. What was wrong with the offer? :-)
    • mcv 6y ago
      Much lower than I expected. Then we talked, and I got a much better offer. Still low compared to freelancing, but there are other considerations, so I might take it.
• jokull 6y ago
  1. Aggregate all ebikes for sale in Iceland on orflaedi.is 2. Started Awesome Reykjavík, a community project to make moving from abroad to the capital region smoother 3. Quit consulting and started something new: planitor.io
• Deestan 6y ago
  I was already speedrunning bread due to parental leave. Got sourdough down to <10 minutes active labor including prep and cleanup. Now my project is a 1000 science per minute factory in Factorio. I'm 100 or so hours in. It is a game I'll recommend to any programmer: It exercises optimization, planning, testing, debugging, (coaching and collaboration if multiplayer), prioritizing right, and the balance of living with hacky imperfections while still not letting them overwhelm your design and grind everything to a halt.
• freshfey 6y ago
  Ginger Beer and other fermentation projects :)
• mathgladiator 6y ago
  A programming language for board games http://www.adama-lang.org/ http://www.adama-lang.org/ it's awful at the moment
• austincheney 6y ago
  An application that provides security gated sharing of the file system using a Windows/OSX like file explorer GUI directly in the browser. Current status: * Works great on a home network, but I still need to work out point-to-poin tunneling through the Internet. * Nearly done working out a separation designation of personal devices from different users. * Currently working on test automation via service simulation and browser simulation via Microsoft/playwright. * I plan to allow end-to-end encryption via key sharing, but I am not there yet. * I plan to allow remote application execution for devices under the same user account, but I am not there yet.
• znpy 6y ago
  Staying alive
• secretsinger 6y ago
  In South Africa, we have pretty harsh lockdown laws, including only being able to exercise within 5km of your house and only between 6am and 9am. I'm a keen mountain biker, so I've put my energy and frustration into developing new mountain bike trails in the hills around my house. Been meaning to do this for a long time, but there are such good trails a few miles further away, so the incentive has not been very strong until now. I'm building for about 1 hour per day on average, and I manage to get between 10 and 100m of trail built in that hour, so by the time the lock-down ends I'm aiming to have a contiguous piece of singletrack that's a mile long. Also, I've been helping on a local project to develop an open-source ventilator (https://www.backabuddy.co.za/champion/project/rescuevent https://www.backabuddy.co.za/champion/project/rescuevent) And I'm working on a peer-to-peer donation platform (which is not really ready to show to anyone yet)
  • grandinj 6y ago
    fellow saffer here, good for you!
  • kingbirdy 6y ago
    Creating a new trail sounds interesting - I had to do similar as part of a service project when I was a kid, but I imagine it's much more fulfilling when it's for your personal use. How are you able to create the trail, is it free use public land, or more of a guerrilla repurposing of untended private land?
    • secretsinger 6y ago
      The land is in limbo: it's abandoned pine plantations currently being used by joggers, dogwalkers and (to a lesser degree) cyclists. I can highly recommend trail building (both walking and cycling trails) as a combination of physical, aesthetic and intellectual challenges (figuring out how to use the terrain to be both fun and interesting/possible to ride and then moving tons of earth and vegetation to make it happen).
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• hans0l074 6y ago
  Been trying to work on a lite "Logging Service" implementation. Something along the lines of Seq[0]. Needs to be extremely simple to use on the cloud and locally. Mainly for practicing more Go which I've come to love. Have barely scratched the surface since I have regular work + a toddler at home + baby arriving in 3 weeks! [0]https://datalust.co/seq https://datalust.co/seq
• kgutteridge 6y ago
  Physically I've swapped the commute for a reasonable amount more cycling outside which is nice. Mentally went through the AWS Solution Architect associate and professional certifications and ticked those of. Next up will be to finally update my blog and launch a couple of Slack apps all things I've been meaning to do for a while
• avipars 6y ago
  Working on my app, https://aviparshan.com/unitmeasure https://aviparshan.com/unitmeasure . It's a powerful unit converter for android. Right now, I am adding support for more languages and going through a bunch of feature requests.
• demircancelebi 6y ago
  I've built a website that allows people to play Viking Chess, (also called Tafl/Hnefatafl) with each other: https://litafl.com/ https://litafl.com/
• hycaria 6y ago
  I did a dumb tool to fill out redmine timesheets easier.
• AJRF 6y ago
  I made a clone of YikYak because I thought that would be a good idea For people in lockdown. After almost finishing it (only few bugs left) I decided to not bother trying to release it. Like most projects my initial enthusiasm went out the window once I got something working. It’s so ripe for abuse too that it would probably make people feel worse about themselves rather than better. I always sort of knew this but the enthusiasm for the better of me. I’m instead going to open source all the parts of it (the web app, the sql to recreate the dB, the mobile app, and the API) as that probably has more impact. For now it still up at https://ottr.chat https://ottr.chat
• Findeton 6y ago
  I'm making a light-field video player and a light-field video camera.
• vekker 6y ago
  I'm making a dream journal app for lucid dreaming and dream analysis: https://oneironotes.com/ https://oneironotes.com/ For many years I've had the habit of remembering and noting down my dreams first thing every morning. I wanted a place for collecting & analysing all these dream reports. So I built this journaling app. It's a PWA that encrypts everything before syncing. For now I'm just testing it with friends, but I want to launch it in the coming weeks.
• reminyborg 6y ago
  Me and my friend have been building a Social Sampler to make music over the internet. Now that the quarantine happened we managed to get a beta out, its taking up most of my free time: https://miidbaby.com/ https://miidbaby.com/
• logicalshift 6y ago
  Well, my main side project is the same as it's been for the last couple of years, an animation/vector editing tool written in Rust: https://github.com/logicalshift/flowbetween https://github.com/logicalshift/flowbetween It's sort of starting to make the transition between a pile of ideas and an actually useful tool at the moment. The whole idea is to be a vector editing application that works more like a bitmap tool when it comes to painting, so there's a flood-fill tool and a way to build up paths just by drawing on the canvas rather than having to manually mess around with control points. The way I built the UI is unique too I think. Choices for UI librarys for Rust were quite limited when I started so I built it to be easy to move to different libraries. I don't think there's any other UI library in existence that is as seamless for switching between platforms (or which can turn from a native app to a web app with a compiler flag without resorting to something like Electron)
  • Jemaclus 6y ago
    Wow, this is cool. What was the inspiration for this? Why Rust?
    • logicalshift 6y ago
      I like to draw, and I suppose my frustrations with other animation packages that I’ve tried were the main inspiration. It’s quite nice to have something that combines two hobbies into one. When I started I picked Rust because I’d been learning it and wanted to try using it on a more substantial project. I’m very happy with it as a choice of language: it definitely has a difficult learning curve especially with the way borrowing looks similar to references in a garbage-collected languages but works very differently. However, it’s a very expressive language: something about it makes it very easy to write code quickly that’s still very easy to follow later on.
      • Jemaclus 6y ago
        Awesome. I dabbled with Rust several years ago, but have been thinking about diving back into it... Do you have any recommendations about where to start?
• matsutsu 6y ago
  https://patchgirl.io https://patchgirl.io a REST client that allows you to play scenario of http requests to test/setup your project
• tobiaslins 6y ago
  I've been busy building splitbee.io I also acquired my first customer during this time!
• Tade0 6y ago
  I'm designing analog guitar effects. I only had a few courses in college concerning analog circuits, but if you understand the principles, it's easy to learn from the schematics available on the internet. So far I've been exploring the use of MOSFETs - I found that the 2N7000 transistor is as cheap and abundant as BJTs, so I'm using it. This type of transistor is less predictable and has a more complex working principle than a BJT, but with that come additional possibilities. My last non-idiomatic-but-working design is a MOSFET-based A-class buffer that maintains an optimal operating point using a BJT differential amplifier as a comparator for the feedback loop, maintaining the DC output before the coupling capacitor at exactly half the supply voltage. It's not linear, but that's the idea - if you plugged in a guitar to it the difference wouldn't be really noticeable, but doing the same with a bass should give a "sweeter", enriched with low harmonics tone.
• lovasoa 6y ago
  I've done a lot of work on my opensource collaborative whiteboard, WBO: https://wbo.ophir.dev/ https://wbo.ophir.dev/ During lockdown, many teachers and companies are looking for new ways to work online, and google searches for "opensource online whiteboard" have exploded. I noticed a surge of activity on the site, and that motivated me to spend more time on it. The tool has also received its most significant external contributions since its inception several years ago. I just hope the interest will not fade away once the pandemic is over.
• Stratoscope 6y ago
  Speaking of baked goods, I nursed a sourdough starter back to health. I found it in the back of the fridge where I'd neglected it for a couple of years. Poured off the icky gray liquid and scraped off the ugly top layers, and carefully got a pinch of relatively clean but inert looking dry starter crumbles from the bottom. I put that in a fresh jar and have been feeding it, and after a few days it came right back to life and is smelling great! Now to make some bread or pancakes with it. My other project is harmonica karaoke. I'm not a blues player, I'm more into classic rock and country. Since I'm not that good at improvising, I like to take a song and work on it over and over again to work out a nice part and get the nuances just right. One is Dreams by Fleetwood Mac, where I play the vocal lead with some jazzy stuff mixed in. I live a few blocks from Menlo-Atherton High School, where Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham met, so it's always fun to play one of her songs. (Harp: Lee Oskar F Major retuned as a high octave C Melody Maker.) Another is Wagon Wheel, where I worked out the fiddle and organ parts plus some piccolo parts that I made up. (Harp: Lee Oskar A Natural Minor.) My new lockdown song has been Atomic by Blondie. This one has been super fun! It took a lot of experimenting and trying stuff out, but I came up with an arrangement I'm pretty happy with. Now to beta test at our next Alteryx Got Talent virtual show! (Harp: Lee Oskar E Natural Minor.) Maybe when we can all do it again, I will get to play some of these songs with other musicians.
  • eps 6y ago
    There's a fair chance that you just made a new starter (from the flour you've been feeding your salvage with).
    • Stratoscope 6y ago
      You may well be right! OTOH, the starter did come to life faster than ones I've made from scratch - it was very bubbly after three days. I guess it will be a mystery...
• chrisyeah 6y ago
  We used the time to work on renovating an old historic vault, in order to make it an outdoor vault / barbecue spot. We actually already started renovating before the lockdown. But since there are not so many leisure activities anymore, now we took almost all our free time to focus on this private project. Some days ago I started documenting it on Instagram, if you want to check it out: https://www.instagram.com/gewoelbefichtelgebirge/ https://www.instagram.com/gewoelbefichtelgebirge/ (texts are in German).
• p0larboy 6y ago
  Now that I already have a Step 1 business that I'm surviving on. I'm looking to move up to Step 2 or 3. I have been reading up a lot on customer acquisition especially from 0 - 100 and also tweeting abt it (https://twitter.com/p0larboy https://twitter.com/p0larboy). If anyone has a good resource on this, please let me know. Stairstep analog from Rob Walling (https://robwalling.com/2015/03/26/the-stairstep-approach-to-bootstrapping/ https://robwalling.com/2015/03/26/the-stairstep-approach-to-...)
• chanchal1987 6y ago
  It is go pprof agent and client yo run and collect pprof remotely from go binary, an alternative yo net/http/pprof https://github.com/chanchal1987/grpc-profile https://github.com/chanchal1987/grpc-profile
• OwlsParlay 6y ago
  Applying for a new job / relearning all the old interview techniques I forgot ten years ago.
• cedricmar 6y ago
  I’ve released a side project I’ve been working on for a bit. I use Notes on OSX quite a bit (and GEdit on Linux...) for gists, reminders, cheatsheets etc... Mainly to re-use code bits and idioms I find useful. But then I switch computers / OSes quite a bit and I don’t have these notes with me everywhere. I wanted to solve this problem for me in a way that was compatible with my usual workflow (copy / paste!). So I built https://www.sheethub.io https://www.sheethub.io it is very Beta ATM, but if you find a use for it I'm happy :)
  • elfanjo 6y ago
    Awesome exactly what I needed thxs !
• companycalls 6y ago
  I wanted to use a Jamstack, so I made LockdownLinks https://www.lockdownlinks.co.uk https://www.lockdownlinks.co.uk It's a simple site that features some links you might find handy during the lockdown. I've tried to put together a list that doesn't feature obvious choices. I used Vue w/ Gridsome, it's hosted on GitHub with Netlify handling deployments. Honestly, it's been a dream to develop on. Gridsome is very user friendly, and I learned about GraphQL while making it (something I'd been meaning to learn about for a while) Using Netlify and having 'git push' automatically kicking off a build and a deploy without me having to do anything else has been so convenient. I'm definitely going to use a similar stack in the future.
• lucjac 6y ago
  A gratitude journal app - since you really need to be mindful of your mental health these days! https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mind.happy.gratitude.journal&hl=de https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mind.happy... https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mindhappy-gratitude-journal/id1379914344?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mindhappy-gratitude-journal/...
• Megabeets 6y ago
  Working hard on Cutter, an open-source, free and libre Reverse Engineering project. It's cross platform and supports tons of architectures. A debugger was recently introduced, as well as native integration with multiple Decompilers https://cutter.re https://cutter.re https://github.com/radareorg/cutter https://github.com/radareorg/cutter using it recently to reverse engineering some Gameboy ROMs, embedded devices and the usual x86 malware hopefully more people will come to work on this great project :)
  • indigochill 6y ago
    Oh, this looks cool! I've been wanting to work on an r2-backed project like this for a while but never committed. Will have a deeper look into Cutter soon.
  • 1ark 6y ago
    Been studying RE recently, using Cutter and following your blog. Your work is so great!
• cpcdoy 6y ago
  I've been working on optimizing inference time of a BERT-based multilingual NLP model in Rust, check it out here: https://github.com/cpcdoy/rust-sbert https://github.com/cpcdoy/rust-sbert
• bananaowl 6y ago
  I had some friends complain about their sedentary home-office. So I cooked together a pomodoro app with exercise videos for your break time. Work and work out :) https://pomfu.no https://pomfu.no
• indigochill 6y ago
  As an amateur music dabbler, I've been more prolific musically in the lockdown period than I've ever been. Part of this is that I've also committed to improving, but the other is just getting sufficiently bored to put more time into it. The latest three tracks here were all made within the past couple months: https://soundcloud.com/vaguseques https://soundcloud.com/vaguseques
• dpq 6y ago
  I live in a condo with a concierge service, and I need to order passes for delivery guys with a phone call. Naturally, this got very boring very quickly, so I made a Chrome extension which upon a click connects to a Voximplant app which calls the concierge, receives his voice input, forwards it to Dialogflow, and uses the intent recognized by DF to play back recorded audio tracks of my voice asking for a pass, answering questions or thanking the concierge. I'm thinking about making the extension intercept the traffic to the website of my favorite delivery services and automatically place the call so the button click also won't be required.
  • djhworld 6y ago
    This is both horrifying and amazing, haha.
  • Cro_on 6y ago
    Incredible. By the end of the quarantine you'll be able to work as usual up until the point where you casually open the door to catch the concierge with your meal anticipating the fact that he doesn't need to ring the doorbell anymore.
  • jl2718 6y ago
    This is my view of the AI dystopia. AI for calling concierge, AI for answering concierge, AI for monitoring the concierge calls, AI for all the pointless things that humans used to do, but expanded and accelerated massively. Humans spending their lives training AI to defeat some new attack or spam bot.
    • dpq 6y ago
      The "AI" part here is a bug, not a feature. I wouldn't have to do it if I had an API for sending requests, or a condo-provided app, or at least if the concierge service used e.g. Telegram officially. Since neither of these is true, I had to resort to a workaround.
• pibefision 6y ago
  Survive.
• pibefision 6y ago
  Just survive.
• trekhleb 6y ago
  I'm experimenting with Machine Learning (CNN, RNN, MLP) and TensorFlow in particular: https://github.com/trekhleb/machine-learning-experiments https://github.com/trekhleb/machine-learning-experiments In the repository there are several experiments, each consists of Jupyter/Colab notebook (to see how a model was trained) and demo page (to see a model in action right in the browser). For now I've created only 10 experiments (i.e. Digits Recognition, Object Detection, Image Classification, "Write like a Shakespeare", etc.). But the plan is to do some more experimentations with GANs and RNNs.
• alexh1 6y ago
  https://encrypted-todos.com https://encrypted-todos.com - End-to-end encrypted kanban Operating under the codename Portobello for now but friends and family don't like the name. The landing page is atrocious, but the actual app functionality is nearing an MVP. I guess the big question for me is do I make it realtime for the launch. The handshake for swapping keys and allowing access to a board/organisation currently happens via HTTP polling, but that's not such a nice experience. Currently the whole thing is hosted on Netlify so moving to websockets would require me to set up another service somewhere, not sure if it's worth it before I validate my idea. I'm going to do an official launch on Hacker News within the next couple of weeks. Still a lot to do as you'll see.
  • biscotti 6y ago
    You probably know this already, but the Yearly / Monthly toggle on your pricing page does not toggle, at least in iOS
    • alexh1 6y ago
      Yeah... I'm aware. My list of things to do is extensive and over the last week I committed to a PoC of the app, which is now done. Time to clean up the landing page
• edbentley 6y ago
  Made a game engine :D https://replay.js.org https://replay.js.org
• lhoursquentin 6y ago
  A Sed to C translator written in Sed, the objective being to be able to translate itself: https://github.com/lhoursquentin/sed-bin https://github.com/lhoursquentin/sed-bin
• bharani_m 6y ago
  I have always wanted to learn DevOps. I use Heroku for almost all my apps, but I wanted to learn what is happening every time I do git push heroku master. I started learning Ansible recently using the 'Ansible for Devops' book. I used the concepts mentioned in this book and used the author's Ansible roles as a starting point to create a playbook for deploying Rails 6 apps. Here's the code - https://github.com/EmailThis/ansible-rails https://github.com/EmailThis/ansible-rails It includes roles for performing the following tasks - * Installation of common packages, basic SSH security * Install NGINX, Certbot (for Letsencrypt SSL Certs) * Ruby (via rbenv) * Rails 6, Puma, Sidekiq * Redis * Nodejs/Webpack/yarn * Postgresql + saving backups to S3 * Deploying using Ansistrano
  • chester195 6y ago
    Thanks, this is really interesting.
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• maxired 6y ago
  With the rise of video conferences solutions, I have been working trying to make them better and reducing the gap with physical interactions. One simple thing I've done is this chrome extension to add party poppers in Google Meet. This is so far the project I've done with the biggest traction. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-meet-party-button/mhkffmllohoiiflajcdmpkfdioknejhb https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-meet-party-... My long term shot is creating a solution for agile teams and facilitators. https://meet.retrolution.co/ https://meet.retrolution.co/
• thesehands 6y ago
  Working on a blood sugar tracker for my wife as an excuse to practice with flask/sqlalchemy
• naikas82 6y ago
  I am working on a streamlit app that helps me understand financial statements and fundamental ratios (PB, PE ratios, EPS, etc.) of traded companies. The stack is basically python + streamlit and APIs for stocks data. More about streamlit here: https://streamlit.io/ https://streamlit.io/ I am not able find lot of public domain data of German companies. Any help is appreciated.
• dt3ft 6y ago
  https://20-things.com/ https://20-things.com/ So far only a few people know about it and some of my friends are using it, but my goal is to keep it running and use it myself even if nobody else ends up using it. It is very cheap to operate and I use it as my own personal bookmarking and media upload service. Beware: work in progress!
• raphaelj 6y ago
  I designed and released an opensource contact tracing app. This was designed around the time Google and Apple announced their partnership, and the overall idea is similar (renewed anonymous identifiers). https://github.com/RaphaelJ/covid-tracer https://github.com/RaphaelJ/covid-tracer
• jamil7 6y ago
  https://www.packrat.app https://www.packrat.app I've been building a packing list app for ultralight bikepacking, hiking and just a general outdoor gear library. I've had a surge of interest from niche reddit communities and a few hundred test flight users. I'm finding it hard to find time to work on it right now as freelance work is picking up again. Stack wise the majority of the app is written in Kotlin and shared on iOS and Android (haven't got the Android version out yet).
• bojanz 6y ago
  I've gone deep into Go, finding it a fun change from daily work. The project I'm working on isn't ready yet, but I've managed to extract and share my first package[1], for handling and formatting currency amounts. [1] https://github.com/bojanz/currency https://github.com/bojanz/currency
• sanedigital 6y ago
  https://couchclub.app https://couchclub.app I wanted to make an all-online Meetup of sorts, a place where people could find and create communities that host events and get-togethers. Got the MVP done in about a week (thanks to Jitsi!) and then had to focus back on client work. I'm still considering next steps with it.
• akhong 6y ago
  Wrapping Spark in Clojure: https://github.com/zero-one-group/geni https://github.com/zero-one-group/geni I used to work at a tech giant, where the data team relies a lot on native Spark in Scala. I've always found the combination quite pleasant to work with. However, I did miss Python's faster startup time, dynamism and REPL, especially when doing data cleaning and exploration with no intention of putting it in production. Now that I'm doing my own thing at a much smaller scale, I naturally gravitated towards Python's data stack, namely NumPy, Pandas, Sklearn and Dask. However, I found myself missing Spark's consistent SQL API and performance! So yea, I've been wanting to use more Clojure for work and set up a Clojure shop. During the quarantine, I find myself having more time to do focused work. I thought this would be a good opportunity to convert some of the data wrangling stuff to Clojure!
• edumucelli 6y ago
  Working on a face recognition SaaS: rosto.io
• luhem7 6y ago
  Finally taking the time to really learn rust. It's a language that has intrigued me for a long time.
• pgt 6y ago
  I built Bridge to help bring businesses online during lockdown: https://www.tradebridge.app/ https://www.tradebridge.app/ Bridge is Chat for Business. It's basically a shopping protocol for chat that works over Telegram, WhatsApp or email – essentially chat commerce. It's not quite ready for a Show HN yet, but so far the interest in my city has been good. I noticed that more and more companies were doing business over chat. Customers are clamouring to give them money over WhatsApp, Instagram, Telegram and Messenger, but these chat platforms are not designed for trade. Bridge is. Under lockdown here in South Africa, every business has to become an online business, but traditional eCommerce is too heavy and inflexible for informal traders, especially if there is any barter and negotiation involved over delivery, shipping and payment method. Bridge crosses the chasm by adding structured negotiation to chat.
• samcrawford 6y ago
  I have two: 1) Trail Router (https://trailrouter.com https://trailrouter.com) - This is a running route planner that favours greenery and nature in the routes it generates. It can generate point-to-point or round-trip routes that meet a specified distance. I developed this because I am (or was...) a frequent traveller for work, and want to run in nice areas rather than by horrible busy roads when I'm visiting somewhere new. Naturally, the utility of this tool is limited at the moment for people stuck in lockdown! 2) Fresh Brews (https://twitter.com/FreshBrews_UK https://twitter.com/FreshBrews_UK) - I've been touring the UK's finest craft beer breweries from my own home in recent weeks. New beer releases sell out very quickly and I was frequently missing out. Fresh Brews is a simple bot that monitors the online shops of my favourite breweries and posts when a new beer is released to the shop, or an item comes back into stock.
  • padmick 6y ago
    Have you got a github on how your tracking the craft beers? I would like to do something similar for Irish breweries.
    • samcrawford 6y ago
      I'll publish the source on Github later today and will reply here. It's a very simple Java app, which scrapes and extracts page content using Jsoup.
      • ep103 6y ago
        I'm leaving a comment here as a reminder too! I've been playing with open street map data to learn routing algorithms, I would love to compare notes : D
    • poorman 6y ago
      Untappd has this feature with the largest beer + venue database in the world.
  • kamerontanseli 6y ago
    Trail Router works great! I love that you can just drag the dot and it auto-generates a new route.
• winterismute 6y ago
  I started publishing a tragicomic, episodic novel about a group of youngsters that decide to move from playing CoD all the day to develop their own game. It is unfortunately in Italian, but if you happen to understand it, here is the first episode: https://ilsognoindie.substack.com/p/001-la-scoperta https://ilsognoindie.substack.com/p/001-la-scoperta (the name means "The Indie Dream")
• bArray 6y ago
  One of the side-projects was just a simple one to decode the Voyager images from NASA: https://github.com/danielbarry/OpenView https://github.com/danielbarry/OpenView
• nmfisher 6y ago
  I’ve been making a video series for people to learn basic conversational Chinese. https://incrediblechinese.com https://incrediblechinese.com I’m hoping people can forgive the unruly hair - it’s lockdown after all, so haircuts are out!
• o0void0o 6y ago
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• hellweaver666 6y ago
  Keyboards. I bought a mechanical keyboard and customised it, then I handmade a little mechanical macro keyboard and now I'm getting into the custom cables scene as well.
• lemiffe 6y ago
  I always wanted to make YouTube videos but never found time or energy after work. Finally decided to give it a go, and combined 2 things I love: Making music and gaming. So I now make videos playing Geoguessr, writing stories about the places I end up in, and composing songs to those stories. I'm thinking now about adding a programming aspect into these videos somehow. https://youtube.com/lemiffe https://youtube.com/lemiffe
  • spuz 6y ago
    This sounds very similar to GeoGuessrWizard's content (which is great by the way). He makes music, plays games and has some great travel/adventure films. Good luck!
• jdevonport 6y ago
  I've been working on an app for running trivia quizzes on Zoom. It has a ton of ready to go quizzes and collects all player answers and works out scores. https://remotequiz.app https://remotequiz.app
• spuz 6y ago
  The pandemic has caused demand for oximeters to skyrocket (going from around £10 to £90 in some cases). I've been working on a project based on a the MAX30102 heart rate and oxygen level sensor which cost me only £5. Actually I am simply tweaking the code that someone else has written which you can see demoed here: https://www.reddit.com/r/esp32/comments/g64w16/esp32_heartrate_monitor/ https://www.reddit.com/r/esp32/comments/g64w16/esp32_heartra...
• itsmeamario 6y ago
  Working on my blog (https://mariocod.es https://mariocod.es) and learning for a Google certification. Also looking for a side project.
• netjiro 6y ago
  1) A bit of cleaning up of an online tabletop game. https://github.com/netjiro/hactac https://github.com/netjiro/hactac Happy to host a game for anyone interested once I have functional internet restored. Stuck in France and connectively handicapped. 2) Baking cakes ! The best one yet is an almond chocolate cake which functions really well as proper-food-replacement. 3) On the work side I've been helping a few companies migrate to remote work. Improving organisational habits and behaviour so people see that remote can be a positive thing. Measurably.
• avoidboringppl 6y ago
  Continuing to work on my finance and tech newsletter to help others avoid boring people: https://avoidboringpeople.substack.com/ https://avoidboringpeople.substack.com/ Trying to learn art history as well Also trying to host virtual cocktail lessons
• jsmolka 6y ago
  I continue working on my GBA emulator and its test suite. https://github.com/jsmolka/eggvance https://github.com/jsmolka/eggvance https://github.com/jsmolka/gba-suite https://github.com/jsmolka/gba-suite Writing assembly code and see it running on your own emulator feels awesome. Yesterday I started to implement simple text rendering using the GBA bitmap modes. I also added a WebAssembly port using emscripten (which was easier than expected for a SDL2 based application). https://eggception.de/eggvance/wasm/ https://eggception.de/eggvance/wasm/
• teekert 6y ago
  Haha, bread as well! I've been culturing sour dough, surprisingly easy! [0] [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FVfJTGpXnU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FVfJTGpXnU
• red2awn 6y ago
  Building a chrome extension to block spoilers on youtube. Got frustrated with "Spoiler Protection 2.0" since it doesn't cover the thumbnails. For some type of contents (ie combat sports/MMA), the thumbnail basically gives away the results.
• sphix0r 6y ago
  Bought a 3d printer(Creality Ender 3, sub 200USD). Being able to print nice prints takes a lot of time and you'll learn a lot during the process. After being able to print I tried drawing. Both blender and fusion 360. Blender for organic objects and fusion 360 for practical engineering objects. It's a really fantastic hobby and you'll be able to produce a lot of physical objects instead of only writing software.
  • fghorow 6y ago
    Good on you! Please consider joining one of the PPE manufacturing efforts based on 3D printing! I too bought a 3D printer -- solely to fight this effing virus in some way -- and have been busy doing that for nearly 2 months now. It feels pretty good!
• captn3m0 6y ago
  Learning Crystal, and working on a CLI to download and stitch books from Project MUSE: https://github.com/captn3m0/muse-dl https://github.com/captn3m0/muse-dl
• fidrelity 6y ago
  I started blogging about PM, agile and engineering topics: https://andreschweighofer.com https://andreschweighofer.com
• joaomoreno 6y ago
  I created a browser based, client-side only, GIF screen recording tool: https://gifcap.dev/ https://gifcap.dev/ It uses a fork of gifsicle compiled in WASM to produce highly optimized GIFs really fast. It supports trimming and cropping the end result. Let me know what you think!
• changetheway 6y ago
  During the quarantine, I decided to pivot my project and focus 100% on online teaching. Our vision is to improve online teaching and learning experience. The first tool we are building is interactive presentations. https://www.prezelive.com/ https://www.prezelive.com/ Education is very important and I feel like people forget about teachers and how they need to transform towards online teaching. I see a great opportunity in this fast-growing market. What do you think guys? Do you know anybody that could help me share this idea with my target group?
• juriansluiman 6y ago
  I started groceri.es (https://groceri.es https://groceri.es), a recipe manager and smart shopping list in one. Its goal is a combination of paprika (https://paprikaapp.com https://paprikaapp.com) and Listonic (https://listonic.com https://listonic.com). I was continuously fighting my recipe planning. I did it for a long time in Google Keep. I can't manage recipes there, I have to add items to the shopping list manually. Changes in menu planning don't keep up with the shopping list, I forget to check the pantry. Etc. This time looked right to create something to mitigate the frustrations. The technology is quite simple, it is a CRUD app in Flask with SQL backend. Everything is a docker container with data in a volume. UX is now quite limited, based on Fomantic UI. There is no goal to make it Saas, for friends I will just spin up a second instance. I have been a software engineer for over a decade, but haven't been programming the last 5 years. Besides I am a fanatic home cook. So this looked like the perfect opportunity to have some fun again.
  • gargs 6y ago
    Love it! Thanks for making this. I’d love to have an app that uses this to pull up recipes and help pick items from Jumbo.
  • grantcovington 6y ago
    I've been slowly making my way through this thread -- you should check out https://whisk.com/ https://whisk.com/ it's been a game changer for my menu/shopping planning
• hagy 6y ago
  I've been learning how various database components work (e.g., log-structured merge trees) by implementing them from scratch and benchmarking their performance with different workloads and configurations. Sharing the results at https://dbfromzero.com https://dbfromzero.com
• deallocator 6y ago
  I've been diving into Elixir and Erlang, writing a library to build Discord bots with. I've been toying with bots for a while, but building the library myself gave me some interesting insights in Discord all while learning Elixir myself. I'm trying to make it so that if you spin up multiple nodes it automatically balances the sharding over all nodes, monitors traffic and attempts to balance the work evenly.
• Taurenking 6y ago
  I've built a quick Slack app to receive Calendly notifications (I've asked Calendly what their plans are regarding slack and they were happy with my "contribution"). Unfortunately, it relies on their webhooks, which work only for Paid and Premium users https://calenduck.co/ https://calenduck.co/
• gmac 6y ago
  A Postgres library for TypeScript, without the abstractions of an ORM: https://jawj.github.io/zapatos/ https://jawj.github.io/zapatos/
• anonymoushn 6y ago
  I noticed that the syntax and semantics of Lox and Monkey mostly don't conflict with each other, so I am making an interpreter that does both. I also made a fully incremental static site generator, but this will probably never be something I can show off because it isn't cleanly divided into "library code" and "configuration for he specific sites it generates." It has no non-incremental mode. You might say "Performance is a non-issue for static site generators!", but incremental builds means you can make expensive operations like pngcrush part of your build without having to wait forever.
• temporama1 6y ago
  Porn.
• o0void0o 6y ago
  I was so angry at MS for taking away WunderList that I started to write a clone that looks 1:1 the same instead of using TODO. This time around the tech stack is React js as the UI with Springboot and MongoDB in the backend. Making great progress can do lists/task crud but lacking sync etc.. When you are accustomed to how things work and then forced to change its not fun. Current covid19 circumstances brought enough unwanted changes. This project started out as a fuck you to MS but it really turned into a fun project to keep my productively on track and also keep my mind busy. The only shame is that I can't really "release" this cause it really looks like the original and the copyright vultures will waste no time coming for me. My best bet would be to change the UI design. BUT that would void the original purpose of the project.
  • imhoguy 6y ago
    Can't you just release it as open-source for self-hosting. I think that could go under free speech and the source code will always be your invention. I wonder how is it done with myriads of software/hardware emulators and clones.
  • tluyben2 6y ago
    Yep, I had the same anger. You should release it though... There are many app copies/themes 'like X' (uber/instagram/etc) that look the same. They don't get any vultures ;)
  • vlucas 6y ago
    Long time user of Wunderlist here. I just migrated to Microsoft To Do, and am happy with it. All the features I cared about are still there, and it is more or less the same app. The "To-Do" space is awfully crowded...
    • copperx 6y ago
      To Do is wonderful. This is the first To Do app that I've used that gets almost everything right.
  • freefriedrice 6y ago
    Cool! I convinced a bunch of friends to use WL a few years ago and now they're mad at ME for the acquisition! Not really mad, but despondent and looking for alternatives. I migrated to Apple's todo list app (which has +ves and -ves), but it was funny getting a bunch of texts within a week blaming me for getting them hooked on WunderList!
• FailMore 6y ago
  I made https://taaalk.co https://taaalk.co - it is quite like debubble (also in this thread). It's a platform for online discussions. It's not focused on debating, but on exploring topics and sharing knowledge. You can create a Taaalk and invite any number of people to join it using an invite link and code. If you don't have anyone to Taaalk with you can leave your details on the Start a Conversation page. Some friends and I started it a few years ago and then stopped, so I thought I'd rebuild it during quarantine. Some of the old Taaalks are on there, e.g.: https://taaalk.co/t/how-to-think-about-chess https://taaalk.co/t/how-to-think-about-chess It's the first app I've ever deployed to production so it's been great to learn about servers and hosting.
• pinopinopino 6y ago
  Studying: differential geometry, poetic edda. Doing: lifting myself to hell and back and jump rope. Building: Making maze generators in minetest (before moving them to minecraft) And trying to figure out if I can find a function that takes two finite consecutive sequences with length N and M of natural numbers, which start by 1 (E.g [1,2,3], but not [1,2,4,5]) and give back a sequence which contain all the numbers starting from 1 up to the NxM, but not necessarily sorted without using the size of the sequences. So I want to number the cross product of the two sequences. This crap is related to some programming problem I hit. t = {1,2,3...} -- <- can be lenght s = {1,2,3,4...} <- can be any length xs = {} for i,h in ipairs(t) do for j,k in ipairs(s) do q = f(i,j) -- <- I want to know if f is possible to write xs[q] = h * k end end Well the answer is I think no, but I found some functions that work up to a certain number or that work within certain bounds, so how far we can stretch that? And of course it works for the whole set of natural numbers.
  • arnioxux 6y ago
    Pretty sure the answer is no as a math problem where f is pure. If f returns the same answer each time, the square ending at N,N contains [1, N * N]. Then the rectangle ending at N,N+1 must contain (N * N, N * (N+1)] in the nonoverlapping strip. Ditto for N+1,N. But then for N+1,N+1 all other locations must contain low numbers and there's only a single corner cell left which can contain the rest of the missing numbers between (N(N+1), (N+1)(N+1)]. Unless I made a mistake I don't think any function would work here for N > 1. What were the examples you found? OTOH as a programming problem you can just cheat and store state somewhere to count the row width. This satisfies your interface requirements (python): lastJ = None def f(i, j): global lastJ if i != 0: return i * (lastJ + 1) + j else: lastJ = j return j N = 3 M = 5 seen = set() for i in range(N): for j in range(M): q = f(i, j) seen.add(q) assert sorted(seen) == list(range(N * M))
    • pinopinopino 6y ago
      I am on work, so can't access my home laptop. But this problem is related to pairing functions (but those work for the whole domain of the naturals). It means you need to find a function that walks the numbers in a nice way, like seen here: http://szudzik.com/ElegantPairing.pdf http://szudzik.com/ElegantPairing.pdf I think it isn't possible to find a function that works for arbitrary sequences. I know there is a function that works if the sets have the same size (n is size), it is trivial why those work. They have the form n^0 a + n^1 b, where a,b are in [1..n]: f :: Integer -> (Integer,Integer) -> Integer f n (i,j) = i + (j - 1)*n -- For example: f 3 <$> ((,) <$> [1..3] <*> [1..3]) [1,4,7,2,5,8,3,6,9] Now I want to find functions like (n,m is size, n /= m): f n m (i,j) = .. And functions where n maybe chosen but m is between certain bounds. I have found a couple of those by mutilating pairing functions. I know I can use a counter, but I don't like cheating :p I need to draw your reasoning on a paper to see it or take some time for it. Little bit busy, working from home, having the kids and stuff :p
• 3dprintscanner 6y ago
  Been working with a group building a mobile COVID testing laboratory and have written a Rails app for managing the test data & laboratory flow. https://github.com/UK-CoVid19/opencell-testing https://github.com/UK-CoVid19/opencell-testing https://arcane-island-35232.herokuapp.com/ https://arcane-island-35232.herokuapp.com/ Also a set of mini-sites built on eleventy / netlify for local community COVID voluntary groups in London. https://islington.coronacorps.com/ https://islington.coronacorps.com/ https://github.com/3dprintscanner/coronacorps https://github.com/3dprintscanner/coronacorps
• alexkearns 6y ago
  I've been working on an interactive timeline of US presidents to promote a new timeline maker product I will be launching soon. https://www.chronoflotimeline.com/timeline/shared/3114/USA-Presidents-Timeline/ https://www.chronoflotimeline.com/timeline/shared/3114/USA-P...
• YoannMoinet 6y ago
  I've made a mobile game because I wanted to try React Native. The pitch is: A brain teasing puzzle game. Easy to play, hard to master. I know, very generic :) https://zwout.fr https://zwout.fr It's currently in closed beta (very closed) but if you're really interested, I can add you to the beta.
• mkuklik 6y ago
  https://youtu.be/cmETioVtRG0 https://youtu.be/cmETioVtRG0 Trying to build this on a smaller scale using Arduino, 25 droplets. Goal is to make it as cheap as possible. Interesting software problem is how to control many arduino's in synchronized fashion. Stack is C++ Arduino <- serial -> C++ ESP 8266 <- wifi -> server in go and websocket.
• frederikvanh 6y ago
  I've been working on my sideproject BitPull, a browser automation tool. You can create pretty complex workflows with it to extract data or just automate things in general. https://bitpull.io https://bitpull.io
• filipn 6y ago
  I'm building a web app for sending newsletters with AWS Simple Email Service https://github.com/mailbadger/app https://github.com/mailbadger/app. It's still a work in progress, I'm still a couple of features away from releasing a beta version, but basically you'll be able to import your subscribers, group them, create templates and create and send campaigns. After that you can see statistics such as bounces, complaints etc. I'm using Go for the backend and React on the frontend, along with MySQL and NATS for message queueing.
• mpodlasin 6y ago
  List of free (and legal) resources (textbooks, lectures notes, videos) to study mathematics: https://realnotcomplex.com https://realnotcomplex.com
• gijsnijholt1980 6y ago
  I’m working on a WhatsApp-but-using-email app. Prototype on https://nyholt.gitlab.io/whatsmail/ https://nyholt.gitlab.io/whatsmail/ It has not been validated by Google yet so you get a big red warning box, but its all client side code. Basically you get the interface of WhatsApp, but the messages are plain old e-mails. No support for attachments yet, but works perfectly otherwise. I’m using it myself, its really pleasant to use. It makes e-mail into a less formal communication method. Made with React & Tailwindcss.
• josteink 6y ago
  I've setup a personal matrix[1]-instance, with the relevant bridges for almost all communications-platforms I use. Only exception is Signal, which ironically is open-source, but still somehow un-integratable. Being able to access all my things, consistently in the same app, across devices, machines and networks is super-neat, and Riot[2] is a really smooth Matrix-client, on mobile, web and desktop. This is without a doubt the most productive spare-time hacking I've done in a good while! [1] https://matrix.org/ https://matrix.org/ [2] https://about.riot.im/ https://about.riot.im/
  • Arathorn 6y ago
    :D does https://github.com/witchent/matrix-puppet-signal https://github.com/witchent/matrix-puppet-signal not work?
    • josteink 6y ago
      Nope. At least not for me. I had the synapse-instance, plus VoIP, irc-bridges, whatsapp and facebook bridges all up in about one day. The Signal bridge? It's an absolute train-wreck to setup, and after spending a good whole weekend++ getting everything building... Then I found out that the "pair" command never completes. By random I later found out that it only works for the other users which has an Android phone. Seemingly it doesn't work if you use an iPhone to pair up, but that's not documented anywhere either. I find it particularly interesting comparing that to the bridges for other proprietary IM-systems (facebook, whatsapp), because you would expect those to perform worse (being closed, need reverse-engineering, etc), but no. They are seamless to setup, while open-sourcey hero "Signal" is impossible to create an integration against. Pretty unexpected and weird.
• code_box 6y ago
  My girlfriend and I just finished the MVP for a live yoga class directory. See the demo here: https://demo.yogalist.live https://demo.yogalist.live It should enable yogis to find suitable online classes but also help out the studios to guide customers to their online offering. Lockdown is slowly lifted around here but there is still a limit on the number of people allowed in a yoga class. Stack is based on flask. Took this quarantine time to learn more about container-based deployment; still battling a bit with cold-start times on google cloud run ;-)
• burrnii 6y ago
  I'm working on StreamSteam - "Scalable and Hackable Analytics on AWS" - https://github.com/ierror/stream-steam https://github.com/ierror/stream-steam -
• tristan123456 6y ago
  I've been working on finishing a lot of things. - I re-did a project I first pursued when I was really really young. It's called Mapnews.io and it shows you what's happening where today. It's a collection of RSS News with geolocations shown on a map. Uses Cloudflare Workers & Apple Maps - both have been awesome! Happy for any feedback! https://mapnews.io https://mapnews.io - Also completed a simple Window Timetracker with a friend. If anyone's interested, check out https://github.com/RobinWeitzel/WindowsTimeTracker https://github.com/RobinWeitzel/WindowsTimeTracker
• Ftuuky 6y ago
  I'm trying to learn something about deep learning and do an end-to-end project with computer vision. I have a raspberry pi and picamera and wanted to detect the pigeons in my balcony and then play a sound or something to shoo them away. But it's going nowhere, I'm too dumb to even start properly :( - Nvidia and CUDA stuff is so hard, I can't set it up properly no matter what - Tried YOLO but without CUDA and OpenCV I can't run it in video. Don't know how to fix it - Tried to copy other projects but can't find anything that I can parse with my amateur brain. I get lost and doesn't matter how many youtube videos I watch or stackoverflow pages I check, it's errors after errors after errors. - Tried in windows but that's not viable. Installing Ubuntu nearly broke my pc and somehow a virtualbox messes up the whole thing. Currently looking at this. So yeah big mess, I'm way over my head and it's not fun anymore. But I still want to shoo away the pigeons and love the idea of learning more about DL/CV but guess I need to learn about the basics first, practice in other things before doing this.
  • brailsafe 6y ago
    Love the idea, I've wanted to do something similar. I don't have anything very helpful, but I'd guess that the reason virtualbox isn't working is because it doesn't have direct access to the graphics hardware. Just a guess though, I ran into a similar problem trying to run Kali linux in VirtualBox but didn't have a ton of success because the system didn't have direct access to the Wifi module. Alternatively, you could simply shoot the pigeons with a pellet gun and it would be just as fun. What's your background?
    • Ftuuky 6y ago
      The damned pigeons don't come to the balcony when I'm there, and make a mess everywhere. I don't want to hurt them just that they hang somewhere else! My background is anthropology but I've always worked as a data analyst (read: excel guy) but got "promoted" as project manager for a team that has some data scientist doing automation projects and got interested in CV and NLP. I know python but for data analytics (pandas, seaborn, scikit, and so on) but never did anything for myself in DL and just wanted to learn more while building something (I miss doing stuff besides slideware tasks). Regarding virtualbox, I will probably give up and look again into dual boot Linux. Will ask a friend that is an experienced coder to hold my hand while I do that. Thanks for your reply!
• tilolebo 6y ago
  I used to learn web development after work, but homeschooling my kids doesn't leave me time for that anymore. I'm curious how devs with kids at home manage the current situation. The constant multitasking stresses me a lot, I feel incapable of doing anything tech-related that would involve deep focus. Does cleaning up the flat count as side project :D?
  • Sosh101 6y ago
    Same. I've no idea how people with kids and others to keep happy are managing to squeeze in side projects.
    • JshWright 6y ago
      I don't think they are, in most cases. I worked from home in the before time, so in theory not much has changed. In practice I have three kids, and it's a struggle just to maintain my baseline productivity.
      • nicmccool 6y ago
        In a way this is a relief to hear. I keep reading up on the excess productivity of others, while I'm pulling my hair out trying to manage normal work and my kids when on paper nothing much has changed given that I was WFH before this. It sucks, but I'm glad I'm not alone.
        • madskdc 6y ago
          One of the best things I heard from my company's CEO when they moved everyone over to WFH was 'your productivity is going to go down. It just is. It doesn't matter if you were fully WFH before, it's going to go down. And that's ok. And I've told your managers to expect it, and to not let you stress over it.' Then leadership modified the metrics that bonuses are calculated on, so that the slowdown wouldn't affect our ability to get them.
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• egbert 6y ago
  I made a tool I used to create weekly menus publicly available: https://www.weekmaal.nl https://www.weekmaal.nl Example menu: https://www.weekmaal.nl/public/4fc17e55-cc39-4a4e-b6cf-79c1c39ee020 https://www.weekmaal.nl/public/4fc17e55-cc39-4a4e-b6cf-79c1c... Warning: Only available in dutch! I was doing weekly groceries since last summer and had partially automated the process of aggregating the ingredients into one grocery list already. When the social distancing started I figured maybe others would find this tool useful, so I spent a couple of days building a usable interface and account creation features and told some friends on Facebook. Nobody, besides me and my girlfriend, ended up really using it, but it was a nice exercise nonetheless ;).
  • gnur 6y ago
    Nice! Do you know if it would be possible to automatically get the recipe list into something AH, Jumbo or picnic delivery?
    • egbert 6y ago
      Thanks! As of now, no, but I'm thinking about adding such functionality with a chrome extension maybe, not sure yet if that really works out or if I get round to it though. But its currently my biggest bottleneck in my own workflow so it may just get there ;). My ambition is to plan out for 3 months or so and then to be able to split up the groceries and order all the non-expiry stuff once from a grocery delivery shop and have a weekly grocery list to take to a bio shop.
• tluyben2 6y ago
  Took the lockdown time to completely revamp Flexlists(1) which is a side project we launched 15 years ago and has a solid (slowly growing) fan base who have been crying for new features etc but the codebase is a horrorshow (we used to launch 1 new project per week at that time so this was written in a week which the code does show). So I took this time to rewrite and redesign it completely. Hopefully the new version will launch this month. (1) https://flexlists.com https://flexlists.com
• hikefast32 6y ago
  I started work in intercooler.js 2.0: https://kutty.org https://kutty.org
• user5994461 6y ago
  I've made a webapp showing the progression of the virus worldwide day over day. https://coronaprogress.com/ https://coronaprogress.com/
• sci_prog 6y ago
  Girlfriend and I made an online multiplayer game https://gibberishgame.com https://gibberishgame.com
• block_dagger 6y ago
  I’ve been building karmachest.com, about to release Discord integration.
• cheeaun 6y ago
  I've been working on my side project https://checkweather.sg/ https://checkweather.sg/ - weather rain radar on a map thingie. Looks simple, usually boring when there's no rain, but I got to learn how to build those cool vector radars with d3-contour, Mapbox GL JS and stuff. Example: https://twitter.com/cheeaun/status/1259698644908834816 https://twitter.com/cheeaun/status/1259698644908834816 And a React Native iOS app to complement it https://twitter.com/cheeaun/status/1256206047837958144 https://twitter.com/cheeaun/status/1256206047837958144
• gghootch 6y ago
  An app to re-connect with your favorite people you don't necessarily talk to quite often. It combines Tinder-like swiping with a LinkedIn-like profile that only highlights what you do best and are proud of. Preview here: https://i.imgur.com/ZNdStSm.png https://i.imgur.com/ZNdStSm.png I imagine this being used by people to reconnect with acquintances that they really admire, who will naturally start new projects / bands / companies / skateboard crews after learning of each other's mutual admiration. It's super early stages, but would love to hear from you on hello@gethelden.com if you think it's interesting :-)
• brailsafe 6y ago
  My side project is trying to get to sleep before 5am. So far I'm failing miserably.
