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Ask HN: What (side-)project are you working on?

• eivarv 6y ago
  https://cleave.app https://cleave.app Cleave is an application that lets users persist OS state as a "context" - saving and loading open applications, their windows (and their positions), tabs, open files/documents and so on. Think of it as a workspace or project manager from an IDE, but on the OS-level. Started because of frequent multitasking of heavy work with limited resources. Made it because I wanted to switch between studying, working, reading, looking for an apartment, etc. without manually managing all states or consuming all resources. I'll release an Open Beta (macOS) as soon as I finish license verification and delta updates, but I keep getting sidetracked...
  • shivenigma 6y ago
    Man this is neat. I've been irritated by the non-separable context of a laptop, I don't always need everything but don't want to wait 5 minutes and open and setup everything again. I was looking for something for Ubuntu, The idea is cool. Good luck.
• d--b 6y ago
  https://www.jigdev.com https://www.jigdev.com A tool I created to replace Excel as an application container. I’ve worked in finance for years and our apps are mostly still hosted in excel. A live javascript programming environment is a great tool to replace Excel.
• tldrthelaw 6y ago
  I've been working in meatspace on a cabin my wife and I bought in the mountains. So far it has mostly been being handled by contractors, but I'm considering taking more of it over myself and maybe filming it or recording a podcast from there. Something creative.
• XCSme 6y ago
  I am currently creating the public Docker and Cloudron images for https://www.usertrack.net https://www.usertrack.net so people can try it in a few clicks without paying.
• firedating 6y ago
  I am working on firedating.me - a community of FIRE (Financial Independence/ Early Retirement) enthusiasts looking for friendships and love. All stats are public: https://firedating.me/open https://firedating.me/open.
• AussieCoder 6y ago
  I'm building SiteSentry: https://sitesentry.app https://sitesentry.app It checks your website for the kind of things that get missed when you go from dev to production or can go wrong later - expired domains and SSL certs, broken links, robot options blocking search engine crawlers, etc. Adding more checks all the time and always keen to hear suggestions.
• hbien 6y ago
  Boutique: https://useboutique.com https://useboutique.com It's a self-hosted app for digital sales and newsletters. I can upload files, sell them, send broadcast/drip emails, handle bounces/spam so far. Still a work in progress. Thyme: https://hughbien.com/thyme https://hughbien.com/thyme It runs a pomodoro timer in your Tmux status bar.
• ezzato 6y ago
  Working on an ad network for sideprojects (just launched). tinyads.io It works by sideprojects showing each other on their landing pages.
• DigiDaniel 6y ago
  Find Airbnbs with fast WiFi! Roamer is a chrome extension that shows you expected upload, download, & latency metrics while you browse. https://www.tryroamer.com https://www.tryroamer.com
• jonas_kgomo 6y ago
  scaling side-projects http://affordance.app http://affordance.app
• mjbucko 6y ago
  I made a photography site https://www.focusct.co.uk https://www.focusct.co.uk for people to upload photos in competitions and such. It was supposed to help people during lock down and get them interested in photography but it's kind of died. I made it with Drupal and coppermine gallery. I can't decide if I want to kill it or redesign and make it better. Feed back is welcome.
• unkn0wnUlv 6y ago
  Trying to create a free geoguessr alternative. It's hosted at https://where4m1.herokuapp.com/ https://where4m1.herokuapp.com/
• Revis92 6y ago
  Don't know if this is just digital stuff, but I started building acoustically sealed sound/phone booths for open concept offices... they are coming along. We will see. (https://reverearchitecture.com/#/798817030644/ https://reverearchitecture.com/#/798817030644/)
• tonixx 6y ago
  I'm working on https://Contact.do https://Contact.do - contact form in a link Whenever I wanted to share my email on forums, I was reluctant. That's when I came up with the idea for Contact.do . It can also be used on personal sites What do you think?
• megahz 6y ago
  https://www.cybersecq.com https://www.cybersecq.com writing practice questions for various infosec certifications and posting them to the website. It aims to help visitors practice for their certifications.
• leoluo 6y ago
  Consumer Startups Newsletter: http://consumerstartups.substack.com/ http://consumerstartups.substack.com/ I have been interviewing super cool early stage B2C founders/investors and writing about their insights, challenges, and different mental models.
• lucasfdacunha 6y ago
  https://www.thegamingpub.com/ https://www.thegamingpub.com/ A gaming content curated newsletter. Heavily inspired by the Hacker Newsletter
• brianvoe 6y ago
  Im building an open api for https://github.com/brianvoe/gofakeit https://github.com/brianvoe/gofakeit
• LBarret 6y ago
  Rectitude : a procedural generation editor for pixel art and generative art. https://lbarret.itch.io/rectitude https://lbarret.itch.io/rectitude Starting to make cool stuff with it : - https://twitter.com/LBdN/status/1345931367738175488?s=20 https://twitter.com/LBdN/status/1345931367738175488?s=20 - https://imgur.com/a/BJwZFdU https://imgur.com/a/BJwZFdU
• xerolt 6y ago
  Serializd: www.serializd.com A place where you can log TV shows you've watched, keep a watchlist, and write reviews. Its like Letterboxd but for TV shows.
• ijustwanttovote 6y ago
  Trying to write more for my personal blog https://www.michael1e.com/ https://www.michael1e.com/ and creating niche sites.
• Lenny86 6y ago
  Nightfox https://green-byte.net/nightfox/ https://green-byte.net/nightfox/ It's a low level command line tool to communicate over a subnet between computers without any servers in between. It's still lacking a lot of things like encryption, IPv6, a solution to pass NATs, etc... But it's workable and works on very low specs. The exact size in memory depends on your OS but it's typically a few hundred kilos.
• mceachen 6y ago
  PhotoStructure! I had a huge mess of photos and videos after N photo cloud services had come and gone, and left me with down-sampled or metadata-wiped files, and nothing could dedupe and organize the mess, so I wrote it. Completely self-hosted. Cross-platform. Server and desktop editions. Community-prioritized new feature development. https://photostructure.com/faq/why-photostructure/ https://photostructure.com/faq/why-photostructure/
• SjorsM 6y ago
  BookaBooka, https://www.bookabooka.nl https://www.bookabooka.nl (in Dutch) It is a multilanguage picture book app that runs on iOS, Android and Windows and currently contains 100+ books that are actively translated into different languages. I'ts a safe digital environment to let your kids find enjoyment in reading or being read to from a choice of narrators. Currently we support Dutch, English, French, German, Arabic, Dutch Sign Language. More languages comming soon.
• shipped_brain 6y ago
  Shipped Brain: a serverless sagemaker marketplace alternative to host and distribute machine learning models shippedbrain.com
• manuelmhtr 6y ago
  A Github action to print relevant stats about the pull request reviewers in team: https://github.com/flowwer-dev/pull-request-stats https://github.com/flowwer-dev/pull-request-stats
• jay__1 6y ago
  Writing - really have the feeling it helps me to make my thinking clearer + publicly sharing has the extra bonus of kicking off interesting conversations and further projects. https://curatedcuriosityj.substack.com/ https://curatedcuriosityj.substack.com/
• ilmoi 6y ago
  I'm building https://gpu.land/ https://gpu.land/. It's an online provider of dirt cheap GPUs for deep learning. It's 1/3 the price of major cloud providers such as AWS, GCP, etc. This was a project for me to learn the full stack (non coder before) and been a really exciting journey. 6 months ago I thought it would take me 2 months to build and launch:D
• spsneo 6y ago
  I have been working on a task scheduler service for a while. I realized that there are no good task schedulers as a service which is cheap as well and can handle all kinds of scheduled jobs (cron, scheduled once, delayed jobs etc) No website yet :-(
• abhinav061 6y ago
  I have a few projects that I am actively working on 1. Soopr - https://www.soopr.co https://www.soopr.co Soopr is the easiest way to add like and share buttons to your website. 2. In addition, I have been spending time building a few open-source Jekyll based projects Moonwalk - https://github.com/abhinavs/moonwalk https://github.com/abhinavs/moonwalk - is a fast and minimalistic blog with clean dark mode Cookie - https://github.com/abhinavs/cookie https://github.com/abhinavs/cookie - is a fast and easy to deploy landing website that comes with a blog, additional pages. It uses Tailwind CSS, that makes editing it very easy.
