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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 SirHound »

https://popmotion.io - JavaScript animation framework. Writing this over the last few years has probably done more to improve my career than my actual jobs.

I really enjoy it but sometimes maintenance does come at the cost of doing other projects.

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 wheresvic1 »

stavros wrote: post #12

Oh man, that describes all of them. http://ipfessay.stavros.io/ - Publish uncensorable essays on IPFS https://www.eternum.io/ - Pin IPFS files with a nice interface https://www.pastery.net/ - The best pastebin https://spa.mnesty.com/ - Fuck with spammers https://www.timetaco.com/ - Easily make nice-looking countdowns And this is just the last two months or so? Also, lots of hardware stuff: https://www.stavros.io/proj…

Spamnesty is dope! How do you avoid getting blacklisted by the spammers though?

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 kvz »

I'm writing a bot for cryptotrading without having the proper knowledge for something like that. Learning as I go and I expect to lose some money on this (certainly won't give it a budget to manage that I can't afford to lose), but I'm having a ton of fun entertaining the fantasy that I could 'game the system' with my bot

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 atomashpolskiy »

superasn wrote: post #13
atomashpolskiy wrote: post #6

Yes, I've developed a full-featured BitTorrent library in Java: https://github.com/atomashpolskiy/bt/blob/master/README.md#-... . It was very warmly received by HN folks It was VERY surprising for me to find out that one of the most popular programming languages offers little variety in terms of BT libs/clients. For a long time, if one needed advanced options like DHT or protocol encryption, his only choice would be…

This is very cool. Being a Java lib I guess it can be compiled directly inside Android apps too(?) which is definitely a very big plus!

I haven't checked myself yet, but probably yes, if a proper Android SDK with Java 8 de-sugaring support is used.

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 NicoJuicy »

kvz wrote: post #36

I'm writing a bot for cryptotrading without having the proper knowledge for something like that. Learning as I go and I expect to lose some money on this (certainly won't give it a budget to manage that I can't afford to lose), but I'm having a ton of fun entertaining the fantasy that I could 'game the system' with my bot

EMA sounds familiar. I'm exactly in the same position with dot net as programming language. I'm interested in working together , i know other programming languages also

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 kzisme »

stavros wrote: post #12

Oh man, that describes all of them. http://ipfessay.stavros.io/ - Publish uncensorable essays on IPFS https://www.eternum.io/ - Pin IPFS files with a nice interface https://www.pastery.net/ - The best pastebin https://spa.mnesty.com/ - Fuck with spammers https://www.timetaco.com/ - Easily make nice-looking countdowns And this is just the last two months or so? Also, lots of hardware stuff: https://www.stavros.io/proj…

Those are all pretty awesome!

Since they don't really make you any money - do people use them often then - if so how do people find them?

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