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Ask HN: What did you make this year?
Now that it's almost 2014, I thought this would be a good place and time. Tell us what you made this year!
Here, I'll even start.
In January I made http://wagr.herokuapp.com/ in a weekend. It takes a future-dated wager and, if things are still working, emails you on the date you told it to remind you to settle up.
In April I made http://www.redditlater.com/, which is basically Buffer for Reddit.
In May, I made https://addressbin.com/, an email-marketing service with few features to discern it from a circa-1990 mailing list.
In June, http://learnxinyminutes.com/ was hastily assembled and released. It contains community-provided quick code references for way more computer languages in way more human languages than I ever expected. This was probably the best thing I did this year. You may recall tutorials from this set hitting HN repeatedly for a short time until everyone was sick of it.
In December I rewrote the marketing copy for Address Bin to produce https://easyecourse.com/, which provides trickle email campaigns with a minimal interface.
But enough about me. What did you build in 2013?
- jere 13y agoAwesome. I love the idea of wagr. It's like an informal LongBets. Kudos on learnx also. My list is not so impressive, but here goes: -I made a wilderness survival game for 7DRL 2013. http://humbit.com/rogue/ http://humbit.com/rogue/ It's not for everyone, but it did make a "Best of 2013" list for roguelikes. -I made my own static site generator in PHP that uses S3/cloudfront. Because why not. The result is a fast blog I think looks great. http://jere.in http://jere.in -I made Autumn.js, a library for hashing keys to colors. https://github.com/nluqo/autumn https://github.com/nluqo/autumn -I just finished up (and am desperately looking for feedback on) http://letspaste.com/ http://letspaste.com/ a gaming screenshot site. I think this is a really neat idea, but I'm not sure if anyone gets it yet. It did teach me about a few JS libraries though: packery and hopscotch My goal for 2014 is to start writing things people actually need/want and to get off of Dreamhost ASAP (yea I know).
- adambard 13y agoI will definitely find a reason to use Autumn.js in 2014, what a fun idea.
- pedalpete 13y agoAutumn.js is perfect for a project I'm working on now. I was wondering how I could select a bunch of 'default' colors without knowing how many items a user would have. Great solution!
- swanson 13y agoAutumn is neat - I wrote a similar function that would turn an email address into one of a handful of colors (hash with some modulo magic), which was used to generate a placeholder avatar for users (until they upload their own). Worked really well, they were unique enough to differentiate and easy to compute.
- mcarrano 13y agoI did not have the opportunity to work on my own projects much this year. I am going into 2014 strong as I just released an Android application that I will continue to improve in the coming months... https://github.com/michaelcarrano/seven_minute_workout_android https://github.com/michaelcarrano/seven_minute_workout_andro...
- krapp 13y agoalmost everything I made is here: https://github.com/kennethrapp https://github.com/kennethrapp and here http://profiles.wordpress.org/kennethrapp/ http://profiles.wordpress.org/kennethrapp/ and here is an example of something i've been messing with this all semester: http://precis.gopagoda.com?url=https://news.ycombinator.com/news http://precis.gopagoda.com?url=https://news.ycombinator.com/... None of it is brilliant or groundbreaking and almost none of it has made me a dime. I also have two semesters of Java and C++ projects which should probably never see the light of day and a forum/HN clone in Laravel which does work but has been put on the back burner for months and months, and my own site which is currently running a half-arsed attempt at a custom PHP framework. So yeah.
- namecast 13y agoI've recommended learnxinyminutes.com to tons of people, I even showed it to my landlord when I was visiting Thailand. Very cool project. For me: I re-built Namecast (https://www.namecast.net https://www.namecast.net) this year. It allows you to manage your DNS using Git and GitHub.
- sbooks 13y agoTrackMyDrive.com, simple mileage tracking done from your smartphone or online. Spent most of 2013 improving the iPhone app.
- garrettdreyfus 13y agoI made a cool python script to tear away the unneeded parts of your CSS libraries. check it out at https://github.com/garrettdreyfus/Libstripper https://github.com/garrettdreyfus/Libstripper.
- mahadazad 13y agoI made many full fledged website scripts this year. Which are very unique. http://www.mememakerscript.com http://www.mememakerscript.com http://www.customqrscript.com http://www.customqrscript.com http://demo.pinscriptpro.com http://demo.pinscriptpro.com have a look
- pjd7 13y agoGreat how many customers have gotten on AddressBin? I am working on something similar.
- jcchin41 13y agoWorking on my very first web app! I'm an aerospace engineer looking to get into web development. -PushPlan, a group decision making app: https://pushplan.meteor.com/huddles/pBpn7KJ7jtAqNbNrJ https://pushplan.meteor.com/huddles/pBpn7KJ7jtAqNbNrJ (A better way for groups to brainstorm ideas and schedule events.)
- japhyr 13y agoI started an open resource for people interested in teaching and learning Python: http://introtopython.org http://introtopython.org This year I hope to bring the project to a level such that people brand new to programming can go from hello world to completing their first games and simple web apps. I aim to make the project section useful for experienced programmers who want a clear explanation of how to build interesting projects in Python. It's on github: http://github.com/ehmatthes/intro_programming http://github.com/ehmatthes/intro_programming
- rajeevk 13y agoI made (ported) Android version of my iOS app Lekh Diagram. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.avabodh.lekh https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.avabodh.le... This is (free on Android and paid on iOS) sketch recognition diagramming app.
- zachlatta 13y agoI worked on Football Heroes, our first iOS application. It's an arcade football games for mobile devices. We're really excited by the progress it's made in the store so far. We currently have over 800,000 downloads and have been in the top 5 overall. We're looking forward to seeing where we will take it in the future! https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/football-heroes/id543009156?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/football-heroes/id543009156?...
- yiggydyang 13y agoI made PocketSuite (http://PocketSuite.io http://PocketSuite.io). It is an easy way for busy people to send invoices, accept payments, book appointments, and stay in touch while on the go.
- wsieroci 13y agoI made http://metrics11.com http://metrics11.com It helps you find profitable keywords for your website which you can use to increase search traffic to your website.
- helen842000 13y agoI created CalCal (http://gum.co/IEMpg http://gum.co/IEMpg) It's a dual timeline printable calendar. It's something I've used myself for a while now and I created it as a digital download to learn more about validating an idea, selling digital products & marketing them.
- wturner 13y agoI made a bunch of little inane things as a precursor to a gargantuan project idea I have that will take me years to complete, and after which flops will inevitably incentivize me to jump off a large cliff. weeee! http://helpknow.com/apps/yayapad/ http://helpknow.com/apps/yayapad/ http://helpknow.com/apps/drumapp/ http://helpknow.com/apps/drumapp/ https://github.com/wktdev/soundstones https://github.com/wktdev/soundstones http://interactiveaudio.wikiaudio.org/ http://interactiveaudio.wikiaudio.org/
- nlp 13y agohttp://fxdata.net http://fxdata.net A foreign exchange data platform. Check it out on a tablet or desktop for the full experience.