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Re: Ask HN: Any unfinished side projects to give away?

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Post by gadders » Thu, Sep 08, 2016, 3:37 PM UTC

bbcbasic wrote: post #116

autonomic wrote: post #9

Yes. A fully automated business for 3D prints of ultrasound scans in glass cubes. The USP is that you upload a low res scan (most doctors don't want to give you access to the full 3d data) whereupon it does image processing to create a 3d point cloud which it puts into a reverse engineered laser engraving format. If payment is processed on the bundled website it then sends the engraving file and delivery sheet to a s…

Sounds like one of those things that is awesome at the time (everything related to a new baby is), but more like something that will freak you out and make you think 'why!!' a few years down the line.

We hardly looked at the 3d baby scan again after the real thing turned up.

You'd also need to deliver fairly quickly as 3d scans are normally done later in pregnancy so the baby is plumper and doesn't look "like a skinned rabbit" (that was a quote from a midwife) and you'd still need to deliver before the baby pops out.

Re: Ask HN: Any unfinished side projects to give away?

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Post by thepredestrian » Fri, Sep 09, 2016, 4:38 AM UTC

hatter10_6 wrote: post #19

I had been building http://wishcan.com , a drag-and-drop travel planner, and will hand it off to someone willing to continue the work. Trip planning is difficult to get right, and notoriously hard to find a business model for. I think it's simply because no one has gotten the UI/UX perfect. I am now working on an IoT platform called http://smartxlab.com

Where can I contact you? I run a website in the vacation space that ranks well on Google for over 100 keywords. I was planning to expand my website and build a drag n drop feature like the one you did. Let me know if I can reach out to you via email, or you can send me one at thepredestrian@gmail.com

Re: Ask HN: Any unfinished side projects to give away?

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Post by thepredestrian » Fri, Sep 09, 2016, 1:37 PM UTC

hatter10_6 wrote: post #19

I had been building http://wishcan.com , a drag-and-drop travel planner, and will hand it off to someone willing to continue the work. Trip planning is difficult to get right, and notoriously hard to find a business model for. I think it's simply because no one has gotten the UI/UX perfect. I am now working on an IoT platform called http://smartxlab.com

And just to add on to my previous comment (can't edit it), I have over a 1,000 email subscribers from my website. Haven't actually done anything with those emails yet, but I think marketing to them can be accelerated if I get my site to be more user-friendly and feature rich. Would definitely be interested to talk to you about it

Re: Ask HN: Any unfinished side projects to give away?

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Post by megahz » Fri, Sep 09, 2016, 2:10 PM UTC

a friend gave me http://www.thewebsiteprice.com/ that i am willing to sell, if anybody interested in buying.

Re: Ask HN: Any unfinished side projects to give away?

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Post by Adam24 » Fri, Sep 09, 2016, 6:13 PM UTC

DominikSerafin wrote: post #34

https://enboard.co - a web app where you can create "boards" filled with links Some examples of such boards: • https://enboard.co/web/ • https://enboard.co/frontend/ • https://enboard.co/webdesign/ • https://enboard.co/startup/ It'd be willing to hand it to someone (on partnership basis) who could maintain it and grow it. Stack is Linode/Ubuntu/Python/Django/Sass.

I'd love to partner with you on this! Will get in touch through your contact form.

Re: Ask HN: Any unfinished side projects to give away?

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Post by kuntalshah37 » Sat, Sep 10, 2016, 2:04 AM UTC

swilsonalfa wrote: post #13

There's a great website for that: https://www.sideprojectors.com/project/home

Great resource. I have been thinking for such a place where every college kid can submit their projects.

Re: Ask HN: Any unfinished side projects to give away?

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Post by kuntalshah37 » Sat, Sep 10, 2016, 2:06 AM UTC

thex10 wrote: post #63

noahtovares wrote: post #28

I built http://mlist.io but currently don't have time to do anything beyond maintenance. If you interested in email newsletters let me know!

I just started using this last week! It's just what I needed and is amazing - thanks so much for this! I think I'd be willing to help with this.

Very cool concept. I would love to use it and help it.

Re: Ask HN: Any unfinished side projects to give away?

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Post by kuntalshah37 » Sat, Sep 10, 2016, 2:11 AM UTC

megahz wrote: post #124

a friend gave me http://www.thewebsiteprice.com/ that i am willing to sell, if anybody interested in buying.

Seems interesting. What is the logic behind the price calculation. You can send me details at kuntal.shah@digi-corp.com.

Re: Ask HN: Any unfinished side projects to give away?

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Post by pmonte » Sat, Sep 10, 2016, 5:59 AM UTC

A web app to have additional metrics in google analytics (your fb fans, youtube views etc,twitter followers etc). Basically it spiders your fb/twitter/youtube pages to get info and send it to ga via measurement protocol. It stayed online for 2 years, put offline a few months ago.

Re: Ask HN: Any unfinished side projects to give away?

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Post by jesalg » Sun, Sep 11, 2016, 5:05 AM UTC

hatter10_6 wrote: post #19

I had been building http://wishcan.com , a drag-and-drop travel planner, and will hand it off to someone willing to continue the work. Trip planning is difficult to get right, and notoriously hard to find a business model for. I think it's simply because no one has gotten the UI/UX perfect. I am now working on an IoT platform called http://smartxlab.com

WishCan looks pretty awesome. Great job! I built something very similar: http://www.travelizer.io/ - Although it's not as further along as WishCan. Interesting to see so many people attempting to solve the travel planning riddle but it's tough to get it right.