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Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

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Post by pgt »

I built Bridge to help bring businesses online during lockdown: https://www.tradebridge.app/

Bridge is Chat for Business. It's basically a shopping protocol for chat that works over Telegram, WhatsApp or email – essentially chat commerce. It's not quite ready for a Show HN yet, but so far the interest in my city has been good.

I noticed that more and more companies were doing business over chat. Customers are clamouring to give them money over WhatsApp, Instagram, Telegram and Messenger, but these chat platforms are not designed for trade. Bridge is.

Under lockdown here in South Africa, every business has to become an online business, but traditional eCommerce is too heavy and inflexible for informal traders, especially if there is any barter and negotiation involved over delivery, shipping and payment method. Bridge crosses the chasm by adding structured negotiation to chat.

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Post by samcrawford »

I have two:

1) Trail Router (https://trailrouter.com) - This is a running route planner that favours greenery and nature in the routes it generates. It can generate point-to-point or round-trip routes that meet a specified distance. I developed this because I am (or was...) a frequent traveller for work, and want to run in nice areas rather than by horrible busy roads when I'm visiting somewhere new. Naturally, the utility of this tool is limited at the moment for people stuck in lockdown!

2) Fresh Brews (https://twitter.com/FreshBrews_UK) - I've been touring the UK's finest craft beer breweries from my own home in recent weeks. New beer releases sell out very quickly and I was frequently missing out. Fresh Brews is a simple bot that monitors the online shops of my favourite breweries and posts when a new beer is released to the shop, or an item comes back into stock.

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Post by winterismute »

I started publishing a tragicomic, episodic novel about a group of youngsters that decide to move from playing CoD all the day to develop their own game. It is unfortunately in Italian, but if you happen to understand it, here is the first episode: https://ilsognoindie.substack.com/p/001-la-scoperta (the name means "The Indie Dream")

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Post by lemiffe »

I always wanted to make YouTube videos but never found time or energy after work. Finally decided to give it a go, and combined 2 things I love: Making music and gaming. So I now make videos playing Geoguessr, writing stories about the places I end up in, and composing songs to those stories. I'm thinking now about adding a programming aspect into these videos somehow. https://youtube.com/lemiffe

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Post by spuz »

The pandemic has caused demand for oximeters to skyrocket (going from around £10 to £90 in some cases). I've been working on a project based on a the MAX30102 heart rate and oxygen level sensor which cost me only £5. Actually I am simply tweaking the code that someone else has written which you can see demoed here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/esp32/comments/g64w16/esp32_heartra...

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