• McTossOut 6y ago
  Back in school I remember my most effective drive to learning was my desire to develop video games. It reinforced physics, vector math, and systems design. I've been working slowly towards a nebulous design I have for a quantum puzzle game, that maybe I can help myself and others develop the intuition needed in this budding field. Nothing to show for it, but it's a long road I'm a few steps down, and I'm enjoying the scenery.
• kamban 6y ago
  I have been working on a no-code website creator tool during this time. https://myquicksite.com https://myquicksite.com, lets you convert your Google Sheet into a website. Its still in beta stage, need to hear feedback and improve.
• sohamsankaran 6y ago
  Started a scripted podcast with my little brother about our misadventures trying to get our scripts produced in Bollywood (Indian film industry) and Hollywood. It's called The Content Podcast -- https://contentpod.substack.com/ https://contentpod.substack.com/
  • gargs 6y ago
    Subscribed! Been looking for some interesting podcasts.
• Techasura 6y ago
  I taught people web development mostly friends and cousins, to help them discover this as a career opportunity. And I got better at cooking, I'm thinking to open a restaurant soon.
• reroute1 6y ago
  Analyzing dota2 match history and what heroes work in combination a la dotaplus
• cushychicken 6y ago
  I've been working on a function generator for my own personal use! I can get sine, square, and triangle waves out of it, and I'm just starting to implement modulation schemes like PSK and FSK. I'm also just starting to help my fiance launch a consultancy on remote teaching. Crossing my fingers that goes well!
  • arethuza 6y ago
    For some reason I misread that initially as "fusion generator" - clearly I have been watching too many ITER videos.
• aenario 6y ago
  I have been working on typescript runtime reflection https://github.com/aenario/tsmirror https://github.com/aenario/tsmirror
• matvp 6y ago
  I've actually found myself coding in the evening again due to quarantine. Contributing to OSS, releasing stuff on GitHub, ...
• niceduck 6y ago
  I created a directory project for thrift stores as a learning project. https://thriftstored.com/ https://thriftstored.com/ 'thrift stores' is a high traffic search term with low competition and low value traffic. I aggregated data from various store brands and websites and categorized based on locations data. The site is run on Python Flask framework on AWS Lightsail.
• bowlingx 6y ago
  I'm working on a vegan catering platform (launch page: http://launch.vegcraver.com/ http://launch.vegcraver.com/). Stack is nextjs, postgraphile and stripe as payment provider.
• geckoquaint 6y ago
  I started learning some machine learning and nlp. Built a Product AutoExtract API, to extract clean product data from any e-commerce product page automatically, without any selectors or rules. Most of the project uses off the shelf open source software: chrome headless and puppeteer for rendering, some computer vision algorithms tech and Cloud Run to slash costs for hosting. Still training the algos, but you can try it our for a spin here: https://crawlify.io https://crawlify.io.
• roessland 6y ago
  Bought a digital piano and started learning piano from scratch. Been trying out different software for learning piano using MIDI input. (Simply Piano, Playground Sessions, Flowkey, Piano Marvel). Sorted and deduplicated all my photos. Set up backups for all my important stuff using Restic to BackBlaze B2.
  • gnur 6y ago
    What piano software was your favorite? And what device do you connect your piano to?
    • roessland 6y ago
      Simply Piano was pretty fun but the Android version is lacking in features. I connected a Roland FP-30 to my Samsung Note 10 using a OTG adapter and it works just fine. I also had some issues getting audio without using the phone speakers since there is no minijack and Bluetooth latency was unacceptable. I tried Playground sessions and Flowkey only briefly but I liked the UI in Piano Marvel better. Also Piano Marvel doesn't require your credit card to get a free demo. I ended up with Piano Marvel and a Windows laptop. What I like is that it's just sheet music. Very good for training rhythm and tempo. The UI is a clunky and buggy SPA, but it works. Biggest con is that the music is pretty bad. Simply Piano has licensed tons of popular music while Piano Marvel has mostly free and classical music.
• AdamHede 6y ago
  I've starten writing a series of articles on getting started with data science form an organisational perspective, in my own native language (Danish).
• choult 6y ago
  I'm building a Jackbox-like web app [0] to support audience participation in live improv shows - OBS/projector overlay and audience suggestion management to begin, with future interactivity planned. [0] https://improv.plus https://improv.plus
• alexcarlton 6y ago
  I made a Spotify playlist that is automatically updated with songs recently played on BBC 6 Music. Built with basic node server, puppeteer and the Spotify API. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0xft9w8N7FUe23a4G4YzvG?si=W6H-fYR6QryGSZJP96X_3Q https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0xft9w8N7FUe23a4G4YzvG?si=...
• deleted 6y ago
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• dinoreic 6y ago
  I created Ruby API lib named Joshua, out of frustration with Grape https://github.com/dux/joshua https://github.com/dux/joshua * Can work in REST or JSON RPC mode. * Automatic routing + can be mounted as a Rack app, without framework, for unmatched speed and low memory usage * Automatic documentation builder & Postman import link * Nearly nothing to learn, pure Ruby classes * Consistent and predictable request and response flow * Errors and messages are localized
• iagooar 6y ago
  24/7 childcare is an unexpected "side project".
• jonnycat 6y ago
  I've been building a product for automating the collection and production of customer testimonial & review videos - https://verifiablee.com/ https://verifiablee.com/ Actually started just pre-pandemic, so the timing has been quite interesting. And yes, also lots of bread.
• theodric 6y ago
  Alcoholism.
• nlake44 6y ago
  Simply put, SuPragma is a tool that programmatically scans your organization with the goal of finding issues that can lead to problems or inconsistencies with culture health and style. Some issues can even be automatically fixed for you! https://github.com/supragma/supragma/wiki https://github.com/supragma/supragma/wiki
  • underwater 6y ago
    I tried to skim through to understand what it actually does, but this all seems rather abstract, and the memes make it seem slightly unhinged.
• syntaxterror 6y ago
  My wife and I made a short story to help explain the lockdown to our families - https://www.stilltakeheart.com/ https://www.stilltakeheart.com/ I also worked on helping prove to the UK government that open banking can help justify income for the self employed - https://covidcredit.uk/ https://covidcredit.uk/
  • koheripbal 6y ago
    You did the artwork?
    • syntaxterror 6y ago
      My wife wrote the story, and we worked with an illustrator to get the book to where it is now. They’re mentioned at the end of the book - Gustyawan Studio.
• deleted 6y ago
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• wortelefant 6y ago
  My side projects are nonexistent, as corona created more business than usual. I found this sentiment of being behind side project expectations nicely displayed here https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/04/have-you-learned-anything-new-in-lockdown-or-did-you-waste-it-what-harsh-truths-did-you-discover https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/04/have-y...
• shinycode 6y ago
  I've finished my Bullet Journal iOS app. I've never really found an iOS app that allowed me to managed tasks like my paper Bullet Journal (which is to heavy to carry around all the time). https://bulletweek.app https://bulletweek.app Also I'm using a lot the timer with my Apple Watch and I needed something faster than the built in timer and I can't every time use Siri. So I made one fast is more fun & faster as well with multiple modes: https://primetimer.app https://primetimer.app
• wsc981 6y ago
  I'm working on a turn-based rogue-like RPG. So no fancy graphics and such. Not sure if I will finish this project, but it's at least fun to work on and educational. I also play a bit of Summoner [0]. Perhaps I can finally finish this game, which I couldn't when I played it a long time ago. --- [0]: https://www.dsvolition.com/games/summoner/ https://www.dsvolition.com/games/summoner/
  • kleiba 6y ago
    Sweet, I'd love to see some screenshots, even if you're still in the early stages.
    • wsc981 6y ago
      Well, it's not very impressive as of yet, but I made a small video for you. Functionality is still very limited. I use the assets of Stone Soup. https://youtu.be/lpVayhcVjpE https://youtu.be/lpVayhcVjpE
• cdiamand 6y ago
  Working on https://topstonks.com https://topstonks.com aggregating the most mentioned stocks on 4chan and wallstreetbets
• s_gourichon 6y ago
  Been using for years for my freelance/consultant activity a bash-based environment with convenience enhancements: create context per client or project, get instant access to auto-created per-context-day working directory with easy navigation, per context environment + bash_history + logging of terminal content + ability to instantly create/edit timestamped files for note taking. Good productivity booster, helps a lot isolate clients, easily answer customer phone calls any time. Logging saved me a few times. Been wanting for a long time to rewrite it into something usable by others. Been doing that rewrite during lockdown. All this reuses existing tools and conventions, is lightweight, shell-completion friendly, easy to learn. Also, written (again) a game for the 8bit computer Amstrad CPC of 1984, in clean modern C on a C compiler that understands most of C11. With optimized assembly for time-critical parts. Both started earlier this year, got more time during lockdown. I might offer a "show HN" for one or both. If you have any interest please tell.
  • Jemaclus 6y ago
    I'm interested!
    • s_gourichon 6y ago
      Thanks! Will you go to the "fire and forget" route of hoping I do some "Show HN" and be unaware in between, or will you provide some way to notify you? Especially, since the thing is rewritten but partially modular I have started asking around me what features are most wanted, so that I can start the modularity effort in areas that make most sense. I've been considering an online poll. Will you participate? How to reach you?
      • Jemaclus 6y ago
        Do you have this in a GitHub repo or a blog? I'll follow that :)
• arethuza 6y ago
  Just started sketching out some ideas for an open-source tool similar to Microsoft Power Automate (Flow) and Azure Logic Apps.
• markosaric 6y ago
  I'm working on Plausible Analytics: https://plausible.io https://plausible.io It's an open source, simple (all metrics on one page), lightweight (1.4 KB), no cookies (no need for cookie banner) and no private data collected (no need for GDPR consent) alternative to Google Analytics. The code is on GitHub https://github.com/plausible-insights/plausible/ https://github.com/plausible-insights/plausible/
  • mstolpm 6y ago
    Congrats. Interesting project, looks great. Could you comment on how you achieve GDPR compliance without the need of me getting a user consent from my visitors? I was always assuming that using a hosted solution like Plausible for analytics will at least result in the visitor IP address leaking to the service provider ... and for this I'd need consent if including your script?
    • markosaric 6y ago
      Thank you! Here's how we've done it. There's no legal precedent but we believe this makes us compliant: To enhance the visitor privacy, we don’t actually store the raw visitor IP address in our database or logs. We run it through a one-way hash function to scramble the raw IP addresses and make them impossible to recover. To further enhance privacy, we add the website domain to the IP hash. We also add the User-Agent string to the hash. We've shared more details on this here https://plausible.io/data-policy https://plausible.io/data-policy
      • mstolpm 6y ago
        Thanks. Had a lot on your site before posting, but didn't find that details. Perhaps you should add a link/hint on the frontpage regarding how you address GDPR compliance. (I'm not a lawyer, so I'm not qualified to judge on the solution.)
        • markosaric 6y ago
          Thanks for the feedback. We link to it from the top menu under "Why Plausible" as "GDPR / CCPA Compliant" but perhaps there could be a better placement for it. Thanks again!
• cientifico 6y ago
  www.delegatescreen.com
• zumachase 6y ago
  We found many of the virtual office tools too invasive for our tastes both physically with video emphasis and virtually by commanding a lot of attention. So we built a group intercom system that stays out of your way but gives you seamless comms when you need it. https://www.squawk.to https://www.squawk.to
• jstayton 6y ago
  I launched a side project that allows you to run your customer's code from your app: https://www.lateral.run https://www.lateral.run I went back-and-forth at first on whether now's the time to launch a commercial side project like this, but with some uncertainty about the security of my VC-backed day job, I settled on this being precisely the time to have something of my own going.
  • knotty66 6y ago
    Nice! This looks like Auth0 Extend (https://goextend.io/ https://goextend.io/). But that has now been retired. I might need something like this soon. I'll keep this in mind - certainly will save lots of time over rolling my own ...
    • jstayton 6y ago
      That was exactly the inspiration, in fact. I've integrated Auth0 a few times and enjoyed the ability to drop down into code to tailor logic precisely to my needs.
• websinthe 6y ago
  I've been learning how to code. Mainly to make bots. Mainly to make bots who'll keep me company. I had no idea how much of the world is built on Python. Learning how to use computers via SSH alone has been fan-TAS-tic. I should have started long ago. Also, bread is great. Keep it up.
• bradmerlin 6y ago
  https://sync.haus https://sync.haus I wanted a free, easy way to listen to music with my friends, so I built this a month ago. It's still pretty rough around the edges, but it's simple and usable enough. It's mostly Go, with a nice ring buffer to keep streaming synchronised. Also, baking a lot of banana bread.
• afc 6y ago
  I've been writing a lot on my Zettelkasten. I've been very productive! I published an article about Zettelkästen: https://github.com/alefore/weblog/blob/master/zettelkasten.md https://github.com/alefore/weblog/blob/master/zettelkasten.m... I'm also working on an article about software correctness, summarizing my experience working on infrastructure software at Google for about 13 years. It's very incomplete and I'll probably end up restructuring it significantly (not very happy with the current logical structure). I only started working on this two or three weeks ago (as a side project), so I'm satisfied with the progress I've been able to make: https://github.com/alefore/weblog/blob/master/software-correctness.md https://github.com/alefore/weblog/blob/master/software-corre... I'm also working on other similar articles on other topics (Bitcoin, Stoicism, Bauhaus), but those are even less complete. Lastly, I've continued to make significant improvements to my text editor (https://github.com/alefore/edge https://github.com/alefore/edge). I think it's interesting that I'm finding it hard to focus on some topics, but I'm currently very productive in others.
  • eykd 6y ago
    I started practicing Zettelkasten recently, using The Archive[1]. I already had a pretty large collection of less-structured notes from nvALT, and I love how the new "rules" really help to shape my new notes. I'm converting old notes as I have the time and need. I was initially skeptical of the idea of timestamping notes in the filename, but I find it counterintuitively useful, and The Archive has really good support for it w/ the Cmd-U shortcut. The Archive also has multiple tabs, which help immensely over nvALT's single pane. [1]: https://zettelkasten.de/the-archive/ https://zettelkasten.de/the-archive/
  • kossTKR 6y ago
    Thank you for mentioning this - on the surface - rather obscure concept, that personally i have never come across in education. After understanding it better it seems to be very close to the way the internet and hyperlinks work, it also reminds me of historian James Burke Connections school of understanding history. I have just installed the wiki plugin in Sublime and will try to transition from my folders with extremely long tagged txt's that i search for, and instead go for the hyperlink method. I have always thought that - western thought at least - works as a node system where the essence lies in the constellations, the extrapolations, and the weird and wonderful stuff happening between nodes of information, in how they are arranged and how they are traversed - something i have struggled with because my thoughts are rarely looked at again, ends up in piles of never revisited bookmarks and is redone instead of built upon. I am already pretty exited about rearranging my thoughts / todo's / plans in this new way.
• rogerdoger123 6y ago
  https://jotdot.honchohq.com/#/anonymous https://jotdot.honchohq.com/#/anonymous Jot Dot - Its a note taking tool I wrote based on workflowy's style of hierarchical bullets l, but I wanted to allow multiple documents and public sharing of notes (eg. My favorite Netflix shows or management notes etc.). This link takes you to the public notes section. Not released yet so it's just my notes for now.
• leetrout 6y ago
  I made distancekids.com but didn’t invest any more time or money in to the design of the site.
• Kye 6y ago
  Getting back into photography: https://www.kyefox.com/photography/ https://www.kyefox.com/photography/ A 70-300 lens is great for keeping a distance.
• mguerville 6y ago
  I built 5 no code apps and a hydroponic garden, one of the apps is a companion app for a card game I built pre-quarantine, another one is a decision journal app, one is for tracking my hydroponic garden, one is for curating news for my sales team, and one is a voice app to experiment with. Also in the process of cofounding a startup so built a landing page and a bit of commercial backend (CRM, email, etc.)
  • jedieaston 6y ago
    What did you use for your no-code apps?
    • mguerville 6y ago
      Glide, which makes PWA rather than native apps (though I tried Adalo too and taht could make native apps) and Voiceflow for the voice app
• krazykonkani 6y ago
  I'm continuing to work on: https://www.bigoofn.com/ https://www.bigoofn.com/ Started it on the side few months ago to help my own job search, there is still a lot of work left to improve data quality and completion, and also add more data points which will help engineers.
• mnd999 6y ago
  I’ve dug out my old Amiga 1200, replaced the hard disk with a CompactFlash card and am now trying to connect it to WiFi. I may also have to replace all the capacitors which would be an adventure. Might end up paying someone else to do that.
  • geocrasher 6y ago
    Don't pay somebody- learn how to do it! For what you'd pay somebody, you can buy a soldering kit on Amazon for $15 that includes solder even, and works just fine. And then Youtube the rest. The capacitors themselves will be cheap, and I'm sure the online Amiga community could help you with sourcing them and learning how to do the job. Electronics is a fun hobby :)
• renatello 6y ago
  Slowly creating Tailwind UI components for Bootstrap 4 https://renatello.com/components/ https://renatello.com/components/
• magicseth 6y ago
  I'm a magician who invents new technology at a FAANG. I've started posting podcasts showing how I use the magician's toolset to invent new technology that's focused on doing the impossible in a way that meets users needs and dreams! http://patreon.com/magicseth http://patreon.com/magicseth I also launched a webapp for me to keep track of the tricks I know: https://trick.app https://trick.app
  • thidr0 6y ago
    You should rebrand it illusion.app. A trick is something a who... oh nevermind
    • leovander 6y ago
      "Illusion, Michael..."
• andybak 6y ago
  An interactive geometry toy/toolkit: https://github.com/IxxyXR/Polyhydra/ https://github.com/IxxyXR/Polyhydra/ Sadly I've got busy with client work again. It needs serious thought about the UI and I need to figure out how to either widen it's appeal or reach its niche audience. I find it endlessly fascinating and I naturally assumed others would too. :-) It's largely based on work that John Conway did and I was looking forward to showing it to him at some point. Sadly we both ran out of time.
  • paulgb 6y ago
    This is very cool! I was not aware of Conway polyhedron notation.
• fhennig 6y ago
  I've been working on an interactive music-to-light device! It's a few LED stripes connected to a Raspberry Pi and they take sound input from an AUX-in and can be controlled with a PS3 controller. Demo video: https://youtu.be/CS3X_Z_a1g0 https://youtu.be/CS3X_Z_a1g0 Website: https://nightfire.io/ https://nightfire.io/ It's all written in Rust. I started to pursue the idea as a "Getting started" project for Rust, because audio needs to be processed in real-time and so a fast language was needed. It turned out quite well and I really like Rust now!
• cmauniada 6y ago
  As an iOS developer I learned react! Then I learned about gastbyJS and now I’m working on making a simple website for a startup/business. By far the hardest thing for me to grasp has been CSS, it’s just so weird and feels so un natural at some points. There are so many ways to do the same thing, which feels a little overwhelming. Also in awe of grid layouts, which I just learned about so at least that’s a good thing!
  • hariharasudhan 6y ago
    if you're using react then definitely checkout https://www.bytehub.dev/ https://www.bytehub.dev/ for some cool react components
• vanderZwan 6y ago
  So for about two years I've been bouncing around an idea in my head to make the LZ78 compression algorithm (or more specifically, the LZString variant of it) compress better by forgetting the least commonly used substrings. I think I'm just reinventing a mixture of LZC and LZAP (or LZMW), but the on-line literature discussing either algorithms in detail is abysmal[0][1][2]. The main innovation would be that I have a fairly simple way to implement the forgetfulness. Another separate innovation that I have in mind is combining that with a special run-length encoding sequence that, due to the interaction between LZAP and run-length encoding, actually wouldn't encode runs linearly but exponentially[3]. That is, instead of "repeat substring X for N times" it would say "repeat substring X for fibonnacci(N) times". I suspect that might actually be a novel innovation! Aside from a lack of time and energy, the main thing holding me back has been, and I'm dead serious, off-by-one errors. It's really, really easy to screw up the order of adding new entries to the dictionary on both the compression/decompression side in such a way that you just get garbage out, and it's a pain to debug. If my algo turns out to be original, I'm tempted to call it LZWAN, or Lempel Ziv With Amnesiac Nodes (referring to the nodes in the trie used to grow the dictionary). [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZ77_and_LZ78 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZ77_and_LZ78 [1] https://pieroxy.net/blog/pages/lz-string/index.html https://pieroxy.net/blog/pages/lz-string/index.html [2] https://ethw.org/History_of_Lossless_Data_Compression_Algorithms#LZC https://ethw.org/History_of_Lossless_Data_Compression_Algori... [3] https://github.com/pieroxy/lz-string/issues/114#issuecomment-401124427 https://github.com/pieroxy/lz-string/issues/114#issuecomment...
• steve-benjamins 6y ago
  Youtube channel sharing our startup story :) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdgsCa2Ap6AqHSk3QVjjHzw https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdgsCa2Ap6AqHSk3QVjjHzw
• ohashi 6y ago
  https://StuckAtFuckingHome.com https://StuckAtFuckingHome.com
  • hopesthoughts 6y ago
    I love linkblogs like this!! Reminds me of 2005, when there were a whole lot more of them around.
• exabrial 6y ago
  Learned to play a bunch of piano riffs from classic rock songs. I also took up mountain biking
• smoyer 6y ago
  I'm trying to spend my extra time on the boats I'm building ... I also hope to finish restoring a '71 Saab Sonnett III this summer (body is almost ready to paint but we haven't had a lot of low-humidity days this spring).
  • Jemaclus 6y ago
    A friend of mine built a boat from scratch in his garage. Like, a real boat that you can take out into the ocean and ski and fish and everything. That kind of thing is no joke! Can you share photos??
• vaibhavthevedi 6y ago
  I have been working on this project which as an introvert maker who do NOT like marketing much will find helpful. http://www.designtack.com http://www.designtack.com It is made for solo maker, indie hackers or solopreneurs who want to quickly design social media content, in bulk.
• shireboy 6y ago
  I made https://rootshirechess.glitch.me https://rootshirechess.glitch.me (desktop chrome works best atm) so my kids could play chess and have a video chat with grandparents and cousins. I publicized it a little and have been happy to see that several people are enjoying it. It uses Nodejs, socket.io, chessboard.js, and Jitsi. For a while I was using a 3rd party chess embed but that didn’t give me unique rooms so I rolled my own w socket.io. Now I just have to worry about glitch.me quota. I figured if it gets popular I’ll just do paid glitch.
• rusinov 6y ago
  I always wanted to have my app in the App Store. I started little before quarantine, and eventually published my first iOS app — a simple day counter, Countdowns (free with no IAP). It was my excuse to try SwiftUI, and learn how to distribute an app in the App Store. https://rusinov.me/countdowns https://rusinov.me/countdowns
  • BossingAround 6y ago
    Pretty cool! Do you have source code available anywhere? I'd love to see source of a smaller app for learning purposes.
    • elliekelly 6y ago
      Stanford publishes Paul Haggerty’s course “Developing iOS Apps With Swift” free online. The whole class is small iOS app projects with source code available and he’s really great at walking through the code in the lecture videos.
      • zigzaggy 6y ago
        Thanks for the heads up. Just added this to my iTunesU Library.
    • rusinov 6y ago
      I'm ashamed to share the code because I feel like I got so much wrong and code is not elegant. For learning purposes, Hacking With Swift videos by Paul Hudson helped a lot. https://hackingwithswift.com https://hackingwithswift.com
      • BossingAround 6y ago
        Well, if the only thing stopping you is being ashamed, I can make a deal with you... You put it on Github, and I'll review the app and suggests code improvements (probably not amazing since I don't do iOS that much, but I know some Swift, and a lot more experience with Go, Java, JS, etc.). Up to you, but you should never be ashamed of the code if it works. It got accepted to appstore, it's good enough ;).
• moron4hire 6y ago
  I created an alternative interface to teleconferencing that let's people naturally congregate in subgroups to have sidebar conversations: https://www.calla.chat https://www.calla.chat
• embit 6y ago
  I made site [0] to appreciate all of our front-line workers whether they be nurses, doctors, truck drivers, grocery shop workers — all of them. Just my small appreciation for them. [0] https://hope.embit.ca/ https://hope.embit.ca/
• wincent 6y ago
  I wrote a small and "zero-dependency" configuration framework to replace Ansible for managing my dotfiles: https://github.com/wincent/wincent/tree/master/fig https://github.com/wincent/wincent/tree/master/fig Definitely one of my favorite hobbies: over-engineering.
  • pensv0 6y ago
    you spoke on our behalf
• elymar 6y ago
  I made my first game: https://elymar.itch.io/social-distancing https://elymar.itch.io/social-distancing It's super simple, but I learned a lot.
• SkyTreasure 6y ago
  I am building react native templates at https://atozui.com https://atozui.com
• straumat 6y ago
  An open source trading bot framework available as a sprint boot starter https://trading-bot.cassandre.tech/ https://trading-bot.cassandre.tech/
• hansenzhang 6y ago
  https://hansenzhang.com/ https://hansenzhang.com/ I finally put my photos up on my personal website. The only constraint I gave myself was to build a site that doesn’t need Javascript to load. In the end I ended up using Next.js as a static site generator that pulls all the routes from my directory structure, making it possible to add new photography collections and filters as I go. Might be overkill for the use case but it was fun to learn. The irony is I had to write a bunch of JS to produce it. Still need to optimize the image sizes and I am thinking about adding filters for b&w/color/format.
  • serf 6y ago
    i'm getting straight URLs at the bottom of the page. Vermont related URLs. Neat photos though.
    • hansenzhang 6y ago
      Ok thanks for the heads up!
  • mcny 6y ago
    Pretty cool! OP, have you tried loading="lazy" ? I don't know if it works with the picture tag but it is worth trying I think. Very often, webpages contain many images that contribute to data-usage and how fast a page can load. Most of those images are off-screen (non-critical), requiring user interaction (an example being scroll) in order to view them. Loading attribute The loading attribute on an <img> element (or the loading attribute on an <iframe>) can be used to instruct the browser to defer loading of images/iframes that are off-screen until the user scrolls near them. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Performance/Lazy_loading https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Performance/Laz... For those on mobile and can't right click <a href="https://static.hansenzhang.com/travel/places/2019-07-04-northcarolina-3-color.jpeg"> https://static.hansenzhang.com/travel/places/2019-07-04-nort... <picture> <source srcset="https://static.hansenzhang.com/travel/places/2019-07-04-northcarolina-3-color.webp" https://static.hansenzhang.com/travel/places/2019-07-04-nort... type="image/webp"> <source srcset="https://static.hansenzhang.com/travel/places/2019-07-04-northcarolina-3-color.jpeg" https://static.hansenzhang.com/travel/places/2019-07-04-nort... type="image/jpeg"> <img src="https://static.hansenzhang.com/travel/places/2019-07-04-northcarolina-3-color.jpeg" https://static.hansenzhang.com/travel/places/2019-07-04-nort... alt="travel/places/2019-07-04-northcarolina-3-color.jpeg"> </picture> </a> I was curious about the picture tag. Here is what Mozilla documentation says https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/picture https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/pi... : The HTML <picture> element contains zero or more <source> elements and one <img> element to offer alternative versions of an image for different display/device scenarios. The browser will consider each child <source> element and choose the best match among them. If no matches are found—or the browser doesn't support the <picture> element—the URL of the <img> element's src attribute is selected. The selected image is then presented in the space occupied by the <img> element. To decide which URL to load, the user agent examines each <source>'s srcset, media, and type attributes to select a compatible image that best matches the current layout and capabilities of the display device. The <img> element serves two purposes: It describes the size and other attributes of the image and its presentation. It provides a fallback in case none of the offered <source> elements are able to provide a usable image. Common use cases for <picture>: Art direction. Cropping or modifying images for different media conditions (for example, loading a simpler version of an image which has too many details, on smaller displays). Offering alternative image formats, for cases where certain formats are not supported. Saving bandwidth and speeding page load times by loading the most appropriate image for the viewer's display. If providing higher-density versions of an image for high-DPI (Retina) display, use srcset on the <img> element instead. This lets browsers opt for lower-density versions in data-saving modes, and you don't have to write explicit media conditions.
• rikroots 6y ago
  Writing demos for my Javascript library, trying to push it to its limits, uncover bugs, etc. Fun stuff. Also writing "teach yourself" lessons for the library ... which is not so much fun, but does helps uncover "softer" bugs like: "why do I expect people to code that thing this way? Is there a simpler, happier way to do it?" (Yeah. Talking to myself out loud. Not a good habit to develop during the lockdown.) Beyond coding, I've mostly been putting back on all the weight I lost over the past two years. I'll start exercising tomorrow.
• adrianchifor 6y ago
  Drank a lot of G&Ts and wrote a serverless database https://github.com/adrianchifor/Bigbucket https://github.com/adrianchifor/Bigbucket
• pjagielski 6y ago
  I created a live coding music environment in Kotlin: https://github.com/pjagielski/punkt https://github.com/pjagielski/punkt Here's a demo: Daft Punk's - Da Funk remix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdQQJPpL6Lo&t=138s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdQQJPpL6Lo&t=138s It uses Kotlin scripting as live-coded sequencer and SuperCollider as sound engine.
• p4bl0 6y ago
  It's been four years since I've got an associate professor position. This quarantine is the first time since then that I found the time to actually do research. I finally started to work on a project I had in mind for years. And I'm glad to say that it's working and the implementation is efficient, and I'm currently writing a paper on it :).
• bergamot 6y ago
  Growing veggies! I tried my hand at starting a small vegetable garden. So far we have tomato, cucumber, and zucchini seedlings, and are planning on planting carrots and beets once we finally stop getting snow (Ontario).
• Nr7 6y ago
  I've started doing some maintenance on my old computers. I just finished recapping my Amiga 1200 earlier this week and this morning I ordered a long T15 torx driver so I can open up my old classic Macs. I'm also planning on looking into modifying an old digital clock radio I have with and ESP that uses NTP to keep time more accurately but I haven't gotten very far with that yet. The lockdown is really only half the reason I'm doing these projects now. The other reason is that I moved to a bigger apartment earlier this year so now I actually have space to hack around with this kind of stuff.
• ggurgone 6y ago
  Host watch parties, invite people and applaude the speakers! https://applause.now.sh https://applause.now.sh Auto archive long standing open tabs (chrome extension) https://twitter.com/giuseppegurgone/status/1253350556971814912 https://twitter.com/giuseppegurgone/status/12533505569718149... Continuing to work on ReadMo - read viewer app + audio player https://twitter.com/giuseppegurgone/status/1237657849414680578 https://twitter.com/giuseppegurgone/status/12376578494146805...
• cultofthecow 6y ago
  https://clickradar.io https://clickradar.io Some small real problem I faced before: test\validate idea by counting how many times website visitor clicked the certain button. So I automated it with google sheets and some custom script\backend. Landing is still in progress... Don't kill me for the language skills, English is not my native)
• vaillancourtmax 6y ago
  https://freshreader.app/ https://freshreader.app/ I became overwhelmed with the massive list of content I saved in Pocket/ Instapaper but that I knew I'd never read, so I built myself a similar app where saved content disappears after 7 days. If I don't read something in the week after I save it, there's a good chance I'm not going to read it ever. Works well for me so far.
  • pekka22 6y ago
    Great job! I had pretty much the same idea a couple of years ago, but I thought of a different approach: a bot that will clear my Pocket backlog on schedule.
  • ak47surve 6y ago
    I do this manually in my notes app :)
• mrdazm 6y ago
  This one's really silly but I got excited to build it out for my own entertainment. It's called Who Paid More (https://whopaidmore.com https://whopaidmore.com) and the idea is pretty frivolous. Every day (EDT) you volunteer an amount you want to pay to see how your amount stacks up against others for that day. Think ranking and relative % across users for that period and the ability to share those results. Not much more to it at the moment. I feel a little stuck trying to think of what would make it more fun/novel/rewarding besides just being curious about what people put money into.
  • auston 6y ago
    Might be interesting to show a table with amounts & gravatars? Maybe show what I could have actually bought with my money instead of blowing it on a game? (+ affiliate links) Maybe surprise people with a percent that is donated to charity? Maybe only accept bitcoin? Or accept bitcoin in addition? Maybe let me start a sub-contest so I can share with friends to see who can flex the most?
    • mrdazm 6y ago
      These are interesting to think about. Thanks!
  • brianbreslin 6y ago
    What tech stack did you use to build this?
    • mrdazm 6y ago
      Deployed on heroku with python/django, postgres and react. Stripe for payments too.
      • hariharasudhan 6y ago
        if you're using react then definitely checkout https://www.bytehub.dev/ https://www.bytehub.dev/ for some cool react components
• juanuys 6y ago
  Corn Wars. An android game made with libgdx, inspired by Civ and Slay. I've tweeted a few GIFs here: https://mobile.twitter.com/opyate https://mobile.twitter.com/opyate
• notyourplayer 6y ago
  I’m working on a fitness platform, enabling you to find people to workout with either in your area, or with someone who shares the same interests/fitness levels as you. Super early stage, we have some designs and a landing page which you can check out here: https://yoke-app.netlify.app/ https://yoke-app.netlify.app/ We’ve had to pivot our idea since the pandemic and we’re looking into working out via Zoom (for example), and allowing personal trainers to connect with clients on the internet. Appreciate any feedback or ideas!
  • m3kw9 6y ago
    Is it really at the bottom, a dating app?
    • Infinitesimus 6y ago
      Isn't every social app? People even try on LinkedIn
• wgx 6y ago
  https://remotivo.com https://remotivo.com Hand-curated remote jobs in product & UX, from across the web. Of note: the site and its twitter feed (https://twitter.com/remotivocom https://twitter.com/remotivocom) are generated by 2 python scripts which run on a Raspberry Pi under my desk. The 'database' is a Google Sheet and the 'host' is an S3 bucket, both of which are read from and updated every few hours by the Pi. The site also features no analytics and calls no third-party scripts.
• picdit 6y ago
  https://colors.lol/ https://colors.lol/ Fun site showcasing some overly descriptive color palettes.
• mathnmusic 6y ago
  I continued working on https://learnawesome.org/ https://learnawesome.org/. Can't get enough of it! :-) Now announcing a project-based learning program as part of it.
• EthanHeilman 6y ago
  Measuring and auditing Random Number Generators in cryptographic tools. Haven't published any data or results yet.
• ianmabie 6y ago
  https://www.higifter.com/ https://www.higifter.com/ It's an SMS-based chatbot that helps you remember special occasions (birthday, anniversary, mother's day), recommends gifts, and purchases them for you automatically. Working on this with my girlfriend, mostly for fun and to learn something new. We're using Webflow for the site, Airtable as the backend, Zap to help stitch a few parts together, and Twilio for SMS support.
• tenaciousDaniel 6y ago
  I'm creating a declarative language built specifically for UI designers. The idea is to allow designers to describe a UI in a platform-agnostic manner while preserving their own verbiage and mental models.
  • ScottFree 6y ago
    Not to be a debbie downer, but don't most UI designers like to specify UIs graphically rather than verbally?
    • tenaciousDaniel 6y ago
      Great question! You're not being a debbie downer, that's a totally reasonable thing to ask. Sure, lots of UI designers do. But it isn't a process that scales. If you're trying to define design requirements for a product that's very large or distributed (i.e. Netflix), manually drawing pictures of a UI is simply too slow. Some designers have taken to writing CSS, and some even prefer it as their main design tool. I think that's awesome, but CSS exposes lots of implementation details that are only relevant to the web. I'm trying to create a declarative syntax that feels as easy as CSS, but exposes lots of functionality that would normally require javascript. And it will be abstracted from the platform, so this would serve not just web designers but also iOS/Android/TV/etc.
• makach 6y ago
  I'm working on sorting my collection of digital family photos. Tedious, nostalgic and important work. How can I secure this collection for my children, when I have passed on, how can I ensure that they can access and get a copy of the files?
  • Dumblydorr 6y ago
    Print a book of them, that'd be the 100% safest
    • mceachen 6y ago
      As the author of a digital photo and video management system, it pains me to agree with you. PhotoStructure will get your piles of digital files organized, but it can't guarantee that the disk won't crash, that you have a backup, or that the computer won't go kaput. A printed book on acid-free paper and archival inks can just sit on a shelf and be fine and readable by anyone 50 years later. No technology can say that. Also: assume the images are irrelevant by default. Try to write something on the back of each photo explaining why it's relevant. At least write when it was taken. Bonus points for who is in it, and the event. When my brother and I went through boxes of old photos without annotations of any kind, and not being able to ask who's in a photo, or when it was taken, or why it's important, meant most of the contents were irrelevant to us. Very sombering.
• alexwennerberg 6y ago
  Implementing a lightweight Activitypub social network in Rust. Put together an alpha instance with some of my friends on it. https://github.com/alexwennerberg/gourami https://github.com/alexwennerberg/gourami
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• gvuksic 6y ago
  I like playing with LEGOs, made small project and wrote blogpost about it: https://dev.to/gvuksic/where-s-chewie-object-detection-with-azure-custom-vision-lne https://dev.to/gvuksic/where-s-chewie-object-detection-with-...
  • cjwebb 6y ago
    I enjoyed reading that - thanks for sharing.
  • Jemaclus 6y ago
    Have you seen "Masters of Lego"?? I'm not a huge LEGO person, but that show blew my freakin' mind!
• JoeAltmaier 6y ago
  Gardening, when weather permits. Have 7 old raised beds, 16X4. Been doing carpentry (rotted boards), hoeing, amending, raking. Some plants in now, which was too early as a late frost killed 4. Off to the nursery today to replace what got frozen and plant again!
• Indy9000 6y ago
  I've read a lot about mindfulness and the benefits of it recently. So being an engineer, I had to build an app. Minimalist way to get started in mindfulness https://sanebrain.app https://sanebrain.app
  • mettamage 6y ago
    Checkout: search inside yourself I used to be really into figuring out the science behind it. That book is a good summary.
• HMH 6y ago
  I turned my iPad into a graphic tablet for my Linux system as I was in need of taking handwritten notes there. I posted a Show HN a few days ago but it did not get much traction [1]. You can have a look at it here: https://github.com/H-M-H/Weylus https://github.com/H-M-H/Weylus [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23082036 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23082036
• subdeveloper 6y ago
  I've built a web app called COVID-19 vs Markets which shows the effects of COVID-19 on the stock market overtime. Ended up writing a chart library from scratch! https://covid-19-vs-markets.now.sh/ https://covid-19-vs-markets.now.sh/
• alvern 6y ago
  https://list.alvernrocinante.com/ https://list.alvernrocinante.com/ I've been setting up old GPUs for folding@home and recently acquired a Nvidia Jetson AGX Xavier for machine vision. Currently I'm building a 6 camera rig using Raspberry Pi IMX219 or IMX477 cameras to create an ultra high FPS rolling shutter.
• sdoering 6y ago
  I started to learn Greek. And I am trying to learn enough Blender to animate a fictitious TV show's logo to help my SO for an university project of her.
• bdot 6y ago
  https://www.pdfpipes.com/ https://www.pdfpipes.com/ To create printer-friendly dynamic PDFs with CMYK, Vector Graphics, Charts & Languages support. Still trying to put together a Showcase/Demo
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• pelmo 6y ago
  https://www.mediaforkids.org/ https://www.mediaforkids.org/ I made a simple website for parents to browse things that your kids can get busy with, that's basically like a "list of things", but is organized into different pages (categories).
  • peterburkimsher 6y ago
    That's great! I'll be sharing that site with my homestay family, who have kids aged 6 and 9. On Monday this week I asked the older one to read a Wikipedia list of Disney films and Dreamworks Animation movies and here's the list she made, which you can compare with the ones on your site: Alice in Wonderland; Toy Story 3; Incredibles; Pinocchio; Lion King; The Tale of Despereaux; Winnie the Pooh; Maleficent; Cinderella; Frozen; Frozen II; Moana; The Santa Clause; Coco; Pirates of the Caribbean; The Princess and the Frog; Brave 2012; Beauty and the Beast; Born in China; The Boss Baby; Abominable; Trolls World Tour; Gift of the Night Fury; Shrek (all); The Grinch; Book of Dragons; Kung Fu Panda; Puss in Boots; Dawn of the Dragon Racers; Marooned ; Prince of Egypt; Peter Rabbit; Aladdin 1992; Aladdin 2019; Shark Tale; Wallace and Gromit; Chicken Run; Bee Movie; Turbo 2013; Home 2015; Captain Underpants; Tangled 2010; Harry Potter; Despicable Me; Despicable Me 2; Minions; The Secret Life of Pets; The Little Ghost; Waking Sleeping Beauty; Cleopatra in Space; My Neighbour Totoro
    • pelmo 6y ago
      Thanks! The website lists all of the "watchable" movies by all popular (and not so) animation studios, including Disney, Pixar, Dreamworks, Ghibli, etc. and it has almost all of the animations listed, except those that got 6 or worse ratings on IMDb. I thought this is going to be useful especially when you don't want to go search and browse dozens of webpages on what to watch or listen to or do... and it's highly optimized, even though it can be slow because I don't use CDN (but blazingly fast in Europe). You've also listed movies (not animated) which I didn't add, yet. Probably need a different category called "Movies" and the current one rename to "Animated Films". But I'm already working on other things (a different project), and suddenly don't have time to maintain this project (it's not dead, though!), because I'm bad at advertising and probably no one knows about this website's existence :') Thanks for recommending it, though! I'll figure it out
• peterburkimsher 6y ago
  I've been babysitting the homestay family kids, building Lego models, playing games (Worms Armageddon, Age of Empires II, Bejeweled, Mahjong, Solitaire, Rummikub, Asteroid, Alien Force, eSheep, stressreducers), and helping set up Zoom and Google Meet calls for their school. Tonight I had a super exciting evening, as I set up a local server for MSN messenger. https://escargot.log1p.xyz/ https://escargot.log1p.xyz/ https://wink.messengergeek.com/t/creating-your-own-wlm-09-server-the-updated-way/12022/159 https://wink.messengergeek.com/t/creating-your-own-wlm-09-se... The 9 year old can type quite well already, and figured out how to change her font, while the 6 year old keeps sending me nudges, dancing pigs, and audio clips yelling "MIIIIIICROPHONE". It’s great to have a local server with no minimum age limit (unlike Facebook, GMail, etc) and no risk of creepy friend requests.
• qrv3w 6y ago
  This is extremely niche but I'm working on a chord arpeggiator for the Korg NTS-1. [1] It's a programmable synth which has been a lot of fun to explore the theory behind designing effects and oscillators and put theory into practical use! https://github.com/schollz/carp https://github.com/schollz/carp
  • johnrackles 6y ago
    Holy shit this is so cool. Sadly I don't own a Minilogue but a friend does and it really is an amazing piece of hardware. I've been wanting to do something music related (except making music) for a while now but audio processing seemed like a very daunting task. So for now I made a youtube to mp3 converter because all those you find on google have a billion ads. But this project is way more exciting!
    • qrv3w 6y ago
      I've always wanted to do music stuff too, and the NTS-1 is the most approachable piece of hardware with the best software ecosystem I've found yet for doing effects and synths (I've tried Arduino / Raspberry Pi based stuff before). The Korg SDK [1] comes with a lot of tools right out of the box (biquad filters, dual delay lines, wave types, access to parameter knobs, etc.) and their dev environment is really easy to install (you upload patches via MIDI sysex!). The actual audio programming is wonderful - Korg's SDK gives you an pointer array of realtime values which you can manipulate how you see fit before they hit the audio out. Its simple (I made a auto pan in 10 lines of code [2]) but powerful when you apply buffers, etc. [1]: https://github.com/korginc/logue-sdk https://github.com/korginc/logue-sdk [2]: https://github.com/schollz/logue/blob/master/simplepan/simplepan.cpp#L39-L49 https://github.com/schollz/logue/blob/master/simplepan/simpl...
  • KAMSPioneer 6y ago
    Just wanted to tell you I love croc! Brilliant idea, much easier than trying to talk nontechnical folks through installing Python on Windows to use Magic Wormhole.
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• ekn 6y ago
  I built two projects since the lock-down started. 1. https://collabqa.com https://collabqa.com A collaborative space to share/vote ideas and questions, in real-time. This was built using Elixir and Phoenix LiveView. Related ShowHN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22881105 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22881105 2. https://memoboard.io https://memoboard.io This is a slack app that makes sure nobody would miss your memo/task. I'm currently waiting for Slack's app review, but it's ready for use. This is my first SaaS project too. It's built using Rails 6 and Sidekiq.
• taf2 6y ago
  Solar battery powered defense system. I’m confident the zombies are coming for us and so I am preparing with a security system built on raspberry pi, esp32 & loads of gear from adafruit/amazon delivery. The final system should have perimeter sensors (pir and break light sensors) that active pan tilt tracking cameras and deploy a tracking drone (weather permitted) with laser pointer and scary sounding robocop ed209 voice... So far I have a camera working that can sleep when no motion and wake back up if low battery after enough charge.
  • jyrkesh 6y ago
    Very interested in learning more from your project. Have you published any code or blogs describing any of your plans?
• duderoso 6y ago
  Small site that accesses the posts and comments you save on reddit and allows you to search or filter using elixir/phoenix and liveview. Also ordered a few raspberry pis to build a cluster as motivation to learn/experiment w kubernetes and distributed systems in general
• james2001 6y ago
  https://www.ezail.com https://www.ezail.com It's a communication platform for small and micro businesses (spec. emerging markets) to send invoices and orders, keep track of credits/debits, log income/expenses, trade commodities, sell online, chat with customers and suppliers.
  • adz_6891 6y ago
    This is interesting! How did you come up with this idea for emerging markets in particular? Also, out of interest, what service are you using for the SMS authentication?
    • james2001 6y ago
      I am taking the learnings of okcredit, khatabook (digital ledger in India), bijak, procol (trading in India), choco, rekki (restaurant ordering from their suppliers) to what I believe is the final consequence of an integrated chat app to run small businesses. I used MessageBird for sms notification of new messages, SendGrid for email and Firebase Auth for login. Everything is run on Google App Engine.
      • adz_6891 6y ago
        Thanks for the info! Really super interesting to hear about your sources of inspiration for this is India. I think you're onto something with a chat app UX for small businesses!
• Q_the_Novice 6y ago
  https://github.com/qawemlilo/piflix https://github.com/qawemlilo/piflix I built an electron app for organising and watching saved movies. In my part of the world, a lot of people still rely on external storage devices to share movies and music.
• johnjones4 6y ago
  I've been building out new features like crazy on my recipe app Reciplay (https://getreciplay.com/ https://getreciplay.com/) including a Google Vision and FastText powered recipe scanner.
• a-saleh 6y ago
  Mostly trying to get my 5 year old into some light programming :D - I bought her Lego Boost (well, mostly myself, but we still have fun with it) and she is getting better at actually programming it - I installed scratch junior on the chromebook she's been using (nice for mostly lightly interactive animations), we wen't through few of the work-assigments and she likes to fiddle with the included project-samples
  • shakabrah 6y ago
    I’ve been on the fence about getting a Lego Boost for my five year old as well. Your comment made me pull the trigger finally, thanks!
    • a-saleh 6y ago
      Well, for me a big part was "I finally can buy myself the lego-robot my parents never bought me because it was too expensive" . The fact that my 5 year old likes to build lego and is interested in robots is a nice bonus :D And if your five-year old is anything like mine, brace yourself for the noise it can make :-) (most programming she is doing on her own are the embedded activities that produce music, sounds, e.t.c.)
• hoyd 6y ago
  I'm finally building a tree hut for my four kids.
