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Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#461
I have my own software projects, mainly written in C, which I have made significant progress writing it, but seem to be missing some important parts. Fossil repositories are available and discussion is available on NNTP.

- Free Hero Mesh - a puzzle game engine, for grid based games such as Sokoban, Hero Hearts, etc. - The behaviour of the game seems to work perfectly as far as I can tell, but the level editor doesn't work, audio doesn't work, destruction animations don't work, there are no examples provided, etc.

- TeXnicard - a program for making card sets for card games using special cards, such as Magic: the Gathering, and making up your own card games. - Many features work, but the package manager and version control system are incomplete, and the typesetting engine could also be improved, and there are no rendering templates provided. Also, the Separations Output Format used for rendering probably isn't implemented anywhere else as far as I can tell.

- sqlnetnews - a simple NNTP server software with SQLite. - Peering with other NNTP servers is not currently implemented, nor is authentication, nor the email/web interface.

If you are interested, please mention it; maybe you are able to help with them, because I would want help with some things, I think.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#462
I've been working on pcopy (https://github.com/binwiederhier/pcopy) a lot lately.

It's a tool to copy/paste across machines. It can be used from the web UI, via a CLI or without a client by using curl.

It's written in Go, and a lot of fun. I'd love some feedback and/or code review.

It's used like this:

- Copy: echo hi | pcp

- Paste (on any machine): ppaste > hi.txt

Live demo: https://github.com/binwiederhier/pcopy#demo

Videos: https://github.com/binwiederhier/pcopy#videos

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#467

I building an alternative to Heroku for NodeJS projects with a small stack. It is focused on deliver apps faster. It also have a temporary container for testing purposes that requires no login. https://albumin.io

Heroku is far too expensive for database usage. That should be your selling point.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#468
MobileUO: https://github.com/voxelboy/mobileuo/

I ported Ultima Online to Android and iOS devices. It's a really old MMO at this point but still has a niche following. New community shards are still popping up and some of them (such as UO Outlands) have high populations.

I opened up a Patreon for the project in hopes that the community and the shard owners would support me enough to keep working on it but I never got past 100 euros per month in pledges. The app does have a stable userbase of around 1000 users though.

Even though it wasn't a financial success by any measure, I'm really proud to have brought my childhood favourite game to new platforms.

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