Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project? • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by Ftuuky » Thu, May 14, 2020, 10:23 AM UTC

I'm trying to learn something about deep learning and do an end-to-end project with computer vision.

I have a raspberry pi and picamera and wanted to detect the pigeons in my balcony and then play a sound or something to shoo them away.

But it's going nowhere, I'm too dumb to even start properly :(

- Nvidia and CUDA stuff is so hard, I can't set it up properly no matter what

- Tried YOLO but without CUDA and OpenCV I can't run it in video. Don't know how to fix it

- Tried to copy other projects but can't find anything that I can parse with my amateur brain. I get lost and doesn't matter how many youtube videos I watch or stackoverflow pages I check, it's errors after errors after errors.

- Tried in windows but that's not viable. Installing Ubuntu nearly broke my pc and somehow a virtualbox messes up the whole thing. Currently looking at this.

So yeah big mess, I'm way over my head and it's not fun anymore. But I still want to shoo away the pigeons and love the idea of learning more about DL/CV but guess I need to learn about the basics first, practice in other things before doing this.

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

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Post by tilolebo » Thu, May 14, 2020, 10:26 AM UTC

I used to learn web development after work, but homeschooling my kids doesn't leave me time for that anymore.

I'm curious how devs with kids at home manage the current situation. The constant multitasking stresses me a lot, I feel incapable of doing anything tech-related that would involve deep focus.

Does cleaning up the flat count as side project :D?

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

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Post by egbert » Thu, May 14, 2020, 10:28 AM UTC

I made a tool I used to create weekly menus publicly available: https://www.weekmaal.nl

Example menu: https://www.weekmaal.nl/public/4fc17e55-cc39-4a4e-b6cf-79c1c...

Warning: Only available in dutch!

I was doing weekly groceries since last summer and had partially automated the process of aggregating the ingredients into one grocery list already.

When the social distancing started I figured maybe others would find this tool useful, so I spent a couple of days building a usable interface and account creation features and told some friends on Facebook. Nobody, besides me and my girlfriend, ended up really using it, but it was a nice exercise nonetheless ;).

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

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Post by tluyben2 » Thu, May 14, 2020, 10:29 AM UTC

Took the lockdown time to completely revamp Flexlists(1) which is a side project we launched 15 years ago and has a solid (slowly growing) fan base who have been crying for new features etc but the codebase is a horrorshow (we used to launch 1 new project per week at that time so this was written in a week which the code does show). So I took this time to rewrite and redesign it completely. Hopefully the new version will launch this month.

(1) https://flexlists.com

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

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Post by hikefast32 » Thu, May 14, 2020, 10:30 AM UTC

I started work in intercooler.js 2.0:

https://kutty.org

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

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Post by user5994461 » Thu, May 14, 2020, 10:30 AM UTC

I've made a webapp showing the progression of the virus worldwide day over day. https://coronaprogress.com/

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

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Post by sci_prog » Thu, May 14, 2020, 10:31 AM UTC

Girlfriend and I made an online multiplayer game https://gibberishgame.com

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

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Post by cheeaun » Thu, May 14, 2020, 10:36 AM UTC

I've been working on my side project https://checkweather.sg/ - weather rain radar on a map thingie. Looks simple, usually boring when there's no rain, but I got to learn how to build those cool vector radars with d3-contour, Mapbox GL JS and stuff. Example: https://twitter.com/cheeaun/status/1259698644908834816

And a React Native iOS app to complement it https://twitter.com/cheeaun/status/1256206047837958144

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

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Post by gghootch » Thu, May 14, 2020, 10:38 AM UTC

An app to re-connect with your favorite people you don't necessarily talk to quite often. It combines Tinder-like swiping with a LinkedIn-like profile that only highlights what you do best and are proud of.

Preview here: https://i.imgur.com/ZNdStSm.png

I imagine this being used by people to reconnect with acquintances that they really admire, who will naturally start new projects / bands / companies / skateboard crews after learning of each other's mutual admiration.

It's super early stages, but would love to hear from you on hello@gethelden.com if you think it's interesting :-)

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

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Post by kamban » Thu, May 14, 2020, 10:44 AM UTC

I have been working on a no-code website creator tool during this time. https://myquicksite.com, lets you convert your Google Sheet into a website. Its still in beta stage, need to hear feedback and improve.