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Ask HN: What are your side projects?

35 points by hahla 14y ago

jjets718 14y ago
I just launched my first web app/side project/potential startup today called PillHQ(http://www.pillhq.com http://www.pillhq.com). It helps people remember to take their medications.
jakewavelabs 14y ago
I'm working on Crowd - It's a music service that offers free music streaming powered by Youtube - http://crowd.im http://crowd.im
apsurd 14y ago
publishing platform for coders/builders: http://ruhoh.com http://ruhoh.com
- tekknolagi 14y ago
  Damn, this is so cool! I love it. I think I'm going to switch from Wordpress, actually.
falseto 14y ago
I just launched my week-end side project called Chatsoul.com. A chat application powered by Websync Comet Server: http://chatsoul.com http://chatsoul.com
wazari972 14y ago
I'm working on https://github.com/wazari972/WebAlbums3/ https://github.com/wazari972/WebAlbums3/ , a website + FUSE-based Filesystem to organize photos
shreyansj 14y ago
I made a small and simple web app to complement wikitravel.org - http://www.picitravel.com http://www.picitravel.com. Motivation for this site was that I wanted to use it as a complementary tool for wikitravel.org site. Wikitravel has tons of useful data but not too many good pictures. My site would get the best pictures from Flickr and display it in a meaningful fashion. This would allow you to view all the pics from a destination in one page rather than googling for individual place. I am still working on making the site faster and adding more features.
ryanackley 14y ago
I made a little development tool for Chrome that does live reload and lets you save directly from the devtools. http://tin.cr http://tin.cr
youngdev 14y ago
http://www.jackpotbuddy.com http://www.jackpotbuddy.com is side project. Working full time on Context aware travel recommendation engine: http://www.diglig.com http://www.diglig.com
Lasher 14y ago
Aardwolf MUD, has been my side project since 1996 and not stopping any time soon. http://www.aardwolf.com http://www.aardwolf.com
- hboon 14y ago
  Hey! I spent lots of time there the few years around 2000. Have you finally rewrote it in Java yet? :)
  - Lasher 14y ago
    Java couldn't keep up as we grew. It was rewritten and finally finished in 2007, the main core is still pure 'C' with the rest in Lua. Using Lua was probably the best single decision we ever made in terms of flexibility and what we've been able to do with mob AI. Still going strong, drop by some time, or join the FB Page...
wonjun 14y ago
Will soon be launching site with information on products releasing in the future and to gauge level of anticipation of people. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4379664 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4379664 Wish you the best of luck with your app! http://www.hypejar.com http://www.hypejar.com
cmars 14y ago
I'm developing an OpenPGP keyserver in Golang. http://launchpad.net/hockeypuck http://launchpad.net/hockeypuck
kimura 14y ago
I am working on a real estate listings management platform. http://www.realtywarp.com http://www.realtywarp.com
- griffindy 14y ago
  what a great idea! I've been working on a place where potential landlords and renters could connect, as using craigslist is just a hellish experience: http://github.com/griffindy/Rently http://github.com/griffindy/Rently. is this just for landlords?
  - dopamean 14y ago
    a friend of mine cofounded a project that sounds similar. www.rentobo.com
    - kimura 14y ago
      Looks well polished.
  - kimura 14y ago
    Thank you for the comment. It is for real estate agents, landlords, and property management companies.
stephenou 14y ago
http://NeedNumbers.me http://NeedNumbers.me - a weekend project I did before school starts. It solves one simple problem of having to manually type in names and numbers after you asked for contacts on Facebook.
philip1209 14y ago
A venture capital lecture series for my campus: http://wute.vc http://wute.vc
decadentcactus 14y ago
http://beta.minecraftsaver.com/ http://beta.minecraftsaver.com/ - Backup/displays for Minecraft worlds http://steamxl.com http://steamxl.com - Chrome extension, coming along slowly, but haven't spent too much time on it. Still learned a lot from it.
mikelbring 14y ago
https://forgetfail.com https://forgetfail.com - I had some clients request database backups. So I built a service for it.
- nmridul 14y ago
  Just a suggestion - You may want to change You're to Your in the line - "Don't fail to forget to back up you're databases."