• chdaniel 6y ago
  I'm announcing PriceUnlock here: https://bychgroup.com/price-unlock/ https://bychgroup.com/price-unlock/ But the gist of it is: * We're aiming to make it easier and less risky to try charging more/less * Aiming to help you stop leaving money on the table (or take too much money from the table?) by enabling you to easily charge different prices in higher/lower-income countries — like Apple, Netflix, etc. do * Aiming to make A/B testing of prices headache-free I'm still building PriceUnlock and revealing more bit by bit! Curious to hear your story about your SaaS pricing and how you got there — and whether you ever got to 100% confidence that the prices you set were "right"? That aside, would love to hear what others are working on now to see if my feedback can be helpful!
  • ycm2007 6y ago
    Interesting, I think there's a lot we could improve in the way we do things. You're talking about an automatic pricing tool that learns the market through time and region and automatically seeks optimal price points?... Some kind of drop in library tool a few lines of code thing would be awesome! Also if you're making me more money, I'd be willing to share a percentage with you considering I may not have had that money otherwise.
    • chdaniel 6y ago
      Wow thanks that helps a lot! Not really automatic price-setting, at least not by default! I would personally like to have control over the knobs in my product. It would give you a dashboard where A) You would be able to set the prices manually (with suggestions, of course, and with taking into account things like extra Stripe fees, rounded estimations so you don't wound up with £28.837 in the UK). You'd set them manually based on country, so you won't leave money on the table by not charging less in India, for instance. I'm always mentioning India because Apple is the widest example that comes to mind: Apple one is £15 and £25 in the UK, whilst $1.5 and $3 in India B) Run tests that you set manually on prices. $19 vs $29 — see, with metrics, which one brings your company more revenue. Or perhaps same revenue, but more users, so more word of mouth — who knows what the test will show? You'd be able to either schedule (e.g. $19 for week 1, $29 for week 2) or run tests at the same time (show 50% of ppl $19 , show 50% of ppl $29 // OR show ppl in the Uk $19, show ppl in the US $29) RE: your last comment — the best part would be that it'd be a flat fee per month, no percentages! So every extra cash that you receive from ppl on top of the flat fee is yours to keep for... well for as long as your "LT" in LTV! How does that sound, you think?
• tiddles 6y ago
  I've been alternating between two long term Rust projects, which seems to work in keeping the motivation up for both! A Dwarf Fortress-like game (and engine): https://github.com/DomWilliams0/name-needed https://github.com/DomWilliams0/name-needed A x64 operating system: https://github.com/DomWilliams0/DomeOS https://github.com/DomWilliams0/DomeOS
• ecesena 6y ago
  MultiPreview: https://multipreview.com https://multipreview.com Create sharable links with different images, so you can share the same article multiple times, e.g. on twitter keeping your feed nice and clean. For those interested in the details, it renders an html page with custom metatags and immediately redirects to the target. Redirect happens in js, so crawlers actually display our metatags vs the target ones. It's just a hack I've tested a while ago, a couple marketer friends liked it and so I decided to make it into a micro SaaS. If you want to try it out, I recommend to have a blog post handy. (also, credit card are disabled, but I like to keep the landing page "final".)
  • chdaniel 6y ago
    Ohh, kinda like Seth Godin's blog! If you share any of his blog posts, there's a rotation of pics that come up in Twitter's preview. Did I get it right? P.S: Feedback for feedback, if you're down? https://bychgroup.com/price-unlock/ https://bychgroup.com/price-unlock/
    • ecesena 6y ago
      Thanks - do you mean increasing the price or blocking signup with credit card? The first I can do. :) The second it's not worth my time to handle the complaints, especially if I post it on HN to ask for feedback. For Seth Godin's blog, it seems he's periodically rotating the image tag at his blog level. All the post get the same image for a certain amount of time. With MultiPreview you set the images you want. But the time rotation could be a nice feature, I'll add it to the list! Thanks again!
• ptm 6y ago
  I have been working on SceneRadar. This tool displays you timestamped alerts (nudity, sex, violence or gore). So if you plan to watch a film with your child, your parents or other conservative relatives - you know when the danger scenes are going to hit you. Since I watched lots of films during the lockdown, I thought this would be a good use of time. https://sceneradar.com/ https://sceneradar.com/
  • illwrks 6y ago
    This is a great idea! Are you doing it manually or scraping subs for keywords etc?
    • ptm 6y ago
      Thanks. I have been manually adding the alerts. Users also have the option of submitting their own alerts.
      • market_hacker 6y ago
        you probably know this but you're building a nice labelled training set for machine learning to help you automate the process later
• shanecleveland 6y ago
  I filled my own need with https://howsyourblank.com https://howsyourblank.com. I have a minor, but chronic medical condition I am trying to get in check, and I just wanted something incredibly simple to identify good and bad days. I was inspired by "year in pixels" calendars. And I took the opportunity to try out Userbase[0] and build something with a secure backend and no tracking, considering the potentially sensitive nature of it. No plans for monetization at the moment. I could see adding more features such as tracking multiple data points, stats, correlations, notes, etc., and creating a premium version. I would need more users and feedback. [0]https://userbase.com https://userbase.com
  • hopesthoughts 6y ago
    this would be great for headache and sleep tracking, both of which I need.
  • hopesthoughts 6y ago
    Tracking multiple things would be nice.
  • pronouncedjerry 6y ago
    great job! you took a problem, came up with a solution, and executed it very well.
    • shanecleveland 6y ago
      Thanks! Ideas are all around us.
  • perilunar 6y ago
    I think this needs a demo page/account showing how it looks. Looks interesting, but I don't want to create account just to see how it works.
    • shanecleveland 6y ago
      Agreed! I've added a couple screenshoots of the main views within the app. I know more can be done around this, but hopefully this is a good start. Thanks for the feedback!
• knoebber 6y ago
  Dotfilehub: https://dotfilehub.com https://dotfilehub.com I've always found various solutions that use git for sharing configuration files cumbersome. I set out to make my own simple version control system, and a lightweight web application where I can browse and edit them remotely. The main idea is that paths are aliased to simple names, so I can say `dotfile pull i3` and it will install https://dotfilehub.com/knoebber/i3 https://dotfilehub.com/knoebber/i3 to ~/.config/i3/config Overall the project is stable and I use it daily for all sorts of miscellaneous files.
  • chdaniel 6y ago
    Would love to comment with feedback but I'm not techincal enough to use it! Sounds like a time-saver though. Do you have any plan with Dotfilehub? Sell it as a product, keep it free, accept donations if it becomes widely used...?
    • knoebber 6y ago
      My plan is to find some users for it, but I'm not sure the best way to get it out there. I don't think I'd ever want to accept donations or sell it. It should always be pretty cheap to host unless it blows up, which I kind of doubt. But who knows!
  • dgski 6y ago
    Great idea! I feel the personal configuration space is ripe for innovation.
  • RileyJames 6y ago
    Pretty cool. The kind of thing I’d never look for, but now want to explore. I’ve seen some awesome looking terminals / setups while watching programming demos / tutorials. I would totally try their setup if they had a link to it via your site. Likewise, any sort of preview / screen shot on your site would be awesome. Well executed thus far.
• kristintynski 6y ago
  HTTPS://PDAP.IO a nonprofit with the goal of scraping and making accessible county level police data. With this data aggregated and made available, policing the police will be more possible.
• willswire 6y ago
  AFI SWiM: https://afiswim.com https://afiswim.com Extract crucial information from Air Force Instruction manuals (AFIs) and produce an Excel workbook with the results for better reference.
• Jefro118 6y ago
  I'm building https://pygma.app https://pygma.app, a tool to turn Figma files into real websites. Perhaps not quite a side project as I've been spending half of the week on it. Should be launching this week.
  • nodematic 6y ago
    Sounds challenging to do well, but very cool concept. Best of luck.
    • Jefro118 6y ago
      Thank you. It certainly is challenging but it's mostly working.
