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Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?

• garysieling 6y ago
  I've been doing woodblock printmaking - https://www.instagram.com/garyprints/ https://www.instagram.com/garyprints/
  • news_to_me 6y ago
    Those look great! Woodblock seems like a really rewarding medium.
    • garysieling 6y ago
      Yeah, it's really satisfying, even for quick experiments
• JshWright 6y ago
  Hahahaha.... I didn't quite keep up with my normal responsibilities while also not quite managing to keep up with the remote learning my kids were doing.
  • kodt 6y ago
    Yeah anyone with young kids had far less time during lockdown, not more.
    • war1025 6y ago
      Sort of depends I think. We have a four year old and two year old twins. We've found we have a ton more time. Mostly because we were forced to actually slow down and be at home instead of always on the go.
      • JshWright 6y ago
        We have approximately the same kid layout, just a few years further down the road (twins with an older sibling). Once kids are in school, the situation changes dramatically. School ends up consuming a big chunk of the "work" day, so keeping up with work takes up much of what used to be "family" time, net result is that there is far less free time now than there used to be.
        • laumars 6y ago
          This has been my experience too. If both parents are working full time (not furloughed) then you often end up working early mornings and evenings to compensate for lost time during the day. Same is also true if you have younger kids but either / both parents work jobs that require lots of formal meetings. As understanding as employers have been, there’s only so many times one can have a meeting interrupted because a doll fell over or Duplo piece fell off an impossible structure. So parents will often arrange their day where they essentially tag-team their day, meaning lost hours are made up in the early mornings / late evenings.
    • laumars 6y ago
      Yeah. I hate reading threads like these because it only reminds me just how stressful lockdown has been and how much less time I’ve had to spend on my personal projects. Still, I am glad that others have been able to turn a negative into a positive. Edit: that said, it had been nice spending more time with the kids
• war1025 6y ago
  I rebuilt our deck. Would share a picture but not really sure the best way to do that. Thinking to redo our floors next. We pulled out our carpet on the main floor two years ago and painted the subfloor as a temporary solution. Current plan is to buy 1x8 pine boards and go for a sort of rustic wood floor look.
  • the_pwner224 6y ago
    > Would share a picture but not really sure the best way to do that. Imgur lets you upload many photos as an album, with comments for each photo if you want. Aside from that I've used WordPress to quickly put up some content. The hosting at WordPress.com has a free tier, I think it puts ads on the site though. After the set up flow you can just create a post with text, images, files. neocities.org is also good if you want to make a more polished site.
  • soylentcola 6y ago
    I'm in the middle of doing the same. It's more of a little porch-deck thing--only a couple feet off the ground, underlying structure mostly sound, etc. The problem I ran into was that I underbought decking boards and now the local Home Depot has been out for the past few weeks. I want to get the same boards so they match so I'm hesitant to shop elsewhere right now. Talked to some folks and it's apparently not any major supply shortage, but rather everyone and their brother having the same idea. As someone on the Home Depot subreddit put it: "honey, I'll do it when I have time." "Ok, well...now ya got time!"
    • war1025 6y ago
      I would guess you could put in a special order and then you'd just have to wait for the next time they get a shipment.
      • soylentcola 6y ago
        Replying a bit late, but the items I need are not available for ordering to a store for pickup. I only have the option to order future delivery to my home for (what appears to be $79 on the website but I haven't dug into that option because I'm not interested). I'll just wait for them to restock.
• news_to_me 6y ago
  I’ve been working on a software rasterizer in C: https://git.sr.ht/~zjm/Moon3D https://git.sr.ht/~zjm/Moon3D. Coming from a web background, it’s been super fun! I just wish I had more time to keep working on it. I’ve been experimenting with tweeting my progress on it: https://twitter.com/zackmichener https://twitter.com/zackmichener
• Borish_Johnson 6y ago
  Been writing a record number of book reviews for my blog: https://AudioBookReviews.com https://AudioBookReviews.com
• quaintdev 6y ago
  I have been collecting lot of notes and needed an offline storage for the same. I created this small utility pinotes[1] that I run on Raspberry PI. The best part is I can use browser address bar to save stuff(from both desktop & mobile). I am using it for notes, todos, grocery list, watchlists, bookmarks, reminders, etc,. I have assigned pin as keyword, so I can use following search terms in address bar pin grocery!rice pin todo!pay electricity bill pin bmark!htttp://news.ycombinator.com This creates grocery.md, todo.md and bmark.md with their content followed by whatever is after ! in search string. [1]: https://github.com/quaintdev/pinotes https://github.com/quaintdev/pinotes
• marvindanig 6y ago
  An --inch polyfill library to help browsers understand real physical units like inch, centimeters, millimeters, thou, feet etc. https://github.com/bookiza/--inch https://github.com/bookiza/--inch
• dwarkesh 6y ago
  I learned Rust by making a simulation of COVID. Shows how herd immunity and exponential growth emerge: https://github.com/dwarkeshsp/rust-covid-simulation https://github.com/dwarkeshsp/rust-covid-simulation
• pallavkaushish 6y ago
  I created an online academy where I publish growth marketing resources to help startups grow from 1K to 1M - https://academy.pallav.io/ https://academy.pallav.io/ I've been meaning to do this for the longest time but couldn't keep my blog super active. In this regard, the lockdown was a blessing for me.
  • antigirl 6y ago
    Very interesting, defo interested in this space
• winrid 6y ago
  Added a ton of features and integration tests to my project: https://fastcomments.com/ https://fastcomments.com/
  • dasil003 6y ago
    I had thought about making something like this in the past. Really like the execution. Hope you are finding your audience and getting a sustainable business going, the world needs more of these.
    • winrid 6y ago
      I hope so too! So far all the customers I've gotten have been amazing to work with as well. My target is one new customer a day, but so far that's been really hard.
• 7373737373 6y ago
  https://randomeps.com/ https://randomeps.com/
• 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 four 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 * @baekmanpyeong, which similarly posts a 1.818×1.818 km square (that's a million (i.e. baekman) pyeong, an old-fashioned area measure) somewhere in South Korea every 8 hours: https://twitter.com/baekmanpyeong https://twitter.com/baekmanpyeong * @nihonmusuukei, which posts a square kilometer of Japan every 12 hours: https://twitter.com/nihonmusuukei https://twitter.com/nihonmusuukei --- [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
  • keiraarts 6y ago
    This is amazing, great readme.
    • doersino 6y ago
      Thank you – approachable readmes are really important to me, so this is validating!
• andremendes 6y ago
  I'm making a politically charged game based on Brazil's scenario. It's been fun and rewarding. https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/750869 https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/750869
• Ave 6y ago
  I built an app to create prints (framed or otherwise) of your fitness activities. Strava only for now but uploading GPX/KML files coming shortly. https://cadenceprints.com https://cadenceprints.com
• CrackpotGonzo 6y ago
  It's simple, but essentially I built a super simple landing page and pay wall for any live class or any other link or digital good. My friend is a yoga instructor and wanted something more simple than her existing setup. Mostly have yoga instructors on the platform currently and am thinking about other product enhancements geared towards online instructors and classes. Check it out here: http://classup.io/ http://classup.io/
  • daniel_levine 6y ago
    You should consider bundling video yourself and charging for it. Could use something like Mux.com to power it without much trouble.
    • CrackpotGonzo 6y ago
      Thanks for this feedback, was just researching options, including Mux for video, and have been speaking to existing instructors to see if they're willing to jump to a new video platform. Some teachers like Zoom to facilitate Q&A, chat etc., but there might be enough that simply want the all-in solution to make the jump. Thanks again!
• gentleman11 6y ago
  A video game... but the trailer, demo, and website won’t be ready for another 1-2 months. Also need to hack together a terms of use that says “you don’t own this demo, but you can play it” and that sort of thing. I am so close to it being blog-ready though!
• teej 6y ago
  I built the spiritual successor to a multiplayer browser game that I’d made back in 2007. Back then, it was (briefly) the highest traffic Rails app in the world. The new one is built with Django. It’s been a delight doing web work again.
• awillen 6y ago
  This is cool - glad to see lots of folks being productive! I got a bunch of great feedback from another HN thread, so I'll leave my new lockdown company here as well (I also submitted it on your site) - https://coopersdogtreats.com/ https://coopersdogtreats.com/, where we make healthy, meat-based frozen dog treat mix.
• deleted 6y ago
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• rookhack 6y ago
  I built a way to block slack notifications automatically based on your work state (Eg. Focused, in a meeting, on a call). It integrates with your calendar and desktop apps. Holopod.com
• landemva 6y ago
  Person sends picture, and this gets the location info from picture. It auto-responds the info. Am making a chat-like responder to request various things like a URL to mapping, and maybe OCR any words. Send picture, with GPS enabled, to (+1) 408-471-5200.
• ta17711771 6y ago
  I managed to launch a company.
• sethkramer 6y ago
  I built an education site teaching how to build apps and websites without code: www.nocode.mba
  • readme 6y ago
    but if MBAs can make apps without coders, who is going to ask coders to build their ideas for free?
• christopoulos 6y ago
  I returned to creating music on an MPC after an 8 year hiatus. I’m loving being back at it again.
• kiwicopple 6y ago
  https://currentevents.email https://currentevents.email It’s simply Wikipedia’s current events each day, emailed to your inbox. I prefer email more than RSS, but also it was nice to do a small, discrete project
• geerlingguy 6y ago
  I've been working on making my YouTube channel actually useful/updated, and somehow triggered YouTube's algorithm with my Turing Pi (Raspberry Pi compute module) cluster: https://github.com/geerlingguy/turing-pi-cluster https://github.com/geerlingguy/turing-pi-cluster I've also spent a bit of time cleaning and rearranging my workshop, and redoing a bit of my office for better video conferencing and streaming.
• CarVac 6y ago
  I added Lensfun lens correction to my photo editing app Filmulator.
• DAllison 6y ago
  I've been contributing to the Andorid port of Anki (HTML based flashcards + spaced repetition) for the past few months. https://github.com/ankidroid/Anki-Android https://github.com/ankidroid/Anki-Android https://github.com/david-allison-1 https://github.com/david-allison-1 Knowing that I've actively been impacting students (particularly medical students) from around the world has been really good for the soul.
  • ciarannolan 6y ago
    I rely heavily on Anki for work and study. Thank you! The android version already seems to work great. Is there a roadmap somewhere? I'm curious what's being worked on.
    • DAllison 6y ago
      Thanks!! No official roadmap (such is Open Source), but: * Rust Conversion (got a proof of concept, need to productionise it) - Anki Desktop has moved to Rust. We can unify all of the platform, and remove most of our backend code and maintenance burden. * Android 11 has made significant changes to how applications store files on the device (Scoped Storage). I expect this will be a nightmare to deal with: https://developer.android.com/preview/privacy/storage https://developer.android.com/preview/privacy/storage * Visual HTML Editor (probably 2.13) - currently editing and adding formatting could do with a ton of love. Typing HTML by hand isn't a great experience for non-technical users. * User onboarding & UX - We get tons of bad reviews: "All my cards have been deleted" - this is because we fail to explain how Anki/Spaced Repetition works and that we take control of scheduling. People download AnkiDroid expecting flashcards, and we can do much better in this area. * Performance improvements with larger collections - we're fast, but there's still lots of low-hanging fruit regarding multithreading. * Background media sync - Medical Students have multi-gigabyte collections (just fixed a bug where some Android systems wouldn't open zips >= 2^31-1 bytes). We're tied to the AnkiWeb protocol for syncing, but it'd be a much better UX if we moved this to the background. Personal Goals (some point in the future) * CI/CD improvements - both speeding up build times, adding more styles of testing to the pipeline and adding more auto-linting. * Accessibility - our TTS doesn't play well with Android talkback; this hurts me to type. * Better gamepad support
• kenforthewin 6y ago
  https://boards.kenforthewin.com https://boards.kenforthewin.com A sort of live reddit-like app with RSS syncing support. In its very early stages (I don't even have a name yet)
• bokwoon 6y ago
  A Go SQL Query Builder (and struct mapper). https://github.com/bokwoon95/go-structured-query https://github.com/bokwoon95/go-structured-query It was created to solve one of my pain points about scanning columns into deeply nested structs. You have full control over what columns gets mapped to what struct field, no annotation-based reflection needed. The type safe query building part was inspired by jOOQ (https://www.jooq.org/doc/latest/manual/getting-started/use-cases/jooq-as-a-sql-builder-with-code-generation/ https://www.jooq.org/doc/latest/manual/getting-started/use-c...)
• memset 6y ago
  Tool to annotate audio files in real time. Built this because I'm taking remote saxophone lessons, but could be more broadly applicable no doubt. https://audioremarks.com/ https://audioremarks.com/ Tool to delete items from gmail en masse per sender: https://github.com/poundifdef/gmail-deleter https://github.com/poundifdef/gmail-deleter Open-source website to turn recipe websites into plain-text and printable versions: https://plainoldrecipe.com/ https://plainoldrecipe.com/
• arpa 6y ago
  Nothing of any importance. Managed to screw myself up to the point of having constant generalized anxiety, so yeah, things are really working out here.
  • buzzy_hacker 6y ago
    Hang in there. These are strange times and the most we can ask of ourselves is to get through them.
    • arpa 6y ago
      "Little things", like kind words, are not insignificant. Thanks, sincerely.
  • mkolodny 6y ago
    I'm sad to hear that you feel so anxious :( Exercise helps a ton. So does therapy (cognitive behavior therapy especially). Mindfulness meditation can help a lot, too.
    • arpa 6y ago
      It feels... guilty not to do something productive; like work. Or something showcase-worthy. I guess it also has something to do with "turning off" when working from home: it's like you have to give 120% every day until you can't and then the downward spiral starts. Home becomes office, and slowly, creepingly all becomes work and, well, I guess one just have to remind oneself that taking care of yourself and "turning off" is not only okay, but necessary. Just like food.
      • yoz-y 6y ago
        I feel you. Had come into lockdown with a laundry list of stuff I though I could finish because of gained time. Very little has materialized. A thing that helped was bringing in another person to check on each other.
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• eric_khun 6y ago
  Started a crowdsourced website helping people that just moved in a new city/country to "get started" [1]. Anyone can edit a spreadsheet [2] and the infos will be directly reflected on the city page. I've lived in several countries, and I wish there was experienced expats telling me the best carrier/area to live/gym/etc... instead of trying too many things and wasting a lot of time [1] https://travelhustlers.co/cityfaq/ https://travelhustlers.co/cityfaq/ [2] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-Lut4zmeDw9z-ikRJPH1nrmXGqt6rYDWGraFYUGnPUk/edit https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-Lut4zmeDw9z-ikRJPH1...
• anfractuosity 6y ago
  I've been working on some VHDL for an FPGA to control a little PCB I made to drive WS2812B lighting strips - https://www.anfractuosity.com/projects/lightdriver/ https://www.anfractuosity.com/projects/lightdriver/ It took me a while to get it working as there is a bug with Xilinx Vivado when synthesising my VHDL, where the synthesizer crashes, unless I use a work around which I was told about recently. I understand you can use MCUs to drive these lighting strips, but was a good excuse to learn more VHDL. I need to work on an SPI driver now for the FPGA, as I plan to shovel pixel data to it, from a Pi via SPI.
• l1ghthouse 6y ago
  BrandBook - a Mac app that makes it easy to share the brand identity of a company with all employees. https://apps.apple.com/app/brandbook/id1470289369?mt=12 https://apps.apple.com/app/brandbook/id1470289369?mt=12
• wgx 6y ago
  Hand-curated remote jobs in product & UX, from across the web. https://remotivo.com/ https://remotivo.com/ 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. At the moment scraping is very basic but I’d like to automate that more. Part of the appeal at the moment (I think) is that I check the jobs to ensure they’re not scams, are actually remote, etc.
• jdbiggs 6y ago
  I made a podcast aggregator and recommender. https://podhound.co https://podhound.co
• rp00 6y ago
  A bunch of shit on Minecraft and some dnb dj mixes
• Uehreka 6y ago
  I worked with theatre folks in my community to build an online interactive theatre show about space. The actors are all acting from home using whatever costume, makeup and set they can cobble together, and they communicate with the audience via WebRTC. We’ve still got shows tonight and next weekend if anyone wants to attend (you can attend from literally anywhere as long as you’ve got a working device) and I wrote it all up in a blog here: https://chrisuehlinger.com/blog/2020/06/16/unshattering-the-audience-building-theatre-on-the-web-in-2020/ https://chrisuehlinger.com/blog/2020/06/16/unshattering-the-...
• lksslr 6y ago
  https://laptopsinspace.de https://laptopsinspace.de 3d spatial video chats based on jitsi
• boothby 6y ago
  This isn't an "incredible thing" but it's a fun project I accomplished this week: single-file python package that lets you disable assertions in files or modules. https://github.com/boothby/dissert https://github.com/boothby/dissert
• grwthckrmstr 6y ago
  My product is writing. I wrote preetamnath.com/blog
• soulchild37 6y ago
  Wrote and published a book on how to implement Sign in with Apple (https://siwa.fluffy.es https://siwa.fluffy.es) as I am an iOS dev and also backend dev, plus the deadline Apple set for it is end of this month. Didn't do much marketing but still managed to sell 15+ copies, pretty happy about this attempt, spent 3 weeks writing it after work hours.
