Since last fall, I've been renovating a 100 year old apartment / condo. Completely gutted it, raised the flat roof that was sinking in the middle, replaced the plumbing, now levelling the floors and building the new floor plan -- months of work to go yet. The project is kind of a godsent in this pandemic; with no family or dependents I have something to do with myself. My job involves looking at a laptop screen all day, having a project with physical, tangible results is really rewarding. I'm doing it mostly solo, at first as a cost-cutting measure, now out of necessity.
Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
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#492I run a career newsletter and a common topic/question I got from my subscribers was about choosing an online course to do and how to 'make the most' of quarantine.
Seems like so many of us (myself included) just miss the process of learning, whether that's learning a new skill or just personal development/mindset related concepts.
To help find a course to do, I made this simple one page site and included the most highly rated free courses from across a few different sites, whether that's Coursera, YC, edX or Youtube: https://resumeworded.com/free-online-courses/
Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
#493https://mrgidle.com
I've been building a silly little idle/incremental game. I've wanted to make this for years and finally found the motivation. In early access now, hoping to release soon.
Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
#494I built https://www.provedore.com.au -> a way to find local producers who sell online and deliver to your door.
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#495I started an accountability community for wellness and personal growth. We are up to 117 members with 50+ active weekly members.
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#496I have started a book club software when the lockdown started, dint put much time into it. Still need to put a couple of days to make it an MVP. https://www.pustak.io if you are curious
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#497RetailingPlatform - https://retailingplatform.com
An alternative to Shopify for
1) People who don't need all the features of Shopify and are more budget conscious
2) People from developing economies with a unique set of needs not addressed by the bigger platforms (e.g. African countries where access to credit cards is lower and where addresses are different/non-standardized)
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#498I learned WebGL and made a virus spread simulator with it: https://lent.su
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#499I'm making a simple onion router in TypeScript! https://github.com/seisvelas/onion-router-ts
It's not meant to be useful for anyone, just want to learn TypeScript and onion routing
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#500Building an audio chat tool in Rust akin to a walkie-talkie. The original goal was a hardware device that's pre-programmed to work with a group of other devices where you just push a button to talk and it gets broadcast to the whole group with high quality audio.
First I'm starting with just a software version because cross-compiling for the pi-zero is kind of annoying.
Intended to be used by our team as we work remotely, but hopefully it'll be open-sourced soon after.