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

#101

A quick and easy way to send files from the command line. https://wsend.net Tech Used: Bash, Node Statistics: 612 users, 7 paying customers History: I started working on this in Jan 2013, I wanted a quick way to send files from the command line and get a URL. I later found after building this backend, I, or anyone could expand upon it in many ways https://github.com/abemassry/wsend https://github.com/abemassry/wsend-…

Interesting – do you know sendfile? http://fex.rus.uni-stuttgart.de/saft/

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

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I'm working on a simple web app that allows construction companies to send estimates and invoices by email and text and get paid immediately by cc or ach. - laravel, twilio, balanced payments - About 70% done - Started this project in Sept, work on it for about 15 - 20 hours a week.

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I wanted a way to be able to use SMS to control apps and devices around me. So, I built http://www.getsmscmd.com/ using .NET on Azure, Twilio and an MQTT broker. Some more info: https://github.com/dmarlow/Sms2Mqtt http://dmarlow.github.io/

I would suggest you disable the auto-playing video on your website, it's really annoying when a website does this, especially since it's so far down the page that I couldn't figure out the source of the music at first!

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

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Handy.js ( http://handyjs.org ) - a simple template for nodejs apps I started playing around with nodejs about 18 months ago and I decided to put all the common functionality of all my projects (user management, cron, backup, content management, etc) into one package that I could maintain separately. It is built with Node.js Redis MySQL

ive checked out handy a few times, very cool!

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

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post #104

I wanted a way to be able to use SMS to control apps and devices around me. So, I built http://www.getsmscmd.com/ using .NET on Azure, Twilio and an MQTT broker. Some more info: https://github.com/dmarlow/Sms2Mqtt http://dmarlow.github.io/

I would suggest you disable the auto-playing video on your website, it's really annoying when a website does this, especially since it's so far down the page that I couldn't figure out the source of the music at first!

Sorry about that. You're absolutely right. Looks like the pages gets the last command sent. Someone had issued a "play" command and caused other pages to also get that command upon loading.

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#107

Public Artfound: The single largest collection of geotagged graffiti/street art http://publicart.io - Rails backend API and iOS app frontend - Nearly 500k images added monthly - This is the current iteration for a 16 week research project of graffiti/street art related software projects

I like this idea and wanted to make it (or something approximating it) myself, but I got hung up on the concern that a location-centric "Who's getting up in $CITY?" webapp would, after achieving some traction, turn it into a useful tool to facilitate the citation/arrest of some of my favorite artists and writers.

On one hand, all of these pieces already show up on Instagram nearly instantaneously, usually geotagged or at least in identifiable locations. But I just couldn't shake the feeling that collating that data might have unintended consequences.

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#108
I am working on a project that lets you monitor your web page or hybrid's apps rendering performance

- http://github.com/axemclion/browser-perf. To quickly test your website, check out http://www.perfmonkey.com/#/trynow

You can use the metrics from this tool to find out which CSS or JS make a webage janky, which action caused multiple paints, etc.

Completely written in Node, can run as a node module and a CLI.

You can get graphs like this - http://nparashuram.com/perfslides/perfjankie.

- Based on Chromium's perf framework, needed a way to monitor performance everytime I deploy a site, automatically.

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

#109

I'm currently working on Kobra, a realtime collaborative code editor, mostly during my lunch breaks. https://Kobra.io Tech Used: AngularJS, Firebase, Firepad, EasyRTC Statistics: Just broke 700 registered users and 5000 file collaborated on. Have made a little over $2000 from 125 people going Pro. History: I started back in December, but gave up too soon. I've since relaunched it as a smaller product and am super hap…

> To celebrate us not getting a YC interview I loled

Gotta make something out of it, lol. :)

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

#110
I am working on an iPad application that generate Apple Watch applications through a "Drag and Drop" interface.

Current prototype use Objective-c and Parse.

Since programmation is no magic, I always wondered if I could create an engine that generate native application on the fly. I built a quick prototype containing a tableview filled from an API with a detail page.

It worked so well that I am now working night and weekends to build a complete engine and a builder.

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