• pielambr 6y ago
  I've started to make a simple website where people can share useful snippets of code, handy Linux commands or just anything useful regarding code. Urbandictionary-wise you can view topics, or go to a random snippet. Probably use this as a personal fun wiki
• bram2w 6y ago
  I've been working on an open source online database tool called Baserow [0] as a side project. In the current form you can compare it with a simple version of Airtable, but Baserow can handle much more data, you can optionally host it on your own server, you can write plugins for it and it's (going to be) open source. Everyone can try out an early test version at the website [0]. More features are going to be following soon! The open source release will probably take place in Juli as I still need to write lots of documentation and I want to create a plugin boilerplate. The stack is Django, Nuxt.js and PostgreSQL (also MySQL and SQLite are going to be supported). For this project I've been learning Nuxt.js and Kubernetes. Normally I work full time as a full stack freelance developer, but due to the corona outbreak I've lost one of my biggest clients. This resulted in more time for Baserow, which was already a side project for a while now. I would like to make a business out of this in the future because I really enjoy working this. [0] https://baserow.io https://baserow.io
• insin 6y ago
  My GitHub contributions have gone from 6 months of grey nothing to a forest of green, I think I'm using it as a coping mechanism. Since my gym closed down, I decided to make a clone of the app it had been using for posting Workout of the Day and logging results, to keep learning more Flutter and try Firestore for the first time - I developed it entirely on Android but this is me trying it on the iPhone Emulator for the first time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvWJgZKj7cw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvWJgZKj7cw I've learnt so much from doing that, including implementing a signup/login flow with Firebase Auth, using Firebase Storage, how to get fancy with custom screen transitions in Flutter, how to implement, uh… that thing where a sticky UI element slides in/out as an overlay when you scroll down and up again - does that have a specific name? I also went back to the basic Flutter VLC Remote app I wrote for myself a while back and having been adding as many features and as much polish as I can for the sake of learning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eXJX4GVGhA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eXJX4GVGhA I'm in the middle of redesigning its controls, having just figured out how to implement a nice full-width slider which acts as a floating divider between the playlist and controls. I've also started breaking out individual Flutter things I'm learning into a Codepen collection (titled with phrases I failed to find help with when searching for these things myself): https://codepen.io/collection/nqpzvz https://codepen.io/collection/nqpzvz I also brought the React/Preact/Inferno toolkit I created in the pre-create-react-app days back to life after an 18-month hiatus, by finishing the Babel 7 upgrade branch I started in January 2018. Despite what they say about the JavaScript ecosystem, Babel and Webpack were still at the same major version as when I stopped maintaining it! https://github.com/insin/nwb#nwb https://github.com/insin/nwb#nwb It now has support for using the experimental build of React, the new automatic runtime in Babel's React transform which depends on it and the latest hot reloading implementation, which has come on leaps and bounds since I was away. Here's a recent demo of one of the main features I keep it around for: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0DwgoYq5WI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0DwgoYq5WI I accidentally took a head-first dive into TypeScript type definitions and back into writing Babel AST transforms - a particular phrase ("host elements") in a tweet about not being able to use HTML attributes in React gave me an idea for a new major version of a Babel plugin I had written to do basic class → className and for → htmlFor transforms on JSX attributes: https://github.com/insin/babel-plugin-react-html-attrs https://github.com/insin/babel-plugin-react-html-attrs It now lets you use _all_ HTML attributes on host elements in JSX, and I ended up spending too much of a weekend forking the React type definitions off the back of it, to add support for using all numeric and boolean HTML attributes and transforming them to the form React expects. I've always wanted to learn some Lua, as my kids love Roblox and I'd like to try making games in Roblox Studio with them some time, so I wrote my first ever Lua script to do a fun thing in OBS: https://github.com/insin/obs-bounce#obs-bounce https://github.com/insin/obs-bounce#obs-bounce At the start of April, Twitter broke my extension for making it halfway tolerable, so I went back to maintaining that, making it capable of stripping even more crap out of your timeline and making the separated Retweets timeline it adds to Twitter more robust: https://github.com/insin/tweak-new-twitter#tweak-new-twitter https://github.com/insin/tweak-new-twitter#tweak-new-twitter I also dove much deeper into Gatsby than my previous experience with it of cloning and tweaking a blog template, as my wife needed to set up a marketing website quickly for a new business being spun out at her work. I've ended up with a setup which is easily reusable for the next site, easy to edit for non-technical users, and is zero cost for a really decent amount of functionality (mostly thanks to Netlify). I even went back and resurrected my (OG) React Hacker News API client and added a new feature: a new story list containing every item you view the comment thread for, displayed in reverse-chronological order for ease of reading new comments on them: https://insin.github.io/react-hn/#/read https://insin.github.io/react-hn/#/read
• dhab 6y ago
  On weekends: laying pavers in my front lawn :) During week (between work): learning lisp
• keriati1 6y ago
  I learned using the TICK stack and Grafana. Originally I wanted to see some Covid data with my own visualization, was thinking on D3 first. Ended up with full TICK stack and Grafana, monitoring all devices I have at home and setting up alerts for all kind of silly stuff. Usefulness is questionable, but I learned a lot. I have now some insight in the local area covid spread and happy to report, no new cases in my town discovered since a month \o/ (according to the government provided API)
• kirchhoff 6y ago
  https://random.earth https://random.earth A simple way to discover interesting satellite imagery.
• chrisgradl 6y ago
  i built a visual editor for react-native with react-native-web https://hopsasa.app/ https://hopsasa.app/
• hising 6y ago
  In the beginning of all this covid-19-craze I (like many others) wanted to get a better view of the numbers and spread of the virus so I created a small app for that - https://coronadata.se https://coronadata.se - I look at it daily to get an overview of how the numbers evolve, hopefully someone else can have use for it, not that we have to few of these corona-apps :). Right now I am working on a tiny analytics SaaS that helps small business owners to get KPI:s like Engagement, Retention, Churn and Earnings out-of-the-box with simple integration and some sensible defaults with dashboards etc.
• madskdc 6y ago
  Strengthening my lungs. I've had a persistent cough for over 6 months, and decided that with a respiratory-based pandemic going around, I ought to do what I can to get rid of it, or at least strengthen my lungs while I have the chance. So I've picked up running and cycling, and have gotten more exercise in than I have in years. And after deciding to pair it with some calorie monitoring, I've gone down almost 5 kg since C-19 started!
  • lukevp 6y ago
    Congrats on the weight loss! I too had the same thought, my wife and I have been weight lifting and rowing every other day for the past 2 months now. We have gotten in much better shape than we were before, and it relaxes us too.
  • ubermonkey 6y ago
    Nice job! I'm a cyclist myself, which is one reason I don't have a quarantine side project -- I've just stepped up my (indoor) training. I'm stronger now, measured by functional threshold power, than I was before COVID-19 killed all my group rides. (Well, for certain values of "stronger" -- I'm MUCH better at shorter intense efforts modeled on the trainer (say, < 90 minutes) but obviously I've lost some fitness for longer efforts (the week before we locked down here, I did an 80 miler with some racer friends).) What are you using for calorie monitoring? I've found MyFitnessPal to be very useful, mostly b/c it has a huge library of food in it already. My wife used it to alone to lose about 30 pounds; just the act of watching calories in/calories out is super helpful.
    • loop0 6y ago
      what do you use for indoor biking? an actual indoor bike or just a regular bike with some kind of adapter?
      • nantes 6y ago
        I have/use a Saris Fluid Trainer I picked up at a local REI with my street-tire equipped mountain bike. I should really be using it more, but there's precious little space left anyway.
• zarkone 6y ago
  mostly learning new languages and tools. Convert & store CSV to JSON, with Docker build: https://github.com/zarkone/csvproxy https://github.com/zarkone/csvproxy [typescript] Get last failed logs from github actions, with native image build (i found it is quite annoying to go to UI and scroll it each time :) https://github.com/zarkone/faillogs https://github.com/zarkone/faillogs [kotlin]
• ape4 6y ago
  I've downloaded a few open source projects, trying to figure out how to contribute
• philipcamilleri 6y ago
  (...apart from the breads -- banana bread, cheese-beer bread and home-grown yeast :-|) I've been working on https://FoundersList.com https://FoundersList.com -- a place for founders to connect, share ideas/posts/launches, connect with professionals/experts, ask questions, find cofounders, events, etc. Would love any thoughts/comments/feedback!
• conroy 6y ago
  https://sqlc.dev https://sqlc.dev Work continues on sqlc, my SQL compiler side project. I recently released v1.3.0, which mainly consisted of big fixes. I’m really excited about the in-browser playground I launched at https://play.sqlc.dev https://play.sqlc.dev. I hope it gets more people to install sqlc locally.
• ztarven 6y ago
  https://rate.house/ https://rate.house/ It's a collaborative media database to rate and track all your media in one place. Think Letterboxd/IMDb/Goodreads but with more media types. Also http://masscorona.info http://masscorona.info - easily digestible and mobile-friendly statistics and graphs/charts on official Massachusetts Coronavirus data.
  • luella 6y ago
    Wow, this is great. I love the clean design and could definitely see myself using this.
• cjwebb 6y ago
  I've been struggling to find time, but when I do I've been trying to get a good family-room video chat setup going. Ideally, Apple would just release a FaceTime-compatible camera I can plug into my TV... but until then, I'm working towards a small HDMI connected device that I can control with my phone (running Jitsi).
  • kleinsch 6y ago
    If it ever gets back in stock, the Portal TV is great for this. Follows my kid around during the weekly chats with her grandparents. I know a lot of HN is pretty anti-FB, so depends on your philosophy, but it's a pretty cool device.
    • cjwebb 6y ago
      Yeah, I agree - it looks good, but it is Facebook :) The auto-following is a pretty neat feature though! I might try and pick one up to play around with when they're back in stock. The real sticking point for me, apart from the lack of stock, is that I never call anyone using WhatsApp or Messenger. I'd ideally like compatibility with other platforms. I figured I'd start with Jitsi as its open-source, and go from there I did briefly look at how I could get FaceTime working on something, but I think it involved jailbreaking an iPhone and getting access to the SSL certs.
• spaceribs 6y ago
  I've been working on a video annotating web extension, works on Firefox/Chrome and Netflix/Youtube/Vimeo: https://plopdown.video https://plopdown.video Edit: wanted to add a few more details on what my goals are with this project! 1. Being able to easily add audio commentary to hosted video, MST3K and Rifftrax being an example. 2. Being able to do popup video style context and commentary. 3. Drinking games. 4. Instant replays. 5. Picture-in-picture commentary (reaction videos). 5. Pointing out easter eggs or continuity errors in videos (think the hidden ghosts in "The Haunting of Hill House")
• tomcooks 6y ago
  Along with way too much homemade food, a turn based combat boardgame https://www.tomcooks.com/projects/snipr/ https://www.tomcooks.com/projects/snipr/
• topbanana 6y ago
  I've installed Cat6a in the house and placed a few UniFi access points around. Not much but then my regular job is keeping me super busy. Oh and cooking every meal from scratch!
• josephwegner 6y ago
  Been working on this app for sharing Switch screenshots: https://switch2cloud.herokuapp.com https://switch2cloud.herokuapp.com
• myaccount54673 6y ago
  http://www.rjwilkins.com/project/reinsexp http://www.rjwilkins.com/project/reinsexp I’m an Actuary who is trying to encourage other actuaries to bring more computer science concepts into their work. I created some dashboards in d3.js to illustrate some of the tougher actuarial concepts and had a lot of positive feedback on LinkedIn.
• lukevp 6y ago
  I’m still quarantined, working from home. I have been working on a new note taking app, with real time sync, web access, apps on all major platforms (Android, iOS, Windows, OS X and Linux), offline support, and a new take on organization and retrieval of information that I have really been enjoying using personally. Email me from my profile if you want into the alpha, I am dark launching this weekend and will start advertising once the first batch of feedback and fixes goes in. I’ve already gotten a ton of interest from HN and I’m really excited to get some real users besides myself!
  • eykd 6y ago
    Syncing is such a hard problem. How are you approaching it?
• vlucas 6y ago
  https://www.seamless.cloud/ https://www.seamless.cloud/ Easy, secure REST API for your SQL database (PostgreSQL and MySQL/MariaDB supported). You pre-define queries and get REST endpoints for them with token authentication. I build a lot of side projects and got tired of always having to setup an API backend for each one that I wanted to use an SQL database with, so I made Seamless.cloud for myself. Maybe it will be useful for others too?
• thoughtspeed7 6y ago
  Launched. https://bit.ly/bloodiq-android https://bit.ly/bloodiq-android
• thoughtspeed7 6y ago
  Launched. BloodIQ lets you search (and share) blood availability across 2000+ blood banks in India. https://bit.ly/bloodiq-android https://bit.ly/bloodiq-android
• artembugara 6y ago
  I am building a Python Google News package. Polishing the README. It will be released this week.
• michaelpjones 6y ago
  I've been building https://www.contact-stack.com https://www.contact-stack.com as a way to get regular reminders to stay in touch with friends who live in other cities & countries. It is my first attempt at a product/business and has been a good learning experience. Also a good excuse to have Elixir & Phoenix a good. Long story short, I like them but miss types.
• scotth 6y ago
  I'm unexpectedly renting a house in Toronto. It ticks all the boxes, but is a bit of a junker. Well, one of it's bedrooms was wallpapered and ancient looking. Very ugly. I decided to take care of it. The wallpaper, and the three papers that came before it, are now stripped. The wall is in rough shape post-strip, and I'm repairing it. This room is on its way to perfection. I've never done this before, and had no idea how much fun it is. There is no mistake that can't be fixed, and the instruction on YouTube is amazing. I'm having to reel myself in a bit, because I keep on noticing other things I'd like to fix myself. :) It's sort of like the experience I had when I first started writing software. The power! My creativity is kicking in hard.
  • krallja 6y ago
    yes!! diy stackexchange and reddit are fun places to hang out, to learn the wizardry others are using.
  • scotth 6y ago
    *its
  • mrtnmcc 6y ago
    Wait, this is a rental?
• refneb 6y ago
  I finished machine learning course on coursera. Also making a lot of bread
• GeoNomad 6y ago
  http://covidobits.art http://covidobits.art An art project to remind people that the COVID-19 deaths are not just a statistic to track the numbers. Each death is a tragedy. Real and simulated obituaries are presented at the current death rate by country, age, and gender. Take a moment to reflect on each one.
  • billylo 6y ago
    thank you for doing this... very meaningful.
• thosakwe 6y ago
  Learning touch typing. I've never been 100% on typing without looking at the keyboard when going fast, and I think that learning to do so would boost my productivity.
  • rovr138 6y ago
    Another useful skill that I’ve found helps is getting good at reading from a source and typing it as you go. When someone’s presenting, I can quickly type something they’re showing. Usually quicker than interrupting, asking them to copy & paste and then waiting for them to get on track. Another is if for some reason you get sent a printout, an image or something, transcribing whatever you need from it is super quick. If it’s too fast I don’t internalize what it says, I just type, but it’s nice. A personal story, My grandma and my mom where both secretaries. I used to sat down on the typewriter at home for fun. As soon as I did and started typing you would hear, “back straight!, hands!, feet on the ground!” When we finally got a computer, it died a bit. They couldn’t hear the keyboard when I typed so I had some time to slouch before they walked in and saw me. That’s of course if I remembered to turn off/down the speakers when I booted the computer up.
    • thosakwe 6y ago
      Ah, definitely. I'm in a work-from-home situation right now, and have been trying to type things during video calls (being careful to mute my audio and not show the typing on video, of course). I can imagine that within two weeks, I'll be at least at my old speed, if not far faster.
  • Jefro118 6y ago
    What are you using to learn and how are you finding it? I ask because I myself am working on a touch-typing course for developers[0] because I wasn't satisfied with the other options available. It's one of my two quarantine projects. [0] - https://typeright.herokuapp.com https://typeright.herokuapp.com
    • thosakwe 6y ago
      I've been using https://typingclub.com https://typingclub.com, and finding it excellent so far.
• vojtamolda 6y ago
  Plotting library for the Swift numerical computing ecosystem: https://github.com/vojtamolda/Plotly.swift https://github.com/vojtamolda/Plotly.swift
• krewast 6y ago
  I'm working on an Arduino Pomodoro Timer. I wanted to do a little electronics project again and this is something I find useful as it helps me to stay focused. https://github.com/krewast/simple-arduino-pomodoro https://github.com/krewast/simple-arduino-pomodoro
• fwsgonzo 6y ago
  I am working on a game with a friend of mine. https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/319909531167621130/710237799877443614/unknown.png https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/319909531167621130/71... I'm also using C++ as a scripting language inside a virtual machine. It's very performant, things are going well. :)
  • 7373737373 6y ago
    It looks very beautiful :) Do you have a website?
    • fwsgonzo 6y ago
      Thanks, and no, but I am writing occasionally: https://medium.com/@fwsgonzo/adventures-in-game-engine-programming-part-3-3895a9f5af1d https://medium.com/@fwsgonzo/adventures-in-game-engine-progr...
      • 7373737373 6y ago
        Wow, that is very sophisticated! Looking forward to the next writeups :)
• jeffrwells 6y ago
  I’ve been working on Flux, a platform to deploy and host deep learning models in production. Instead of renting a GPU instance and setting up a Flask web server, you use git to push your trained model to Flux with some configuration and get back an http endpoint. For example, you set that your input is the url to an image, and that your output should be the top classification and its likelihood, and that your model is in pytorch. For example if you have a classifier for dog breeds you: Make a POST to fluxdeploy.com/username/dog-classifier with json { “url”: “...” } And get back { “klass”: “Great Dane”, “probability”: 0.937373 } No need to do your own devops, Flux will scale for you. And it’s priced per-request and cheaper than hosting your own web server. Flux also deals with versioning and dependencies. Still working on streaming inputs like video.
  • scythe 6y ago
    There's a name clash with f.lux, which you may want to avoid.
    • jeffrwells 6y ago
      Thanks, ya naming is hard. It was originally called Astra, which ended up having even more conflicts. I use f.lux and love it. Hoping mine is different enough to not confuse. Funny enough, I actually thought it was “f dot lux” and was conceptual thinking of it like “function dot light”
• jerzyt 6y ago
  I'm working on gerrymandering. Both parties claim that the other party is better at it. My hypothesis is that some gerrymandered districts benefit the incumbent to the point of actually benefiting the opposing party in the adjacent districts. So, the incumbent has a safe seat, but the net is a loss for his own party. I'd like to be able to demonstrate and quantify it.
• smackay 6y ago
  I wrote a django-crispy-forms template pack for the GOV.UK Design System. I was working on a project for Public Health England when the project got put on hold because of the lock-down and this was an itch that needed scratching. Hopefully this is going to speed things up when the project resumes. https://github.com/wildfish/crispy-forms-gds https://github.com/wildfish/crispy-forms-gds https://design-system.service.gov.uk https://design-system.service.gov.uk
• mchanson 6y ago
  Animal Crossing
• elsigh 6y ago
  Me and a friend are working on a chords/lyrics/music tool: https://Songbook.Studio https://Songbook.Studio It's a PWA, based on Dropbox APIs built using NextJS & MaterialUI
• eden_hazard 6y ago
  I've been trying to build a medical dictionary app in the Bengali language. I want to make that knowledge accessible to Bengali speakers that don't speak English. Hard part has been finding someone to translate drug information from English to Bengali.
• kroltan 6y ago
  Now that I don't have a commute anymore, I've been using the extra time to work on a full version of a game jam game I made a while ago and had good reception. I don't have much new to show yet, but the jam version is available at https://kroltan.itch.io/farm-fortress-2 https://kroltan.itch.io/farm-fortress-2 It's a strategy game focused on production chains and resource management.
• wolco 6y ago
  Youtube channel.
• alex_young 6y ago
  COVID-19 forecasting tool: https://cv19.report https://cv19.report Time series ML model for each state combined into a US forecast. Models are generating static assets, front end is in React, everything is hosted on S3 behind Cloudflare.
• wolfgang000 6y ago
  https://www.musicbucket.cloud/ https://www.musicbucket.cloud/ I'm building a google play music clone (a music locker), It's not ready yet but by the end of this month, the beta will be out.
• biswaroop 6y ago
  https://github.com/biswaroopmukherjee/condensate https://github.com/biswaroopmukherjee/condensate I'm trying to interact with superfluids. I use CUDA + OpenGL to simulate the superfluid, and then interact with the mouse or a leap motion.
• dilandau 6y ago
  I am learning to spin a pen around my thumb. I am getting there. The spins are starting to be pretty aesthetic.
• irs 6y ago
  https://ipaddress.sh https://ipaddress.sh Simple service to get the public IP address based on IPIFY API. Lots of services already exist like this and my favorite is icanhazip.com. This is basically the same old service in a more memorable domain name. But it is helping me trying to learn Go and API development. https://about.ipaddress.sh/ https://about.ipaddress.sh/
• yev 6y ago
  yet another system for managing teams and holidays :)
• surajcm 6y ago
  I have been working on a Kahoot alternative, Please find it on https://github.com/surajcm/darkhold https://github.com/surajcm/darkhold . At work, we use Kahoot a lot to have fun tech quizzes and it really inspired me to create an opensource alternative with spring boot.It is not a complete clone (I don't want to be in trouble with copyright issues), I used some of the interesting functionalities to create a qurantine remote quiz tool. Any feedbacks are welcome :)
  • shock 6y ago
    Looks like a very nice project. Just a minor remark: if you don't own quiz.com please consider changing the package prefix: com.quiz.darkhold implies that the code is from quiz.com. Perhaps com.github.surajcm.darkhold.
• marban 6y ago
  https://flipso.com/ https://flipso.com/ — Mix of Posterous and Tumblr. B/C 2006 was a great year.
• LarryPage 6y ago
  I've been making videos showing off my collection of old computers, and finally repairing a lot of them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJEHSliAisk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJEHSliAisk
• Kanjimi 6y ago
  I am working on Kanjimi, a browser extension for people learning Japanese. My goal is to help people to read any Japanese website by adding information about the vocabuary words (pronunciation, meaning). But at the same time I want this to be highly customizable and easy to use, because helping too much or systematically does not actually help to learn. So this has to be just right for everyone to be truly useful. It is not released yet, but I made a mini-website and have a Twitter account for this project if anyone is interested: https://www.kanjimi.com/ https://www.kanjimi.com/
  • tentboy 6y ago
    Not quite a quarantine side project as I started in December, but i've been studying japanese as my side project. I've been able to take advantage of saving 45 min a day on my commute and putting that into study time. I'll have to check out your site!
• ZacharyPitts 6y ago
  I made a chicken coop and chicken run in my backyard. My chickens are now 10 weeks old, and happily running around in the run every day. Now that I'm done (as of a week ago), I need another side project!
• bcks 6y ago
  I started collecting images of interesting COVID-19 related posters, graphics and street art at https://backspace.com/covid19 https://backspace.com/covid19
• rastangineer 6y ago
  Trying to learn and implement dotfiles in my workflow
• bpicolo 6y ago
  Very much still in progress, but making something akin to active_storage / carrierwave but for Dotnet (getting familiar with the dotnet core ecosystem). I think by the end of the month it'll be pretty darn usable, but want to add dead simple handling of image processing and similar beyond that. https://github.com/bpicolo/bulletin https://github.com/bpicolo/bulletin I always find it fun to play with the limits of library ergonomics under language / ecosystem constraints.
• NiagaraThistle 6y ago
  I am in process of launching a web app that lets you plan that trip to Europe you'll be taking when this is all over. Create and share trip Itineraries, show and rank Countries, Cities, and attractions with costs and details. Data is i a beast, its slow currently slow as molasses, but its the first time i've ever put a side project live: eurotripr.com - feedback would be great as i continue to work on this
• roknovosel 6y ago
  I've been working on a small project called https://CodeSnippetSearch.net https://CodeSnippetSearch.net. It allows you to search through code snippets using natural language. Currently, Python, Java, Go, Php, Javascript, and Ruby programming languages are supported. I think it's especially useful for new programmers because it allows you to search through code in a "Google-like" fashion. It also allows you to find similar code snippets to the ones found in search results. This enables you to explore different possible solutions. As with any cool project nowadays, CodeSnippetSearch is powered by neural networks (six in fact - one for each programming language). The project is open-sourced and you can read about the implementation details here: https://github.com/novoselrok/codesnippetsearch https://github.com/novoselrok/codesnippetsearch This project started as a reimplementation of the models in the CodeSearchNet challenge by GitHub (https://github.com/github/CodeSearchNet/ https://github.com/github/CodeSearchNet/). I have reused their data and reimplemented the neural bag-of-words model in Keras. I didn't expect any improvements with my reimplementation, but I did manage to beat the baseline models by a little bit. The search is still a bit of a hit-and-miss and I'm continually trying to improve it. If the match rating for the top result is below 50% it will most likely be irrelevant.
• unaphiliat3d 6y ago
  I'm really enjoying this thread! There are so many awesome things being built during this time. My main two projects have been: A Chip-8 emulator written in Go, and a small blog post: - https://github.com/bradford-hamilton/chippy https://github.com/bradford-hamilton/chippy - https://medium.com/@bradford_hamilton/building-a-chip-8-emulator-in-go-9f137ec5d71c https://medium.com/@bradford_hamilton/building-a-chip-8-emul... A JSON parser/query tool and much longer blog post: - https://github.com/bradford-hamilton/dora https://github.com/bradford-hamilton/dora - https://medium.com/@bradford_hamilton/building-a-json-parser-and-query-tool-with-go-8790beee239a https://medium.com/@bradford_hamilton/building-a-json-parser...
  • rantwasp 6y ago
    this is really cool. i think that all developers at some point end up writing a CHIP8 emulator. I've done mine in C back in the day. It's as easy as it gets and you get some basic knowledge on what goes into an emulator. again: really cool
• InInteraction 6y ago
  I re-created my personal website trying to build a compelling web experience that works without JavaScript and any third parties. With so much of an emphasis on front-end frameworks and JavaScript runtimes, I wanted to try to get back to basics... just for fun. https://insightfulinteraction.com/ https://insightfulinteraction.com/
  • tomca32 6y ago
    Great job! People often insist that JS is necessary for interactivity, and it really, really isn't. You can create interactive web experiences without JS, and just add sprinkles of it when it makes sense. "Basics" are more than enough for the vast majority of web content.
    • InInteraction 6y ago
      Thank you! I agree -- most sites on the web are just content and there's no reason to have excessive JavaScript or any reason why the page can't be perfectly functional without it. Some people call it 'The Website Obesity Crisis'.
  • krjachkov 6y ago
    noice! and kudos for not using google analytics and google fonts
• poorman 6y ago
  I have been spending what would otherwise have been my commute time porting the Apache Arrow C++ Parquet implementation to Go. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-7905 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-7905
• XCSme 6y ago
  For me the quarantine turned my side-project into a full-time project. So I am now working non-stop on https://www.usertrack.net https://www.usertrack.net, trying to make the best analytics tool and also start a broader self-hosted movement.
  • eykd 6y ago
    Very interesting! I've been looking for a self-hosted analytics tool to replace the Google. I'm going to take a closer look. Btw, I don't think you need to start a broader self-hosted movement; it's been building for a while. See https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted for example. Keep up the good work! You're not alone.
    • XCSme 6y ago
      Thank you! I do know abnout that list (userTrack is already listed in the non-free section). The problem with self-hosting now is that it's usually only for techincal people who know how to setup and maintain servers. I am trying to make so that you can setup, use and maintain my platform with a few clicks, without any technical knowledge. Currently I started doing that by using the cloud-init script for DigitalOcean, so you can go on DO, create a new droplet (with a few clicks), choose LAMP stack and add my cloud-init script which would automatically download and install userTrack. I think this could be optimized even better, in the future I "dream" of a world, where you chose your software (eg. self-hosted Facebook-like platform) and with one click you have your own server running it. I think the DO marketplace is a good start, but they should allow an easy way for developers to sell through their marketplace. I know docker somewhat solves parts of this problem, but for the non-techincal person, with the majority of the software you still need to do some configuration, SSH into some server or setup DNS records. And with userTrack I feel like I can make a difference, as it's not only self-hosted but I do plan to make it the best analytics tool for landing pages or small websites. By having something that is better, you can make people think about the advantanges of self-hosting, people which would have never thought about that before.
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• userium 6y ago
  We built a free Covid-19 Risk Assessment tool for workplaces https://finnovatec.com/ https://finnovatec.com/
• eykd 6y ago
  I'm building a daily writing habit. At least five minutes of writing every day, no matter what. Got myself a nice timer and everything. Once I have the habit solidified, it's back to that novel I've always wanted to write.
  • kthartic 6y ago
    What timer did you get?
    • eykd 6y ago
      A Time Timer. :D The name is dumb, but I love that little thing. No ticking, and the alarm doesn't make me jump out of my chair when it goes off.
      • kthartic 6y ago
        Haha great, thanks :)
• acconrad 6y ago
  Now that everyone is working remotely, it's much harder to get to know your teammates. I built https://gettoknowapp.com https://gettoknowapp.com as a Slack bot extension that sends you 1 question every M/W/F and posts it to a dedicated #answers channel. The whole app is contained within Slack - you can view people's past answers, upvote/like them, and the real fun is just seeing what your friends/coworkers had to say that you didn't expect about their answers. I had used apps like Donut before and they felt oddly pushy and impersonal; you join a room and Donut will randomly select people to chat. Have you ever been in one of those arrangements? Extremely awkward openers. I wanted the questions to serve as a fun icebreaker to help people naturally discover interests together. Oh and of course the tech. It's all built on Elixir. I run one web server and one database server and that's it. I already have about 100 communities spanning about 4000 people so in terms of message/event processing it is completely seamless...one of my favorite things about Elixir. Most interactions are processed in measure of microseconds rather than milliseconds. This makes for a real-time experience in Slack and is such a joy to work with. I also contribute to the Elixir-Slack open source project which has been fun working with as well. I hope to incorporate more user feedback as it grows but so far it's been a great tool for teams in lockdown as they ramp up new people and want to quickly build them into their teams' culture.
  • ricotico060 6y ago
    That’s a super cool idea and I might suggest that for my company honestly as it’s a big concern of mine! How has user growth been?
• anaolykarpov 6y ago
  I couldn't find a satisfying NodeJS full-stack for web app development that would be have: TypeScript, PostgreSQL, GraphQL, ReactJS, Material-UI, docker containers where the same backend image used for development would get deployed on production, while the UI production machine would be an nginx image with the assets generated at build time. So I created such a stack - the Knests stack (https://github.com/tudorconstantin/knests https://github.com/tudorconstantin/knests). I actually started to work on this in December, but I published it a few days ago. Please beware that in order to use it for your projects right now you'd have to be quite comfortable with the nodejs ecosystem because the whole stack is not quite tidied up.
  • freedomben 6y ago
    I am also working on this! I used Node a lot 5 years ago and not much since, so I'm coming up to speed on TypeScript and various other things. I'll check your stuff out. I may throw mine away. I love a lot of things about the Node ecosystem, but the fact that being out of it for 6 to 12 months means you fall behind is not great.
    • anaolykarpov 6y ago
      The main components I used, are: NestJS with Express as an app server, KnexJS as a query builder (because people seem to not like TypeORM that much, it lacks migrations and you have to go pretty fast to custom SQL queries), NextJS for the UI. Yeah, I totally feel you with falling behind regarding the full-stack web dev with node/react, the pace is incredible.
      • freedomben 6y ago
        > people seem to not like TypeORM that much I started down the road with TypeORM for my starter, and I ran into several pain points. I was reading the Knex docs last night actually, heavily considering switching. I also wrote a quick `pg.ts` file to just use node-postgres directly, but the lack of migrations is just too painful. I looked at db-migrate briefly but didn't come to any conclusion. So that's a long way of saying, I think Knex was a good choice. Provides migrations, handles connection pooling and transactions, but doesn't deviate too far from SQL.
• elisee 6y ago
  I've been focusing on re-making my various Web party games into a more unified platform at https://jklm.fun/ https://jklm.fun/ The previous iterations were built years ago using CoffeeScript, Grunt/Gulp, Jade, Stylus, etc. This time around, I went for vanilla HTML/JS/CSS, no transpilation, no bundler, no build step at all (and no frameworks). It's been a joy. I'm using the TypeScript compiler in VS Code for sanity checking and might add some JSDoc to leverage the type checks even, but for now it's quite nice as is. I've also enjoyed building up a Discord community for it all, got almost a thousand people in there now and it's a lot of fun interacting on a daily basis.
• ericvanular 6y ago
  Over the quarantine, I shipped https://enviro.work https://enviro.work as a complementary jobs board to the community at https://collective.energy https://collective.energy
• semireg 6y ago
  As a solo-developer I’ve been nurturing an Electron app named Label LIVE. I spent most of April adding a feature to render multi-label “sheets” (think Avery/ULINE labels) as multi-page PDFs. It’s been really fun, because each label on the sheet can have unique data (from a spreadsheet, a serial number, a barcode, etc) so the end result feels ... pretty awesome. A side-affect of all this PDF works is that my app now supports all system printers (inkjet/laser) including fancy color label printers from Epson, Primera, Afinia, etc. Printing labels has always been a total pain, especially on Mac. My goal is to make label printing an enjoyable process for both Windows and Mac users. Check it out at https://label.live https://label.live This, and my partner is 8.99 months pregnant with our 2nd child!
  • aloisdg 6y ago
    Congrats :)
• eire1130 6y ago
  I have a container garden going in my back patio. I'm up to 31 containers right now.
• mldecoder 6y ago
  I haven't done any project, but would love to contribute in some project. Any open source i could start with...
• xyproto 6y ago
  An editor for Linux/Unix/FreeBSD named just `o`: https://github.com/xyproto/o https://github.com/xyproto/o I wanted an editor that would open instantly, had general syntax highlighting and was limited to the VT100 standard. `o` is mostly written in `o`, with just a few detours to NeoVim.
• rpadovani 6y ago
  I created a web console for AWS to overcome one of my major frustrations with the original one: being able to see resources from multiple regions from view. https://daintree.app/#/about https://daintree.app/#/about Of course the AWS console is enormous, and this is just a side project with some resources - not interested in replace the original one, just being able to monitor resources from all the regions we deploy in :-) WIP of course, and I am not a frontend developer, so be gentle :-D
• woodrowbarlow 6y ago
  i've been trying to write a plugin for obs studio that allows you to embed lego build instructions in your twitch stream, using magickcore to convert pdf screens into obs textures. i think the final plugin will be generic PDF slideshow media source embed, so it can be useful for more than just lego.
• AndrewStephens 6y ago
  I missed going to pub-quizzes (yes I know they have moved online but it is not the same) so I made a quiz for my friends to complete at their leisure. I used it as an excuse to try some new techniques in Javascript and I am pretty happy with the way it turned out. If you want a 10 minute distraction: https://sheep.horse/2020/4/tv_opening_sequences_quiz.html https://sheep.horse/2020/4/tv_opening_sequences_quiz.html
• dansnerd 6y ago
  Was finishing it up (and getting really good feedback) just before quarantine started, and now that very few people are leaving their houses, just polishing it up and getting it ready for when everyone is out and about again. https://chewcam.com https://chewcam.com Just a simple (click and go) video monitor for your pets/baby. Click "share" on one phone/laptop/tablet, and you can connect and view it from another. Video doesn't use bandwidth unless you're actively viewing, and doesn't go through our servers unless you require TURN (rarely).
• xutopia 6y ago
  I am making bread once a week, trying my hands at making croissants and just this week I decided I would give charcuterie a go. I've started with drying duck breasts but I'm sourcing what I need to make some saucissons.
• madcol 6y ago
  I'm trying not to spend more time in front of the computer since I'm still doing it all day but at home now. I've started cooking, I knew how to cook basic things and basically feed myself but I'm following a lot of Kenji Lopez-Alt on youtube and it's really been motivating me to try something different that might take a little more skill or time that I wouldn't have tried before. https://www.youtube.com/user/kenjialt https://www.youtube.com/user/kenjialt Alternatively I'm having a lot of fun with Nats What I Reckon videos too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9sjrjr06K4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9sjrjr06K4 Eyeing up getting handier with Golang and Python later on though since our restrictions continue for a month or 2 longer depending on the numbers.
  • nati0n 6y ago
    If you're trying new things, I'd recommend making gumbo. Really tasty, teaches you how to make a good dark roux, and otherwise is relatively easy. Isaac Toups has good videos out there on how to.
    • madcol 6y ago
      I've looked at doing something involving a roux but I'm always somewhat nervous of burning the shit out of it which I really shouldn't be. I remember seeing Isaac on Binging with Babish once, I'll definitely check him out. Thanks!
• theryangeary 6y ago
  Quarantine has given me the time I needed to bring a little shell program I've been working on to v1.0.0: https://github.com/theryangeary/choose https://github.com/theryangeary/choose Haven't been able to bake any bread on account of how I can't find yeast in the grocery store anywhere...might give sourdough another shot.
• taylorhou 6y ago
  Importing FDA authorized masks for everyone else that can't buy in bulk quantities. MaskHQ.org if you or anyone else wants KN95 masks that are authentic and have a paper trail back to the actual manufacturer. After getting into this, I've found out that there are a literal crap ton of people selling fakes and it is extremely hard to prove the source of the masks so I've been doing everything possible to provide transparency in the supply chain (including having customer names added directly to production contracts with the manufacturer). PSA: KN95, N95, FPP2, and other NIOSH certified masks coming out of China are at a minimum around $1.5 per mask FOB (meaning to the manufacturer) then you have to get the masks into America with import taxes, ocean or air freight and then local last mile delivery and warehousing. That easily can add $1 per mask. My point, if anyone is selling masks for <$2 per mask in small quantities, they are probably fake. The raw material cost alone has skyrocketed for 99% material that is used in the production of >95% masks. For example, our cost to reliably (~20 days) get 2M masks landed in the USA, ends up being $2/mask. That's without any profit and not including local delivery. Happy to answer any questions! Orders@maskhq.org
  • roosterdawn 6y ago
    Wow. Talk about solving the real problems! I'm not sure if this has been an issue yet, but how do you QC masks from known good manufacturers to make sure quality doesn't slip?
    • taylorhou 6y ago
      this has been extremely hard. there are a handful of testing labs in the US but they require 35 masks to test. outside of that, they require a 2+ week lead time and aren't local. if there are any engineers out there able to come up with some sort of solution to the testing problem, we'd absolutely work with them to test samples from every single production batch we get. Colorado State University has retooled a lab to help with this problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7Vm0ryL1jo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7Vm0ryL1jo
  • ceejayoz 6y ago
    How are you protecting against "I wore your masks and still got sick" sort of lawsuits? Selling masks right now seems like a high-risk for these, even with meticulous attention to the supply chain.
• lanius 6y ago
  I started working on a MyFitnessPal clone, the app is great but some features I want are missing or require a subscription. If any open source project like this already exists, please let me know.
• bad_good_guy 6y ago
  I have gotten very into D&D over videocall after being asked if i wanted to join a game with fellow newbies. Now I DM a game as well as play in one, and spend a load of time coming up with adventures and worldbuilding
• aynyc 6y ago
  I was learning Spark, then facebook recruiter called. Now, I'm doing leetcode.
• philjackson 6y ago
  https://nextcv.net https://nextcv.net - hopefully you don't need to use it at the moment.
• sgtfox 6y ago
  My side project is called childcare
• transperceneige 6y ago
  I have created a website allowing retail investors to track insider stock transactions, for both US and european markets. Up until now, nearly all websites focused on SEC forms, while making sense of filings in Europe is sometimes even harder. I cover the US and six major european markets (France, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Belgium & the Netherlands), with more on the way. I have created it with Django, nginx and Postgresql. It is hosted on Hetzner, which I couldn't recommend enough. https://www.insiderscreener.com https://www.insiderscreener.com
• hypertexthero 6y ago
  Bread is lovely as are the green leaves shining during a beautiful day with clear, cool air in NY. I’ve been writing and linking about flights from and to reality through art (usually videogames) at https://hypertexthero.com https://hypertexthero.com which is now published with a [static site generator][1] and no JavaScript other than [HTML Form File to Txt][2] to quickly create a text file for posting. The site design and format was inspired by Daring Fireball, and I aim to release it as a theme soon. During this time I discovered [Focus Writer][3] which is open source, cross-platform, quite nice. Hoping people will come up with fusion power and other climate crisis [solutions][4] during this time. Peace out. [1]: https://gohugo.io/ https://gohugo.io/ "Hugo — love the speed, hate the language syntax and some of the new defaults like .md extension instead of .txt" [2]: https://www.simongriffee.com/notebook/form-to-txt/ https://www.simongriffee.com/notebook/form-to-txt/ [3]: https://gottcode.org/focuswriter/ https://gottcode.org/focuswriter/ [4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annus_mirabilis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annus_mirabilis
• fredwu 6y ago
  Over the past few years I've been on the hunt for a good tool to help me manage my projects. Trello, Jira, I've tried a bunch and yet still couldn't pin point why none of the tools worked well. The quarantine forces me to think about it even more, and I think I've found the why, and how. So I'm now building it: https://focussist.com/ https://focussist.com/
  • superice 6y ago
    Looks very interesting, I've been playing with similar ideas, but everytime I come back to the thought of 'But somebody must have built this already'. I'm really curious to try a prototype of this, so I signed up to the list. The sketches/screenshots look good, keep up the good work.
  • akudha 6y ago
    I tried clickup, paymo, trello, jira... Finally settled on clickup, checking yours now
    • wx196 6y ago
      Can you please add Treenga to comparison? It is more like simple issue tracking, so very far from, say, Jira, but may work as a replacement for Trello for simple task management. This is my recent project, would be happy if you share your feedback.
• andris9 6y ago
  I launched a side-project to manage all the domain names I've registered over the years. This service provides a simple DNS records manager, an email account that covers all the domains, auto-generates LE certs and either serves a single page HTML website or redirects to a Github repo page. No limit how many domains added to account. https://projectpending.com/ https://projectpending.com/
• grangerize 6y ago
  I built a simple compound interest calculator because I was fed up with the ones filled with ads. https://compoundinterest.info https://compoundinterest.info
• ovulator 6y ago
  A website to record historical college football data, super exciting stuff! http://cfbpedia.com/ http://cfbpedia.com/
• fiveSpeedManual 6y ago
  I've been busy building Pantry - a free JSON storage service for small personal projects. I posted it a few days ago on HN and a lot of you had some great ideas and feedback. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23030298 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23030298 For now I'm keeping busy maintaining Pantry. You guys can check it out here! https://getpantry.cloud/ https://getpantry.cloud/
• klangdon 6y ago
  When I need to make money: I code and build hardware. But when work is slow and my brain can wonder, I find myself wanting to tell stories with video. The sad part is I am not Casey Neistat. Here is a video that the whole family worked on for a school project a few weeks ago: https://youtu.be/QHmkRBIzUMs https://youtu.be/QHmkRBIzUMs
• slantyyz 6y ago
  I've been making a personal information/task management system that I can only describe as a weird cross between Things for Mac and Dropbox Paper. It's really an opinionated tool designed specifically for myself to be run on a desktop. It's a buggy work-in-process app built in Svelte and PouchDB and definitely not in a "Show HN" state yet. I put my progress up on Github pages for close friends to try [1], but what the heck, I'll put it here too (no instructions or videos yet). I honestly haven't figured out what I'm going to do with it long term, whether to make it free or to try to monetize it somehow. Right now, my main goal is to fold it into an Electron app and have it sync with a Couch/Pouch db server once the main UI code is done. [1] https://bt-apps.github.io/braintapper_edge https://bt-apps.github.io/braintapper_edge Note it's not a Saas, so no sign up required to try it. PouchDB is storing the data in your browser in IndexedDB so you can delete your data by clearing your browser data for that URL.
• bovermyer 6y ago
  I'm working on a system that generates fantasy worlds. It's meant for RPG players, especially those that do solo tabletop play. It's more simulationist than similar worldbuilding tools. I recently rewrote the climate generation to be closer to reality. You can read about that here: https://blog.ironarachne.com/major-update-to-the-climate-system https://blog.ironarachne.com/major-update-to-the-climate-sys... The website is here: https://ironarachne.com https://ironarachne.com And the code for the underlying API (Go) is here: https://github.com/ironarachne/world https://github.com/ironarachne/world
  • SuoDuanDao 6y ago
    Oh wow. I've been thinking about trying to get into a remote rogue trader campaign, this looks like an awesome tool for that system!
  • Jemaclus 6y ago
    Very cool! What inspired you to do this?
    • bovermyer 6y ago
      It was no single thing. Probably the spark that ignited the flame, though, was this project in 2016: https://github.com/mewo2/terrain https://github.com/mewo2/terrain
• andreygrehov 6y ago
  I'm recording a course about Dynamic Programming – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClnwNEngsXoIp_tgJ2jZWfw https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClnwNEngsXoIp_tgJ2jZWfw
• jwaldrip 6y ago
  https://crystalshards.org https://crystalshards.org ...and making homemade tortillas
• k__ 6y ago
  Learning Rust and WebAssembly for a project that I want to do for a master thesis.
• pontus 6y ago
  Taking care of my kids while simultaneously trying not to pull all my hair out.
• wufocaculura 6y ago
  We live about about 30km outside of our capital city. It's a village, but you can see it slowly transforimg into a small town. Wife got crazy about growing own vegetables, so I've been busy assembling garden crates for her. We also decided to farm chickens (for eggs), so we bought a havel - another couple of hours spent on assembling. As we never did this before, we are grokking the web looking for something you would call "chicken farming for dummies".
  • jriot 6y ago
    We have four chickens for eggs and one rooster. They are about as easy an animal as you can have. If you have a fenced-in backyard you can let them roam around all day, they will eat all the bugs back there. This is good for as we live in southern Louisiana which provides a plentiful amount of bugs. They are also more resilient than you would think, in terms of the winter for you. You'll learn as you go, might lose one to a hawk as we did, and have to clean up the carcass.
  • _pgu 6y ago
    Since i was without a freelance project for 2 weeks when the lockdown started i finally took the time to build a chicken run and and a coop. We wanted to do this for years and now that they are here i can say keeping chickens (we've got 6 hens) is one of the best things i ever did. They are very rewarding. I think it is important to research what type of chicken is best suited for you. Ours are Jersey Giants, a so-called dual use breed. We keep them for eggs and meat, i'm used to the butchering part. We let them roam freely for the most part of the day so they can hunt for bugs and snails. So far they don't mess up the garden too much...
• relaunched 6y ago
  Previously, a friend and I launched iprompted.com - a smart reminder app. It has some small traction, despite getting universally panned on HN. It allows you to create a reminder for someone else, then provides a series of messages, starting with a heads up, the actual reminder and a follow up asking if the prompt was completed. The user can reply and the loop gets closed, you get a response saying the task you assigned was completed. We've had some interest from developers in using the core api. So, we're using this time to convert the core platform into a api for developers.
• davidw 6y ago
  "Not becoming a statistic".
• nerf0 6y ago
  I made a website for friends to play poker. https://playcards.live https://playcards.live It was conceived before the quarantine. I built it so a group of people can play face-to-face without poker cards or chips. So I optimized for mobile use. It seems that people are now using it on desktops playing remotely because of the quarantine.
  • nbclark 6y ago
    This is great. I had a similar idea in April and made https://pokerinplace.app https://pokerinplace.app - Would love to exchange notes.
    • nerf0 6y ago
      Nice. Looks like yours is much more feature-rich. Very impressive that you built it on your own. Good job! How long did it take you to ship it?
      • nbclark 6y ago
        Thank you. Still feels like and endless set of features to add: tournaments, hot keys, animations, etc. It took about 2 weeks of nights/weekends to have something functional I could play with friends. The engine was the hardest part. Then another week to open to the public and then it’s been a few weeks of bug fixes before it started to feel pretty stable. What about you?
        • nerf0 6y ago
          Took me 2 months of spare time in total. Engine was definitely the hardest. Debugging was also tricky, due to multi-threading.
          • nbclark 6y ago
            Agree. I wrote the engine in Node (so punted on the threading problem a bit) then just ported pieces of the engine to firebase functions to handle the actual computation. Made testing a bit easier as I could just simulate players client side. What did you build yours in?
• 7373737373 6y ago
  https://wikiscape.org https://wikiscape.org - A visualization of all English Wikipedia articles
  • bluishgreen 6y ago
    Pretty cool. Did you bake the viz yourself? How does it work.. Can you explain a bit how you handle the sheer scale of it. And how the nodes are positioned - I can't imagine it is some sort of graph node attraction/repulsion algorithm as it will kill the server? Do you precompute?
    • 7373737373 6y ago
      I wrote down some things here: https://github.com/void4/notes/issues/48 https://github.com/void4/notes/issues/48 The code is here: https://github.com/void4/wikiscape https://github.com/void4/wikiscape tl;dr: wrote scripts to parse wikipedia dump, used LargeVis (https://github.com/lferry007/LargeVis https://github.com/lferry007/LargeVis) to layout the graph, wrote further scripts to generate tiles, tiles in layers up to a specific zoom level are saved as files and served directly by nginx, closer ones are generated dynamically by flask, which also handles querying for the closest node to the mouse position efficiently with https://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/generated/scipy.spatial.cKDTree.html https://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/generated/scipy.s...
• willcodeforfoo 6y ago
  I'm working on turning a small detached garage into an office! Manual labor is a nice change of pace from software.
• mcculley 6y ago
  I launched a SaaS for monitoring domains and websites for common misconfigurations (security and otherwise): https://domainproactive.com https://domainproactive.com
• btbuildem 6y ago
  Since last fall, I've been renovating a 100 year old apartment / condo. Completely gutted it, raised the flat roof that was sinking in the middle, replaced the plumbing, now levelling the floors and building the new floor plan -- months of work to go yet. The project is kind of a godsent in this pandemic; with no family or dependents I have something to do with myself. My job involves looking at a laptop screen all day, having a project with physical, tangible results is really rewarding. I'm doing it mostly solo, at first as a cost-cutting measure, now out of necessity.
  • neonate 6y ago
    How did you learn to do all those things? I would have no idea where to even start.
    • gccxsse 6y ago
      I do all the maintenance on my car. I have learned 95% from watching other people do it on youtube. The other 5% is from forum posts and a repair manual.
    • jonfw 6y ago
      You generally start with a pry-bar if you've got to take something apart first, maybe a hammer. If not, you start by cutting some wood to size! Home renovation work is easier done than said IMO
      • neonate 6y ago
        The part that got me was "replaced the plumbing".
    • Afton 6y ago
      Youtube, for me. It's not perfect, but it is often good enough.