• yoz-y 6y ago
  A friend and I made an app for photo memos. The idea is to use it instead of the camera when you just want to remind yourself of a thing. Originally we wanted to challenge ourselves to write the app in 24 hours, but it predictably stretched out (quite) a bit. https://kluz.dux.works https://kluz.dux.works
• nbraud 6y ago
  A bunch of different things, few of which I got actual traction on, in true ADHD form (though some of that was being unable to go to the local hackerspace, for hardware work) One thing which has been rather fun and successful, is speeding up uutils' implementation of integer factorisation: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3Anbraud https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3... (uutils is a Rust reimplementation of the GNU coreutils and findutils) I'm not yet satisfied with the performance, and I still have quite a few ideas how to improve it, but it's still more than 44 times faster than it was when I started (measured on factoring everything between 2 and 10⁷; it's a lot more on larger / more-interesting sizes)
• _bxg1 6y ago
  I've been following this book to learn how to parse/interpret/compile languages: https://craftinginterpreters.com/ https://craftinginterpreters.com/ And started designing and implementing my own pure-functional, JavaScript-targeted language with features like built-in partial-application of arguments, and every function being able to be called in a prefix, infix, or pipeline style
• awinter-py 6y ago
  social bingo cards for predictions https://bingotronic.io/~abewinter2 https://bingotronic.io/~abewinter2 WIP, signup here https://bingotronic.io/auth/join https://bingotronic.io/auth/join no ddos pls
• mickael-kerjean 6y ago
  Filestash (https://www.filestash.app https://www.filestash.app) which is inspired by the infamous FTP comment from when Dropbox first launch on HN
• gregf 6y ago
  Didn't build as much as I dove into NixOS. Really enjoying it so far.
• martinrue 6y ago
  I created a YouTube series teaching entry-level programming in JS, in Esperanto. Because why the hell not.
  • searchableguy 6y ago
    Can you link it? :3
    • martinrue 6y ago
      Sure: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLcWlBThjQPyrDDy3UIW8Zo0yreJWyfAp https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLcWlBThjQPyrDDy3UIW8... I work on a few other Esperanto projects in my spare time. If anyone's curious: https://martinrue.com/projects/ https://martinrue.com/projects/
• lokedhs 6y ago
  I started implementing a version of APL, but that have taken some significant steps away from traditional APL, and introducing features that normally would not be seen as fitting with the language. It's still an experiment, but some of the key features are: immutability, lazy evaluation, first class functions, a macro facility and automatic parallelisation (the last one doesn't really work as well as I would have hoped). I started the project in January, so I guess this counts? Here's a video showing what it looks like: https://peertube.mastodon.host/videos/watch/4a19ca9e-7ca6-4142-bda6-c353915bfe23 https://peertube.mastodon.host/videos/watch/4a19ca9e-7ca6-41...
• nagrom 6y ago
  I built an Alexa skill that sits in front of the local council's website (South Worcestershire, UK) and tells me which set of bins go out this week. Have already probably saved myself more time from looking up the website manually than it took to build the skill. Code at https://github.com/morgan-murray/bin-day https://github.com/morgan-murray/bin-day
• kiernanmcgowan 6y ago
  I've been building out a fuzzy reverse image search API - https://siev.io https://siev.io The code is more-or-less functioning at the moment, now I'm finding ways to index more images faster to increase its coverage.
• oleks637 6y ago
  I worked on a desktop app to create step by step guides and tutorials. Perfect solution for easily creating visual documentation and use guides https://folge.me https://folge.me . Would love to hear any feedback!
• mhh__ 6y ago
  Haven't decided whether to open source or not ($$$) but I've been working on a thermomechanical tyre model.
  • searchableguy 6y ago
    Open core? Maybe free for non commercial use or a limit on the commerical usage? It won't be open source I guess but better than nothing if the intent is to push the tech and help innovation.
  • inakarmacoma 6y ago
    a what?
    • mhh__ 6y ago
      Vehicle dynamics is a fairly simple science except for modelling tyres. By which I mean (in steady state conditions) a mapping (Force, Slip Angle, Slip Ratio) -> (Lateral Force, Long. Force, Moments etc) It's fairly complicated because Tyre's are made of rubber, so you either use finite element analysis which is slow, or some kind of (FD) approximation which can be fairly crap. Modelling the transient properties properly is doable, modelling the thermal properties efficiently is genuine "If we told you we'd have to kill you" black magic
• scoots_k 6y ago
  I wrote my first blog post: Sleep Hygiene for Software Engineers! https://sklum.github.io/2020/06/14/sleep-hygiene-for-software-engineers.html https://sklum.github.io/2020/06/14/sleep-hygiene-for-softwar...
• skrebbel 6y ago
  Babies!
• DrMonkey 6y ago
  I've started to scratch my own itch, trying to improve the audiobooks streaming experience. https://bookcamp.app https://bookcamp.app I've got enough validation to think there's a market for it, especially in the Plex community. So for the MVP, the server acts only as a layer between Plex and the client. This allows me to build a great audiobook player and add features on top that Plex is not capable of.
  • davehcker 6y ago
    I've the same itch with ebooks/papers (pdf, epub, azw3, etc). It's impossible for me manage them and keep them portable. Great work! I'll definitely check this out. The logo is lovely too.
  • lefstathiou 6y ago
    Hey DrMonkey, happy to hear someone is working on a better Audio book Player. I will try this out though I’ve never used Plex. I love audio books and have a few hundred on my Audible. I wanted to throw out some feature requests (feel free to ignore them) based on my audible experience: 1) note taking should not require having the book downloaded. 2) notes should be exportable 3) I’m constantly looking things up while I listen to non fiction. I think a visual stream of images tied to pronouns could be amazing. For example, when I listen to the history of ancient Egypt and it mentions Ramses II or all these tombs and tablets, it would be great to see thumbnails based on recently listened to content. Anyway good luck!
• hshar7 6y ago
  Battledao.com
• hshar7 6y ago
  Https://battledao.com
• hagy 6y ago
  Learned a bit about how database are implemented and shared the learnings in a series of projects, https://dbfromzero.com/ https://dbfromzero.com/
• bharani_m 6y ago
  I made "Ansible Rails" - a playbook for easily deploying Ruby on Rails applications https://github.com/EmailThis/ansible-rails https://github.com/EmailThis/ansible-rails
• DoubleGlazing 6y ago
  I managed to plant vegetables and keep them alive and growing well in to June. I make the same attempt every year, so this is a record for me. On a more serious note, I had plans when the lockdown began. I wanted to build some kind of a "robot" as an educational venture. Do some redecorating, learn Unity and figure out how to use the TIG welder I bough one night when I was drunk. In reality what has happened is that my children's school, after school club, their sports clubs and Scout groups have given them so many lockdown "challenges" I haven't had time to do anything because I'm in charge of them because my wife has to lock herself away from 9 to 5 to do teletherapy.
  • grogenaut 6y ago
    Tig welding is great way to essentially meditate, similar to painting, once you figure it out that is. Start with lines on 1/4" steel flat bars.
    • jmpman 6y ago
      I find oxy/acetylene welding super meditative. The sound blocks everything out, putting you in a pink noise cocoon.
      • DoubleGlazing 6y ago
        I have a fairly basic stick welder which I have used on a few occasions to do a few basic repairs and and make some metal supports for storage boxes. I don't have a particular need for a TIG welder, but I bought it so I suppose I should find something useful to do with it. Problem is, I'm more of a woodworker.
        • grogenaut 6y ago
          The main reason for tig is small stuff, exotic stuff, and stuff where you just want the welds to be gorgeous, eg if you're going for that nasa look. The goal for mig is to hot glue some metal together. My friend does woodworking and loves making legs out of rebar/etc with the mig welder.
• lockdownthrow 6y ago
  I make software for jailbroken iOS devices. I had some long overdue ideas which I started to work on during the initial lockdown phase. Luckily for me the iOS 13.5 mega jailbreak came along with some great timing and mainstream coverage. In the last 30 days (roughly since the jb release) I've made $13k. Not too shabby.
• resume384 6y ago
  Instructions to build yourself a private self-hosted full-stack personal cloud system. https://github.com/technomada/cloud-from-scratch https://github.com/technomada/cloud-from-scratch
• dehrmann 6y ago
  I digitized a bunch of old VHS home movies and documented the process in case I need to do it again: https://github.com/ehrmann/vhs-capture https://github.com/ehrmann/vhs-capture
• magicseth 6y ago
  I've built a website to help magicians keep track of their tricks, and to give each other notes on performances: https://trick.app https://trick.app And documenting how I use magic in tech innovation on my podcast at magicseth.com
• grogenaut 6y ago
  I've been working on a Powered Air Purifying Respirator at https://airtoall.org/products/papr/ https://airtoall.org/products/papr/. Our goal is to release a cheap (you can't get certified if you don't sell it) and open device that is niosh certified and thus usable. Currently working on our manufacturing prototype.
• greenie_beans 6y ago
  Covid tracker for my home state + an API to get data for other states. https://mississippicovid.com https://mississippicovid.com Cranked it out in a couple weeks and the code made me sad so I haven’t touched it since...ugly UI, bugs, etc Also started back on an IoT soil sensor project. Need to finish editing a book but tech provides an excusable distraction !
  • greenie_beans 6y ago
    WOOF! Sometimes it doesn’t load the MS data because the website I’m scraping changes their tables. I get the data per request...never got around to scraping it and saving it from a DB, which would be more reliable even if they changed their HTML markup
    • tomjuggler 6y ago
      I made an Android app to do the same at the beginning of Lockdown for my country, South Africa. Was quite a cathartic experience. Just being an observer helped me to deal with the situation... Then the guys doing the data moved their table and broke my app. Lucky I found a more reliable source. The app still works, I check it every morning. Anyway I found an international api here: https://github.com/ExpDev07/coronavirus-tracker-api https://github.com/ExpDev07/coronavirus-tracker-api - even started making a world map but moved on to other things. Code is on my site - https://www.circusscientist.com/parsing-online-corona-virus-data-into-a-map-with-processing/ https://www.circusscientist.com/parsing-online-corona-virus-...
      • greenie_beans 6y ago
        Cool! We had the same idea with the NYTimes data :)
• bobbyz 6y ago
  Neumorphic design generator, launched today: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/neumorphic-generator https://www.producthunt.com/posts/neumorphic-generator
• bckygldstn 6y ago
  An api for open elevation data: https://www.opentopodata.org/ https://www.opentopodata.org/
• mvanga 6y ago
  I built this: http://artbuffer.com/ http://artbuffer.com/ I built it so I could easily create unique art for printing, framing and putting up in my home. Some examples: https://www.artbuffer.com/view?a=wslyHCoGjqoA3ZKgsQ_hNAlnshT-jt https://www.artbuffer.com/view?a=wslyHCoGjqoA3ZKgsQ_hNAlnshT... https://www.artbuffer.com/view?a=-9Wr6aLtgF383zsAWxchXJbt8CWjko https://www.artbuffer.com/view?a=-9Wr6aLtgF383zsAWxchXJbt8CW... https://www.artbuffer.com/view?a=OuIs3I6vHAyqV-PoMb6EFiRVAFwRb5 https://www.artbuffer.com/view?a=OuIs3I6vHAyqV-PoMb6EFiRVAFw...
  • tonetheman 6y ago
    This is great work. Very cool stuff.
• lifeslogit 6y ago
  my first fugue https://soundcloud.com/peter-mullen-2/babys-first-fugue https://soundcloud.com/peter-mullen-2/babys-first-fugue
• bilater 6y ago
  I built NeumNotes - A Simple Neumorphic Styled Privacy First Notes App: https://neumnotes.com/ https://neumnotes.com/ And GitRelevant - Search The Latest AND Greatest Github Repos by using multiple filters: https://gitrelevant.netlify.app/ https://gitrelevant.netlify.app/
  • memexy 6y ago
    Design for NeumNotes is really nice.
    • bilater 6y ago
      Thanks!
• agumonkey 6y ago
  Not sure it started during lockdown, but I made 90% of some Thomson headphones mod to go from IR to bluetooth. Technically trivial but it took me a lot more time to actually do the work. Only issue right now is that I lick physical interface, need to fit usb socket and some buttons to control the bluetooth module (this https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32822579482.html https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32822579482.html I took the board from). I also had to swap the original lipo battery because it was comically small (8min lifetime) and hack a fat two-pin connector to avoid solder joints failing with vibration. So many details :) Sound is meh but it does operate.
• blensor 6y ago
  Finished my open source Virtual Reality fitness game VRWorkout (done completely in Godot) The nice side effect is that developing a fitness game is a fitness exercise in and of itself, and a lot cheaper than the monthly $20 Supernatural plan https://vrworkout.at https://vrworkout.at
  • gopal1992 6y ago
    Damn looks sick... I need to try it out
    • blensor 6y ago
      Please do, it's not completely finished yet but I am using it for my own daily workout. If you don't have a Quest it will work with PC VR headset as well, although you will either need to strap the controllers to your wrists or put the controllers down when you do the pushups (not very comfortable)
      • gopal1992 6y ago
        Yup... I do have a quest
• sawyerjhood 6y ago
  I've been working on a few different things. At the beginning of the lockdown I was super into Animal Crossing so I build https://ac-catch.com https://ac-catch.com. I'm happy to say that the site still gets a few thousand visitors every month. More recently I've been working on a visual React prototyping tool, which has led to a few smaller libraries. The most recent of which is recoil-undo, which is an addon that adds undo support for the Recoil state management library. https://github.com/SawyerHood/recoil-undo https://github.com/SawyerHood/recoil-undo
• artembugara 6y ago
  Me and my friend finished our News API. Newscatcherapi.com
• frenchie14 6y ago
  I re-released an old Action-RTS game onto Kongregate where it's been played 45k times so far. I started a mailing list for a sequel which already has over 200 signups! https://www.kongregate.com/games/Frenchie14/factions https://www.kongregate.com/games/Frenchie14/factions
• constexpr 6y ago
  A new JavaScript/TypeScript bundler written in Go that's 10-100x faster than Webpack, Rollup, and Parcel: https://github.com/evanw/esbuild https://github.com/evanw/esbuild
• was_boring 6y ago
  A kid
• resume384 6y ago
  Many good projects listed here. Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23170881 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23170881
• egypturnash 6y ago
  I lost all energy to work on my ongoing Big Projects and ended up doing a lot of furry porn commissions.
• jcims 6y ago
  Making hand sanitizer from raw ingredients. Added some raspberry pi/nodered and esp8266/tasmota for process control. Has been a ton of fun.
• kwelijana 6y ago
  Managed to push more videos on my tech youtube channel that are better quality. Wrote 3 movies scripts hoping I can get 3k funding in some way to at least shoot one. Lost all contracts of freelance jobs I used to do. stressed, anxious and depressed and in financial ruin am 20days late in house rent with only 5 bucks and am completely out. Weirdly enough I still smile and laugh at memes and hopeful something will come through even though I dont know what it will be. Mixed feelings and reinventing. End of rant.
• iamflimflam1 6y ago
  Got round to updating my YouTube channel more regularly and finally finished off a project that has been on the back burner forever. Managed to actually ship on time for my wife’s birthday. It’s all powered by an ESP32 on a custom PCB that I designed and built with a web based UI that is hosted on the device. https://youtu.be/3wEAKVvzJyA https://youtu.be/3wEAKVvzJyA
  • rland 6y ago
    Awesome work!
• geophile 6y ago
  A new shell: https://github.com/geophile/marcel https://github.com/geophile/marcel. - Based on Python -- filter, transform, etc. using Python functions. - Pipe Python values, not strings. - Database operations from the command line. - Run commands remotely and combine results.
• victorthehuman 6y ago
  Finished Metalens v1.0, Hacker News iOS client with some extra bells and whistles. https://www.3am.engineering/2020/05/metalens-for-hacker-news/ https://www.3am.engineering/2020/05/metalens-for-hacker-news... Got into woodworking, it really helps with anxiety. Built some outdoor/patio furniture, got a few more tools and started doing some more advanced indoor stuff.
• sgtnoodle 6y ago
  I upgraded my 3D printer's X and Z axes to MGN12 linear rails in order to stiffen up the extruder significantly. I also switched the hot bed from glass to a magnetic pad. I finished a PID toaster oven project from a few years ago. I've been using it to dry out filament. I also made a nice filament dry box to battle oozing. I thought I was having anxiety over the last couple months, but it just turned out to be all the nerves in my heart electrically failing for no reason. Now I have a pacemaker. I ordered some electronics to capture my own ECG traces so I can detect the pacemaker pulses for fun.
  • fpgaminer 6y ago
    > I thought I was having anxiety over the last couple months, but it just turned out to be all the nerves in my heart electrically failing for no reason. Now I have a pacemaker. I ordered some electronics to capture my own ECG traces so I can detect the pacemaker pulses for fun. Hope you're feeling better; I know how scary heart stuff can be. After my own scare (luckily a false positive) I also learned that weird anxiety problems can be heart related. Since then I've started mentioning to people that they should discuss things like that with their doctor. I know many people don't like talking about anxiety with their doctors, thinking it's more a therapist thing, but yeah it can be a heart issue and good doctors can smell a heart problem from a mile away. EKGs are quick and easy.
    • sgtnoodle 6y ago
      Thanks! I feel great now that my heart is beating normally. Apparently my heart is in perfect shape other than the faulty wiring. Amusingly, they had to open me up again because of a loose ring terminal. As an embedded software engineer, I am geeking out trying to learn everything I can about pacemakers now. Maybe when I get tired of working on drones, I'll go work on the next generation of pacemakers. Get some tweaks in the next model before my battery dies! I'm just so lucky to be alive at a time that there's an easy off the shelf solution to what would otherwise be a life ending condition.
