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Re: Ask HN: What is your current side-project?

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Post by kondu »

ammmir wrote: post #18

I’ve been running https://kvdb.io as a side project for a while. This weekend, I woke up to a bunch of alerts that the server had run out of open file descriptors (rookie mistake, I never expected to receive more than a thousand simultaneous requests). It turns out someone wrote a tutorial on how to automate COVID-19 appointment slot bookings and used KVdb to store SMS OTP codes. Never expected it, but a great surpri…

Hey, I used one of those vaccine booking projects to get my own shot in India, and it made use of kvdb.io. great work!

Re: Ask HN: What is your current side-project?

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Post by dglass »

I've been building a few nodejs + vuejs apps in order to round out my typescript skills lately, but my real side project doesn't involve a single line of code.

I'm writing a book about career advice for programmers titled "Junior to Senior" that will be published later this year by Holloway[0]. It's been years in the making and there's still some work left, but it's been encouraging to hear the positive feedback since I announced it publicly.

[0]: https://www.holloway.com/b/junior-to-senior

Re: Ask HN: What is your current side-project?

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Post by winrid »

My next project is going to be a (hopefully simple) fuzzy search database, and I'm seriously considering using Nim.

Thinking about calling it Gramcracker (ya know, for n-gram).

The idea is to store lots of data with little memory usage and have predictable performance, by having an on disk index similar to sqlite.

The goal being to get rid of the existing in memory search engine that fastcomments uses, since it's rarely queried but data size keeps growing.

Re: Ask HN: What is your current side-project?

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Post by ogou »

I recently made a Twitter bot that posts a daily random photo from my 13+ year archive of phone photos. A novel feature is auto generation of hashtags using the Imagga image recognition API to analyze the image. The hashtags are not always accurate but building the bot was an interesting learning experience.

https://mobile.twitter.com/phonefotos

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Post by DarrenDev »

SmartEdit Biz -- an editing Add-In for Word and PowerPoint for business users to help in editing documents. It looks for things like excessive use of jargon and buzz words, word and phrase repetition, terminology inconsistencies and formatting issues.

It's a sister product to my existing creative writing Add-In but with a different focus and feature set.

Only a sign-up form exists at this time, but the creative writing Add-In gives a good indication of how it will work.

https://www.smart-edit.com/

Re: Ask HN: What is your current side-project?

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Post by MonortYp »

Daegalus wrote: post #29

Slowly plugging away at a resurrection of a very old MMO. writing the server software from scratch as the original was lost to time and life. Got client source and some server files so just reconstructing the server in Go.

I love this idea, I’ll add it to the back burner and probably forget about it.
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