  • jerzyt 6y ago
    I have done the same thing last year. Yes, it's a lot of work, it did take me over a year. And yes, it's extremely satisfying. I did it on a condo for Airbnb rental. Here's the link to show what it looks like: https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/plus/39954647 https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/plus/39954647 No it's not a shameless plug, since we're shut down right now due to the virus.
• in9 6y ago
  I am studying for the entrance exams for graduate school in statistics here in Brazil. But it is quite tough to study math on my own, specially for exams.
• rohanm93 6y ago
  I run a career newsletter and a common topic/question I got from my subscribers was about choosing an online course to do and how to 'make the most' of quarantine. Seems like so many of us (myself included) just miss the process of learning, whether that's learning a new skill or just personal development/mindset related concepts. To help find a course to do, I made this simple one page site and included the most highly rated free courses from across a few different sites, whether that's Coursera, YC, edX or Youtube: https://resumeworded.com/free-online-courses/ https://resumeworded.com/free-online-courses/
• paulryanrogers 6y ago
  Newborn baby
• mrgalaxy 6y ago
  https://mrgidle.com https://mrgidle.com I've been building a silly little idle/incremental game. I've wanted to make this for years and finally found the motivation. In early access now, hoping to release soon.
• apapli 6y ago
  I built https://www.provedore.com.au https://www.provedore.com.au -> a way to find local producers who sell online and deliver to your door.
• msoliman9 6y ago
  I started an accountability community for wellness and personal growth. We are up to 117 members with 50+ active weekly members.
• gvpmahesh 6y ago
  I have started a book club software when the lockdown started, dint put much time into it. Still need to put a couple of days to make it an MVP. https://www.pustak.io https://www.pustak.io if you are curious
• Retailer 6y ago
  RetailingPlatform - https://retailingplatform.com https://retailingplatform.com An alternative to Shopify for 1) People who don't need all the features of Shopify and are more budget conscious 2) People from developing economies with a unique set of needs not addressed by the bigger platforms (e.g. African countries where access to credit cards is lower and where addresses are different/non-standardized)
• topiolli 6y ago
  I learned WebGL and made a virus spread simulator with it: https://lent.su https://lent.su
• seisvelas 6y ago
  I'm making a simple onion router in TypeScript! https://github.com/seisvelas/onion-router-ts https://github.com/seisvelas/onion-router-ts It's not meant to be useful for anyone, just want to learn TypeScript and onion routing
• bschwindHN 6y ago
  Building an audio chat tool in Rust akin to a walkie-talkie. The original goal was a hardware device that's pre-programmed to work with a group of other devices where you just push a button to talk and it gets broadcast to the whole group with high quality audio. First I'm starting with just a software version because cross-compiling for the pi-zero is kind of annoying. Intended to be used by our team as we work remotely, but hopefully it'll be open-sourced soon after.
  • lasagna_coder 6y ago
    This is a cool idea, can you link to github or wherever the project will eventually land?
    • bschwindHN 6y ago
      It'll show up here when I can publish it: https://github.com/tonarino https://github.com/tonarino
  • zeptoon 6y ago
    Yeah, seconding this as a good idea
• ikkjo 6y ago
  Lowpoly art from user uploaded photos. Just went online: https://lowpolynator.com/ https://lowpolynator.com/
• daviducolo 6y ago
  released a simple RSS search engine called DatoRSS https://datorss.com https://datorss.com. There is also the associated API https://feedirss.com https://feedirss.com also created by me.
• anegri 6y ago
  Been working on a CLI tool for stock trading since I tried to look for one and it doesn't seem to exist. Was also a fun excuse to get more experience with Go and try out the Cobra library. Besides that, lots of more involved cooking and baking projects to fill the time. I'll come out of this ready to be a stay at home dad!
  • license2e 6y ago
    Do you have any more details? How can I contribute?
    • anegri 6y ago
      It's pretty simple, it uses alpaca as the brokerage account and will support buying, selling, and viewing stocks. Any other features I'll add later based on feedback/my own experience. Not quite ready to put out the repo link publicly but you can email me at andrewnegri1 [at] gmail [dot] com and I can send it to you
• pkukkapalli 6y ago
  I'm making a web emulation of the Metal Gear Solid V emblem creator. Felt it would be a good way to learn about web components and Typescript.
• toothbrush 6y ago
  My partner and i were laughing about making a retro community website, free of adverts, trying to recapture the spirit of the old Geocities era web. It got a bit out of hand and we came up with https://www.vistaserv.net https://www.vistaserv.net. I apologise if folks have already seen it, since it actually (surprisingly) got a bunch of traction here on HN over the weekend, but that has been our quarantine project, for what it's worth!
  • hopesthoughts 6y ago
    This is quite epic! Then again, I like things like NeoCities.
• thatoneguytoo 6y ago
  Something I made to keep me productive. I've to say, this is the most I've stuck to a todo list (definitely some bias) :) http://usedone.today/ http://usedone.today/
  • codethief 6y ago
    This looks interesting! Do you also plan on releasing a version for Firefox?
• danjac 6y ago
  A private invite-only social site for friends and family to keep in touch and share stuff (not everyone is on Facebook, and we're geographically dispersed). Demo version is available [1]. It includes things like photos, calendar, simple direct messages etc. Yes of course there are ready-made solutions for self-hosting like Mastodon, but this has been a good learning/portfolio exercise. [1] https://demo.localhub.social https://demo.localhub.social
• fla 6y ago
  Build an ARM CorteM0+ emulator and open-source it.
• iamsmooney 6y ago
  I'm working on a project that will allow my wife (who's an iPhone user) and me (stubborn Android user) to have our photos sync together in a shared place without changing our own personal workflows. Tried using Synology software for our NAS but there were some gaps when it comes to the Catalina update and Synology Drive's ability to access the Apple Photos' internal directory.
• spieglt 6y ago
  I am working on a Linux program that will show you the files opened/read/written by another process (and its child processes/threads). I wanted to be able to run an installer and see exactly what files it creates. Or when LibreOffice magically loads a font that seems to not be on my system, I want to know where it got it from. Basically a stripped-down version of strace that only tracks certain syscalls and aims to be more user-friendly.
• nicholasjarnold 6y ago
  Home improvement projects! Currently I'm working on a) replacing a badly-cracked concrete walkway in my front yard with 2" flagstone which is native to the period in which my home was built and b) installing a 300 ft^2 brick patio in my back yard using a herringbone pattern while setting the pavers. It feels good to get AFK, feel some sun on my face and improve the value (aesthetically and monetarily) of my home.
• thound 6y ago
  A JS library to model and draw graphs https://github.com/mlarocca/jsgraphs https://github.com/mlarocca/jsgraphs
• geddy 6y ago
  I finally finished a little convenience tool I made for fetching lyrics for your currently playing Spotify song, called Spotify Karaoke. Currently I'm working on an Electron app for automatically importing/managing screenshots and recordings from your Nintendo Switch, off the SD card. It matches the file name IDs (Nintendo uses these seemingly random IDs for each game) with the actual game name, moves it into a custom folder structure, etc. https://github.com/gedrick/SpotifyKaraoke https://github.com/gedrick/SpotifyKaraoke (live) https://github.com/gedrick/nintendo-switch-screenshot-manager https://github.com/gedrick/nintendo-switch-screenshot-manage... (still a WIP)
  • mavsman 6y ago
    Loooooove the Spotify karaoke tool. I have to know the words to songs I listen to so I started a local Electron tool (https://github.com/bradydowling/spotifylyrics https://github.com/bradydowling/spotifylyrics) like this some time ago but then abandoned it. It's great that this is web based and can be used on a device that you're not listening on.
  • safog 6y ago
    Thanks for building this! It infuriates me that they have a widget that does display the lyrics but keeps switching to random trivia every 5s. There's an open bug on spotify to have it always show lyrics but doesn't seem to receive any love.
    • invinciblycool 6y ago
      I think Spotify joined forces with Genius. And that trivia is from Genius. Sometimes the trivia is good, but I would have loved a simple lyrics widget.
• quaffapint 6y ago
  Working on a dotnet deployment platform to make the backend as simple as deploying a static site. Point to the repo and let it handle deployment, scaling, and upgrades. Like netlify for dotnet. Tech wise its hosting it all in kubernetes and building the yaml dynamically. Right now focusing on database support. The challenge is routing from external locations securely. https://bitleaf.io https://bitleaf.io
• Acedia 6y ago
  Not gaining more than 10 pounds...
• supremerumham 6y ago
  I’ve been writing a book about podcasting using stand-up comedy as examples throughout the book https://gumroad.com/l/gaMxO https://gumroad.com/l/gaMxO
• ch4s3 6y ago
  I was recently injured, but before that and as I recover I'm working on a couple of things. - I'm making improvements to my small apartment brewing setup, making a lot of beer and doing some infrequent contactless growler deliveries to friends. - I'm also playing with Phoenix LiveView[1] to make my own home brewing tools to replace the subset of BeerSmith(http://beersmith.com/ http://beersmith.com/) that I actually use. [1]
• chandsie 6y ago
  https://eater.net/6502 https://eater.net/6502 Started with just playing around with spare electronics/Arduino, but now I've gotten sucked into the wonderful world of retrocumputing via this kit from Ben Eater. I've already built the basic kit computer, and now exploring 6502.org and other websites for extending it.
• billylo 6y ago
  A shelter-at-home helper tool to avoid overspending time away from home (using wifi info, not GPS location, to protect privacy). Sends local notification every 15 minutes* to remind us to keep distance when away. (*configurable) https://home-sweet-home.app https://home-sweet-home.app
• nbclark 6y ago
  I wrote a video-integrated online poker game to try and mimic in person home games. It was easier to build than I expected using Twilio, Firebase, and React. https://pokerinplace.app https://pokerinplace.app
• WildGreenLeave 6y ago
  As a full-time Asana[0] user with Bitbucket[1] (and Github[2]) I am missing so many features with regards to connecting these two services. Meet Astogi.com[3] which essentially does the following: 1) Automatically generate unique task IDs for all created tasks. (e.g. TA-12) 2) On push in Bitbucket/Github, post a notification in the Asana task that is mention in the commit message. (e.g. Changed login form to fix TA-12) If anyone is interested hit me up! I'm in dire need of some good feedback. :) [0] https://asana.com https://asana.com [1] https://bitbucket.org https://bitbucket.org [2] https://github.com https://github.com [3] https://astogi.com https://astogi.com
  • Jemaclus 6y ago
    Awesome idea! I like mashing up services!
• jjice 6y ago
  In the back of the Dragon Book, they recommend a Pascal compiler because of it being a very structured language. I've been building it out, and I'm working on codegen right now.
• schnevets 6y ago
  Working on an online version of a party game I designed in college. I figured it could be a nice way for friends to reconnect and get their minds off the anxiety and tedium of lockdown. I want to use the Facebook Instant Games platform, but their documentation has been difficult so far. Professionally, two different clients have postponed their projects until October, which is getting a bit worrisome. Some members of my team have been advised to propose summer projects that will help automate our engagements, because Q3 will be light, but then Q4 will be a deluge of chaos and demand.
• andrew-nguyen 6y ago
  I have 2: - [1]: I took a Coin Pusher arcade game and put together some electronics and software to make it playable through a Twitch stream. I thought it'd be fun to make and an interesting idea (especially with people being stuck at home), but it hasn't really gained much traction. It's currently a functional "MVP", but I haven't gotten any players so I can't figure out how to iterate and improve it. I built it using NodeJS, C++, a Raspberry Pi, an Arduino, a 3D printer, and an assortment of electronic components. - [2]: Rebuilt my personal website. I've been hoping to write more (mostly for my own sake). One of the things that was mentally impeding me from writing was being afraid of being incorrect. I like to learn, but I think I'm a slow learner and don't always get things right the first time around. However, I tend to usually figure it out. I think writing could help me through that process (and potentially other people that are learning as well), so I think it'll be easier if I approach my writing with that perspective. I built it using GatsbyJS and its hosted with Netlify. [1]: https://www.twitch.tv/coinarcadelive https://www.twitch.tv/coinarcadelive [2]: https://www.andrew-nguyen.com https://www.andrew-nguyen.com
• ViolentSnugglez 6y ago
  Been trying to complete a project I started back in college: codeexplainer.org . It's nothing fancy, built with a MERN stack and currently trying to get it deployed on AWS. My hope is that I can integrate multiple languages (only supports vanilla.js at the moment) and eventually allow highlighting to explain "sentences" instead of just keywords.
• alecthomas 6y ago
  I've been experimenting with a programming language[1] on and off. The goal is to target the Go runtime, though I'm mostly still playing around with concurrency options. [1] https://github.com/alecthomas/langx https://github.com/alecthomas/langx
• mistermann 6y ago
  I have gotten involved in the Game B movement.
• logicprog 6y ago
  I've been working on my novel, and learning a new RPG system. I worked on my novel before quarantine too, but I'm trying to speed up my progress. I wrote 2099 words yesterday.
• gavreh 6y ago
  1. GitHub CSV Tools (https://github.com/gavinr/github-csv-tools https://github.com/gavinr/github-csv-tools) - import/export issues from GitHub 2. split-polygon-demo (https://gavinr.github.io/split-polygon-demo/ https://gavinr.github.io/split-polygon-demo/) - demonstrates the ~4 geographical operations you can perform to split a polygon into n roughly equal area polygons.
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• softwarerero 6y ago
  Quarantine (https://quarantine.softwarerero.com/ https://quarantine.softwarerero.com/) models a worst case scenario for getting herd immunity. Duobiblo (https://app.duobiblo.com/ https://app.duobiblo.com/) allows to practice a language showing chapters of the bible side-by-side with a language you already know. I learn Portuguese currently on Duolingo, which inspired the name. If a browser supports the Web Speech API for the given language it is also possible to let the browser read the text.
• jeremiahlee 6y ago
  Getting a lot of writing done and trying out magazine-style layouts for the Web. My first post was about my experience working at Spotify: https://www.jeremiahlee.com/posts/failed-squad-goals/ https://www.jeremiahlee.com/posts/failed-squad-goals/
• ashwinm 6y ago
  I'm building a saas web app where web forum (like discourse, xenforo) admins can auto-create niche content using social media/reddit.
• parondea 6y ago
  I've been building a simple time tracking app. I wanted to learn Next.js, React, TailwindCSS more thoroughly so took this opportunity to build a website I actually wanted to use. I found all the existing time trackings apps to be so bloated with features like invoicing, billing, teams, etc. I wanted something for myself to be able to keep track of how long I was spending at work and on various tasks. I'd love any feedback! https://forty.app https://forty.app
  • tminima 6y ago
    The site looks good. Kudos. I was looking for an (android) app that does this. All the apps that I tried were so bad or filled with unnecessary things that I gave up on tracking the time for now.
• quelsolaar 6y ago
  I'm building a secure. GDPR compliant, point to point alternative to Dropbox, that will wont have a monthly fee.
• rta5 6y ago
  I've been building a Controleo3 reflow oven kit (https://www.whizoo.com/controleo3 https://www.whizoo.com/controleo3). It had all been going well until yesterday when I broke one of the heating elements. Now I'll have to get another toaster oven and do a transplant. The end goal is to generally improve my ability to prototype PCBAs in my home lab, starting with a CAN gateway module that I've been designing. I'm hoping to be done with quarantine before I get to actually use the reflow oven.
  • malexw 6y ago
    Neat! Do you get paste stencils made as part of the PCBA manufacturing process? How many components a year were you hand soldering or reflowing before you decided to try and automate the process a bit more?
    • rta5 6y ago
      I've done stencils from OSH stencils before, but its not something I usually do. Typically I solder only a few hundred SMD components per year. The oven is less for reducing soldering time and more for increasing part selection; Too many parts come in leadless packages like QFNs that are painful to solder well by hand.
      • malexw 6y ago
        Got it. I have a project that I want to do based on a TI CC-1125 to connect 303 MHz devices in my home to a smart home system, but of course all the interesting parts these days come in QFNs. I was trying to decide whether I wanted to go through the trouble of reflowing it with hot air or if it was just worth the $100 for the booster pack development board. It's unfortunate that the economics of low-volume prototype manufacturing don't work out for the home designer.
• Danbana 6y ago
  I added watermarks to my video tools iOS app, and changed the name to Clippy: https://apps.apple.com/us/app//id1281825133 https://apps.apple.com/us/app//id1281825133 It's one of my smaller apps but seemed to be gaining a bit of traction. Looks like this update has not helped gain new users as the last small update did... shrug
• zaiste 6y ago
  Kretes (https://kretes.dev/ https://kretes.dev/) - a boilerplate on steroids for building full-stack TypeScript applications faster and without accidental complexity whenever possible.
• pydanny 6y ago
  My wife and I released the alpha of Two Scoops of Django 3.x: https://www.feldroy.com/products/two-scoops-of-django-3-x https://www.feldroy.com/products/two-scoops-of-django-3-x
  • sgaduuw 6y ago
    Congrats on the alpha! Will the final product also come in paperback? I have your crash course book on preorder currently :)
• nick-garfield 6y ago
  My friend and I got really frustrated by the available third-party authentication platforms like Auth0, so we began building our own instead. https://feather.id https://feather.id It's a RESTful server-side API for adding user authentication and authorization flows to your apps. We've been taking a lot of inspiration from Stripe and mostly just wanted to use an auth service with docs like Stripe :) (Please note this is still pre-pre-pre beta. The docs are incomplete and we have yet to even integrate it with our own apps, so please don't try to build an app with it yet!)
  • nick-garfield 6y ago
    Apologies in advance if you try to sign in and cannot! We're running with extremely light infra on AWS and just hit our max-db-connections to MySQL. Good lesson for the future, because it looks like we're not cleaning up the connections properly!
  • spollo 6y ago
    I already think of Auth0 as being the stripe of the auth world. What frustrations did you run into with them, and what are your goals to differentiate with feather?
    • nick-garfield 6y ago
      I really thought the same when we first integrated with Auth0 for one of our projects! Most of our frustration with them boiled down into 2 points: 1. The Auth0 universal login solution is not "white-label". It requires pushing users to an auth0.com pop-up page which has rather limited customization options. Granted they do allow their customers to upgrade to "custom domains", but they up-sell on this point (minimum $23/month) which doesn't make it ideal for us bootstrappers just wanting to get a demo running. We additionally had a handful of users mention our login flow felt insecure. We determined this to be more imagined than factual, but figured it was a result of the change in design language between our app and the auth0.com pop-up. It was particularly acute when transitioning from native iOS to a web pop-up when entering sensitive information. The underlying feedback we kept hearing around the login flow was along the lines of “why am I giving my password to this sketchy-looking website rather than to your app?” 2. The Auth0 docs and interfaces are a maze! We had a terribly difficult time piecing together tips and footnotes from the community support forums and tutorials on Google to complete the information provided in the docs themselves. There were a number of steps we needed to implement which were completely omitted from the official docs. We found others were running into the same problems as well on the community support forums. For us, this essentially resulted in a feeling that Auth0 was letting too much complexity bleed through the interfaces for the developer figure out themselves. — So these are the two driving reasons we started hacking around on Feather: - To have a truly white-label auth API - To have more intuitive interfaces and documentation
• chadlavi 6y ago
  I built a really basic typescript react design system for my personal toy/mess around web apps. It was a great excuse to learn how publishing an npm package to github packges works and learn more about styled-components.
• JangoSteve 6y ago
  Built savemifaves.org to encourage people to by gift cards to their favorite restaurants and local businesses to help them stay afloat.
• perf1 6y ago
  I started developing a chrome extension that basically allows to watch videos together (synchronizes video playback) and also has an extra twist. But Google shutting down reviews (temporarily) and all the other drama I read in the pusbullet thread on HN yesterday is a concern for me.
• mylons 6y ago
  I’ve been smoking meats @ http://www.instagram.com/tahoebbq http://www.instagram.com/tahoebbq and after messaging myself on slack to keep track of my kettlebell sets made https://apps.apple.com/us/app/simple-and-sinister/id1513275382 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/simple-and-sinister/id15132753... to simply track my sets for now. Thinking of adding some graphs to track progress and a timer this weekend.
  • mwizzle 6y ago
    Which smoker do you have? Other pro tips for equipment to get?
    • mylons 6y ago
      this is my first smoker. i had no idea what i was even getting when i ordered a traeger. a pal works there and i moved into a place with a lot of space and got me half off the Ironwood 650. I love it and would really recommend a pellet grill to start. It's _SO_ easy. you set the temp on the grill, forget it, and measure the temp of the meat. so, get a meat probe. https://www.thermoworks.com/Thermapen-Mk4 https://www.thermoworks.com/Thermapen-Mk4 is the best one, thermoworks also has probes that you can use the entire cook. lumberjack pellets are considered the best and are a great deal @ dick's https://www.dickssportinggoods.com/p/lumber-jack-competition-blend-pellets-18wtpucmpttnblnd2cfp/18wtpucmpttnblnd2cfp?sku=19046315&camp=CSE:DSG_92700048924809341_pla_pla-340551723043&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI3JHr7J276QIVJAnnCh2PNQEeEAQYASABEgIrhfD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds https://www.dickssportinggoods.com/p/lumber-jack-competition... https://www.youtube.com/user/howtobbqright https://www.youtube.com/user/howtobbqright and https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPjkdaqksNWgA63aZfQ2bAQ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPjkdaqksNWgA63aZfQ2bAQ are your mentors
      • mwizzle 6y ago
        This is amazing thanks! I do loved smoked meats, but do you have any concerns around the health / carcinogen risks associated with eating too much?
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• ccQpein 6y ago
  Wrote a common lisp client package for NATS.io.
• zciwor 6y ago
  I've been drinking more coffee than usual, but still haven't perfected my French press. The internet told me it was because of non-uniform grind size as a result of my cheap grinder. So, I knocked together something that can track coffee particle size distribution using my phone camera. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=grind.front.end https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=grind.front.en...
  • krrrh 6y ago
    This is really cool, and looks like it was a fun project to code. Any reason why it’s not available on the play store in Canada? I’d actually be satisfied with any answer here, because it would be super interesting if there was.
    • zciwor 6y ago
      No other reason than ignorance, it being my first release on the Play Store. I'll fix that now! Thanks for the heads up.
• WolfOliver 6y ago
  I'm working on https://www.monsterwriter.app/ https://www.monsterwriter.app/
• prithsr 6y ago
  (Though this surely exists) I'm working on a website that would allow people to remember their pill-routine in a more interactive way. i.e., many of my friends who are on xyz medication (from multivitamins to birth control) and tend to take them on a specific schedule, tend to start ignoring their phone's native reminders app because it gets very annoying, and some still forget. On my platform (hopefully) people will be able to access their own private dashboard where they'll be able enter info, view all, and somehow let me remind them automatically if they so choose (without me actually having access to their dashboard).
  • specialist 6y ago
    Please share whatever progress you make. Now doing eldercare. I'm desperate for tools, ideas. One huge challenge is working with people who can no longer learn. For future, I'm eager to have "futureproofed" tools, protocols, habits, skills. Embed a pill management regiment when someone reaches 60 which can serve another 20-30 years without major modification. PS- Everyone pill minder I've tried sucks. Every pharmacy app I've tried sucks. I apologize for not having constructive feedback; maybe I'm too close to the problem.
    • cwkoss 6y ago
      This highlights an interesting opportunity? How could one create a protocol/platform that can be taught to someone now, and yet continue being used by people who can no longer learn as new 'features' are added? Thinking about some sort of 'news feed'/notifications list with simple button options that could be extended by various services to include new functionality while remaining within a consistent and learnable interface, so users wouldn't have to re-learn interfaces for each service.
    • sanketskasar 6y ago
      Hi, I am working on a reminders centric product. And I think I might have a solution. Might be a naive and effective one or can be a totally useless. Can we connect and discuss? Couldn't find your email on your profile.
  • lemonberry 6y ago
• ingenieroariel 6y ago
  My quarantine side project is improving electricity in my neighborhood. Advising others on surge protectors vs elevators. Rallying others to unplug an entire new development that is leeching from our community transformer / meter. And then trying to build bridges so they start chiming in with $ if they want to connect again. Now that everyone is at their households all the time it is easier to have people pay attention to chronic problems and fix them for good. The other project is getting old computers of mine fixed up and giving them to households around with more than one child. Here in Colombia a lot of schools started doing remote but only 50% of kids have equipment to connect from.
  • bostonpete 6y ago
    > Advising others on surge protectors vs elevators. What does this mean...?
• JimWestergren 6y ago
  I finally had some more time to spend on progressing on my card game called The Space War which I am making together with my son: https://thespacewar.com/ https://thespacewar.com/
• skuthus 6y ago
  I am slowly re-shelling and modding all of my original portable consoles. In addition, I am building new ones out of parts and bulk broken shipments from ebay - and selling them for much lower than the market currently lists them.
• rocktronica 6y ago
  I've picked up indoor gardening and designed some 3D-printed, self-watering planters that screw into jars. https://blog.tommy.sh/posts/adventures-in-self-watering-planters-part-1/ https://blog.tommy.sh/posts/adventures-in-self-watering-plan...
• amake 6y ago
  I finally got my perpetual yak-shave to 1.0: an org-mode file viewer for iOS and Android https://orgro.org https://orgro.org It's cross-platform by way of Flutter. It's also open-source, so you can get it for free, or buy it on the App Store (Google Play coming soon).
  • amake 6y ago
    It’s now available on Google Play as well.
• ryan_wunjo 6y ago
  I got laid off due to covid and needed to know how long my severance/covid check was going to last me so I built a site that looks at all your recurring income and expenses and tells you when you're gonna run out of money. Definitely still a work in progress so be kind :) timetillbroke.com
• coris47 6y ago
  I've been learning websocket stuff with Socket.io. Built a game to play with other remote friends that is comically simple, but really fun: 1. Item appears on the screen (like 'vacuum', or 'Q of spades' 2. Whichever team finds it in their house first and returns with it to their screen wins a point http://www.rummagerush.com/ http://www.rummagerush.com/
• yuegui 6y ago
  I've continued to work on my open source BI application: https://github.com/shzlw/poli https://github.com/shzlw/poli The roadmap is to make it a all-in-one database application!
• cionescu 6y ago
  This quarantine I decided to restrain myself from starting a new side project (many of you might agree that we've got too many abandoned projects) and just pick one from the abandoned queue. My pick: http://seriesreminder.net http://seriesreminder.net It was going to be the first choice when you wanted a new series recommended or just wanted to see which tv shows will air this week. It was still using Rails 5 and Sprockets so I had to make the proper upgrades (including migration to Webpacker) and revamped the design using React and MaterialUI. I wrote an article about that https://medium.com/@cionescu1/how-to-use-react-components-in-active-admin-184ff63b378d https://medium.com/@cionescu1/how-to-use-react-components-in... My only goal moving forward is to find the sweet spot (not really MVP, but a nicely working state) where I can go back to just ignoring this project again
  • hariharasudhan 6y ago
    if you're using react then definitely checkout https://www.bytehub.dev/ https://www.bytehub.dev/ for some cool react components
• RyJones 6y ago
  Hacking Honda's telematics system. By hacking, I mean setting up MITM proxy.
• strtw02 6y ago
  I’ve been working on a scheduling application that will allow healthcare workers to volunteer their time. For instance, retired or at risk healthcare workers who can only video conference, behavioral health specialists. The project got started for a covid-19 hackathon. https://github.com/CareConsultApp/careconsult/ https://github.com/CareConsultApp/careconsult/
• notyourplayer 6y ago
  I’m working on a fitness platform, enabling you to find people to workout with either in your area, or with someone who shares the same interests/fitness levels as you. Super early stage, we have some designs and a landing page which you can check out here:
• orsenthil 6y ago
  A bot looking to reddit feeds to send me CoronaVirus news by email: https://github.com/orsenthil/redditbot https://github.com/orsenthil/redditbot
• mparr4 6y ago
  A partner and I started making high resolution terrain maps: https://ramblemaps.com https://ramblemaps.com We started in my home state, but are about to push a Cascade Volcano line.
• awillen 6y ago
  I started selling make-at-home frozen dog treats: https://coopersdogtreats.com/ https://coopersdogtreats.com/. It's pretty sweltering here in San Diego, so I wanted to make frozen treats for my dog, but all the recipes online are mainly yogurt (which he hates) or peanut butter (which I use to feed him his flea pills, so he flees when he smells it now). I started by putting some freeze-dried meat into a food processor until it became a dust, then I started adding some other ingredients for flavor/smell/consistency. I was really happy with the results, so I thought I'd try selling them! So far just a few sales, but I haven't done much marketing to this point.
  • Jemaclus 6y ago
    Fantastic! My dog would LOVE these!
• jabedude 6y ago
  I've been working on improving my Rust skills. I made a JA3 (TLS fingerprinting) library and some other small Rust projects.
• danesparza 6y ago
  I'm learning how to sew. Adam Savage (sewing his EDC bag) and other folks sewing masks (to give them away) have inspired me. I have found this to be a great starting point: https://youtu.be/rnTwT-ifLkU https://youtu.be/rnTwT-ifLkU
• chasing 6y ago
  Raising my child without any outside help.
• zarkov99 6y ago
  Archery. Went from worthless to mediocre on a recurve bow. I enjoy shooting at the end of the day a great deal. Plan to switch to compounds soon, maybe even hunt one day.
• vivekv 6y ago
  Took over all of cooking at home - all meals so as to give the spouse a break. Lesson learnt, cooking once in a while is fun but cooking every meal every day (in lock down from march 22nd) is really really hard since it requires meal planning and execution every day from the moment you wake up. Decided to open source some of the personal projects of mine. https://github.com/vivekhub/password-generator https://github.com/vivekhub/password-generator and https://github.com/vivekhub/simplenote-backup https://github.com/vivekhub/simplenote-backup. Nothing fancy but something I have been meaning to do and started doing it. Started learning K8S as well so that is a positive. Decided to setup a personal website https://www.vivekv.info https://www.vivekv.info as well and had to learn hugo to do that. So on the whole feeling good. Sorry about all the links and plugs but hey I am genuinely proud of what I have done :-)
  • cipherzero 6y ago
    Dude good for you! I’m jealous, it sounds like you’re using this time very productively and have learned a lot from it!
• bosky101 6y ago
  A terminal with screen recorder, replay and conferencing https://youtu.be/P3uFhJvFSFs https://youtu.be/P3uFhJvFSFs
• keycloakthemes 6y ago
  I have launched a project where I sell Keycloak themes and share tips for Keycloak users [1]. Keycloak is a very good Identity Manager but the default theme is not easily adaptable. Making new themes also requires effort and a little bit of knowledge, which means additional time to invest in learning the platform. On KeycloakThemes you can find ready-to-use themes (for now one, more to come) that you can upload and start using in 5 minutes. [1] https://keycloakthemes.com https://keycloakthemes.com
• domedefelice 6y ago
  A spaced-repetition software, inspired by SuperMemo and Anki. I'm working on reaching the simplicity of Anki, while keeping more features like in SuperMemo, e.g. native support for incremental reading. It's still in early stage but almost usable. I'm planning to push the repository on GitHub as soon as the last couple of to-dos are finished.
  • nagarjun 6y ago
    Interesting! I'm a big fan of spaced repetition. Are you building it as a native desktop/mobile app or as web app?
    • domedefelice 6y ago
      I'm building it as a web app. I'm still undecided on whether hosting it myself or just releasing it as a self-contained stand-alone app (startup script launching a lightweight webserver and opening a new tab in the browser). There are pros and cons with each approach and I'm making up my mind on the best one to follow
• platz 6y ago
  making a minimal self-hosted bookmarking site https://github.com/jonschoning/espial https://github.com/jonschoning/espial
• mixedmath 6y ago
  A unified page for math research seminars (and extending to general research seminars): https://mathseminars.org/ https://mathseminars.org/ Why not use this moment as an opportunity to set up a common portal for announcing and finding research seminars, especially since most are now delivered digitally? (This is being developed by a group of mathematicians, and I'm not the main dev, but still).
• eihli 6y ago
  I've had a feeling that certain state scratch off lottery games can be beaten thanks to certain actions the states take in the name of transparency. For example, they publish daily reports of the number of prizes remaining. A simple example is imagine a game with 10 tickets sold for $1 each and a single $9 grand prize. If 1 ticket is sold each day and if the lottery publishes the number of remaining winning tickets each day, then you can just wait 1 day and if 1 ticket was sold and 9 tickets remain and the prize wasn't claimed, well now there is a 1/9 chance of winning $9 and the expected value is even. I started scraping several state for daily numbers and calculating the expected value of each game. Every now and then one gets over 100% EV. (Not taking into account annuity discounts and taxes) https://scratchoff-odds.com https://scratchoff-odds.com It's also an excuse to try out a lot of different technology and patterns that would be too experimental for most real jobs, so it's a great side project. I'm currently working on a user section with Clojure, Fulcro (https://fulcro.fulcrologic.com/ https://fulcro.fulcrologic.com/), and Crux (https://github.com/juxt/crux https://github.com/juxt/crux). Another fun little side project that was also an excuse to work with Clojure was https://ezmonic.com/ https://ezmonic.com/. The app was built with ShadowCLJS, Re-Frame, and ReactNative. I've used the Major System mnemonic to remember things like my credit card numbers and I've always wanted to know how optimally short the mnemonics I come up with are. That app uses the CMU phonetic dictionary to search for an optimal phrase.
  • neil_s 6y ago
    Both projects seem really cool! Re: Ezmonic, would be cool to have a live version on the website, so I could try out some numbers that are personally relevant and see if I could remember the system, before deciding to download the app.
    • eihli 6y ago
      A web version was my first iteration. It's pretty barebones, but it's available. http://ezmonic.net http://ezmonic.net (Note that it's only served on `http`, so don't put any credit cards in there.) It's a good idea though to add a web version to the "marketing" page at ezmonic.com. I'll add that to my todo list. Thanks!
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• PStamatiou 6y ago
  I began learning Swift and SwiftUI and working on my first iPhone app - a simple stock tracking app. Here's some of my progress: https://twitter.com/Stammy/status/1258404361232883712 https://twitter.com/Stammy/status/1258404361232883712 (scroll up for thread)
• ljsocal 6y ago
  I’m one of the 7,400 Peace Corps Volunteers who had to suddenly evacuate from our overseas posts. I’ve organized a group of 59 leaders to support the rest of the evacuees by providing service opportunities. If you have ideas for volunteer tasks and projects (here or abroad) that can be performed remotely, please serve them up. Average PC Volunteer is 27 with above average communication and tech skills. Thanks!
• jedimastert 6y ago
  Not a side project, per se, but I've finally picked up the guitar again. I've been a musician for going on 20 years, mainly piano but I like to collect the ability to noodle on instruments. When I was around 13 I broke my left forearm and it healed in a way that limits the rotation of my wrist quite a bit. This makes playing guitar rather difficult and at the time I started to consider branching out from piano there were a bunch of factors that made me give up on being able to play guitar. I was gigging as a piano player for 10-12 hours a week, while also going to school for piano and CS I started to develop tendonitis and trying to play guitar made it a lot worse, so I quit. I'm now in a place where I can take care of my arm (and I have actual healthcare) so I started back up again. I guess HN is cool with self-promotion, so here's a jam I made with a looper pedal after about 2 weeks. I call it "More Theory Than Experience" https://youtu.be/_beFK_j-Dk8 https://youtu.be/_beFK_j-Dk8
  • Jemaclus 6y ago
    I've been playing the guitar for 20 years but I play as good as someone who has played for one year! I'm just not good at it. I love it, but I just never could get past some of the basic chords. It's very therapeutic though, so whatever. I'm enjoying it. :)
  • riantogo 6y ago
    I tried and tried and tried to play guitar. Now I can play some chords and couple strumming patterns. My only goal was to sing some easy songs and play along. But it seems that singing along requires next level of mind bending. So last week I ordered a drum kit (Yamaha dd75) and hope to have better luck with drumming. It’s a blast so far.
  • ifemide06 6y ago
    How did you learn? :) Any resources you can recommend? I used to learn but dropped it as couldnt find good resource to learn on my own
    • jedimastert 6y ago
      I took a rather circuitous route of playing and learning piano for 15 or so years (I'm 25 btw, I just started early) and being a massive theory nerd. I also taught myself piano until I got to college, which I think gave me unique perspective but I also know took waaay longer than it I'd just taken lessons. At the same time, I really enjoyed learning as a passion instead of a commitment. There were times I walked away but I always came back. That's just me though; if you learn better with the mild pressure of a teacher's tutting that's absolutely valid. I've currently teaching myself as I just love exploring. I've watched some youtube videos about scales and I follow a few guitarists on youtube (samurai guitarist[0] comes to mind and Paul Davids[1] has probably been my biggest influence in my ability to play). Other than that, it's all been throwing all of my experience at it and seeing what sticks and what doesn't. Definitely record yourself once and a while to see what's working, and listen to a lot, both passively and actively, and try to spot what you like and really analyze it. speaking of which, I've found music theory to be completely indispensable in my ability to self-study. Being able to take what I heard and internalize it, and being able to take what's in my head into my hands is absolutely essential.
• randymorse 6y ago
  Ive been making beef jerky
• wilbertliu 6y ago
  I built nicetweeps.com to diversify my Twitter timeline ;)
• kentlyons 6y ago
  I've been making progress with my art project. I made an attachment for my 3d printer to turn it into a pen plotter. And then wrote a bunch of code to turn an image into a stylized CMYK pen drawing. https://youtu.be/Vxd-ndoMD1o https://youtu.be/Vxd-ndoMD1o
• ryanstorm 6y ago
  I lasted about two weeks without climbing before I built myself free-standing backyard climbing wall: https://www.westby.io/woody/ https://www.westby.io/woody/ I had to pick up all the tools for it, and with those I'm on a kick for other craft projects. I have plans for some wooden climbing holds, a raised planter box, a little free library for the neighborhood, a bench. Woodworking is such a fun hobby I didn't know I liked. I think it's because it's so tangential to tech.
• arkokoley 6y ago
  Taking my master's thesis project and turning it into a Analytics SaaS for Social Networks. My master's thesis[1] was a generic model for social capital based on Engagement and results in metrics of engagement and influence in a social network. For testing this out I built a social network[2] for sharing preprint and published papers. I am now generalising the metric calculating backend and providing it as a an API+Dashboards for other social networks who want to understand their network structure and identify members who enjoy a lot of attention, those who might not be popular across the entire network but enjoy a cult like status amongst their followers and people who participate the most on the network. [1] https://goodwill.zense.co.in/resources/6203_Gratia__Computing_Social_Capital_as_Engagement_and_Belief_Revision https://goodwill.zense.co.in/resources/6203_Gratia__Computin... [2] https://goodwill.zense.co.in/ https://goodwill.zense.co.in/
• hackeraccount 6y ago
  Ha ha - I'm such a slacker. It's getting IPv6 working the way I want it at home. Currently I'm playing around with getting the DHCP server to add a AAAA record. I'm actually still using Unique Local Addresses (ULAs) addresses while I figure out how this all works. Once I've got that I'll play around with the firewall. And then get an actual external working address. But I think I want to keep that ULA. It's super simple stuff and I move amazingly slowly. It's also sad compared to other people in this thread who are starting businesses and creating software that will save the world.
• darekkay 6y ago
  I've made some good progress on my Dashboard project [1] during the quarantine. Currently I'm (re-)writing the tests from enzyme to react-testing-library. I've also decided to redesign my Bookmarks app [2] recently - it's now one of my few designs that I'm really happy with :) [1] https://dashboard.darekkay.com/ https://dashboard.darekkay.com/ [2] https://darekkay.com/static-marks/ https://darekkay.com/static-marks/
• JoeCummins 6y ago
  Building a high fidelity visual approach to my Quickbooks implementation. Current UI is terrible and very misleading.
• astashov 6y ago
  Building a weightlifting workout tracker, as a mobile PWA: https://www.liftosaur.com https://www.liftosaur.com There're a lot of apps that are either focused on one weightlifting routine (like 5x5 StrongLifts or Five3One) - they do nice job leading you through the routine, but if you want to try another one, you basically need another app. And if you want to create a custom routine, you're out of luck. There're also generic ones, like Strong or Jefit, but it's hard to make them follow some specific routine, increasing and decreasing weights automatically, changing exercises when necessary, etc. I thought - how hard would it be to create a platform, that'd support many routines, and you'd choose any, and have a consistent UI across them you got used to? Another thing I wanted to see - how hard it is to create a PWA app that is nice to use, and what features are still lacking there (compared to native experience). The app is already in a usable shape, I use it 3 times a week, though it only has one working routine now. It's written in Preact/Redux/TypeScript. It's a surprisingly pleasant experience to have a personal project like that, and slowly build it in your own pace, working on features you care, that would actually help you in your workouts. I found myself sometimes working on it til late night, being in that "flow", like in the beginning of my career, having so much fun, and returning back the joy of coding!
  • rantwasp 6y ago
    website does not load for me
• JoeCummins 6y ago
  Building a high fidelity visual engine for my Quickbooks (QBO) implementation. The current UI / UX is terrible...
• taosx 6y ago
  Building a custom engine for my blog/playground with hyped technologies (svelte, rust[api]/graphql, k8s).
• softwarerero 6y ago
  I post this a second time as it seems to have been deleted: Quarantine (https://quarantine.softwarerero.com/ https://quarantine.softwarerero.com/) models a worst case scenario for reaching herd immunity without finding a cure. Duobiblo (https://app.duobiblo.com/ https://app.duobiblo.com/) allows to practice a language showing chapters of the bible side-by-side with a language you already know. I learn Portuguese currently on Duolingo, which inspired the name. If a browser supports the Web Speech API for the given language it is also possible to let the browser read the text.
  • dang 6y ago
    Your original comment wasn't deleted. There are just so many comments in the thread that the software is paging them, so you have to click through the More links at the bottom to see them all.
• ASquirrelsTail 6y ago
  I made an emulator of the Turing Tumble marble-powered mechanical computer where can use to work on puzzles together in real time so I can keep teaching my nephew computer science remotely. You can try it out here: http://tumble-together.herokuapp.com/ http://tumble-together.herokuapp.com/ It was great to use its development to teach about MVPs, and then he helped teach me some harsh lessons about feature creep!
• DaveWM 6y ago
  I've got a couple of side projects on the go: 1. Intention (https://i.ntention.app https://i.ntention.app) - a todo app where your todos are arranged in a DAG. 2. JSON Viewer (https://json-viewer.io https://json-viewer.io) - a simple web app for displaying JSON reports in a nice UI.
• RMPR 6y ago
  I'm working on a macro recorder https://github.com/rmpr/atbswp https://github.com/rmpr/atbswp, I recently made a release, you can try it :)
• mrozbarry 6y ago
  We do mob programming at work, and one of the main tools we use is a timer. Plenty of apps out there for timing on one machine, not many for sharing the timer. I started spiking out a shared/collaborative timer. That eventually became https://mobti.me https://mobti.me , and it's working well for us. If anyone else tries it, I'd be very happy to get feedback here or on twitter ( @mobtime_app ).
  • posedge 6y ago
    Would like to try it out, but I don't know what mob programming/mob team ist. Maybe mention that on the front page?
• resume384 6y ago
  A multi host capable personal cloud computing platform. Using primarily existing technologies and influenced by the "Arch Way" (Simplicity, Modernity, Pragmatism, User centrality, Versatility) the design requires a small amount of technical attention and allows a wide range of functionality. To make it immediately useful, I'm creating a few simple applications and utilities: data, social, personal apps.
• napolux 6y ago
  Started publishing some LCB (Low Content Books) on Amazon KDP. Not doing that for the money, but I would like to publish a "real book" someday, so I've learnt a lot about the Amazon self-publishing platform. So far, 3 sales.
• cmrdporcupine 6y ago
  Making a pair of skis. From wood from my own property.
• Arkdy 6y ago
  https://devpost.com/software/coronavirus-charts-org https://devpost.com/software/coronavirus-charts-org https://github.com/rainbow-bamboo/coronavirus-charts/ https://github.com/rainbow-bamboo/coronavirus-charts/ I've been making a way for reporters to cite covid-19 data and models through a url based citation system. All help is welcome ^_^
• skadimoolam 6y ago
  I have been working on https://bestoflaravel.com https://bestoflaravel.com It's a content curation site, where Laravel developers can learn more about the PHP framework.
• bondolo 6y ago
  I am working on a novel. It is the third novel/story I have started since 2016. I will probably abandon it before completion but I am practicing and improving my writing. Eventually I hope be able to write a complete novel. I haven't had anyone review the writing as I am still at the point where self diagnosis and correction is fairly obvious (I make a LOT of mistakes). There is plenty of good writing advice and exercises on the Internet; my writing problems are extremely typical for new writers. Like my early software, I expect that my current novel will eventually collapse under the weight of inherent lousiness. I will then start again and do better.
  • Jemaclus 6y ago
    Don't abandon it! Keep writing! Then publish it so I can say I cheered on a budding writer on HN :) I'm sure it's a wonderful story!
• derwiki 6y ago
  I built http://www.postcardmailer.us http://www.postcardmailer.us a few years ago as a spaghetti jQuery project, and am working on transitioning it to React.
• larrykubin 6y ago
  I started a YouTube channel to explore commission free trading API's, automated trading, and stock market data: https://youtube.com/parttimelarry https://youtube.com/parttimelarry Up to 2,000 subscribers now which is very motivating! I feel like there is a lot of demand for this information, but there is a shortage of people who are sharing how to implement trading systems with Python. So I'm teaching myself and sharing on YouTube as I learn.
• maarten3 6y ago
  I built an Ethereum version of Reddit r/place called https://etherdoek.com https://etherdoek.com. All Ethereum art projects so far rely on storing data off chain. I wanted to show that it's possible to store everything on Ethereum. That way blockchain qualities like censorship resistance are preserved. The canvas will exist as long as Ethereum. I posted it earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22813519 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22813519
• dekhn 6y ago
  Catching up on a few maker projects I wanted to do for some time. Meshroom is a image to 3D model system, I hate taking a hundred photos manually, so cooked up a rotating platform, greenscreen, and some high power LED lights. Most of the work is just tedious wiring, reducing the total number of power supplies, power cables, etc. Results are pretty good- I can take ~100-200 photos in a few minutes, import into Meshroom, and have a 3D model an hour later.
• standeven 6y ago
  Designed a sanitary foot pull and launched a web store - https://www.pedipull.com https://www.pedipull.com Normally I manage a team and write software for the oil and gas industry but oil isn't doing so great these days. We used some mechanical engineering resources design it, laser cut it and prototyped it in the office bathroom, determined freedom to operate after a review of existing patents, and launched the webstore on Shopify with a colleague. This all happened in about two days!
• brettev 6y ago
  Been doing a lot of meat smoking, but also toying with https://phonefilter.io https://phonefilter.io - easy set up a rick roll or a redirect phone number. Basically a throw away number with a bunch of configurable uses. Just a simple drop down to change what the number "does" Also https://www.instagram.com/bestofstackoverflow/ https://www.instagram.com/bestofstackoverflow/ - funny stack overflow posts
• rozgo 6y ago
  https://twitter.com/rozgo/status/1255961525187235842 https://twitter.com/rozgo/status/1255961525187235842 Real-time avatars with our deep computer vision pipeline; developed with GStreamer, Rust and LibTorch. This CV pipeline is usually used for training robots inside simulations and generating synthetic datasets. But given the circumstances, thought it would be fun to explore other use cases.
  • rozgo 6y ago
    https://youtu.be/QVRpstP5Qws https://youtu.be/QVRpstP5Qws Using my own face live through webcam.
  • sadok 6y ago
    I would love a consumer-ready version of this!
  • bsenftner 6y ago
    Cool work. I went bankrupt trying to turn similar tech into an advertising platform 15 years ago. Long before the term 'deep fakes' I had a fully functional photo to 3D avatar reconstruction pipeline and VFX production pipeline for realistic actor replacement in media. I went as far as acquiring global patents. But I was too early - no one believed what I was doing was possible in '08 (when I was pitching my working system to VCs). By '13 I was exhausted, broke and dismayed at the short sighted and entitled attitudes I'd encountered. I gave up and now work in facial recognition.
• EnderMB 6y ago
  After receiving an email from a Big N recruiter, I decided to spend the last month working through LeetCode problems. I'm glad I did, because literally every job I've applied for has had some kind of Codility or HackerRank style test - even bog-standard developer jobs have asked DSA-style questions. Yesterday, I was asked a Dynamic Programming question for a full-stack developer role at a bank. It seems like these kind of interviews are becoming the norm, so I'll probably spend the rest of my furlough time working through DSA courses, grinding LeetCode, and doing daily Codility tests for different companies.
• cryogenicplanet 6y ago
  Been working on a Twitter bot to automatically source information, honestly, its been the only thing keeping me alive and not super bored. The stack is Node.js and Python(Tornado) Shameless plug, https://twittersourcebot.tech/ https://twittersourcebot.tech/
• tebeka 6y ago
  Wrote too (small) books so far - Go Brain Teasers (https://gum.co/iIQT https://gum.co/iIQT) - Python Brain Teasers (https://gum.co/iIQT https://gum.co/iIQT) Working on the 3rd ...
