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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 longnguyen »

aroc wrote: post #364

http://www.get-jumper.com/ A way to motivate people (including myself) to exercise with a chat bot that tracks your progress. Originally built it to track how often I worked out, and if I didn't, what the reason was and have that reported back to me regularly. Now I have a bunch of people using it, but as you can imagine, makes me zero dollars. Well, technically it costs me money so it makes me negative dollars.

Great job. Thanks for sharing. It doesn't recognize me though

> Hey undefined! Interested in exercising more? Great! I'm here to help!

I'm following _kaizen_ technique to improve my reading skills (eg. reading 20-30 pages, everyday). Would be interested if your bot support more than exercise

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 kureikain »

I have two project which make zero money but I love doing them. I learn so much from writing code for them and use them as a playground to try out and apply new technology in a production environment, Yes, they are production environment because they are severving real customer, just that no one pays me so far.

https://noty.im An uptime monitoring tool

https://betterdev.link a news letter and from there, I spin up a link sharing service https://one.betterdev.link with full text search for content of link as well.

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Post by pawelkomarnicki »

I have a cooking/recipes website http://cookarr.com — it doesn't make any money, and I didn't even want to put advertisements there, because it's my stress-reducing project :-) And kind of a recipe book I made for myself (and others)

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 chanux »

stavros wrote: post #12

Oh 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…

Your work is appreciated! <3

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 kristianp »

kovrik wrote: post #199

I'm writing R5RS Scheme _interpreter_ implementation in Kotlin (previously in Java): https://github.com/kovrik/scheme-in-kotlin/ It is a hybrid of R5RS Scheme + some things from Kawa, Racket and Clojure. It doesn't have a proper name and documentation yet. I'm writing it as a hobby sandbox project, for learning purposes and fun. Trying to keep it simple and easy to understand (some things are not perfect though). Fea…

Cool. You probably already know this, but note that R7RS-small [1] is the most recent small scheme (the spec is not too much larger that r5rs). There are enough similarities that it might be worth supporting it.

[1] http://trac.sacrideo.us/wg/wiki/R7RSHomePage

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