  - dinkumthinkum 14y ago
    Actually, that's true but you need to change this to "Don't fail to remember to backup your databases" or something similar, right now you're telling me to make sure to forget it. :)
Minbot 14y ago
http://www.heystartup.com http://www.heystartup.com - online pitching platform
richhollis 14y ago
http://wshoppr.com/about http://wshoppr.com/about - Window Shopper: It's a chrome extension that lets you save products you like by simply dragging and dropping the product image to a bar that pops up when you start dragging. It's a shopping bag for the entire internet. So far the people that have used it love the way the dragging works unlike the traditional bookmarklet approach. I built it with a good friend and great UX designer @jesseddy.
roam 14y ago
http://widgetthemes.be/ http://widgetthemes.be/ - premium jQuery UI themes that don't suck.
mattpass 14y ago
http://icecoder.net/ http://icecoder.net/ open source web based IDE
tekknolagi 14y ago
http://brightswipe.com http://brightswipe.com - Brightswipe: It's a fast, open-source, and better looking version of the Pirate Bay, with more features coming soon (SSL, connect to swarm and get new torrents, node-to-node communication, etc). The design right now is godawful (since I designed it) but we have a new design coming out in a few days. It'll be gorgeous.
mleonhard 14y ago
I'm making an Internet protocol for sending money. It is like SMTP for payments.
polyfractal 14y ago
http://comparerc.com http://comparerc.com - Search Engine for the Remote Controlled hobby (quadrocopters, helicopters, planes, fpv, etc). It's been a lot of fun because I get to play with ElasticSearch and responsive JS UIs. Still a long way to go before it is really useful - particularly categorical browsing and parametric serach. I've also writing a weekly "In the Trenches" journal about the project: http://euphonious-intuition.com/category/comparerc/ http://euphonious-intuition.com/category/comparerc/
- polyfractal 14y ago
  I'm curious why this was downvoted...the OP asked for side projects so I posted mine. Did I miss something here?
revorad 14y ago
Share What You Make - http://swym.me http://swym.me
dholowiski 14y ago
http://localbeer.me http://localbeer.me - find locally brewed beer (only has partial data right now, don't panic if it doesn't find any beer near you). This has basically been my playground for cool things - geolocation, facebook actions, rich snippets and more.
ianpurton 14y ago
http://status2k.com http://status2k.com - Server dashboard script. https://www.strongcoin.com https://www.strongcoin.com - Bitcoin e-wallet. https://www.bitcoinary.com https://www.bitcoinary.com - Bitcoin market place. http://servermonitoringhq.com http://servermonitoringhq.com - Server monitoring.
calgaryeng 14y ago
http://easyretirementplanning.ca http://easyretirementplanning.ca - Not only is this a side project, it's also my first foray into web development! (I am a chemical engineer).
adam-_- 14y ago
I'm working on http://twitcherhq.com http://twitcherhq.com - social media analytics and monitoring for startups and small businesses.
searlm 14y ago
http://toutday.com http://toutday.com - Simpler iPhone mood tracking. My first real iOS app.
sideprojectbook 14y ago
We just launched an ebook on this very topic: http://www.sideprojects.com http://www.sideprojects.com 37 side projects, many of which are from Hacker News.
qwerty69 14y ago
I just started my first side project a few weeks ago: http://www.social-permissions.com http://www.social-permissions.com - Unified way to manage the privacy and permssion settings of social sites! It was quite interesting to learn how to develop plugins for Firefox, Chrome & Safari using HTML & JS http://www.nowiam.at http://www.nowiam.at - HTML5 Based Location Sharing A proof of concept how good the HTML5 geolocation feature works among different browsers
niico 14y ago
http://heynico.com http://heynico.com is a tiny UI design agency focused on startups, mobile and landinge pages design.
smartial_arts 14y ago
1. Speed up Twitter reading http://nimblegecko.com http://nimblegecko.com 2. Automated transactions export from my bank(s) https://github.com/ArtS/nab-export https://github.com/ArtS/nab-export https://github.com/ArtS/28degrees-export https://github.com/ArtS/28degrees-export (adding YNAB support at the moment)
expralitemonk 14y ago
I created a web design tool and micro-webhost that allows you to create websites using just your browser. https://www.taigen.us/demo https://www.taigen.us/demo

