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Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

#481
I'm working on a system that generates fantasy worlds. It's meant for RPG players, especially those that do solo tabletop play.

It's more simulationist than similar worldbuilding tools. I recently rewrote the climate generation to be closer to reality. You can read about that here:

https://blog.ironarachne.com/major-update-to-the-climate-sys...

The website is here: https://ironarachne.com

And the code for the underlying API (Go) is here:

https://github.com/ironarachne/world

Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

#484
We live about about 30km outside of our capital city. It's a village, but you can see it slowly transforimg into a small town. Wife got crazy about growing own vegetables, so I've been busy assembling garden crates for her.

We also decided to farm chickens (for eggs), so we bought a havel - another couple of hours spent on assembling. As we never did this before, we are grokking the web looking for something you would call "chicken farming for dummies".

Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

#485
Previously, a friend and I launched iprompted.com - a smart reminder app. It has some small traction, despite getting universally panned on HN.

It allows you to create a reminder for someone else, then provides a series of messages, starting with a heads up, the actual reminder and a follow up asking if the prompt was completed. The user can reply and the loop gets closed, you get a response saying the task you assigned was completed.

We've had some interest from developers in using the core api. So, we're using this time to convert the core platform into a api for developers.

Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

#487
I made a website for friends to play poker.

https://playcards.live

It was conceived before the quarantine. I built it so a group of people can play face-to-face without poker cards or chips. So I optimized for mobile use.

It seems that people are now using it on desktops playing remotely because of the quarantine.

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