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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?

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Post by spondyl »

dmuth wrote: post #90

I built a website which offers real-time statistics for Philadelphia's Regional Rail train system: https://www.septastats.com/ This lets public transit passengers answer questions like: - "My train is getting later and later, is it actually moving?" - "My train is getting later and later, has it actually STARTED its journey?" (sometimes the answer is "no", sadly) - "Is it just my train, or are many trains running lat…

Sweet! I've been wanting to make something similar for my local transit line (they have a public JSON API) but I've been wondering how best to structure it.

Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?

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Post by lchsk »

https://github.com/lchsk/xstarter

Never planned to make any money out of it, I've made it because I needed it, and to play around with building a unix tool in C. It's pretty simple but it's definitely one of the projects I've had the most fun working on and I still have plenty of things I want to add.

Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?

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Post by CM30 »

iwebdevfromhome wrote: post #253
CM30 wrote: post #195

Wario Forums and absolutely anything else associated with it: https://warioforums.com 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…

Awesome! But looks like it's down now :(

Seems my hosting is having problems at the moment. I host Gaming Reinvented (https://gamingreinvented.com) on the same server, and that's been going down a fair bit today as well.

Which is weird, given how even after being linked from the home page of Eurogamer, Destructoid, Nintendo Life and various others all the same time, it didn't move an inch.

Huh, guess LiquidWeb must be having a bad day or something.

Sorry about that!

Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?

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Post by TazeTSchnitzel »

http://pictoswap.ajf.me/

It's a note-drawing messaging single-page web app for the Nintendo 3DS, in homage to the long-since defunct SpotPass (i.e. Internet) functionality of Nintendo Swapnote/Letter Box.

(Also, every open-source contribution of mine ever.)

Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?

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Post by MikeTheGreat »

https://github.com/MikeTheGreat/GLT

I wrote "GLT", which stood for 'GitLab Tool'. It was going to enable me to manage a classroom's worth of git repos, 1 per student per homework assignment.

I chose GitLab because you can set up your own server, and then lock down stuff so it's harder for students to copy homework within the system (obviously they can still copy it offline).

Then I got busy with other stuff.

Then I found out about GitHub Classroom, which is the same thing just hosted by GitHub. I haven't retooled it to work with GitHub, but I'm hoping it's not too tough.

(I started off idly wondering whether to pronounce it "Guilt", like "Why haven't you done more of your grading?" or "gelt", like the candy.)

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