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Ask HN: What cool stuff have been built with JavaScript?

5 points by jibly 12y ago

Looking to learn Javascript and build some cool stuff for my startup http://www.traction.vc Before learning it though, I'd like to get inspired about what's possible. Thus collecting a list of cool stuff built with Javascript. What cool apps/websites/experiments that you know of have been built with Javascript? List them here.

picozu 12y ago
Picozu www.picozu.com/editor/, HTML5 image editor built in Js with the help of some 3rd party jQuery libs.
- jibly 12y ago
  wow that looks pretty sophisticated.
faehnrich 12y ago
I wanted to learn JavaScript, so I made a few small programs. Fallout Hacker Helper http://faehnri.ch/fhh/ http://faehnri.ch/fhh/ - a utility to help with the hacking mini game in Fallout 3 WRAP http://faehnri.ch/wrap/ http://faehnri.ch/wrap/ - Web Register Assembly Programming, a browser version of Daniel Dennett's RAP machine, a simple register machine and language he uses for some theory of mind concepts (read his Intuition Pumps) Disrupt Inspiration http://faehnri.ch/disrupt-inspiration/ http://faehnri.ch/disrupt-inspiration/ - something I made quick after a friend and I were joking about startups. Generate startup ideas in the form of "X, but for Y." Submit ideas!
- jibly 12y ago
  very cool little programs. like it!
rubiquity 12y ago
StatsD[0] is pretty awesome and probably the only server side JS tool I would ever use. 0 - https://github.com/etsy/statsd/ https://github.com/etsy/statsd/
- jibly 12y ago
  tnx for sharing
mtmail 12y ago
Vector map rendering (https://www.mapbox.com/blog/mapbox-gl-js/ https://www.mapbox.com/blog/mapbox-gl-js/) editors (https://atom.io/ https://atom.io/) data visualization (https://github.com/mbostock/d3/wiki/Gallery https://github.com/mbostock/d3/wiki/Gallery) compressing data (https://www.npmjs.com/package/gzip-js https://www.npmjs.com/package/gzip-js) image manipulation (https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=jpeg https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=jpeg) My point is: almost anything can be build with Javascript.
- jibly 12y ago
  Point made. Im inspired.
logn 12y ago
SilkJS is neat and much of it is written in JavaScript (the rest is C++) -- http://silkjs.net/ http://silkjs.net/ "SilkJS is a command shell built on top of Google's v8 JavaScript engine, highly optimized for server-side applications"
jurgenwerk 12y ago
I made a jQuery plugin for drawing really sweet donuts: https://github.com/matixmatix/sweet_donut https://github.com/matixmatix/sweet_donut