  • chdaniel 6y ago
    I'm currently on Sketch, but been looking at Figma as I like the browser-dependency, as opposed to OS-dependency. Question (and bear in mind I haven't used figma more than 5 min): what do I have to do besides the mockup in order to be able to use Pygma? Looks v cool! P.S: Feedback for feedback, if you're down? https://bychgroup.com/price-unlock/ https://bychgroup.com/price-unlock/
    • Jefro118 6y ago
      Hey, sorry I just realised I forgot to come back to this, here's some feedback: I think the landing page is really well done - that kind of format can be bad if the content isn't well written but each sentence made me want to read the next so I think you've pulled it off. I do think some visuals to reinforce your message might help (e.g. a graph of willingness to pay vs location, etc.). My understanding of this is that it's going to sit amongst your pricing code and run experiments to change the price dynamically and return the best result after some time - is that correct? If so, I do wonder why no one has pulled this off particularly well as a SaaS before? (or have they?). I believe that Profitwell for example makes their revenue from consulting. The other thing is that if my understanding above is correct, what stops the user from just cancelling once you've optimised their pricing and you lose capturing a lot of the value you've created for them (again, you revenue model may be completely different, I don't know). I would also question whether this kind of thing isn't ultimately solved by the old "talk to you users" thing and understanding what they would pay from that strategy rather than software (at least with purchasing power parity though software + independent research does seem more likely to work since it's hard to talk to people from all over the world). Ultimately this is the kind of thing I would give a try once I have some moderate amount of revenue and I feel that I've at least figured out who my customers are and can then optimise from there. Pretty cool anyway, hope it succeeds and I'm in a position to try it out in a few months.
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• apineda 6y ago
  Custom renderer on top of a classic game.
• hypermachine 6y ago
  We have been working on getting VB6/VBA to run on the web and in cloud native environments. https://hypermachine.org https://hypermachine.org
  • high_byte 6y ago
    W H Y ? why not COBOL or rocks or something?
• ngokevin 6y ago
  Coupling: language learning app for bilingual couples looking to pick up each other's native languages https://learncoupling.com https://learncoupling.com
  • high_byte 6y ago
    Cool. I've fiddled with A-Frame and I've seen supermedium before. cool stuff. Why do you focus on couples though? I love the concept of partnering together but I don't think you should limit your audience.
    • ngokevin 6y ago
      Awesome! I'm just starting with a clear niche and solving my own problems. Where many of my friends and myself are in bilingual relationships that have been trying to learn our partner's languages. In the US, 15% of new marriages are multi-ethnic, so that's pretty large already. I think people are surprised how common it is. And it easily pique's people's interests who are in the situation versus another generic language learning platform. If the project goes well, it can expand and branch out (e.g., adding friends/family, connecting to other peers, finding strangers to learn with). Right now, it works very well as a language learning tool, even without a partner.
      • webmaven 6y ago
        I like the idea of learning a language with a spouse or partner, how about the usecase where neither person is a native speaker of the language being learned?
        • ngokevin 6y ago
          Yeah! I actually do have some users learning Japanese together with a platonic friend with the app. It seems to work well. The use case for learning languages with friends and other family is wide open, just taking the baby steps!
• cwitty88 6y ago
  Like most people do I seem to start a million and finish none. I have been having trouble tracking my options trading cost basis lately and am thinking about writing something for that. I want to integration Plaid, but the version that supports Brokerage accounts starts at $500/mo :|.
  • high_byte 6y ago
    I completely identify with this. it's about bad time management or whatever, no tool can fix this - it's about education. well organized people use excel just fine to track whatever, and also some artists don't track anything and do amazing. so it also depends on your purpose. this is something I think about a lot. I think this affects some people more than other, not sure if this is ADHD, ADD or whatever but it is a huge problem even more so the information age. let me know if you have ideas how to tackle this.
• uncheckederror 6y ago
  Daily tax parcel data (shapefiles) from 21 of 39 county's in Washington State. https://waparcels.tax/ https://waparcels.tax/ Shapefiles are sort of a rare format. Hoping to ingest all the data into a SQLite/SpatiaLite database to make it a more general purpose data source.
• binnyva 6y ago
  https://apps.binnyva.com/que https://apps.binnyva.com/que A web app that will give you a list of questions that can be used to break ice or know others well. You can be with just one or more friends - once person goes thru the questions till they select one. Then everyone answers that question.
• nodematic 6y ago
  Software Delivery Simulator https://softwaresim.com https://softwaresim.com A Rust- and WebAssembly-based simulation product that helps design, communicate, and analyze systems of software tooling. It’s a fun and interesting side project, which should be finished pretty soon.
• taphangum 6y ago
  https://planflow.dev https://planflow.dev - The easiest way to PLAN your website or mobile app. It tries to make planning a website or mobile app as close as possible to the pen and paper experience. It does this in a simple but (from my, and the experience of those who have tested it out) very effective and engaging way. I share a bit more about how this is done here: https://simpleprogrammer.com/information-architecture-developers-learning-design/ https://simpleprogrammer.com/information-architecture-develo....
  • chdaniel 6y ago
    Just subscribed, Tapha! Curious to see how it'll work, as I do UI/UX design as well P.S: Feedback for feedback, if you're down? https://bychgroup.com/price-unlock/ https://bychgroup.com/price-unlock/
    • taphangum 6y ago
      Awesome! Thanks chdaniel. Happy to give you feedback. Check back in a few.
    • taphangum 6y ago
      Alright, so what you have here is pretty innovative. The problem for me was that it just took way too long for me to figure out what it is you did. You might be spending a bit too much time on the problem here. It may be worth spending a bit more on the solution and making that clearer. Right now it seems that its hidden within the modal underneath the copy. It should be much higher and not within a modal. I would also try to say more with less with the problem. Again, it felt like it took a little too long to get to the point (and the point you're making is a pretty good one I might add!). I find that with people who are more on the 'founder' end of the customer spectrum, particularly those who are tech focused, too much 'copy' and 'slow salesmanship' can be a negative. We tend to err on the side of 'just tell me and I'll figure out if its valuable' if that makes any sense. I hope this helps? Good luck man! Tapha
  • 600frogs 6y ago
    FYI - the landing page tells me nothing about what it is you're selling, and "Why PlanFlow" leads to "Access Denied". I don't want to give away my email if I've no idea what it is I'm signing up for. Plus some bugs you might want to be aware of - the "Coming Soon" floating labels are pretty off-centre on the links, and the hamburger menu when the browser is in portrait is nearly unusable and splits the "Sign Up - Free" button in half. This is on Safari on a Mac.
• DarrenDev 6y ago
  https://liet.io/ https://liet.io/ - A text & document classification API. I'm focusing on legal text and documents over the more common "sentiment" classifications. Early days -- lots to do.
• maxwells-daemon 6y ago
  A couple on and off, but most recently a GPU-accelerated differentiable fluid simulator: https://github.com/maxwells-daemons/deltaflow https://github.com/maxwells-daemons/deltaflow
• camhenlin 6y ago
  I'm working on a system hand off nodejs workloads over a serial port to another machine running some host software. My intent is to easily write Internet-connected software for old machines where a host machine is doing all of the heavy lifting. I have been messing with 68k Macintosh systems first. The code is very much a work in progress that I am actively chipping away at, and not in a usable state just yet. I write a lot of nodejs professionally but haven't used C since college so its been a fun project. nodejs software for the "modern" machine: https://github.com/CamHenlin/coprocessor.js https://github.com/CamHenlin/coprocessor.js C software (targeted at a 68k mac) for the "slow" machine: https://github.com/CamHenlin/retro68-coprocessorjs-test https://github.com/CamHenlin/retro68-coprocessorjs-test
• denysvitali 6y ago
  A StackOverflow / Discourse alternative: https://github.com/denysvitali/dev-portal-frontend https://github.com/denysvitali/dev-portal-frontend https://github.com/denysvitali/dev-portal https://github.com/denysvitali/dev-portal Porting Linux to the Surface Pro X (and failing doing that due to my lack of kernel experience): http://github.com/denysvitali/surface-pro-x-linux/ http://github.com/denysvitali/surface-pro-x-linux/ Creating a Microsoft Teams library + client (WIP): https://github.com/fossteams/teams-api https://github.com/fossteams/teams-api Unfortunately my free time is quite limited :(
  • chdaniel 6y ago
    The screenshots here look interesting: https://github.com/denysvitali/dev-portal-designs https://github.com/denysvitali/dev-portal-designs Any live demo?
    • denysvitali 6y ago
      Thanks! Still WIP, no live demo at the moment, but the screenshots that you see on the dev-portal repo are already what you get :) The design reference that you link is how I want it to be, I spent quite some time focusing on the look and feel with Figma, and I'm really happy about the results, I just need to do the 90% of the work now :D
• JohanCutych 6y ago
  We created https://www.getwelder.com/ https://www.getwelder.com/ as side project. Turn into main project and then back to side project haha. Great for recording content (interviews) remotely easily & in high-quality.
