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Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?
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#172built 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…
Where did you move to after Beirut? Anything you miss about Beirut?
as cliche as this answer often is: I miss the food and drink most - never quite had anything like it since i left (e.g: bartending just doesn't seem the same on average anywhere else I've been).
so I last 'permanently' lived there in 2013, worked in Dubai for almost 3 years after that and now finishing off my MSc in the UK for the past year.
(edit: to add: I'm from there - so i go back often and get my food fix)
Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?
#173Earlier quoted context omitted.
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!
Thanks, that was the intent :) Kids say a lot of great stuff, and it's often just forgotten. I'll add a json export so users can save off at some point.
Hmm, I'm suddenly struck by a realisation that I check Instagram everyday for therapy purposes (mostly following art and whimsical stuff.) Sometimes the whole "world is going dystopian" thing is just overwhelming; I can imagine a lot of people loving some light-hearted reminders like your Kidisms :)
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#174Makes no money but it does helps me discover new music and I really enjoy the community :) Also the development challenges are super fun (real time chat, multi platform, AI). https://www.jqbx.fm Come join the fun!
Sorry- should also point out: It's a platform that lets you listen to music in sync with others through Spotify (like tt.fm). You can be a DJ, vote on the track, or star it for later. Has been super useful for music discovery and making internet friends.
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#175I wrote and use meditations ( https://github.com/ioddly/meditations ) to help me organize my day using the principles of habit formation. It's been pretty immensely helpful to me. Funnily enough although I never thought of monetizing it, assuming there wouldn't be much interest, there are several similar apps that seem to be pretty popular and doing well. I keep working on my own because it's a good learning exercise and I can keep my data encrypted, locally.
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#176Dead simple personal website in Python and plain JavaScript with contact form, URL shortener, private bookmarks, etc. It's my own territory and I do what I want! fuck unit tests, fuck linters, fuck commit messages length limit, fuck your newest web framework, fuck transpilers, fuck pull requests.
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#177A video podcast of guests sharing their career advice for folks coming into software engineering from unconventional backgrounds:
http://theaccidentalengineer.com/
It's an absolute joy, I am making $0 at this point in time.
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#178I made an app to help me study guitar scales: https://www.coolfretboard.com/
Basically it's a guitar/bass fretboard where you can select a scale and a root note, then it displays the notes of that scale on the fretboard. It also has a bit of info about the scale, like the intervals used to build it.
Initially I didn't plan to publish it, but since it was barely decent I tried to put it online. I just spent a few bucks to buy the domain, but it don't cost me anything to keep it online, since it's just a static page and I use Netlify to host it. Btw, Netlify is awesome! Highly recommended!
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#179Im working on a small project to have ai learn to paint scenes based feeding in styles and objects that I personally classified.
Its been very interesting and almost parental joy to see when the right logical connections are made and the art looks good.
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#180I was surprised how many different types of prime numbers exist. So I am building - https://prime-numbers.info - to find out which one belongs to most of them.
Current winner is 5 - https://prime-numbers.info/number/5 - but still lot of types is missing.