• arvinaminpour 6y ago
  I was producing a podcast with a close friend and realized that there wasn’t really a way to share and gather feedback for my podcast so I built an app for it. Plug an RSS feed, send an invite out and you’ve got yourself a community :) Would love your feedback: https://withohana.com https://withohana.com
• dejv 6y ago
  I've written SAAS called Docula (document generator that doesn't suck). I've been programming professionaly for close to 20 years and no matter what I always ended up writing PDF generator for one case or another. This time I've had to write another PDF export again and I've decided to do it right this time. Having some unexpected extra time I've decided to create WYSIWYG editor in similar fashion to Figma or Zeplin where you set your components and then you just call API endpoint with json data (variables, collections...) and you've got your pdf file Stack is quite simple: Rails app for all the book keeping, visual editor is written in vanila JS and the generator itself which takes variables and template data (both json) is written in Go. I am just getting ready to launch it, so if you are interested you can sign up at http://docula.app http://docula.app and I will send first batch of invites in month or so.
  • rudasn 6y ago
    Sounds good. Subscribed!
• gioscarab 6y ago
  Made a new release of PJON: https://github.com/gioblu/PJON https://github.com/gioblu/PJON PJON® (Padded Jittering Operative Network) is an arduino-compatible, multi-master, multi-media network protocol. It proposes a new Open Standard, it is designed as a framework and implements a totally software-defined network protocol stack that can be easily cross-compiled on many MCUs and architectures like ATtiny, ATmega, SAMD, ESP8266, ESP32, STM32, Teensy, Raspberry Pi, Linux, Windows x86, Apple and Android. PJON operates on a wide range of media and protocols like TCP, UDP, MQTT, ESPNOW, USB, Serial, RS485, LoRa, PJDL, PJDLR and PJDLS.
• davidkuennen 6y ago
  Finance app for stocks on event basis. https://stockevents.app https://stockevents.app
• vishnumohandas 6y ago
  Built a self hosted alternative to Google Photos for my family. Will be productionizing it soon. Here’s a sneak peak: https://youtu.be/b5XN5GMmc6I https://youtu.be/b5XN5GMmc6I
  • alexktz 6y ago
    This looks rad. Any chance of a Github repo that I can star so I don't forget about this?
    • vishnumohandas 6y ago
      The client code is available here: https://github.com/ente-io/frame https://github.com/ente-io/frame To be honest and upfront, this won’t be a freeware. I’m planning to charge a reasonable one time fee that’ll help pay rent. :)
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• mtviewdave 6y ago
  Touchless Networking: like Chat Roulette for business networking. It helps organizers of online events replicate the "mixer" portion of in-person events. https://www.touchlessnetworking.com/ https://www.touchlessnetworking.com/
• bambax 6y ago
  I've been making music, and especially investigated random / stochastic music with a structure: https://fligenstein.bandcamp.com/ https://fligenstein.bandcamp.com/
• weichsel 6y ago
  Finished and released the 2.0 version my Mac video utility Claquette. It steps in where QuickTime Player is too basic and using video editing software like Final Cut is too cumbersome: https://www.peakstep.com/claquette/ https://www.peakstep.com/claquette/
• I-M-S 6y ago
  Made three more episodes of my fiction podcast The Program audio series (which had its premiere on HN actually!)
• edfletcher_t137 6y ago
  A... game? http://fauna.computerpho.be http://fauna.computerpho.be Still not certain where it's going, but it has but fun getting this far with it
• seanwilson 6y ago
  I made a free word game (single player, arcade style) for web and mobile. :) Try it in a click without installing anything here: https://seanwilson.itch.io/wordoid https://seanwilson.itch.io/wordoid Let me know what you think and what score you can get! There's intentionally no instructions screen (learn the game as you play) or title screen so you can get straight into playing. It's written in vanilla JavaScript. I found this story from last month hilarious, which sums up the current mobile game trend I want to avoid: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-52633088 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-52633088 > "I don't want jewels, cartoons, or potential dates. I want to play Scrabble against my friends and family. That's it. Nothing else," wrote one signatory. > "They've turned it into some sparkly Candy Crush abomination," Ian Pym from Fareham, Hampshire, told the BBC. "I defy any adult to play it for longer than 10 minutes and not feel physically sick." I'm also working on turning a web best practices guide I wrote into an ebook: https://www.checkbot.io/guide/ https://www.checkbot.io/guide/
• farcaster 6y ago
  I went from knowing nothing of French to reading 20 thousand leagues under the sea by Jules Verne in French (the original language) It's not that big of an achievement since I'm Brazilian and I already speak Italian, the romance languages are somewhat similar. But I'm happy and I want to keep learning new languages because that proved to be a rewarding experience all steps of the way. I've used Lingq and Memrise, if anyone is interested :)
  • sputr 6y ago
    I do envy you. Been busting my brain with French for years as its always been my dream to speak it. But coming from Slovenian (slavic) and not having an ear for languages does not help. So, congrats!
  • kinow 6y ago
    Was going to ask what you had used. Brazilian too, but know only Spanish (kinda), and English. Will check out these two. Thanks and congrats!!!
    • farcaster 6y ago
      LingQ is something else. The ideia is that you should feed the app with "input" from your target language that you care about[1], and listen to it again and again. Memrise is more like a Duolingo that actually works haha [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw-u_vVx6Is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw-u_vVx6Is
      • kinow 6y ago
        Thanks!
• mcculley 6y ago
  I built a SaaS for helping business owners stay on top of website and Internet security and best practices: https://domainproactive.com https://domainproactive.com
• maccard 6y ago
  I made an app that will send a push notification to my phone when my build completes, so I can do dinner prep/make coffee/sit on the couch for 30 minutes rather than sit and watch a progress bar. I used firebase cloud messaging to send a notification, and made a tiny app using flutter that just handles the notifications.
• asaq 6y ago
  Started on a alternative for pinterest/tumblr https://collect.cat/ https://collect.cat/ But work picked up sooner than expected. Its fine for personal use atm but missing lots of features
• gdubs 6y ago
  I learned the basics of Houdini to turn Lidar data into visualizations [1], as well as take a point cloud scan of my wife to drive a particle animation [2]. On the non-tech side of things, our garden has been a real source of happiness. We planted everything from seeds with the kids and grew pollinator flowers, vegetables, etc. [3] One of my favorite projects was finally making a sourdough starter and taking my pizza making up a notch. [4] 1: Houdini https://www.instagram.com/p/B_nG_jdpY7F/?igshid=r2pegr6lrr3l https://www.instagram.com/p/B_nG_jdpY7F/?igshid=r2pegr6lrr3l 2: art http://gregorywieber.com/insta.html http://gregorywieber.com/insta.html 3: flowers https://www.instagram.com/p/B_-f3h5JWUq/?igshid=rf7jx6vaimgw https://www.instagram.com/p/B_-f3h5JWUq/?igshid=rf7jx6vaimgw 4: pizza: https://www.instagram.com/p/CAy8Hf0pF29/?igshid=1gipfxkhd9bhe https://www.instagram.com/p/CAy8Hf0pF29/?igshid=1gipfxkhd9bh...
  • arnaudsm 6y ago
    Great work! Reminds me of Woodkid's photogrammetry experiments : https://youtu.be/RWMMdX6KYGM?t=70 https://youtu.be/RWMMdX6KYGM?t=70
  • etimberg 6y ago
    Amazing work! How did you do the 3d scanning?
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    • gdubs 6y ago
      Thank you :) For the portraiture I’m using the iPhone Pro’s True Depth camera via an off-the-shelf app called “Capture” by Standard Cyborg.
• jwilber 6y ago
  4plymag.com A little data-driven magazine for skateboarding. Superfluous? Yes. Fun? Also yes
• 4bh1nav 6y ago
  A simple, minimalistic and beautiful Diet Log android app. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lilbite.ai https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lilbite.ai
• os7borne 6y ago
  Spent time on an extremely silly yet immensely satisfying project: https://what2cook.today https://what2cook.today What2Cook Today helps you save time by recommending new meals with recipes. This project came out of sheer frustration trying to think of new things to cook everyday during this lock down. Currently, the website covers primarily Indian meals but I will hopefully cover more cuisines in the future. What2Cook Today is a side-project that was a week-long one built in my free time. Appreciate any feedback to improve.
• alishirv 6y ago
  I've written a simple p2p video call with LI capability.
• tomcooks 6y ago
  Released a Creative Commons boardgame free for all https://www.tomcooks.com/projects/snipr/ https://www.tomcooks.com/projects/snipr/
• prezjordan 6y ago
  I recreated parts of the Windows 98 UI using CSS. https://jdan.github.io/98.css/ https://jdan.github.io/98.css/
  • gustavlrsn 6y ago
    Nice! I've been doing something similar, recreating the original Macintosh OS in React: https://mockintosh.com https://mockintosh.com
• gpm 6y ago
  I graduated from university. I just made a starlink coverage map: https://droid.cafe/starlink https://droid.cafe/starlink I started working at a job. I've made quite a bit of progress on a game, but it's on pause for now.
• progre 6y ago
  I made this https://hxfd.prog.re/ https://hxfd.prog.re/
• praiseDang 6y ago
  I have a kid, so the software isn't done..
• hunterx 6y ago
  I’ve written 1Tab chrome extension to only allow 5 tabs open altogether. Worldly, (web+chrome extension) helps you get better at English by learning words (usually for advanced users of a language.). Https://worldly.mammbo.com Remade https://kippie.co https://kippie.co helps you get your data through GDPR and Use it to get cheaper insurance. Built a needle pump breather during the first phases of the lockdown. Invented a valve for patients on a breathing machine to be more comfortable. It could be used in a specific setup to allow for a patient on an emergency breather to supply air to 2 patients. Im now working on an idea to improve the speed of gold standard testing to be performed in-situ. I got the idea and started working on it during lockdown. Also, experimented with 3d printing visors and changing the designs.
• ohashi 6y ago
  https://StuckAtFuckingHome.com https://StuckAtFuckingHome.com - something to help me get through lockdown, finding content to be entertained by and games to to play with friends
• jstanley 6y ago
  I made an automatic chess board that allows you to play with another person over the Internet (using lichess), but with a physical board. It has been described as "very lockdown chic". Each chess piece has a magnet in the bottom. The board senses your moves by looking at where magnets disappear and appear, and it plays your opponent's moves by dragging them with an electromagnet underneath the board moved by a pair of stepper motors. https://incoherency.co.uk/blog/stories/autopatzer.html https://incoherency.co.uk/blog/stories/autopatzer.html
  • UweSchmidt 6y ago
    That's amazing!
  • myroon5 6y ago
    How does it handle moves where pieces might accidentally hit each other like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castling and knight moves?
    • danappelxx 6y ago
      Check out the video in the post they linked. Moves the piece slightly out of the way. Honestly incredible!
    • alextheparrot 6y ago
      In the video you can see it slightly moving a piece in the way to let the knight through
    • yasoob 6y ago
      There is usually enough space between two chess pieces to easily fit a third one between them on these boards. So from my understanding the magnet just moves the third piece from between the two other pieces without hitting either of them.
      • jstanley 6y ago
        I sized the squares on the board so that there would be enough room to slide a piece orthogonally between 2 other pieces, but was actually not able to make use of this property in the end. The problem I faced was that when I had magnets that were strong enough to be reliably grabbed by the electromagnet, they were strong enough to repel each other if they got too close! I went through quite a large selection of different magnet sizes before I settled on the final one (which is 6mm diameter, 6mm tall, neodymium cylinders). They're strong enough to be grabbed by the electromagnet, and weak enough that 2 pieces can be in the centre of a square and a corner of the square without moving apart, but unfortunately still not weak enough that a piece can slide in a straight line past another piece. When there is a piece in the way, it works out whether it would be shorter to move a piece out of the way, or to route the long way around, and picks whichever is shorter.
• gmitrev 6y ago
  I've been working on a stock portfolio visualizer - https://stonksfolio.com https://stonksfolio.com. It's still in heavy development but it's already useful to me and to a bunch of other people who started using it.
• Smudge 6y ago
  I made a CLI for controlling macOS's "Night Shift" feature programmatically. It also doubles as a Rust library. https://github.com/smudge/nightlight https://github.com/smudge/nightlight Now I'm working on cross-system compatibility with equivalent features on Windows and Linux.
• cynik_ 6y ago
  I started writing daily: exploring different things, but particularly asyncio and event loops. Also built a small library to visualize python code execution (to be open sourced soon). https://explog.in/notes/100days.html#org0b7f5fd https://explog.in/notes/100days.html#org0b7f5fd
• user5994461 6y ago
  I made an interactive map to show the progression of the virus day over day. https://coronaprogress.com/ https://coronaprogress.com/
• tenaciousDaniel 6y ago
  I'm in Florida so lockdown is still a thing, or will be again soon. I'm creating a coding language for UI designers. It's kind of like pseudo code in that it's not tied to any one implementation (platform). The basic idea is that designers will have a platform-agnostic language to describe the visual behavior of applications using the same terminology and mental models that they're familiar with.
  • yoz 6y ago
    That sounds fantastic! Got a link? Even if there's nothing demo-able yet, I'd like to star your repo (assuming it's on Github) so I get release updates.
    • tenaciousDaniel 6y ago
      Thanks! I do have a (still private) repo that I will be making public eventually. My plan was to finish the white paper and initial draft of the spec, but I might be able to pull something small together in the next few days. I'll ping when it's ready!
      • tenaciousDaniel 6y ago
        edit: while the repo itself is private, the org is public: https://github.com/matry https://github.com/matry
• jmstfv 6y ago
  I started writing HTTP status code guides for my SaaS business: https://tryhexadecimal.com/guides/http/ https://tryhexadecimal.com/guides/http/ A lot of guides on the Internets concerning HTTP status codes are regurgitations or outright ripoffs of RFCs (2616 or 7231). Or light on details. I want(ed) to go one step further and explain when each code is appropriate (from the website operator's perspective), how to work around some of the errors (mostly for 4xx and 5xx), and some context around HTTP headers/methods.
  • yoz 6y ago
    Hexadecimal looks cool. I'm particularly fascinated to hear the reason behind the 16-day tri... ooohhhhhh. slaps forehead
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• escapist16 6y ago
  I revamped my blog and wrote two blog posts for the Product Management community - https://akshayd.in https://akshayd.in
• nkjoep 6y ago
  I taught myself how to bake a decent pizza at home. You wouldn’t believe how much material there’s in internet about that :)
• sgeorge96 6y ago
  A web directory for blogs https://www.findyour.blog https://www.findyour.blog
  • gopal1992 6y ago
    That's cool! Now I have something more than Netflix to pass time. Are you working on it fulltime?
    • sgeorge96 6y ago
      Nope, just a fun little project that i contribute to here and there.
• robbiet480 6y ago
  I built a significant amount of Bearcatter [0], a control server for the Uniden SDS100 and SDS200 police scanners [1]. A fun little project which got me further experience in dealing with serial and reverse engineering protocols and file formats. [0]: https://github.com/Bearcatter/bearcatter https://github.com/Bearcatter/bearcatter [1]: https://uniden.com/products/sds100-true-i-q-x2122-digital-handheld-scanner https://uniden.com/products/sds100-true-i-q-x2122-digital-ha...
• RyJones 6y ago
  I documented how to do some things on my Honda, and am learning how to make postcards the exact way I want them https://blog.ryjones.org/2020/05/17/MY16ADA https://blog.ryjones.org/2020/05/17/MY16ADA https://blog.ryjones.org/2020/05/26/MY16ADA https://blog.ryjones.org/2020/05/26/MY16ADA
  • TannerLD 6y ago
    What do you mean “learning how to make postcards the exact way I want them”?
    • RyJones 6y ago
      I want to be able to put the images I want in the exact place that I want with cut lines and the like; I also want mail merge to work correctly. I also want duplex color printing. I'm fairly close; Microsoft Publisher almost does what I want. I may end up writing a PDF generator or something. I'm using A4 cardstock (for now) and the postcards need to be 6" wide and 4.25" tall. I print the image larger than that, so that I get full edge-to-edge printing. I bought a paper cutter[0] to get the clean edges I want. Getting the mail merge to work how I want is a struggle. Do you have suggestions? Any PDF generator I could feed images and restraints to and generate a printable PDF from zsh on my Mac, or WSL2 on a Windows machine, would be awesome. [0]: https://hardwarefactorystore.com/products/17-heavy-duty-guillotine-paper-cutter?_pos=3&_sid=2143dfad1&_ss=r https://hardwarefactorystore.com/products/17-heavy-duty-guil...
• anderspitman 6y ago
  * 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
• willcipriano 6y ago
  I came up with a bad way to share files. It's a website that takes a file, encodes it into a series of URL parameters, and then allows you to put them back together again. (it's really only practical for small text files) https://podje.li/ https://podje.li/ https://github.com/willcipriano/Podje.li https://github.com/willcipriano/Podje.li
  • jeremiecoullon 6y ago
    This is really cool! How did you do the encoding though?
    • willcipriano 6y ago
      Thank you! Most of the heavy lifting is done by the lz-string library[0], the compression works well for small text files, sometimes the URL out will be shorter than the input in that case. Things like images work out to be hundreds of URLs unfortunately. [0]https://pieroxy.net/blog/pages/lz-string/index.html https://pieroxy.net/blog/pages/lz-string/index.html
      • jeremiecoullon 6y ago
        Cool! Yeah I tried a pdf and it generated a bunch of URLs ;)
• soham24 6y ago
  educational app to learn in regional language(marathi) its Indian language https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sokra.academy https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sokra.acad...