  • chdaniel 6y ago
    This pic: https://assets.website-files.com/5e93b09565892b4fad16784a/5f36818cf39a32d1568eb994_comparisoon.jpg https://assets.website-files.com/5e93b09565892b4fad16784a/5f... Drives the point home! Would love to try it, as I've recorded a podcast with 13 episodes before: https://chdaniel.com/podcast https://chdaniel.com/podcast What made you turn this from side -> main -> side project? What are you working on now, specifically, on Welder?
    • JohanCutych 6y ago
      Sorry for the late reply. Was swamped. Happy to hear that Welder seems meaningful for you. You should definitely give it a try. Btw thanks for letting me know what convinced you, we are actually in the process of updating the LP and this is valuable feedback. So when covid thing happened we started on a few side projects as we though it's a great opportunity to build something that will help people in current situation. We created MVP of app for therapists to do remote sessions, system for creative people to share their thoughts, Slack bot for devs to streamline their workflow and Welder. Welder took of the most in our validation phase. We decide to jump full time into it straight away as the demand was big. Few months in we already had paying customers, but the growth was not as fast as we needed. We started thinking about VC funding, but finally it didn't feel right, we loved the product, but not as much. We didn't feel like it's the next unicorn. We would be lying to the VCs and we didn't want to. So after 8 months we decided to put it back on side track as we had two options 1) VC capital and boost the generalistic tool as hell > Nope 2) Finding a niche, stick with it, understand it and deliver solution that is different enough from other generalistic competitors who raised (we didn't love it enough and we didn't feel big enough differentiator is there). We actualy share a lot of this on our YT channel if you are interested https://www.youtube.com/c/CrazyMonkeys/ https://www.youtube.com/c/CrazyMonkeys/ Hope this is helpful for you!
• pizza 6y ago
  Visual cortex seen-image reconstruction model
  • high_byte 6y ago
    Reminds me of that one House MD episode... crazy
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• hpen 6y ago
  Kanception.io Open source recursive Kanban board https://github.com/hpennington/kanception https://github.com/hpennington/kanception
  • webmaven 6y ago
    What makes a kanban board 'recursive'?
• akshaykumar90 6y ago
  I am building Savory to save my open tabs and bookmarks for later. It lets you add tags to organize and quickly find the link when you need it. It is similar to other bookmark managers like pinboard and delicious (rip). https://getsavory.co/ https://getsavory.co/
• ycm2007 6y ago
  Cloudblast: https://cloudblast.network https://cloudblast.network Working to solve the online privacy problem by making it easy to discover and host copies of existing privacy-respecting web apps. Cloudblast spawned from my original "what I'm working on" project CloudFromScratch posted to this similar thread a year ago.
  • hopesthoughts 6y ago
    Something like this is what I've been looking for for a while now! Are you going to offer Miniflux as part of your repertoire? I have lots of feeds, but I'm assuming you're going to charge something.
  • chdaniel 6y ago
    This CloudFromScratch, right? https://github.com/technomada/cloud-from-scratch https://github.com/technomada/cloud-from-scratch I have a document for myself where I note down what I believe to be future industries — trying to time the market. In the same way you might've timed the market in the early part of the previous decade by betting on remote working becoming a pretty viable option (hindsight is 20/20 tho!) Self-hosted for privacy reasons, to me, is like a bomb waiting to explode. Just like covid accelerated our habits around healthcare (Perhaps future generations will look down on those who don't wear a mask when one catches a cold, the same way we look down on those who don't wash their hands after using the toilet... but in the 17th century that wasn't a thing), I believe mass privacy-awareness will come with a major leak/event. Looking forward to Apr 1st (if the beta is launched there and it won't be just April Fools' lol! P.S: Feedback for feedback, if you're down? https://bychgroup.com/price-unlock/ https://bychgroup.com/price-unlock/
    • ycm2007 6y ago
      Yes, that's it, though needs an update for 2021. Easy self-hosting is great for privacy and a lot fun, finding it makes the web/net/computers exciting like it was when computers and the net were new. It does feel like a lot of things are coming together where self-hosting solutions may boom.
• mnembrini 6y ago
  A Csv editor/viewer in Rust using druid. Very early stage, but the goal is to open large files (1 GB and over) easily and have some good filtering / sorting options. Excel stops at a certain amount of rows, LibreOffice is ok but slow and other editors I looked are not cross platform I know you can just import a Csv into a sql DB but it can be finicky it can take some time to map the columns, filter out invalid data etc. This can and should be all be automated
  • amir734jj 6y ago
    I work at a large financial company and every day we have a ansible job to get CSV file that's >1GB and move it to our shared drive. It's very idiot way of moving files but there are tons of companies still using this approach. Then someone somewhere in India needs to make sure the job ran successfully by attempting to open that CSV file and doing a smoke testing. I'm looking forward to this!
    • stonecharioteer 6y ago
      Uh, you could write a small python script to check the csv file. Why do you need a rust based gui for it?
  • nojito 6y ago
    Excel can trivially handle hundreds of millions of rows. Using powerquery and power pivot
• dwbanks 6y ago
  https://reportrocket.com https://reportrocket.com Excel report server generates reports from cloud databases.
  • amir734jj 6y ago
    Interesting idea. Thanks for sharing
• visox 6y ago
  An Google trends alternatíve https://insightrend.com/?page=term-trending https://insightrend.com/?page=term-trending I am using reddit content data for it
• bradley_taunt 6y ago
  I just launched Writxt[0] a “walkthrough” to let you setup your own SMS to blog platform. I also put up a stupid side project ThriftyName[1] where you get a brand name for $5. [0]: https://writxt.fun https://writxt.fun [1]: https://thrifty.name https://thrifty.name
  • hopesthoughts 6y ago
    I've never used Netlify but that seems like it would be a cool idea.
  • agb_242_2117 6y ago
    Another person posted https://phasedust.com/ https://phasedust.com/ the other day. I thought it was a great idea. I think Writxt might be better for me. The instructions are pretty easy to follow. I am going to try it out this weekend. Thank you.
    • bradley_taunt 6y ago
      That’s actually the post that inspired me! (I even commented on that original posting[0]) Please let me know if you run into any issues along the way. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26328399 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26328399
• ic0n0cl4st 6y ago
  I’m working on a decision tree workflow to help burned out / aged out engineers leave the industry and seek a happier career path.
• kureikain 6y ago
  I'm working on https://hanami.run https://hanami.run an email forwarding service. I tried to build it in open https://www.indiehackers.com/product/hanami https://www.indiehackers.com/product/hanami and plan to blog more about my journey on https://hanami.run/blog https://hanami.run/blog. I started this because I want to make send and receive email easier once I bought a domain. I also want to give my wife and me has some kind of mail alias so both of us can receive email(kids information, hospital etc). Right now, I'm working hard to add Disposable email feature and add team access.
• app17 6y ago
  I have been working for a few years now on Exomind[1], a personal knowledge management tool that takes the form of a unified inbox in which you can have your emails, tasks, notes and bookmarks organized into collections. I have an iOS and a web/electron client at the moment, and a simple Chrome & Safari extension for bookmarking. I plan to eventually add files (blobs), definitions and support extensibility via WASM applications. Its backend (Exocore[2]) is built on top of a personal / private blockchain and is made from the ground up to be hosted in a semi-decentralized fashion on your own personal devices (your computer, raspberry pi, a cloud instance, etc.). It is written in Rust and has iOS, C and Web (WASM) clients. It has very rough edges, but I'm using it daily to organize my life. It has also been my learning playground to improve my Rust skills over the last two years (it was on another tech stack before). [1]: https://github.com/appaquet/exomind https://github.com/appaquet/exomind [2]: https://github.com/appaquet/exocore https://github.com/appaquet/exocore
• champagnepapi 6y ago
  Leetcode
• antomeie 6y ago
  Last fall, during covid-19, I started working on an app to use my iPhone as a webcam for my Mac. I had some interest in it, so I recently released it publicly last month. There are similar apps out there, but to my knowledge my app is the only one that is both 100% free and supports 1080p @ 30 FPS. Hope any of you find it useful: https://webcamplus.app https://webcamplus.app
  • FractalHQ 6y ago
    I love you for this. I was pulling my hair out trying to hack something together using the crappy apps out there for it. Can’t believe it’s not a native feature. Excited to try this and send it to some friends facing similar issues!
    • antomeie 6y ago
      Thank you for the comment, I truly appreciate it! Let me know if you have any questions.
