Sweet post bait. I'm working on an online notes organizer. I have ADHD-PI and I've been creating one for myself for the last few years. (I recently found out I might have ADHD)
HTTPS://OrgNote.com
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?
#352Oh 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…
First: these are awesome, and thank you for sharing. (Esp. Spa.mnesty.com - that's hilarious and incredible at the same time) I tried timetaco.com but it's not doing anything. I tabbed my way through the day (it filled in today's date - 2017, then 8, then 10). I select 5 : 10, which is about 3 minutes in the future, and then clicked 'Generate'. It just changes the date (all three parts) to red, and doesn't do anythin…
Try 17:10 instead of 5:10?
Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?
#353I 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…
Didn't expect to see you on HN. I also read your book for self study (not for a class) and really appreciated all the exercises with solutions. Thank you.
Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?
#354http://sharethewub.com
A music player made from URLs pulled from sub-reddits. Its a work in progress.
Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?
#355I 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 :)
Another big thank you from me. I used PureScript to learn functional programming. For me, being able to read the resultant Javascript made a big difference.
Also, I have to say that your code is lovely (both the PureScript code and the Javascript). Every time I think, "I wonder how this works/should work" I take a quick glance and within a few minutes I have my answer. I will start reading the compiler code when I get some time.
Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?
#356Earlier quoted context omitted.
Either this is the worst-scaling web application ever made or you are massively overpaying/overspeccing your VPS. Going to assume the latter.
It's the latter. I don't know why it costs so much, this is the first time I have ever hosted anything so I didn't realize I was overpaying. The way it was phrased I thought I had a year free and then it would be 29$/month but they just started charging me immediately. I haven't had time to look into it. I'll investigate tonight, thanks for pointing it out.
OVH works pretty well and you can get a small VPS for less than USD5
Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?
#357Working on a GitHub iOS app to make managing GitHub projects easier. Fun part is now that it's shipped I'm using it to manage itself.
https://github.com/rnystrom/Freetime
Turning this into more of a social experiment now, seeing where he community wants to take this. Publishing download reports and stuff.
Even made a landing page.
Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?
#358I just saw this thread, and honestly it is probably too late to get noticed by many, but I'm attempting to 'unsuck the web' with my project[0] by pinning "sticky" website elements where they belong - i.e. the website header shouldn't steal your screen real estate and scroll down the page with you. My project/uBO filter list removes the "annoying" elements noted above as well as other "features" of websites (e.g. soci…
This is fantastic, thanks! I started using this "Kill Sticky Headers" [0] I saw on HN once and I find it very useful.
I'll give the ublock list a try.
Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?
#359I run a tv show countdown/tracking site with no ads, because I hate ads.
It's rather basic at the moment, (I wrote most of the code about 10 years ago) but I'm working on an update.
Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?
#360Late arrival to this thread. One of my projects involve working with local female co-operatives in Nepal and help them sell their hand made products around the world. Paypal doesn't operate here, merchant services for international cards are impossible to get. They don't understand technology in any way and there is a lot of hand holding.
The site is https://www.pasatrade.com
We make no money off of this, I operate it at a loss, but each and every sale gets more money back to the women who really need it; a few extra dollars here and there can really make a huge difference in Nepal. The interesting part is they make more money on each sale through us than they do locally or selling through Fair Trade channels.