• chadwittman 6y ago
  Building out Houseparty for families, auto-highlighted into keepsakes: https://trypersonalive.com https://trypersonalive.com
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• Aeolun 6y ago
  Given that the schools are all closed, playing with my child has become my side project. I’m also trying to build something to keep track of enterprise product requirements, since this is the eternal bane of my day job.
• skeebuzz 6y ago
  My girlfriend (Spanish teacher) and I are in full lockdown atm (Colombia), so we started a blog project: https://triplechili.com https://triplechili.com. The idea is to find interesting content that's only available in English, and translate it to make it available in Spanish, while at the same time providing some tools for language learners. This came out of my own efforts to find content in both languages to help me learn Spanish. So we display posts in both languages and if you click on a sentence it highlights the same sentence in the other language. Right now it's just the boilerplate next.js + strapi (headless cms) that I found, but we're in the process of coming up with a proper design.
• jamesogrant 6y ago
  I put this together: https://copyscanpaste.com https://copyscanpaste.com ...to easily copy and paste long links, test creds, etc. to test devices.
• rchaudhary 6y ago
  I started https://www.programmerweekly.com/ https://www.programmerweekly.com/ - A language agnostic weekly newsletter for programmers.
• tziki 6y ago
  I've been writing a modern Zettelkasten-based note taking implementation. Planning to open source and release the initial version in a couple of weeks, the MVP is coming along nicely. I was looking for a Zettelkasten note taking app which would 1. work on laptop and phone 2. wouldn't have any vendor lock-in and 3. wouldn't go away if a single company folded - couldn't find one, so I started writing one. I'm writing it as a PWA to make it available ~everywhere and planning to use dropbox/google drive/whichever as the backend so users will have full control over their notes. I'm amazed how much you can accomplish with modern web tech stack. I can literally bypass any need for a server by having the user connect to their cloud! I can just create a PWA and publish it as an app! On the downside I've learned that some features are hard to implement with above requirements using PWAs though. For example, only Chrome supports some level of filesystem access, so storing notes locally would mean discriminating by browser, which I don't feel great about.
  • noufalibrahim 6y ago
    That's incredible. I decided to do exactly the same thing in go (since I'm trying to learn it) and have some pieces working. Mine is command line based and I'm trying to build in an Emacs mode for it since it's my primary interface.
    • fredsir 6y ago
      Is it up somewhere?
      • noufalibrahim 6y ago
        Not yet. Still working on it locally.
  • taliesinb 6y ago
    I have wanted to do exactly this for a long time. E.g. Bear is great but I want to make all kinds of modifications to it but I can't. How do I follow along?
• the_pwner224 6y ago
  I'm making high power LED-based home lighting. I was inspired by this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21660718 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21660718 Basically our hourses are 1-3 orders of magnitude dimmer than the outside; this is not good. Ben Kuhn's approach was to buy a big 30k lumen LED bulb for $100. I am doing a more DIY approach with a number of small LED COBs. Each finished module will output 13.5k lumens for a bit less than $100 (so multiple will be needed per room), but it comes with a number of benefits: - The light is extremely high quality, almost the exact same as sunlight. Fluorescent bulbs and normal LEDs do not give off the full spectrum of visible light we get from the sun and incandescent bulbs. In fact I tried growing some plants indoors a while ago, and even though they were seemingly well-lit they ended up dying due to a lack of light. - The light can be dimmed to warm. Each module has four LED COBs. Three are bright white and put out 13.5k total lumens. The other one is a warmer white which should be useful at night - like IRL flux/redshift. And these can all be dimmed smoothly from 100% to 1% brightness. - The modules are controlled with an ESP8266, so they have WiFi. Aside from controlling them via a phone/computer, I am going to set up a Raspberry Pi running some timed scripts to automatically adjust them. For example they can all turn on in the morning as a natural wake up alarm (I have a separate alarm clock project I'm working on to give this a normal physical alarm clock interface). And I'm going to investigate using PIR sensors to make them automatically respond to human presence. In the end this method is a bit more expensive than just buying high power bulbs (and more expensive than buying normal bulbs, but you would need like 70 of them in a room to match the total light output), but it has a number of seemingly useful advantages. Right now I'm working on the second (and hopefully final) prototype; the first was electrically OK but had thermal issues (LEDs still get very hot!). It's an interesting break from normal software engineering. There's a huge emphasis on getting it right, and on getting it right the first time. Since there are a couple of amps of power running through the system, it needs to be well designed and safe from the very beginning. And $6 shipping every time you order from DigiKey punishes iteration heavily, since if you're making small iterations then your shipping will be much more expensive than the parts. I spent probably around 60 hours researching before making the first order. After finding out that the thermal solution was inadequate I spent a bunch of time theoretically fixing that and finishing up every single loose end (up to well over 100 hours total now). So now my second order will very likely result in a 100% complete, functional, and safe (I think!) product. The only thing left is to design a lamp-style enclosure. The module is small enough to replace a lightbulb in an overhead socket, but the wiring would need to be changed slightly and working through a small hole in the ceiling is not really practical.
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• ezzato 6y ago
  I'm building a search engine to find free web services. https://freeplan.app https://freeplan.app It's a week old now and I have around 2000 services listed. This services rose from my own need to understand how to build something as cheap as possible. Working on this gave me the understanding how many services gives you a free plan which is good enough to solve a problem you care.
• jonotime 6y ago
  * Learning to make sourdough bread. * Some home audio hacking. Right now this means turning my old CHIP computer into a bluetooth receiver. * Ripping tapes to mp3. I have a box of 100 tapes of my old jam sessions. I borrowed a tape deck and I'm ripping them one by one using Audacity.
• blueridge 6y ago
  I've discovered the world of fountain pens! I purchased a TWSBY pen, Pilot ink, and a notebook with Tomoe River paper. I feel like I have been missing out on a truly wonderful handwriting experience for my entire adult life. I had no idea pens could be so enjoyable.
• par 6y ago
  Meta Meme, a photo/video meme maker with lots of templates to choose from. https://metameme.app/ https://metameme.app/
• Infinitesimus 6y ago
  I've been trying to get into deep learning and natural language procession. The cold start problem is real and there is lots of material out there with varying quality. End goal: I'm based in the US now but come from a small ethnic group in Ghana (Konkomba) and recently came to the sand realization that our language will die over time. I want to build enough tools for translating to and from English and in the process perhaps learn things about language that fit with the models of the most popular languages today. Unrelated, going to finally setup a personal website to host pictures and 99% chance it'll be WordPress-based.
  • navanchauhan 6y ago
    So, I just created this account to reply to you. You definitely need to check out this project called Wikitongues ( https://wikitongues.org https://wikitongues.org ). You can single handedly save your language from going extinct
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    • Infinitesimus 6y ago
      Thank you!!
• stev3 6y ago
  Since I can't play basketball with people, I built an app that helps me play basketball with myself. It uses object detection to identify me shooting and the ball going in or not and then creates a heatmap in real-time. Sort of like fitbit for basketball. I had to do some labelling myself, but it didn't take too long and it's working! I try to beat my shooting percentage from the day before. I put it on the Apple App Store to start and I'll build an android version next. You can see a live demo here: https://www.myshotcount.com/ https://www.myshotcount.com/
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  • nkristoffersen 6y ago
    super cool! I love the markers on the court. Super clear.
    • stev3 6y ago
      Thanks! Trying to make it as simple as possible.
  • dylanblanchard 6y ago
    This is so cool! It's been a while since I'd looked at Homecourt[0], but it looks like they've expanded quite beyond the shot tracking. Cool that you're competing against Steve Nash hah This is super neat though, looking forward to following along. Would love to sign up for a newsletter if yas had one. [0] https://www.homecourt.ai https://www.homecourt.ai
    • stev3 6y ago
      Thanks, man. I built it, showed some friends, and then learned there was a competitor, but that's cool. The world needs more than one and for some reason they don't offer anything to the billions of android users. Based on my conversations with users, shot tracking is most used feature by far. There are a bunch of other services that help with dribbling [0] and drills [1]. [0] https://dribbleup.com/ https://dribbleup.com/ [1] https://www.94feetofgame.com/app https://www.94feetofgame.com/app <- also a Steve Nash project
• leonagano 6y ago
  Launched a newsletter https://before90s.substack.com https://before90s.substack.com where I talk about what modern businesses can learn from pre-internet era companies. Things like distribution channels, a/b testing, use of influencers were all methods used by those "old companies".... I think there are many different articles telling stories about modern companies and how they are winning in our times. The same is not true for those companies created before 90s though. There are a lot to learn from pre-Internet era companies and apply to businesses and products nowadays.
  • humblecurator 6y ago
    Subscribed!
• hkaju 6y ago
  Tl;dr: I built an app called Supplies (https://apps.apple.com/ee/app/supplies-home-inventory-app/id1503927871 https://apps.apple.com/ee/app/supplies-home-inventory-app/id...) to help me track and plan my food and other supplies. When the lockdown started, I noticed I had a two food-related problems: 1) I was used to stopping by the grocery store more or less every day on my way home from work so I had no habit of planning ahead for more than a few days at a time. 2) In order to fit a week+ worth of food in my apartment, I had to distribute it between a few nooks and crannies which made it difficult to track what items I had where. To help transition to my new once-a-week shopping schedule, I used Trello at first but that quickly grew unmanageable. So I decided to spend some time to build myself the right tool for the job. I realized other people may have run into the same issues I had so I tought I’d release it to the App Store.
• aml183 6y ago
  I started finally spending time building my personal brand. I am writing twice a week about content strategy and hosting a weekly video podcast. https://www.arilewis.com/ https://www.arilewis.com/
• ernopp 6y ago
  I made https://lessnoise.net/ https://lessnoise.net/, which recommends who you should unfollow on Twitter (right now it's very basic and just shows you who tweets the most out / is noisiest of everyone you follow) Would love to hear any feedback!
• parkeragee 6y ago
  I have 2 that I'm currently working on. 1. HireRemotely - Real-time job opening notifications from the best remote-friendly companies. (https://hireremotely.co https://hireremotely.co) 2. Sugar Shack CRM - Build, manage, and grow your cookie business (https://sugarshackcrm.com https://sugarshackcrm.com)
• bbno4 6y ago
  Ciphey - automated decryption tool using deep neural networks & natural language processing :) https://github.com/brandonskerritt/ciphey https://github.com/brandonskerritt/ciphey
• cmacnasty 6y ago
  I finally started live streaming! Currently focused on improving at my all-time favorite board game, Terraforming Mars. If you're into a healthy mix of try-hard gaming and silly shenanigans, come on by! https://www.twitch.tv/hodgep0dge https://www.twitch.tv/hodgep0dge
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• frasermince 6y ago
  I'm working on a project to help people learn languages from reading books: https://unchart.io/ https://unchart.io/ I've been using machine learning to highlight different parts of speech which I've found makes looking at a foreign language slightly less overwhelming. My stack is Elixir + React Native + Purescript + Spacy for the machine learning.
• daijj 6y ago
  Working on a development project surrounding user engagement with content creators and having users help drive the content that the creators come up with. (although it isn't ready yet).
• kiernanmcgowan 6y ago
  Siev - a fuzzy reverse image search API. Siev lets you match images even if they have been modified by text, watermarks, or other alterations. https://siev.io https://siev.io
• smilebot 6y ago
  I've been taking some time to improve my dev experience. I've been writing some scripts for common tasks and setting up aliases, getting to know VSCode shortcuts better etc.
• itsAustinKing 6y ago
  I built a collaborative whiteboard tool for interviews. https://interviewboard.io https://interviewboard.io Generate a unique whiteboard and share with a friend to see it in action. We were struggling to conduct software architecture interviews since going remote at my job because we no longer had a whiteboard, so I built InterviewBoard to fix this. I've been surprised by the ways people have used it. I originally anticipated people would only use it for software architecture, but data scientists have also told me they find it very useful. I'm still currently allowing as many free whiteboards as you want. Hope you find it useful! If you have any feedback I'd appreciate it at aking@interviewboard.io
  • Imanari 6y ago
    Careful, the public board shows porn
    • itsAustinKing 6y ago
      Hahahaha jesus christ. Of course this happened. Appreciate you letting me know!
  • cesarferradas 6y ago
    That's awesome Austin, will take a look and recommend it at my workplace.
    • austinking 6y ago
      Hey Cesar, that's great to hear. Mind shooting me an email at aking@interviewboard.io? Would love to run through some questions to get product feedback if you have the time. Stay well!
• jmsad 6y ago
  Video Chat Game Night: https://vcgamenight.com https://vcgamenight.com As the name suggests, this web app is meant to help groups of friends play some common party games (Cards Against Humanity, Taboo, Poker, etc.) over Video Chat.
  • nbclark 6y ago
    This is cool. I did something similar for just poker (https://pokerinplace.app https://pokerinplace.app). Would love to chat and share notes.
• ramsj 6y ago
  I've been working on a way to find Android apps that don't have ads or in app purchases. There are quite a few high quality apps. For example, just replaced Dark Sky weather app with Geometric Weather. I would never have found Geometric Weather without a tool like this. Would love feedback from the community: https://reallyfreeapps.appspot.com https://reallyfreeapps.appspot.com
• raivo 6y ago
  I'm helping educators so they can offer home based camp experiences to kids. Ages 4-9 right now. https://www.kidshomecamp.com/ https://www.kidshomecamp.com/ Additional plans include: - home work help, maybe even proper homeschooling classes; - setups for public school teachers to run their classes (I hear the current experience leaves a lot to be desired). If someone has public school teacher contacts interested in experimenting with delivery, I'd love to talk to them.
• hobs 6y ago
  Working on a unity game inspired by cookie clicker to destroy all onions in the universe. If you want a preview build my email is in my profile, but dont expect much so far :)
• mayormcmatt 6y ago
  My coworker and I got laid off, so we decided to play around with React and the Mapbox GL JS API to generate this map of restaurants open for take-out in the SF East Bay (from static data scraped from our local alt-weekly paper). It was really fun and interesting to do. We're now working on a Reddit clone that uses (again) React and Firestore (for auth and storage). It's just for education, not some planned product. http://www.eastbay-takeout.com/ http://www.eastbay-takeout.com/
  • adultSwim 6y ago
    Sorry you lost your job
  • Jemaclus 6y ago
    Great map! It's hard to find good restaurants in the East Bay through the major sites...
• pbnjay 6y ago
  A Project/Team management tool for academics: https://delv.io/ https://delv.io/ Professors have to run research groups in addition to teaching and committee work. It's very similar but different from the industry/corporate world so I'm working to tailor things specifically to academia. I had actually started it before the pandemic, but it's even more relevant now! Trying to get a beta out soon very soon, and some real screenshots for the website. It's about 80% there but things are finally moving again for me.
  • bmogen 6y ago
    Really interesting! A space I've thought a lot about after making the PhD-> startup transition and realizing the total lack of administrative training academic professors get (and the frustration of their students). Would love to connect and see if I can be helpful in any way!
    • pbnjay 6y ago
      Certainly! You can contact me using the email in my profile.
• jchoong 6y ago
  Been helping a 501c3 charity buy PPE for donation send to individual healthcare workers. https://www.humankindnow.org https://www.humankindnow.org (work is still ongoing. After starting with hospitals/critical zones/etc we've now started with the underserved non 'headline' communities ) Now contemplating a group buy for general public/businesses with the re-opening to top off the work. https://bit.ly/groupbuymasks https://bit.ly/groupbuymasks
• AxiomaticSpace 6y ago
  I had a very stress inducing experience where I couldn't find something at home depot and had to ask an employee where it was, which was hard to do since talking to strangers during a pandemic is stressful even when everyone has masks on. So I had the thought of making a chatbot that is hooked up to their inventory database that can tell you where particular items are located. I'm just building the first prototype entirely in AWS, both to learn AWS and to make it easier on myself. I figure that shoppers will use it because talking to a chatbot feels safer than asking someone in real life, and businesses will want it because it gets people out the door faster so the lines to get in are shorter.
  • adultSwim 6y ago
    I'm sorry you are bugging
• novamostra 6y ago
  One friend had the idea of playing bingo using video chat programs, so I built http://bingofor.fun http://bingofor.fun, a simple page which generate Bingo Cards for free. The host of the game has to generate a new game, and then he can generate as many cards as he want. He can also share the game code with the players to generate their own cards. Every card has it's own ID for validation and everything expires after 8 days. The cards are print friendly for the classic players and for the new generation, the view card page implements simple mechanics to mark the numbers during the game. PHP, Pure css and mysql to avoid duplicate cards!
• aryamansharda 6y ago
  I'm primarily an iOS developer and wanted to start learning web development so I built two really simple sites: http://pointillism.digitalbunker.dev/ http://pointillism.digitalbunker.dev/: I've always been into generative art, so I built this site that takes a source image and recreates it in a Pointillism style http://gitrandom.digitalbunker.dev/ http://gitrandom.digitalbunker.dev/ : Generally when I'm struggling to come up with project ideas, I'll just browse GitHub. This site lets you explore random GitHub projects by language and topic. I built the sites using Vapor, so I could continue to use Swift and just learn one new thing at a time. I'm probably going to pick up some iOS app too to leverage the new hobbies people are discovering being at home (i.e. bread making).
• andrewicarlson 6y ago
  I got pretty tired of virtual happy hours and social events where there were people I was socially-adjacent to, but not very familiar with that I kept talking over. I've been working on https://mixaba.com https://mixaba.com to help solve that problem. It sorts people into small "rooms" and then shuffles the occupants so you get new people to talk to. It's currently in MVP and I'd like to add more "fun" features to it to push it further into the social space and keep it out of the enterprise territory that MS Teams and Zoom occupy.
  • michealr 6y ago
    Cool, really like this idea, what are you using for the video chat to allow programmatically changing people? and how do you handle the data loads for hosting video? could imagine it could get pricey or is it peer to peer
    • andrewicarlson 6y ago
      Thanks! I'm using Twilio's Programmable Video API https://www.twilio.com/docs/video https://www.twilio.com/docs/video so there is a cost, but it's not a pre-provisioned service so it's manageable.
• kuzaxe 6y ago
  I created an app called 'Calcula' (iOS - Free) to help individuals strengthen their math skills. Built with SwiftUI. I'm surprised by how much documentation and tutorials are available online! But it's been really interesting learning the process of publishing an app. Each feature brings a 100 challenges but it's been fun overcoming every mountain.
• adultSwim 6y ago
  Not killing my mature neighbors
• dang 6y ago
  All: apologies for the interruption, but don't miss that there are multiple pages in this thread, with over 2000 posts by now. You have to click through the More links at the bottom to see them all. Later pages have all kinds of stuff that is just as interesting. It's kind of incredible. (We intend to get rid of pagination once the next implementation of Arc is ready.)
  • ermir 6y ago
    Since this thread has been extremely popular, is there a possibility to make this a regular monthly thread, similar to "Who wants to be hired"?
    • dang 6y ago
      Yes, that has been on my mind for a while and this thread could hardly be a clearer indicator. What should it be called? What day should it go out?
      • justinjc 6y ago
        Perhaps: Ask HN: What are you making?
        • bizzleDawg 6y ago
          Something side-project specific might be better, lest it becomes a list of pitches!
      • ermir 6y ago
        If you do make it monthly, my recommendation is posting it on the 15th of every month, to stagger it with the other regular threads. This way you don't make the start of the month a scramble of postings.
        • dang 6y ago
          For sure it should be counter-cyclical with Who Is Hiring, but I was wondering if maybe it would be good to put on weekends.
• crucialfelix 6y ago
  Fingerpicking guitar
• adultSwim 6y ago
  Learning to play the banjo
• nkristoffersen 6y ago
  I'm building a treasure hunt web app (for mobile). An app for exploring the city. Had to learn a lot about geo APIs. But may have a potential business model now for larger city-wide events. Have a redesign mocked up now. Started writing the week before Easter and finished the week after. - Web geo APIs to guide you to the next "treasure". - Webcam API to capture matching photo. - "AI" for matching photos and answers to questions in the backend. - the "AI" doesn't work well, planning to add a python Lambda with a better SSIM algo. The hardest part so far has been permissions in iOS. If the user blocked geo permissions for Safari it is kind of a pain to enable again for a normal user. I haven't had a chance to test in Android yet but I presume that will present other challenges regarding permissions. https://app.huntsi.com https://app.huntsi.com
  • meisterbrendan 6y ago
    Yo this is super cool
  • darkwater 6y ago
    This looks more playful but I guess you are aware of GeoCaching (https://www.geocaching.com/play https://www.geocaching.com/play)
• Saketme 6y ago
  I'm working on a cross-platform markdown editor written using Kotlin multiplatform: https://github.com/saket/press https://github.com/saket/press. The plan is to start with an Android app and a macOS app to solve for my personal use-case and add more platforms in the future. The primary motivation was the lack of good markdown apps that sync between Android and macOS. Bear notes is the closest, but they don't have any plans of creating an Android app.
  • Jemaclus 6y ago
    This is cool! I love Bear as an editor.
• chaitanyapandit 6y ago
  I built Logicboard: https://logicboard.com https://logicboard.com a tool for conducting remote programming interviews. It's like Google Hangouts + you can write/run code in over 28 languages. It's kinda amazing how much you can learn building something new, I improved my Elixir, ReactJS and Devops skills.
• sahoo 6y ago
  Supposed to be learn piano. But logistics is dead. So, it's not shipped yet. More than a month passed since ordering.
• kichik 6y ago
  I open-sourced a Python library that makes it easy to offload functions to AWS Lambda. Compared to other frameworks, it's a bit more like Celery instead of focusing on HTTP API. https://github.com/CloudSnorkel/lovage/ https://github.com/CloudSnorkel/lovage/ app = lovage.Lovage(lovage.backends.AwsLambdaBackend("lovage-test")) @app.task def hello(x): return x + 1 if __name__ == "__main__": app.deploy(root=".", requirements=["requests"]) print("hello.invoke(1) returned", hello.invoke(1))
• deepan_s 6y ago
  https://thelovetab.com https://thelovetab.com I have been spending most of my free time on it for a while. It's a chrome plugin that shows random tweets from the user's like list, every time a new browser tab is opened. A few of my friends have been using this tool for the past few weeks and the feedback is positive so far. This is my first side project that has reached the launch stage.
  • chirag64 6y ago
    Looks really cool. Looking forward to trying it out on Firefox :)
    • deepan_s 6y ago
      Hey thanks for the feedback. I am planning to start working on the Firefox version once I get some validation on the idea.
• kartoos 6y ago
  Instead of stating something new, I updated and added all the features i wanted in an app. I built the app to help me make solutions for reagents in chemistry lab , I was getting irritated by the calculations every time i had to perform a reaction in lab. It balances any valid chemical equation and gives you stoichiometric calculations with support for limiting reagents. With their molar masses. Also supports equations with fractional atom molecule (Doped Materials)( which was the real reason i made this). It has 65k+ total downloads with 10k active users. Feed back is welcome (Noob at programming,Nano Physicist by education) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kharblabs.balancer.equationbalancer https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kharblabs....
• ian-g 6y ago
  Right now I'm finally getting back to a chip8 emulator now I've figured out what I want to do for the GUI. After that? I'd like to build up more of my (so far still private) personal website. Good excuse to learn more JS (and more modern JS). Maybe have part of the site be server based, learn more flask
• zzo38computer 6y ago
  I am working mainly on TeXnicard [0]. While not yet complete, I have made a lot of progress in writing it (and I have mentioned it on here before, I think, but I implemented more since then). I also read some books, too. Also, I have a comment about the pagination on Hacker News. I will want to know how many pages there are in order to quickly skip to the last page. (Really, just implementing NNTP would help. It has a high water and low water number, to easily find the oldest and newest messages. It has a lot of other benefits too, including user-defined sorting, offline mode, etc.) [0] http://zzo38computer.org/fossil/texnicard.ui http://zzo38computer.org/fossil/texnicard.ui
• rkapsoro 6y ago
  I've been working on a language learning app for the last year and a half, and quarantine time has definitely given me even more bandwidth to work on it. Been a source of real pleasure these last couple of months, actually. The app itself is a bit of a different take on the problem space than many of the other well-known offerings in the market. iOS only for now, SwiftUI, and built around enabling "Compelling & Comprehensible Input"-based language acquisition using video, audio, and text you've supplied yourself. Interestingly - when I started the project I reckoned it would be about 2 years to shipping something useful, which would mean about Q3/Q4 2020. I'm starting to think that estimate was, shockingly, about right. Cheers to everyone and their projects!
  • codethief 6y ago
    Could you elaborate on how your app is going to be different from other apps (like Duolingo or Fluent Forever)? I'm always very interested in hearing how other people learn new languages.
    • billylo 6y ago
      I made this for my better half (she's is learning Japanese.) Point camera to object, app would read out detected object in your language of choice. https://travelshoppingbuddy.com/ https://travelshoppingbuddy.com/
• pappnase12 6y ago
  I've been working on an web page to generate math exercises for my son as I was tired of coming up myself with new exercises every day during the home schooling period. I also wanted to learn more about frontend development. It uses Vue.js and requires no backend. https://matheplus.ninja https://matheplus.ninja
  • vnglst 6y ago
    Nice! I’m working on something similar for my daughter to help her learn the multiplication tables: https://tafels.app https://tafels.app (and also to help me learn svelte ;)
• knasmai 6y ago
  I'm working on website that aggregates Twitter feeds of your political representatives based on your location, starting from your city council, mayor through the president. This is helpful to see what they're saying and for any local updates regarding COVID or otherwise.
  • gknoy 6y ago
    That sounds really neat! I hope we get a chance to see a "Show HN" of this sometime in the future.
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• w1 6y ago
  N-body problem gravity simulator, in vanilla js: https://www.thorbjorn444.com https://www.thorbjorn444.com
  • Jemaclus 6y ago
    Whoaaaa, this is so clever and well done. Vanilla JS, too! I'm impressed!
    • w1 6y ago
      Thank you so much! I'm a ML/scientific computing guy exploring more generic web design, and this was my first crack at it.
• ropeladder 6y ago
  I've been learning the web extensions API and trying to make some improvements to an existing extension that exports a webpage directly to a markdown file (markdown-clipper). I haven't touched JavaScript in a while so it's been great getting back into that, and somehow extensions feel more like 'real software' than SPAs or python scripts, so that's kind of exciting also.
• anderspitman 6y ago
  * Built a table from a home depot butcher block and steel pipe. Felt great to work with my hands. * stealthcheck[0] - Service health monitoring with email alerts and automated restarts in <150 lines of code. Just create a checks.json config file where each check includes a check command, interval, and on-fail command. Set up multiple stealthcheck instances all pointing at each other for redundancy. * quarantest[1] - Most CI testing tools focus on automated tests, but sometimes the changes are very visual and you just want to give your team a demo of your pull request to play with. quarantest runs a build for each GitHub PR, generates a URL for the build, then posts a comment on the PR with a link to the build. You can see an example of it in action here[2]. Still in a pretty hacky state. Probably would be better to use the GH status API with a link that goes to a page listing all the past builds from the PR instead of spamming comments, but it's getting the job done. [0]: https://github.com/anderspitman/stealthcheck https://github.com/anderspitman/stealthcheck [1]: https://github.com/anderspitman/quarantest https://github.com/anderspitman/quarantest [2]: https://github.com/iobio/gene.iobio.vue/pull/497 https://github.com/iobio/gene.iobio.vue/pull/497
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• dawsboss 6y ago
  I made a covid tracker in my spare time. Havent done much to it lately it just self maintains itself. It uses cloud functions to scrape a bunch of sites for info on a whole bunch of regions: https://www.covidus.com/ https://www.covidus.com/
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• doersino 6y ago
  I've recently written a Python app that selects a random location in an area defined by a user-supplied shapefile [1], grabs corresponding aerial imagery from Google Maps, and posts it as a geotagged tweet: https://github.com/doersino/aerialbot https://github.com/doersino/aerialbot I've built this tool because satellite imagery can be extremely beautiful [2], and I was looking for a way of regularly receiving high-resolution satellite views of arbitrary locations such as the center pivot irrigation farms of the American heartland [3] in my timeline. Plus, for obvious reasons, it's nice to see the world without actually having to go outside right now. Currently, I'm running two Twitter bots based on ærialbot: * @americasquared, which posts one randomly selected square mile of the United States every 4 hours: https://twitter.com/americasquared https://twitter.com/americasquared * @placesfromorbit, which analogously posts a 5×5 km square anywhere in the world every 6 hours: https://twitter.com/placesfromorbit https://twitter.com/placesfromorbit --- [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapefile https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapefile [2]: https://earthview.withgoogle.com https://earthview.withgoogle.com [3]: http://www.thegreatamericangrid.com/archives/1441 http://www.thegreatamericangrid.com/archives/1441
  • Wookai 6y ago
    Awesome project, I love it! If haven't seen it yet, Google has some hand-picked highlights of places with stunning aerial pictures: https://earthview.withgoogle.com/ https://earthview.withgoogle.com/. Some high-level info here: https://www.blog.google/products/earth/most-stunning-images-from-google-earth/ https://www.blog.google/products/earth/most-stunning-images-... EDIT: I read the readme and of course you mentioned Earth View :). Leaving the links for other people who might be interested.
    • m3at 6y ago
      Earth View indeed has some stunning aerial pictures! Thanks for leaving the link, I would have missed it otherwise :)
  • safog 6y ago
    I think you can make the images a lot more appealing by adding some automated post-processing to them. I don't know a lot about image processing algorithms but clicking "Auto" on google photos tweaks basic stuff like exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, vibrance etc. so the image has a lot more "punch".
• faike 6y ago
  Death and Co. cocktail book app let's you search for cocktails by ingredients. https://sphynx.fshaik.now.sh/ https://sphynx.fshaik.now.sh/
• federicoponzi 6y ago
  I've been worked for a while now on an new Supervisor / Init system written in Rust: https://github.com/FedericoPonzi/horust/ https://github.com/FedericoPonzi/horust/ Learnt a lot in the process and there are so much things still to do! Feel free to drop me a message if you're interested in contributing, curious or just to say hi :)
• yboris 6y ago
  Still working on my favorite 2-year-old project Video Hub App https://videohubapp.com/ https://videohubapp.com/ - over 1,600 sales now! https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App - open source!
• mbogda 6y ago
  Implementing 'Datomic-esque' system using Ruby on top of PostgreSQL.
• ESTheComposer 6y ago
  Working on an appointment management system, eventually with video chat and team management features built in. Been a wild ride so far just getting availability working! https://beezly.us https://beezly.us
• Giorgi 6y ago
  Well I created https://mp3owl.com https://mp3owl.com for fun, but now getting hit by DMCA takedowns like crazy. Oh well.
• pjettter 6y ago
  I'm writing an actor system in Webassembly (C#/Blazor). Once it's in place, it can be used with a rendering backplane (SVG). The ultimate goal is to make the actors be able to move to where they are needed (moving the code to the data instead of the other way around). One important aspect is that the system is completely message driven. An actor can become anything by sending it a message. Yes, there is a security aspect to that :) It should also be compositional, in that the behaviors of it's essences compose.
• romanzubenko 6y ago
  I'm building a 6 degree of motion robotic arm from (https://www.anninrobotics.com/ https://www.anninrobotics.com/). It's open source so all CAD models, code is available online with all electronic components available off the shelf. End goal is to clean a portion of bath tub or toiler semi-autonomously: manually attach different tooling like cleaning agent spray and brushes, but let the robot do the rest of work.
• vascofazza 6y ago
  I've built my own 8bit cpu from scratch https://youtu.be/qSviFkpLFKI https://youtu.be/qSviFkpLFKI
• swimmadude66 6y ago
  I have a sandbox project I built some time ago to synchronize watching youtube videos with friends (https://lifeboatradio.com https://lifeboatradio.com). A small group of us use it as a shared radio similar to grooveshark back in the day. During quarantine I am trying to build a similar version that allows you to synchronize watching videos from other sources, so I can hold a virtual movie night with friends. Hoping to use the output of this project to improve lifeboat too and bring it back up to date.
• totemandtoken 6y ago
  I've been working on a "newsbetting" site. Basically, you get a de-titled article and have to place a bet whether you think the source has a right leaning bias or left leaning bias. The idea is this betting market will force people to contend with their biases which will then reduce the proliferation of fake news. Theoretically
  • dri_ft 6y ago
    And where do you get the ground truths for the bias of the sites?
    • totemandtoken 6y ago
      At the moment I'm using allsides.com[1]. There will always be some dispute about how biased a news organization is, but most people have the general understanding that, for example, Breitbart is more right than the HuffPo. At some point I'd like to add a voting feature, so you're basically trying to compete against the crowd [1] https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-ratings https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-ratings
      • skizm 6y ago
        So really you're betting on what "allsides.com" thinks, not if an article is actually right or left leaning (since there is no objective measure of right/left leaning).
        • totemandtoken 6y ago
          Somewhat. Allsides has a whole system[1] as to how they assign bias which is fairly robust, in my opinion. You're not betting on what the moderator at allsides think a source bias is, you're betting on what all of the patrons at allsides think the source bias is which is a little better. But you are right in that no one can "objectively" measure partisanship since there is no such thing. [1] https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-rating-methods https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-rating-method...
• DonCarlitos 6y ago
  I made a national organization (AARP) change course and issue corrections regarding their Coronavirus volunteer program with a single blog post on Medium. (They had been sending members to an open, Google spreadsheet where their info was public). https://medium.com/@doncarlitos/maintaining-privacy-while-volunteering-during-the-coronavirus-pandemic-e1318697af9a?sk=1e53387181192938eff7e95ad67d2575 https://medium.com/@doncarlitos/maintaining-privacy-while-vo...
• tlapinsk 6y ago
  1. https://www.puzzletradr.com/ https://www.puzzletradr.com/: A Classifieds website to trade puzzles. MVP built with WordPress before building something from scratch 2. Lots of baking with my girlfriend. This turned out to be a ton of fun 3. Studying for the AWS CSA Associates test on Linux Academy 4. Rebuilding my LinkedIn and resume. Way more time consuming than expected
• mitmaro 6y ago
  I've been working on adding diff support to a tool I created a while back for interactive rebases in Git. It's been interesting digging into libgit2 and the Rust bindings. https://github.com/MitMaro/git-interactive-rebase-tool https://github.com/MitMaro/git-interactive-rebase-tool The tool/utility provides an easy interface for managing the interactive rebase TODO file. It's heavily inspired by vim and I have plans to expand the functionality. I had tried a similar tool that was written using Node.js but that seemed like overkill. After ranting about the lack of a good tool, my co-worker at the time challenged me to write it that evening after work. I added to the challenge that I would write it Rust since I had not used the language before and I had heard several good things about it. After hacking away for several hours that evening, I had a working prototype to show at work the next day. Since then the project has evolved a lot and it's gained some traction. It now has a small community behind it, which is really awesome!
• sudoit 6y ago
  I've been making a iOS app which makes iOS apps. You can live preview your app instantly, and it integrates with git. (Right now, the git feature is only on the Testflight version, not the store version). https://apps.apple.com/us/app/app-maker-build-native-apps/id1473768340 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/app-maker-build-native-apps/id...
  • djbeadle 6y ago
    Woah, very cool! Going to take this for a spin this evening. Have you thought about saving to the file system and then letting a different app handle Git (such as WorkingCopy)? Are you actually rendering the SwiftUI components like VStack and HStack or "pretending" to?
    • sudoit 6y ago
      I love working copy! And yes I’ve thought about that, but I don’t know how to share a file system...yet. And it’s real. I have a general solution for tricking SwiftUI to render different views at runtime. Some things are fake (such as photos) because I wanted it to work for a demo but I didn’t have things like a file system setup.
• OkiiEli 6y ago
  I have been improving https://passportlist.co/ https://passportlist.co/ a detailed list of visa-free, visa on arrival, and visa required countries you can visit depending on your passport strength. Get latest visa requirements and document checklist for different countries You will be able to find here visa data for over 200 passports, visa requirements, and document checklist for different countries easily.
• vnglst 6y ago
  I created this app for my daughter to help her get better at math. It's still a work in progress, but I thought I'd share it here to get some initial feedback. https://tafels.app https://tafels.app Source code: https://github.com/vnglst/tafels.app https://github.com/vnglst/tafels.app
  • rusinov 6y ago
    Really nice. Your daughter love using it? Feedback: I would make background color of buttons with answers slightly lighter to make text easier to read.
• Budabellly 6y ago
  Built a simple WebGL landing page for an older iOS project where you can wear President's faces in AR. Most of the work actually enough went into optimizing load time... still some room to improve. https://cloan.me https://cloan.me
• AndyPa32 6y ago
  I'm learning how to do my own book keeping. The yearly tax declaration will still be done by a specialist but keeping the books will be my task from now on. I am using ledger-cli for it.
• kostarelo 6y ago
  I've been contributing to https://github.com/excalidraw/excalidraw/ https://github.com/excalidraw/excalidraw/ lately. It's an amazing distraction-free hand-drawn like sketching app. Online with secure end-to-end encrypted collaboration mode. Check it out!
• leonfedden 6y ago
  working on a AI for poker - we've trained some agents on a 20 card deck version of hold'em poker and they're not bad at all, now working on scaling it up to the full 52 card deck no limit hold'em https://github.com/fedden/poker_ai https://github.com/fedden/poker_ai
• rockmeamedee 6y ago
  https://flexi.chat https://flexi.chat, a videoconferencing app where you can have a schedule and flexible speaking formats. For example, you can have everyone in the meeting speak one after the other (the app handles muting and un-muting the right people), then repeatedly shuffle people into pairs so that everyone gets to talk 1-on-1 with everyone else. Or have a “speed-dating” style format for the first 20 minutes of your remote meetup, before bringing everyone back to the main room for the main speakers. Barely ready to open it up yet, using it to host daily "standups" with my friends, but going to have a few friend gatherings with it later, and maybe a local meetup. The friend gathering will have the first schedule I mentioned above; have everyone speak in a circle to catch up the group on what they've been doing, then split the group into pairs (shuffling the pairs). The meetup will have the "speed-dating" + switch to main talks. Uses Jitsi for the hard video webRTC stuff, and then nextjs with socketio for my application. On gitlab at https://gitlab.com/amedeedabo/flexichat https://gitlab.com/amedeedabo/flexichat. Getting back into React and ES6, and all the amazing new CSS stuff of the last 5 years! Eventually I want to split it off so that the logic can be in its own package, to make it easy to integrate different speaking formats into different, existing apps.
  • hariharasudhan 6y ago
    if you're using react then definitely checkout https://www.bytehub.dev/ https://www.bytehub.dev/ for some cool react components
• enjoylife 6y ago
  Building a real-time vídeo pipeline for recording and augmenting paintball matches from multiple viewpoints. Basically transforming and combining the scenes into an overhead view with markers for remaining players. It’s a good break from the day job and it has me diving deep into the math behind computer vision.
• apelin 6y ago
  We've started building a platform to help landlords and tenants come up with installment plans for missed rent and security deposit payments during C19. www.xspaced.com
• harrylepotter 6y ago
  I've done a bunch of small weekend projects... * Zoom-answering bot (covidcaller.com) * Voice controlled bidet using LIRC+Rpi ('Alexa, wash my asshole') * Retrofitting HDMI-CEC capabilities to a 25-year-old bose stereo using a raspberry pi+RS-485 * Amazon fire stick hardware rooting to add additional OTG storage (https://forum.xda-developers.com/fire-tv/development/unlock-fire-tv-stick-2nd-gen-tank-t3907002 https://forum.xda-developers.com/fire-tv/development/unlock-...) * Getting stadia working on my nintendo switch * Modernizing/re-painting an old 70s dresser
  • briandilley 6y ago
    I want a voice controlled bidet. Can it clean _more_ than your asshole though? IE: 'Alexa, stimul... wash my beaver.'
    • harrylepotter 6y ago
      technically, yeah! Although i haven't done the remote codes for that one yet ;-) It's also a bit flawed. It's basically IFTTT webhooks + raspberry pi + IR shield + a biobidet A8
• mordfustang21 6y ago
  I've been adding and polishing more features to my startup so I can hopefully start selling soon. https://getdocuverse.com/ https://getdocuverse.com/
• DenisM 6y ago
  A folding hardtail mountain bike with a mid-drive electric motor, a torque sensor, a geared rear hub, and a coaster brake. Maybe a belt too (I wish). The e-bikes I've seen offer a small motorcycle in disguise, but what I want is a set of superman's legs, while not being a superman.
  • mbrameld 6y ago
    Which e-bikes have you been looking at? I've ridden the Trek Powerfly and the YT Decoy and they're both exactly like what you're looking for. They only add to your output and in proportion to it. I also have a Raleigh cruiser e-bike and it works the same way. I was under the impression that all but the cheapest class 1 bikes work the same. I have ridden a couple rear hub drive bikes like the Rad Rover and they have a more "on or off" feel. The motor starts as soon as you start pedalling at whatever power setting you have selected
    • DenisM 6y ago
      Thanks for your comment! I have tried the Rad Bikes and I had the exact same feeling like you. No cadence assist for me. I looked at all the bikes you have suggested, and sadly none fit the bill. I didn't think they would - I have studied the subject extensively. 1. All popular mid-drive motors such as Bosch and Shimano are designed for European market, capped 250 watts, sometimes 350 watts. The max legal in the US is 750 watts, and I really want the max. I might even need the max when bike packing, or simply climbing up the hill where I live (it's pretty bad). 2. All legal powerful motors are rear-hub or front-hub. They can't take advantage of the rear wheel gearing, so they can't climb the hills. Rad Bikes have it written in the instructions that one must not use max assist when climbing uphill. 3. One can find non-street legal motors (how about 3000 watt) and they will climb rather well without gearing, but I want to stay within the law and conserve battery power. They are also heavy, and I might need to carry my bike on stairs. 4. There is a handful of street-legal powerful mid-drive motors, but they are mostly use on custom builds (Bafang, Tonsheng, etc), and even then only some of them seem to support torque sensors. Then there are other concerns: it's nearly impossible to find full-size folding mountain bike, they are all 20" tire size. The $4k+ tag is about twice as much as I am planning to spend. Most of the bikes have rear shocks (stealing power - see "bike bobbing").
• pnathan 6y ago
  Learning viola. I've been thinking about it off and on for a few years. I got a very cheap one off Amazon, and only through dint of my prior musical experience (bass 10 yr ago, violin 30 yr ago), was able to put it into a decently playable shape. It's a lot of fun, but VERY hard! New physical skills, learning a new clef.
• dfraser992 6y ago
  I am rebuilding the "framework" I wrote for doing my MSc dissertation on the classification of fake reviews. Now that I have the time, the code is far better organized and the higher level structure pretty clean in that I can copy a module, customize it a bit and now a different feature set can be generated. Churning out different ensembles should be fairly easy as well. And of course I'm throwing dask, mlflow and dvc into the mix... I don't really need to do this (ought to be looking for a job...) <and I'd rather write code than pay to use someone else's SaaS> but now that I have quite a number of different review datasets to play with, a framework that lets me spin up 10+ processes across the 5 machines I have at my disposal will make short work of most the sets. I will need the uni's HPC cluster to deal with the Amazon dataset, though. Using dask will surely help with that. Then it's writing yet another paper... Not being allowed to go outside is rather motivating.
• straumat 6y ago
  I developed a trading bot framework named Cassandre https://trading-bot.cassandre.tech/ https://trading-bot.cassandre.tech/
• sebnun 6y ago
  https://podely.com https://podely.com It's a web app to make podcasts out of Youtube channels. Launched a couple of weeks back.
  • hopesthoughts 6y ago
    Well, it would be cool if there was a site that just took the rSS feed of an Youtube channel, extracted it, and converted it to the podcast format so I could put it in my podcatcher.
• gnull 6y ago
  https://github.com/gnull/kalina https://github.com/gnull/kalina I'm working on a console-based RSS client in Haskell. The original plan was to implement the basic functionality of Newsboat (which currently is being rewritten from C++ to Rust). It's still raw, but I already started using it as my primary RSS client. Right now it can fetch feeds, display them in a nice menu, maintain read status, open urls in a browser. The next features I'm going to add are support for configuration files (everything's hardcoded now) and tags + filtering. -- Newsboat had a few problems inherent to C++ (like occasional segfaults) and the TUI library it used. Knowing about these, I started googling for alternatives written in a higher-level language. And spotted the announcement [1] of the Newsboat author, saying that he's going to rewrite Newsboat in Rust. When I read that, the rewrite was already going on for months with still no end in sight. I thought, "Heck! I can implement this in Haskell in a few days!" By now I spent about a week of full-time work on the project (spread over months), and got a bare working prototype. My estimate was too optimistic, of course, I didn't foresee all the difficulties I encountered later and all the things I had to learn. But still, I think if I spend one more week on this, I can get a fully-featured and polished RSS client — Haskell makes programming a lot cheaper. [1]: https://github.com/newsboat/newsboat/issues/89 https://github.com/newsboat/newsboat/issues/89
  • asdff 6y ago
    Would it be possible to extract full text from articles and view it all in the terminal?
    • gnull 6y ago
      RSS feeds often contain the article text in HTML, and parsing webpages shouldn't be necessary. Kalina, like Newsboat, does support viewing these in terminal—I use Pandoc library to convert HTML to text, links and images are not preserved. I don't know if fetching webpages and rendering them in terminal is a good idea. You can always use a terminal-based browser like w3m to open them. And I'm afraid most of such pages will be cluttered with animated popups and sidebars, filtering which will require some heuristics. Don't know it's worth it. But this is still something to look into in the future—at the moment there are more urgent things to do in Kalina.
• heofizzy 6y ago
  http://saasinspire.com/ http://saasinspire.com/ it's a list of saas inspiration. Right now there are only design listings of successful saas companies, however I plan to make this project as a great resource for developers and designers to create saas products. It will include various interesting articles, design ideas, tools, case studies, etc.
• robviren 6y ago
  Made an app that lets me create a grocery list that can check supply at Target. Also sorts the stuff by location. Saves me time knowing they are out of stuff and where stuff is. Want to create background notification for when something is in stock. https://robviren.gitlab.io/tarlist/ https://robviren.gitlab.io/tarlist/
  • nsriv 6y ago
    Cool to see a Flutter app here!
    • robviren 6y ago
      Wanted to build something totally cross platform. That and it was way easier just using material components than green Field designing. I'm not much of a designer.
• news_to_me 6y ago
  I've been writing a 3D engine from scratch, which has been really interesting since it's well outside of my normal professional software experience. My goal is to make a game with it for the upcoming Playdate console. You can follow along with my progress here: https://twitter.com/zackmichener https://twitter.com/zackmichener
• dmpayton 6y ago
  I run a hackerspace in Fresno, CA called Root Access. My side project is that we're making PPE and other things to help with various efforts -- face masks, face shields, scrub caps, ear savers, no-contact accessories, etc. https://rootaccess.org/covid-19/ https://rootaccess.org/covid-19/ We're working with other local maker-y spaces on these efforts; we've picked up a few Ender 3's to help with the 3D printing and we have a small team of volunteers helping with sewing. So far we've distributed over 1,500 face masks to folks and healthcare workers in Fresno, San Diego, Idaho, and soon to a school in Uganda. This is all on top of trying to keep our community engaged and hosting meetups and happy hours on Zoom. Also on top of my day job. I've never been so busy in my life, and I'm looking forward to a time when we can safely re-open and get back to building the community face-to-face.
  • ndkfkdkd 6y ago
    Awesome, I’m also volunteering in the PPE space. Check us out: findthemasks.com findthemakers.com
• silentprog 6y ago
  I'm following the second part of: https://www.craftinginterpreters.com/ https://www.craftinginterpreters.com/
• ryanchants 6y ago
  Working on "Grow a Story". It's based on the old drill/game "advance and expand" where someone starts a story and hands it off to someone else. As a user, you have three actions: start a new story, expand an existing story, or refine. Refine is the most interesting part, you are essentially editing the transition between two story nodes. The goal is to not add much, but make the transition smoother. Was thinking of capping the allowed delta in some way and requiring the original authors to approve the story "PR".
  • snyena 6y ago
    Can I follow this online somewhere?
    • ryanchants 6y ago
      unfortunately, not yet. I came up with the idea a few days ago and it's just thoughts in a notebook right now. probably start working on something concrete this weekend
• hootbootscoot 6y ago
  1) starting upon the road to being a luthier... i want to make flamenco guitars 2) welding my staircase railings and adding random bits like wheels, gears, old wrenches, a chicken-grill... 3) finishing the workspace area off for #1 4) sundry home repairs et al. 5) alcoholic beverage consumption in amounts previously considered immoderate. (not sure if this a hobby)
• k00b 6y ago
  I'm building https://choremate.co https://choremate.co with a working tagline of 'The Best Chore Chart in the World.' Living with other people tends to suck and I know it can be better. I'm also working on Crisp https://github.com/huumn/crisp https://github.com/huumn/crisp which is a cryptocurrency written is Lisp. It's currently a toy meant for exploring, but what I want to do is have the transaction language be designed around spawning subchains. A blockchain for creating blockchains.
• kamalkishor1991 6y ago
  https://github.com/croma-app/croma-react https://github.com/croma-app/croma-react I made a color palettes app in react native. My first react native app.