  • Jugurtha 6y ago
    Cool. Are you aware of something similar but Android--> Ubuntu ?
    • antomeie 6y ago
      I don't know of any unfortunately, but I have also not looked around for it, so it is possible it exists.
  • 908B64B197 6y ago
    Does the iOS app speaks a known protocol over USB?
    • antomeie 6y ago
      For the video stream I am using my own custom protocol, but it is on top of TCP. If that is what you meant.
• person_of_color 6y ago
  I want to do a side project but not have web development be part of it. Any ideas?
  • webmaven 6y ago
    A bit more context please. Are you most interested in making something for consumers, businesses, or other developers?
    • person_of_color 6y ago
      Anything that will make me money..
      • webmaven 6y ago
        I am pretty sure you don't really mean 'anything'. If I am wrong about that, there are plenty of ways to make money that are legal but distasteful to most folks that you can pursue.
  • MH15 6y ago
    I'm working on designing and implementing a new programming language right now. Most of my work is for the web platform (be it frontend or backend) so this is a nice break. One of the more "back to CS fundamentals" projects I've done in a while.
  • Jemaclus 6y ago
    There are tons of CLI tools that might be useful. Personally, my go-to side project is to build a MUD (an online text-based multiplayer RPG, totally free. To play around with a popular one, type this in your terminal: telnet avatar.outland.org 3000. No affiliation with Avatar, but it's my favorite one to play.) There are some open-source MUD libraries written in C, C++, and other languages that might be a good reference. No web interface required!
  • bepitulaz 6y ago
    Build the CLI tool or bot. I think you can utilise Telegram or Slack bot as the user interface.
• etherio 6y ago
  I'm working on Archivy [0] - a knowledge management system built around extensibility. [0]: https://archivy.github.io https://archivy.github.io
  • saahilclaypool 6y ago
    I came across that app a little while ago - it definitely inspired my current side project! https://github.com/SaahilClaypool/SearchStory https://github.com/SaahilClaypool/SearchStory which is a similar locally-hosted web app with a Lucene search index
• kmf 6y ago
  Bytesized - my newsletter deep diving into a software topic every week: https://www.bytesized.xyz/ https://www.bytesized.xyz/ The YouTube channel of the same name, trying to keep my streak of weekly videos going through the end of this year: http://youtube.com/c/bytesizedxyz http://youtube.com/c/bytesizedxyz Jobs in DevRel, my job board for developer relations: https://jobsindevrel.com https://jobsindevrel.com
• meeby 6y ago
  I've been working on and off on TubeSync, a PVR for YouTube: https://github.com/meeb/tubesync https://github.com/meeb/tubesync
• donny3000 6y ago
  I'm working on a discussion tool with different modes (real-time, async, docs). Started out as an internal tool for remote writing culture, but now serving small communities — https://demo.gardens.to https://demo.gardens.to
• mraza007 6y ago
  I’m currently developing self hosted texting solution that allows you send text reminders
• cgrs 6y ago
  I've been tinkering with decentralized communication protocols lately and made me think about the XMPP ecosystem (also about ActivityPub integrations with it), so I've started these two projects: - XMPP server in Golang (very early stage) - Mastodon port to Golang (also early stage) (edit: formatting)
• arwhatever 6y ago
  Sieve: https://sievejobs.com https://sievejobs.com Software Development Job Search with metadata to allow developers to filter jobs by any facet that Software Developers could want: - Interview Style - Open Seating vs. anything better. - Pay Rate - Work Hours Expectation - Automated Productivity Monitoring/Surveillance Of course hiring managers would be reluctant to divulge so much; I'm currently working to attract enough (free!) Software Developer/Job Seeker profiles that hiring managers will be more or less compelled to post on the site.
• meesterdude 6y ago
  A casual "game" that lets you organize information (text, pictures, video, webpages) within a 3D building, allowing you to browse and jump in/out of different contexts easily.
  • webmaven 6y ago
    So like a VR 'memory palace'?
  • oujii 6y ago
    Sounds really interesting. I've thought about similar ideas!
• winrid 6y ago
  I've been building FastComments: https://fastcomments.com https://fastcomments.com For the past year or so. I'm also building an MMO game, and you can read the technical details/build thread here: https://jvm-gaming.org/t/tdworld-development-thread/69948/105 https://jvm-gaming.org/t/tdworld-development-thread/69948/10...
  • chdaniel 6y ago
    Oh wow I love it! Love the simplicity of installation — it's definitely a trend that's going up lately, but I'm surprised to see that, since Stripe made it mainstream back in the previous decade, it's... not very very common to have products that are installable with a code embed 1) Can you talk a bit more (to a non-technical person) about how the code embed works 2) As a suggestion, I think you'd do well in no/low-code communities or products. Webflow is a tool I use so I believe it'd be a success there, since the average Webflow user doesn't know how to code advanced stuff, but they know Webflow has a 'code embed' where they can slap a few lines (i.e. Fastcomments' snippet) and stuff works
    • winrid 6y ago
      Thank you! Low-code communities/products makes up a good portion of our existing userbase indeed (Wordpress, Webflow, the like). Webflow, Zendesk, Shopify, Salesforce plugins are planned. We currently have an awesome WP plugin. The other half of our customers are using tools like Gatsby. Here's a blog post from the first month of building the product. Over a year later, lots has changed (I'm also a better writer, sorry!): https://blog.winricklabs.com/(1-24-2020)-how-fastcomments-was-built.html https://blog.winricklabs.com/(1-24-2020)-how-fastcomments-wa...
      • chdaniel 6y ago
        Nice! Glad to hear that! Why don't you get yourself in here? https://university.webflow.com/integrations https://university.webflow.com/integrations Will read the link you've added. Feedback for feedback? https://bychgroup.com/price-unlock/ https://bychgroup.com/price-unlock/
• namigop 6y ago
  I am working on FINT, a gRPC test client that combines functional testing and performance testing in a single application. Been doing this for over a year and the software now has an extensive list of features. http://www.bytesmotion.com/fint/full-list-of-features http://www.bytesmotion.com/fint/full-list-of-features http://www.bytesmotion.com/fint/ http://www.bytesmotion.com/fint/
• chrisdalke 6y ago
  Most recently I built https://www.timelineify.com/ https://www.timelineify.com/ - Spotify messes with the order of albums & singles, making it difficult to hear an artist's works in the order they were released. Timelineify generates a chronological playlist of an artist's entire discography with a few clicks! I was interested in playing around with the Spotify API and this was a narrowly-scoped problem I personally had and could solve in a single weekend. I'm happy with the results, about 500 users have logged in and created a playlist.
  • hopesthoughts 6y ago
    This is cool!
• timqian 6y ago
  I am building an social RSS reader: https://feeds.pub https://feeds.pub
• inssein 6y ago
  Still pretty early, but I am working on a web based database editor that has a lot of other niceties built on top (column based permissioning + rbac). https://app.aidmin.io https://app.aidmin.io
• bepitulaz 6y ago
  I'm building a cryptocurrency automated trading platform and use it for myself. I feel it's a good side project to learn Rust and quantitative trading.
• vinhnx 6y ago
  I have been working on a universal Calendar app for Apple platforms, as iOS, iPadOS, watchOS and macOS specifically; named Clendar. [0][1] My goal is to learn SwiftUI and explore new Apple technologies. The app is now open source on GitHub as well, it's my way to give back to the community as I was learning it. [3] Feedback welcome! --- [1] Download link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/clendar-a-calendar-app/id15481 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/clendar-a-calendar-app/id15481 [2] Landing page: https://vinhnx.github.io/clendar-site https://vinhnx.github.io/clendar-site [3] GitHub: https://github.com/vinhnx/Clendar https://github.com/vinhnx/Clendar
• amozoss 6y ago
  I've been working on https://tellspin.app https://tellspin.app the past 3 months. It's an easy way to do support rotation management in Slack using at-mentions
• dgski 6y ago
  Plan Together: https://plantogether.city/ https://plantogether.city/ An online map-based platform which allows citizens to collaboratively discuss and plan the future of their communities. Storystreamer https://storystreamer.live/ https://storystreamer.live/ Snapchat Story UI Aggregator.
• tixocloud 6y ago
  Over the past few months, I’ve been building a loans management platform for lending companies.
