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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 open_bear »

jtruk wrote: post #221

130 Story - a daily microfiction challenge. https://www.130story.com/ I started this as a Twitter game a few years ago; it felt like a compact idea with a good hook. Earlier this year I automated it- so it picks its own words and collates the stories on the website itself (mostly successfully). It doesn't have a big following, but the people who play are passionate about it. Some people play every day, and the most p…

Nice idea! This reminded me of 750words.com. I tried it for a while, but writing 750 words every day was too much. I think 130 characters will better suit my ability to write.

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 edhelas »

Movim, a social network project built on XMPP https://movim.eu/. I'm working on it for 9 years already and starting to have a nice little community using it daily.

I'm really enjoying developing Movim on my free time because I'm still motivated to show the world that we can have decent social-networks and IM solutions by using existing standard protocols (and not proprietary silos like today).

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 sisoytuceo »

pablo98 wrote: post #460

I built a very accurate value estimator for properties en Amsterdam for the sake of it. Then put it here amsterprice.com . It is slowly starting to pick up, but as itnis for free I am only watching hosting bucks go. Still proud of it! :)

cool tool dude! Good luck

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 baystep »

yourduskquibble wrote: post #350

I 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…

Could you add/did you add killing the annoying "call to action" pop-up dialog? You know, you visit an article and BAM! A fullscreen modal asking to sign-up for their book newsletter? That would be awesome.

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 devotedtoneu »

StavrosK wrote: post #450
mailshanx wrote: post #366

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's really prolific! How do you find the time to create so many projects?

Most of them are just weekend projects, and took two or three days to create. Then I spend the odd few hours here and there. I also go to bed very late, which gives me ample time to work on stuff during the time when everyone else is asleep.

Do you also sleep late in the morning or do you just operate on very little sleep?

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 werber »

illnewsthat wrote: post #358
yourduskquibble wrote: post #350

I 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. [0] https://alisdair.mcdiarmid.org/kill-sticky-headers/

I am doing a redesign right now and they wanted one and I had to fight against it. Sure in the office we all have a few external monitors, but I'm a MBA user irl and they kill me

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 nitin_flanker »

baystep wrote: post #464
yourduskquibble wrote: post #350

I 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…

Could you add/did you add killing the annoying "call to action" pop-up dialog? You know, you visit an article and BAM! A fullscreen modal asking to sign-up for their book newsletter? That would be awesome.

Also, the exit intent pop-ups. I, most of the time, just open a tab and switch to a different tab to read the current one later and then that Pop-up comes. It just annoys the hell out of me.

Even sometimes I don't pay much attention to it and when after reading other tabs I come back to this tab; all I see is that pop-up standing there, asking for attention. It even makes me forget why I even opened this tab in the first place and makes me leave immediately.

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 devotedtoneu »

Insanity wrote: post #449
t0mek wrote: post #116

Yet another Game Boy Color emulator, written in Java: https://github.com/trekawek/coffee-gb It's quite compatible and brought me a lot of fun. Blog post describing it: http://blog.rekawek.eu/2017/02/09/coffee-gb/

Wow, that is really cool! I did not have the idea of creating an emulator, but some time ago I got curious as to how games were made for the GBA, so to try that I made a small Pong game [0]. It's really fun to play with 'old' technology from our childhoods. [0]: https://github.com/DylanMeeus/GBAPong

Very cool.

I wonder why you disqualify your multiplayer mode? Sure on the SP it would be unrealistic but I see no reason two players couldn't share an original model GBA, holding one end each.

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 j_s »

joelennon wrote: post #46

https://programmingpodcasts.com - it's a directory of software dev and related podcasts. Haven't ruled out monetising it and to be honest maintenance is almost zero as it runs on autopilot. I'm it's biggest user, use it everyday.

Have you considered tracking the various programming live-streamers across all the different services?
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