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Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?

#11
Https://github.com/Thorium-sim/thorium - Starship simulator controls. Think Bridge Simulators (like Artemis) meet D&D. The controls facilitate doing space missions, where one participant is a game master and the others take various roles on the ship.

I love working on the controls, and I’m learning a lot too. I’m going to start taking donations soon, but don’t plan on making a ton of money.

Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?

#12
Oh man, that describes all of them.

http://ipfessay.stavros.io/ - Publish uncensorable essays on IPFS

https://www.eternum.io/ - Pin IPFS files with a nice interface

https://www.pastery.net/ - The best pastebin

https://spa.mnesty.com/ - Fuck with spammers

https://www.timetaco.com/ - Easily make nice-looking countdowns

And this is just the last two months or so? Also, lots of hardware stuff:

https://www.stavros.io/projects/

Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?

#13

Yes, I've developed a full-featured BitTorrent library in Java: https://github.com/atomashpolskiy/bt/blob/master/README.md#-... . It was very warmly received by HN folks It was VERY surprising for me to find out that one of the most popular programming languages offers little variety in terms of BT libs/clients. For a long time, if one needed advanced options like DHT or protocol encryption, his only choice would be…

This is very cool. Being a Java lib I guess it can be compiled directly inside Android apps too(?) which is definitely a very big plus!

Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?

#14
http://www.tropic.org.uk/~crispin/quantum/

Upside: it's got a quantum physics game engine, and can teach you quantum mechanics

Downside: HN will continue to tear me apart for making them download a JAR file but you can grab the source and compile it yourself if you like

Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?

#15
A few of mine:

https://www.anfractuosity.com/projects/painting-a-christmas-... - 'painting' the LEDs on my christmas tree.

https://www.anfractuosity.com/projects/optical-magnetic-stri... - optically decoding data from magnetic stripe cards.

https://www.anfractuosity.com/projects/zymeter-simple/ - a rather unsuccessful attempt at measuring specific gravity.

https://github.com/anfractuosity/musicplayer - playing .wav files via RF emissions from a laptop.

Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?

#16
I have been developing side projects for fun since my Engineering days(from past 6 years). Below are the ones worth showing:

1. Track Courier - This was developed to learn the tech-stack Node.js + Backbone.js + PostgreSQL (https://github.com/sunilkumarc/track-courier)

2. Form Filler - This was developed to solve my own problem of having to type common fields like email id, username etc again and again on different web pages (https://github.com/sunilkumarc/form-filler)

3. Subtitle Corrector - This is a linux command line utility to correct subtitle files. Using this one can adjust the entire file by +x or -x seconds (https://github.com/sunilkumarc/subtitle-corrector)

4. 100 - This is a project I started to learn to solve Algorithms and DS problems for my interview preparations. The plan was to solve at least 1 problem everyday for 100 days. But I couldn't do it everyday. Still whenever I solve a problem I put it in this repository (https://github.com/sunilkumarc/100)

5. Desktop Commentary - This is again a linux utility which shows Cricket scores every 10 seconds on your desktop as a Notification Bubble. The problem I was trying to solve here was to avoid going to Espncricinfo website every now and then to check scores when a match is going on (https://github.com/sunilkumarc/desktop-commentary)

6. Alarm Manager - This is one more linux utility to set multiple alarms (up to 5) on your linux machine (https://github.com/sunilkumarc/alarm-manager)

Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?

#17

I recently created Ewolo, it's a web based workout tracker optimized for mobile as well - https://ewolo.fitness I did it mostly because the existing solutions were horrible and I thought that it would also be a great way to learn redux. The front-end is also open-sourced :)

If you think about it, isn't all front end open source? :)

Haha, yes definitely. There is something to be said about allowing people to get a full view of the structure vs letting them prettify the bundle however.

Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?

#20

I recently created Ewolo, it's a web based workout tracker optimized for mobile as well - https://ewolo.fitness I did it mostly because the existing solutions were horrible and I thought that it would also be a great way to learn redux. The front-end is also open-sourced :)

If you think about it, isn't all front end open source? :)

I've thought about it, and no, not really. I mean, try reading the source of http://elm-lang.org/.
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