• tjmehta 6y ago
  Top Performing Cryptocurrencies & Altcoins Algorithm https://topcryptos.io https://topcryptos.io
• zeeshanqureshi 6y ago
  Interactive Used Car Buying Guide https://www.isthatalemon.com/ https://www.isthatalemon.com/
• tbwriting 6y ago
  Protecc, a minimalist Missile Command-style game: https://www.playprotecc.com https://www.playprotecc.com Whiteborb, a free multi-user whiteboard: https://www.whiteborb.com https://www.whiteborb.com
• techdragon 6y ago
  I’ve been working on a space telescope constellation. No website or anything yet since marketing is the least of my concerns, there’s so much hardware stuff to work out the feasibility of first. It’s entirely COTS and I’m building the software stack on top of KubOS and Major Tom https://www.kubos.com https://www.kubos.com, and using RPi and Pine64 hardware. LimeSDR hardware and getting the local jurisdiction RF permits to begin work on the communications stack are the next major step after I finish getting the OS built for the various boards it will need to run on. I’ll keep an eye on the the thread, feel free to ask me any questions. (Or email me, email is in my profile)
  • tectonic 6y ago
    Cool!
• jakubgarfield 6y ago
  C# Digest – newsletter for .NET developers https://csharpdigest.net/ https://csharpdigest.net/ Programming Digest – top 5 links for the week https://programmingdigest.net/ https://programmingdigest.net/ I’ve been publishing newsletters for programmers for the past 7 years and running my custom software that always needs an extra feature or two. This month I will try to launch a job board for .NET developers.
• valehelle 6y ago
  Currently I am working on Logname[1], A website to create your developer portfolio and also generate resume from multiple template. [1] https://www.logname.dev https://www.logname.dev
• j4yav 6y ago
  I’m a bit late here, but I’m building AsyncGo (https://asyncgo.com https://asyncgo.com) to be an async communication tool, replacing (Zoom) meetings and Slack for situations where collaboration doesn’t have to be real-time, which is quite a lot of the time. I think the world is better when you give people more flexibility about when and from where the can collaborate with each other - I saw it in action at GitLab when I was working there - and I hope this makes a difference for people.
• evjrob 6y ago
  BayesBet: https://bayesbet.everettsprojects.com/ https://bayesbet.everettsprojects.com/ It's a probabilistic programming powered hockey game prediction model. It hasn't been performing too badly this season! https://twitter.com/hockeystatisti1/status/1370065979988979712 https://twitter.com/hockeystatisti1/status/13700659799889797...
  • Jugurtha 6y ago
    How are you going about this ? What's your workflow to build the model, deploy it, make predictions, etc.
    • evjrob 6y ago
      The model is implemented in PyMC3 and runs daily as a batch job. The model state and predictions are stored in DynamoDB. Early each morning this batch job loads the previous day's posterior as priors, fetches the results for the games played that day, and then fits the Bayesian network to the game results to get new posteriors. I make predictions with these posteriors and then write all the results back to DynamoDB. The frontend is essentially D3, Django, and Zappa.
      • evjrob 6y ago
        I wrote a bit about it in a blog post over the summer: http://everettsprojects.com/2020/08/18/modeling-the-nhl-better.html http://everettsprojects.com/2020/08/18/modeling-the-nhl-bett... There are other posts on my blog about this project. There are links directly to them in the GitHub README: https://github.com/evjrob/bayes-bet#associated-blog-posts https://github.com/evjrob/bayes-bet#associated-blog-posts
• aryamansharda 6y ago
  Awesome Viewer for GitHub's Awesome Lists: http://awesome.digitalbunker.dev/ http://awesome.digitalbunker.dev/ I've been working on a viewer for Github's Awesome lists to make them more useable. I haven't finished it yet, but I'm close. With most of the lists being text based, it was hard to know if the repo it linked to was still being maintained and popular enough to safely use in personal projects. Now anyone that uses my project can easily visualize all of the repos and query them to find projects that are still actively maintained.
• samschooler 6y ago
  Working on a person focused task list/note taking app for me to be less forgetful.. Personal itch, but though others might like it. https://150people.app https://150people.app
  • 600frogs 6y ago
    I'm interested, but without your text here I'd have no idea this was a task list/note taking app. There's not a single mention of that on the site, if I were discovering this for the first time I'd think it was a "mindful" exclusive social media site.
    • samschooler 6y ago
      I get that. Currently trying to nail down the messaging and this landing was my first pass at getting _something_ up. This week I'm going to rework the site to make it more clear what the app is.
• j-rom 6y ago
  I am in the process of building a(nother) recipe website. My goal was to minimize the choice paralysis that people face when they seen a million of recipes at once. I also wanted to try to keep the recipe fetching performant so I built my own index :). I just finished the functional pieces. Right now, the site is a bit rough in terms of styling but I am tackling that next along with UX. Site: https://vibrant-shaw-c25fb7.netlify.app/ https://vibrant-shaw-c25fb7.netlify.app/
• kstenerud 6y ago
  I'm designing a data format that takes the interoperability and readability pain out of sending data between systems. With current solutions, you either have a text format with limited data types and have to encode things into strings (hoping the other side will understand how to convert them), or you use a binary format that's painful to read and use. My solution is a twin binary AND text format with seamless 1:1 conversion between them, and support for all common data types. * No more coercing everything into potentially incompatible strings. * No more interoperability issues - all common types are supported natively. * No more having to choose between efficiency (binary) and readability (text). I'm still finishing off the reference implementation and there will probably be some more tweaks here and there on the spec, but here's what it is currently: https://concise-encoding.org https://concise-encoding.org
• byteaction 6y ago
  Gamefactory: https://gamefactory.tech https://gamefactory.tech A job search platform focusing on the video game industry. It has job ads and company profiles for you to browse. Byte Action: https://www.getrevue.co/profile/byteaction https://www.getrevue.co/profile/byteaction A weekly newsletter for games industry professionals and fans.
• HermanMartinus 6y ago
  The most minimal blogging platform https://bearblog.dev https://bearblog.dev
  • 600frogs 6y ago
    Just chiming in to say I love bearblog, it's a fantastic platform! I'd be interested to know how you monetise it, or if it's unmonetised, then how you plan on doing so in the future if the platform grows past a hobby project. P.S. I understand the "Made with Bear" in the footer is part of the growth strategy and the "price" (albeit a tiny price) to pay for getting your blog hosted, is there option (paid or otherwise) to remove this, say if I wanted to host on my own domain?
• kilroy123 6y ago
  A daily newsletter with one piece of art in it, each day. The goal is to brighten your inbox up just a little bit. Also, I feature artists from around the world you would normally never see. https://randomdailyart.com/ https://randomdailyart.com/
• _booty 6y ago
  I've been busy with a couple of projects With a friend I build Kameleont.me ( https://kameleont.me/ https://kameleont.me/ ) - A link "shortener" where the url redirects to diffrent targets based on device or OS. On my own I build SOGDb ( https://sogdb.com/ https://sogdb.com/ ) - An open database for all available Stadia games with filtering options for local/online multiplayer support and such.
• Oxodao 6y ago
  I'm building Scinna (https://scinna.app/ https://scinna.app/) It aims at being a fully featured server app to share screenshots, and will be having a desktop and android client. The far-far end goal is to have something as good as ShareX but self-hosted and cross platform. The client will feature a toolbox as the one found in ShareX which I really love but with the added benefit of allowing plugins to enrich it Been on it for half a year more or less, as of today, I've got the API working and a cli client that works well in conjunction with maim, and I'm focusing on the web ui
• lggy 6y ago
  https://pancakes.cloud https://pancakes.cloud - A minimal recipe web app which stores all recipes in simple plaintext format and lets you share your recipes with the community. All this, but without all the fluff, ads, stories and infinite scrolling before you get to what you actually want.
  • nicbou 6y ago
    I'm curious to see how the plaintext files look. I built the recipes section of my website on top of a CMS and it's painful to add new recipes.
• nocommandline 6y ago
  Recently launched https://nocommandline.com https://nocommandline.com, a GUI (graphical user interface) for Google App Engine. Did a Show HN last week and I'm currently working on fixing bugs identified from that show HN. Getting it out there (the Show HN) got me some very important feedback and identified some issues which I'm fixing right now.
• j780 6y ago
  I thought I'd see if I could build an 8mm film scanner using stuff you can buy at the dollarstore to leverage your smartphone. So kinda the google cardboard of film scanners. I've set up a kickstarter preview here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2114964482/17400909?ref=4v4lhr&token=af203798 https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2114964482/17400909?ref...
