https://weelnk.com little link shortener I built. Been a while since I revisited it
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?
#292Late to the game again =/
I'm working on https://theymadethat.com It's an IMDB for everything, not just movies. It does show you who built what but it does more: theymadethat can show you what they used to build it, what those things are made of (parts, ...), their evolutionary history, who they worked with, and so on
I can't say that I'm building it out of sheer joy; it's more out of obligation. There are so many people who's contributions to mankind should never be forgotten. Wikipedia is great (and I see it being complimentary to theymadethat in the long term), but we need something more. I could be wrong but I strongly feel that theymadethat is the answer.
Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?
#293Cat chasing raspi car using a CNN.
Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?
#294https://pinout.xyz A somewhat interactive GPIO pinout for the Raspberry Pi. Not so much out of sheer joy, but because I needed it. It started as a basic way to explore each pin and its available alt-functions. Listings of add-on board pinouts were added later for people who want to use multiple boards- or perhaps connect them to a different host.
Just wanted to say a big thank you for this site. I used it when trying to figure out how to hook up an RFID reader to the Pi. It was suprisingly hard to find the pinout, but finally found your site. This is what I put together: https://bitbucket.org/kruffin/rfid_play
Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?
#295https://pinout.xyz A somewhat interactive GPIO pinout for the Raspberry Pi. Not so much out of sheer joy, but because I needed it. It started as a basic way to explore each pin and its available alt-functions. Listings of add-on board pinouts were added later for people who want to use multiple boards- or perhaps connect them to a different host.
This site is a great reference, thanks for all your work!
Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?
#296https://www.groupmuse.com now envelopes my entire life :) We have starting making a bit of money, finally, but not much and it sure ain't why we've been at it for 5 years!
I love Groupmuse! Great idea, and execution. If you're in the Bay Area I'd love to buy you a coffee/beer!
Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?
#297A program that allows you to control robots in Minecraft from a web browser: https://github.com/dunstad/roboserver
Super cool!
I wrote something that converts png files to OpenComputer 3dprint .3dm files. Next time I play, I'll try to combine your code with my own for easy portraiting :).
Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?
#298I'm hoarding profile data diffs from a well known social network. Been crawling every single user for the past 2 years and saving the changes. Had to stop doing it last month, after storage costs became too much.
Woah, do you have an end goal with this. Willing to let people get their hands on it?
I'd like to set it up as a subscription service like Domaintools. I'm also crawling and storing user's comments, friends, posts and links to media published in other groups.
It will make a great tool for profiling a person, but I'm not sure on how (il)legal it will be.
Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?
#299I built this 3d visualization of the upcoming Perseids meteor shower!
Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?
#300100 Million Books -- mission is to promote intellectual diversity. It's a Chrome extension/homepage that shows you a new book every time you open a new tab, plus a special hand-picked idea that teaches you a new perspective/fact/concept. I'm evaluating a couple different paths to make it profitable, but it's not currently making anything since Amazon cut me off its affiliate program. http://www.100millionbooks.org
I use this, it's really cool. Thanks!
Thank YOU for using it :)