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Ask HN: What have you been working on this summer?
A lot of us spend summer time working on a side project, be it a business idea, meme generator or OS project.
What have you been working on this summer? How many days did you spend working? Was it worth it?
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- nkoren 12y agoI quit my day job to work on http://www.podaris.com/ http://www.podaris.com/ full-time. (It's like Google Docs for transport planning). It's going great -- in closed beta now. Hoping to have a public release by the end of September, and turn it into a real business!
- endriju 12y agoWhen looking at your site, i realized how important the video is - it provides comprehensive explanation, especially when considering the product complexity. Anyway that's from June so I guess you've done a lot of progress since then.
- nkoren 12y agoToo busy to cut another video, yes! Progress was somewhat interrupted by a month-long road trip in America, but is still going strong.
- michaelbuckbee 12y agoFinally got my side project (a SSL add-on for Heroku) launched: https://addons.heroku.com/expeditedssl https://addons.heroku.com/expeditedssl - It had been kicking around as half finished for almost 6 months. "Worth It" is a tough one as it's still mostly losing money even though people constantly complain about how expensive it is.
- endriju 12y agoWould be great to see an addon like this for OpenShift, too. Even though the ssl cert. setup there is quite simple, one still have to be careful.
- michaelbuckbee 12y agoIt's on my list - I'm working on Azure right now and then probably OpenShift after that.
- lucasisola 12y agoCreating MVP for http://molo.io http://molo.io. Trying to launch in Fall/Winter.
- bsenftner 12y agoAdding automated lip sync and remote developer access to www.3d-avatar-store.com.
- recalibrator 12y agoA psychological fitness regime for dying. That's all I can say for now: http://eepurl.com/XXOnD http://eepurl.com/XXOnD
- joshschreuder 12y agoThat's one hell of a tagline! Colour me intrigued.
- recalibrator 12y agoThanks for the kind words :)
- fundamental 12y agoI rewrote an older llvm/clang based static analysis tool for asserting properties about a given callgraph for use with C/C++ programs http://github.com/fundamental/stoat http://github.com/fundamental/stoat This one only really took a few days to get it working to a reasonable degree and it was worth every minute to replace the older project with maintenance issues. Other projects were worked on of course, but none of them are at a nicely completed stage.
- JoeAltmaier 12y agoRewrote the media path in a product to have single-allocation zero-copy for video frames. Avoids media node memory ballooning and saves CPU so more clients per node.
- abstrct 12y agoI have been working on a robot battle game that uses cryptocurrency transactions as the main game action mechanic. We call the game Coindroids. It is currently only available to play with Defcoin but it is pretty fun so far. It's kind of like satoshi dice but with tactics/strategy instead of luck. https://def.coindroids.com https://def.coindroids.com
- yodaiken 12y agoTrying to help high school students learn about all the steps in higher education with a nonprofit -- http://www.realitystep.org http://www.realitystep.org. We haven't launched our main product yet but just conversations with students and teachers have made it worth it so far.
- sethish 12y agoI forked Project Gutenberg to github[0]. I've been doing some some work on newsdiffs[1]. I'm working on a python library for dealing with Library of Congress Subject Headings[2]. And I'm trying to get access to and release hundreds of syllabi collected via universities via FOIA request[3]. [0]: gitenberg.github.io [1]: newsdiffs.org [2]: https://github.com/sethwoodworth/LCC https://github.com/sethwoodworth/LCC [3]: http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/u-of-wisconsin-will-turn-over-course-syllabi-to-group-seeking-teacher-prep-data/53689 http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/u-of-wisconsin-will-turn-o...
- tindrlabs 12y agoAn app to help people keep track of their raised bed gardens.
- tekknolagi 12y agoI have been working on a small virtual machine called Carp. Right now I am working on writing my own tokenizer (as opposed to relying upon strtok()) and lexer, and then also a bytecode reader/writer. http://github.com/tekknolagi/carp http://github.com/tekknolagi/carp
- andrewflnr 12y agoFractal rendering and Perlin/simplex noise in Julia. Definitely worth it. I learned a lot, since I basically had to write everything from the ground up except the image handling. I couldn't say how long I spent on it.