• thingsilearned 6y ago
  I've been fairly productive especially in the first few months of lockdown. 1. Chart based commenting system for Chartio https://chartio.com/blog/charts-worth-commenting-on/ https://chartio.com/blog/charts-worth-commenting-on/ 2. Helping the https://howwefeel.org https://howwefeel.org team with their data and dashboards https://how-we-feel-chartio.herokuapp.com/the-how-we-feel-project/emotional-insights/ https://how-we-feel-chartio.herokuapp.com/the-how-we-feel-pr... 3. A number of hydroponic experiments including with lettuce https://img.chartio.com/nOueDAy2 https://img.chartio.com/nOueDAy2 and even trying corn https://img.chartio.com/NQugK2G0 https://img.chartio.com/NQugK2G0 4. Finishing a book on Data Management that'll have a dead tree edition published later this year https://chartio.com/blog/cloud-data-management-book-launch/ https://chartio.com/blog/cloud-data-management-book-launch/ 5. A few small wood projects like a planter bed and a projector mount
• siweizzz 6y ago
  I made a website for people to play and prototype/playtest board games digitally - online, multiplayer gameplay - rules are enforced (using a DSL) - customize the look and feel using WYSIWYG editors Proof of concept implemented using the system: https://turn-base.com/games/lobby/22/ https://turn-base.com/games/lobby/22/
• agquick 6y ago
  I started reading more about Native Web Components and wanted to see if I could tie them to observables using MobX so I wrote a library to do just that, using VueJS-like template bindings. It works pretty well, feedback is definitely welcome. https://github.com/agquick/elemx.js https://github.com/agquick/elemx.js
• wsc981 6y ago
  Working on my rogue-like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsqMGCWeD6I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsqMGCWeD6I Sadly my client gave me a lot of work last week, little time to work on this side project.
• geoffreyy 6y ago
  https://officestatus.fyi https://officestatus.fyi (mostly no-code tho)
• tunesmith 6y ago
  I resuscitated a 20-year-old-website that was somewhat popular back in the day called storysprawl.com. It's private now, but I have friends join me on Sunday nights to write chapters together - we join Zoom, we write, we read them to each other. It's kind of like choose-your-own-adventure combined with round-robin fiction: Read chapter one, there are choices at the bottom, make a choice. If the next chapter is written, keep going, and if it's not, you can write the next chapter yourself and create choice labels at the bottom (if it's not The End) for other authors to follow up on in the future. It's stupid fun - our main story is now 128 chapters with an average story length of 11 chapters. I'm able to do math to project that this particular story will probably end up around 600 chapters and 1000 pages before all the storylines are completed. I'm keeping the site private for now because I can't be bothered to see a lawyer and get my legal policies/checkboxes in place, but on Friday I did host a live event where I read chapter one aloud, had viewers vote for what choice to take, and continued until we hit an ending. It worked well, it was just a facebook event for friends, and eight people showed up out of my 200 friends which is pretty good. I'll probably do it again and open the event up to the Public. I'm hoping I'll attract more interested authors, I can always slowly give them access to the site. (If anyone here likes the idea of contributing silly creative writing - third person, past tense - feel free to message me.)
  • clairity 6y ago
    neat project! the collective writing process seems intimidating to me, although i've always secretly wanted to dabble in fiction writing. > "I'm keeping the site private for now because I can't be bothered to see a lawyer and get my legal policies/checkboxes in place..." not to belittle what you've built, but i really lament how much legal considerations overhang our collective psyches, especially on the internet, and how much we believe in legalese and lawyers to protect us from potential issues. both the risks and the protections are unduly outsized in our minds. by default, we each own the copyrights to our own words. posting our words on websites should implicitly give those websites permission to display (perform) those words (or not). we shouldn't need pages of jargon to spell that out, and no amount of expensive precognition is going to ward off even most potential misconstruals (malicious or not).
• dschramm 6y ago
  We completely rebuild the frontend of our app [1] to focus on keyboard input. It was just released and I am quite happy with it. [1] https://emvi.com/blog/product-update-june-2020-0DdK57ngZ2 https://emvi.com/blog/product-update-june-2020-0DdK57ngZ2
• federicotdn 6y ago
  Wrote a HTTP client for Emacs based on Org mode: https://github.com/federicotdn/verb https://github.com/federicotdn/verb
• MichaelAO 6y ago
  We built a free educational live streaming platform that connects kids with the best teachers: https://dexter.live/ https://dexter.live/
• mysterydip 6y ago
  I released a mobile game and then started working on a DOS first person shooter modifying the Rise of the Triad source code. Even got vintage 486 hardware to make sure it still runs on original specs. It's been a lot of fun so far.
• 10-1-100 6y ago
  I created a simple manual budgeting app with flutter called Go Budget, which is primarily optimized for entering purchases as easily as possible, but also provides income and bill tracking/reminders and a savings goal tracker. It is currently in beta but I hope to launch in the next two weeks. https://gobudget.io https://gobudget.io Edit: iOS beta: https://testflight.apple.com/join/4IMtFylH https://testflight.apple.com/join/4IMtFylH Android: closed beta - email support@gobudget.io if interested :)
  • zladuric 6y ago
    A closed beta? No way to see it now?
    • 10-1-100 6y ago
      Here's a public beta link for iOS: https://testflight.apple.com/join/4IMtFylH https://testflight.apple.com/join/4IMtFylH Android is closed, but if interested you can email at support@gobudget.io
  • tenaciousDaniel 6y ago
    How'd you like Flutter?
    • 10-1-100 6y ago
      It's been amazing. I was able to build a much nicer app in a much shorter time than in my previous attempts to build Go Budget natively, and the performance is indistinguishable from native (imo). I also found the framework itself to have a much lower learning curve than either native platform, with almost all of the APIs being very intuitive (to me anyway). The plugin ecosystem is also very good for a still relatively young framework. I initially had some concerns with minor issues flutter had with occasionally janky animations and slightly slow android startup times, but in the last 3 months these have been addressed and Go Budget now works better than most native apps on my Pixel 3. iOS testers also report good performance/feel. I would highly recommend it for any CRUD/data driven app, and honestly think that its capabilities for more hardware-specific apps are maturing nicely.
• Bambo 6y ago
  I learnt C++!
• 1MachineElf 6y ago
  I made myself a video game addiction. Went 10 years without playing anything while the friends I grew up with glowed about the virtual adventures they went on, urging me to play with them. Now I'm 628 hours into Fallout 4 with multiple level 200+ characters on the hardest difficulty settings. It's been a blast and I can see why that game was praised, but soon I'll have to take back control of my time.
• jtothebell 6y ago
  I've always loved Nintendo's handheld hardware, and in the last couple years have enjoyed playing around with the Pico 8 virtual console[1]. The two seemed like a great match, so with a couple other emulator implementations as a reference I made a Pico 8 emulator for Nintendo 3ds and Switch homebrew. Its far from complete, but it now works with Pico 8 Png carts, many of which are available on the Pico 8 BBS[2]. It was much different from anything I've built previously, and it was a fun learning experience that I plan to keep working on for a few hours a week. Github repo: https://github.com/jtothebell/fake-08 https://github.com/jtothebell/fake-08 [1]https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php [2]https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?cat=7&carts_tab=1#mode=carts&sub=2 https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?cat=7&carts_tab=1#mode=carts...
• jorblumesea 6y ago
  200+ LC problems.
• jonplackett 6y ago
  I made myself a new portfolio website in case I get made redundant... http://plackett.co.uk http://plackett.co.uk Feedback welcome!
• ddmma 6y ago
  Some good old open source on Hackster.io, started the lockdown with a thermal-camera Corofence mainly for the door entrance (food for paranoia inspired by the 3 little pigs and bad wolf story) https://www.hackster.io/dasdata/corofence-thermal-detector-f4436f https://www.hackster.io/dasdata/corofence-thermal-detector-f... Then after several hackatons on the subject designed a end-to-end medical remote condition monitoring called MultiSenseCrown with some ai on the edge. https://www.hackster.io/dasdata/multisensecrown-e0daf9 https://www.hackster.io/dasdata/multisensecrown-e0daf9 Good thing that I will get soon a NVIDIA Jetson board, more fun for the next Pandemic session
• voodooEntity 6y ago
  Two things mostly. First i created a corona statistic site (in german mostly) that displays the historic data from middle march till now(). It may not be super fancy still it has hourly record of all data i get. http://corona.scriptjungle.de http://corona.scriptjungle.de Than i created a cli tool that is rather simple but usefull (in my pov) "gss" => https://github.com/voodooEntity/gss https://github.com/voodooEntity/gss Short for "go static server". This tool allows you to list directories/contents recursive via http on a defined port. Rn starting with 2 other projects. - A web ui/devtool for my selfdeveloped DB server(slingshot). - A javascript based 2d game engine (may switch to cpp)
• stephenou 6y ago
  Fruition (https://fruitionsite.com https://fruitionsite.com) - Build your next website or blog with Notion, for free. Notion has taken over the tech/design industry by a storm, and many people have used it to create web pages. However, Notion doesn’t allow custom domain and the page URL contains a long uuid (for example: https://www.notion.so/The-Beauty-of-Notion-4663b221fd154c07bb6f826b537bfcd4 https://www.notion.so/The-Beauty-of-Notion-4663b221fd154c07b...) I built Fruition to solve exactly that. You can use a custom domain and add pretty URL slugs like https://fruitionsite.com/showcase https://fruitionsite.com/showcase. You can also add custom font and scripts like Google Analytics. It’s all free and open source. I shared this on a couple of Notion communities a month ago, and 40000+ people have checked it out since. Hundreds of sites have been built with Notion and Fruition.
• PStamatiou 6y ago
  I'm still working on it but began learning Swift and SwiftUI dev (I'm a designer by day) and making my first iOS app: a basic stocks tracking app (and lets you input your purchases to see value over time) https://twitter.com/Stammy/status/1258404361232883712 https://twitter.com/Stammy/status/1258404361232883712
• codenesium 6y ago
  I rebuilt my side project in Vue. It's meant to be an API generation tool for .NET Core. Basically provide a swagger definition and it generates a ready to run solution based on that definition. Still working through the details but it works on a basic level now. https://www.codenesium.com https://www.codenesium.com
• shorting24x7 6y ago
  This: https://narrationbox.com/ https://narrationbox.com/ Still adding a ton of features very frequently. Working on this out because of me and my cofounder's own misery of creating narrations, voiceovers and other audio content. idea is to create one platform for everything audio and voice marketing.
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• arbobmehmood 6y ago
  I've created an app to gamify social distancing. https://www.solocoin.app https://www.solocoin.app
• mark_l_watson 6y ago
  I wrote new editions (free updates) to two eBooks I have written, one a Common Lisp book and one about using Hy language "Lisp on Python": [1] https://leanpub.com/lovinglisp https://leanpub.com/lovinglisp [2] https://leanpub.com/hy-lisp-python https://leanpub.com/hy-lisp-python I have also been working on physical fitness: bought some weights and also usually go on a brisk 45 minute hike near my house from about 5:30am to 6:15am every morning. I live in the mountains in Central Arizona and early morning is an interesting time to be in nature, predators [3] like coyotes and mountain lions are still out, and the birds are just starting to make their morning sounds. [3] I usually spot a mountain lion every 2 or 3 years (not too often) and rattlesnakes about one or two a year. Lots of coyotes.
• lefstathiou 6y ago
  Our company sells SAAS and we are taking our first step into selling services. A lot of our customers came to us to help them address a growing problem they had coordinating operator assisted conference calls (we offer high touch 24x7 support, that industry does not). We had already put a lot of time into designing a solution but COVID cleared our plate to focus entirely on it. We are ready to go and aim to launch our pilot imminently. We’ll see how things go. Still amazes me how easy it is start a business (In our case a completely new business line) in America.
• sputr 6y ago
  Was going to finish some things but got hospitalised for optic neuritis (temporary, almost total loss of vision in one eye) three consequitive times (3 days each, over 3 months) before they (hopefully) stopped it. Its not MS luckily, its 'just' NMO. It's rare as hell. Maybe I should buy a lottery ticket :). Saying I'm greatfull to the medical staff and the people who stayed home so that the hospital was not flooded and could actually deal with me is an understatement. Also, let's not forget everyone working on the new drugs for MS over the past few decades which is the reason they can even help me today. So can't wait to get back to coding, but I have to wait for my eye to stabilisea a bit more first.
  • celicaraptor 6y ago
    I wish you the best recovery!
• dekervin 6y ago
  I worked on a website that aims to foster data-backed debates online. It builds a feed out of hacker news comments backed by data. [0] The reasoning behind it is twofold: - They are people who (due to their through their startups, side-projects, thesis, hobbies,...) are familiar with interesting datasets. - With a tool that allow them to spot places on Hacker news where data are discussed, they will be incentivized to contribute and experience less friction. I hope it increases the frequency of arguments linked to data and give more visibility to projects working with interesting datasets. I am also looking for people who have projects, however small, where they see interesting data. It is for an ongoing interview serie.[1] [0] http://datapeek.org/ http://datapeek.org/ [1] http://datapeek.org/interview/alfadata http://datapeek.org/interview/alfadata
• gguevaraa 6y ago
  I made a website to watch videos and livestreams without distractions; outline.com for videos. Add layluh.com before any YouTube, Vimeo, or Twitch URL (layluh.com/URL). Here's a vid: https://www.layluh.com/watch?v=izxXGuVL21o https://www.layluh.com/watch?v=izxXGuVL21o
• robmerki 6y ago
  I'm half way done my book about ADHD: https://adhdpro.xyz/ https://adhdpro.xyz/ I spent a tremendous amount of time researching and interviewing. It's bizarre how rare practical information is for dealing with ADHD despite the extensive research.
• GradientAssent 6y ago
  I made a tool for visualizing text in 3D: https://nebulate.ai https://nebulate.ai It runs a machine learning model in your browser to convert the text into points in a high dimensional space, and then it projects those points down to 3D. Right now you can tell it to visualize post titles or comments from any subreddit or tweets from any Twitter user. I find it especially interesting to explore the news with it since every article is naturally presented alongside other articles that are about similar topics, often giving useful context. Only works in desktop Chrome right now unfortunately. I was hoping to make it Firefox-first, but I need an API Firefox hasn't implemented yet. Since the model runs on your machine, the "running model" stage will be slower or faster depending on your local GPU. If you have a decent GPU, I recommend bumping up to 512 points. Would love any feedback! Here, on Twitter (@gradientassent), or in the Discord channel linked inside.
  • matheist 6y ago
    What do you use for the browser ML? An existing framework (tf.js?) or DIY?
    • GradientAssent 6y ago
      TFJS, yep!
• jesalg 6y ago
  I recently built a online text editor which lets you generate shareable documents with complex charts, graphs, mathematics, and more using the simplicity of Markdown. https://quickviz.app/ https://quickviz.app/ It's built on top of the Pandoc, Graphviz, and MathJax
  • ternaryoperator 6y ago
    Great work. That will be very useful!
    • jesalg 6y ago
      Thanks!
• paleogizmo 6y ago
  I made a deduplicating version control system for large binary file based around the Restic chunker library: https://github.com/akbarnes/dupver https://github.com/akbarnes/dupver I like to think that this (well, deduplicating version conrol in general, not my crufty project) will be the future of version control and we'll leave the ugliness of git-lfs behind us. For now at least it's a fun project. Edit: There is an existing project called Boar that does the same thing, though it appears to have been abandoned and is stuck in Python 2
• thereyougo 6y ago
  Very cool site... Just discovered this https://coronaflix.com/ https://coronaflix.com/ It's not updated at all. This site could be MUCH better but a great idea overalll
• irskep 6y ago
  Browserboard (https://browserboard.com https://browserboard.com), a multiuser whiteboard. It's a crowded space (excalidraw, awwapp, miro, freehand, etc.) but I think it's pretty good! There are lots of fiddly technical details that go into smooth drawing, good performance with lots of objects, erasers that behave properly, etc.
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• hda111 6y ago
  I learned how to use Ansible
• annoyingnoob 6y ago
  Does a hobby produce a product? Seems all about 'products'. I'm working on an electric Go Kart for the kids, almost done. Its going to kick ass. Its not a product, it doesn't have a web site, I didn't write a single line of code, but I took an old gas powered go kart and turned into an electric one.
  • holler 6y ago
    that sounds pretty cool! and not just for the kids :) how fast does it go?
    • annoyingnoob 6y ago
      I need about 1 more week to find out. I finally got the rotor and caliper for the disc brake conversion (thank you covid), I'll have that mount for that welded tomorrow and then its final assembly time. Should go around 30mph, we'll see how long it takes to get there. I went with sla/agm batteries, which is adding more weight than I'd like - but the way my kids are it needs a deep cycle capability.
    • annoyingnoob 6y ago
      The motor controller has 3 settings, Low, Med , Hi - which correspond to 16 mph, 24 mph, and 32 mph. It has a soft start mode where it won't go full power right away but ramps up, one can disable this feature. Its pretty quick but not earth shattering, it won't really do a burn out. The 9, 10, 12 year old kids think its great and drive it well (well enough). The 6 year old kids are slightly too small and don't watch where they are going - but they love it. Its super fun for the kids and more than any of them can handle yet - which is the best part. Going electric was a great idea, the kids are louder than the Go Kart, and the battery is big enough to last for hours.
• abinaya_rl 6y ago
  I'm working on https://remoteleaf.com https://remoteleaf.com during this lockdown to help people land remote jobs. - Created a dashboard for people who lost their jobs due to COVID -> https://app.remoteleaf.com/covid https://app.remoteleaf.com/covid - Working on an initiative to help Black tech people to land jobs.
• carlinmack 6y ago
  I've been creating a tool to make a database of Wikipedia edits Namespace Database [1] and since lockdown I've been making plots of the data! [2] Feel free to ask any questions! [1] https://github.com/carlinmack/NamespaceDatabase https://github.com/carlinmack/NamespaceDatabase [2] https://carlinmack.com/blog/article/wikipediaplots/ https://carlinmack.com/blog/article/wikipediaplots/
• take_a_breath 6y ago
  I've found adjusting to work-from-home difficult, so I've been working on Podlet [1]. The idea is to simply turn any recurring meeting into a private podcast for all invitees. Any feedback would be appreciated. [1] https://www.podletmedia.com/ https://www.podletmedia.com/
• holler 6y ago
  I created a new open chat web app called sqwok: https://sqwok.im https://sqwok.im The goal is to enable everyone to have their own high-quality, accessible, and shareable chat page on the internet, with features we expect in enterprise chat apps like slack, but geared towards general discussion. As an example I just created a post with this HN url and we can all talk in live right now, discussing this thread, by joining at the link: https://sqwok.im/p/TQGVPI0spX7umg https://sqwok.im/p/TQGVPI0spX7umg
  • cheese_toasty 6y ago
    Pretty clean design. I like the simplicity, who's your target demo?
