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

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Post by patmcc »

jonasingvar wrote: post #8

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.

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), and although it's in an utterly unrelated area, it still might end up as a hassle...

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

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Post by alixander »

wongwf82 wrote: post #5

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".

I like this, this is a really nice example of a useful but easy to make project.

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

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Post by Pratheeswaran »

jordsmi wrote: post #10
Pratheeswaran wrote: post #7

The first version of my side project ( 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 :-(

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

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.

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

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Post by jonasingvar »

patmcc wrote: post #11
jonasingvar wrote: post #8

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.

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 ), and although it's in an utterly unrelated area, it still might end up as a hassle...

Thanks for the heads up. Although it looks like their product name is actually HP TeamSite

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

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Post by wongwf82 »

alixander wrote: post #13
wongwf82 wrote: post #5

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".

I like this, this is a really nice example of a useful but easy to make project.

Thanks alixander. Appreciate it :)
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