Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?

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Post by robszumski » Mon, Apr 08, 2024, 1:38 PM UTC

Ecobee Overview - https://ecobeeoverview.com/

I was diagnosing HVAC issues and was frustrated about the visualization of the data with existing tools. I wanted a single screen with all my thermostats, the mode they are operating in, set point, current temp, with synchronized y-axes.

This app is completely stateless which I think is cool from a privacy and ops perspective.

Re: Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?

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Post by hidelooktropic » Mon, Apr 08, 2024, 1:38 PM UTC

I made a Wordle like game that asks you to add two emojis together

https://everything.io

Re: Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?

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Post by adamhowell » Mon, Apr 08, 2024, 1:39 PM UTC

The other day I noticed shipitsquirrel.com was available, so I spent a couple evenings pair programming with ChatGPT to make a fun little Missile Command style game where you help Ship It Squirrel ship by blowing up distractions ;)

https://shipitsquirrel.com

Re: Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?

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Post by greenie_beans » Mon, Apr 08, 2024, 1:40 PM UTC

a notification system that notifies backpackers whenever a highly coveted permits becomes available. made it for myself in a few hours then spent another half day setting it up so other people can subscribe. i got two subscriptions from one reddit comment, made $20 while i was out fishing!

Re: Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?

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Post by kylecazar » Mon, Apr 08, 2024, 1:40 PM UTC

hidelooktropic wrote: post #122

I made a Wordle like game that asks you to add two emojis together https://everything.io

Sounds cool. Is it up? I just get a blank screen with the following:

... + ... = ?

And can't input anything. On mobile

Re: Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?

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Post by pavel_lishin » Mon, Apr 08, 2024, 1:42 PM UTC

Building a ramp for my mother's dog - who can't use the stairs - to go up and down the stairs in our backyard. Both V1 and V2 took a weekend, but V1 was disassembled to use for some other stupid thing in the backyard, and V2 is slightly better and more portable/storable for future dog visits.

I know it's a common trope among software developers, but working with wood and making something physical just feels immensely satisfying.

Re: Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?

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Post by soneca » Mon, Apr 08, 2024, 1:44 PM UTC

ChicagoBoy11 wrote: post #89

I'm Brazilian and when I moved back home for a bit the country had recently inaugurated a national exam for all high-schoolers. About maybe a year after, they'd publish an anonymized data set for researchers with a nice question-by-question breakdown of how every student performed. I worked at a school at the time, and one thing we wanted to know was how WE had performed in the questions so we could gauge if there we…

Great work! Inspiring for me, as I am trying to build a better UI to consult the document “Base Nacional Comum Curricular” and help all schools to use it for their curriculum creation.

Is your site still up?

Re: Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?

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Post by dgritsko » Mon, Apr 08, 2024, 1:44 PM UTC

Was out to dinner with the family, and my kids were enthralled with the "word search" that was on the kid's menu. I thought it'd be cool to build a custom word search generator - given an arbitrary list of words, it'd spit out a grid containing them. The part that made it fun was trying to figure out a layout for an arbitrary list of words that would be as compact as reasonably possible. I was able to get something working in just a couple of hours, and my kids loved being able to do word searches with stuff that was relevant to them, like names of family members. Of course, there are tons of similar generators freely available online, but it was very satisfying to figure it out for myself and come up with something that the kids enjoyed.

Re: Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?

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Post by throaweyprimy » Mon, Apr 08, 2024, 1:44 PM UTC

CharlieDigital wrote: post #84

Last year, my wife and I were planning a 12 day trip and I was struggling with Google Docs moving days around while we planned our final route. Told her to give me 2 days and ended up making a small app to help us plan our trip; the first version was built over New Years weekend: https://turas.app Kept working on it and it was good enough to share to Reddit 6 days later [0]. Got a good number of users and still keep…

This is cool. I’m not a super planner, but I’d use it.

Re: Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?

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Post by codazoda » Mon, Apr 08, 2024, 1:45 PM UTC

I wrote an instructional book about how to publish your own book. It gets good reviews but not a lot of reads due to a lack of promotion. I’ve been thinking about writing a second edition that would be a much longer version as a must read.