- hashtag 12y agoHad an idea a few days ago. Spent the next couple days after that validating and iterating through mockups on first build. Just literally started coding it 2 days ago. Haven't really gotten very far so can't say much but for now I'm excited
- OGiR 12y agoAs a CS student entering into my second year and feeling a little drained from studying theory, this summer I spent a lot of my time learning practical skills and technologies and coding for fun. I've been learning HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, PHP, Apache, MySQL, Bash, Ruby, and Android. I've also been using Linux regularly for the first time, as well as Vim. The main projects I have been working on are my personal website/blog, a text-adventure game in Ruby, A js game using Canvas, and working through the chapters and exercises of "Beginning Android 4 Application Development" (feels like a tome).
- atmosx 12y agoSorry but having a hard time mastering only 3 of the words that you've put together here (being already familiar with Linux and vim), how exactly do you "learn" JQuery, PHP, Ruby and Android in 3 months?!??!?!?! I'm asking out of real curiosity, I'm not judging or anything.
- OGiR 12y agoWell, for JQuery I have been reading tutorials on W3schools and practicing with toy web pages and using some for my personal website. For Ruby, I have been reading the pragmatic programmers book, as well as documentation, and I was playing around with the language by writing a text-based RPG. For PHP I needed to learn some basics to get my wordpress site online, but I also have been reading a book on the LAMP stack, and the w3schools tutorials are very helpful. For Android, I am already familiar with Java, so I have been reading the book I mentioned, as well as the documentation, and working through the practice exercises, as well as tinkering with them. I don't work on these all at the same time, but since I am out of school for 4 months in the summer I have had a lot of time to spend a couple weeks working on one project, and then a couple working on another, and so on. I don't have a schedule for myself, but I try to do some programming every day. There are a lot of technologies I would like to learn; I have a whole career in the future to specialize and learn something VERY in depth. Also, I'm a quick learner ;) EDIT: Forgot to add Git to the list in the first post. Something else I started using this summer.
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- pkinsky 12y agoI wrote a Dvorak practice program in Haskell that uses QuickCheck to generate random pseudo-scala practice sets. https://github.com/pkinsky/dvorak https://github.com/pkinsky/dvorak.
- jtfairbank 12y agoI launched a new version of the Election Analytics project for the 2014 Senate elections. electionanalytics.cs.illinois.edu I've spent 230 hours on the project since January, its definitely been worth it. I've learned project architecture, automation with Grunt.js, leadership skills, and lotsa others in my role of undergraduate team lead. I am looking to transition out of the project tho... its time to move on to the next thing. :) I also learned how to business in preparation for founding a startup. Probs spent 100 hours on reading, discussions, and practice pitches.
- anderspetersson 12y agoI built a marketplace for horseback riding tours [1] Tried to get stable owners to sell their tours on the site, failed. Probably closing it down soon if nothing magically happens. [1] https://www.rida.nu https://www.rida.nu
- endriju 12y agoWhat I miss on the site is current offer of tours. Sometimes you have to "fake it before you make it". If that doesn't work out you can always switch to maintenance mode and come back to the project once you figure out what to do next.
- funtober 12y agoBuild consumer demand on the site first and you'll be able to sell something in the long term. At least that's what I'm hoping works with my current project.
- ac360 12y agoJSON Archetypes – Open-source JSON Models For Popular Types Of Data! https://github.com/servant-cmes/json-archetypes https://github.com/servant-cmes/json-archetypes I've been writing these non-stop for a few weeks now. Let me know what you guys think. A simple star on github could help get this project some traction and perhaps we can one day come up with the best possible representations of every type of data there is :)
- zindlerb 12y agoA port of Bret Victors Drawing Dynamic Visualizations tool
- alok-g 12y agoI would like to hear when you have something. Email is in my profile. Thanks.
- mnort9 12y agoBuilding http://treble.io http://treble.io, a community management tool for twitter. Finally taking beta testers!
- motyar 12y agoI am a LAMP developer. I learned NodeJS, MongoDB, AngularJS, Bootstrap. Spoken english. I still have plan to learn PhoneGap, GruntJS and Jade ( and ? )