• quickthrower2 6y ago
  I am building a simple Wordpress site for Bitcoin in Australia with affiliate links, price comparisons, articles and hardware wallets for sale. There will be little coding beyond some vanilla JS and that’s what I like about it as I code all day.
  • amir734jj 6y ago
    That's a great idea!
• mikesabbagh 6y ago
  I'm now working on serverl3ss. a platform that allows u to run any container in a severless fashion
• binora 6y ago
  I've been trying to think through something called Story-So-Far which is supposed to be an IDE plugin which logs user keystrokes with timestamps and saves it to a local file .ssf . This file should be replay-able in the IDE which essentially means other developers can literally see how the software was made by the original author. This aims to replace tutorials and also increase open source contributions once you see for yourself how the software was written. I know there are security risks involved. But one problem at a time. Haven't started on the actual implementation yet.
• mbzhu 6y ago
  https://ugly.video https://ugly.video - browser based video conferencing using WebRTC Main idea is to minimize the clicks for my three most common tasks: creating meetings, copying meeting link, and sharing memes.
• showsover 6y ago
  I've been investing for a short while and found no real tools to track my progress to any sort of FI. Before I would use an Excel sheet to keep track of my portfolio value and my net worth, but tracking investments manually was a bit tedious which is why I've started writing a small tool / website to track them for me. At the moment there's no way for me to integrate with brokers and get up-to-date portfolios, but since I am a mostly passive investor it only takes me a few minutes a week to update my positions. I'd appreciate any honest feedback and tips as I haven't had much success in finding anyone besides myself who'd want to use this. You can find it at https://my.roadto.fi https://my.roadto.fi
  • mab122 6y ago
    Please change your password policy. Correctly used long dictionary word-based passwords[1] are no worse than mumbo jumbo alphanumeric 3 symbol and 5 non repeating emojis requirement. [1]https://diceware.dmuth.org/ https://diceware.dmuth.org/ also https://xkcd.com/936/ https://xkcd.com/936/
• galfarragem 6y ago
  https://www.slowernews.com/ https://www.slowernews.com/ - https://github.com/slowernews/slowernews https://github.com/slowernews/slowernews These are, somehow, curated news extracting relevant trends and some edge cases. I see it as a way of using my procrastination positively so I don't really care how popular will it be. I always wanted to read something like this but couldn't find it elsewhere. It may be useful to others also.
• nicbou 6y ago
  https://github.com/nicbou/timeline https://github.com/nicbou/timeline Something that displays your personal history on a timeline: photos, geolocation, social media, searches, browsing history, transactions, chats etc. My goal was to have a repository of my personal data that isn't controlled by a third party. I can use it as a much more contextual diary, and as a way to locate things in time (e.g. purchases, motorcycle maintenance). It's both interesting and useful. It's inspired by my travel diaries, Google History, my photo stream, and the notebook that sits on my desk. It's live since a while, but I'm still working on adding new sources of data. Theres also https://github.com/nicbou/homeserver https://github.com/nicbou/homeserver, my personal streaming service. It's in production since a few years. Recently, I added a watch party mode (WebSockets!) and updated the reencoding logic to waste less disk space.
• asaddhamani 6y ago
  Crestify: https://www.crestify.com https://www.crestify.com It is a bookmarking app with: - Full text search - Permanent Archives (Private WYSIWYG and archive.org) - Full text search on browsing history - Save all your open tabs in 1 click - Chrome (and family), Firefox extensions - Reader Mode - Fully open source codebase BSD licensed - SaaS & Self-hostable - And more... Use coupon code HN to get 50% off your subscription. I used to keep running into issues where I remember reading something somewhere on the internet but would forget where I read it. I have tabs open for documentation, github, PM tools, cloud storage, AWS, localhost, etc. It becomes a mess, especially when working on multiple projects, and adds cognitive load. I've used many bookmarking services. Pinboard can save tabs but the full text search doesn't support SPA sites and the product has stopped evolving. Raindrop is beautiful, but it can't save the browsing history or tabs. The permanent copy they both save is what their server sees, not what I see in my browser. I wanted a swiss-army knife of bookmarking tools that does it all so I can keep everything in one place, and that's what I've made. PS: I built this around 5 years ago to scratch my own itch and learn Flask, I'm working on finding the target audience that would pay for something like this. Can anyone help me there?
• alexmathew16 6y ago
  Pawcket: http://getpawcket.com/ http://getpawcket.com/ It allows you to save tweets to be your new tab page on Chrome. I mainly built this to have stuff like pet pictures and random inspirational messages every time I opened a new tab. On Github: https://github.com/AlexMathew/pupcket https://github.com/AlexMathew/pupcket
• burgerzzz 6y ago
  https://www.budgetbloom.com https://www.budgetbloom.com - Personal finance and budgeting app. It began as some Airtable tables I used to manage my own finances, then I realized I could build something a bit better to visualize the relationships between financial data. Hoping it could potentially earn me some money on the side, but either way it's become a labor of love over the last year that I can't seem to quit working on.
  • rusinov 6y ago
    Can you share info about UI framework you using? Looks nice.
    • burgerzzz 6y ago
      I'm actually just using styled components and styling everything one-off (trying to re-use components as much as possible to maintain some sense of cohesiveness). Started building a design system in Figma awhile back, but realized how much time I was spending on something that wasn't adding value and backed off.
  • igammarays 6y ago
    I'm working on something similar (Airtable-based finances), though it stopped being a side-project when dozens of people started signing up and I got carried away. Very modest income still, but ramen-profitable -- I have no other source of income. Extremely satisfying to eat from the work of my own hands. https://fintable.io/ https://fintable.io/
    • burgerzzz 6y ago
      That is awesome to hear! Website looks great. Did it take some time to gain traction/users?
      • igammarays 6y ago
        Yup it’s a slow steady stream, landing page has been up for a year collecting emails even though it only launched last month.
• rusinov 6y ago
  Hashtag Editor, https://rusinov.me/hashtag-editor https://rusinov.me/hashtag-editor - niche app for organizing social media hashtags. You create campaigns, add your own hashtags (no creepy APIs used), and copy result to clipboard.
• sebnun 6y ago
  A planning poker web app https://myplanningpoker.com/ https://myplanningpoker.com/
• lukehack 6y ago
  It's not monetizable, but I'm playing with reinforcement learning. It's incredible to watch a computer "learn" to play super mario using just input pictures. Neural nets in general are much less complicated than I thought they would be, at least as a practitioner.
  • Jugurtha 6y ago
    Cool. How are you going about this ? Set up, stack, approches, experiments, using the model, etc. What's a typical playing session like ?
    • lukehack 6y ago
      The stack is basic. I develop on an old lenovo laptop and test for a few dozen frames(you can learn a lot without a CUDA GPU) before pushing it to a desktop with a cheap nvidia card. It uses pytorch and pyboy, and the model is just a couple Conv2d expansions and compressions before hitting a Linear layer outputting predicted reward for certain keypresses(basically). The model training is based off of deep Q learning. I'm looking at a pytorch tutorial[1] when I get stuck, but I'm trying to fumble around and try it myself as much as possible before looking at it. I have an idea to have variable Q training propagation based on the amplitude of the reward so that bigger rewards propagate more, but I haven't got there yet. Here is a great video on reinforcement learning[2]. [1] https://pytorch.org/tutorials/intermediate/mario_rl_tutorial.html https://pytorch.org/tutorials/intermediate/mario_rl_tutorial... [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93M1l_nrhpQ&t=3381 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93M1l_nrhpQ&t=3381
• tuangeek 6y ago
  WSB Sentiment: https://wsbsentiment.io https://wsbsentiment.io Tracks the most mentioned stocks on WallstreetBets subreddit. It also does sentiment analysis.
  • dyeje 6y ago
    What do you use for sentiment analysis?
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• m_j_g 6y ago
  https://raw.githack.com/marcinjangrzybowski/cubeViz/master/main.html#assocAlt,pentB https://raw.githack.com/marcinjangrzybowski/cubeViz/master/m... Visual editor for cubical-agda code, currently I am rewriting it in haskell and integrating with emacs. New version will allow to edit code in 3 and 4 dimensions :)
• coreymaass 6y ago
  https://MexicanTrain.Online https://MexicanTrain.Online - An online version of the dominoes game, MexicanTrain. I started a year ago so my family could keep playing. It's brought hundreds of people closer together, which feels great.
