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Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on?

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Post by ThePhysicist » Sat, Jun 28, 2014, 1:22 PM UTC

I'm working on a document-oriented database engine written purely in Python: BlitzDB!

My motivation was that I needed (wanted?) a pure-Python document database that does not have any dependencies (like pymongo) and provides querying capabilities similar to MongoDB.

Currently, Blitz is under active development and comes with a file-based backend as well as a MongoDB backend.

Contributions to the codebase and feedback are highly welcome :)

The issue tracker contains various suggestions for contributions, with various difficulty levels:

https://github.com/adewes/blitzdb/issues

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on?

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Post by jlhonora » Sat, Jun 28, 2014, 1:23 PM UTC

I'm connecting a Hedgehog to the Internet :) . I have a hedgehog that runs all night in a wheel. Counting the laps gives me the traveled distance, so every morning he'll tweet how much he ran. He runs up to 15 km./9 miles!

Check him out at https://twitter.com/runhedgie

This project is a combination of hardware and software. I'm using a Raspberry Pi, a custom-built wireless node based on Arduino, Python, Redis, and a Go API for data analysis. I wanted to build almost everything from scratch, to really see what's happening in every part of the system, so I've done from PCB design and soldering to struggling with Go HTTP routers (I gave up and used Gorilla).

But it's been fun watching the hedgehog interact with the real world.

https://github.com/jlhonora/iot https://github.com/jlhonora/iot-go

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on?

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Post by iagooar » Sat, Jun 28, 2014, 1:24 PM UTC

I'm a co-founder of Podigee, a podcast publishing platform, batteries included:

https://www.podigee.com

The backend runs on Rails + PostgreSQL, the frontend is a mix of Rails and AngularJS. Also, we run dedicated download / stream servers.

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on?

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Post by synunlimited » Sat, Jun 28, 2014, 1:24 PM UTC

Just finished up a site that displays the World Cup results with the arena the game is being played at in the background. Still working to make it a little bit better but just wanted to get the functionality in. It uses the Software for Good API http://worldcup.sfg.io/

https://github.com/friss/worldcup

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on?

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Post by cabalamat » Sat, Jun 28, 2014, 1:25 PM UTC

canercandan wrote: post #2

In my free time, I contribute to the project uCoin [1], protocol + softwares building P2P crypto-currencies based on individuals and Universal Dividend. It's based on WoT as opposed to bitcoin-like cryptocurrency based on PoW. [1] http://ucoin.io

You probably want to get your landing page proof-read since it contains a number of spelling and grammatical errors.

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on?

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Post by sesteel » Sat, Jun 28, 2014, 1:26 PM UTC

I am creating a widget toolkit for Go on Linux. Fun times. Http://github.com/sesteel/go-view

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on?

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Post by hrvbr » Sat, Jun 28, 2014, 1:27 PM UTC

I've just finished a clean-looking alternative to Twitlonger and Pastebin, with Markdown support.

The last thing on my to-do list is that the site should be named 1p.cx but I'm still waiting for the domain name (bought tuesday) to be activated.

So you can check it at http://1pcx.azurewebsites.net/

For another source of inspiration, I've discovered faviconit.com recently, it's a useful little tool I intend to use again.

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on?

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Post by shayief » Sat, Jun 28, 2014, 1:28 PM UTC

Hacking on my JavaScript operating system

Built on V8 engine and actually boots on my hardware :)

https://github.com/runtimejs/runtime

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on?

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Post by zimbatm » Sat, Jun 28, 2014, 1:30 PM UTC

Turing_Machine wrote: post #36

Burning Slug book engine, generates ebooks and LaTeX code for print using a (greatly) extended variant of Markdown. It's all client-side Javascript. No server-side processing. http://burningslug.com

Do you know about http://asciidoctor.org/ ? It's asciidoc tuned to look a lot more like Markdown and they also have a JS renderer, browser extensions, ... Might be useful to you

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on?

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Post by dangrossman » Sat, Jun 28, 2014, 1:31 PM UTC

I spend about 90% of my time working on Improvely (https://www.improvely.com) which is doubling in customers/revenue every few months. Next month I'm going to be wrapping up a bunch of major features that have been on my TODO list for a long time which will be pretty neat.

I also run W3Counter (https://www.w3counter.com), a couple e-commerce stores, manage two more e-commerce stores for relatives, and have a few open source projects I mostly just manage pull requests in these days. My date range picker for Bootstrap (https://github.com/dangrossman/bootstrap-daterangepicker) still generates a lot of e-mails asking for help, and I usually end up writing some code for those people.