• billions 6y ago
  https://sneezemap.com https://sneezemap.com Crowdsourced COVID-19 symptoms map
• christian008 6y ago
  I've created my own Read Later service using Pinboard and a Raspberry Pi: https://christianhans.info/12791/running-your-own-read-later-service-with-raspberry-pi-and-pinboard https://christianhans.info/12791/running-your-own-read-later...
  • Jemaclus 6y ago
    I've got three RPis laying around here... I should do this...
• abrie 6y ago
  I've been polishing my story/book about travelling by bus from Seattle to Atlanta: https://goeiebook.ca/story/bussing2 https://goeiebook.ca/story/bussing2
• dennisy 6y ago
  Me and my friend have just started something we are calling PomPals, which is pomodoro timer which basically syncs with your friends, so you can hang out during your breaks together. It is an electron (toolbar) app, which uses WebRTC, so should be fully P2P. It is too early to use or show, but I did not want to miss out on this thread! https://github.com/pompals/pompals https://github.com/pompals/pompals
  • krat0sprakhar 6y ago
    Super interesting - thanks for sharing :) I'd definitely be trying this out when its ready!
  • kvz 6y ago
    This is an idea I had but never executed on: Teamodoro. I like your name better! Hope you can take it to good place so I can try it with my remote co-founder : )
  • yeswecatan 6y ago
    I don't know much about WebRTC or electron, so forgive me if this question makes no sense: if it's a simple toolbar app (such as a Chrome extension) why is electron needed?
    • dennisy 6y ago
      Hi! When I say toolbar, I mean in the native toolbar (runs outside the browser) - we decided with this approach due to the fact you may not always be in a browser (coding for example).
  • folli 6y ago
    I just had a quick /r/keming/ moment while reading "PomPals"
• joe8756438 6y ago
  Started way before quarantine, but was able to complete /tap, https://www.tatatap.com https://www.tatatap.com with extra time. It's something like a build-your-own note-taking system. Notes can be sent to /tap via SMS. Once received they go through a parser to pull out key symbols to organize and register different aspects of the note. There's a lot of functionality hidden behind a simple interface, the best place to get an overview is the how-to https://tatatap.com/how-to https://tatatap.com/how-to
• achillesheels 6y ago
  Ledcompliant.com This is a hyper-niche pain point in commercial LED lighting energy rebate qualification where a manufacture has X number of skus and needs to predict which one will be the least energy efficient. The web tech determines the exact skus based on the technical input parameters given, saving manual time and redundant certified body testing.
• caogecym 6y ago
  Deployed a website/API monitor https://ihook.us https://ihook.us. Could be used to extract data in a remote site and send notifications the way you like. By setting up CSS selector, JSON path expression, people can receive daily U.S. Covid 19 total number email/SMS/Slack by crawling CDC site, or monitor Target food supply by hitting their public API.
• nacraft 6y ago
  Started my side business selling handmade concrete planters: https://www.nacrafts.co https://www.nacrafts.co I 3d print the initial models, finish them and make silicone molds. The final product is made of concrete. My shop is running on Shopify.
• stuartaxelowen 6y ago
  I've always been fascinated at looking at public feedback, for products and companies. I've been working on a dashboard that lets you explore recent iOS app reviews: https://www.thoughtvector.io/vertext/ https://www.thoughtvector.io/vertext/ There's all kinds of fun stuff you can learn, like apparently Instagram just ratcheted up the number of ads shown and people don't like it. You can see different text topics people mention, and select time ranges in the volume and rating over time charts to filter. You can look at other iOS apps too, just by adding the app ID in the search params. This page shows DoorDash's reviews: https://www.thoughtvector.io/vertext/?app_id=719972451 https://www.thoughtvector.io/vertext/?app_id=719972451 It's still very much beta-level in terms of all the things I want in there, but it's been a fun distraction so far!
• aritztg 6y ago
  Having a daughter. She is three weeks old.
  • Jemaclus 6y ago
    Congratulations! I hope she and your family are healthy and happy!
• cookiengineer 6y ago
  My side project kind of escalated quickly into a main project. I've been working on my own browser for the last couple months, and decided that I can improve a lot when it comes to using the web for automating and acquiring knowledge (i.e. the semantic aspect of it). Currently on the verge of founding a (possibly viable) startup with it, but the browser itself is totally alpha for now. Been working on parsers and protocols for a while now, and had to switch to TDD to keep my sanity together. Needed to write my own test runner that can simulate network behaviours (2G slow fragmentation is real) and peer to peer scenarios. Most servers out there don't comply with specifications, so making my own client- or peer-side implementations work was a hard task. Currently writing my own SGML parser and optimizer, so that the browser receives only "linted and upgraded" html that is free of malicious parts, whilst embracing the idea of disallowing everything that could be potentially misused, including CDNs that do cache busting all the time. The idea behind the browser concept is that trust is not established by default, and users should decide what website to trust, and match that with what kind of content they'd expect the website to deliver. [1] https://github.com/cookiengineer/stealth https://github.com/cookiengineer/stealth
  • urbleflan 6y ago
    This looks really cool.
  • Jemaclus 6y ago
    This is awesome. I can't imagine working on something of that scale by myself. I'm so impressed. Keep up the good work!
    • cookiengineer 6y ago
      Thanks much, really appreciate it ^_^
  • walterbell 6y ago
    > It is built by a former contributor to both Chromium and Firefox, and is built out of personal opinion on how Web Browsers should try to understand the Semantic Web. Could you share more about this vision? > writing my own SGML parser How did you land on SGML? What do you think of a browser/mode that parses markdown, so we can have a "markdown web" with less complex clients?
• bjstrevy 6y ago
  I've been working with a buddy of mine on a chrome extension that lets you anonymously chat with other people on the same domain or page as you. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sidewalkchat/denbpdkchnadclbjgpdgaclebnghkfna https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sidewalkchat/denbp...
  • blickentwapft 6y ago
    Cool idea
    • bjstrevy 6y ago
      Thanks! Obviously it's still small, but I think it would be cool if it got bigger and people would be able to chat and ask real questions about a site to other real people on it rather than asking the employees through chat who would be biased.
• pythonist 6y ago
  I am implementing organisations feature to https://newreleases.io https://newreleases.io, which is a software release tracker service.
• wesz 6y ago
  I've been working on personalized web archive/crawler and search engine to manage my bad data hoarding habits. Inspired by the look and tech from the 90s.
• TheCyberBasics 6y ago
  Decided to finally start a blog, it's slow going and I'm a total n00b at advertising myself but I've always wanted to provide entry-level programming/cybersecurity training to people. I started a blog over at Medium (https://medium.com/@thecyberbasics https://medium.com/@thecyberbasics) and a Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/TheCyberBasics https://www.patreon.com/TheCyberBasics) and a twitter (@BasicsCyber). So far it's slow going, but I enjoy making it so that matters more. I realize the "get started with programming" arena is already slam packed, but I'm hoping someone will find my interpretation useful.
  • Jemaclus 6y ago
    Everyone starts somewhere! I'll read your blog :)
    • TheCyberBasics 6y ago
      Thank you! I greatly appreciate it.
• erwinh 6y ago
  Started it before quarantine but adding a lot of features to it during quarantine: https://space-search.io/ https://space-search.io/ Making satellites and space debris searchable and visualized in 3d/web.
• mawise 6y ago
  I've always thought it's a shame that all the blogging platforms seem focused on public access, so I've been working on an open-source private blogging platform. Nothing technically complex but aims for super-easy scripted deployment (currently on AWS, also thinking about Raspberry PI), so that you don't need to entrust a big tech company with stewarding access to your content. I'm using it for sharing pictures of my daughter with friends and family. https://github.com/mawise/simpleblog https://github.com/mawise/simpleblog
• dcrn 6y ago
  I've been continuing work on my BitTorrent tracker software written in Rust: https://github.com/adcrn/tyto https://github.com/adcrn/tyto If anyone's got some tips on how to optimize it, I'm all ears!
• DoreenMichele 6y ago
  I continue to blog, same as I always have. I continue to run several reddits, which is new-ish. https://doreenmichele.blogspot.com/p/my-websites.html https://doreenmichele.blogspot.com/p/my-websites.html I'm DoreenMichele on Reddit and my more successful Reddits are r/ClothingStartups, r/CitizenPlanners and r/GigWorks.
• ramitsuri 6y ago
  I have been tracking my expenses for last 5 years. Almost everything has been accounted for. I made an app to make it easier to do that. I'm not a fan of giving access to apps like Mint and YNAB was complicated for what I wanted. I manually enter my data in the app and it optionally backs up data to my Google Drive in a Sheet. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ramitsuri.expensemanager.re https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ramitsuri....
• palebt 6y ago
  Awesome thread! Probably going to spend the next few hours exploring. Not a quarantine project, but got some love in quarantine: https://www.health101.net https://www.health101.net (recommended medical test by age)
  • hopesthoughts 6y ago
    Hah, I've spent the past 18 hours or so here.
• korethr 6y ago
  I'm working on a garden. I moved into a house late last fall, so I actually have some space to do so. This scratches multiple itches for me. Itch the first: I've missed having a vegetable garden since I moved out of my parent's place and into apartment life years ago. While a small garden plot can't wholly replace the need to go to the grocery store for fruits and vegetables due to the inherent seasonality of growing food at small scale, it's damn hard to beat truly fresh fruits and vegetables that were picked not an hour before they landed on your plate. And any surplus left when the growing season is over can be preserved and stored for the winter. Itch the second: It's _my_ creation, not my father's with which I am merely helping. When living with my parents, my father had his way that he'd like to lay the garden out. Granting that a man who grew up in a rural agricultural community probably knows a thing or about vegetable gardening, watching how he did stuff did always leave me wondering if there wasn't room for improvement. Since this is my garden, I can make my own experiments and decisions on how the garden is to be arranged, and what vegetables I want to grow (e.g dad loves beets; I do not). I've been reading about companion planting, and am eager to try things like growing corn and beans together, or growing chives near my peppers and tomatoes to keep aphids away (seriously, fuck aphids). Itch the third: It lets me develop useful skills outside of my career in tech. While I have no delusions about quitting being a sys/net admin and going and becoming a farmer, I do think it's important to nurture useful skills outside one's main career. Itch the fourth: I have something to automate with tech. Gardens do need to be watered. Under-watering will limit your yield, but over-watering is also harmful to both the garden and the wider ecosystem of one's immediate area. There's a goldilocks-zone when it comes to watering, and the just-right amount of water depends on a number of things: what you're growing, your climate, the soil, etc. There is a real danger that before the close of summer, the garden bed will have an automatic, multi-zone drip irrigation system, complete with soil-moisture sensors, controlled by a Raspberry Pi or similar SBC. During April I built a loft bed frame out of framing lumber. I can post about that too if any of you are interested.
  • JacobDotVI 6y ago
    I have spent every quarantine weekend in the yard and it's been magnificent and extremely rewarding. We had previously built raised beds but had limited success due to lack of regular watering so my first priority was repairing my entire drip line system and then extending it to the beds. Success! Glad to hear others have garden / yard side projects as well. best of luck with the harvest.
• sgaduuw 6y ago
  I've decided to learn Python by dabbling in some Django to wite a cms. I'm simply amazed at how quickly you can get something usable with so little experience. Probably a dime a dozen project compared to most things posted here, but it has an eventual use case for me, and it's fun :) https://github.com/sgaduuw/django-eelco https://github.com/sgaduuw/django-eelco
• Hoasi 6y ago
  - Wrote the documentation and put online Supply, an e-commerce site with Gumroad integration built with Jekyll and Tachyons: https://supply.templates.supply/about/ https://supply.templates.supply/about/. Repo: https://github.com/YJPL/Supply https://github.com/YJPL/Supply - Putting together a leporello book - Drawing colouring book(s) for kids and adults - Not a side project per se, but learned how to work in SketchUp & Storyboard Pro
• byproxy 6y ago
  Just reading.
• rlafranchi 6y ago
  Tinkering with apple devices: 1. Replaced magsafe board on 2014 macbook pro 2. Replaced an iPhone 7 screen
• mendelbot 6y ago
  Capitalism has trained us to equate productivity with our self-worth. So please don't feel the need to be constantly busy during the pandemic. You are enough, regardless of what you're building / making / cashing out on. Having said that, if you're truly interested in a project and it keeps you engaged, go for it and I hope you're enjoying it!!!
• A4ET8a8uTh0 6y ago
  Not a project since I am still working full time and vacation is still a little while away, but me and my buddy will be saving the world of Divinity 2 together, while trying to stream it using OBS ( so far I am happy with it ). It feels oddly cheap to list it, but here it goes https://www.twitch.tv/ample_llama https://www.twitch.tv/ample_llama
• mrjivraj 6y ago
  Started writing more on my Substack about investing: https://playingfordoubles.substack.com/ https://playingfordoubles.substack.com/ Feedback is welcomed! :)
• KeenDisregard 6y ago
  I am making a tool to make new habits and routines effortless.
• KeenDisregard 6y ago
  I am making new habits and routines effortless (or at least way more effortless). I've been repurposing a writing app I threw together for myself years ago, now using it every morning to remain consistent in my routine and track performance.
• megalomanu 6y ago
  I'm working on a kind of human-curated recommendation engine for movies. As a movie buff, I'm often frustrated by the film recommendations apps that return results too out of context for me. I also find them quite depressing, they're often nothing more than echo chambers that favor the same movies again and again. Actually, I didn't become a movie buff with tools like this but with watching the movies liked by the directors of my favorite films. For instance: Pulp Fiction -> Quentin Tarantino -> Bande à part -> Jean-Luc Godard -> Robert Bresson -> ... In addition to giving you some ideas about films that you could like, this helps you to better see the big picture (no pun intended). You learn about the important movie periods and movements (French New Wave, Italian neorealism, New Hollywood...), you develop a more serious approach to film, and you can live these mind-blowing moments when you notice similarities between two movies done 50 years apart and that looked at first glance totally different. I already created the engine (which is giving good results for my profile! It recommends me movies that I never thought of). The challenge was mostly to found all the data required by the engine. Now, I must admit I'm procrastinating a little bit for developing the actual web app! (and thank you everyone for your messages, your projects are awesome!)
  • bhargav 6y ago
    Is your engine published on a website or otherwise open source? One good source would be letterboxed, they already have human curated lists. An example list is one where the person curated all movies that use high saturation/good color grading.
    • megalomanu 6y ago
      I think I'll publish it, and I'll share my learnings. Letterboxd is indeed a great source!
  • moonfleet 6y ago
    Hi! I would not consider myself a movie buff but I really enjoy watching movies and your project sounds very interesting. I am a frontend dev, and I would very much like to contribute to your web app. If you are interested, please shoot me an email at azatsdev@gmail.com.
• Kaze404 6y ago
  I finally got fed up with Discord and I'm building a competing product. Not sure if it's gonna get anywhere but I'll be damned if I don't try.
  • hguant 6y ago
    What vexed you about discord so much that you decided to roll your own? Or was it just a general accumulation of petty abuse?
    • Kaze404 6y ago
      Discord is where my programming career started. My very first (serious) project was a Discord bot back in 2016, so I attribute pretty much everything I have to the platform. Obviously that made me care a lot for it, which means when it became worse with every update it always stung a bit. Off the top of my head though, here are the things I find baffling about Discord: 1. You can't resize the channel list, and when resizing it's prioritized higher than the main chat window. This means that after a certain threshold of width the application is unusable. 2. The developer experience is very lackluster. On Slack you can integrate your application to the point where it almost feels like it's a platform feature (you can even define slash commands with parameters and tooltips). On Discord the best you get is reactions on messages. For more on this, recently I had to verify the bot I mentioned in the beginning of this comment, as per October 2020 all bots in more than 70 servers will need to be verified. I went against my better judgement and sent them a picture of my documents, and after the lengthy process I tried to use the application transfer feature and was denied specifically because it was verified. Support basically flipped me off and directed me to their feedback forum no one reads. 3. No threads. 4. Pretty much no control for voice comms. In video game contexts it's useful for the leader to be able to speak uninterrupted (muting everyone else in the call) at the press of a button. TeamSpeak has had this for 18 years. 5. The permissions system is bonkers. Some actions are either nonexistant or hidden under items that make no sense. For example, what do you think the "Embed Links" permissions does? It allows/forbids you to send links, right? Wrong. You can send links, but it supresses the embed. If you need to supress links you need to use a bot. 6. Keyboard navigation is broken. If you're on #channel2 of server 1 and want to go to #general, it makes sense to press Ctrl+K, type #general and press enter. You can do that, but it will throw you to a channel named #general in a random server you're in. 7. Lazy loading of members sometimes means it's literally impossible to ping someone, even when they show on the autocompletion. 8. Sometimes you click a channel and it'll be scrolled way far up. You then respond to a message, it gets scrolled down and you realize you're responding to what someone said 3 days ago. I've no idea if fixing these is enough to bring users in, but this project is important because it'll either succeed or I'll get some appreciation for Discord again. I can't justify using it anymore after 4 years of broken update after broken update.
• kenz0r 6y ago
  I built a climbing wall at home for myself and the kids, since the bouldering gyms have closed. Its not as good as a gym, but hopefully I'll keep my some of my grip strength! https://imgur.com/a/nTXZMyK https://imgur.com/a/nTXZMyK
  • whiddershins 6y ago
    I would love to know more about how to do this. I wonder if I can do something in my backyard, even.
    • kenz0r 6y ago
      Yes, you can :) https://www.uncarvedblock.com.au/build-climbing-wall-at-home/ https://www.uncarvedblock.com.au/build-climbing-wall-at-home... gives you a bit of a guide, and if you search climbing walls on youtube, plenty of people have been building them. Mine is framed in 70x35mm pine, and built from formwork plywood (formply), which is 17mm thick. The holds attach with 3/8th inch bolts that go into t-nuts in the back. I still need to give the formply a bit of a sand and put a non-slip coating on it, as the holds can rotate if I've not recently tightened them.
• gotzmann 6y ago
  I'm digging into PHP and creating performant yet PSR compliant framework for building ultra-fast REST APIs: https://github.com/gotzmann/comet https://github.com/gotzmann/comet
• sampsonbryce 6y ago
  WeHero Home: A browser extension to donate money using ad revenue you gain just from browsing the web. Been working on it for some time but quarantine has allowed me to work on it more than I expected! https://www.wehero.co/browser-extension/ https://www.wehero.co/browser-extension/
• gantong 6y ago
  Wrote an app that OCRs your old-school bathroom scale so you don't need to buy a smart one: https://snapscale.life/ https://snapscale.life/ This also motivated me to write a critic on Google's AI-First kool aid: https://medium.com/@anton.grbin/ai-first-a-modern-anti-pattern-ad0e8782ad81?source=friends_link&sk=15593befa7451716be7e571dfa2fc1a2 https://medium.com/@anton.grbin/ai-first-a-modern-anti-patte...
• Bedon292 6y ago
  Self hosted home automation with Home Assistant [1] I haven't done a ton with it lately, but ended up finally updating an integration with it. Which lead me to learn more python async (still beginning this), github actions, and dev containers in VSCode [2]. My actual integration is for a WattBox, IP controlled power conditioner and UPS. Because apparently I am the only person to write an API wrapper for it. [3] [1] https://www.home-assistant.io/ https://www.home-assistant.io/ [2] https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/containers https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/containers [3] https://github.com/eseglem/pywattbox https://github.com/eseglem/pywattbox
• spondyl 6y ago
  Learning how to use org-mode and Doom Emacs :)
• tvanantwerp 6y ago
  Small and stupid, but I'll share anyway. I started playing the new Animal Crossing and wanted a good reference for all the fish and bugs to catch. I wasn't happy with static tables that were hard to sort and filter, so I created the interactive reference tool that I wanted: https://ac-catches.com/ https://ac-catches.com/ First site I've made with TypeScript, so at least I was learning something along the way.
  • sawyerjhood 6y ago
    Wow this is rad! I also created an animal crossing site: https://ac-catch.com https://ac-catch.com
    • tvanantwerp 6y ago
      Your site looks great too--love it!
  • HaloZero 6y ago
    This is great! I don't play Animal Crossing but it looks like a fun, functional site with a useful purpose. Certainly small, 100% not stupid.
• meisterbrendan 6y ago
  Posted this on another thread, but posting again here. If you're building something and want help, or looking for an idea to help build, add yourself/idea to this list: https://bmac-design.typeform.com/to/RbA4JL https://bmac-design.typeform.com/to/RbA4JL About 30 HN community members have signed so far. Post your projects and ideas and email/chat/Zoom with the people you find interesting. I'm putting it behind a form so that recruiters don't jump on and spam message everyone. Keep building + stay safe y'all!
• barnabee 6y ago
  I am building a wifi enabled remote control for my flat with an ESP32 microcontroller, a 128x64 OLED screen, two rotary encoders and a 3D printed case. Planned software features: - detect which room I’m in by strength of various bluetooth devices - default screen controls Sonos volume in current room with one rotary encoder, light levels of Hue lights with the other - pushing the encoders to control other rooms - scope for adding more screens a simple configuration schema Current status: hardware prototype (inc. case faceplate working on bench power supply, software about 15% done Incredible reading all these! Definitely motivating to make a bit of progress this weekend :)
• swhelan 6y ago
  I made this as a quick pick-me-up and reminder to go for my dreams and whims: https://www.toooldto.com/ https://www.toooldto.com/
• raben_ 6y ago
  I started learning modern brush pen calligraphy.
• Tossrock 6y ago
  I've been working on a texture/video synthesis framework for VJing / music visualization on a large LED installation. It uses a node editor (no relation to node.js) visual scripting approach to pipe data between different shaders (like a fluid simulation) and signal generators (like MIDI or Xbox controllers). Fluid simulation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1JzOv4w65w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1JzOv4w65w Audio reactive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyDpnzfSg_o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyDpnzfSg_o It's done with the Unity game engine, and is open source! https://github.com/SotSF/canopy-unity https://github.com/SotSF/canopy-unity
• qchris 6y ago
  A submersible time-lapse camera set-up using a RPi Zero, battery pack, and camera. I was working on repairing an inflatable dinghy earlier (over a dozen individuals patches!) and finally got it working and moving with a electric trolling motor. I can go free-diving from it and was looking for something else to do. The goal is to be able to put everything in the water-tight enclosure on shore, motor out to a spot in a kelp forest, drop anchor, hop over the side, and swim down to a good spot to place the camera. When that's done, I'll hang out for a bit playing around in the water or eat lunch/read a book or something in the dinghy, then go back down to grab it and then head back inshore and hope I've gotten some cool imagery!
• kaashmonee 6y ago
  It was actually inspired from HN. I found a site here called helpwithcovid.com and I've been working on a volunteer project with it. It's with a few people from around the world, so it's a nice opportunity to work on something but also with other people so it brings a fun social aspect into things. If anyone's interested, it's called CoCo and it can be found here: https://helpwithcovid.com/projects/719-coco-corona-control-closed-loop-pandemic-management-system https://helpwithcovid.com/projects/719-coco-corona-control-c...
• jfrankamp 6y ago
  I built a sketch of a game with unity (A/D keyboard, left right taps on mobile) http://countdown.joshuafrankamp.com.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/boxes/ http://countdown.joshuafrankamp.com.s3-website-us-east-1.ama... This might look familiar to anyone who has seen this set of unity tutorials. I watched the first ~6 back to back and then attempted to rebuild a version of it all from memory. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j48LtUkZRjU&list=PLPV2KyIb3jR5QFsefuO2RlAgWEz6EvVi6 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j48LtUkZRjU&list=PLPV2KyIb3j...
  • pks016 6y ago
    Nice start. Best of luck for future work.
• jtth 6y ago
  To relax.
• kregasaurusrex 6y ago
  Been working more on the Advent Of Code (AoC) problems in Python, almost halfway complete. https://adventofcode.com/ https://adventofcode.com/
• blizkreeg 6y ago
  I'm working on a tool that links technical documentation to code. The problem: product specs/technical docs are often out of date with the implementation. If anyone is interested in sharing their pain with this, I'm all ears and would love to brainstorm! Email in my bio.
• masahiko 6y ago
  Relaunching http://www.pedalr.com http://www.pedalr.com initially as a newsletter then overtime a better marketplace for people who love bikes
• voska 6y ago
  I'm stuck on a small island in St. Vincent & the Grenadines after narrowing escaping the nationwide lockdown in Venezuela, so I've been learning to kitesurf. I'm also rebuilding my website with Hugo. Feedback welcomed: https://www.voska.org https://www.voska.org
• jupp0r 6y ago
  Covid Statistics I'm interested in: https://jupp0r.github.io/covid-stats https://jupp0r.github.io/covid-stats. Very unfinished, just getting started.
  • jiberwarrior 6y ago
    a cool feature would be to toggle the graph scales to logarithms of any arbitrary base, in order to track the exponential growth rates based on what the current infection-constant-number is
    • jupp0r 6y ago
      done
• tomklein 6y ago
  I worked on a chrome extension against phishing based on trust. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/gentlent-safesurf/gcbnphcpgfekpebkgjpjkfbdbgdklcjd https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/gentlent-safesurf/...
• arcatech 6y ago
  Just a personal website: https://dwayne.xyz https://dwayne.xyz I rented a server from Digital Ocean, installed nginx and Go, and wrote a web server. No frameworks on the front or backend, just HTML, CSS, and a couple of small scripts. And I wrote my own authentication and admin pages to manage everything from the browser.
• ternaryoperator 6y ago
  Beginning work on solving the metadata problem in classical music. Specifically, for those of us who either buy CDs or download tracks from the Web--the metadata is generally badly formatted, partial, in the wrong language, inconsistent from track to track, etc. The hoped-for result is that you can run the tool on a directory and it will identify the files correctly and insert the metadata so that it is all consistent and correct. You can then copy the files to your favorite devices, and easily find what you want, make playlists easily, etc. My current stage is researching the current tools, which are all (so far) partial solutions and IMHO cumbersome to use.
  • npsimons 6y ago
    > Beginning work on solving the metadata problem in classical music. OMG, yes! While I know this is one of the classical (ha!) bikeshedding problems, and you'll never make everyone happy (and piss off a whole lot of them), I can only applaud your efforts. I'm as OCD about classical music metadata and code formatting as anyone, but when I saw that Go had a language formatter with an official indentation style, I loved it for settling a tired debate, even though I hate tabs for indent.
  • firethief 6y ago
    Neat. I implemented functionality like that for a media player, but it was years ago. The main issue we dealt with was the poor quality of the data, so I think we ended up with a combination of autodetect + store the original (incomplete) metadata so the user can always revert it if they find something wrong. Not a great UX, but GI/GO I guess.
    • ternaryoperator 6y ago
      Yeah, that is indeed a big part of the problem, as is anything that's crowd sourced. It's amazing in this day and age that the music companies themselves can't provide clean, consistently formatted metadata.
  • tminima 6y ago
    Check out MusicBRainz. have done a pretty good job of the tools around music tagging. Following is the link of the similar tool you are woking on from these guys: https://picard.musicbrainz.org/ https://picard.musicbrainz.org/
• herval 6y ago
  I started this: https://www.threaded.live/ https://www.threaded.live/ - it’s an attempt to build some sort of “social network” in the browser (at least initially) Also learned how to cook properly, and addicted to learning all the nuances of heat, acid, fat, etc.
• vhpoet 6y ago
  I started a book recommendation website https://readthistwice.com/ https://readthistwice.com/
  • fbelzile 6y ago
    Wow, really nice looking site, great name too! Good luck with it!
  • roguepandaz 6y ago
    Dope man!
  • atlgator 6y ago
    Sweet!
  • faizanbhat 6y ago
    Looks awesome. Bookmarked!
  • whiddershins 6y ago
    Can the site indicate when a book has been recommended by more than one person?
    • vhpoet 6y ago
      It does, you can see underneath the book description all the other recommenders. Thank you!
  • ifemide06 6y ago
    Your design's awesome. Really clean. Did you engage a UX person or you designed yourself?
    • vhpoet 6y ago
      Thank you! Designed and coded myself.
• sebastienBtr 6y ago
  I created a library: http://github.com/SebastienBtr/vue-dashboard http://github.com/SebastienBtr/vue-dashboard to easily create a dashboard app, my motivations for this library is that I didn't want to use a big dashboard template that you can find online, where you always have to do some refactor and remove all the things you don't need. Instead my library just give you a vue component to have a dashboard layout setup. Feedback would be appreciated, and of course, a star if you think it's great :)
• zengid 6y ago
  Making some microtonal music tools!
• Fomite 6y ago
  Epidemiologist - My quarantine side project is my job.
  • Jemaclus 6y ago
    In some ways, this must be kind of a jackpot for you. How often do you get to study novel viruses like this?? What are your thoughts about it, and what kind of work do you do with it?
• wodow 6y ago
  Rebooted https://www.lancelist.com https://www.lancelist.com —- it’s a directory of sites for freelancers, especially those new to the game, to find work
• rlander 6y ago
  I'm working on a browser-based MMO based on Game Neverending [0] (the game that eventually morphed into Flickr): [0] https://www.giantbomb.com/game-neverending/3030-48604/ https://www.giantbomb.com/game-neverending/3030-48604/
  • Ashwinning 6y ago
    Good luck, looking forward to see your upcoming photo sharing and enterprise chat apps in the near future! (P.S. I don't make the rules)
    • rlander 6y ago
      Thank you, good sir. Those’d be parts 2 and 3 of the business plan, with 4 and 5 being “???” and “profit”. In all seriousness, I’m just hoping to revive a simple (and awesome) game.
• adamcharnock 6y ago
  I'm working on starting a Wireless ISP in rural Portugal: https://gardunha.net https://gardunha.net It's a nice mix of both online and offline work. Also, the community around here is mostly made up of various combinations of farmers, hippies, retirees, and permaculture folks. Everyone wants a decent internet connection, but no one really has the skills to do much about it. I've lived here a year now, so thought I'd give it a go. It's a windy road. Actually, it all started out because I wanted to get fast internet for myself on my farm. Then I thought, "Hey, why not start a business?" Feature creep at its best.
  • sbayeta 6y ago
    I like it! Good luck!
  • nkg 6y ago
    that's really cool
  • license2e 6y ago
    I am sure you have already seen this, but for reference to anyone else who wants to start their own ISP: https://startyourownisp.com/ https://startyourownisp.com/ Note: not sure how correct this information is outside of US
    • adamcharnock 6y ago
      That site was actually the inspiration for this. I saw it on HN a few years ago and it just stayed in the back of my mind. I hadn't really considered it as an option up until that point. Something else I've found useful is RF Elements' YouTube channel. In particular this playlist [1]. I suspect they overstate some issues slightly in order to promote their own products, but I'm super impressed with how well the video's explain the topics. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwciKjvHFfY&list=PLii-eQuaf57ocpSGH6NR8IKtJvB9mb81h https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwciKjvHFfY&list=PLii-eQuaf5...
  • twicetwice 6y ago
    That's super cool! If you aren't already, keep an eye on Starlink—when they start operating in Portugal I bet it'd be a real benefit to your business. Yours is pretty much the ideal use case. Also, wow, living and coding in rurad Portugal sounds like a pretty idyllic life from here. Aproveite pra mim, né?
• ericax 6y ago
  I built Obsidian (https://obsidian.md/ https://obsidian.md/), a local Markdown file based knowledge base app. It supports internal linking and graph view, and recently added multi-pane capabilities too. It's looking more and more like an IDE for your knowledge by the day, and it's quite amazing at that. I also wanted Obsidian to be very extensible, and the private beta community has already started extending it and it's so cool: https://github.com/kmaasrud/awesome-obsidian https://github.com/kmaasrud/awesome-obsidian
  • Jemaclus 6y ago
    This is cool! It's neat to see other people extend your work, too. That's incredible. Congrats!
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• hkdobrev 6y ago
  I've started an open source bash tool for managing notes and todos: https://github.com/hkdobrev/notetaker https://github.com/hkdobrev/notetaker
• philipyoungg 6y ago
  I'm working on a pomodoro app. It's called Session. I've been beta testing it for a month to 30 people. Daily active user for the past month is 25% (8 person), so I'm happy with it! Session focuses on these points: - beautiful design. - analytics: what you worked on and for how long. - introspective: after each session, it'll ask you whether you got distracted. If so, why? - meditative: breathing in and out once at every session. I have bought the domain; but not yet designed the websire so progresses could be seen on https://www.twitter.com/philipyoungg https://www.twitter.com/philipyoungg
  • codethief 6y ago
    This looks really good! Do you have a timeline yet for when this will be available to the public?
• aaronsnoswell 6y ago
  I've been making tabletop game to enter into competitions (there are lots running!) and my significant other has been experimenting with making home-made ice-cream and sorbet :)
• sigmaskipper 6y ago
  I've built a website to help restaurants out in this time. It's called Expoed. https://expoed.restaurant https://expoed.restaurant The idea is that restaurants offer reservation time slots, reserved parking spots, a menu item named after you, or really anything they want in exchange for money from diners. Ultimately, it provides another source of revenue for restaurants during these tough times.
• nappa-leon 6y ago
  I built a web app to connect lonely stoners looking to smoke with others. www.weedvid.io
• pmayrgundter 6y ago
  SARS-CoV2 Live Virus Skin Vaccine, https://tinyurl.com/y8ujrcze https://tinyurl.com/y8ujrcze
• Folcon 6y ago
  I've finally started working on my game based around markets and trading in a fantasy setting. I've got a very naive global market running with some incredibly dumb bots, and am currently implementing local markets with their own needs/wants. It's multiplayer by design so hopefully at some point I'll have some nascent player-base competing with each other =)... I'm trying to keep everything simple and scope small. To be honest, I wasn't really expecting anyone to ever be interested in my toy project, beyond spending a half hour idling their time, but a friend of mine has already started kicking the tyres which is very exciting, he's written a bot that scrapes the site and trades against it which I find hilarious. There's far too much I could write here about ideas, but I'm just trying to keep my mouth shut and make it ;)...
  • vignesha 6y ago
    This sounds awesome will be interested in trying this out
    • Folcon 6y ago
      Well I'd be happy to drop you a link, if I knew how to get in touch ;)... I mean I could make a mailing list or something, but I personally would rather do that after having something to show. (Unless you are really keen and want to get in on the alpha server I've mentioned in the sibling thread, but I warn you it's still pretty basic =)...)
  • Jemaclus 6y ago
    I'm very interested in this. Can you share more?
    • Folcon 6y ago
      Sure, I'm a big fan of the paradox game lineage, but I'd like something a bit less focused on warfare, not that I don't think combat isn't important, but I'd like to see what focusing on different mechanics does. So the game runs a simulation under the hood and my goal is to slowly build up it's complexity over time, talking to players about what mechanics they find interesting / fun to focus on initially =)... The global market is modelled like a stock market, it's still very primitive, but the companies and organisations in it have their earnings driven by spending activities of agents in the system. I'm working on also having these agents also acting locally against more commodity like goods, which provides local a more local market as well. The real fun comes in when my demand system get's hit with the effects of supply chain, I'm still trying to work out good levers to give players so that they can interact with the underlying sim. Well more than hire a bunch of adventurers to set the local docks on fire anyway... ;) This will allow for two main ways to play: 1) trading against the market and if players want to build bots to do this, have at it, just be polite to the server... Heck if there's enough demand I'm happy to bring trading bots into the game universe. 2) Travelling from location to location to trade against the local markets, I've got some ideas for maintaining limited information, but to be honest we'll see what's fun =)... The server itself is currently running in "alpha" mode, what that means is that anyone who registers an account has their details stored, but their character data is ephemeral and gets reset when the server is rebooted. I'm of mixed minds whether to have the game still run in "ages" where the world does get periodically reset, so players get a history of how they did, sort of like a high score board/achievements, or to keep data around. I'm more leaning to the first, but it's hard to say whether players will like that =)... There's more that I've thought about, but to be honest I'd rather walk before I can run ;)...
• michaelleland 6y ago
  I built a half-pipe with my 10-year-old son! We designed it in Sketchup, did a material takeoff in Excel, and built it with lumber that got delivered to our house. 4’ high, 8’ wide and 29’ long—-and hours and hours of fun. Teaching things like trig and how to use a chop saw and the difference between different grades of plywood to a boy who’s learning-starved since school closed has been one of the more rewarding things I’ve ever done.
  • oneelectron 6y ago
    Badass. Where do you live, and can I come skate?
  • h00dui 6y ago
    post some pics! loved building boxes and half pipes when I was younger. Rad dad!
  • rbobby 6y ago
    Maybe in a few(?) years you can redo it but make it 8' high :)
  • johnmarinelli 6y ago
    +1 for being a rad dad. I built a box when I was younger with my dad. Fun times.
  • admiral33 6y ago
    Excellent project. Not as hard as a half pipe, when I was 8 my Dad and I built a lumber bike rack. Classic memory, its still stationed in front of the garage having taken quiet a beating. During the summer every night of mine and my siblings - sometimes drunken - teenage buffoonery for years on end ended with us riding/crashing into each slot.
• photawe 6y ago
  I've been working on this for close to 2 years, including in quarantine: https://phot-awe.com https://phot-awe.com It's a video editor with some really cool effects/transitions. In quarantine, I've been re-vamping the UI to make incredibly easy to create videos. I hope to have another version in about 1 week where creating videos will feel quite seamless ;) (Adding media into your video project has been hard - which is what I'm fixing right now.)
  • bobakanoosh 6y ago
    Maybe it's because I'm on mobile but I'm not seeing any images of the actual application. Personally when I work with an editor, me deciding to download it is heavily based on what it looks like. If I have to download it to see... I won't.
    • photawe 6y ago
      I completely understand. I'm in the process of rebuilding the UI - so I did not want to post "stale" screenshots. I really hope to have the new version of the app ready in less than a week, and then take a few screenshots and post them ;) Having said that, in the near future (3-4 months), I will redesign the site. Already hired a team. It's really interesting how things your idea of what should be on the website changes as things shape up. So, it will be a redesign from the ground up - but for that, I need to have a few more features ready - and that will take tiiiiime :) EDIT: I should have mentioned: this is Windows10 only for now. I may port it to other platforms assuming all goes well.
• priyankc 6y ago
  Checkout https://www.wfhcave.com https://www.wfhcave.com Hypothesis: As many of us work from home, there are several different things we all do. Be it cooking, hobbies, writing etc. WFH Cave is a place to share your projects and help inspire each other. I currently have around 30 users, mostly friends and family. Feedback that would help - what is that would stick here. Currently it feels like a normal photo sharing site. Any ideas would be much appreciated.
• _spoonman 6y ago
  Order matching engine written in Go
• OrangeBacon 6y ago
  I've been working on writing a c11 compiler, to x86_64/x64 assembly, currently just finished implementing function pointers and global variables. I still need to implement arrays/struct/string literals/optimisation, so a lot to do, but it is good enough to allocate memory and print hello world. It would be nice if I could make the compiler output binary files, not assembly source, but that seems like it would be a lot more todo. Implementing the type syntax was I think the hardest part so far, given c’s weird type syntax. https://github.com/OrangeBacon/mcc https://github.com/OrangeBacon/mcc
• SimianLogic2 6y ago
  I built a digital whiteboard that was a little better suited for 5-year-olds than the current crop for my mom to use with my youngest and my niece. Figured out how to properly use the bread machine (making approx 1 loaf a day, currently have carrot cake going). Currently working on a proof of concept for a desktop version of a web business I own. 8-year-old is super obsessed with primitive tech and has been digging up clay out of the back yard. I imagine we'll be making a kiln this weekend and eventually bricks.
• bingdig 6y ago
  Still a work in progress, but https://www.govtrades.com https://www.govtrades.com as a site to easily view stock returns of senators. The goal is to increase transparency of trades and accountability in policymaking as its becoming clearer that senators still leverage non-public information in trading and may be swayed in policymaking based on stocks they own. (Edited to make link clickable)
  • jwilber 6y ago
    This is awesome. Reach out to me sometime if you want help moving from plotly to a more web-based visualization (Eg D3), I’d love to help :) jdwlbr @ google’s email
    • bingdig 6y ago
      Thanks! I'll reach out once we have v1 completed and are looking to improve the site.
  • keenmaster 6y ago
    Good stuff. I recommend indexing to the SP500 so that it’s obvious when senators beat the market in a way that warrants further investigation.
    • bingdig 6y ago
      There is a toggle for the S&P500 you can select, but definitely agree that this should show up as a default to make it clear. One thing we've noticed is that most senators don't beat the S&P500, but the main reason seems to be that they simply have less risky portfolios (e.g. a lot of bond ETFs)
  • dang 6y ago
    There was another reply in this thread working on something similar; I'm sorry that I don't remember what it was, or where to find it in this haystack, but you might be able to dig it up if you're curious.
  • zeptonix 6y ago
• boardgames 6y ago
  Please checkout boardgames: https://bordga.me/ https://bordga.me/ Three of us are building online board games. Idea is to enable people to bring their board games online, and play with their friends. You can bring boardgames online by simply taking pictures of the board, cards, pieces etc., configure and launch. Gameplay would be very similar to real world. You have to move the pieces and run the games yourselves unlike the usual online games where 'computer' will do the heavy lifting. We believe that managing the game is big part of having fun. Games will have integrated video chat and can play with friends like real life. This is still an early stage. For example, we haven't opened up to users adding their own games yet. We added some games to test our platform. We are working on adding more capabilities to enable more games. Some questions we are looking to find answers for: - would you be willing to play boardgames with the current experience? - what game would you be excited to play here?
  • reactorpres 6y ago
    I'm not going to log in with Google or Facebook.
• Rotten194 6y ago
  Working on a game called Themengi (https://vgel.me/themengi/ https://vgel.me/themengi/), where you learn an alien language to navigate a world via text commands and dialog. Currently taking a break from the game itself to rewrite the linguistic parser for the game in Rust, which you can follow in my blog series: https://vgel.me/posts/symbolic-linguistics-part1 https://vgel.me/posts/symbolic-linguistics-part1
• npsimons 6y ago
  I have been all over the place, never able to focus much. I'm keeping very busy, perhaps to ignore the insanity. It's been awesome working from home, I've missed it so much! Being here where I don't have IT rules that are cumbersome at best, I can easily just install a software package to try it out. I've been a bit stultified by the job for many years now, and am only just catching up on learning new tools, mostly by doing a crash course in setting them up and using them. To date, I've - Setup my own personal webconferencing server (https://bigbluebutton.org/ https://bigbluebutton.org/). I did this on Digital Ocean, which I'd never done before, but I couldn't provide the necessary bandwidth or hardware at home. It's really opened my eyes to having someone else host the infrastructure, but I still get the sysadmin control I crave, plus it's cheap and just so fast and easy to spin up new machines. - I setup a phone number with SignalWire to hook it up to the webconference server as a dial in. That turned out difficult, so I quickly turned it around when it came up in my mountain rescue group that we had a need for a more customized replacement for GroupMe. I now have started working on an interactive system to manage callouts to missions. - I went to setup a Gitlab server as a support tool for developing the aforementioned project (and other future projects), but it turned out to be quite resource intensive, so I learned to spawn it in Docker on my main development machine at home, along with a runner to do continuous integration. - I finally got around to replacing my internal dhcp/dns/time/print/file server with something that uses an eighth of the power, produces much less heat, and is very quiet. It's so much nicer to have a quieter office. - I've been working on updating my old library of code templates/snippets, including adding new programming languages. This project I also use to test out the Gitlab instance as my goal with the templates is to have things that are self-contained, but run a number of unit tests. - I finally installed my smart thermostat, a HestiaPi (https://hestiapi.com/ https://hestiapi.com/). - I'm looking into RFID/NFC for a small project with my brother. He and I are also discussing a project using UE4. Hopefully I can find a way to cheaply host the Gitlab instance, or maybe I'll just end up paying for an account with them or Github, which I've also been learning how to do CI with and comparing with Gitlab. - Since I'm also a member of a big band, I've been getting into home audio recording and mixing, using Ardour and Audacity (for click tracks). I'm hoping to get enough musicians on board so that we can make our own version of the Reddit Symphony Orchestra. - So many other things! https://disaster.radio/ https://disaster.radio/, SDR, putting more holds on the climbing wall, trying new recipes, etc. I've been keeping so busy I forget to eat (down about five pounds) and have been skipping exercise, but it's just so fun! I do wish I could muster the focus to work on something big, something worthy.
• getup8 6y ago
  Cocktails! I read the Death & Co book and it inspired me to create a site to house all the recipes (and hopefully more eventually) and track which ones I've made. https://www.CocktailLove.com https://www.CocktailLove.com
  • gthole 6y ago
    This is awesome. It's a really nice layout. How do you find related cocktails? Database tagging, or some kind of a distance algorithm? I made something similar a couple years ago: https://github.com/gthole/drink-stash https://github.com/gthole/drink-stash What is CocktailLove written in? I couldn't seem to dig up the source anywhere.
    • getup8 6y ago
      Thanks! I want to do a redesign actually but too many other things on the plate.. Right now related are just manual actually. I planned on creating some type of graph and computing some type of distance but not yet. Let me know if you have ideas :) It's written in Python (Django) with Postgres and just vanilla JS on the frontend. Looks like yours too?
      • gthole 6y ago
        Yeah, mine is driven by Django Rest and an Angular app for the UI. I'm seriously considering moving to React, though. I just use Sqlite for the DB layer because it's easily performant enough. I used Drink & Tell (and its sequel Drunk & Told) for the primary source of recipes, which I can't recommend more. The "related recipes" thing is interesting. If I stick to doing it with a sql query, then I think an algorithm to pick out the base spirit, then filter on that and on whether it's shaken/stirred/scaffa, then sort by common ingredient count? Then again, an Elastic Search stack can do related objects out of the box, but I wouldn't want it to get that complex :)
        • getup8 6y ago
          I haven't tried standing yours up yet but will tomorrow! Do you have all the Drink and Tell/Told recipes as fixtures? Or just a few? Your repo is nice and clean, definitely learning from that, and your model design. Any reason you haven't deployed as a web app? Oh and for related.. an issue is that sometimes related recipes are really quite different (e.g. an old fashioned riff with Gin and St Germain, or tequila/mezcal) so would be tough to automate..
• carrmichele 6y ago
  During the first two weeks of quarantine, I launched a Shopify website to sell/rent home fitness equipment. It's been a great learning experience in the world of Supply Chain Manufacturing. While the site was an initial success and led to dozens of orders the first week (with no paid advertising), I hit a major roadblock that I was not expecting. My suppliers had to temporarily halt equipment manufacturing due to the emergency law that required them to start producing PPE. This led to the shortage of gym equipment nationwide. You can't even find dumbbells online. Although my website got a lot of organic traffic and orders within the first two weeks, I was unable to fulfill most orders since manufacturing was on pause and everything was already sold out. Since then I've continued studying SCM, and I'm also learning Python so that I can build a model to predict this kind of event in the future.
  • omniscient_oce 6y ago
    Predict a worldwide pandemic?
    • keenmaster 6y ago
      It’s hard to predict a worldwide pandemic. It’s easier, but still difficult, to predict the course of a pandemic when it first emerges. You can build a model that measures the risk of supply chain disruption vs. the cost of buying more inventory than you normally would. This could go beyond pandemics obviously.
      • omniscient_oce 6y ago
        Ah okay that makes sense. I honestly get kind of annoyed when I buy things that aren't labelled as backorders and then get told that even though I paid, they don't have stock. I'm not sure if the OP labels them as such or not
• ioseph 6y ago
  Started playing around with the VCV Rack SDK, I've made a somewhat functional pitch detection module so you can create V/Oct signal using audio from a real instrument.
• ermir 6y ago
  I am making my own platformer game with a custom engine, with the hope of eventually adding user editable levels and WebRTC based multiplayer. https://infinitower.suldashi.com https://infinitower.suldashi.com There are no mobile controls at the moment, and movement is done via WASD keys. There are not many features at the moment since I’ve been focusing on the core engine functionality, but the development process has been very rewarding and educational. I also want to use this material to write a series of tutorials or maybe even a small book.
• Myrmornis 6y ago
  I'm maintaining Delta and trying to help out a bit with Eglot -- an Emacs LSP (Language Server Protocol) project, and trying to improve my Rust and Lisp along the way. LSP in Emacs with Eglot is fantastic (especially for Rust, but also Python. Those are the only ones I've tried so far.) https://github.com/dandavison/delta https://github.com/dandavison/delta https://github.com/joaotavora/eglot https://github.com/joaotavora/eglot
• karateka 6y ago
  1) Built a crappy cordova clone of an Android app I used (ThingCounter) to better suit my needs. It helps me track my reps for kata [1] and set goals to meet by certain dates. 2) Built another cordova app which bundles a load of videos I use as reference for training (Okinawan weapons [2] kata), need to compress the videos better, the app came out at 800MB+. 3) Reading through Automate the Boring Stuff to relearn Python [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kata#Karate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kata#Karate [2] http://ryukyu-kobudo.com/ http://ryukyu-kobudo.com/
• arata 6y ago
  I am building a free Japanese learning website at https://日本語.app https://xn--wgv71a119e.app . It serves as a creative medium to improve my design and development skills, as well as my Japanese. My vision for the project is to give learners the basic foundation of vocabulary, kanji, and grammar and to expose them as early as possible to native content (something that I wish I did sooner). For that reason, I utilize various media such as tweets and YouTube videos to make the content more natural (i.e. not textbookish), relevant, and engaging. The project is still far from completion. A few days ago, I shared the early version of kanji module (https://日本語.app/漢字 https://xn--wgv71a119e.app/漢字) to a reddit community. If you are interested in the details, please check the post below: https://old.reddit.com/r/LearnJapanese/comments/gii8ww/looking_for_feedback_on_a_kanji_website_i/ https://old.reddit.com/r/LearnJapanese/comments/gii8ww/looki... Technology-wise, I am building the website with Next.js and wrote all sort of scripts such as asset generation, dictionary, and parser in Go. Aside from no support for utf-8 route in Next.js (I had to hack few things to make it work), the development has been smooth and pleasant.
