For almost a year, I've been writing a SEGA Dreamcast emulator called WashingtonDC.
It's slow and it doesn't play any games yet, but it can boot the firmware menu and display the animated "spiral swirl" logo.
https://github.com/washingtondc-emu/washingtondc
Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?
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Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?
#192Porting an ancient 6502 Forth to Z80. Nobody will ever use it and there are already loads of Z80 Forths around, but it's fun and forces me to learn exactly how a language that's always interested me works. Not on Github yet.
Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?
#193I created a site as a poetry project that generates random poems from sentences in Craigslist Missed Connections. Some of the poems are actually really poignant and funny.
Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?
#194Oh man, that describes all of them. http://ipfessay.stavros.io/ - Publish uncensorable essays on IPFS https://www.eternum.io/ - Pin IPFS files with a nice interface https://www.pastery.net/ - The best pastebin https://spa.mnesty.com/ - Fuck with spammers https://www.timetaco.com/ - Easily make nice-looking countdowns And this is just the last two months or so? Also, lots of hardware stuff: https://www.stavros.io/proj…
In pastery's FAQ it says
> Everything goes over an encrypted TLS connection, so nobody other than the intended recipient can see what you're pasting.
It should say "nobody other than the intended recipient and the developers of this website".
Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?
#195Wario Forums and absolutely anything else associated with it:
Yeah, I know it's not particularly fancy, nor does it involve any clever coding tricks or interesting features. However, it's literally the only community on the internet dedicated to the series, and one I've decided to run for a minimum of two decades to make sure said franchise finally builds a decent fanbase.
Is it going to make money?
Probably not, given how the franchise it's based on sells about 2 million copies worldwide at most, and hasn't gotten a new game since either 2013 (WarioWare) or 2008 (Wario Land).
But it's one with a passionate audience that up until recently had nowhere online to discuss the series nor anywhere specifically dedicated to their favourite franchise. So I decided to change that by setting up and promoting a community based on it, with the guarantee I'd keep it open for decades in the hope that eventually a community at least the size of the Earthbound one comes about here. With the hope that eventually I won't need to run the forum because there'll be enough sites about it to sustain a decent fandom.
Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?
#196I run a newsletter all about APIs called GET PUT POST (https://tinyletter.com/getputpost).
Each edition features a Q&A with a company about their API and killer app ideas for developers. Here's a recent example with a YC S16 company called Nova: https://getputpost.co/an-api-that-unlocks-global-credit-data...
A few people have reached out about sponsoring it, but just for fun right now :)
Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?
#197I built https://www.liquidityapp.com/ over the summer of 2015: "Liquidity is a smartphone based currency built for Monopoly and all board and tabletop games.", and I actively maintain it. I have enhancement ideas too, but I barely have any time to put into it these days so it is primarily just maintenance. It's one part Android client and one part Scala backend (though there's some Scala in the client too). While I'm…
This is a really cool idea. Nice job!
Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?
#198http://www.caption.me
I built it 12 years ago and have fostered a small but hugely loyal community of caption writers ever since.
Automatically loads three funny photos every day from a Flickr group, and is an ongoing caption competition.
For fun I wrote a real-time collaborative mind mapping feature (node.js / D3) so people could brainstorm caption ideas for upcoming photos.
Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?
#199I'm writing R5RS Scheme _interpreter_ implementation in Kotlin (previously in Java):
https://github.com/kovrik/scheme-in-kotlin/
It is a hybrid of R5RS Scheme + some things from Kawa, Racket and Clojure. It doesn't have a proper name and documentation yet.
I'm writing it as a hobby sandbox project, for learning purposes and fun. Trying to keep it simple and easy to understand (some things are not perfect though).
Features:
- full numerical tower
- lists, vectors, maps, sets, arrays
- symbols, keywords, strings (mutable/immutable), patterns (regexes), chars
- one-shot upward continuations
- Java interop
- futures, promises, delays, boxes (atoms)
Not implemented yet:
- macros
- persistent data structures
- compiler
- bugfixes :)
PS: it is a pleasure to write it in Kotlin. Great language!
Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?
#200All of my Elixir open source projects:
* Plsm - https://github.com/jhartwell/Plsm - which is an Ecto model generator based on existing schemas
* Taex - https://github.com/jhartwell/Taex - A technical Analysis library for Elixir.