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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 lugg »

kdamken wrote: post #480
hbosch wrote: post #382

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is great. I wonder though, how much could you achieve just by creating 1 blanket rule: change every instance on a page of "position: fixed" to "position: absolute" - layout and nav should be more or less the same, across the board, but nothing will follow you down the page! Kryptonite would be sticky footers , but if you're on a site that uses those you should just close the tab anyway. :)

This could mess up a lot of modals pretty badly.

I'd be ok with all modals going away to be honest.

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 pablo98 »

jrm2k6 wrote: post #242

I started working on iparklikeadumbass.com. The idea is for me to upload pictures of people parking like idiots, blur the license plate and just have it out there. I know I wont make any money of it but it is a good way of preventing road/parking raging.

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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 benjaminjackman »

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…

I had a very similar idea but to make a bookmarklet for use on mobile safari. Sometimes reader mode goes too far and I really just want to nuke all the sticky floating junk.

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 pablo98 »

sisoytuceo wrote: post #463
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

Thanks! Now with an actual link: https://amsterprice.com

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 chaostheory »

zapperdapper wrote: post #437
chaostheory wrote: post #292

Late to the game again =/ I'm working on https://theymadethat.com It's an IMDB for everything, not just movies. It does show you who built what but it does more: theymadethat can show you what they used to build it, what those things are made of (parts, ...), their evolutionary history, who they worked with, and so on I can't say that I'm building it out of sheer joy; it's more out of obligation. There are so many pe…

One of the coolest things I've seen in a while. Wonderful!

Thanks - let me know if you feel that there's anything I can fix or improve

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 swimmadude66 »

I built a small website for some old groovshark buddies once that site died where we could meet up, chat, and listen to music together.

Its a collaborative radio, where users queue up songs in playlists, then rotate playing a song off the top of their list for everyone to hear. It was originally built as a stopgap until we found something similar but better, so we called it lifeboat radio. But it's kinda become our permanent home now...

Here's our hosted instance: https://lifeboatradio.com/

And here's the repo if you want to host your own! https://github.com/swimmadude66/YTRadio

Join us in our hosted instance on fridays for "Fuck it Friday" where we play (preferably musical) shit we found from deep in youtube!

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