http://u8this.com
Food diary site, mostly done as a learning experience, and because I wanted it. Blog post about how I made it here: http://chris.brooks6.com/2014/02/19/side-project-u8thiscom/
Ask HN: What side projects are you working on?
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Re: Ask HN: What side projects are you working on?
#42I'm currently working on an open-source phishing toolkit written in Go and AngularJS called gophish (http://github.com/jordan-wright/gophish).
Re: Ask HN: What side projects are you working on?
#43This is the first time I am mentioning this publicly, but I have been working on Educator News. It's a clone of HN for the education profession. It's been attempted before, and was well received. The people who made it previously were not programmers, so when it immediately outgrew the platform on which it was built, it disappeared. I think I can do it right. :) I am planning a soft launch this weekend. After working…
Sounds nice. Are you using the original HN code?
No, I'm building it in Django. I have been looking for a well-defined project to build, and this ended up being a perfect project. It's inspired by HN, and to everyone here it's a clone of HN, but most educators who end up using the site will probably never know HN exists.
It's a completely open project, and if things go well I'm going to write a Django tutorial based on building EN. I'm going to write the tutorial as part of another project I started this year, http://introtopython.org. It's been a busy year. :)
Re: Ask HN: What side projects are you working on?
#44Lockfree OS kernel. Give it a couple weeks.
How do you even start writing something like that?
Re: Ask HN: What side projects are you working on?
#45http://hackerlunch.com I'm working on Hacker Lunch, which lets you meet up and have lunch with another hacker in your area. Launched a super rough MVP only for hackers in San Francisco, you can try it at http://hackerlunch.com A few people tried it out and had a pretty fun experience, so I hope more people try it out. I plan on building this out fully into a mobile app, so the process is a bit more natural and instan…
Dang! Not available in my area! I tried in Portland, OR. I'm super in to this idea.
Re: Ask HN: What side projects are you working on?
#46I'm currently making one new HTML5 game per week. My project was recently on the front page of HN.
You can play my games are learn more about the project (tutorials, etc.) on my website: http://www.lessmilk.com
Re: Ask HN: What side projects are you working on?
#47http://hackerlunch.com I'm working on Hacker Lunch, which lets you meet up and have lunch with another hacker in your area. Launched a super rough MVP only for hackers in San Francisco, you can try it at http://hackerlunch.com A few people tried it out and had a pretty fun experience, so I hope more people try it out. I plan on building this out fully into a mobile app, so the process is a bit more natural and instan…
Dang! Not available in my area! I tried in Portland, OR. I'm super in to this idea.
I'll add more cities soon. I wanted to try out the idea in one city first - and SF seemed like the logical choice.
Re: Ask HN: What side projects are you working on?
#48SimpleGym - SaaS product for CrossFit Gyms ( http://www.simplegym.co ). Rails-based web application that includes a jQuery mobile UI for phones.
Great site I hope it becomes a success for you. Their is some spelling mistake tho, isnt Philisophy supposed to be Philosophy?
Re: Ask HN: What side projects are you working on?
#49Lockfree OS kernel. Give it a couple weeks.
How do you even start writing something like that?
Well, I'd done a small kernel for a class. Later, I wrote a lockfree malloc and realized that large lockfree programs are actually pretty managable, and that was the start. It's generally just a matter of designing around simple data structures (which are the only ones you can really do lockfree) and a repetition of some key tricks like refcounting, generation counting, and type-stable memory. Writing the data structures and primitives was tough, but otherwise you don't have to worry about locking and things come out quite neatly as a result.