Ask HN: Those starting new side projects in 2018 – Show and tell • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Those starting new side projects in 2018 – Show and tell

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Post by antonpenev » Mon, Jan 08, 2018, 1:29 PM UTC

BotFrog. Chatbots for several channels.

https://botfrog.com

Automating support and marketing campaigns for multiple social media channels using easy to setup bots

Current stack: React, Express, Mongo. And we'll be happy for any feedback or subscriptions.

Re: Ask HN: Those starting new side projects in 2018 – Show and tell

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Post by ISNIT » Mon, Jan 08, 2018, 1:39 PM UTC

This year I'm committed to launching 12 projects in 12 months. For January, I took a couple of days out and built API Console

https://apiconsole.io/

NOTE: the website was "heavily inspired by" (copied from) ZeroNet.io - I built the whole thing in 2 days, didn't have time to make my own.

The aim is to have it making some money, but I'd really appreciate any feedback on the copy, pitching, etc. Copy is NOT my strong point (though I'm learning).

Any feedback is welcome, but I'd primarily appreciate the following: - Framing/Pitching of the product - Copy - Product/idea itself - Should I continue developing it before I get email addresses?

Re: Ask HN: Those starting new side projects in 2018 – Show and tell

#43

Post by Slaul » Mon, Jan 08, 2018, 1:44 PM UTC

thecupisblue wrote: post #32

Slaul wrote: post #15

I'm working on a web based fitness and nutrition tracker because I am not satisfied with the current offerings out there. I'll be launching my mvp in the next month or two I hope!

Hey can you ping me when it's done? Would love to check it out

For sure! I appreciate the interest!

Re: Ask HN: Those starting new side projects in 2018 – Show and tell

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Post by methochris » Mon, Jan 08, 2018, 2:05 PM UTC

I'm making Keepshelf.com (not available at time of this writing), a side-project I've been off-and-on with for awhile now but I'll be launching this year.

Keepshelf is the note keeping/organizing app I've always wanted. Take notes with ease and copy/move into folders through a fast and convenient UI, instantly synced and accessible on all devises.

Re: Ask HN: Those starting new side projects in 2018 – Show and tell

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Post by kunqiana » Mon, Jan 08, 2018, 2:28 PM UTC

I been working on easyinfograph.com for a few months now. Plan on featuring it for product hunt when I am done with a few more features.

Re: Ask HN: Those starting new side projects in 2018 – Show and tell

#46

Post by ezekg » Mon, Jan 08, 2018, 3:19 PM UTC

wingerlang wrote: post #34

ezekg wrote: post #3

Alpaca My Bags - Travel website for pre-planned weekend vacations https://travelalpacamybags.com Been working on it on and off for about 6 months with my wife (I'm behind the tech, she's doing the trip planning/social media stuff). We're looking to officially launch within the next few weeks. We're starting out in the 2 person vacation niche, but looking to expand to other trip sizes and also to trips outside of the…

The website is very cool! At the same time it looks very cookie cutter "2017 white diagonal popping colors". If that makes sense. Still A+

Yeah, agreed--the website was a quick and dirty landing page I threw together so we could start marketing. Grabbed lots of code from other side projects that are more tech-focused, so that's why it looks that way. The full webapp we'll be releasing looks a lot more polished!

Re: Ask HN: Those starting new side projects in 2018 – Show and tell

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Post by ezekg » Mon, Jan 08, 2018, 3:20 PM UTC

Chloro wrote: post #16

ezekg wrote: post #3

Alpaca My Bags - Travel website for pre-planned weekend vacations https://travelalpacamybags.com Been working on it on and off for about 6 months with my wife (I'm behind the tech, she's doing the trip planning/social media stuff). We're looking to officially launch within the next few weeks. We're starting out in the 2 person vacation niche, but looking to expand to other trip sizes and also to trips outside of the…

This looks awesome! I would love to do something like this with my wife. I would be very interested to see how it works out for you after launch.

Appreciate it! Hoping to launch soon. I'll post a followup on HN after our official launch.

Re: Ask HN: Those starting new side projects in 2018 – Show and tell

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Post by ezekg » Mon, Jan 08, 2018, 3:28 PM UTC

to-too-two wrote: post #20

ezekg wrote: post #3

Alpaca My Bags - Travel website for pre-planned weekend vacations https://travelalpacamybags.com Been working on it on and off for about 6 months with my wife (I'm behind the tech, she's doing the trip planning/social media stuff). We're looking to officially launch within the next few weeks. We're starting out in the 2 person vacation niche, but looking to expand to other trip sizes and also to trips outside of the…

Looks neat! What's your dev stack for the project?

It's written in node using express and postgres, plus a bit of redis for a caching layer, and some background job processing using node-cron.

Re: Ask HN: Those starting new side projects in 2018 – Show and tell

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Post by wingerlang » Mon, Jan 08, 2018, 3:33 PM UTC

tuacker wrote: post #40

wingerlang wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nice, looks similar in functionality as showRSS.com though.

Thanks! showRSS seems to link to torrents though, something which I don't want any part of (piracy).

Fair enough

Re: Ask HN: Those starting new side projects in 2018 – Show and tell

#50

Post by jwho82 » Mon, Jan 08, 2018, 5:02 PM UTC

https://blog-planner.com - A very very simple tool to help me write blog articles. You can break the article down into topics. Also wanted to play with Symfony 4, try out Webpack, and test some better continuous integration.

logmyproperties.com - Empty atm. Going to be some kind of simple property management tool, to help me manage my rental property, track expenses and create reports for taxes.