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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?

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Post by tenaciousDaniel »

chaostheory wrote: post #292

Late 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 pe…

This is super interesting to read through, and was very happy to see the Pentax K1000 mentioned! That was my first camera and I used it all the time during my teenage years. The thing was a beast, you could own the same one for 30 years and it would never die on you.

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Post by cthulhu0 »

jimhefferon wrote: post #155

I write math texts that are Free. It is my creative outlet. My Linear Algebra ( http://joshua.smcvt.edu/linearalgebra ) has gotten some traction (and I get a small amount of money from Amazon). I also have an Introduction to Proofs: an Inquiry-Based Approach ( http://joshua.smcvt.edu/proofs ) that I find helps my students, but is in quite a niche area. And I'm working on a Theory of Computation . If I didn't have som…

I'm sure I read your linear algebra book in my undergrad to help me get a grasp on it. I probably still have it on my computer. Thanks for all your work.

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Post by christophilus »

purescript wrote: post #220

I work on the PureScript ( http://purescript.org ) compiler, tools, libraries and book in my spare time (along with many other unpaid contributors), because it's the programming language I wished had existed when I started creating it. It's still the closest thing to a perfect environment for web development, at least as far as I'm concerned :)

PureScript is amazing! Thank you for making it.

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Post by albahk »

Free OpenStreetMap Data extracts (be kind, it is a rushed POC at the moment)

http://propdata.io

I have created a free site containing extracts from OpenStreetMap data. Unlike the metro extracts sites (Geofabrik, Mapzen), my goal is to extract specific datasets such as buildings, schools, hospitals, fast food restaurants etc from OSM rather than standard map/gis data.

My overall goal is to make the extracts available, and then to encourage people who use them and get value to actively update OSM to improve the quality of the data they are interested in. By doing this, the overall quality and coverage of data in OSM should (in theory) be improved.

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Post by orblivion »

Host Wikipedia on Sandstorm.io:

https://apps.sandstorm.io/app/5uh349d0kky2zp5whrh2znahn27gwh...

Kiwix itself is not my project, I just packaged it for Sandstorm. I saw Sandstorm as a great potential tool for the off-the-grid, mesh networking, etc world. Being able to easily host a local copy of Wikipedia was one missing piece. I hope to work on the next piece soon.

(Kixix also supports Project Gutenberg, Stack Overflow, Ted Talks, and much more)

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