    • holler 6y ago
      Target demo are people that want to have genuine conversations in realtime about anything on their mind, with absolute ease and simplicity. Discussing news, current events, tech, nature, and science are areas I’d like to promote. I’m aiming for it to be the “ios” of chat on the web.
  • chuckcarpenter 6y ago
    Speedy and nice minimal design. Are you considering categorizing initial posts?
• maxs 6y ago
  It's been a busy lockdown at work but I have finally gotten around to open sourcing my self-hosted note system that has a unique twist: every note is repeated on its own schedule (kind of like spaced repetition). I now take notes on everything I read and put them into this. I also keep track of my own diary in it. This helps me retain information better and keep mindful about stuff that matters to me. https://github.com/msipos/mind-palace https://github.com/msipos/mind-palace
• Markoff 6y ago
  I work from home always, so only difference was that my work was much less productive with children around and limited shopping hours just in time when I have time to do it without messing with my work schedule
• waltherg 6y ago
  Lots of loose ends still and nothing noteworthy to the extend that others are posting on here. But I finally got around to reading up on a topic I've been curious about (causality modelling, causal inference, causal discovery) and started writing a little about it. The couple of interactions I gleaned from doing so have been very refreshing and are a great driver to continue down this path. https://georg.io/the_causality-driven_company https://georg.io/the_causality-driven_company https://twitter.com/GeorgRWalther/status/1271796549157339136 https://twitter.com/GeorgRWalther/status/1271796549157339136 https://twitter.com/GeorgRWalther/status/1272193903639375872 https://twitter.com/GeorgRWalther/status/1272193903639375872
• wendelscardua 6y ago
  I've began learning NES development in 6502 assembly, thanks to an online book called Famicom Party [1] and later the Nesdev wiki [2]. Since then I'm trying to make one NES game per month [3]. I don't think it counts as a "product", at least for now. [1] https://book.famicom.party/ https://book.famicom.party/ [2] http://wiki.nesdev.com/w/index.php/Nesdev_Wiki http://wiki.nesdev.com/w/index.php/Nesdev_Wiki [3] https://wendelscardua.itch.io/ https://wendelscardua.itch.io/
• EthanHeilman 6y ago
  I made a web version [0] of the Counter-insurgency board game Andean Abyss [1]. It uses webGL to present a 3D space that holds the board, cards and pieces. Think Tabletop simulator on the web. It encodes the game state into the url so you can send urls to the current board state. [0]: https://twitter.com/Ethan_Heilman/status/1274763015129313280 https://twitter.com/Ethan_Heilman/status/1274763015129313280 [1]: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/91080/andean-abyss https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/91080/andean-abyss
• dnlbunting 6y ago
  I built an app for peer to peer lending boardgames between users. I'm more of a backend/data engineer so this was my first attempt at front end dev with react native. Was pretty fun to build and see whole app come together to an MVP, but I don't know whether I'll launch it for real. Shipping costs from lender to borrower and back drive the price too high to make it feasible I think. Lesson here is fully assess costs and price points before you start to build!
• YarickR2 6y ago
  Building Prometheus alertmanager gateway to Jabber, to receive alerts on on-premises deployed jabber server, to have full control over monitoring and alering infrastructure; also learning Go with it . Thinking about turning this into SaaS )
• tkainrad 6y ago
  I made a web app [1] to quickly create collections of keyboard shortcuts that can then be learned and trained. I didn't like the pre-defined drills of existing shortcut learning software, so I tried hard to make it as seamless and efficient as possible to create personal collections of Keyboard shortcuts and text snippets. They can be imported from a public shortcut database or defined from scratch. From there, you can practice your shortcut collections with the goal of memorizing them and getting faster and more accurate. It even calculates a confidence value for each keyboard shortcut in your collections based on your training performance. I am using it myself extensively and have learned a ton of new shortcuts and have eliminated bad habits. Made a blog post (during lockdown) about my complete collection of shortcuts [2]. However, some of my first users seem to struggle with the concept of having to build their own collections. So I am learning a lot about product design and user onboarding right now. This is quite exciting for me as I am working mainly on Java Backends in my regular job. [1] https://keycombiner.com https://keycombiner.com [2] https://tkainrad.dev/posts/a-collection-of-all-keyboard-shortcuts-i-use/ https://tkainrad.dev/posts/a-collection-of-all-keyboard-shor...
• mpiersonsmela 6y ago
  I made a database of T-box riboswitches: https://tbdb.io https://tbdb.io This gave me a big opportunity to improve my bioinformatic skills.
• evrimfeyyaz 6y ago
  I made a web app that visualizes the COVID-19 data: https://covid19.evrim.io https://covid19.evrim.io
• kentlyons 6y ago
  I made an attachment for my Ender 3 3D printer that allowed me to turn it into a pen plotter and draw with ink (and other) pens. I've played around with different code to create images (photo->gcode) and made a new youtube channel for the drawings and a bit of behind the scenes of how they're made: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfqDAVieav-UOIEAlDXsovQ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfqDAVieav-UOIEAlDXsovQ
• alexh1 6y ago
  I made Portabella (https://portabella.io https://portabella.io), an end to end encrypted project management solution, Trello or Asana are the main competitors. It started as a simple e2ee todo list and kind of spiraled from there, now I've incorporated, am planning Gantt charts, thinking of quitting my job...
• gzajac 6y ago
  Thanks to the lockdown, I've finally wrapped up the long work on a Slack plugin that helps you find the location of coworkers and meeting rooms: https://www.slashmap.com/ https://www.slashmap.com/. I used Go on the backend (rewritten from Node) and Vue on the frontend. How it works: first, you upload a picture of your office layout using the web UI and mark everyone's locations. Then if you send "/map @JohnDoe", the plugin will return a map with the location marked on it. It works for meeting rooms and other locations as well. Now the plugin has dozens of users and were featured in the Slack's app directory as "New and noteworthy". If you have any questions, feel free to ping me at contact@slashmap.com :)
  • j-rom 6y ago
    This is super cool! Just out of curiosity, have you thought about automating the on boarding process at all? Something to streamline the process so that you don't need to manually mark each location? Or maybe even supporting multiple buildings?
    • gzajac 6y ago
      Thanks for the feedback! The app already supports multiple floors and multiple buildings. Regarding the streamlining of the process, I was thinking of something like adding an option to automatically send out invitations to everybody in the company to add their own location. What do you have in mind?
      • j-rom 6y ago
        A bit late on this. But from my experience, if the onboarding is pushed onto the user, not everyone is going to do it, there might be some errors, etc... I was just thinking if there was some way you could automatically get their info without requesting it from each person.
• recursivedoubts 6y ago
  I built htmx[1]: a no-dependencies and cleaned up successor to intercooler.js that lets you use AJAX, Web Sockets and Server Sent Events directly from HTML. I began work on hyperscript[2]: a language designed to embed well in HTML, inspired by HyperTalk (the programming language from HyperCard). I hope to develop it into a general purpose programming language for the Javascript runtime. [1] - https://htmx.org https://htmx.org [2] - https://hyperscript.org https://hyperscript.org
  • minerjoe 6y ago
    Big sky. Montana? Heads up that on your website the "contact" links is an anchor href when, I believe, it should be a mailto.
• sohamsankaran 6y ago
  My brother and I launched a newsletter called Today in Indian History. Four times a week, we lay out the context and consequences of an event in India's past that happened on that date. https://honestyisbest.com/today-in-indian-history/ https://honestyisbest.com/today-in-indian-history/ I also launched a podcast about Computer Science research called Segfault. https://honestyisbest.com/segfault https://honestyisbest.com/segfault
• asdev 6y ago
  A Chrome Extension to add how long ago a Reddit post was made, the number of comments and the number of upvotes to Google search results. Reddit seems to be updating their old posts to rank higher on search engines, so if you search by time frame on Google, it shows a date that is way more recent than when the post was created. I decided to create this extension so that I could see the correct data about Reddit posts to save me unnecessary clicks into old/empty threads. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/reddit-search-helper/laladmlmbneplheiajfdpcephiehoifh https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/reddit-search-help... https://github.com/built-by-as/RedditSearchHelper https://github.com/built-by-as/RedditSearchHelper
  • cowtongue 6y ago
    This is awesome. I search by time frame all the time and it was infuriating when that stopped working with Reddit. Do you have any plans on putting it up as a Firefox extension as well?
    • asdev 6y ago
      thanks! no plans for that yet, but may tackle that when I have time
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• fbecart 6y ago
  I developped a CLI to provide an incremental build to multi-project repositories: https://github.com/fbecart/zinoma https://github.com/fbecart/zinoma The idea was to pick the best features of Gradle (parallelization, incremental build, dependencies between tasks, clean, watch...) without being tied to the JVM. It is built in Rust with the goal to be an order of magnitude faster than Gradle. The core features are already functional, and I'm now porting the engine from a thread-based model to an event loop (using Actix). I am looking for feedback about the project description, documentation, and ergonomy. Feel free to add Github issues or comment existing ones.
• jmmv 6y ago
  I made a BASIC interpreter, in Rust, with a web interface. The goal is to have a simple environment with which to teach programming to my kids. Still very limited but already sparked some interest! https://jmmv.github.io/endbasic/ https://jmmv.github.io/endbasic/
• polishdude20 6y ago
  I created a campsite notification system that emails you when your selected campsites and dates are available to book. https://www.campalert.live https://www.campalert.live It currently checks BC, Alberta and Canadian National Parks. US parks to come soon. It took a while to get national parks on there because they don't send that data in JSON, it's all html bleh.
• tziki 6y ago
  https://github.com/tsiki/connectednotes https://github.com/tsiki/connectednotes Zettelkasten based note taking app. Uses your personal Google Drive as the backend (I'd like to add Dropbox backend at some point too) so no third party storage is needed, built as PWA to provide access from every device with native-like experience. Still some polishing to do but it's getting there.
  • memexy 6y ago
    Would be helpful to add pictures and gifs showing how it's used and a few example workflows.
• papasmruf 6y ago
  I built a website to help new moms & dads to save money on diapers https://www.babydiaperdeals.com https://www.babydiaperdeals.com using Amazon PAAPI-5.
• patricklorio 6y ago
  A tunneling service for self hosting game servers: https://playit.gg https://playit.gg Has a decent little following right now.
• jsd1982 6y ago
  A Link to the Past Online https://github.com/JamesDunne/alttp-multiplayer/blob/master/README.md#alttp-multiplayer https://github.com/JamesDunne/alttp-multiplayer/blob/master/...
• beefcubebrush 6y ago
  I put together one of my first big self led projects! It's a windows application made using Qt that let's me set directories as favorites, then you can create and open files in the selected directory. https://github.com/LewkyB/Note_Creator https://github.com/LewkyB/Note_Creator
• robomartin 6y ago
  Designed a camera system that is likely to end up on the moon within the next four years (NASA Artemis Mission). To be fair, there's a solid year of additional engineering that needs to go into this. The bulk of the engineering was done during lockdown. Now it's time to test and iterate.
• dt3ft 6y ago
  I made a Link, Story and Photo sharing community. https://20-things.com/ https://20-things.com/
  • holler 6y ago
    nice! how will you promote it to find initial users? who is the target audience?
    • dt3ft 6y ago
      Thanks! I am hoping that it will be used by people who wish to have a meaningful conversation with internet strangers, people who desire to learn from others and share their knowledge, people who are fascinated by the unknowns of our universe... So far I am the only one actively using it (I built instagram-like feature so I use it as personal photo sharing tool as well) and quite honestly I don't expect it to ever take off, but who knows, people may get fed up with other mainstream communities and migrate to lesser known alternatives like 20-things. I would be more than happy if in the end 100 people used it actively every day. It could also be useful as a tool for others to self-host and I may later open-source it if there is enough interest. Thanks again for checking it out :)
• dep_b 6y ago
  A macOS automatic activity analysis tool.
• stevekemp 6y ago
  I made an allotment! After waiting on a list for a while we received 10m x 10m space for ourselves for €50/year. We planted onions, potatoes, garlic, radish, and a few similar things. The timing worked out pretty well as we got access just at the start of May, which is a good time for planting a lot of things, and coincided with the lockdown here in Finland. This morning I went over there and harvested some of the garlic, and right now our house smells of it. In a week or two it'll be dry enough to eat. https://www.instagram.com/p/CBdLC6ADy5j/ https://www.instagram.com/p/CBdLC6ADy5j/ https://www.instagram.com/p/CBs3Qpjj5Qa/ https://www.instagram.com/p/CBs3Qpjj5Qa/ Not a project, in the sense that this site usually lists, but still something I (we) made.
• russh 6y ago
  I finished and released my design for a small 3d printed drawing robot that runs MicroPython. https://github.com/russhughes/turtleplotbot3 https://github.com/russhughes/turtleplotbot3
• zedr 6y ago
  I made a email dispatcher for web forms hosted on shared hosting providers, like Namecheap. I originally did it for a site my wife did, and then decided to open source it. It's here: https://github.com/zedr/simple-mailer https://github.com/zedr/simple-mailer I also wrote a blog post on how to install it: https://medium.com/@zedr/how-to-send-mail-on-namecheap-shared-hosting-826a37629641 https://medium.com/@zedr/how-to-send-mail-on-namecheap-share...
• tasuki 6y ago
  Created a website [1] listing soon-ending Handshake [2] auctions. It's frontend-only, using a 3rd party API. Written in Elm [3] which has been an absolute joy to work with and has the most helpful online community I've ever seen. [1] http://sniper.tasuki/ http://sniper.tasuki/ - only works with a Handshake-aware DNS resolver [4] [2] https://handshake.org/ https://handshake.org/ [3] https://elm-lang.org/ https://elm-lang.org/ [4] https://www.namebase.io/blog/how-to-access-handshake-domains/ https://www.namebase.io/blog/how-to-access-handshake-domains...
• sourishkrout 6y ago
  We've built a dev dashboard for vscode: so you can do your note taking & your HN reading with minimal context switches. https://marquee.activecove.com/ https://marquee.activecove.com/
• batmenace 6y ago
  I finally started my blog, after putting it off for so long. It's still pretty raw and needs a lot of practice before my writing is really worth sharing, but it's a start. https://www.unpublished.xyz https://www.unpublished.xyz
  • dcassett 6y ago
    I enjoyed reading your translation of the excerpt from Nachtzug nach Lissabon. It got me interested in the book.
• Pietbull 6y ago
  Made a platform for party/drinking games over Zoom. https://ziago.co https://ziago.co Games run on Realtime Firebase DB, so players join with a link and everyone is kept updated with game flow and other player actions etc. So far had 10000 people play, and has 9 games and still working on more. The focus for now is on social/turn-based kind of games. Runs on Vue and Firebase. FB helped me to launch it in a month. Wrote about it at https://codeburst.io/how-i-built-a-real-time-games-platform-for-social-distancing-in-a-month-2216427c6351 https://codeburst.io/how-i-built-a-real-time-games-platform-...
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  • soylentcola 6y ago
    Cool! Will have to check that out. I've been doing "happy hour" with a handful of friends in multiple countries each Friday and mostly I just screen share one of the Jackbox games (the "You Don't Know Jack" people). Video and audio is sent from my PC and people use their phones as a "buzzer". Still, despite having multiple games available, I'm always glad to test out some other options.
    • Pietbull 6y ago
      Great, would love to hear any feedback!
  • jojohack 6y ago
    Looks awesome, I've been recently playing Jackbox over Zoom with friends and was hoping to find something different. Will check it out.
    • wefwe3222 6y ago
      Thanks, hope you like it!
• catpolice 6y ago
  A mess of my personal life
  • holler 6y ago
    it happens! keep your head up!
  • birdyrooster 6y ago
    You and me both, we will get through this.
• whatsmyusername 6y ago
  I learned how to handle a civil dispute through a lawyer. I was not intending to spend the time and money to learn this. Would have been nice to have a boring lockdown. Maybe during round 2.
• jcroll 6y ago
  https://www.hopupon.com https://www.hopupon.com HopUpon is a Cheap Multi-City Flight Generator that allows you to explore new cities as you "hop" along to your destination. Our algorithm creates itineraries that are often cheaper than a direct flight.
• sideproject 6y ago
  Finally launched Newsy. https://www.newsy.co https://www.newsy.co I had lots of un-used domains and wanted to make use of them without having to maintain them. So I decided to make a tool that turns un-used domains into a content-aggregator like Reddit, except, it runs itself. :)
• thethimble 6y ago
  I made a way to visualize options portfolio profitability as a function of various portfolio parameters. I was craving a visual intuition for how options leg parameters (strike price, expiration, put/call, short/long, quantity). As a fun side note, the computation of portfolio value happens on the GPU! https://rainbowoptions.club/ https://rainbowoptions.club/
• jakehilborn 6y ago
  I wrote an automated solution to spending requirements for high interest checking accounts. High interest checking accounts (up to 5% APR) often require a dozen or more transactions a month to qualify for high rates. Debbit automates this by purchasing 50 cent Amazon gift cards and/or paying your cable bill in small increments throughout the month. Behind the scenes, Debbit is a hand rolled scheduler that runs Selenium automation to navigate Amazon + bill pay websites. https://github.com/jakehilborn/debbit https://github.com/jakehilborn/debbit
  • ifend 6y ago
    Excellent idea! Will be checking this out further.