35 points by hahla 14y ago

I just launched my first web app/side project/potential startup today called PillHQ(http://www.pillhq.com http://www.pillhq.com). It helps people remember to take their medications.

jakewavelabs 14y ago

I'm working on Crowd - It's a music service that offers free music streaming powered by Youtube - http://crowd.im http://crowd.im

apsurd 14y ago

publishing platform for coders/builders: http://ruhoh.com http://ruhoh.com

tekknolagi 14y ago
Damn, this is so cool! I love it. I think I'm going to switch from Wordpress, actually.

falseto 14y ago

I just launched my week-end side project called Chatsoul.com. A chat application powered by Websync Comet Server: http://chatsoul.com http://chatsoul.com

wazari972 14y ago

I'm working on https://github.com/wazari972/WebAlbums3/ https://github.com/wazari972/WebAlbums3/ , a website + FUSE-based Filesystem to organize photos

shreyansj 14y ago

I made a small and simple web app to complement wikitravel.org - http://www.picitravel.com http://www.picitravel.com. Motivation for this site was that I wanted to use it as a complementary tool for wikitravel.org site. Wikitravel has tons of useful data but not too many good pictures. My site would get the best pictures from Flickr and display it in a meaningful fashion. This would allow you to view all the pics from a destination in one page rather than googling for individual place. I am still working on making the site faster and adding more features.

ryanackley 14y ago

I made a little development tool for Chrome that does live reload and lets you save directly from the devtools. http://tin.cr http://tin.cr

youngdev 14y ago

http://www.jackpotbuddy.com http://www.jackpotbuddy.com is side project. Working full time on Context aware travel recommendation engine: http://www.diglig.com http://www.diglig.com

Lasher 14y ago

Aardwolf MUD, has been my side project since 1996 and not stopping any time soon. http://www.aardwolf.com http://www.aardwolf.com

hboon 14y ago
Hey! I spent lots of time there the few years around 2000. Have you finally rewrote it in Java yet? :)
- Lasher 14y ago
  Java couldn't keep up as we grew. It was rewritten and finally finished in 2007, the main core is still pure 'C' with the rest in Lua. Using Lua was probably the best single decision we ever made in terms of flexibility and what we've been able to do with mob AI. Still going strong, drop by some time, or join the FB Page...

wonjun 14y ago

Will soon be launching site with information on products releasing in the future and to gauge level of anticipation of people. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4379664 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4379664 Wish you the best of luck with your app! http://www.hypejar.com http://www.hypejar.com

cmars 14y ago

I'm developing an OpenPGP keyserver in Golang. http://launchpad.net/hockeypuck http://launchpad.net/hockeypuck

kimura 14y ago

I am working on a real estate listings management platform. http://www.realtywarp.com http://www.realtywarp.com

griffindy 14y ago
what a great idea! I've been working on a place where potential landlords and renters could connect, as using craigslist is just a hellish experience: http://github.com/griffindy/Rently http://github.com/griffindy/Rently. is this just for landlords?
- dopamean 14y ago
  a friend of mine cofounded a project that sounds similar. www.rentobo.com
  - kimura 14y ago
    Looks well polished.
- kimura 14y ago
  Thank you for the comment. It is for real estate agents, landlords, and property management companies.

stephenou 14y ago

http://NeedNumbers.me http://NeedNumbers.me - a weekend project I did before school starts. It solves one simple problem of having to manually type in names and numbers after you asked for contacts on Facebook.

philip1209 14y ago

A venture capital lecture series for my campus: http://wute.vc http://wute.vc

decadentcactus 14y ago

http://beta.minecraftsaver.com/ http://beta.minecraftsaver.com/ - Backup/displays for Minecraft worlds http://steamxl.com http://steamxl.com - Chrome extension, coming along slowly, but haven't spent too much time on it. Still learned a lot from it.

mikelbring 14y ago

https://forgetfail.com https://forgetfail.com - I had some clients request database backups. So I built a service for it.

nmridul 14y ago
Just a suggestion - You may want to change You're to Your in the line - "Don't fail to forget to back up you're databases."
- dinkumthinkum 14y ago
  Actually, that's true but you need to change this to "Don't fail to remember to backup your databases" or something similar, right now you're telling me to make sure to forget it. :)

