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Re: Ask HN: What (side) projects are you working on?

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Post by alexbilbie » Wed, Nov 05, 2014, 3:03 PM UTC

I've been learning Swift and am working on two different apps:

- A London Bus app that improves discovery of potential locations you can get to easily (instead of just routing from your current location to somewhere specific)

- A London Underground app that does smarter routing around problems on the network and is designed for "power users"

I'm also looking at the potential of opening a community cooperative run greengrocers near where I live because I really struggle to get fresh, quality and cheap vegetables both in the area, around where I work and on my commute to and from work.

Re: Ask HN: What (side) projects are you working on?

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Post by alexbilbie » Wed, Nov 05, 2014, 3:03 PM UTC

I've been learning Swift and am working on two different apps:

- A London Bus app that improves discovery of potential locations you can get to easily (instead of just routing from your current location to somewhere specific)

- A London Underground app that does smarter routing around problems on the network and is designed for "power users"

- I'm looking at the potential of opening a community cooperative run greengrocers near where I live because I really struggle to get fresh, quality and cheap vegetables both in the area, around where I work and on my commute to and from work.

Re: Ask HN: What (side) projects are you working on?

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Post by zorbo » Wed, Nov 05, 2014, 3:04 PM UTC

So many things.. but mostly working on these right now

* A tool that generates Markdown API docs from Python files

* A whitebox system scanner that reveals problems with your server configuration. Not your average blackbox security scanner.

* A lightweight service bus without all the enterprise and java around it. It's basically a bunch of connectors that receive or poll for incoming events (rss feeds, email, trello, XMLRPC/SOAP/REST requests), maps it, filters it and then sends it out again. I'll be using this on something like a Raspberry Pie to do some home automation and such. Main goals are that it should be super easy to add new rules, connectors, etc.

Re: Ask HN: What (side) projects are you working on?

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Post by fogleman » Wed, Nov 05, 2014, 3:05 PM UTC

I've been working on a chess engine. It can already whoop me.

https://github.com/fogleman/Chess

It's written in C and implements the Universal Chess Interface (UCI) so it works with most chess GUIs. I've had it playing on FICS some as a guest named GuestEngine.

Re: Ask HN: What (side) projects are you working on?

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Post by wnm » Wed, Nov 05, 2014, 3:06 PM UTC

I am working on a newsletter for remote work opportunities. As a developer you can sign up, and (will be able to) set some filters like what technologies you are interested in, salary, if you want to work full or parttime, what time zone you are in etc... As soon as a company submits a job which matches your criterea (and only then) you will receive a mail.

right now a simple mailchimp form is up on http://remoteworknewsletter.com, and the full version with all filters will be up soon.

I wrote about how i launched the idea on HN a while back: http://blog.remoteworknewsletter.com/2014/10/15/how-to-valdi...

Re: Ask HN: What (side) projects are you working on?

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Post by chinedufn » Wed, Nov 05, 2014, 3:07 PM UTC

Learn how to dance using slow motion and/or looped sections of videos. Using angularjs and html5, working on a Go backend api - http://loopdago.com

Re: Ask HN: What (side) projects are you working on?

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Post by scragg » Wed, Nov 05, 2014, 3:07 PM UTC

Realms Wiki: http://realms.io - Git based Markdown wiki inspired by Gollum with side by side preview like Ghost/Stackeditor. Also support for collaboration via Firepad/TogetherJS

Backend: Python, Flask, Dulwich Frontend/Editor: Bootstrap 3, Handlebars, Ace

Re: Ask HN: What (side) projects are you working on?

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Post by lynaghk » Wed, Nov 05, 2014, 3:07 PM UTC

Full rewrite of The Weathertron iOS app (http://theweathertron.com/) from Angular.js + ClojureScript to React.js + ClojureScript.

The original Weathertron is still runnin' happily for about 40,000 iOS users from a single $5/month Digital Ocean VPS (backend server is written in Clojure).

The motivation for the full rewrite is React.js and the latest Android OS inclusion of a decent WebKit. React's virtual DOM makes rendering more efficient than Angular.js on slower devices and the recent WebKit supports all of the responsive CSS we used in the original iOS version.

Since I don't carry a smartphone at all, I also recently released a free Weathertron Google Chrome extension so that I could use the app myself: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/weathertron/jljkok...

Re: Ask HN: What (side) projects are you working on?

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Post by seiyak » Wed, Nov 05, 2014, 3:08 PM UTC

I've been working on a web crawler for a while. Once it's done,I'll start building a web search engine based on the crawler. It's not been in public yet.

I use C,OpenMPI,Pthread,Valgrind on Linux.

Re: Ask HN: What (side) projects are you working on?

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Post by kanakiyajay » Wed, Nov 05, 2014, 3:08 PM UTC

http://frontb.in/ | Modern Pastebin for the Front End Developer.

Technology: SPA, Node-js, MongoDB

Statistics: About 300 Pageviews a Day

History: Needed a simple way for jsonlint, jshint, pastebin, compressing, remove whitespace basically a quick tools for the web developer