  • billylo 6y ago
    I made this for my better half (she's learning Japanese too.) Point camera to object, app would read out detected object in your language of choice. https://travelshoppingbuddy.com/ https://travelshoppingbuddy.com/
• zentiggr 6y ago
  I was an active Palm user, Life Balance was my task tracker of choice, so much so that for a while i tried to run it on PHEM on my Android phones. (Don't ask. Ouch.) I'm trying to reimplement it with personal mods, in C# to start, and likely do something in Xamarin.
• ropable 6y ago
  Trying to improve my home-made pizza bases. There's only so far you can go without a dedicated pizza oven, but I've gone from "bad" to "decent" at least.
• adamqureshi 6y ago
  Testing this out: Hiring Platform for Senior Engineers. https://tryoldster.com https://tryoldster.com
• slotix 6y ago
  1) I started writing articles for our blog. https://blog.dataflowkit.com/ https://blog.dataflowkit.com/ 2) Published COVID-19 widgets website https://covid-19.dataflowkit.com/ https://covid-19.dataflowkit.com/
• FiddlerClamp 6y ago
  Writing a novel about a guy stuck in quarantine who falls in love with another guy across the city, but the only way they can communicate is through making shapes out of light strings and hanging them in their windows.
  • Jemaclus 6y ago
    I'd read it!
    • FiddlerClamp 6y ago
      Thanks, it's 1/3rd done and then I got a bit overwhelmed by reality.
      • Jemaclus 6y ago
        Keep writing! You're 1/3 of the way there! :D
        • FiddlerClamp 6y ago
          Happy to send you what I've got so far. :)
• pknerd 6y ago
  1 - I am learning Go and already released two packages: - GoCache - An LRU based cache server inspired by memcached. - gKeeVee - file based key/value store 2- Working on an Indexing tool which will be based on Inverted Index. 3 - Reading books. 4 - Learning Rust. 5 - Trying to learn Farsi. Still looking for better resources.
  • pknerd 6y ago
    Forgot to add: making a HN Job application tracker for monthly Who is hiring so that I can track where I applied or which job already viewed.
• taphangum 6y ago
  I've spent a decent amount of time learning over the time that this quarantine has been going on. A major issue that I've seen is that of most beginner-focused educational content not being fast enough to learn with for the more experienced developer. This along with the fact that time is often a big issue for us. I've had numerous times where I had to learn a new framework within a 1-2 week time span in order to plug some work gap or speed up a project, and found no legitimate resources that could allow an intermediate developer like me to learn faster. This is why I am currently creating content targeted specifically at intermediate to advanced developers and teaching new languages and frameworks (using the 'constructivist' method) in a way that makes the process of learning them much more efficient. In short, faster. It's a little rough around the edges but you can check out the blog where I share my current tutorials here: https://fromtoschool.com https://fromtoschool.com. To gain a better understanding of why the method of teaching that I've described is more efficient than others for the intermediate developer, check out this post: https://fromtoschool.com/why-most-programming-tutorials-are-so-hard-to-understand-and-a-solution-to-this-problem/ https://fromtoschool.com/why-most-programming-tutorials-are-....
  • pokernaming 6y ago
    Yep, I would also suggest https://learnxinyminutes.com/ https://learnxinyminutes.com/ to learn any new porgramming language quickly if you have experience in similar languages.
    • taphangum 6y ago
      Thanks for the share.
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  • schedutron 6y ago
    I really need saviors like you! Learning a new programming language / framework is often too redundant initially.
• unusual_whales 6y ago
  Hey there, I've been working on unusual whales! I'm trying to sniff out "insider" trading and alert users. There is still a lot of work to do, but so far, good progress: https://twitter.com/unusual_whales https://twitter.com/unusual_whales
• StillBored 6y ago
  Well i've got a few, but finishing a number of "digitization" projects I've had on the back burner for years. As I type this, i'm flipping 3.5" floppies from the early 1990's I've had stashed away in a closet for the past 25 years. Its mostly automated. I'm using a high speed floppy drive (with laser tracking) to image the disks. Then I mount them and copy the files off to the NAS. The drive also has a soft eject (like all the old mac drives). So it just sits there buzzing away until its done then it ejects the floppy. About every 40 seconds or so I pick it up, and stick the next one in the pile in. Working from home puts this within arms reach all day long. So while sometimes I get really busy and ignore it, when I become aware of it I start flipping floppies again. Once every few dozen floppies when a label read fails/etc then I type in a new disk series and let it rip. I did all the music CD's a few years ago, most of my 8x10 photos last year (the fastfoto 640 is awesome, it needs a bigger feeder though). Next up are the 5.25"s, and a bunch of QIC80 tapes I used like floppies in the mid 1990's. I've also got a stack of harddrives from the past ~30 years I need to capture. Of course I've got the usual set of small projects as well, but I have to be careful about doing those because I can accidentally lose a day that I should be doing actual work i'm getting paid for. The flipping floppies/etc is a good background no brain activity.
• rjusher 6y ago
  My project for this quarantine has been https://iober.com/ https://iober.com/ . Yet Another Focus Music generator to solve many of my problems using other services throughout the years. What works best for me to focus is a combination of many services that exists on the market, so at the end I had to tune into many web apps on my browser which hogged my memory and I had to pay for many subscriptions making it a really expensive solution. So I created this service, is still a work in progress, but I have been running to polish everything during this quarantine, right now I feel it is at a 90%.
• metta2uall 6y ago
  https://foodview.app https://foodview.app - a photo food diary that aims to be super-simple, quick, privacy-respecting and free - made with Flutter https://github.com/eug48/cmd-frontend https://github.com/eug48/cmd-frontend - a framework for creating customisable web-based GUIs for command-line tools, e.g. for administering Kubernetes
• glouwbug 6y ago
  I just started porting various shadertoy glsl shaders to c++ for software rendering practise: github.com/glouw/softshader I'm really enjoying it
• nirmel 6y ago
  I wrote a book of comedy/philosophy-hybrid essays. I will mail you a paperback copy if you ask.
• nnp7000 6y ago
  aithisweek.net/
• sentinel 6y ago
  An app called Mick Tagger – I listen to a lot of music, and this app, which is like a specialized Alfred, helps me more easily manage my Spotify playlists. It's free on the App Store in case you care to check it out: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mick-tagger/id1490366427?mt=12 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mick-tagger/id1490366427?mt=12
• vneur 6y ago
  I've been working on a rock climbing card game! We hope to kickstart it sometime later in the year. https://five15game.com https://five15game.com I've also been making excessive amounts of bread!
• mvkel 6y ago
  Origami.
• deepitapai 6y ago
  https://endorse.fyi/ https://endorse.fyi/ * It’s been disheartening to see our colleagues affected by COVID-19 layoffs and so my friend and I built Endorse. The idea is simple - sign up if you need assistance or volunteer to help out colleagues with resume review, mock interviews, or referral. If you’ve lost your job recently, tell us what you need help with most. We’ll match you with an amazing volunteer who can provide you with the assistance needed to find your next professional position. * This week, we launched Endorse on a couple of Facebook groups, Slack channels, and LinkedIn and have received ~80 sign-ups so far. We're two engineers who've greatly benefited from the Tech community and have built this as a way to give back. While the # of sign-ups helps validate the idea, we desperately need more volunteers who can help with resume review, mock interviews, and mentorship.
• nathcd 6y ago
  I switched text editors and window managers! kakoune to textadept (which has been great) and i3 to awesome (which I'm still getting the hang of). I'm thinking about switching from chromium to luakit, too.
• zippoxer 6y ago
  Finally completed my side project [1], a website/app to check in which countries Netflix streams that movie or series you've been wanting to watch. As a heavy VPN consumer, this is really helpful to me :) [1]: https://captainflix.com https://captainflix.com
• nevode 6y ago
  I'm creating a collection of written interviews to mainly people in the tech ecosystem about productivity, like how to organize the todo lists, what tools they use, routines, how to manage emails & co. I always want to know more about how people get things done but it's almost impossible to find high-quality content about it (apart from click baity resources like "what top CEOs do to be more productive").
• vitiell0 6y ago
  I started working through this Bioinformatics Jupyter notebook and found that it is really well put together! If you're interested in working with DNA or proteins with Python I highly recommend it. https://github.com/applied-bioinformatics/An-Introduction-To-Applied-Bioinformatics https://github.com/applied-bioinformatics/An-Introduction-To...
• jwilber 6y ago
  4PLYMAG.com A data-visualization magazine for skateboarding. Super niche, but super fun!
• datafix 6y ago
  zealchain.com. cryptocurrency and alternate dns root for marginalized communities
• MertsA 6y ago
  I've been hiking in the government reservation around my town. I live near Eglin AFB which has almost half a million acres of land and about a quarter of a million acres are open to the public with a permit. There's easily over a thousand miles of trails going through the woods and the vast majority of them aren't on any official maps. I'm cobbling together a u-blox EVK-7P GPS receiver with a USB-C hub and battery bank that supports USB-PD passthrough to a phone hooked up to the hub to log the raw GPS observations from the u-blox receiver as well as log the sensor data from the accelerometer, gyro, and magnetometers in the phone. After a hike the idea is to post process those observations using a nearby Florida Department of Transportation reference station as a base station in order to get accurate positioning after the fact. (should be on the order of centimeters) The u-blox receiver also supports measuring the doppler shift to each satellite as well which should give me not only position but direct velocity measurements as well. Combined with the accelerometers and gyros in the phone I should be able to use Google Pose Optimizer (If anyone knows of a more up to date sensor fusion library please reach out to me) to combine the results into a fine grained and highly accurate track of each trail and publish some of the trails online as KML or GPX. The part that's pretty up in the air is taking the raw track and combining points of interest with the track and combining overlapping paths where I doubled back on a trail. My basic plan is first take all of the raw positions and times and construct a continuous non-branching path that accurately shows the actual path I took and then iterate through it from start to finish constructing a new path and check to see if the point I'm sampling from the raw path is already nearby an existing point on the new path and if so, skip it and start a new branch when the path diverges. The other side project keeping me busy has been setting up my desktop as a multiseat computer both at my desk and on the living room TV for my son to play some emulators, Minecraft, PBS Kids games, etc. As luck would have it, the length between the back of my PC and the HDMI input on my TV through the cable management arm, wall, closet, baseboards is juuust short enough that a 25ft regular passive HDMI cable will reach. I've got a Monoprice two port active USB extender hooked up as well going to a webcam mounted on top of the TV and a Bluetooth dongle that's mounted just barely peeking out from below. For a controller I picked up a bluetooth Xbox One controller and I'm using xpadneo as the driver for it on Arch Linux. That plus a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse are the only HIDs out in the livingroom and the keyboard and controller are rechargeable. It's better than any console and wound up being cheaper as well and it's expandable for e.g. one of our latest favorites of playing Hans Zimmer's "No Time For Caution" while playing SpaceX's ISS docking simulator with the goal of docking before the song ends. That last side project has also expanded into some Minecraft modding working on porting an old mod that adds Joypad support to the PC version to more modern versions of Minecraft. Right now he's still pretty unfamiliar with using a keyboard and mouse so controller support is a must which really limits the mods available because that basically pins me to Minecraft 1.12.
• horizontech-dev 6y ago
  Working on Horizon Project where a bunch of engineers mentoring freshers in getting their job. Kinda Google Summer of Code. For the interested folk's https://www.horizontech.dev https://www.horizontech.dev
• blackboxlogic 6y ago
  I've been importing all Maine addresses into Open Street Map. I wrote the tools I'm using and open source published parts that I thought could be reused. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Maine_E911_Addresses https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Maine_E911_Addres...
  • Jemaclus 6y ago
    Wait, Maine addresses weren't in OSM before??
    • djbeadle 6y ago
      I have noticed in many places in the USA residential addresses especially are very incomplete on OSM.
      • Jemaclus 6y ago
        That's kinda crazy to me... but it's good that good samaritans are contributing!
    • blackboxlogic 6y ago
      Yeah, I tried to switch off google maps and could only get directions to street intersections or towns. Instead of getting mad about it, I decided to fix it.
      • Jemaclus 6y ago
        That's big of you! I would have just thrown my computer on the ground and cried. Seriously, it boggles the mind that so many addresses aren't in it...
        • blackboxlogic 6y ago
          There's been plenty of computer-throwing and crying, but all worth it. Now I can get directions without my phone highlighting every Mc Donalds and saying things like "turn left at the People's United Bank". I started to wonder if google chose routes which specifically sent me passed advertisers' stores.
• alexbanks 6y ago
  1. A basketball management sim game 2. A cloud computing platform 3. Reacclimating myself with Java 4. Learning React/Typescript I basically just rotate between these 4.
  • hariharasudhan 6y ago
    if you're using react then definitely checkout https://www.bytehub.dev/ https://www.bytehub.dev/ for some cool react components
• julee04 6y ago
  micro learning platform: https://smalltuts.com https://smalltuts.com
• abinaya_rl 6y ago
  https://remoteleaf.com https://remoteleaf.com I'm actively working on Remote Leaf for the past few months, to help people land remote jobs during these tough times. Remote Leaf collects remote jobs from 40+ remote job boards, social media feeds & 300+ company career pages, LinkedIn and send the ones that apply to you.
• emiunet 6y ago
  I worked on a bash script that downloads all of Slack messages to my local computer. I have a few workspaces (some community workspaces) where I don't have admin permissions and a few free tier workspaces where messages are limited to 10K. I use this script to download chat messages to my computer everyday so I can grep them later at any time. It's on github: https://github.com/t-tran/slack-chat-backup https://github.com/t-tran/slack-chat-backup
  • dewy 6y ago
    This is great, thanks!
• quangrau 6y ago
  During the COVID-19 situation where all workplaces and schools were closures. My kids were switching to home-based learning so I made an app for them to learn ABC and counting. Github: https://github.com/quangrau/flutter_kid_starter https://github.com/quangrau/flutter_kid_starter
• tndl 6y ago
  A tool for open hardware companies to more easily manage manufacturing their product.
  • Jemaclus 6y ago
    Can you share more? Sounds interesting!
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• smashah 6y ago
  I'm working on a WhatsApp bot that will keep help Uber drivers in Brazil keep each other safe.
• riantogo 6y ago
  Daily math practice web app for kids grade 1 to 4 https://arcadejack.com https://arcadejack.com
• johnmarcus 6y ago
  Repeter. Forward traffic from a custom DNS domain to my localhost via an ssh tunnel. Pulumi (like Terraform) stands up the t2.micro ec2 instance, configures nginx, and assigns the dns in Route53, and enable letsencrypt for https. Then tear it down when your down with it. I find it's much faster than the sass alternates, like ngrok. https://github.com/nelsonenzo/repeter https://github.com/nelsonenzo/repeter
• w_t_payne 6y ago
  A distributed simulation framework for Python based on Kahn process networks, intended to provide support for design automation based on a novel hybrid of statistical techniques (including DNNs) and rules-based AI.
• num 6y ago
  https://github.com/overset/JP01 https://github.com/overset/JP01 Designed and open-sourced a custom CNC Aluminum Unibody case for an existing open-source split-fixed mechanical keyboard PCB called the Arisu, similar to the TGR Alice. Prototypes arrived in record time and definitely enjoying them as I type this. The PCB can be quickly built by several prototyping companies and available at: https://github.com/FateNozomi/arisu-pcb https://github.com/FateNozomi/arisu-pcb
• hariharasudhan 6y ago
  Here we go https://www.bytehub.dev/ https://www.bytehub.dev/ for some cool free React.js components. Wanted to create some cool react components which are used commonly. My proud one here https://www.bytehub.dev/components/animated-file-upload https://www.bytehub.dev/components/animated-file-upload
  • zeptoon 6y ago
    Very cool!
• Gabriel_Martin 6y ago
  Learning more After Effects for Lottie UX animation
• leverage_55 6y ago
  I’m working on a 1 inch bell siphon for vertical hydroponic growers. Growers will be able to use one pump to send water to a top grow tray and have the siphon drain the water into a tray beneath. The siphon on the tray beneath will then start and drain water to the train below it. This cascade of water will finally drain back into the reservoir of water and the cycle will begin again. I’ve been working on this for the last month and finally got it working. It will be listed on my site soon. https://www.justponics.com https://www.justponics.com
• sayzlim 6y ago
  I redesigned my blog and started writing again during the quarantine. I've also run a clean install on my Mac because it couldn't boot for some reason. One valuable lesson I learned during the clean install was to set up the development environment correctly. I should've realized that most people don't understand Unix directory structure. As a result, they run `sudo` if something doesn't work. I wrote the guide to myself, but I emphasized the importance of dependency manager in the post: https://sayzlim.net/setup-macos-web-development/ https://sayzlim.net/setup-macos-web-development/ It becomes much easier to learn a new framework knowing that I've installed everything correctly on my Mac. No more struggling with permission errors.
• Mikajis 6y ago
  I've been self-isolating for like three months now so I've been busy... Rendering Engine Built In C++ (https://opengl.bassi.li/ https://opengl.bassi.li/) ML Models Trained To Predict Interest In Rental Units (https://classifier.bassi.li/ https://classifier.bassi.li/) Interpreted Programming Language Built With Python (https://simplescript.bassi.li/ https://simplescript.bassi.li/) On a completely unrelated note: I'm aggressively unemployed and would very much welcome a remote development job. Cheers!
• nabilhat 6y ago
  I started taking a few bites out of a job shop scheduling solution that's been in the back of my mind for ages. I tend to end up doing general geek stuff for small manufacturing businesses. At a certain point they always ask about scheduling automation because their one person who runs the shop can't keep track of everything any more. The existing scheduling solutions are either too far down the rabbit hole of job-shop-scheduling yak shaving to fit or attached to an ERP that's out of their price range for a while. In this case scheduling automation doesn't have to be perfect. It shouldn't be, it's a waste of time. These users haven't grown into habits that fit an optimized solution; their manufacturing data has been treated as an arcane nuisance because it hasn't provided benefits yet. All they need is something basic to get them started on the way to better habits and improving their data while improving scheduling. I don't know how far I'll get, but it's cathartic and educational to work on for now.
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• akeck 6y ago
  Raspi 4 "Desktop" with encrypted SSD for root and tiered swap (zram at high priority plus compressed swap on SSD) plus write up. Debian 10 NUC samba file server for my home dir on Mac. Case bound book from scratch. Finish long running migration from Apple Photos to Darktable. Already done: Blurb book of pics of our dog drop-shipped to my aunt.
• monadic2 6y ago
  C’mon guys, I want to steal your work and pay you but a pittance.
• hieunc229 6y ago
  https://inspired-ideas.web.app https://inspired-ideas.web.app shares the one-idea that changes your life. I often see an idea that help solve a problem that I was stuck. A few days ago, people start to shares those ideas that helped them, so I created Inspired Ideas that you can learn from other experiences
• jasonlfunk 6y ago
  I made a goal tracking system for my time tracking. It helps me make sure I'm working enough. http://timegoalie.com http://timegoalie.com
• miguelbemartin 6y ago
  https://remottecoffee.com https://remottecoffee.com a tool to make easier how we keep connections online. Several weekends of confinement have helped one friend and me to shape and implement one of those projects we had in our personal backlog. Because of the distance we are from each other, our friendship has relied heavily on phone calls and video calls. Some time ago, we started calling them, "remote coffees", "- Hey man, when are we having our next remote coffee?" We met at the University, we spent about two years working for the same company and we have kept in touch during these years thanks to our "remotte coffees" and also due to the many concerns about technology and productivity we have in common. "This conversation should have been recorded!". We are sure this same thought came to you after some either formal or informal conversation you had. The challenge was simply to place a product live with as much free time as this quarantine allows, and here it is. We are not launching a super business, nor did we intend to, we both are fully dedicated to something else. We just wanted to launch this MPV and share it with friends and contacts. We do have a lot more functionalities and ideas to put on it but, if you want to try it, those ideas will be much better by taking into account your honest feedback.
  • homakov 6y ago
    A truly valid problem. Myself i don’t like online communications with friends. It only makes me feel worse. it feels so incomplete and awkward. In person our convo is flowing much better
    • miguelbemartin 6y ago
      Not always you have the chance to keep communications on site. I am from Spain and I've moved to Germany a few years ago. I am working in an international company where there are people from everywhere around the world. I love to keep connected with all of them and a remote coffee sometimes is a good idea.
• murphy214 6y ago
  Finally biting bullet and learning react (I've had run ins in the past) by converting a vanilla js handcoded-web (super complicated) app to react. Probably not the best app to learn on as it requires a Mapbox map which means you have to interface with the map api in a very untraditional way. Was a little new to npm as well, but got rolling after a while. Not done yet, still little issues with flow state, for example, if I have a dual range slider in react with clearly styled and labeled beg and ending sliders values, how do I drag one slider over the other and force swapping the two but continue the UI motion. Currently I'm just overriding the event target.
  • hariharasudhan 6y ago
    try https://www.bytehub.dev/ https://www.bytehub.dev/ for some cool react components
• throwaway17_17 6y ago
  As I mentioned in a thread earlier today, and at the urging of some friends, I am working on the 0.1 release of my personal programming language. It is a language based on explicit parallel and sequential composition of expressions (very similar to the concatenative languages family) with an underlying categorical semantic/type theory based on Adjoint Logic (work by Pfenning, Reed,Pruiksma et al and work by Licata, Shulman, et al with the Simple Intutionisitic fragment replaced by a Dependently typed fragment (ala Krishnaswami) and all based on work in the ‘90s by Nick Benton). I set myself a goal since I’m in lockdown of having a landing page with minimal compiler and hopefully a small web based playgraound published before July 1. I have really been enjoying the work I’m doing on this and hope everyone else is having a good time working on their stuff amidst all the external upheaval.
• jlebar 6y ago
  I've been building a tool to make it easier to upload chains of dependent PRs to github, https://github.com/jlebar/git-pr-chain https://github.com/jlebar/git-pr-chain Works pretty well for me, but there are lots of ways it could be improved if anyone is interested in hacking on it with me.
• dnprock 6y ago
  I was working on a side project before the quarantine. It's now my main project after I lost my job. The goal of my project is to provide an easy and fast way to create dashboards. The tool turns a JSON spec file into a dashboard. We're using React and Redwoodjs. They're fun tech stacks. https://github.com/vidalab/vida https://github.com/vidalab/vida I made some dashboard examples from live data: COVID Trend in the United States https://vida.io/dashboards/ck9thqbxl00000umrd0u2pmdj https://vida.io/dashboards/ck9thqbxl00000umrd0u2pmdj We're looking for collaborators. We want to turn this into a commercial product.
• ArtDev 6y ago
  Gloomhaven.
• rumpelsepp 6y ago
  Since I read stuff in the internet every day and I forget the interesting stuff all the time, I started to record my "bookmarks": https://rumpelsepp.org/stuff/bookmarks.html https://rumpelsepp.org/stuff/bookmarks.html
• justkez 6y ago
  I've also made quite a bit of bread - very satisfying first thing in the morning. I used the change in routine to put spare time into launching a specialty coffee indexing site[1]. I've been thinking about it for +1 year. Still working on the backend and the ultimate goal is to tell you when harvests from producers you've liked before are back on sale (i.e. I liked this coffee last year, what might I like this year), and build a kind of engine to recommend coffees. (It's also a testbed for ruby continuous deployment with Docker!) [1] https://www.coffeesindex.com/ https://www.coffeesindex.com/
• ak47surve 6y ago
  Fun side project: Missing chaos during quarantine? Play urban soundscapes in a loop and #StayTheFuckHome https://noisyloop.com/ https://noisyloop.com/
• kerrsclyde 6y ago
  I wrote a system so that people can help me to identify the steam traction engines featured in each one of my photograph collection. The premise of the system was simple, you view a pic, type in the registration / license plate then move to the next. It has only three options, add, none visible or same as previous. The system is offline at min whilst I prepare more images but here is a screen grab: https://i.imgur.com/qWSiUEV.png https://i.imgur.com/qWSiUEV.png I advertised the link on a forum which I post on and was amazed at the response. The first 10k images I'd prepared were indexed within 24hrs and then a second batch of 20k in the same timeframe. The quality of results was very good, less than 5% error rate. Ultimately I am going to choose the best and add them to a web site. Some guys have said they'd like a similar system for their own photos. I suspect there could be a solution there for things like railway / transport photograph community.
• willthefirst 6y ago
  A giant permanent wall of text for and by the internet. Anyone can write on it. https://wordsoftheweb.web.app https://wordsoftheweb.web.app
• shreygineer 6y ago
  As an Android developer, it was hard for me to find a place to copy & paste deeplinks on a device that didn't have Slack. So, I created a lightweight Android app that allows you store any time of link and open it: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.appdex https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.appdex
  • mikorym 6y ago
    Have you looked at pasting the links via a IRC client? Maybe your way is better; I'm just mentioning it.
• Uhrheber 6y ago
  Joghurt. I've started to make my own joghurt. I'm too afraid to go shopping, and I don't need to, because I bought a lot of long-life food, including milk. But I missed joghurt, so I started to make my own, and it's great!
• cracadumi 6y ago
  The TDA, biggest art student competition in Europe, was scheduled in Barcelona in April. Because of COVID-19 it was impossible for the few thousands students to meet there. So I made a mobile app to host the competition online, which replicated all the rules of the traditional contest. It got around 2000 signups during the week of the contest and made the competition possible remotely. I decided to keep it live and run new contests for artists everywhere in the world during lockdown. You can check it out and vote for your favorite artists, or join the contest yourself, there : https://greatest.app.link https://greatest.app.link.
• adamhepner 6y ago
  https://istqb-glossary.page https://istqb-glossary.page - I got frustrated with the official ISTQB glossary page, so I made my own. Scraped their data via (terrible, terrible) search API, published it all as a hugo page. Nothing spectacular, but it serves a purpose. You can link to a specific term with relative ease, see available translations and synonyms, and if I come around to adding extra content (like youtube videos or articles explaining concept - see https://istqb-glossary.page/boundary-value-analysis/ https://istqb-glossary.page/boundary-value-analysis/), then the page will morph into place for learning more about testing concepts - the glossary itself might be a little... dry. All contributions are welcome, however we're working 2 fulltime jobs and care for a 3 yo in lockdown, so time to work on this project is a luxury.
• G4BB3R 6y ago
  I am learning Elixir, improving my Esperanto vocabulary and learning how to juggle 5 balls
• mdl8bit 6y ago
  Working on an NES game with some friends
• mnky9800n 6y ago
  I'm building a freely available data set from a 50000 student survey of attitudes towards experimental physics. Typically this kind of data is never available without working at the institution where it's gathered. We figured that's BS and really against NSF guidelines for data collection anyways.
• okt 6y ago
  I built a breed identifier for cats http://catbreedfinder.com http://catbreedfinder.com
• brett40324 6y ago
  I was laid off about a month ago. Last week I purchased the domain covid-story.com (theres nothing deployed yet). I want a a basic crud application that allows users to log events in their life by date, journal, or more blog in longer form the day to day experiences they've had during the pandemic.
• sshsaba 6y ago
  Exploring https://sparkar.facebook.com/ar-studio/ https://sparkar.facebook.com/ar-studio/ for creating cool instagram effects.
• mmanfrin 6y ago
  Depression.
• asaq 6y ago
  I build something where i can store my image collections into different categories (lots of art atm + some dwarf fortress maps + plans). Drag drop images (or whole folders) into collections. Its not 100% done yet and I am looking for feedback. Sadly normal work has crept up on me and I feel the motivation slowly leaving my body.. :) https://collect.cat/ https://collect.cat/
• zaabis 6y ago
  https://github.com/evzaboun/garage-door https://github.com/evzaboun/garage-door Raspberry pi garage door opener build with React+NodeJS. Admin panel | User roles | Signup/Login flows | responsive | Progressive web app
• 6nf 6y ago
  Building a wire EDM for fun
• mgreenleaf 6y ago
  I've been trying to learn LFE (Lisp Flavored Erlang) and write a widget framework in it. I've never really dabbled in Lisp, but I'm also reading On Lisp, and it is fun to just stretch the mind a bit and wrap my head around FP. My wife thought I was reading a math paper from how Lisp looks :) Also trying to clean up https://geo-yak.com https://geo-yak.com and https://yak-mu.com https://yak-mu.com, which are IP Geolocation charts for visitors, and SQL analytics for Stripe. I made both to scratch my own itch, but trying to market them a bit too.
  • shpongled 6y ago
    I highly recommend making your own lisp! It's actually relatively simple to do, since parsing a lisp is very straightforward. It's also a great way to learn lisp/FP.
• danimatic 6y ago
  On the side I run my project https://fitnessmodern.de/ https://fitnessmodern.de/ about showing people what you can do with modern wearables. When the corona crisis started in Germany I thought: ok, this could be the end for the project. Who is going to leave his apartment now to keep fit or to buy a new gadget. But exactly the opposite happened. After a sharp collapse in visitor numbers in the first days of the crisis, they shot up again. More than I knew from before. That was astonishing but in retrospect logical: because here in Germany there was no real curfew, only a ban on contact with other people. So people probably thought: before I lounge around at home, I'll do something for my health and fitness. You can also tell from other comments here that fitness projects have worked. That motivated me to do my project even more intensively, because I realized that it is important to people.
• bbsimonbb 6y ago
  Fixing data access for C# :-) https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=bbsimonbb.QueryFirst https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=bbsimonb... This, I humbly submit, is superior to _all_ the existing approaches, in terms of developer speed and comfort, runtime perf, and testability. Compared to EF, you author your projections in a sandbox where you can get familiar with your data as you build up your projection. Compared to stored procs, your queries are versioned and distributed with the app. Compared to Dapper and ADO, your SQL lives in a real environment and you have zero mappings to maintain. This ought to change the world, no?
• twaldecker 6y ago
  I built a few online multiplayer boardgames: https://wunderwald.games https://wunderwald.games code is at https://GitHub.com/twaldecker/halma https://GitHub.com/twaldecker/halma Hi is in only in German for now. Initial build was done in one afternoon for a Skype birthday surprise party.
• madushan1000 6y ago
  I've been writing a sql parser + memory backend in rust called rustsql[1] I've been following this[2] go tutorial and converting code into rust. [1] https://github.com/madushan1000/rustsql https://github.com/madushan1000/rustsql [2] https://notes.eatonphil.com/database-basics.html https://notes.eatonphil.com/database-basics.html
• eel 6y ago
  I have been making things with masa flour. Tamales, bocoles, tortillas, and pupusas. So far the pupusas are my favorite, and very easy to make. From scratch, I can prep, cook, and eat in less than a hour, so it's ideal for a lunch break.
• ChrisHardman29 6y ago
  Frustrated by the problem of information overload, I've been working on Sivv - https://www.sivv.io/ https://www.sivv.io/ - a forum for sharing summaries of the most useful / actionable ideas from books, long-form articles and research. The idea is to boost the 'signal-to-noise' ratio of the information that people consume, helping them to both reduce the amount of time they spend reading while also learning more.
• spacec0wb0y 6y ago
  Https://tunesource.net A searchable library of folk & traditional Irish music, displaying the abc notation as sheet music and allowing midi playback.
• Foxboron 6y ago
  Spending some time trying to write a native Go API for UEFI. Currently trying to go the PKCS7 signing to work. https://github.com/Foxboron/goefi https://github.com/Foxboron/goefi The end goal is to provide better secure boot tooling for people. This is exemplified by my sbctl project which aims to make it silly easy to create keys, and sign stuff. Currently it shells out to sbsigntools, but this feels awkward and I'd enjoy some better integration without having to call out to C-code. https://github.com/Foxboron/sbctl https://github.com/Foxboron/sbctl
• valerij 6y ago
  automatically generating ethereum contract apis in swift at compile time from solidity compiler results basically `.sol`->`.abi`->`.gyb`->`.swift` chain
• jstgord 6y ago
  Have been busy building a basic working prototype for http://boxi.chat http://boxi.chat : a live shared whiteboard + chat, with markdown and latex support. some examples : http://blog.boxi.chat http://blog.boxi.chat Also.. doing some paintings of internet people : http://art.tiyuti.com http://art.tiyuti.com
• have_faith 6y ago
  I'm writing a javscript chess board rendering library similar to chessboard.js but with some new ideas thrown in. I also made this to play with SvelteJS for fun (UK government alert message generator): https://adamjaggard.github.io/stay-alert/public/index.html https://adamjaggard.github.io/stay-alert/public/index.html I was working on a tongue-in-cheek web game called Political Campaign Simulator but it's parked at the moment.
• takyn 6y ago
  https://newworldfans.com https://newworldfans.com It's a website for Amazon's New World MMO that I started before the quarantine, but I have been able to work on it a lot during this time. So far the project enabled me to use and/or learn: Kubernetes, Discord.js, Twitch API, Nuxt.js (not the main site but an upcoming tool), and a whole bunch of non-coding tasks.
• aurbano 6y ago
  Work in progress, but a couple of friends and me are making an online chat for small groups of people - just a quick place to have a random conversation, although if you come back we try to put you back with the same people if available Online but still under development: https://dotdot.im https://dotdot.im :)
• flancian 6y ago
  I started an Agora: https://anagora.org https://anagora.org. The Agora is an enhanced social contract for the internet: https://anagora.org/wiki/Agora https://anagora.org/wiki/Agora The site itself is just based on MediaWiki, no ad-hoc code for now. In the future I hope to be able to port it to AthensResearch: https://github.com/athensresearch/athens https://github.com/athensresearch/athens.
• ratsimihah 6y ago
  Music together: https://boomroom.co https://boomroom.co Yoga music: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/beat-yoga/id1505203964 https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/beat-yoga/id1505203964
• kiwicopple 6y ago
  https://currentevents.email https://currentevents.email Because I wanted to know what was going on in the world without too much COVID noise. It is a daily email from Wikipedia’s Current Events portal. Someone mentioned that i could have just used RSS, but it was quite fun to build something so small and have a fully completed project in a day
  • WillYouFinish 6y ago
    I love that idea. I use mail as my todo list and I prefer having such things in my inbox than digging through RSS or anything since I’m already using my email everywhere. Also I had the idea of having an RSS to email service in the future a few months back which kinda goes into the same direction. So that would be one daily mail for all subscriptions.
  • Hubbell 6y ago
    Subscribed! Thank you for sharing.
• pplonski86 6y ago
  I'm working on open-source automated machine learning python package https://github.com/mljar/mljar-supervised https://github.com/mljar/mljar-supervised that can produce markdown reports and produce ML explanations
• vpoulain 6y ago
  I made this small multiplayer game. Invite friend and make them guess movies using only 3 emoji: https://renga.party/ https://renga.party/
• moritzmoritz21 6y ago
  I already posted mine on HN and did some re-work on it! => https://molytics.io https://molytics.io So far I have a few users in the "trial" and they are really helping me to push it further. It is a SAAS to improve the implementation of tracking in your product :) - have a look. Always looking for feedback.
• Pamar 6y ago
  I live in Germany where the actual lockdown was way less severe than most other EU countries, especially in my region (which on the other hand had a very small of cases). I did get some extra time because one of the few things that were actually closed down was my Aikido dojo. But mostly I exploited the fact that friends in Italy and Belgium could not go out at all and... I started an online RPG campaign using Discord as a platform and Mini-six for the rules. We are having a blast - I hope that the players will like enough to keep playing even after they get back to a more normal schedule in their life (me, as the GM, I have done some up-front investment in preparing lots of content and so I think I will be able to run it even when I go back to 3/week practice).
• jaymu53 6y ago
  covid-news.io
• lukecameron 6y ago
  gameboy emulator. I've been doing more of a product-ish role in my dayjob, so it's nice to do something (relatively) well-defined, where it's easy to tell if things are working, but still challenging enough to be fun.
• arzzen 6y ago
  I've been working on converting a free foreign exchange & crypto rates API https://exchangerate.host https://exchangerate.host I worked on this in my free time during the quarantine.
• sgriff 6y ago
  I've been working on this: https://indexpricealerts.com https://indexpricealerts.com It provides free email price alerts for an increasingly popular football gambling site in the UK: Football Index. It's the first time I've built a website from the ground up and it's been great fun. Have really learned a lot.
• uallo 6y ago
  I'm working on a CMS that stores its content in a plain JSON file directly into your Git repository. That allows easy CI/CD integration, version history, multi-branch support and more.
• amitness 6y ago
  Working on a personal blog: https://amitness.com https://amitness.com
• krishan711 6y ago
  I've been working on everypage (https://www.everypagehq.com https://www.everypagehq.com), a declarative landing page generator - you provide a json file and it will generate a landing page with your specification. its not ready yet but will have an mvp up in about a week. very exiting to be working on something new after many years of only working on day-job stuff.
• TheMightyLlama 6y ago
  I started a stock forecaster for the London Stock Exchange a couple of years ago although never finished it. I've now integrated it with a couple of systems which allow me to get OHLC data as well as Regulatory News Service articles. And, in order to improve the quality of the forecasts, I'll soon begin integrating it with other news sources. I've added it to (Collective 2)[https://collective2.com/details/128426551 https://collective2.com/details/128426551] and its currently making a loss as a strategy. This is good news because it's allowed me to identify why that loss might be occurring and where I could improve my strategy (I've found quite a few improvements in the last few weeks). The most recent improvements are active on a non-visible strategy on collective2 This forecaster could be applied to any global exchange. And I'm looking forward to the day where I can trade with it myself, sell the signals as a service, or sell it for a tidy sum.
• newshorts 6y ago
  I don’t know where everyone is getting the free time.
• KrishMunot 6y ago
  I don't know how y'all are getting so much free time? I'm out here trying to get a job, does that count?
  • realbarack 6y ago
    That counts. I wish you good fortune in your job search.
• mat_couthon 6y ago
  This is one of the best threads here! I created a tool that lets you create ebooks from RSS feeds and send them to your Kindle. I follow several long-form blogs, and I really prefer to read them on the kindle, so this was my attempt to solve this problem. If anyone else has the same problem, I'd like to get feedback and feature requests! https://github.com/mcouthon/r2k https://github.com/mcouthon/r2k
  • humblecurator 6y ago
    Sir you are a gentleman and a scholar. Will definitely check this out — I’ve had to fiddle around with Calibre to get Eugene Wei’s longreads on my kindle.
• circlefavshape 6y ago
  Recorded this with my 15 and 11 year old daughters (a version of The Specials' 80s classic Ghost Town) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tAUlAlMFEI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tAUlAlMFEI
• brainless 6y ago
  I am working on Dwata, a (planned to be) power admin that is language/framework agnostic. Works with SQL and third party APIs (Stripe, Mailchimp, etc.) and has tons of team collaboration features, things that I have seen repeatedly in my 14 years/10 startups experience. Self-hosted and open source, but I surely want to make a living off this. https://github.com/brainless/dwata/tree/develop https://github.com/brainless/dwata/tree/develop I am working on this full-time, daily. The README is a bit out of date.
• bvanremortele 6y ago
  Working on Loc.Tax which is a collaborative tax project management platform based on Git. We're going to build a platform for version-controlled legal, financial, and tax data. https://loc.tax https://loc.tax
• jz222 6y ago
  I'm working on an app that tracks errors in your applications. Currently, it supports NodeJS servers and JS frontends. It reports detailed information about the error like console logs, code snippets, stacktrace, occurrences with timestamps, previous user interactions and custom data. In addition, it allows you to track data about your websites visitors such as page views, unique visitors, sessions, time on page, referrers and device data. It's all done in a very transparent manner with as little data as possible. It's written in Go and React and is completely open-source and can easily hosted by yourself. https://github.com/jz222/loggy https://github.com/jz222/loggy https://github.com/jz222/loggy-client https://github.com/jz222/loggy-client
• ORioN63 6y ago
  https://github.com/Qu4tro/git-bookmark https://github.com/Qu4tro/git-bookmark A simple git subcommand to keep your browsing sessions together with whatever repository relates to the session. It's kinda trivial, but learned a few different things, mostly about git and BATS. For example: git checkout --orphan As its name suggests, creates a branch without a parent. Pretty trivial, but I hadn't encountered it before. It's tested, CI integrated, already in use.
• gilli 6y ago
  Wow, 1809 comments, that's amazing. Anyway my quarantine side project has been my little SVG icon manager that let's you easily "batch" update color and size for icon sets and then drag, copy or export them to whichever format you want. https://norde.io https://norde.io
• martopix 6y ago
  A latex "preprocessor" that lets you use some markdown while writing latex (so that all sorts of \textit don't get in the way of your thoughts), and also allows pure markdown documents to be compiled into PDFs using latex.
• rorygibson 6y ago
  My consulting work is pretty quiet right now so I'm working lots on Trolley [1] - my payments tool. Lots of people right now seem to be looking for new ways to get paid / make money / start little businesses from home, and being able to send quick payment links over social / SMS seems a common requirement. (a 2nd / 3rd-order COVID effect I guess!) Things are taking off for Trolley - acquiring 1-2 new customers a day right now :) Trolley is still just me, so I'm plenty busy! [1] - https://trolley.link https://trolley.link
• davedx 6y ago
  An autonomous boat that drones can land on to recharge automatically.
• mysterydip 6y ago
  I just finished releasing a mobile game, and have a new goal for my next game: Early DOS 3D game based on the Rise of the Triad engine (a modified Wolfenstein 3D engine). As far as I know the engine wasn't used again, with most moving to a Doom clone. I think there's untapped potential in the ROTT engine, and want to show it off, while having the game still run on the original target (386/486). So far the code analysis has been really interesting, especially compared to the Wolf3D engine that it started as.
  • 0-_-0 6y ago
    There is an excellent (and free) book about the Wolf3D engine: https://fabiensanglard.net/gebbwolf3d/ https://fabiensanglard.net/gebbwolf3d/
    • mysterydip 6y ago
      Thanks, I have that and the doom book (ROTT used the WAD format from Doom) and have been using it for reference. I asked the author if he had anything on ROTT and he said no but I can add an annex to the GEBB once I'm done lol
• programbreeding 6y ago
  I started a blog at https://theforgetful.dev https://theforgetful.dev. It's extremely basic. I'm still figuring out Hugo, and my writing style, and everything else. It has been a fun experience so far. I used to store this info in a private wiki but I'm trying to find a way to do it properly in this format. I did it 99.9% for myself, because if I don't write things down then I forget them. But if it ends up being useful to someone else then I figure that's even better.
• HeavyStorm 6y ago
  I'm finally (finally!) taking the time to learn Unreal Engine. I'm actually working on "porting" my favorite board game to it... I began doing that in Unity but I later decided that I should also use this moment to learn something new.
• treyhuffine 6y ago
  https://skilled.dev https://skilled.dev Careers have been put on hold and many people have had setbacks, so I want to help developers find jobs once the quarantine ends and economies open back up. I'm building a course to show developers how to succeed in the coding interview and stand out during the job hunt.
• trango 6y ago
  I created https://web.trango.io https://web.trango.io a LAN based calling and file sharing service. Essentially, you can share files, make video and audio calls to those on the same network as you without having to go through the internet. Your data never leaves your local Wifi. The internet is only used to discover those on the same network as you. We use webrtc and a signalling server to make this system work. We were in the same office and needed a fast, simple way to communicate with eachother without coming in close contact (covid 19) and wanted to do that over LAN rather than use tools over the internet NOR use our ancient intercom system. So now we are using this internally for fast file sharing and good quality video calls. Going to be introducing group calls soon and also the ability to integrate online calling and file sharing.
  • kd22 6y ago
    So cool! Mind sharing what tech you used to build this?
    • trango 6y ago
      Sure. We used webrtc, websockets and a signalling server which helps in discovering who is available on your local network. However, none of the calls or files ever go through the server. We want to refine it a bit further before taking it opensource. :)
  • saadalem 6y ago
    What is the max range ?
    • trango 6y ago
      There is no range. Whoever is connected to the same Wifi network can communicate or share files. You could say the range is only as good as the signals from your router.
  • buboard 6y ago
    This is a really great idea from the security and privacy point for small teams and offices. And for sharing stuff in a house! Would this work through a VPN? you could also introduce differnt channels, so different groups of ppl can chat . And you should add text chat through the data channel
• pgirard 6y ago
  I coded an app to help artists and small entrepreneurs monetize their work during the pandemic. It allows to charge for livestream easily by selling tickets. (Only works in canada at the moment) https://starstream.app https://starstream.app
• santigr 6y ago
  a dynamic decision tree lib in golang
• hcarlens 6y ago
  I built a simple, community-maintained page that aggregates machine learning/data science competitions from across multiple platforms: https://mlcontests.com https://mlcontests.com I just wrote a short post about my experience so far: https://harald.co/2020/05/15/simple-free-website/ https://harald.co/2020/05/15/simple-free-website/
• greatNespresso 6y ago
  I have some ideas of static sites but instead of using an already made static site generator, I have decided to write mine from scratch, because why not. Learning Go, I picked it for the task (even if Hugo is awesome)
• laci37 6y ago
  I finished a project that was on the back burner before the pandemic: ESP8266 based custom LED strip driver/controller. Also I started reading a quantum computing book, but I rarely feel up to diving in the depths of linear algebra I barely understand.
• matthewcanty 6y ago
  I've been making sourdough bread routinely once a week. The sixth loaf, this morning, is the best yet and I'm really happy with how my familiarity with the recipe is developing. It's almost on par with the local bakery! I have finally, after some 5 years, setup my RaspberryPi to perform a useful function for me. To validate the claims by my ISP makes about our bandwidth. It's performing a speedtest periodically and updating a Google Sheet with the results. Over time I hope to track and back up their guarantee myself! In the process I am learning about Go, Docker and Google's API. I am also increasing my knowledge of Linux. The project continues with more automation and monitoring. I've recorded on 2 separate occasions bass lines for different bands in a simple home studio which has been put together since lockdown. I'm collaborating more with a teenage friend whom I used to record and perform with a lot many years ago. Also, briefly: I've built my family home in Minecraft and plan on extending to some memorable landmarks... And I hope to get round to reversing the fridge doors before the end!
  • doctordesh 6y ago
    What is the algorithm for the speed test? How do you make the test? I’m soon getting fiber and I am interested in this thing
  • yeswecatan 6y ago
    If you really want to over-engineer things while learning about docker, you can run Grafana in a container and graph the results.
• alicewinthrop 6y ago
  Kidalist.com - crowdsourcing the best kid activity ideas. Problem = parents get many suggestions some helpful, some clickbaity or low quality (too much mess/effort/clicking). Solution = crowdsource, moderate, and upvote for the highest quality ideas, categorize them and allow users to bookmark their favorites. Anyone can submit an idea - a link plus short description and category choice. The moderator (just me right now) checks submissions for safety and quality before publishing them. Visitors can upvote the ideas they like and submit comments on resources that might help other parents. Logged in users (just email and password sign up) can bookmark their favorites. If you have a great kid activity idea to share please submit it at https://kidalist.com/ https://kidalist.com/ Feedback welcomed, thank you.
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• randshift 6y ago
  I've been mowing my lawn myself, rather than paying someone to do it. Does that count as a side project?
• nikhil896 6y ago
  My friends and I are working on a managed IAP backend for consumable purchases. https://purchasepoint.landen.co/ https://purchasepoint.landen.co/ We've made a few apps in the past that monetize with consumable purchases (specifically things like virtual currency, extra swipes for a dating app, etc.) and realized the backend we wrote each time for storing user inventory after making an in-app purchase was almost identical. PurchasePoint handles the details of Apple StoreKit and Google IAB transactions to track user inventory for you.
• otsaloma 6y ago
  I've been working on a data frame implementation for Python. I think API-wise we can do a lot better than Pandas. Especially after having seen and almost daily used dplyr with R, when having to use something else, I miss that convenience of a clear and consistent API and the chaining of operations. I don't know yet if this project makes sense in terms of speed and corner case handling. I haven't done any real-world work with it yet, but at least it's been a good learning project. https://github.com/otsaloma/dataiter https://github.com/otsaloma/dataiter https://github.com/otsaloma/dataiter/blob/master/dataiter/data_frame.py https://github.com/otsaloma/dataiter/blob/master/dataiter/da...
  • smeeth 6y ago
    As someone who uses pandas daily and detests it violently, godspeed.
