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Ask HN: How long did your last side project take?

8 points by alixander 12y ago

osmanthegreat 12y ago
6 weeks. very loose working hours and very relaxed coding. if i were working on it during my actual work hours it could have taken 2-3 days.
Jacky800 12y ago
5-months and still working on it. For about 2 months did not do any work on it. Now i am resuming.
devendramistri 12y ago
A year and half. And Then it failed. :)
wongwf82 12y ago
http://www.TrendsFormer.co http://www.TrendsFormer.co took me 3-4 days. I created the site as a hobby project to show the trend of something over time, starting with restaurants/locations from Google Places and Yelp. It started as an idea after I had a really bad quality food and service from a restaurant rated 4 out of 5. So with TrendsFormer, I'll be able to see whether the restaurant's quality has gone down over time through a "trend line".
- alixander 12y ago
  I like this, this is a really nice example of a useful but easy to make project.
  - wongwf82 12y ago
    Thanks alixander. Appreciate it :)
schmidtc 12y ago
8 years :-|
- penetrarthur 12y ago
  What is it ?
  - schmidtc 12y ago
    interactive web maps... http://geoscore.com/ http://geoscore.com/
Pratheeswaran 12y ago
The first version of my side project (http://www.kopyscreen.com/ http://www.kopyscreen.com/) took about 8-10 hours, but somehow my interest level went down after showing it to my friends. I want to add few more features to complete it but for about 6 weeks, I did not do any work on it :-(
- jordsmi 12y ago
  Problem with this is there are already apps that do this for you on your computer. Grab the small bit of screen you want to screenshot, not the whole screen, draw, save local or auto upload to imgur
  - Pratheeswaran 12y ago
    yes @jordsmi, I agree. This project actually started as a programming exercise to learn a new lang. and not as something to solve my problem - that might be another reason for my low interest level after developing the first version. I want to continue this, because this helped me learn/develop few new items, which I wouldn't have done in my regular job.
jonasingvar 12y ago
http://teamsite.io http://teamsite.io - Over 6 months working evenings and weekend and am almost done... It's an existing space so I needed to have all the features of my competitors upon launch.
- patmcc 12y ago
  Looks neat - are you at all worried about legal issues with the name? HP owns a product with the exact same name (http://www.autonomy.com/products/teamsite http://www.autonomy.com/products/teamsite), and although it's in an utterly unrelated area, it still might end up as a hassle...
  - jonasingvar 12y ago
    Thanks for the heads up. Although it looks like their product name is actually HP TeamSite
lambtron 12y ago
fetchtext.herokuapp.com Took me about 3 hours, because the library it is based on is wonderful :)

8 points by alixander 12y ago

6 weeks. very loose working hours and very relaxed coding. if i were working on it during my actual work hours it could have taken 2-3 days.

Jacky800 12y ago

5-months and still working on it. For about 2 months did not do any work on it. Now i am resuming.

devendramistri 12y ago

A year and half. And Then it failed. :)

wongwf82 12y ago

http://www.TrendsFormer.co http://www.TrendsFormer.co took me 3-4 days. I created the site as a hobby project to show the trend of something over time, starting with restaurants/locations from Google Places and Yelp. It started as an idea after I had a really bad quality food and service from a restaurant rated 4 out of 5. So with TrendsFormer, I'll be able to see whether the restaurant's quality has gone down over time through a "trend line".

alixander 12y ago
I like this, this is a really nice example of a useful but easy to make project.
- wongwf82 12y ago
  Thanks alixander. Appreciate it :)

schmidtc 12y ago

8 years :-|

penetrarthur 12y ago
What is it ?
- schmidtc 12y ago
  interactive web maps... http://geoscore.com/ http://geoscore.com/

Pratheeswaran 12y ago

The first version of my side project (http://www.kopyscreen.com/ http://www.kopyscreen.com/) took about 8-10 hours, but somehow my interest level went down after showing it to my friends. I want to add few more features to complete it but for about 6 weeks, I did not do any work on it :-(

jordsmi 12y ago
Problem with this is there are already apps that do this for you on your computer. Grab the small bit of screen you want to screenshot, not the whole screen, draw, save local or auto upload to imgur
- Pratheeswaran 12y ago
  yes @jordsmi, I agree. This project actually started as a programming exercise to learn a new lang. and not as something to solve my problem - that might be another reason for my low interest level after developing the first version. I want to continue this, because this helped me learn/develop few new items, which I wouldn't have done in my regular job.

jonasingvar 12y ago

http://teamsite.io http://teamsite.io - Over 6 months working evenings and weekend and am almost done... It's an existing space so I needed to have all the features of my competitors upon launch.

patmcc 12y ago
Looks neat - are you at all worried about legal issues with the name? HP owns a product with the exact same name (http://www.autonomy.com/products/teamsite http://www.autonomy.com/products/teamsite), and although it's in an utterly unrelated area, it still might end up as a hassle...
- jonasingvar 12y ago
  Thanks for the heads up. Although it looks like their product name is actually HP TeamSite

lambtron 12y ago

fetchtext.herokuapp.com Took me about 3 hours, because the library it is based on is wonderful :)