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Ask HN: Those starting new side projects in 2018 – Show and tell

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Re: Ask HN: Those starting new side projects in 2018 – Show and tell

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Post by d_runs_far »

Not for income, but for learning and to scratch my own itch. Finally picked up a raspberry pi and a USB ANT+ reader to pair with my heart rate monitor chest strap. I've had an old 26" LCD TV in our home gym that I will use as the display for the pi. Goal is to create a simple workout timer that also tracks heart rate and logs everything to a local db. My goals out of this are: - learn some python - do some hardware hacking (it's been way too long since I wrote control codes for RS-232 controlled video equipment in the 90's) - will probably do some image analysis down the road to do things like stride count on my treadmill, count reps in the squat rack - still mapping out the long term.

Next steps are to finish the plan for the mvp and then continue messing around. I also need to figure out the best input device for while in the gym and being quite sweaty; something wireless and somewhat rugged.

Re: Ask HN: Those starting new side projects in 2018 – Show and tell

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Post by mahesh_rm »

jozi9 wrote: post #6

Mine is a REST API monitoring service - because I needed one! http://www.apilope.com Going to rework the landing page a bit to make it more benefit/monitoring oriented, I don’t think ‘testing’ is compelling enough as a keyword.

That's an awesome service: the landing page works just perfect in conveying what it is. I would suggest (my 2 cents) try to focus on marketing to get the tool out there instead!

Re: Ask HN: Those starting new side projects in 2018 – Show and tell

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Post by longnguyen »

I'm building `react-qml` [1], a build-tool (and Qt plugin) to help you build native app (desktop/iOS/Android - any platform Qt supports) using JavaScript and React. It's not quite ready to use in production yet but I hope to have a beta release in the next few months. Here is what it offers:

- UI development in Javascript, using either custom React components or React-wrapped .qml components. You can use almost all of your beloved front-end library (react-redux, redux, redux-obserable, lodash etc.)

- Hot reload support! So no more `build/rebuild` in QtCreator (you still need to rebuild for C++ native components)

- Supports JS tools out of the box (React DevTools, Redux DevTools...)

- Use any programming languages to develop backend as long as it has binding with Qt (ie go-qml[2], qml-rust[3] etc.)

[1]: https://github.com/longseespace/react-qml

[2]: https://github.com/go-qml/qml

[3]: https://github.com/White-Oak/qml-rust

Re: Ask HN: Those starting new side projects in 2018 – Show and tell

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Post by Chloro »

ezekg wrote: post #3

Alpaca My Bags - Travel website for pre-planned weekend vacations https://travelalpacamybags.com Been working on it on and off for about 6 months with my wife (I'm behind the tech, she's doing the trip planning/social media stuff). We're looking to officially launch within the next few weeks. We're starting out in the 2 person vacation niche, but looking to expand to other trip sizes and also to trips outside of the…

This looks awesome! I would love to do something like this with my wife. I would be very interested to see how it works out for you after launch.

Re: Ask HN: Those starting new side projects in 2018 – Show and tell

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Post by protoduction »

I'm working on a side project that involves getting useful NN based networks working in a browser.

There's some demos which for instance will do class prediction (cat vs dog), but who needs that? I would love to see stuff like colorization working in a static webpage, at decent speeds (under 5 sec for a big image). It should also be easy enough that my mother could use it.

Re: Ask HN: Those starting new side projects in 2018 – Show and tell

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Post by to-too-two »

ezekg wrote: post #3

Alpaca My Bags - Travel website for pre-planned weekend vacations https://travelalpacamybags.com Been working on it on and off for about 6 months with my wife (I'm behind the tech, she's doing the trip planning/social media stuff). We're looking to officially launch within the next few weeks. We're starting out in the 2 person vacation niche, but looking to expand to other trip sizes and also to trips outside of the…

Looks neat! What's your dev stack for the project?
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