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

#241
With the rise of video conferences solutions, I have been working trying to make them better and reducing the gap with physical interactions.

One simple thing I've done is this chrome extension to add party poppers in Google Meet. This is so far the project I've done with the biggest traction. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-meet-party-...

My long term shot is creating a solution for agile teams and facilitators. https://meet.retrolution.co/

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

#243
I am working on a streamlit app that helps me understand financial statements and fundamental ratios (PB, PE ratios, EPS, etc.) of traded companies.

The stack is basically python + streamlit and APIs for stocks data. More about streamlit here: https://streamlit.io/

I am not able find lot of public domain data of German companies. Any help is appreciated.

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

#244
https://20-things.com/

So far only a few people know about it and some of my friends are using it, but my goal is to keep it running and use it myself even if nobody else ends up using it. It is very cheap to operate and I use it as my own personal bookmarking and media upload service. Beware: work in progress!

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

#246
https://www.packrat.app

I've been building a packing list app for ultralight bikepacking, hiking and just a general outdoor gear library. I've had a surge of interest from niche reddit communities and a few hundred test flight users. I'm finding it hard to find time to work on it right now as freelance work is picking up again. Stack wise the majority of the app is written in Kotlin and shared on iOS and Android (haven't got the Android version out yet).

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

#248
https://couchclub.app

I wanted to make an all-online Meetup of sorts, a place where people could find and create communities that host events and get-togethers. Got the MVP done in about a week (thanks to Jitsi!) and then had to focus back on client work. I'm still considering next steps with it.

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

#249
Wrapping Spark in Clojure:

https://github.com/zero-one-group/geni

I used to work at a tech giant, where the data team relies a lot on native Spark in Scala. I've always found the combination quite pleasant to work with. However, I did miss Python's faster startup time, dynamism and REPL, especially when doing data cleaning and exploration with no intention of putting it in production.

Now that I'm doing my own thing at a much smaller scale, I naturally gravitated towards Python's data stack, namely NumPy, Pandas, Sklearn and Dask. However, I found myself missing Spark's consistent SQL API and performance!

So yea, I've been wanting to use more Clojure for work and set up a Clojure shop. During the quarantine, I find myself having more time to do focused work. I thought this would be a good opportunity to convert some of the data wrangling stuff to Clojure!

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