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Re: Ask HN: What is your current side-project?

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I’ve been running https://kvdb.io as a side project for a while. This weekend, I woke up to a bunch of alerts that the server had run out of open file descriptors (rookie mistake, I never expected to receive more than a thousand simultaneous requests). It turns out someone wrote a tutorial on how to automate COVID-19 appointment slot bookings and used KVdb to store SMS OTP codes. Never expected it, but a great surpri…

Great, simple project. Keep it up!

Re: Ask HN: What is your current side-project?

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That timeline thing [0]. It puts all sorts of personal data on a timeline, producing a rich personal diary with photos, files, conversations, social media posts, geolocation, transactions etc. It's a way to back up and browse the data I generate.

It's kinda crazy that a few companies already hold this much data about you. Building this made me rethink of how I interact with those companies.

[0] https://nicolasbouliane.com/projects/timeline

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post #18

I’ve been running https://kvdb.io as a side project for a while. This weekend, I woke up to a bunch of alerts that the server had run out of open file descriptors (rookie mistake, I never expected to receive more than a thousand simultaneous requests). It turns out someone wrote a tutorial on how to automate COVID-19 appointment slot bookings and used KVdb to store SMS OTP codes. Never expected it, but a great surpri…

such a great and useful project. Kudos :)

Re: Ask HN: What is your current side-project?

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https://twitter.com/OldTechAdverts

Building a twitter community around Adverts from old technology magazines like Byte, Compute!, Crash and ZZap64. Mostly around 8bit computers and the retro computing scene, but also retro stereo decks, cameras and electronics. Most from 80s, 70s and older.

Discovering strange and wonderful creation that are lost in time. :-)

Re: Ask HN: What is your current side-project?

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I've been attempting the '12 projects in 12 months' challenge for a couple of months now.

Most recently I created a book written and illustrated entirely by AI (GPT-3) - https://grimtalesbook.com

I've almost finished a prototype of a physical product for people with a specific desktop PC case which I'm looking forward to launching (nothing technical, more for the DIY builder crowd).

There are a few more ideas that are queued up for the coming months. It's exciting knowing that there's a timeline for each project. There's no need to slog away losing motivation on a single project!

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