Minbot 14y ago

http://www.heystartup.com http://www.heystartup.com - online pitching platform

richhollis 14y ago

http://wshoppr.com/about http://wshoppr.com/about - Window Shopper: It's a chrome extension that lets you save products you like by simply dragging and dropping the product image to a bar that pops up when you start dragging. It's a shopping bag for the entire internet. So far the people that have used it love the way the dragging works unlike the traditional bookmarklet approach. I built it with a good friend and great UX designer @jesseddy.

roam 14y ago

http://widgetthemes.be/ http://widgetthemes.be/ - premium jQuery UI themes that don't suck.

mattpass 14y ago

http://icecoder.net/ http://icecoder.net/ open source web based IDE

tekknolagi 14y ago

http://brightswipe.com http://brightswipe.com - Brightswipe: It's a fast, open-source, and better looking version of the Pirate Bay, with more features coming soon (SSL, connect to swarm and get new torrents, node-to-node communication, etc). The design right now is godawful (since I designed it) but we have a new design coming out in a few days. It'll be gorgeous.

mleonhard 14y ago

I'm making an Internet protocol for sending money. It is like SMTP for payments.

polyfractal 14y ago

http://comparerc.com http://comparerc.com - Search Engine for the Remote Controlled hobby (quadrocopters, helicopters, planes, fpv, etc). It's been a lot of fun because I get to play with ElasticSearch and responsive JS UIs. Still a long way to go before it is really useful - particularly categorical browsing and parametric serach. I've also writing a weekly "In the Trenches" journal about the project: http://euphonious-intuition.com/category/comparerc/ http://euphonious-intuition.com/category/comparerc/

polyfractal 14y ago
I'm curious why this was downvoted...the OP asked for side projects so I posted mine. Did I miss something here?

revorad 14y ago

Share What You Make - http://swym.me http://swym.me

dholowiski 14y ago

http://localbeer.me http://localbeer.me - find locally brewed beer (only has partial data right now, don't panic if it doesn't find any beer near you). This has basically been my playground for cool things - geolocation, facebook actions, rich snippets and more.

ianpurton 14y ago

http://status2k.com http://status2k.com - Server dashboard script. https://www.strongcoin.com https://www.strongcoin.com - Bitcoin e-wallet. https://www.bitcoinary.com https://www.bitcoinary.com - Bitcoin market place. http://servermonitoringhq.com http://servermonitoringhq.com - Server monitoring.

calgaryeng 14y ago

http://easyretirementplanning.ca http://easyretirementplanning.ca - Not only is this a side project, it's also my first foray into web development! (I am a chemical engineer).

adam-_- 14y ago

I'm working on http://twitcherhq.com http://twitcherhq.com - social media analytics and monitoring for startups and small businesses.

searlm 14y ago

http://toutday.com http://toutday.com - Simpler iPhone mood tracking. My first real iOS app.

sideprojectbook 14y ago

We just launched an ebook on this very topic: http://www.sideprojects.com http://www.sideprojects.com 37 side projects, many of which are from Hacker News.

qwerty69 14y ago

I just started my first side project a few weeks ago: http://www.social-permissions.com http://www.social-permissions.com - Unified way to manage the privacy and permssion settings of social sites! It was quite interesting to learn how to develop plugins for Firefox, Chrome & Safari using HTML & JS http://www.nowiam.at http://www.nowiam.at - HTML5 Based Location Sharing A proof of concept how good the HTML5 geolocation feature works among different browsers

niico 14y ago

http://heynico.com http://heynico.com is a tiny UI design agency focused on startups, mobile and landinge pages design.

smartial_arts 14y ago

1. Speed up Twitter reading http://nimblegecko.com http://nimblegecko.com 2. Automated transactions export from my bank(s) https://github.com/ArtS/nab-export https://github.com/ArtS/nab-export https://github.com/ArtS/28degrees-export https://github.com/ArtS/28degrees-export (adding YNAB support at the moment)

expralitemonk 14y ago

I created a web design tool and micro-webhost that allows you to create websites using just your browser. https://www.taigen.us/demo https://www.taigen.us/demo