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Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?

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Post by preinheimer »

iDemonix wrote: post #89
preinheimer wrote: post #85

Global Ping Statistics - https://wondernetwork.com/pings We have ~240 servers world wide, we get them all to ping each other every hour, and record the results. We've been generating them for years, they're a pain to store, we've made $0 with it. But I really like the data we're getting. We recently moved a lot of the legacy data into S3 to save our own backup & restore process ( https://wonderproxy.com/blog/moving-p…

What makes them a pain to store? This looks perfect for something like Graphite.

Well, we went with the datastore we knew, MySQL. So on the upside we've got full granularity forever. On the downside we were backing up the full dataset every night. Plus the large amount of data was slowing pages down (even on indexed queries).

Now that we've moved the data older than two weeks over to S3, and query with Athena our site is faster, and we're not treating our backup infrastructure quite as poorly.

Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?

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Post by vitomd »

I couldn´t find a good online site to discover new nonfiction books based on selected great quotes so I made http://arandomquote.com

Another project is gDriveSync.js: Javascript wrapper library for Google Drive API v3. You can list, save, read documents just using html and js https://github.com/vitogit/gDriveSync.js

Another one Sorter: https://github.com/vitogit/sorter is a webapp to organize ideas, tasks and information using bullet points and hashtags.

Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?

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Post by lawrencewu »

I created Juicebox, which lets you listen to youtube/soundcloud songs with other people: https://www.juicebox.dj/

I have made no money off of this. In fact, I've probably paid hundreds in hosting/domain fees. But I love what I've built so far and use it everyday with my friends. Please check it out, I'd love to hear any feedback!

Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?

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Post by davchana »

jansho wrote: post #117
overcast wrote: post #71

https://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!

If by save you mean write/type, save on a cloud backed notepad file with F5 for timestamp.

Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?

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Post by killahpriest »

dmuth wrote: post #90

I built a website which offers real-time statistics for Philadelphia's Regional Rail train system: https://www.septastats.com/ This lets public transit passengers answer questions like: - "My train is getting later and later, is it actually moving?" - "My train is getting later and later, has it actually STARTED its journey?" (sometimes the answer is "no", sadly) - "Is it just my train, or are many trains running lat…

Nice! You should add it to https://github.com/luqmaan/awesome-transit. There's another SEPTA perf related thing on the list: http://phor.net/apps/septa/.

Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?

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Post by cdubzzz »

yev wrote: post #23

Making vue components: https://github.com/euvl/vue-js-modal https://github.com/euvl/vue-js-toggle-button https://github.com/euvl/vue-notification

Nice. We looked at vue-notification for Timestrap[0] and will probably use it whenever we get development rebooted.

[0] https://github.com/overshard/timestrap

Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?

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Post by rayalez »

I occasionally create digital art:

https://www.artstation.com/artist/rayalez

and make video tutorials about it:

https://www.youtube.com/digitalverse

Computer graphics is still by far the most fun hobby I've ever had, I absolutely love it, it's like the most engaging computer game you can imagine times 100.

There's not much profit in making art(unless you want to do it professionally), but it's an awesome way to spend my free time, and sometimes it generates some ideas I like to share on youtube.

If you want to get into it, I highly recommend checking out SideFX Houdini. It's a bit technical, but extremely powerful and well designed 3D software, kinda like emacs of CG applications.

Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?

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Post by vijayr »

bradbeattie wrote: post #127

I'm working on collating as many sources of Canadian federal data into a single relational database, and exposing that data via a public API. https://api.iscanadafair.ca/ Given the sources of this data, I'm pretty sure I'm not even allowed to profit off of this. Not really a problem as I'd be doing this in my spare time anyway. The data-visualization side of it (e.g. https://iscanadafair.ca/data-visualization/example…

I did something similar on a much smaller scale for census, bea etc (only the DB part).

Here in the US, federal gov data (census, bea, bls etc) can be used in commercial products as far as I know. Might be the same in Canada, worth looking into?

Great idea

Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?

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Post by avh02 »

built a slack slash command to spew out excuses (inspired bigtime by giphy) - mainly because I was unemployed and wanted to learn how the slack APIs work - https://xqz.es - I put a blog post together covering how it came to be [1] - also forced me to learn how to get Let's Encrypt certificates.

Also built a twitter stream reading android app [2] - it's butt ugly but was super useful while I lived in Beirut and there was the occasional bomb going off (at the time, that's kind of settled for now, and I no longer live there) - there was a lot i intended to do with it but just sort of... stopped.

[1] - https://arahayrabedian.github.io/writing-a-slack-application...

[2] - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rollingbla...

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