• Findeton 6y ago
  I've learned to cook cakes, started running, and continued my light-fields video camera project.
• whiddershins 6y ago
  I started a podcast that talks about making music (and related creative stuff) from a more personal and realistic angle than what I’ve seen available, by interviewing people and asking about their thoughts and process. A little bit of by-musicians-for-musicians crossed with more general podcast content. By episode 4 I think we started to hit our stride, as we move towards a more creative-editing system than an unedited live stream format. We have 3 more coming soon. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GxIDY9XvvaA https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GxIDY9XvvaA I’ve been learning a lot about working on dealing with speaking naturally and clearly, asking the right questions, etc. Its been eye opening.
• tjchear 6y ago
  I made a Vim-like editor for building webpages quickly. https://vivpage.com https://vivpage.com
• Inversechi 6y ago
  I made a affiliate app to scratch a personal itch for myself. Basically for generating affiliate URLs and redirecting to the relevant store based on IP Geo location. It's very basic and has only a CLI interface for now but was a good learning with some terraform, ansible, and PHP.
• armini 6y ago
  Given the current economic climate, we decided it was time to build a game showing how China works. Game Story: Little Jinping must pass through cities intercepting messages with no human contact. To prevent detection Jin can collect various artefacts to avoid contact. During the mad dash to his house, Jin must intercept as many messages as possible in order to unlock other cities in his quest for world domination. https://apps.apple.com/app/id1510483891 https://apps.apple.com/app/id1510483891 https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.eronka.jinping https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.eronka.jin...
• deposition 6y ago
  I built a habit app called SnapHabit [1] that helps you build habits with your friends/family through group habits and through social accountability. I wanted to learn React Native/mobile development while trying to address the fact that for many of us, social distancing and lockdown have isolated us and destroyed our everyday habits. The most interesting thing I've seen is that people really enjoy writing about and reading each other's mundane updates. The app has a notes feature which automatically sends out updates to everyone you've shared a habit with. But because the update is tied to the habit, people seem more comfortable writing more personal updates; it doesn't feel like bragging, annoying since it's not traditional social media where you're writing for an audience. Some other observations and learnings I picked up while building it: - I love React Hooks. IMO, React is a lot more natural to reason about and to learn with hooks compared to class components. The entire app only uses hooks. - I used Expo and it's been mostly great. They take care of builds and OTA updates are super useful for iteration and moving fast! Cons: Expo updates too slowly; some bundled modules have been stuck on very buggy builds for a while and you can't do anything until Expo updates its modules. - Sending too many network requests will slow down your app because of React Bridge! I used Firestore which encourages making all requests on device via the client SDK. But React Native handles network requests natively so everything needs to be passed back and forth through the bridge, causing a lot of slowness if you have too many/large requests, so the Firestore way doesn't seem to work well in React Native. Instead, off load requests to a server so that you're making a single (or small number) of network requests. - Don't use React context for your app data! Changes to the context cause everything that's subscribing to it to re-render. I was using context for each day update, meaning every update caused all the other day-s to re-render. Redux is still a great solution and redux-toolkit has really helped reduce boilerplate and the friction to get set up. [1] https://snaphabit.app/ https://snaphabit.app/
  • learn4fun 6y ago
    Good on you for jumping in the deep end to lean React Native and thanks for the advice. I just downloaded your app to take a look at it and it’s really well done. I’m actually going to play around with it for my own personal goals for a bit.
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• igeligel_dev 6y ago
  Started already before to work on https://getworkrecognized.com/ https://getworkrecognized.com/ but it is now in a much more mature state - An app to track your work and create perfect Self-Reviews.
• riantogo 6y ago
  Daily math practice at https://arcadejack.com https://arcadejack.com ShowHN briefly made it to top #8 on front page.
• oneearedrabbit 6y ago
  I built an indoor hydroponic system from Ikea leftovers that I kept in my storage for a long time. Algot containers and Trofast shelving units is a relatively cheap option. Some of the parts I 3D-printed, and I’m pretty happy with the final result — https://www.instagram.com/p/B_qbDyjjkeH/ https://www.instagram.com/p/B_qbDyjjkeH/. Today is officially harvest time: https://www.instagram.com/p/CBtMfWKDEoy/ https://www.instagram.com/p/CBtMfWKDEoy/. This is my second attempt on building a layered hydroponic. I built an Arduino-based system to automate most of the routine tasks. The only thing I need to take care of is to make sure that there’s enough water/nutrient in the lower tank once a month.
• praveen9920 6y ago
  I re-implemented numpy in golang just for learning. https://github.com/praveenpenumaka/numpygo https://github.com/praveenpenumaka/numpygo
• Pxtl 6y ago
  I've caught the Single Board Computer bug. So I've made 2 Lakka boxes and one RetroPie as gifts for family. In hindsight: Lakka on a Pi is awful, avoid it at all costs. Also a pi4 running a MineTest and Mumble server. Basically tought me the ins and outs of adminning a linux box. My adventures in computing are on my blog: https://www.pxtl.ca https://www.pxtl.ca - haven't blogged my retrogaming stuff yet, but have blogged the server stuff.
• gondo 6y ago
  WOWidget: iOS app to create custom widgets. https://www.wowidget.com/ https://www.wowidget.com/
• nchelluri 6y ago
  I wrote a simple "disaster-ready[1]" site for physical distancing, called the virtual bulletin board system. It is currently in operation in my city but nobody uses it. I tried to get it off the ground but I'm not really sure how to do it. Basically, I think of it as a "geowiki" - a wiki where each entry has an address and a lat/lng associated with it. Here's a screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/RiCiuDi.png https://i.imgur.com/RiCiuDi.png I went on the radio on a call-in show, I advertised it on the local city Reddit and their discord server, but it didn't catch on - at all. Except for a couple of vandals who deleted all the entries :) It was fun, but it would have been a lot more fun if people had actually used it. I still might try to get it off the ground again, but I don't know how off the top of my head. [1] What does disaster ready mean? It means that the site uses very little resources for the browsing operation. It is all static HTML/JS/CSS and uses cgi-bin (!) for the admin side/adding a new listing.
  • FailMore 6y ago
    link please?!
    • nchelluri 6y ago
      I'll shoot you an email, since you've got your email in your profile :)
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• karolkozub 6y ago
  I have many ongoing side projects I struggle to bring to a publishable state and noticed that my motivation was dwindling. I decided I needed to create something simple from start to finish, so I made a snake clone in roughly 5 days. http://lizaaard.com http://lizaaard.com
• ggurgone 6y ago
  I built lesstabs - a browser extension that closes and archives old inactive tabs automatically after 24h. It then lists them when you open a new tab. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/lesstabs/gpdnlknekkniebhjbflbcglgibnfcaah https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/lesstabs/gpdnlknek...
  • joshmccormack 6y ago
    Brilliant idea!
• jackmcgeary 6y ago
  I did an analysis of the last year and a half of my sleep data from the Oura ring https://jackmcgeary.com/how-an-mlb-season-affects-sleep-part-1/ https://jackmcgeary.com/how-an-mlb-season-affects-sleep-part...
• bonobo886 6y ago
  I made carwala (https://www.carwala.co https://www.carwala.co) - an easy and secure way for people to contact you if anything happens to your car. You sign up with your phone number, add some details about your car and purchase a membership. We send you a high quality windshield decal that people can scan to contact you if you need to move your car, or if your car has been broken into, etc.
• tomekw 6y ago
  I survived.
• norsak 6y ago
  Never miss an important email ever again. I needed an app that would trigger a phone call whenever I received an important email, but without giving the app full access to my mailbox. So I built one myself, meet Wakingg; https://wakingg.com https://wakingg.com
• fierarul 6y ago
  I did make loads of bread. Can probably find somewhere a picture of the 1st one.
• fpgaminer 6y ago
  Having a monthly "Show HN-athon" would be nice (or is that already a thing and I always miss them?). - I did some woodworking at the start of lockdown. It was very therapeutic. Built a small table with a flip-top back where charging accessories can be stored: https://imgur.com/ea67ANO https://imgur.com/ea67ANO - And some more woodworking to build a shoe rack (never enough room for all our shoes): https://i.imgur.com/ihw12YT.jpg https://i.imgur.com/ihw12YT.jpg - A Raspberry Pi using BigGAN to constantly "daydream" weird, artistic photos: https://blog.hmac.io/2020/06/08/a-daydreaming-ai-for-my-desk.html https://blog.hmac.io/2020/06/08/a-daydreaming-ai-for-my-desk... - A new image hashing algorithm that can recognize matching photos even in extreme cases like disparate crops from a parent image. Used it to help my friend dedupe their school's yearbook: https://blog.hmac.io/2020/06/10/writing-new-image-hashing-algorithms-to-help-a-yearbook-teacher.html https://blog.hmac.io/2020/06/10/writing-new-image-hashing-al... - Currently building an escape room for my wife's birthday. Poor little 3D printer is working overtime this quarantine :)
  • heavyset_go 6y ago
    > Forgive me, but when I program I know what the variables I am working with are doing, and what kind of data they are storing. Someone posts a side project Ask/Show HN thread every once in a while, but I haven't noticed any regular Show HN threads, either.
  • rlander 6y ago
    That side table is amazing. How did you learn woodworking? I’ve been meaning to get into it but have no idea where to start.
    • fpgaminer 6y ago
      Back in college I got the bug for woodworking, so I went to the local big-box, bought a hand saw, screws, an electric drill/driver, and some wood. I built a spice rack using just that. It came out _terrible_. Lopsided, broken drill bits inside it, brackets holding it together. I had no idea how stain worked, so I bought a can of stain and threw the whole thing into a trash bag with the wood to leave it for a day. I still have that ugly spice rack. Sometimes the best way to learn is to just do. Many years later I got the bug again and that time I started spending more time on YouTube. I find videos to be an incredible resources, whether I'm browsing for something specific or just watching good content and learning secondarily. Matthias Wandel has a channel with a variety of content that's worth watching just on its own, but you'll learn endless amounts of woodworking skills as well. Steve Ramsey's channel is great, though his videos can definitely be a bit annoying to watch. Really there are too many great channels to name. Best bet is to figure out what kind of thing you _want_ to build and then search for videos on how to build that. I guarantee there will be hundreds of great, simple tutorials. If you've got a woodworking store nearby (e.g. Rockler) they often have free or cheap classes that can be great even for newcomers. Those are great because you don't need any tools; they provide everything. And they cover a wide range of stuff so you can figure out what kind of woodworking you like. Maybe you like turning wood, or working with a scroll saw to build small decorative pieces. I attend a Father's Day class where we made a wooden bow tie. It was free and introduced me to scroll saws, inlays, and spray varnish. Best of all, I got a great gift to give my father at the end of it.
• elliottkember 6y ago
  I made an LED simulator! I've been building an ESP32 LED framework for a couple of years, and thanks to some great advances in AVR emulation, we can now emulate an Arduino in the browser and preview the patterns. I also made it into a desktop app that can flash a new firmware to a real device over wifi. Super fun. https://editor.soulmatelights.com/ https://editor.soulmatelights.com/
  • soylentcola 6y ago
    That is really cool! I haven't messed with it in a while, but I went through a phase of doing lots of LED projects for camping/festivals/burns/etc. when those were still a thing. As a noob coder also using this as a way to learn some stuff, a simulator was high on my list of things I wanted. Sure, I could tweak a program, upload to some little Trinket or Arduino, fire it up and see what happened, but it would make things a lot easier on the "learning basic Arduino code" side if I didn't have to build the whole thing first.
    • elliottkember 6y ago
      That's exactly it - all the setup is quite daunting when you're getting started. The framework also lets you control your LED patterns from an Android / iOS mobile app, which is really hard to do yourself. We're working on producing LED panels to use with it - though of course you can also DIY.
  • tomjuggler 6y ago
    Nice! You might enjoy looking at my ESP8266 Wifi Streaming POV poi project, with emulator: https://www.circusscientist.com/smart-poi-overview/ https://www.circusscientist.com/smart-poi-overview/
• kostarelo 6y ago
  Made Taskeera[1], a service for registering, observing, and monitoring all of your background jobs. Still working on some details and I will open-source a prototype soon with full details on how to self-host it your self. Let me know if you have feedback or if you wanna take a look on what I've worked on so far. :) 1: http://taskeera.com/ http://taskeera.com/
• hleszek 6y ago
  I contributed to the GraphQL python client gql (I implemented the websockets transport to allow GraphQL subscriptions using asyncio) https://github.com/graphql-python/gql/pull/70 https://github.com/graphql-python/gql/pull/70
• mschuller 6y ago
  We (instructors and students) brought a media art exhibition [1] online, that usually is happening in a Museum. The students did such a tremendous job although no technical backgrounds. [1] https://medienkultur.eu https://medienkultur.eu
• carapace 6y ago
  Two simple toys (calling them games is a bit too much) in Godot engine: https://git.sr.ht/~sforman/Yengapult https://git.sr.ht/~sforman/Yengapult Knock down a tower with a catapult. https://git.sr.ht/~sforman/SpaceGame https://git.sr.ht/~sforman/SpaceGame Fly a spaceship around an asteroid belt. Godot engine is lots of fun (and so much easier than e.g. Unity.)
• sagark1992 6y ago
  I made Messagink, it lets you create and publish text stories for free: https://messagink.com/ https://messagink.com/
• srtrs 6y ago
  I made a website to create and mail a postcard. Https://mailapicture.com Made it with laravel hosted on aws lightsail.
• miniyarov 6y ago
  I made a free and open-source mobile application to deploy a personal VPN server in the cloud (DigitalOcean, AWS, GCP, Azure, and others) with DNS ad-blocking and other features Checkout out and support: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/deploy-private-vpn-server-on-clouds https://www.producthunt.com/posts/deploy-private-vpn-server-... https://zudvpn.com https://zudvpn.com https://github.com/zudvpn/ZudVPN https://github.com/zudvpn/ZudVPN
• neilsharma 6y ago
  I'm trying to help my mom's small, offline-only women's fashion boutique move onto the internet. I'm fortunate enough to have a remote job in tech, but their business is significantly disrupted by the lockdown. To help them out, I'm setting up their ebay/esty/shopify/pinterest accounts, taking pictures of the merchandise, doing logo design, etc. Teaching them how to use these platforms' complex UIs and, more broadly, learn how to effectively engage with customers on the internet, are the biggest challenges. There are loads of businesses in this same boat; I think there's a big opportunity and sense of fulfillment in helping them keep their lights on.
• dsalzman 6y ago
  I built an AR notes app on iOS. You can take a picture of an object. Create a note which comprises of a name, description, and audio. You can then just point your phone at that object and it shows you the notes and plays the audio. It’s something I’ve always wanted for myself.
  • memexy 6y ago
    That sounds really useful. I don't have an iPhone but if I did I would use something like this.
• grafelic 6y ago
  I carved my own crankbait.
• whats_spinning 6y ago
  I made a music discovery newsletter that personalizes the newsletter based on the Spotify playlists you follow (and uses a probabilistic model to surface content that you are most likely to enjoy based on those playlists). Here is the link: https://whats-spinning.life https://whats-spinning.life Here are the most recent issues if you want to check it out: https://whats-spinning.life/recent/ https://whats-spinning.life/recent/
• surfer77 6y ago
  I created A database of employee benefits remote companies offer. https://officefree.io https://officefree.io
• bogdan314 6y ago
  I tried to make a CLI using GO, that would act as bookmark for bash scripts. With the intention of having an online repo from where u can easily install other scripts. https://github.com/bogdan-largeanu/zing https://github.com/bogdan-largeanu/zing I kinda have become a bit discouraged now since most of my colleagues are not into GO so it is hard to find people to learn and talk about it.
• bartligthart 6y ago
  Created an app that does a Google Lighthouse test of your website every night. And you get an email overview every week. It's free for now. https://pages100.com/ https://pages100.com/
• agaase19 6y ago
  Not completed yet, but I am working on Stocklist (https://stocklist.live https://stocklist.live). One can create, share and follow collection of stocks from all over the world.
• staysaasy 6y ago
  My friend and I run product and engineering respectively at a 500+ person "startup." We kicked off a blog during lockdown to share what we've learned over the years. Hope you enjoy it! https://staysaasy.com/ https://staysaasy.com/
  • oakst 6y ago
    Stumbled across your blog somewhere and have really enjoyed some of the posts you've written so far. Keep it up!
    • staysaasy 6y ago
      Thanks, really glad to hear that! Always really encouraging to hear that folks out there are enjoying it. We write 1-2 posts a week so check back as we have quite a bit more content coming.
• marenbeam 6y ago
  https://github.com/marenbeam/thoughts https://github.com/marenbeam/thoughts I made a portable shell program for making short text posts from vim. The code's not perfect, but it does what I want from such a thing, and I'm enjoying using it and seeing others use it too!
