Building https://bruzu.com
Currently at 100+ MRR but I don't care much about it.
I ll keep working on it even no-one would buy, because I love this project so much.
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#32Building https://bruzu.com Currently at 100+ MRR but I don't care much about it. I ll keep working on it even no-one would buy, because I love this project so much.
This is awesome. I will likely never use it but, I can definitely appreciate the effort that went into this. Great example of a side gig/hustle/project!
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#33Originally I made www.chesscraft.ca for my very long commutes. Put it on Google Play because I've never published an app before, and for friends and family. Eventually I added a donation-like IAP and Steam because the community and revenue continues to impress me. I suppose I now care about its success but I'm not sure what to do next since the project never had a long term roadmap. I'm thinking of making a cash prize kaggle competition out of the user generated chess variant data I now have, even tho it makes little business sense.
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#34I’m building a databank for Cyanobacteria specific information. Like a genbank but for Cyanobacteria. I’m not even a biologist so I don’t know what the impact will be, but my girlfriend is and I saw her struggle with some things and I decided to jump on it.
Right now I’m just building the basic forms and such, but I plan on implementing fasta file parsing and an algorithm to locate the conserved regions
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#35https://www.eyedex.org/
It's an open directory search engine I have been slowly cooking on the side for past one and a half year. Basically an open directory is a webpage on the internet with autoindex set to on - it lists files and directories on server with some metadata. The real reason why I built it was to learn PostgreSQL together with some text searching functionality, so far it has been really fun experience. Another reason was that there haven't been sites like this, most of them are shameless redirects to google dorks or just straight up amateur jobs. What mine does differently is take care of file metadata and allows to order/filter by it, which narrows down searches quickly. I really don't care if it succeeds or no, there is no money in it, I don't really care anyways. It kinda scratches the itch about what great services can be build on good old internet and if it's useful for a few people out there, even better.
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#38Pretty much any of the books or board games or video games I'm working on. It'd be great if they did succeed, but I'm not doing a whole lot in marketing or promotion to try to make them succeed, especially right now.
At some point (hopefully soon) I plan to make a new personal homepage for my projects, get back into streaming on Twitch, and make more Youtube videos about my games (I only have like 7 overview videos of my board game designs on Youtube when I've made like, 40+ over the years, the ones with videos are only the ones I submitted to competitions), but in the meantime I'm just hacking away on them in the background.
https://www.youtube.com/user/cableshaft/videos
Like a new version of my Proximity video game I've made a decent amount of progress on this past year but my only update video is still from October 2020. I had intended to make that update weekly, and stream every time I worked on it but then I got busy at work and worn out and my office became a mess and I stopped doing it. Been telling myself each weekend for the past like three months that I need to make a new update video and still haven't yet. Maybe this weekend I'll finally do it: https://youtu.be/0IAx9fsBuus
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#39https://github.com/ScottLilly/MogriChess
It's a variation of chess where the capturing piece acquires the movement capabilities of the piece it captured.
I originally wrote a version seven years ago, but never got far in building a good AI for the bot player. As much as I like the idea behind the game, the program is really a testbench for me to work on memory and speed optimization techniques and probably eventually learn some AI/ML.
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#40Really the only projects I'm truly happy just to do even if only a few friends see them are outside of tech. I like Filk music, woodworking, making YouTube videos, poetry, fiction, and random historical research essays(Currently I'm looking into a completely unfounded theory that the phrase "Diarrhea of the mouth" could have first gotten popular with in France).
As far as Tech, I've got my KaithemAutomation server(Think Home Assistant esque but focused on commercial installs on cheap SD cards), which I'm working on extending to be a CCTV NVR.
The idea of motion detecting multiple high res IP cams on a Pi at once is just too cool to ignore, and current CCTV software is so far behind where I want it to be that It's still exiting to work on.