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Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?

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Re: Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?

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Post by splitbrain »

The first version of https://indieblog.page/ took about a weekend.

My pastebin with line commenting https://commie.io/ was also a weekend project.

Heck even the first version of DokuWiki was done on a weekend, but that one still isn't done...

Re: Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?

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Post by rozenmd »

I built OnlineOrNot's cron job monitoring service in a weekend (at least the initial version).

Since I already had a scheduler job running for regular uptime checks, I wrote an SQL query to find jobs that hadn't reported in the expected time.

On the other side, I built a quick endpoint for my public API for cron jobs to curl upon completion.

After that, I just needed to put up a UI, and it was complete (until I decided to productionize it by splitting it into its own, highly replicated service)

Re: Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?

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Post by rendall »

My team's go-to site for ice-breaking questions began recycling questions, so I built a no-track open source icebreaker that weekend.

Feel free to use and abuse it for your own social icebreaking needs. You can use it to break the ice at work, in a bar, at your church social, on the bus, in jail, wherever.

Site: https://rendall.github.io/icebreakers/

Repo: https://github.com/rendall/icebreakers

Re: Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?

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Post by nl »

rcarmo wrote: post #25

http://github.com/piku/piku was by far my best example of such a thing. I was fed up with how hard it was to deploy and iterate applications quickly, and the first version was done in a weekend. In short, it's a minimal Heroku clone that started out as ~500 lines of Python run by a custom SSH config. It has paid for itself several times over, and is still something I use daily (it runs all my little API endpoints, No…

This looks great!

Re: Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?

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Post by rsrihari95 »

If you watch Formula 1 racing, you'll know that the tyre strategy is a core part of the race. Inspired by that, I build a stripped down racing simulation game, over a weekend. It was featured on front page of F1 reddit and got some media coverage as well!

Unfortunately it didn't support mobile browser since it was quickly done and that meant a lot of interested folks couldn't play it then.

You can play it here - (https://pitlane.radx.in/)

Re: Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?

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Post by Apfel »

elseleigh wrote: post #31

Not coding, but my daughter Aelyth and I are a musical duo. Our first album ( https://sidesister.bandcamp.com ) took four years to complete thanks to COVID lockdowns and living in different cities. On Thursday evening we rendezvoused at an equidistant AirBnB to sketch out our second album. It's now Sunday morning, Aelyth's just caught the train home because she's working today, but we have a concept, a title and ten…

This is wonderful! You may be the first group to make me actually create a BandCamp login!

Re: Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?

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Post by AdrianB1 »

Back in 2019 I was working on a poorly managed project, so one Friday evening I started making a tool to help me with the work. It was an inventory of the ~ 100 environments where I had to do deployments and configuration changes. It took a few hours to do that and it served me well. 5 years later this personal productivity tool is used by half of the department as a configuration management system and it is dangerously close to become a critical component - there were more weekends where I added functionality, one at a time. Tricky part is this is a personal productivity tool, so officially it does not exist in the enterprise architecture diagrams and it is not officially supported; it does not even have a repo in the corporate Github, but in a separate Gitea instance.

Re: Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?

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Post by maaaaattttt »

A simple game I posted here before [1].

I think it’s rather hard to finish a project in under one weekend. And we tend to easily say “I did it over the weekend” but mean “I had something working after one weekend”. Especially if the weekend is not one where you spend 48 hours in front of the computer (counting Friday evening in). So, I was quite proud to get it finished in one weekend under normal conditions.

[1] https://reach-100.com

Re: Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?

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Post by _kush »

I sell apps for a living - I have a few iOS apps and a macOS app. Each of them uses a different way of billing (app store, revenuecat, lemonsqueezy etc), which makes it a PITA to check the total revenue (which I need to do everyday because I am so obsessed with it).

So, I recently converted my old phone into a 24/7 live sales dashboard[1] which consolidates the revenue from each service. It resembles a retro device inspired by the pip boy and was finished within a day!

[1] https://twitter.com/kushsolitary/status/1777306909344715158

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