    • oli5679 6y ago
      One interesting usecase for a Pandas replacement is AWS lambda functions. If you have a skinnier package that can get 80% of the data-processing niceness whilst using up a smaller % the Lambda function's size limit this could come in very handy for many people. Also agree that the dplyr syntax is cleaner.
  • cottonseed 6y ago
    Nice project! Not a quarantine project, but we've been building data frame abstractions in Python for genetics [1] [2]. We spent a lot of time studying the existing abstractions (pandas, R/dplyr, pyspark, etc.) Desinging a data frame in Python is an interesting and challenging problem. Our design is far from perfect, but I think we've found an interesting design point. Here's your example in Hail: >>> vehicles = hl.import_table('vehicles.csv', impute=True, delimiter=',', quote='"') >>> t = vehicles.filter(vehicles.make == "Saab") >>> t = t.order_by(t.year) >>> t.show(3) +-------+--------+-------+-------+----------------+-------------------+---------------------+-------+----------+-----------+-------+-------+ | id | make | model | year | class | trans | drive | cyl | displ | fuel | hwy | cty | +-------+--------+-------+-------+----------------+-------------------+---------------------+-------+----------+-----------+-------+-------+ | int32 | str | str | int32 | str | str | str | int32 | float64 | str | int32 | int32 | +-------+--------+-------+-------+----------------+-------------------+---------------------+-------+----------+-----------+-------+-------+ | 380 | "Saab" | "900" | 1985 | "Compact Cars" | "Automatic 3-spd" | "Front-Wheel Drive" | 4 | 2.00e+00 | "Regular" | 19 | 16 | | 381 | "Saab" | "900" | 1985 | "Compact Cars" | "Automatic 3-spd" | "Front-Wheel Drive" | 4 | 2.00e+00 | "Regular" | 21 | 16 | | 382 | "Saab" | "900" | 1985 | "Compact Cars" | "Manual 5-spd" | "Front-Wheel Drive" | 4 | 2.00e+00 | "Regular" | 23 | 17 | +-------+--------+-------+-------+----------------+-------------------+---------------------+-------+----------+-----------+-------+-------+ showing top 3 rows Hail's tables are functional. Operations like `filter` and `order_by` return new tables. That means it would be an error to use `vehicles.year` in the `order_by`, since the input and the sort expression refer to different tables. Unfortunately, this means you can't use `.` chaining. A little more background on the project: Hail's raison d'etre is a 3-dimensional generalization data frames we use for genetic data called a MatrixTable [3]. Conceptually, it is matrix-of-dicts rather than lists-of-dicts. Genetic data is massive, so all of this is lazy and works on out of core data. The Python front end constructs an IR representing the query, it's fed through a query optimizer (written in Scala) and executed by a backend. We're working on multiple backends, but our primary backend right now is Spark. [1] https://hail.is/docs/0.2/index.html https://hail.is/docs/0.2/index.html [2] https://hail.is/docs/0.2/hail.Table.html https://hail.is/docs/0.2/hail.Table.html [3] https://hail.is/docs/0.2/hail.MatrixTable.html https://hail.is/docs/0.2/hail.MatrixTable.html
• HelloFellowDevs 6y ago
  I've finally gotten around to working on a idea of mine, the ability to clip podcast segments and share them. Still figuring out some stuff but the beginning stages are looking and feeling great!
• zalkota 6y ago
  Https://Realisticlandscapes.com $2500 made so far!
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• rozenmd 6y ago
  I've been working on my side project to remove the need to manually run website speed checks each time you make a performance tweak. It's called PerfBeacon (https://perfbeacon.com/ https://perfbeacon.com/), and since quarantine started I've had time to add a free tier, test an implementation in Docker (rather than AWS Lambda), and start a couple of integrations with Netlify and Vercel.
• elvyscruz 6y ago
  My quarantine side project is a Moodle SAAS, which will offer free moodle hosting with the ability to install any moodle plugins. Current offerings do not allow users on free tier to install additional plugins or custom themes. It still very early, but I appreciate your feedback and comments. https://xeted.com/ https://xeted.com/
• adontz 6y ago
  Sorry if description is too long, but I had this text already. HTTP/REST Interface for Desktop APIs The Problem Web applications are cheaper to develop and cheaper to maintain, than desktop applications. Many tasks which were considered too heavy for the web in the past, are implemented with web technologies now. Microsoft Excel Online and Google Sheet for spreadsheets, Figma for graphics design. I have worked in large enterprises most of my career. Many enterprise/business applications I have seen could be web-based, but were not, because they needed access to various desktop APIs. I'll focus on three use cases here. Authentication, Authorization, Audit Web-browsers give no direct access to authorization, authentication and audit APIs provided by operating systems. Windows workstations are usually joined to an Active Directory domain. Permissions are managed by group membership within the domain. Hundreds, if not thousands, of groups and policies are serving usual enterprise. Restricted logon hours, whitelisted logon workstations, centralized collection of audit log. Every desktop application may call a few simple APIs to check if current user has specific privilege, is a member of some specific group, just lists all current user groups, or writes an important message to the event log. But good luck integrating this with your new fancy web-based SaaS. No single sign-on for you, no event log. If infrastructure is hybrid and the cloud part is Azure, you may have some luck with SAML and Azure Active Directory, but if not, you most likely will be asked to install on-premises version or leave immediately. Printing and imaging Web-browsers provide no usable printing APIs. Printing is important, whether it is cheque, report or handout. Most websites just give up on printing and export PDFs. This experience is terrible, starting with color support and ending with A4/Letter confusion. If printing is an essential part of your application’s workflow, like for a cash desk, web technologies are simply unusable. Google Cloud Print is discontinued, so the situation will become even worse. Scanning with preview? I don't even know where to start. It's simply impossible. Industrial devices There are a lot of industrial hardware devices. None of them can be accessed from the browser, if not explicitly supported, like FIDO tokens. Most can be accessed via text-based protocols over serial ports. They are begging to be wrapped into web-sockets. Why is it so bad? There are two answers I know: First answer is “other priorities”. Web technologies are mostly for landing pages, not for business applications, so a new CSS selector is more welcome than industrial devices. Second answer is “security”. It is hard to introduce new features without introducing new attack vectors. The Proposed Solution Create a universal windows service application which will provide a highly secure, easy to use REST interface. Allow JavaScript applications to fully integrate into desktop environments. Security is paramount. Permissions, which website has access to what APIs, should be opt-in only, clear, managed by Administrators only and optionally by global Active Directory policies. Everything is double checked, secured, isolated and sandboxed if possible.
• jp1016 6y ago
  I have created CodeKeep, Combining features from Google Keep to better organise your code snippets by tagging them with labels and categorising into folders, to Organize , Discover and Share Code Snippets. https://codekeep.io https://codekeep.io It supports - Organizing code with labels, description and title - Organize code snippets into folders - Generate screenshots of the code with 1 click - Discover code snippets I'm working on the integration part to vscode Checkout https://codekeep.io https://codekeep.io , let me know your feedback
• total_plus 6y ago
  I worked on TurboVar EmailBroker, a self hosted email sender application that lets you send emails via 5 popular email API service providers. With TurboVar EmailBroker you can use a concise and uniform API to send emails using REST requests. If you prefer no-code, you can use a Web UI page. It was launched this week. Check it at https://turbovar.com/turbovar/emailbroker.jsp https://turbovar.com/turbovar/emailbroker.jsp Feeback is welcomed!
• iguanayou 6y ago
  Practicing bluegrass mandolin, adjunct teaching, and running online classes for my commercial drone school. NOT programming.
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• crazybigdan 6y ago
  Awesome to see what other people have been doing. I have been getting more familiar with common-lisp and emacs / slime. Specifically using those tools to build a website to track the books that I have read, with the reviews and ratings that I've given them, so my sister and I can keep track of each other's reading lists. Sort of like goodreads minus the blatant marketing.
• brikmaster 6y ago
  I have been doing a daily blog to track the return of sports since my startup is in sports and sports are toast right now - https://wherearesports.com/ https://wherearesports.com/ Feeling a kindred spirit with all my startup friends in the travel, hospitality and live event space.
• zitterbewegung 6y ago
  I've been trying to learn about AR by making some kind of tool to let people understand social distancing (sort of took a break from this). The other thing I am trying to do is make music using Logic Pro X.
• egberts1 6y ago
  For Bind9 named.conf configuration file, I’ve been working on Vim syntax highlighter. 873 rules, so far. And 99% done. Arguably Vim’s largest syntax file to-date. Best part? It highlights RED if you type the configuration wrong. As well as TODO, FIXME and nested 3-style comments https://github.com/egberts/vim-syntax-bind-named https://github.com/egberts/vim-syntax-bind-named
  • iforgotpassword 6y ago
    I never checked, but always assumed the (ba)sh syntax highlighter had to be the most convoluted one. Shell has dozens of weird quirks and context dependent features, exceptions, whatnot, and it's still not working properly. every time I do a dist-upgrade, something about it gets fixed and something else breaks.
• albi_lander 6y ago
  I have built a rust based version of the 2048 game which runs in the terminal. The most interesting and fun part is the small AI that I implemented and which can be used to play automatically. It's nothing very new, but I enjoyed crafting this small game in the most elegant and efficient way I could. https://github.com/adrienball/2048-rs https://github.com/adrienball/2048-rs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2048_(video_game) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2048_(video_game)
• wes-k 6y ago
  A web based vector drawing program for dynamic visualizations inspired by Bret Victor [1]. Think adobe illustrator + excel... every property on an object can be a reactive mathematical expression with data and object dependencies. Data changes -> property value changes -> rendering changes. I'm pretty excited about the possibilities here! [1] http://worrydream.com/DrawingDynamicVisualizationsTalkAddendum/ http://worrydream.com/DrawingDynamicVisualizationsTalkAddend...
  • chrispickels 6y ago
    Extremely cool idea. Generative illustration for the masses. Where can I follow your progress?
    • wes-k 6y ago
      Ya agreed! I've wanted to build this thing for a few years now ever since I saw Bret's demo. https://twitter.com/getfiggo https://twitter.com/getfiggo -- Nothing really going on yet. I'm maybe 2 months away from having a working prototype. Spent about 6 months working on the core rendering engine: reactive property expressions, repeating groups (like a rectangle + label for a bar chart), paths with repeated segments (for line charts) and am now working on drawing tools and how a user can wire things up. Here's a fun little animation I made while experimenting with the tech [1]. I was pleasantly surprised at the awesomeness that can come out of simple systems. [1] https://imgur.com/a/ELhwWo5 https://imgur.com/a/ELhwWo5
• egberts1 6y ago
  I started Vim syntax highlighter for NFTABLES configuration file. A work in progress. https://github.com/egberts/vim-nftables https://github.com/egberts/vim-nftables I know I’m good for it because I’ve successfully Vim-syntaxed the vaunted 873-rule Bind9 named.conf file over at https://github.com/egberts/vim-syntax-bind-named https://github.com/egberts/vim-syntax-bind-named
• tristor 6y ago
  I've been learning to bake from scratch, and have successfully made several different types of bread, cookies, muffins, and biscuits. I am hoping to soon try my hand at making pastries.
• hokustalkshow 6y ago
  Been working on https://www.codingtrivia.com https://www.codingtrivia.com. It's an iOS / Android app for preparing for interviews and learning programming skills by playing trivia. Built it mostly to scratch a personal itch as I wanted a way to be productive and learn in a more lightweight and enjoyable way.
• colfax23 6y ago
  Once WFH started to take over many workplaces, I created a modern sort-of TFLN (texts from last night) to accomplish another goal of mine, to learn Node/React. Let me know what you think! http://www.wfhconfessions.com/ http://www.wfhconfessions.com/
• holgersindbaek 6y ago
  I've been optimizing an old side-project of mine: https://online-solitaire.com/ https://online-solitaire.com/. As you can probably guess from the URL, it's a solitaire card game site.
• caviv 6y ago
  I have created a RSS scraper for 9gag that also colors posts you have already seen: https://9gagrss.xyz/ https://9gagrss.xyz/
• ryans22 6y ago
  I've been creating a single track mountain bike trail at my parents farm. Learning how to build sustainable trails, manage erosion, using proper grading on hills, and build fun features has been a great challenge. It's like extreme landscaping and woodworking combined. Then you get to ride your creation. I've been running the "operation" a lot similar to creating software with sprints, testing, and planning -- excepts sprints are hard labor, testing is riding bikes, and planning is waking up in the middle of the night with an idea for a new line. There's a book by the IMBA (International Mountain Bike Association) that has extensive guides on how to create all sorts of features sustainably.
• Fuddh 6y ago
  I'm trying out building a board game modelled after Blokus in TypeScript with online functionality enabled by websockets. I have a group of friends who enjoy the game so I'm mainly making it so that we can play together :)
• soapboxrocket 6y ago
  I've been working on an Expanse based theme syntax and UI for Atom: https://github.com/CraigDamlo/expanse-syntax https://github.com/CraigDamlo/expanse-syntax https://github.com/CraigDamlo/expanse-ui https://github.com/CraigDamlo/expanse-ui Now I'm starting on a daily logging package.
• will_asouka 6y ago
  I'm an ex-military now furloughed airline pilot working on a flight planning tool to save trying to spot the needle in the haystack that is the current NOtice To AirMen system. https://www.rapidplanapp.com/ https://www.rapidplanapp.com/
  • codelitt 6y ago
    GA pilot here. I'll send this to my airline buddies. Really useful.
    • will_asouka 6y ago
      That would be amazing- thanks!
  • davidhunter 6y ago
    Nice idea. This is a PITA currently.
  • Greg_hamel 6y ago
    I guess I am not alone then! I've been doing the same for my pilot friends. www.weatheredstrip.com
• r0rshrk 6y ago
  We're making it easier for students to practice their GRE/SATs/GMAT essays. https://getessayer.com https://getessayer.com
• agacini 6y ago
  I've written a picture viewer for my 2 years old kid while he learns and asks a lot about everything nowadays. https://sinaler.github.io/react-native-media-viewer https://sinaler.github.io/react-native-media-viewer
  • balazstorok 6y ago
    really nice, my 2 year-old is going to love it
• migueloller 6y ago
  Building an 8-bit computer from scratch [1]. Planning on building a quadruped [2] after. [1] https://eater.net/8bit https://eater.net/8bit [2] https://spotmicroai.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ https://spotmicroai.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
• sfrese 6y ago
  I'm working on a platform to generate simple CRUD APIs from JSON schemas: https://stackprint.io https://stackprint.io I noticed that while working on past side projects I spent a lot of time writing simple CRUD APIs, permission checks, client code to connect and model classes which (at least for me) is usually not the most fun part when working on new app idea ;) So I started creating a concept to automate most of that for future projects and developed a simple web platform around it. During the quarantine I've been mostly working on a set of permission rules to control access to API resources. I also started on generating client code which at least works for Angular at this point. I'm very hopeful that I can stay productive and get it to work for React/VueJS and iOS/Android as well soon :)
• andreygrehov 6y ago
  Dynamic Programming. There were a lot of layoffs recently, so I wanted to do whatever I can to help my fellow engineers. I unfortunately can't help with referrals, but what I can do is share my experience and knowledge. I love Dynamic Programming and decided to record a YouTube course [1] explaining the topic as simple as possible (ELI5). A lot of people struggle with DP and if you are one of those, feel free to subscribe. I release new videos every Sunday. Also, since I'm not an an experienced YouTuber and English is my second language, feedback is a massive motivator for me. So, if you have any feedback to share, please, let me know what needs to be improved and I'll make sure to work on it. [1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClnwNEngsXoIp_tgJ2jZWfw https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClnwNEngsXoIp_tgJ2jZWfw
• Greg_hamel 6y ago
  I've been developing a Flight Planning web app for Canadian Airspaces. Includes Weather and NOTAMs. The quarantine has given more time to invest into it. Currently working on authentication and better filtering of NOTAMs https://www.weatheredstrip.com https://www.weatheredstrip.com
• vmchale 6y ago
  Currently working on a tree-walking interpreter for a generative text language. I'm hoping to focus on the technical side this time!
• ozdevi 6y ago
  Hi, I am not sure does it count? My quarantine project is https://userbricks.com https://userbricks.com I've just started to bring some bricks together!
• ndkfkdkd 6y ago
  I contribute to findthemasks.com. Maker communities, companies, and everyday people use our map to find where to donate PPE to those fighting covid. If you have time, we need tons of help: https://github.com/findthemasks/findthemasks https://github.com/findthemasks/findthemasks
  • Tarrosion 6y ago
    I haven't seen much news about PPE shortages in the last few weeks. Is that because the situation has improved or just because it's unchanged and thus no longer exciting news?
• AndrewUnmuted 6y ago
  I have been working on a new website for my ten year long music project, Sonic Multiplicities [0]. It's a real-time audio performance application for solo instrumentalists, which uses LSTM and MFCC discrimination to provide a totally contact-free improvisational musical AI. Despite having built this and painstakingly tuning a custom linux-rt system for optimal audio, building websites seemed to always escape me. I think quarantine has finally allowed me the time to understand the conventions of making static webpages for browsers. [0] https://multipli.city https://multipli.city - enjoy the triangles.
• cooz 6y ago
  I've been working on an iMessage API, Learning a ton about creating a node backend and used React for the front end. sendblue.co is anyone else completely ok with quarantine? I'm not able to understand the need for social interaction, maybe because I'm an awkward dude.
  • galoisscobi 6y ago
    I’m also feeling completely okay being in the quarantine and actually much happier. I feel like I could spend a really long time just exploring projects, books, learning stuff etc. and don’t even want the bits of social interaction I get with work meetings.
• nje32847 6y ago
  I've been working on an iMessage API, Learning a ton about creating a node backend and used React for the front end. sendblue.co is anyone else completely ok with quarantine? I'm not able to understand the need for social interaction, maybe because I'm an awkward dude.
• gfynbo 6y ago
  CaretakerDB: A property management solutions for caretakers and property managers. It's a management web app to keep track of properties, related information, contracts and billing. It's still a work in progress, but I've gotten a lot done on it and looking forward to releasing it this Summer! You can check it out at https://caretakerdb.com https://caretakerdb.com if you want.
  • penguinlinux 6y ago
    this is a pretty cool project :) really nice idea
• nje32847 6y ago
  I've been working on an iMessage API, been able to learn a ton about Node.js in the backend. Website is built with React: sendblue.co Has anyone else been perfectly ok with the quarantine? I can learn, build, explore, and I don't even have to interact with anyone. I guess seeing friends is nice, but I don't miss it.
• launchpf 6y ago
  I'm working on a daily newsletter to curate interesting articles/blogs around personal finance and financial independence: launchpf.com
• johnboiles 6y ago
  Spice up your video conferences with OBS compositing (allows you to do green screen, multiple cameras, etc) https://github.com/johnboiles/obs-mac-virtualcam https://github.com/johnboiles/obs-mac-virtualcam
• ldd 6y ago
  Game Tools: - Visual Tech Trees (React, javascript) [0] Games: - Slay the spire + pokemon (React, javascript) [1] - HN Comments Matcher (Phoenix, elixir) [2] [0]: https://ldd.github.io/react-tech-tree/ https://ldd.github.io/react-tech-tree/ [1]: https://ldd.itch.io/nu https://ldd.itch.io/nu [2]: https://hn.lddstudios.com/ https://hn.lddstudios.com/ [0-source]: https://github.com/ldd/react-tech-tree https://github.com/ldd/react-tech-tree [2-source]: https://github.com/ldd/hn_comments_game https://github.com/ldd/hn_comments_game
  • cephalization 6y ago
    Alright that crossover game is amazing, such a great idea
    • ldd 6y ago
      Exactly why I made it for a 72-hour gamejam. This is still a very, very early prototype of a game, but I hope to put a little bit of time each week until it becomes awesome. Also, thanks for the words of encouragement, they mean the world to me!
  • Tarrosion 6y ago
    I'm a big Slay the Spire fan, super cool to see it inspiring other games.
• isthispermanent 6y ago
  The next, and first paid version of https://factfreaks.com https://factfreaks.com. A math teaching tool.
• isuckatcoding 6y ago
  Gardening
• agrippanux 6y ago
  Mine is pretty vanilla; I built a home server for development/media. It's been probably 13 years since I built a computer so the experience of researching parts, etc was fun. My wife appreciates it's almost totally silent :) It's been a great project so far; using it to learn Prometheus, pick up more Go development, host my own NextCloud, and run Plex and a Minecraft server.
• justinmiller 6y ago
  I have been working on https://bifocalnews.com https://bifocalnews.com -- a news feed that scrapes political subreddits. This allows for a democracy-driven news feed with explicit bias stated for each article. Started this site for myself after realizing I had nowhere to go to get reliable political perspectives from both sides on popular topics, and I do not like that major news corporations get to choose what is on the front page.
  • symplee 6y ago
    Nice! I like how at first it just shows the headlines/articles. Then, if you want, you can toggle the "show bias" switch. Have you thought about an option to gamifying it a little bit by letting the user guess which direction the headline leans? And then revealing the direction and the news source. For example, when the "enable bias guessing" switch is toggled, there's a slider that appears on the bottom of the headline. Or, simpler, just two buttons that say left, right. You can guess all of the headlines on the whole page, then reveal and see how you did.
    • justinmiller 6y ago
      I like the idea of getting user feedback and gamifying the site a bit. It also might be interesting to take the bias guess results and show where on the spectrum of left to right site users think a headline falls. Thanks for the suggestion!
• aschmid 6y ago
  working on a single table poker web app to replace home games with friends, built with Phoenix LiveView https://homegam.es https://homegam.es
• eabraham 6y ago
  I created https://www.pullchecklist.com https://www.pullchecklist.com, a Github tool that surfaces contextually relevant checklists for Pull Requests. I built it to scratch an itch of a common problem at work. Some of the member of my team were tired of manually checking Github checklists because they were not relevant to the PR they were reviewing. This tool layers conditional logic on top of Github's checklist functionality.
• systematical 6y ago
  https://github.com/cnizzardini/cakephp-swagger-bake https://github.com/cnizzardini/cakephp-swagger-bake also combining various other cake libraries into a competitor to api platform for those who prefer to write code instead of comments (annotations) and YML.
• bredren 6y ago
  I picked up my first open source maintainership: django-address. Did my first triage release to pypi this past week. Learning about adding CI and all kinds of things about what it means to maintain a package on a popular web framework.
• moxchehalis 6y ago
  Music, finally https://soundcloud.com/moxchehalis/tracks https://soundcloud.com/moxchehalis/tracks
• sharedmocha 6y ago
  I am working on creating a product that performs 'Log Aggregator + Metrics Analysis + decentralized distributed tracking' for blockchain apps. Today's log analysis and metrics applications are focused on providing services to micro service or monolithic applications wheras blockchain apps are decentralized in nature and run across multiple parties or organizations. This creates a challenge when monitoring the system and performing log analysis or distributed tracing as systems span across multiple parties or organizations. I am trying to simplify this by creating decentralized logging apps which work like dApps (decentralized apps)
• maxko 6y ago
  Launched Widgetery.com (A Product Hunt-like widget for lead capturing) yesterday. Still have to learn a lot of things on making such kind of widgets, however it was really fun to build. By the way, any feedback is appreciated!
• travis_the_makr 6y ago
  I'm currently designing, engineering, printing, and coding a 2D Plotter from scratch. https://hackaday.io/project/171536-diy-2d-plotter-with-8020-and-mcmaster-carr https://hackaday.io/project/171536-diy-2d-plotter-with-8020-...
• tsamtsam 6y ago
  two main kinds - 1) one (more practical, i.e making sure that the side projects actually hone my existing skills - still deciding between building another CRUD app or just brushing up on my ds/a more -- any advice?) 2) exploratory (trying to build a scraper for entertainment venues and creating a map based visualization for public to use when the covid-19 measures are eased in my country)
• tsamtsam 6y ago
  I think I should do this: Build a fun resume parser - improving UX of resume parsing when applying for jobs - auto recommend keywords one can add in to resumes when uploading through an ATS - just for laughs (seriously though), a bot running through your resume and informing you of your chances at getting past first screen (through a chrome extension)
• asood123 6y ago
  My wife's medical practice always struggles with coming up with a call schedule (weekday evenings, weekends, holidays, etc). So, I wrote a python script that takes in a csv with everyone's vacation/blocked dates, any other restrictions (like max dates they should be assigned) and outputs a schedule (with stats, because previous person doing it by hand raised questions about fairness). https://github.com/asood123/call-scheduler https://github.com/asood123/call-scheduler
• hariharasudhan 6y ago
  Have made a site out of links collected from this page. Check it out https://born-out-of-covid.f22labs.com/ https://born-out-of-covid.f22labs.com/
  • schmappel 6y ago
    This is great!
• hariharasudhan 6y ago
  Have made a site out of links collected from this page. Check it out https://born-out-of-covid.f22labs.com/ https://born-out-of-covid.f22labs.com/ Like the idea of monthly thread, let me see if i can add it on the site.
  • dang 6y ago
    Please don't pump links into threads like this. It's overly aggressive, and it damages conversation. I've explained more at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23195282 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23195282. One reason we have to be careful about not allowing it is that we let some people do it, it will lead to a flood of promotional comments, which would definitely not make this place better. I've detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23192337 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23192337.
• hariharasudhan 6y ago
  Another side project born out of this post. I've listed all possible links from this post across pages and listed down here. https://born-out-of-covid.f22labs.com/ https://born-out-of-covid.f22labs.com/ let me know if i missed anyone out.
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• smichel17 6y ago
  (Originally posted as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23172959 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23172959) Snowdrift.coop is a crowdfunding platform specifically for free/libre/open (FLO) public goods -- freely-licensed software, music, journalism, research, etc. It's based on a new funding mechanism we call Crowdmatching, where patrons pledge to support projects with a monthly donation proportional to the number of others making the same pledge ($1 per 1000 patrons). We operate as a non-profit cooperative. The site itself is free software, written in Haskell (yesod) and we've also tried to stick with FLO tooling whenever possible, although we made an exception for hosting our source code, which is at https://gitlab.com/snowdrift/snowdrift https://gitlab.com/snowdrift/snowdrift Of course, as a free software project, we suffer from the same funding issues we're trying to solve. The project is currently a 100% volunteer effort, and we're making slow (but nonzero!) progress towards our initial launch, when we start hosting our first outside projects. One of our biggest bottlenecks right now is developer bandwidth. We have a handful of updated designs that address UX issues with the live site, and need to get them implemented -- if you know css, haskell, or both, we'd appreciate help! In addition to replying here, you can also reach out on our discourse forum (https://community.snowdrift.coop https://community.snowdrift.coop), irc/matrix (#snowdrift on freenode, bridged with #snowdrift:matrix.org), or gitlab (above).
  • smichel17 6y ago
    A little more detail, to avoid overloading the parent comment: Currently making html/css changes on the site is a little bit painful, because they're the kind of thing that you often want to make small tweaks to until it looks right, and yesod is fond of rebuilding lots of stuff on each change. To continue making forward progress while we've been short haskell devs, the design folks have been iterating on a prototype using a static site generator. Several of the new designs are static pages, so in theory it should be a mostly cut-and-paste job to move them to the real site. However, the css "framework" (ie, sass mixins) of the two have diverged a bit. So, there's a number or ways in which progress could be made. In order from most long-term impact to fastest immediate progress: - Haskell-side improvements to make the site build faster, so the designers could work directly on it for static content. - Getting the site and prototype css back in sync, so that static pages can just be dropped in. - Migrating individual pages from the prototype to use the main site css instead. If you're interested in other aspects, there's governance, legal, and a few other miscellaneous tasks, too.
• garl923 6y ago
  I made a referral-sharing service: https://referd.io https://referd.io It's a free way to distribute your referral codes and find new deals :)
• aquaphile 6y ago
  We built the lowest-cost full face respirator mask in the world. As a side project, it has taken on a life of its own. See https://kioma.us/shop/kioma-origami-respirator-mask https://kioma.us/shop/kioma-origami-respirator-mask
  • theshadowmonkey 6y ago
    If I order now, when can I expect to receive it?
    • aquaphile 6y ago
      Depending on where you live (how many USPS zones distant from our location in Dallas), probably at the end of next week.
• watermelonbread 6y ago
  Just completed my first webdev project today: https://gravity-doc.com/ https://gravity-doc.com/ It's essentially a 2D rigid body simulation reskinned to look like a text editor. At the moment it supports basic commands like copy, paste, save, etc. Also, there are cheatcodes.
• kekeblom 6y ago
  I ported a particle simulation I built for a course to use CUDA https://github.com/kekeblom/mpm https://github.com/kekeblom/mpm Mainly to gain more first-hand GPGPU programming experience.
• steine 6y ago
  I learned basic web development so that I could make this web app https://tpsteiner.github.io/public_companies_map/ https://tpsteiner.github.io/public_companies_map/ I'm a CPA working as an external auditor for public companies filing 10-K financial statements. Looking for a job in public accounting is hard because audit firms do not have many differing characteristics. The one thing that is different is their clients. Clients are required to disclose their auditor, but obtaining a list of clients by firm/location is very hard. My app uses public government data to plot US public companies on a map, and includes details on the firm that most recently audited their annual financial statements. The data sources are: 1. a listing of all Form APs filed to the PCAOB (auditor-client relationship data), 2. SEC company data from the Corpwatch API database 3. Google search API for company locations
• LCoder 6y ago
  I've been working on a phone check-in system to help small businesses social/physical distance their customers by having them wait in their cars instead of sitting in waiting rooms or standing in lines. https://lobbly.com https://lobbly.com
• johnnyfived 6y ago
  I started an open-source project in Python called Restless, to get more experience in both NLP / ML and security. Restless is anti-malware that's "always watching" (every time a file is modified or created, it's automatically sent to the classification pipeline, which uses a hierarchical attention network trained with PE header data). https://github.com/jddunn/restless https://github.com/jddunn/restless Right now I'm trying to figure out how to speed things up with multiprocessing (Keras doesn't play nicely with that). It's definitely a proof-of-concept project as opposed to something that's a enterprise-level tool (otherwise probably wouldn't write it in Python heh). Mostly I just wanted to make a sick-looking CLI for once.
• awwaiid 6y ago
  Working with some folks making https://covidcanidoit.com https://covidcanidoit.com ; built with VueJS, Firebase. Also made some bagels.
• adnanc 6y ago
  I've restarted work on https://ayahbyayah.com https://ayahbyayah.com an iOS app which I originally released in 2012 as a simple app for listening to the recitation of a single Ayat (verse) of the Qur'an. I've been performing intermittent upgrades over the years as I wanted to retain the simplicity, ease of use with a focus on providing the most accurate and clearest Ayat text in any app. The latest update has incorporated word by word audio timings and advanced play back controls for a completely hands-free operation, even serves as a teleprompter for the Qur'an.
• _libertine_ 6y ago
  Signal jamming device on custom PCBs. Comparing banana bread recipes.
• pavelevst 6y ago
  UI for GRPC, similar to openapi, built from reflection information
• atsushin 6y ago
  Well it was going to be my internship, but that's been pretty much cut. So I plan on doing some sort of ML / Data Mining project at some point. Actually gonna be working in a small group of other college students / grads whose internships were nixed and are trying to build projects for the summer.
• j-rom 6y ago
  I've been trying to get into AI/ML/Deep learning because I feel like it will broaden the types of side projects I can undertake. I have one project in mind which involves analyzing written communication. I've looked online for resources and I've found a bunch of Youtube videos that go over the high level concepts: 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwIo3gDZCVQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwIo3gDZCVQ 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njKP3FqW3Sk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njKP3FqW3Sk 3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPYj3fFJGjk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPYj3fFJGjk For reference, I have 0 AI/ML/DL experience but I having been coding for awhile and I'm familiar with Python. These videos are quite long but I plan to start building a small toy app to validate my understanding. I'm just not sure if I'm taking the best approach to learning these concepts. I want to start working with the various tools ASAP because I believe that I learn better by doing.
  • lcrmorin 6y ago
    I would advise you to follow this free course : https://online.stanford.edu/courses/sohs-ystatslearning-statistical-learning https://online.stanford.edu/courses/sohs-ystatslearning-stat... The associated (free) book is a go to reference too.
    • j-rom 6y ago
      Thanks for the reference! It's been awhile since I've taken statistics so this will be a good refresher.
• quickthrower2 6y ago
  Helping devs find jobs: https://tryjobalerts.com https://tryjobalerts.com
• aaldescu 6y ago
  https://bestrpajob.com/ https://bestrpajob.com/ is a website where I'm posting RPA jobs that I found online with direct apply link. Currently I source only US,UK,DE,AT,FR,RO countries. I am open to feedback as there is still content work to be done in making it community fit.
  • carstenhag 6y ago
    A country or city filter/search would be good. Tried to use the site for 10 seconds, but then gave up.
• whatupbitches12 6y ago
  Rotting
• wilsonbright 6y ago
  I’m making a privacy focused asynchronous Video sharing app. It’s end to end encrypted and uses Blockstack’s blockchain for identity and storage. Yet to finish it. Preview is available here. https://VideoFace.io https://VideoFace.io
• nakabonne 6y ago
  I've been building a TUI tool to operate Golang linters intuitively, called golintui (https://github.com/nakabonne/golintui https://github.com/nakabonne/golintui). A noteworthy feature is that you can open a file by specifying the issue line. "What do you like about Go?" when asked, I always answer, "easy to make a linter". Thanks to that, a bunch of linters are on the rampage. I've been wanted to try them on the UI in a casual way, that's why I made this tool.
• baruchel 6y ago
  I wrote a multi-player idle text game for playing on IRC: https://pink-dragon.surge.sh https://pink-dragon.surge.sh It had been running for about three weeks now. Not too many players unfortunately, but still three ascensions which are automatically broadcast on Mastodon: https://botsin.space/@pink_dragon https://botsin.space/@pink_dragon
• Zardoz84 6y ago
  Well... I'm creating a pet/toy game engine inspired on DIV Games Studio, with D. And I resuscitate two D packages. A simple VFS and a fluent assertation library.
• mattplm 6y ago
  Working on a gameboy emulator on and off. I've never done that before so it is mostly research work but it's fun nonetheless.
• rchaves 6y ago
  I built Feedless (https://feedless.social/ https://feedless.social/) the non-addictive social network built on top of the decentralized social network protocol SSB
• manojvivek 6y ago
  I'm launching my side-project, Responsively, on ProductHunt today after a couple of months of work. It is a dev-tool intended to make responsive web apps development faster. Check it out and let me know your thoughts - https://www.producthunt.com/posts/responsively https://www.producthunt.com/posts/responsively Key Highlights: - Mirrored User-interactions across all devices. - Customizable preview layout to suit all your needs. - One handy elements inspector for all devices in preview. - 30+ built-in device profiles with the option to add custom devices. - One-click screenshot all your devices. - Hot reloading supported for developers. - Free forever and open source - https://github.com/manojVivek/responsively-app https://github.com/manojVivek/responsively-app Would love to hear your thoughts.
  • sokoloff 6y ago
    Installed and had a quick poke around at it with some of my sites. It looks great to me and while I don't have anything more constructive to say, I'm going to try it out in my workflow. It seems way faster than using Chrome dev tools to just "spot-check" things. Kudos for not over-complicating the product in some weird struggle to find the one key thing that users would pay for and find a way to insert friction there, but of course that means you don't have a near-term way to get paid for your work either. Edit: I do actually have something constructive to say. The "Help" menu on Mac OS v0.1.1 all points to the default electronjs content and not to content/community discussions about Responsively.
    • manojvivek 6y ago
      @sokoloff I'm glad you found it useful and more thanks for finding the "Help" menu bug. I will fix it. :)
  • schmappel 6y ago
    This is super helpful, thank you!
    • manojvivek 6y ago
      Pleased to hear that!
• aldanor 6y ago
  I've started a Rust framework for writing Max/MSP externals (plug-ins, compiled object). Still a long way to go before I get to the actual DSP part, but has been pretty fun so far. Really hoping it would lower the bar for writing your own externals and make it more fun.
• sudhanshuraheja 6y ago
  Mine is a tiny bahasa indonesia to english dictionary using wordnet - https://dictionary.lana.school https://dictionary.lana.school, helps both with learning a new language as well as building something new with the free time.
• dekervin 6y ago
  I am hacking on http://datum.alwaysdata.net/ http://datum.alwaysdata.net/ . It's a feed built out of hacker news comments containing links to data, using Natural Language Processing. Over the years spent reading HN, I noticed that some comments with the best information ratio, were the ones based on data. I wanted a way to quickly find them, otherwise I would miss them. Surprisingly, reading that feed has started to be part of my daily routine. But I am still toying with features I have in mind. Feedback would be appreciated !
• gregalbritton 6y ago
  I’m creating a vessel inventory and maintenance tool for fellow boaters. Essentially, a boat’s headquarters. I live aboard my sailboat and have found a need to have everything in an app for quick access and reference. https://myvesselapp.com/ https://myvesselapp.com/ It’s in beta and I have 15 fellow boaters testing :) Currently a web app.
• rwb618 6y ago
  A good friend and I have been making meditation seats for people that are inflexible and struggle to sit cross legged. It’s been going really well! https://www.practicemeditation.co https://www.practicemeditation.co
• Ente 6y ago
  I am working on my open source app [1] which allows shop owners to keep track of number of people in their shop, whilst also generating interesting analytics insights for later use. [1]: https://github.com/Enteee/count https://github.com/Enteee/count
• Delfino 6y ago
  I've been learning Blender. Started with Blender Guru's doughnut tutorial then branched out from there. Made a simple virtual pet game where I made all the art myself. I ended up also downloading LMMS to make my own theme song for the game. It's been pretty fun.
  • schmappel 6y ago
    Link for the lazy: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjEaoINr3zgEq0u2MzVgAaHEBt--xLB6U https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjEaoINr3zgEq0u2MzVgA...
• SuckingStones 6y ago
  https://brewboard.app/ https://brewboard.app/ - shareable BrewBoards for home and craft brewers, right there on your nearest screen. Initially hacked together the bones of this back in October lats year to fix frustrations with my chalk board (well, mainly with my writing and organization). Lockdown gave me the chance and impetus to focus in on this with lots of help from my awesome co-workers. We launched yesterday - but still have so much we want to add to this. I wrote up some background here: https://www.suckingstones.com/2020/04/28/brewboard-background/ https://www.suckingstones.com/2020/04/28/brewboard-backgroun... If you're a brewer (particularly if you use Brewer's Friend - since we already have an integration in place) please give it a try and send us your feedback. We want to take the chalk board to a new level. Oh, and here's my board: https://brewboard.app/boards/MGMvq-wZ1ks4 https://brewboard.app/boards/MGMvq-wZ1ks4
• Boomerang24 6y ago
  Start a project on afiiliate marketing trough this friendly beginner software https://warriorplus.com/o2/a/pmz4s/0 https://warriorplus.com/o2/a/pmz4s/0
• tiger_rocky93 6y ago
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• lapirca 6y ago
  https://www.lapirca.es https://www.lapirca.es a platform for rock climbing bolters
• tiger_rocky93 6y ago
  All: I wanted to make use of this quarantine time. So I have resigned my day job & I have started to build my own tech website https://androidfist.com/ https://androidfist.com/. I created this on April 17th with 30 Lakhs+ alex ranking. I worked hard & now it has grown with 6 Lakhs+ ranking in less than a month.
• rahu_ 6y ago
  I built a website to find that quote amongst millions in 90+ languages. https://satyaquotes.com/ https://satyaquotes.com/
• AMerePotato 6y ago
  I'm on hiatus on my main project due to the virus. I came up with https://unirender.io https://unirender.io in my spare time. It does prerendering of React/Vue/etc SPA similar to https://prerender.com https://prerender.com. It functions as a cdn however, so it is a simple dns change instead on integrating it into a server. It's not as fast as I would like and it's not really tested either. It's gonna be free for a long while. I keep meaning to clean it up a bit more so I can publish it on github
• costinEEST 6y ago
  Work in progress: an application that helps you learn the pronunciation of Hebrew words - https://costineest.github.io/hebrew https://costineest.github.io/hebrew
  • brickmort 6y ago
    !סבבה
• scottcheng 6y ago
  I made https://lostjourneys.live https://lostjourneys.live, a virtual bot that road-trips around the world in Google Street View and broadcasts its journeys, because I want to travel and see the world so badly!
• patricklorio 6y ago
  I built https://playit.gg https://playit.gg. It's similar to ngrok or Cloudflare but for self hosting game servers. It tunnels the connections for your local server through one of our public servers. Has a good little following.
  • heizenbrg 6y ago
    Thanks, it allows me to make game servers easily
• WarChortle18 6y ago
  A non Electron desktop app for Gotify. It uses Dot Net Core and AvaloniaUI to support all 3 platforms. Looking for Mac testers as I don't have one and honestly feedback/bug reports. It works fine for me atm. Not sure what else people would want. https://github.com/ajmcateer/GotifyDesktop https://github.com/ajmcateer/GotifyDesktop
• scriptstar 6y ago
  Late to the party but never mind. I always wanted to read and write more, but creating such high-value habits are very hard to come by. In this lockdown, I decided to do something about that. I read five pages from a book that interests me every day and then write about my interpretation. To build a good reading and writing habit, I built a static blog using JAMStack technologies. https://5pagesaday.com/ https://5pagesaday.com/ I used Hugo to make a static site and Netlify functions to call Google Book API, Forestry dot io to write my book blurbs every day. I integrated Amazon ads to implement related book recommendations. I use netlify to host and Github actions for CI/CD. It's a PWA out of the box and supports Google AMP. The cool part is when writing a book experience, I provide the book ISBN, and my netlify function would go and grab book cover gif, description, author name from Google Book API automatically :-) I am really pleased. I will start reading and writing from the coming Monday. Wish me luck and follow me to encourage. I will open-source my Hugo theme which I named ”Morning Pages” and my blog on Github later this week. Cheers
• idealstingray 6y ago
  Trying to learn frontend so I can make myself a better to-do list/calendar app. I'm a robotics engineer so I have no idea what I'm doing, but it's fun. Due to executive dysfunction, I tend not to have a very good idea of how long it'll take me to finish anything longer than about a day's work (so I assume it "won't take that long", which fuels dangerous amounts of procrastination), so my concept was that each task gets broken down into subtasks that are small enough that I can estimate time for them. These time estimates then get propagated to the root task, and leaf-level tasks can be dragged and dropped into today's calendar (with other events pulled in from Google Calendar so I don't accidentally double-book myself). On the task itself I'll be able to record how much time (in pomodoros) it actually took to complete; in addition to tracking how I actually spent my time, hopefully this will help calibrate my future time estimates. I also finished knitting a sweater -- my second overall, and first time not working from a pattern. I had to redo the yoke three times (the torso and front/back panels of the yoke are lace, so I wanted to integrate the decreases in the lace pattern), but I'm really satisfied with what I ended up with.
• jwdmsd1 6y ago
  https://seabetter.com/ https://seabetter.com/
• stephenou 6y ago
  Late to the party but still want to share! I created https://fruitionsite.com https://fruitionsite.com, a free, open source toolkit for building websites with Notion. You get pretty URL slugs, custom domain, and a whole bunch of other features. I hacked it together in a weekend, put up the marketing site (using Fruition, oh so meta) and shared it in Notion's Facebook group and subreddit, without any expectations that it would go anywhere. The response has been incredible. 11000 people have checked it out since. It ended up on the Product Hunt newsletter [1]. People are making YouTube videos [2] about it. Chris Coyier of CSS-Tricks [3] shared it too. The biggest lesson for me was just launch it. There were many more things I wanted to add. But I decided to share it publicly before it was perfect. Now I have users who can give me real feedback rather than me pretending I know what people want. [1] https://www.producthunt.com/newsletter/4717 https://www.producthunt.com/newsletter/4717 [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aw0x54PzCaI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aw0x54PzCaI [3] https://css-tricks.com/notion-powered-websites/ https://css-tricks.com/notion-powered-websites/
• vkaku 6y ago
  Ever since I have been juggling work, family and the whole COVID - I have not been get a lot of time, but I've been working on a Python library to parse Colfer files. https://github.com/guilt/colfer-python https://github.com/guilt/colfer-python
• v1nc1 6y ago
  I am working on a telegram bot that stops bots from dumping your group history. You can also manage your group with it: https://github.com/v1nc/butter_bot https://github.com/v1nc/butter_bot
• blakbelt78 6y ago
  I've been building a stock market newsletter called Bullish▲ https://bullish.email https://bullish.email
• jnajafov 6y ago
  I was working on building an IOS app to improve productivity. Finally today, "Smart Sloth" is out on Product Hunt Check it out and let me know your thoughts - https://www.producthunt.com/posts/smart-sloth https://www.producthunt.com/posts/smart-sloth Smart Sloth is a task manager that helps you be more efficient with YOUR TIME. Smart Sloth uses the concept of timeboxing, which is to allocate a set amount of time to each task, therefore, creating a deadline which can increase the productivity of the user.
• artur_makly 6y ago
  Just launched https://ArtsyFacemasks.com https://ArtsyFacemasks.com Currently working on expanding the limited_edition and kids collection to various niches. We’re now taking custom orders for teams/staff: https://www.artsyfacemasks.com/custom-branding/ https://www.artsyfacemasks.com/custom-branding/ made a few devOps motifs: https://www.artsyfacemasks.com/specimen/error-codes/ https://www.artsyfacemasks.com/specimen/error-codes/
• repied 6y ago
  My first 'modern' website, python+flask+CSS+google app engine!! It's really a small app, but it was good to discover simple web tech after years of data modelling.~ https://death-proba-website.appspot.com/ https://death-proba-website.appspot.com/ The app just gives you a comparison of covid death probabilities to skydiving and other activities depending on age and sex. Can be helpful to make personal decisions. For instance that a 40-49 male, if infected, has probability of dying equal to 75 jumps of skydiving. (Please read disclaimers on the website)
• luke7711 6y ago
  I've finished my side project: https://www.brandingpavilion.com https://www.brandingpavilion.com I wanted to build, as I call it 'Global Creative Community' called Branding Pavilion which is an online directory of companies, events, job offers and interviews from the digital industry. The idea behind this project is to help clients reach digital/marketing/software companies and create an online community. Software stack of this project includes: Bootstrap 4 as a CSS framework, Vue.js for logic and functionality, Firebase for database and backend, Stripe as a payment method, Cloudflare for protection and security.
• saravananl7 6y ago
  I am developing a integration platform for EDI(X12, EDIFACT) messages to be easily integrated with cloud based SaaS ERPs like Dynamics 365 F&O, BC, NetSuite etc. EDI is a complex piece of integration - diff formats, cryptography, data conversions, etc. this should be a easy to use platform that can act as a gateway to receive your messages and convert and relay it back to your ERP, backend, etc.
• soymilkboy 6y ago
  Arguing a bunch??? Introducing quarantinequarrels.com
• soymilkboy 6y ago
  Can’t stop fighting?? Vent here at Quarantinequarrels.com
• sen4ik 6y ago
  I built a website where users can subscribe to receive daily text messages with an inspirational Bible verse. It is for USA or Canada residents. https://versefrombible.com/ https://versefrombible.com/
• ca98am79 6y ago
  handshake.org ! decentralized DNS taking the internet back and giving it to the people
• mam2 6y ago
  Going on wallstreetbets toblearn option trading.
• raibosome 6y ago
  I have 3 pet projects. (1) Bython, a basic Python interpreter written in C. I just want to have a taste of what it's like programming out a language so I won't go too far. It is dynamically typed and has automatic memory management. https://github.com/remykarem/bython https://github.com/remykarem/bython. PRs welcome! (2) minishell. This is a simple shell with only 2 commands: either you (i) hit enter to view 10 files of a folder at a time, or you (ii) enter a filename and view nbytes. I built this because a co-worker wanted to view a folder with 20+GB of files but couldn't do it with an `ls`. With this, I hope that we can casually explore a folder without having to print everything. https://github.com/remykarem/minishell https://github.com/remykarem/minishell. (3) Scrollable Python documentation, a hack from the scrollable interface found in https://allennlp.org/tutorials https://allennlp.org/tutorials. Use case is for people who are explaining Python code. https://github.com/remykarem/scrollable-python-documentation https://github.com/remykarem/scrollable-python-documentation. My command of C isn't that great so if you're interested to collaborate, I'm happy to be your apprentice :)
• doublel 6y ago
  Launched my podcast, After Hour Projects, sharing stories of side projects - be it to pursue a hobby, advance a career, or start a business. https://afterhourprojects.com https://afterhourprojects.com
• atsushin 6y ago
  I'm helping out with a program for students (myself being one of them) that lost their summer internships due to the pandemic, called Summer of Shipping. Currently looking for more student builders and experienced mentors to grow out our initiative, but we've gotten some great numbers of both so far and want to reach as many people as possible. We're a pretty nice group and we've had a lot of great conversations so far in our comms channel. Open to developers of non-traditional backgrounds too. If anyone's interested, check out our website at: https://summerofshipping.com/ https://summerofshipping.com/ Meetings are every Thursday for demos, presentations and networking over Zoom. We're currently on Week 3 but our doors are open to anyone at any point. We accommodate both people who prefer to work individually or in groups! :)