Ask HN: What side projects are you working on? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What side projects are you working on?

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Post by kohanz » Thu, Feb 27, 2014, 7:45 PM UTC

jpwright wrote: post #16

kohanz wrote: post #12

Automated NBA game recaps with more context than your typical boxscore. Note: I am not a web developer, so this project has been mainly to teach myself a new technology (Rails, primarily). It is very much a work in progress. Also, clearly, I am not a designer and am not really sweating that for now. http://recappd.com/games/2014/2/24

Love it. Please keep it going!

Thank you! This kind of feedback is incredibly motivating.

Re: Ask HN: What side projects are you working on?

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Post by codemonkeymike » Thu, Feb 27, 2014, 7:46 PM UTC

fixerfrasse wrote: post #3

Programming language, as if there were not enough of them :)

Are you writing the compiler in assembly language or some other high level language(c,C--, Python...)

Re: Ask HN: What side projects are you working on?

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Post by sehr » Thu, Feb 27, 2014, 7:55 PM UTC

kohanz wrote: post #20

sehr wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Site seems to be down. But when you're finished, hawk this on /r/nba. Lots of devoted fans there, and contributions are very much appreciated.

Thanks for the feedback! It's running on a single droplet on DigitalOcean, so my guess is it can't handle even the slight amount of traffic I'm getting from this HN post. Beyond server-side caching, I think my code is fairly non-optimal. If anyone has any tips for serving up a site like this with limited resources, feel free to teach me.

I don't know if you're aware, but the community section of Digital Ocean has some informative articles on stuff like this, there was actually one posted today about scaling Ruby on Rails applications.

Either way, it's a good problem to have!

https://www.digitalocean.com/community

Re: Ask HN: What side projects are you working on?

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Post by kohanz » Thu, Feb 27, 2014, 8:05 PM UTC

sehr wrote: post #23

kohanz wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for the feedback! It's running on a single droplet on DigitalOcean, so my guess is it can't handle even the slight amount of traffic I'm getting from this HN post. Beyond server-side caching, I think my code is fairly non-optimal. If anyone has any tips for serving up a site like this with limited resources, feel free to teach me.

I don't know if you're aware, but the community section of Digital Ocean has some informative articles on stuff like this, there was actually one posted today about scaling Ruby on Rails applications. Either way, it's a good problem to have! https://www.digitalocean.com/community

Thanks for the link, I will definitely take a look at that. I have found some of those articles to be useful, although external blog posts and gists have proved just as valuable. One recent accomplishment was automating deployment to a single command with Capistrano. Took me a lot longer to set that up than it probably should have, but feels great now :)

Re: Ask HN: What side projects are you working on?

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Post by johnsonmkj » Thu, Feb 27, 2014, 8:24 PM UTC

harrisreynolds wrote: post #7

SimpleGym - SaaS product for CrossFit Gyms ( http://www.simplegym.co ). Rails-based web application that includes a jQuery mobile UI for phones.

really good idea, I hope it works out for you.

Re: Ask HN: What side projects are you working on?

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Post by thearn4 » Thu, Feb 27, 2014, 8:24 PM UTC

Trying to give Julia a far shot. My current scientific computing stack is Python+numpy+scipy+matplotlib, with wrapped C and Fortran where needed.

Also, I wrote a fast numpy implementation of Conway's game of life yesterday, for the heck of it. https://github.com/thearn/game-of-life

Re: Ask HN: What side projects are you working on?

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Post by dsschnau » Thu, Feb 27, 2014, 8:29 PM UTC

kohanz wrote: post #12

Automated NBA game recaps with more context than your typical boxscore. Note: I am not a web developer, so this project has been mainly to teach myself a new technology (Rails, primarily). It is very much a work in progress. Also, clearly, I am not a designer and am not really sweating that for now. http://recappd.com/games/2014/2/24

Where do you get your data for the games? I've been thinking about doing something similar for NHL...

Re: Ask HN: What side projects are you working on?

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Post by strick » Thu, Feb 27, 2014, 8:36 PM UTC

http://www.yearloop.com/

Each day it sends me an email with pictures from 1 yr ago, 2 yrs ago, etc. It is powered by Dropbox. Beta testing now if you want to join in for free!

Re: Ask HN: What side projects are you working on?

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Post by ashraful » Thu, Feb 27, 2014, 8:38 PM UTC

http://hackerlunch.com

I'm working on Hacker Lunch, which lets you meet up and have lunch with another hacker in your area.

Launched a super rough MVP only for hackers in San Francisco, you can try it at http://hackerlunch.com

A few people tried it out and had a pretty fun experience, so I hope more people try it out.

I plan on building this out fully into a mobile app, so the process is a bit more natural and instantaneous.

Re: Ask HN: What side projects are you working on?

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Post by RollAHardSix » Thu, Feb 27, 2014, 8:42 PM UTC

ashraful wrote: post #29

http://hackerlunch.com I'm working on Hacker Lunch, which lets you meet up and have lunch with another hacker in your area. Launched a super rough MVP only for hackers in San Francisco, you can try it at http://hackerlunch.com A few people tried it out and had a pretty fun experience, so I hope more people try it out. I plan on building this out fully into a mobile app, so the process is a bit more natural and instan…

I'd be a bit more interested in signing up for this if I could see people available in my area first.

I like your idea though.