• kirubakaran 6y ago
  Starting this week, I'm making daily videos about what I learn while building my bootstrapped startup: https://histre.com/ https://histre.com/ (Effortless Knowledge Base ~= Automatic Bookmarks) Here is the Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHkgOonAQd5haT8HHJhpg6g/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHkgOonAQd5haT8HHJhpg6g/ So far I've talked about: - Challenges in Hiring Programmers - The Disproportionate Joy of Getting Paid Users - Thinking about Competitors
• allenu 6y ago
  I am working on a new flash card app for macOS and iOS. I was tired of trying to use things like Anki or online options for language flash cards that were either hard to use or not open enough. My app is easy to use, provides stats, offers import/export (including importing Anki decks), and sync via bring-your-own file storage (i.e. use Dropbox or iCloud, no SaaS subscription required). You can see a brief video preview here: https://twitter.com/ussherpress/status/1272638649000030208 https://twitter.com/ussherpress/status/1272638649000030208 I'm still at least 2 months from releasing. :)
• lbutler 6y ago
  I finished the website for my open source library to simulate water distribution networks, epanet-js. Can't imagine there are too many civil engineers here specializing in water modelling, it's a pretty niche field! https://epanetjs.com/ https://epanetjs.com/
• e-_pusher 6y ago
  Not a product per se, but I wrote my first real blog post. I had it stewing as a draft forever, and with coronavirus I had no excuses anymore to not finish the draft. https://iskender.ee/EE-Specs/ https://iskender.ee/EE-Specs/ I also completed an electronic art project that I have been making as a gift for a friend. It is a PCB which looks like a linocut of an airport, but with LEDs on it that mimic an airport's lighting at night. Hoping to write the process that went into making it on my blog soon.
• Spearchucker 6y ago
  Made my balcony private using fake bamboo. Made a pond. Made a Japanese-style bridge for the pond. Made a water wheel for the pond. Made a garden gate. Marked up my CV (resume) and weirdly that led to a new job.
• rubyron 6y ago
  I made Timmy (https://timmytimer.com https://timmytimer.com), a social pomodoro timer with free web and mobile apps. Sort of like “Twitter for productivity.” No login required. It’s getting a lot of use by college students and coders. Pretty fascinating to see what everyone is working on or learning. The social accountability and leaderboard are proving to be strong motivators.
  • papeda 6y ago
    Not a pomodoro person, but I really like the idea of a cute mascot helping people get closer to their goals. Good job!
    • rubyron 6y ago
      Thanks! I always try to brand projects with some kind of named mascot where possible.
• yoaviram 6y ago
  I've build https://TimeForMe.Today https://TimeForMe.Today, a service which let's you find well-being sessions taking place online. I tested it with a few different communities and realized people aren't interested. It was a good experiment.
• elric 6y ago
  I made a "self-hosted wetransfer with audit trails" for use at work. Pretty basic for now, but it's been fun. Hadn't touched any HTML, CSS or JS in over a decade, so I spent some time brushing up on that. It automatically generates checksums in various formats. It keeps an audit trail of who uploads/downloads what. Enforces a couple of company specific rules. Scheduled expiration of uploads. Nothing too fancy, but it's been a fun distraction. I'll be trying to open source it once I take out all the company specific stuff.
• ViolentSnugglez 6y ago
  Deployed a web app that I've been working on for a few years: https://codeexplainer.org https://codeexplainer.org It's an educational application to teach the basics of coding syntax to beginners. I'm not quite finished with all the parsed explanations, but I try to get a little bit done every day. Hopefully in the future I can add more languages and explain 'sentences' instead of just 'words'.
• oakst 6y ago
  Just before lockdown I started a product management role at a scale-up in the UK, and to get a wider perspective of product and advice from people who have been through it before I've been chatting to other people who have built product teams. I've kicked off a blog to share what I've learnt from these conversations. Hope it's of use to others who are on a similar path! https://axelthomson.com https://axelthomson.com
• doozko 6y ago
  I built a little website for being able to ask a question to a doctor easily: https://dokami.be https://dokami.be. (It's only in french for now) I always felt it was missing and I also wanted to learn a bit again about frontend/backend dev.
• errantmind 6y ago
  I combined a few cool search techniques and an interactive process to make a tool to discover the most relevant hashtags for posts on Instagram: gravtag.com
• iillexial 6y ago
  I made https://devblogs.co https://devblogs.co. This is a feed of engineering blogs from high tech companies. Going to launch a newsletter soon. Also, I started working on my own tool for time-management - https://prrro.herokuapp.com https://prrro.herokuapp.com, but abandoned it for now. Hope will resume it later.
• samford100 6y ago
  https://thiswoddoesnotexist.com/ https://thiswoddoesnotexist.com/ I got to playing around with recurrent neural networks and made a site that generates Crossfit "Workout of the Days (WODs)". It's trained on the workouts from crossfit.com. My motivation were to learn more about how character-based RNN's work, remember how to host a site on my Digital Ocean VPS with flask, and do some fun frontend work. It posed a few unique challenges, like scraping the crossfit website, experimenting with different network architectures, and finding ways to validate the efficacy of those networks. It's terribly overfit and will sometimes generate workouts verbatim from the crossfit.com database, but since it's just a fun project, it was more important for me to get consistently good, grammatically correct results and some overfit ones rather than a bunch of nonsense text and a few hidden gems. My next step is to sum up the key takeaways in a blog post about the full stack of the application and call it finished, or continue to play around with network hyper-parameters and training techniques, since nurturing my neural network knowledge for NLP was a huge goal. Always looking for feedback and happy to answer any questions!
  • dkersten 6y ago
    I clicked the link and it told me "rest day" :D Nice. haha
    • samford100 6y ago
      Crossfit.com is VERY liberal with their rest days :P I thought about removing all the duplicate rest days from the training text, but I wanted to stay faithful to the original material.
  • aketchum 6y ago
    I love this project! Have you tried actually completing any of the generated workouts? How do you calculate overfitting for something like this? I know how you would do so with a more traditional supervised learning model with numerical inputs/outputs but NLP still seems a little like black magic to me since I haven't dived into a project using it myself. Is it just a comparison of similarity between generated posts and all posts in the training set? How do you calculate how "close" an output is to an input?
• jojohack 6y ago
  I created a web-based video player that adds a slit-scanning 3D effect ( using the edge pixels ) https://github.com/joeycato/boundlessvideoplayer https://github.com/joeycato/boundlessvideoplayer
• dbetteridge 6y ago
  I'm building an app for sharing markdown docs out of git repositories. Add a repository and select the branch you want to read from and it will grab the markdown files, store them and provide a table of contents and reader view. https://gitdocs.page https://gitdocs.page Still in heavy beta, and currently supports github and azure devops repos.
• nicotejera 6y ago
  I made a timer for functional workouts - includes timers for different types of workouts (AMRPAP, EMOM, etc) and you can combine them to create a full workout. Got around 15 people / day using, not much but a fun side-project :D. https://www.wodblocks.com https://www.wodblocks.com
• sanj 6y ago
  https://maskson.org https://maskson.org I made that!
• fxtentacle 6y ago
  I built a new Optical Flow AI. Instead of being a cranky old man complaining about other people's mistakes, I decided to just fix things myself. Before Corona hit, I had created a new data set and given a talk about all the stuff that current state of the art AIs for Optical Flow get wrong. I find the topic interesting, because those bugs directly lead to drones like Skydio crashing into thin wires or branches without leaves. Plus, I needed optical flow to work for a project, but the state of the art didn't work well enough. Then I thought "ah f* it" and so I built a new architecture that avoids the issues that I had been whining about. Now, 36 days of training later, it looks like I might have succeeded :) https://www.dropbox.com/s/3tfrs9sjm9heypk/example_selflow_hajo.jpg?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/3tfrs9sjm9heypk/example_selflow_ha... Top left and right are the two input images. Bottom center is the "ground truth", meaning the result that a perfect AI would produce. Bottom left is one of the State of the Art, according to the Sintel benchmark. Bottom right is my new architecture. You can see that the State of the Art tends to blur the two persons together and blur them with the background between them and the frame border. My approach uses monocular depth cues to correctly segment them into multiple movement layers.
  • fpgaminer 6y ago
    I'm not familiar with Optical Flow research, and I'm sure you already know, but are you familiar with the U^2-Net architecture (a new variation of U-Nets)? I only bother mentioning it at the risk of being redundant because it's new and I know how easy it is to miss stuff in the fire hose that is machine learning research papers. Its results for their specific task, salience mapping, are incredible for such a simple and lightweight architecture. And from a skim of Optical Flow and your example it seems like it might apply there as well. It should be able to grab the long-ranging features necessary for Optical Flow. Do you have a public dataset that you can share or only a private one? Kinda looks like you built a dataset using Skyrim which ... is brilliant.
• nerf0 6y ago
  I made 2 things: I made a website for friends and family to play poker online. https://playcards.live https://playcards.live. No cards or chips required. Works on any devices. I parsed en.wikipedia using AI and extracted events, time and location: https://whataday.info https://whataday.info. Given an event, it shows you what was happening closeby, in spacetime.
• amaurymartiny 6y ago
  I built a tool to check if an email exists without sending any email. I also created a SaaS out of it: [link redacted]. The tool connects to the target email's SMTP server, and parses the response of the "RCPT TO" command. To avoid IP blacklisting, I use Tor. The code is in Rust, 100% open-source. The core library is here: [link redacted]
  • jtokoph 6y ago
    Aren’t Tor exit nodes mostly blocked already?
    • amaurymartiny 6y ago
      > mostly Using Tor, I can verify around ~60% of emails. Notably, the exit nodes can connect to Gmail/GSuite servers. So it's not that bad. If Tor's exit nodes are blocked by a server, I fallback to Heroku, where I have right now 3 fixed-IP instances. And if I see that one of these also gets blacklisted, I would have it self-destruct and relaunch, Heroku assigns a new IP on each new instance.
      • acid303 6y ago
        Does Heroku reuse these IP addresses? Can someone get them after you?
        • amaurymartiny 6y ago
          I unfortunately don't know the answer to these two questions.
  • vincent_s 6y ago
    Hah, I did something very similar with MailExists [1], but not Open Source and using expensive proxies instead of TOR ;-) [1] https://www.mailexists.com/ https://www.mailexists.com/
• pwmarcz 6y ago
  I made Autotable, a tabletop simulator for Riichi Mahjong: https://pwmarcz.pl/autotable/about.html https://pwmarcz.pl/autotable/about.html I wanted to play with my friends the way we used to in real life. It ended up being a very interesting and rewarding project. Here is a blog post about developing the game: https://pwmarcz.pl/blog/autotable/ https://pwmarcz.pl/blog/autotable/
• lukevp 6y ago
  I worked hard and managed to ship my first ever alpha product, https://NoteBrook.com https://NoteBrook.com . I am iterating on it nights and weekends to build out the core feature set and get it on every platform as published apps. It’s been a really interesting journey but I’m glad I have been working on it and moving it forward. It’s really great to see all the users signing up, and the beta version is going to really move it close to feature completeness as a first release.
• sudhirj 6y ago
  Implemented the Redis API on DynamoDB. Very interesting experience because I learnt a lot about Dynamo, and now have a 0-infinity autoscaling system ready for for my other side projects and consulting apps. The Dynamo API is pretty low level and arcane, but Redis is a nice sweet spot that makes sense to me for modeling. https://dbproject.red/redimo https://dbproject.red/redimo
• runekaagaard 6y ago
  I got a good bit of work in on https://github.com/runekaagaard/hypergen https://github.com/runekaagaard/hypergen (a Python liveview) and https://github.com/runekaagaard/django-treeform https://github.com/runekaagaard/django-treeform (a declarative data transformation tool).
• rodriguezartavi 6y ago
  I look at it as "The Call Center for the rest of us..." I was forced to really learn my way around Twilio when everyone on the office went home. After 3 weeks I ended up with a "React App" where all of my team can pick up the phone, 'whatsapp', SMS, and email. It's pretty cool because it turns the CRM thing around, because you start with the contact already in the system, so it's a native customer centric approach compared to older computer centric ones. All this matched a migration into a new PWA based on React-Admin - so next to the "Call Center" are all the "admin" actions. I guess this was called an ERP. Only now it has a Call Center build on top of it. I did inspire myself on Twilio Flex - but at $150/user/month I decided to build it myself and eject from all the plugin complications of building for a platform. I have learned a lot, and jumped into the crazy world of VOIP. Collaborated with new colleagues and enjoyed myself building something totally new from my head to the screen.
• vanviegen 6y ago
  I created an Open Source (well, that's the intention anyway) online proctoring solution. It records the at-home exam proceedings using a screen capture, the webcam and a side camera (a mobile phone). All web-based. It doesn't need a streaming server, but clients upload encrypted blocks of video directly to cloud storage instead. So that should make it scale rather easily. Unfortunately, concerns from students (some of which valid) about the privacy implication of such systems, and a lot of negative press about this, killed the momentum. So it hasn't been used for actual exams (yet). Feel free to poke around: https://toetshub.nl/ https://toetshub.nl/
• NicoJuicy 6y ago
  I launched http://belgianbrewed.com http://belgianbrewed.com where you can find the most belgian beers online. We launched early, since suddenly users were ordering on the beta environment. Product descriptions are not complete yet ( > 900 products) I had some webshops before ( on woocommerce), but this became pretty big in a short time. It's already sold to my supplier ( who is a good friend off mine), but I'm still shipping new features. The latest thing I added was E-commerce-filters. Next one is "suggested products". And we are onboarding 2 breweries that moved their E-commerce from their own to belgian brewed. I'm also redesigning the backend currently for seperating the backend to a "cloud" one and transforming it all to DDD. Within a month, I'm planning to start my second shop on the platform, for a totally different use-case, as I'm "picky" on the clients to onboard first. Since I need them to request totally new features, so I can expand functionality. It's. Net currently with plans to move to. Net core ( I'm much more productive in .net framework currently, I hope that changes soon)
• rikroots 6y ago
  No surprises from me: I launched v8 of my HTML5 canvas library back in April, which the admins here very kindly promoted to the front page of HN for a couple of hours - https://scrawl-v8.rikweb.org.uk/ https://scrawl-v8.rikweb.org.uk/ Since then I've released some updates to the library. Things I've been working on include: - Adding a "polyline" entity (which, I hope, can be used for freehand drawing) and fixing the path animation code so things can be moved along a path at constant speed - https://codepen.io/kaliedarik/pen/MWadEwm https://codepen.io/kaliedarik/pen/MWadEwm - Tweaking and improving the "phrase" entity (for graphical text) to make it easier to add styling markup to it, plus some stuff to make it look better when animating along a path ... though sadly there's still an (very!) annoying text height bug that needs to be addressed - https://codepen.io/kaliedarik/pen/dyYeOZb https://codepen.io/kaliedarik/pen/dyYeOZb And for the past few weeks I've been investigating/learning about physics engines. Because what's not to love about physics engines? I'm not close to releasing code for this yet, but I did manage to get the library to play nicely with Matter.js as part of my learning experience (the polylines add a nice touch to the net, I think) - https://codepen.io/kaliedarik/pen/zYvbwBy https://codepen.io/kaliedarik/pen/zYvbwBy
• FiddlerClamp 6y ago
  Do incomplete projects count? I wrote 1/3 of a novel called "Distanced" - you can read it at https://1drv.ms/w/s!AhRJSX2EIeTqmohIQPPIaNr6TXMnnw?e=rwfXfE https://1drv.ms/w/s!AhRJSX2EIeTqmohIQPPIaNr6TXMnnw?e=rwfXfE.
• shimmmaz 6y ago
  Thank you so much for the response to this post. There have been more than 90 products added in the past hour alone. This is incredible!
• qrv3w 6y ago
  I made a lot of music stuff. I hooked up an Arduino to control music tempo with my heart beat [1], made a browser based sequencer for the Korg NTS-1 [2], and a made a web app to generate patches for Teenage Engineering OP-1/OP-Z [3] [1]: https://github.com/schollz/heartbpm https://github.com/schollz/heartbpm [2]: https://schollz.github.io/carp/ https://schollz.github.io/carp/ [3]: https://op1z.com/ https://op1z.com/
  • thwave 6y ago
    Very cool! Why do you need the Arduino for the heart-tempo? Can't you connect the pulse-sensor directly to the computer?
    • qrv3w 6y ago
      Yes, I think some pulse sensors can be! The one I got is specifically for Arduino / Raspberry Pi / etc. [1] [1]: https://pulsesensor.com https://pulsesensor.com
• nsm 6y ago
  I have been re-implementing the ninja build system [1] using the ideas from the "Build Systems a la Carte" paper [2]. The software isn't ready for the public yet, but I've written 2 blog posts so far about some of the ideas. 1. Using type-classes to model the expressivity of build systems [3] 2. A Future is a Suspending Scheduler [4] [1]: https://ninja-build.org/ https://ninja-build.org/ [2]: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/build-systems-a-la-carte/ https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/build-s... [3]: https://nikhilism.com/post/2020/type-classes-build-systems/ https://nikhilism.com/post/2020/type-classes-build-systems/ [4]: https://nikhilism.com/post/2020/futures-suspending-scheduler/ https://nikhilism.com/post/2020/futures-suspending-scheduler...
• goodlibs 6y ago
  I made a command-line utility to download books from a Goodreads reading list using Library Genesis: https://github.com/goodlibs/goodlibs https://github.com/goodlibs/goodlibs (Since libraries have been closed, I used it to download my entire reading list. As I read through the books, if I find one I particularly like, I order a hard copy for delivery from my local neighborhood bookstore to support their business.)
  • lovestodonothin 6y ago
    Nice! I've always wanted to download a massive bunch of books and explore them randomly.