• grwthckrmstr 6y ago
  Hey all! My friend and I actually created this tiny habit tracker app that's focused on simplicity and getting out of your way. It's called DailyHabits and it's in early-bird access today. Do share your thoughts :) https://www.preetamnath.com/habit-tracker-app https://www.preetamnath.com/habit-tracker-app
• FrenchyJiby 6y ago
  qrxfil: file exfiltration across airgaps using QR codes. https://github.com/OverkillGuy/qrxfil https://github.com/OverkillGuy/qrxfil Splits files across multiple QR codes for “sending” across air-gapped computer systems. Generates numbered PNG files to scan. The codes contain metadata about chunk number (e.g. “007 of 078”) to enable out-of-order scanning. It's a fun way to learn Rust, and a great trick to get terrified looks from security folks.
  • webmaven 6y ago
    > qrxfil: file exfiltration across airgaps using QR codes. I'm a little confused about the scenario here, how are you getting qrxfil onto the airgapped system, and why doesn't that method allow data egress? For example, using ultrasonic audio as a channel allows you (once installed on the target system via a usb device) to invisibly exfil files to devices with no line of sight to the airgapped system. Another method can steganographicly encode files into benign-seeming printed documents.
• nurturelabs 6y ago
  Building an integrated platform for distributed teams to source, onboard, and hire remote full-time developers from India. Here's the link https://outteam.nurturelabs.co/ https://outteam.nurturelabs.co/ It's a Employer On Record(EOR) service - so hiring is 100% legally compliant there no need of registering a separate legal entity or signing separate contract with each employee.
• OrionSeven 6y ago
  I’m building https://Interweaveapp.com https://Interweaveapp.com a customer product feedback loop application to help startups and product managers manage the full lifecycle of feedback.
  • webmaven 6y ago
    What's the 'thing' that is moving through the lifecycle? A user story? A UX persona? A feature request?
    • OrionSeven 6y ago
      Feedback turns into insights, which turn into ideas, which turn into shipped product. Interweave helps collection of feedback (interviews, surveys, bug reports, and idea boards), helps you synthesis that, helps you prioritize work, and connects back to users when you ship something they're linked to.
      • webmaven 6y ago
        Can you elaborate a bit on the 'insight' and 'idea' artifacts? What do those look like? Are they tied in any way to metrics for validation (and perhaps invalidation if something changes at some future time)?
• adamhp 6y ago
  I'm working on a project I'm calling TripMix. It lets you build travel guides for your friends. Copying my explanation from a recent thread :) My girlfriend and I really enjoy good food and travel. We spend a lot of our time cooking, eating, and going to breweries and wineries. We have a few favorite cities near us, like Charlottesville and the surrounding wine country in Virginia, and Portland, Maine. We've been there with enough frequency that we've developed a sort of reputation as the go-to experts for those areas, and have sent a long e-mail itinerary and travel guide to our close friends probably 10 or 15 times for each place. Sometimes our friend requesting recommendations doesn't drink alcohol, so we go through and scrub all the breweries and wineries. Sometimes they're gluten free, so all of the pizza and bagels we love get cut. After doing this several times, we realized it would be cool to have an app to do this. So that is my side project! It will be part Canva, part Facebook Recommendations, part knowledge-base. Filterable lists, creation of itineraries, notes about each Place (Google Places/Maps integration). Export to a static site with a link you can share. The neat thing is, as I mentioned above, it has filters. So you can tag places with "winery" or "vegetarian" or something, and when you're building your guide for your friends, you can filter on those tags really easily. You could just click the "winery" tag to instantly create a "Virginia Wine Guide". I'm not totally sure it has broad appeal, but I'm hoping a few friends and maybe some travel bloggers get some use out of it. V2 will probably have some sort of "export to CMS" feature. V3 will hopefully be more of a social network. We'll see how it goes :)
  • mcquade 6y ago
    This is a great idea. I personally over-optimize my travel planning. Being able to reference peer recommendations with tags would be a significant improvement over travel sites and Google searches.
    • adamhp 6y ago
      Glad to hear! I agree, and almost always reach out to several other traveling friends for their recommendations whenever we go places. I envision a lot of value being delivered from sort of formalizing the FB Recommendations engine into its own social network and interface. Feel free to drop me some feature suggestions if you have them: adamp319@gmail.com :)
• nunorbatista 6y ago
  I'm developing a knowledge graph for Marketing case studies and examples. I work in the Digital Marketing field and every time I want to take a look at what other brands are doing is always a mess to find good examples. The idea is to have everything in one central place where you can check for brands by industry and region and then learn how they are approaching a topic i.e. e-commerce for EU companies in China, social media case studies for TitTok, etc. Still no domain registered, should be up next week or so.
  • webmaven 6y ago
    > I'm developing a knowledge graph for Marketing case studies and examples. Can you expand on the 'knowledge graph' aspect? Are you using Semantic Web standards as your foundation?
• tjchear 6y ago
  I built SheetUI, a webapp that generates beautiful webpages from google sheets. https://sheetUI.com https://sheetUI.com
  • akudha 6y ago
    Looks cool! How is it doing?
    • tjchear 6y ago
      Free version is doing all right. It's surprising to find what people use it for. One interesting example I found was this manager who uses it as a clock in website for their direct reports. Paid version, not so much. I haven't done very much to promote it however.
  • Jeremy1026 6y ago
    That looks pretty interesting, do you have any examples of what a published page looks like/acts like better than the thumbnails?
    • tjchear 6y ago
      If you click on the thumbnails it'll link you to the generated page!
      • Jeremy1026 6y ago
        Ah thanks! These are really cool. Nice work.
• billconan 6y ago
  I want to build a universal docstring document generator with plantuml integrated.
• sitrucp 6y ago
  COVID-19 vaccine doses administered per 100 people daily rank percentile for all countries in ourworldindata.org https://sitrucp.github.io/covid_world_vaccinations https://sitrucp.github.io/covid_world_vaccinations
• zachm0 6y ago
  I've really enjoyed my Pi-hole so far, so I decided to make an open-source version on the ESP32. It's not quiet finished yet, but it is very close. There are only a few small things that need to be done before I can call it stable, but the last 10% of a project is somehow always the hardest. Pictures can be seen here: https://imgur.com/a/uwwA54Y https://imgur.com/a/uwwA54Y And the repository: https://github.com/zachmorr/esper https://github.com/zachmorr/esper
• LennartP 6y ago
  universitybooks.io: https://universitybooks.io/ https://universitybooks.io/ Lists of books used at the world's best universities.
• perfecto_maduro 6y ago
  I’m building a recommendation engine for cigars. There’s still no UI but testing it on a few users on reddit seems like it’s working quite well. https://old.reddit.com/r/cigars/comments/m3mfbo/looking_for_smart_recommendations_test_your_taste/ https://old.reddit.com/r/cigars/comments/m3mfbo/looking_for_...
• bnchrch 6y ago
  Working on a Github app that will present users with a checklist that they must check off before merging. https://pullchecklist.com https://pullchecklist.com You can create multiple checklists all dependant on - What file paths were changed - What content was added or removed - What branch you're targeting - And a bunch more stuff in the works It's still free since theres some edges to smooth over.
• Akcium 6y ago
  https://user-interface.io https://user-interface.io I've switched from SaaS products to newsletter. UI/UX Tips for developers/founders/indie etc.
• iSloth 6y ago
  BotWars http://botwars.io http://botwars.io A fun little revamp attempt of an old game “RobotGame” that I found on HN years ago, which unfortunately doesn’t exist anymore. Basically a game where you write the bot AI, and battle out against other players in an automated sandbox environment.
• dstik 6y ago
  We're building Circles for Zoom (https://www.circlesforzoom.com https://www.circlesforzoom.com) - to give you more control over your Zoom calls. It's a fully native MacOS app (swift, not electron/etc) built on top of the Zoom SDK that transforms meeting participants into moveable/resizable circles on your screen and offers additional power tools to get your desktop back and have more control over your meeting experience. It's just two of us now, working as fast as we can and listening to user feedback to drive priorities on our roadmap. It's free to use - we would love to hear feedback from anyone willing to give it a shot!
• sebst 6y ago
  I'm trying to build a community around Python and its ecosystem at https://news.python.sc https://news.python.sc Recently, I added a job crawler for Python jobs at https://news.python.sc/jobs https://news.python.sc/jobs This is still WIP and could need some traction ;)