Creative writing website for people to write silly hyperfiction novels together. It's closed beta, but over the last month a handful of us have written about eighty chapters totaling about the length of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. We're slowly looking for more writers that like doing round-robin-ish fiction like that. The site ends up owning the content but it's doubtful it will ever end up truly publication quality - it's mostly about just the fun of riffing off each other's submissions. The first version of the site existed almost 25 years ago so there are a lot of in-progress stories, I just brought it back to life with updated tech because of the virus.
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#132A mobile app for the Joking Hazard card game https://jokinghazard.app/ (skip the signup page https://get.jokinghazard.app/start). A fun way to socialise when everyone is staying at home.
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#133https://wearehearted.com
A platform that brings together people that are mentally struggling with isolation due to Corona with screened volunteers ("Hearts") that have a professional background in psychotherapy or social work (for free). The technical implementation is a huge hack right now but it works and our 50+ hearts are having video sessions with people from all over the world every day!
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#134I've launched a side project to let people track the outcome promises/predictions made by public figures and popular Twitter accounts, as I find unrealistic predictions and outright lies can be very damaging:
The stack is Django + Gunicorn / nginx, PostgreSQL and some Intercooler.js and vanilla JS to make the experience smoother.
I've also been trying to learn Elixir + Phoenix, as I find some of the concepts (e.g. LiveView) very promising.
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#135Built a platform for people to play social games with friends and family over Skype/Zoom.
So far 8 games, adding more weekly. Games follow the same code patterns, so about a week to add one.
Everything runs on Firebase, needed something to launch quickly with real-time capabilities. Vue on front-end.
Would love some feedback.
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#136I built my mom a mother's day gift https://get-telephony.now.sh/
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#137We've launched a series of challenges ( 30 riddles and puzzles) themed around a guy named Larry who is in quarantine with his pet hedghehog, for people stuck at home to complete!
https://www.lockdownwithlarry.com
This is built in React and backed by Firebase.
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#138I'm a teacher, and these days I frequently need to email the grades to my students. I created a tool where you can upload a spreadsheet containing name, email, grade, etc of the students and write an email template that references those columns. You can try it here: https://sheetmailer.io (you get 30 free emails to start).
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#139Building a Pretzel stand with my work colleague / friend.
Not sold on the economic of the business, don't think there's much money in pretzels.
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#140As an avid golfer unable to play, I spent some time putting together https://londongolfcourses.com to help other local golfers find a course to play.