• mmathias 6y ago
  I made V.O.B.S., a system that lets you produce interactive TV shows using the internet as a transport medium, multiple webcams in different locations and our server infrastructure. https://vobs.io/ https://vobs.io/
• hivacruz 6y ago
  I made a little theme for Typora, a great markdown editor, to match my other color schemes used in other apps: https://github.com/kinoute/typora-hivacruz-theme https://github.com/kinoute/typora-hivacruz-theme
• glutamate 6y ago
  Saltcorn, an open-source extensible no-code application platform for the web. Like FileMaker or MS Access, but open source and for the web. https://saltcorn.com/ https://saltcorn.com/
• jenshaase 6y ago
  I build a Lisp inspired functional programming language for PHP [1]. Normally, I build web applications with PHP. But during the Lockdown I tried to build something different. It is still a lot of fun and I found some contributes that help me to release the first version soon. [1] https://phel-lang.org/ https://phel-lang.org/
• m-coleman 6y ago
  I wanted a better way to hide and collapse comments and threads on HN, so I created a browser extension Hackollapse. There are a few extensions like this out there already but I didn't like how they worked. With my extension you can quickly see how many children a comment has, easily show/hide them, collapse an entire thread from anywhere in the tree, and toggle whether or not HN remembers that you collapsed a thread. It's available on Chrome and Firefox: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hackollapse/cfinlodmmfffhieajhboebcfplcfkfgg https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hackollapse/cfinlo... https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hackollapse/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hackollapse/
• pjfin123 6y ago
  Argos Translate, an open source Python application for translating between languages locally without an internet connection. https://github.com/argosopentech/argos-translate https://github.com/argosopentech/argos-translate
• jraph 6y ago
  I've improved Trivabble, a libre network scrabble game. I built it 3 years ago for my grandmother so she could play with my mother and my sister, living in another area. It was still on, but I had more or less forgotten about it, and then I started to receive thank you emails at the beginning of the lockdown. That prompted be to invest a lot of time on it during the lockdown. I've seen many days with at least 100 games played during the lockdown, but I haven't set up proper monitoring for this. Now, people have been contributing to the project since then. Thanks to one of them, there is support for many languages now. https://gitlab.com/raphj/trivabble/ https://gitlab.com/raphj/trivabble/ https://trivabble.1s.fr/demo/ https://trivabble.1s.fr/demo/ (be gentle, this runs on a cheap VPS) I thought about making a chess and a checkers version. I made an experimental fork for the latter, and Lichess does the job for the former so I don't plan to make it happen for now. But the code would benefit from this work.
• mroll 6y ago
  I wrote a little web app for making and using checklists. https://checkfox.app/ https://checkfox.app/
• saeranv 6y ago
  I made a pinhole camera that plots 3D geometries in matplotlib/geopandas[1]. It's still WIP (need to do some minimal ray-casting to deal with depth ambiguity), but the overall goal is to develop a set of minimal camera perspective matrices that can be easily be extended for other uses (i.e I want to use my cameras to calculate geometric view factors as a way of clustering geometric features for statistical learning). Another application I've tested is to use camera and location parameters from the Google Street View camera to project OSM footprint geometries onto street view images. [1] https://github.com/saeranv/pincam https://github.com/saeranv/pincam
• FailMore 6y ago
  I launched my first webapp https://taaalk.co https://taaalk.co. It's a platform for public text-based conversations. It's been great so far, I've gotten to know very interesting people and things through having discussions on it. (Anyone can make a Taaalk though.)
  • thomgo 6y ago
    Curious to know how you went about getting new users on the platform!
    • FailMore 6y ago
      Hey, I have just been reaching out to people when I come across a blog post or a community discussing topics I'm interested in. It hasn't been easy to get Taaalks started by people who are not me though... if that happens I'll be very happy. Can you think of anyone you would be interested to Taaalk to?
• hotshothobo 6y ago
  https://www.ncovindia.in/ https://www.ncovindia.in/ I created Covid Dashboard for Indian states and cities. I am from a small town in India and I couldn’t find a way to track Covid cases, deaths and recoveries for last 3 weeks. Also, I am scientist and loves to work with Tabular data. I needed to put this website to show some authorities of my town how the spread of our city is as compared to other cities historically. And it’s been working out pretty well.
• mdoliwa 6y ago
  Still work in progress, but I started identifying local flowers https://mdoliwa.com/projects/plants.html https://mdoliwa.com/projects/plants.html I'm using plantnet app to help me with it. It's super cool and I recommend it to everyone. I feel like I'm treasure hunting every time I go for a walk now :)
• nick-garfield 6y ago
  My friend and I got really frustrated with existing authentication providers like Auth0, so we decided to create API called Feather to make it easier to add authentication to our web/mobile apps. https://feather.id https://feather.id Still quite a work-in-progress.. but currently designing a stateful React library so that you can drop sign-in, sign-up, forgot-password, session-management, etc. into your app with ~10 lines of code. Plus it comes with a nice admin dashboard for user-management built in!
• samcgraw 6y ago
  Thanks for sharing this! During the lockdown I shipped "Storylocks"; it's a place for fiction authors to write stories together in a serialized format. Let me know what you think! https://www.storylocks.com?source=hn https://www.storylocks.com?source=hn
• _3fw2 6y ago
  I worked upon restarting and improving an existing driver for Final Fanhtasy VII and Final Fantasy VIII on PC, which fixes ton of bugs and improves modding capabilities by making them look better and load faster :) The project is fully FOSS and licensed with GPLv3 ( inherited from the original author ). Feel free to checkout it here: [redacted]
• karmakaze 6y ago
  I made Qwickly: An alternative keyboard layout that is the easiest to learn and faster than Dvorak. Close enough to the fastest to not matter. https://github.com/qwickly-org/Qwickly https://github.com/qwickly-org/Qwickly https://blog.keithkim.org/opensource/making-the-qwickest-keyboard-layout https://blog.keithkim.org/opensource/making-the-qwickest-key...
• rhetorfit 6y ago
  I made an app, RhetorFit, to teach people logical fallacies and assumptions, and how they can make a bad argument sound convincing. Hopefully it can help fight misinformation organically, by better educating people. Current looking for collaborators to add more content and do mobile dev. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.intafel.rhetorfit https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.intafel.rh... https://apps.apple.com/us/app/rhetorfit/id1514982376 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/rhetorfit/id1514982376
• cultofthecow 6y ago
  Simple website click statistics tool: https://clickradar.io/ https://clickradar.io/
• heidtn 6y ago
  I've started a story/tutorial blog about the technology necessary to survive on other planets www.martiancastaway.com. It's something I've wanted to do for a while and is primarily focused on control theory right now, but I've just started on the next chapter that is focused on more hardware development aspects.
• xgenecloud 6y ago
  We launched XgeneCloud[1] XgeneCloud instantly generates REST/GraphQL APIs on any SQL Database. The APIs scaffolded is a secure node.js backend application. XgeneCloud currently supports generating REST/GraphQL APIs over MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, SQLite, MariaDB and Aurora. Please do check us out - we've been getting amazing feedback. [1] : https://github.com/xgenecloud/xgenecloud https://github.com/xgenecloud/xgenecloud
• tarball 6y ago
  I made one web artwork a day during 35 days. https://evasive.tech/ https://evasive.tech/ It was exhausting. It had an article in a national newspaper and it is now being exhibited in net art online exhibitions.
• tmaly 6y ago
  I have been making videos with my daughter on how to teach kids programming in Scratch. Its a lot of fun going through the whole process. She is learning practical skills that may be useful in this day and age.
• thomgo 6y ago
  I've always been interested in what podcasts other listen to and what they think about it, so I built a website to comment on podcasts! Check it out! http://www.sharedmic.com/ http://www.sharedmic.com/
• gerlv 6y ago
  I've built McPiper - simple Gitlab CI/CD pipeline monitor from macOS status bar. When I work I usually have emails off, so no idea when the pipelines fail. At the moment functionality is quite basic, but it solves the problem I had. Also plan to add other CI/CD providers (Travis, Github actions, etc) in the next few versions. It's my first macOS app, and I've managed to learn Swift + SwiftUI, so time well spent too. https://www.mcpiper.app/ https://www.mcpiper.app/
• 100-xyz 6y ago
  https://Toonclip.com https://Toonclip.com was released first here on HN about 6 months resulting in a huge spike in traffic that crashed the server twice. During the lockdown, I created a simple English syntax to control the animation and ability to export in Gif and WebM format. Here is one with Michael Sielbel of YC https://toonclip.com/player?key1=802d8d51ec https://toonclip.com/player?key1=802d8d51ec
• h3n 6y ago
  I made a small app for firefighters. The goal is to get to know your local engine while sitting on the toilet. I released the app on the google and apple store for free. To get my investment back (time and running costs) i choosed to bill the fire-stations per vehicle. My goal here was to go as little as possible with the pricing. The app is written in Flutter, backend a mix of spring and vaadin. Current market are german fire stations (Most of the fire stations in germany are volunteer based) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dev.hvoss.fahrzeugkunde https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dev.hvoss.fahr... https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id1507208896 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id1507208896 Landingpage: http://fahrzeugkunde.hvoss.dev/ http://fahrzeugkunde.hvoss.dev/
• etimberg 6y ago
  Primarily found new energy to put into my open source projects. Dusted off one of my old charting projects and modernized the build & documentation. https://www.chartjs.org/chartjs-chart-smith/examples https://www.chartjs.org/chartjs-chart-smith/examples Just before everything got locked down I wrote an implementation of the circuit breaker pattern in python. The new concept I added was the ability to customize how the breaker resets. Rather than simply resetting the breaker as soon as a request succeeds, I provide a way to have the breaker in a fast-fail mode until the net error count (errors - successes) reaches down to 0. https://github.com/etimberg/pycircuitbreaker https://github.com/etimberg/pycircuitbreaker I also did some Ham radio stuff, but my apartment doesn't have a balcony so I have no where to safely solder anything.
• megalan247 6y ago
  https://browserbase.io/ https://browserbase.io/ I got frustrated with the existing options for running automated QA tests (they are all super expensive) and decided to build my own for a fraction of the cost. It was super interesting as I am not really a developer so it taught me a lot about various programming languages (the frontend is written in Node and the backend is in Go), and so much about infrastructure. It was super rewarding as this is the first side-project that I didn't stop half way through :D
• dbish 6y ago
  http://www.tweetlights.com http://www.tweetlights.com <- I made this site as a side project when discussing how hard it is to help new followers quickly get up to speed on what you've tweeted about over the years since you can only have 1 pinned tweet. Quick and dirty code here (written in python using flask as well as the requisite javascript scripting for the front end): https://github.com/dbish/tweetlights https://github.com/dbish/tweetlights. Site is hosted on AWS Elastic Beanstalk.
• quickthrower2 6y ago
  Someone should construct a mechanical turk, and then pay people on mechanical turk to be opponents
• rishi_sid 6y ago
  A ghost Blog where entrepreneurs, AI engineers and coders from across the world introduce their work to beginners. It has a clean UI just like Medium and in fact we opened up all our Medium content for free on this blog. https://aigraduate.com https://aigraduate.com
• danieljacksonno 6y ago
  I made my side project connect to North European banks as well as US and Canadian ones. PSD2 is really something! Receiptrunner.com
• zzo38computer 6y ago
  Mostly I have been working on a software project called TeXnicard, which is not yet complete, but a lot of things have been done, as can be seen from the timeline view of the Fossil repository. In doing so, I have found a bug (#702472) in Ghostscript, having to do with the printobject and writeobject operators. I both reported and fixed this bug, but have received no reply from Artifex about it so far. (The patch is currently included in the TeXnicard source repository, in the file called "gspatch.txt".) I have done some other things too, such as some improvements to ZZT (such as listing the date/time in the restore game menu), but the thing I have been working on most is TeXnicard. I have not done any hardware projects, though. Some of the other ideas listed here look like interesting ideas too, although I don't always like the implementation. (I suppose that isn't so uncommon; that is why there are many different programs and other projects for similar purposes.) But, occasionally I have played GURPS using the internet. Before the lockdown I was not doing it on the computer, but now I am sometimes doing. Since I am the only player, I simply used a direct connection; I wrote a shell script containing a command like this one: ts '%.s>' | tee -a send.log | nc -Clvt 12345 | ts '%.s<' | tee -a recv.log We then coordinated the times with email, and he sent a bell to my terminal when he was ready. And then, I can just use "cat" and "sort" commands to produce a full log.
• Taurenking 6y ago
  I feel like this thread has been posted more than a couple of times lately, or am I imagining things? Anyways I built a quick bot to connect Calendly to Slack[1] as people in my sales team where requesting "native" integration (plus we didn't want to pay for multi-user access on Zapier) Unfortunately it works only with Calendly Pro and Premium accounts, but looking into workarounds for free users (leveraging gCal) [1] https://www.calenduck.co/ https://www.calenduck.co/
• ohyash 6y ago
  I started a freestyle newsletter for sharing knowledge I get from the internet. Quickly I reaized the existing solutions are limited. So I started developing my own Email Platform, which is in early stage currently and can only send dynamic mails for now but I plan to grow it into a single blogging cum newsletter platform going forward. The project isn't online yet but my newsletter is: https://linktr.ee/Knowledgeday https://linktr.ee/Knowledgeday
• tohmasch 6y ago
  I started a newsletter on how to raise money from VC, PE, and family offices. I'm in the process of releasing the first publications to discuss the fundraising process as well as how to find, contact and handle oneself with such organizations. Feel free to get updates upon release here: https://familycapital.ck.page/1838069523 https://familycapital.ck.page/1838069523
• vincent_s 6y ago
  I started TextRewrite [1], a SaaS/API to automatically rewrite sentences without changing the meaning. SEOs use this to create unique content. Could also be used by students to cheat but I'm not encouraging this. Works in any language, uses AI. (Signup link is not yet working but you can email me if you want to give it a try.) [1] https://www.textrewrite.com/ https://www.textrewrite.com/
• b__d 6y ago
  I started playing Rocket League. Now I'm on gold ranks throughout every compatitive game modes, though on varying levels (1 to 3). It was equaly satisfying like learning a new language or instrument. The controlls fall into the typical "easy to learn, hard to master" category and the advanced techniques require an immense amount of time to nail consistantly (I'm far from that, btw). But it was fun and I alwayse played together with friends, so it had a huge social factor too :)
• ivan1783 6y ago
  A youtube channel.
• ru6xul6 6y ago
  I made a code base visualizer for Javascript, Typescript, and Python. Functions are shown as nodes, while function calls are lines connecting nodes. https://codemap.app https://codemap.app Any feedback is welcome :)
• mlejva 6y ago
  My friend and I built essentially a REPL for your Firebase Cloud Functions - https://github.com/FoundryApp/foundry-cli https://github.com/FoundryApp/foundry-cli We feel like building backend takes a lot of unnecessary work that really isn't coding. It's usually all those different things like setting up your environment, running multiple containers on your machine, figuring out how all different services should communicate together, fetching your production data. So we wanted to simplify that. Ideally, one would love to develop in an environment that is basically a copy of your production environment. The same goes for data. Our CLI tool gives you an out-of-the-box cloud environment for developing your Firebase apps. You start Foundry on your local machine, we watch your code and every time you save your files we trigger your functions in the cloud environment. We give you feedback right away. So it's kind of like REPL in a sense that you always get feedback on whether your code will work once you deploy it or not. We also emulate both Firestore and Auth Users and make it really easy to access your production data. In our YAML you specify what you want to have available in your environment and we fetch the data for you. We don't save any data. Here are the docs - https://docs.foundryapp.co https://docs.foundryapp.co GitHub Repo - https://github.com/FoundryApp/foundry-cli https://github.com/FoundryApp/foundry-cli
• tomjuggler 6y ago
  Pet Detector, an Android app using machine learning to catch various animals if they stray in front of the camera lens. The app then takes a photo and/or plays a warning sound. Also made my first CV in 20 years because I need a second job to pay back all the money I'm losing - I previously made my living mainly from entertainment at large events... https://www.circusscientist.com/cv/ https://www.circusscientist.com/cv/
• coreymaass 6y ago
  https://mexicantrain.online https://mexicantrain.online An online version of the dominoes-based game, Mexican Train. It's a big hit with retirees (and our family). We're up to 100 games/day and daily I get emails from older people in quarantine thanking me for it. It's been really rewarding.
• rchaudhary 6y ago
  I started https://www.programmerweekly.com/ https://www.programmerweekly.com/ - A free weekly newsletter featuring the best hand curated links for programmers.
• r0rshrk 6y ago
  getessayer.com to help GRE/TOEFL students study AWA essays. t.me/wordsbyroots to help them improve their vocab
• jz222 6y ago
  I made an open-source error tracking and website analytics platform https://logowl.io https://logowl.io
• davidarcila 6y ago
  I'm not a good programmer by any chance, but somehow I managed to make an app in Unity for people playing Warzone. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.LuckyLoserCX.WARZONEHELPER https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.LuckyLoser...
• ProudGeek 6y ago
  I made a CLI to simplify navigating through directories on the terminal. When I started it I did not know about cdd but in the end it did a lot more than that. I use it everyday and would love it if anyone could give a review. I would love it if I am not the only one using it. https://github.com/nsr-py/Teleporter https://github.com/nsr-py/Teleporter I know this a basic project but I also finally started learning web development in this lockdown and target to come back here to talk about a better project than this. Till then, Peace.
• caviv 6y ago
  I improved a small game I have created a few years ago https://www.freememorygame.com https://www.freememorygame.com . added a few features and it became very popular during quarantine time for kids and pre-school to play online with their tutors and teachers. It is a memory and matching card game you can build and create using your own uploaded photos.
• tonixx 6y ago
  Great idea! The lockdown was actually a very productive period for me and I've managed to launch a project that I've postponed for a long time: https://www.fonts.do https://www.fonts.do - the largest database of premium fonts, with more than 137,000 items PS: I've submitted Fonts.do to your directory and I hope it'll be featured :) Thx!
• travis_the_makr 6y ago
  I've been slowly designing, engineering, coding, and 3D printing a 2D Plotter (a printer you can code) https://hackaday.io/project/171536-diy-2d-plotter https://hackaday.io/project/171536-diy-2d-plotter I launched a Twitch stream: https://www.twitch.tv/travis_the_maker https://www.twitch.tv/travis_the_maker I also refactored/updated my engineering and photography portfolios.
• vackosar 6y ago
  I finished my automated micro-training generation tool, that I used a lot myself, but wanted to see if others find it useful https://Quizrecall.com/ https://Quizrecall.com/