Curious how no one mentioned kids yet.
Kids? Do they have a Github repo?
Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?
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Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?
#112Didn't make too much progress yet, but I am making a PHP web framework inspired by the one file codebase that Bottle.py uses and the structure (loosely) of Flask. I am a Python programmer that recently had to use PHP for work, if you haven't noticed :P
Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?
#113http://www.overseer.tv I built a show tracker just for me (it's not nearly where I want it to be, so I don't share it anywhere, eg. currently my show database is out of date I need to see what broke my cron tonight. no ssl cert, no optimization at all I don't even know if my js is minified tbh, etc). I am the only active user http://www.overseer.tv/user/smt and I built this because I watch a shit ton of shows and I o…
Have you heard of https://trakt.tv/ before? It seems to have similar functionality.
No I hadn't but looking at it, this is essentially what I wanted. Really wish I had found this before I built overseer lol. That's a great looking site, I'll give it a try.
Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?
#114It doesn't have to be a full project, right? Do random drive-by PR-requests to open-source projects count? A few months ago I ended up scratching an optimisation itch for weeks, trying to figure out ways to make the lz-string[0][1] library faster and smaller. Near the end I went a bit nuts with trying out what works, methinks (nested trees built out of arrays and such), but I had a lot of fun. It's not even my librar…
Do you like the coding train[1]? [1] https://www.youtube.com/user/shiffman
I have commented many a time on Shiffman's twitter that we need more gifs of him dancing, so yes :)
Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?
#115I need coastal weather data to find the best waves for surfing so I built http://www.swellmatrix.com
I would start other projects with money- making potential but there are always features to add to the site that can get me more waves...
Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?
#116Yet another Game Boy Color emulator, written in Java:
https://github.com/trekawek/coffee-gb
It's quite compatible and brought me a lot of fun. Blog post describing it:
Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?
#117https://kidisms.com Sharing funny kid quotes. Been going for years, not a whole lot of traffic, but the family loves it (that was the intention). Recently migrated from a severely aging kohana/mysql backend to express/rethinkdb.
This is great! My smaller siblings say the wittiest things (often without realising) that brighten my day, I often wonder if there's a platform to 'record' them. I hope that your project will eventually turn into that!
Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?
#118https://jsonip.com
Been running it for years and supports millions of requests a day. Started off as a simple experiment with node.js years ago but turned into a utility thousands of people use every day.
* Ignore jsonip.org. Some Trump troll set that up in June. I made the mistake of not registering all of my domains. Oh well.
Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?
#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
Either this is the worst-scaling web application ever made or you are massively overpaying/overspeccing your VPS. Going to assume the latter.
It's the latter. I don't know why it costs so much, this is the first time I have ever hosted anything so I didn't realize I was overpaying. The way it was phrased I thought I had a year free and then it would be 29$/month but they just started charging me immediately. I haven't had time to look into it. I'll investigate tonight, thanks for pointing it out.
If you want to try another (cheaper) service I personally use Lunanode.com for most things. If you're willing to take a risk with availability find something on lowendbox.com.
Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?
#120https://kidisms.com Sharing funny kid quotes. Been going for years, not a whole lot of traffic, but the family loves it (that was the intention). Recently migrated from a severely aging kohana/mysql backend to express/rethinkdb.
This is great! My smaller siblings say the wittiest things (often without realising) that brighten my day, I often wonder if there's a platform to 'record' them. I hope that your project will eventually turn into that!
Thanks, that was the intent :) Kids say a lot of great stuff, and it's often just forgotten. I'll add a json export so users can save off at some point.