Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

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Post by ljvmiranda » Thu, May 14, 2020, 6:59 AM UTC

Create personalized and unique 8-bit sprites from your name using Cellular Automata!

https://ljvmiranda921.github.io/sprites-as-a-service

Github: https://github.com/ljvmiranda921/sprites-as-a-service

Perfect substitute for Github avatars or random profile pics!

I learned Vue and frontend just for this hehe. Good experience so far! Lmk your thoughts!

Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

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Post by danfang » Thu, May 14, 2020, 6:59 AM UTC

I've been trying to build a better, more expressive messenger:

https://get.thread-app.com

Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

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Post by skocznymroczny » Thu, May 14, 2020, 7:00 AM UTC

Working on a simple 3D game engine. Not going for some advanced rendering techniques, just want to have a map you can walk around. Have implemented the map loading (map from Unity Asset Store) some basic postprocessing effects, sky and skeletal animation so that I can have people walking around.

Using D and OpenGL. Might rewrite it to WebGPU in the future when it gets more stable.

https://imgur.com/jAIf6wt

Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

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Post by ISL » Thu, May 14, 2020, 7:03 AM UTC

https://findthemasks.com/ -- part of a team of people helping PPE get where it needs to go .

Have a look at the project here: https://github.com/findthemasks/findthemasks Drop us a PR if you see something that can be better.

Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

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Post by shuhari » Thu, May 14, 2020, 7:03 AM UTC

I've been building a "Reddit for research".

https://asone.ai

Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

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Post by gherkinnn » Thu, May 14, 2020, 7:05 AM UTC

- Cook more, eat better

- Sleep more / better

- Started running with a coach again (ok where I live)

- Finding a new job

- Started using Headspace

- Re-learning some maths

All in all very happy with the current situation.

Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

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Post by nickspicer1993 » Thu, May 14, 2020, 7:06 AM UTC

https://productpedia.co.uk/

A way to catalog all possible product categories and for people to vote which is the best product to buy for each category.

Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

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Post by Jack5500 » Thu, May 14, 2020, 7:07 AM UTC

we're building an implementation of Pictionary you can play with your friends online from home:

https://www.supersketchy.party

Works with Vue & WebSockets.

Still very early, though.

Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

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Post by unglaublich » Thu, May 14, 2020, 7:10 AM UTC

- Baking bread, brewing beer, making Kimchi and stews... these things that take time but have such tasty results. - Re-learning feedback control and linear algebra, then implementing them in C++. - Learning to fully maintain my road bike: replacing the chain, gears, shifter cables, etc. I still don't like dirty hands.

Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

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Post by filleokus » Thu, May 14, 2020, 7:10 AM UTC

I installed Blender and started learning to do simple 3D modelling. Really satisfying to get things right, and also frustrating in an almost funny way, it feels like when I started out programming "I just wanna put a button here, how hard can it be!?!?".

A plus side these days is that it takes enormous amounts of time. For people interested in starting out: My 2019 13" MBP is fast enough for it to be fun, at least for now. So you don't need to worry too much about GPU performance.