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Re: Ask HN: What (side) projects are you working on?

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Post by mikegioia »

augustflanagan wrote: post #33

https://cronitor.io It's a simple monitoring service for cron and other scheduled jobs (also works well for heartbeat monitoring). It was launched on HN a couple months ago. We've been slowly improving our keyword rankings on a few key terms, and are finally to the point where we are consistently signing up new users everyday. We've also been surprised to see the users who upgrade to paid accounts are split pretty ev…

I think the service is a cool idea, but you have people running cURL requests in a crontab? Heaven forbid something is wonky with the DNS, or your service gets compromised, or any number of things and that machine is basically 100% owned! Convenience or not, I don't think I could ever bring myself to commit that crime.

Re: Ask HN: What (side) projects are you working on?

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Post by rememberlenny »

Public Artfound: The single largest collection of geotagged graffiti/street art

http://publicart.io

- Rails backend API and iOS app frontend

- Nearly 500k images added monthly

- This is the current iteration for a 16 week research project of graffiti/street art related software projects

Re: Ask HN: What (side) projects are you working on?

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Post by abemassry »

A quick and easy way to send files from the command line.

https://wsend.net

Tech Used: Bash, Node

Statistics: 612 users, 7 paying customers

History: I started working on this in Jan 2013, I wanted a quick way to send files from the command line and get a URL. I later found after building this backend, I, or anyone could expand upon it in many ways

https://github.com/abemassry/wsend

https://github.com/abemassry/wsend-gpg

https://github.com/abemassry/wsend-twitter-card

A little more about how it was built is in this post

http://abemassry.com/blog/2014/02/14/building-wsend/

I have some more ideas as well, if anyone has any ideas or wants to work on this with me I would definitely be down for it.

Re: Ask HN: What (side) projects are you working on?

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Post by Khao »

tylermac1 wrote: post #6

Building an advanced hockey statistics web tool in Meteor. More of an excuse to learn Meteor than to really make something too useful.

The best way to learn a new language or framework is to do something you enjoy doing in my opinion. It'll make everything much more fun for you and even then, you never know if it could evolve into a bigger project even if it started from something that was just for fun.

Re: Ask HN: What (side) projects are you working on?

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Post by encoderer »

mikegioia wrote: post #51
augustflanagan wrote: post #33

https://cronitor.io It's a simple monitoring service for cron and other scheduled jobs (also works well for heartbeat monitoring). It was launched on HN a couple months ago. We've been slowly improving our keyword rankings on a few key terms, and are finally to the point where we are consistently signing up new users everyday. We've also been surprised to see the users who upgrade to paid accounts are split pretty ev…

I think the service is a cool idea, but you have people running cURL requests in a crontab? Heaven forbid something is wonky with the DNS, or your service gets compromised, or any number of things and that machine is basically 100% owned! Convenience or not, I don't think I could ever bring myself to commit that crime.

A curl protip is to specify a timeout with -m. An important detail, to be sure.

Re: Ask HN: What (side) projects are you working on?

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Post by rev_bird »

ankurpatel wrote: post #37

I have been working on a reminder site which can send email, text message, voiced phone call and physical mailed postcard reminder at a schedule time on recurring basis or one time ad hoc basis like a broadcast. The site is called HelloReminder - https://www.helloreminder.com There is also an open source Swift project that I am actively maintaining on github. It is a port of Underscorejs which gives helpful utility m…

This looks like a really cool setup. My only constructive thought: It'd be really nice to have an option for text messages that was lower-powered than $10/month for 100 of them. I could never come up with three reminders per day, every day, that I'd want to get texted about, but if there were some option for ~10 a month – say, for birthdays and when a bunch of my bills are due – I'd be all over it. I just couldn't pay the same amount I pay Dropbox for 1 TB of storage in exchange for 90 text messages I'd never use.

Re: Ask HN: What (side) projects are you working on?

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Post by chton »

Aside from my startup (which fills most of my evenings), my side projects never pan out. They're never completed, or end up being too difficult to complete. I consider them learning opportunities more than marketable projects.

Currently, I'm way out of my comfort zone: I'm on the way to build a proof of concept for an optical computer. No simulations, real hardware. My hope is that I can build a few passive logic gates, and go from there. Without a shadow of a doubt, I'll fail. There are a million factors I didn't consider or underestimate, and my knowledge of things like laser physics and optics is marginal at best. But I'm learning a lot from it, which is the main goal. I also just want to see if it can't be done. From what I could gather, there is far too little serious research being done into the whole field. If all else fails, at least I'll know why that is.

And hey, any side project where you get to play with lasers on your kitchen table has got to be a good one, right?

Re: Ask HN: What (side) projects are you working on?

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Post by atko »

I'm working on a new model of how online discussion is done by developing a new monetizing strategy which shares ad revenue with users who bring original and quality content to the board. In essence, insightful comments which spark meaningful discussion are rewarded with real money (or an option to gift that money to a charity or another user).

https://whoaverse.com

Built mostly on .NET stack.

Re: Ask HN: What (side) projects are you working on?

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Post by aepearson »

mkremer90 wrote: post #27

I'm currently working on Kobra, a realtime collaborative code editor, mostly during my lunch breaks. https://Kobra.io Tech Used: AngularJS, Firebase, Firepad, EasyRTC Statistics: Just broke 700 registered users and 5000 file collaborated on. Have made a little over $2000 from 125 people going Pro. History: I started back in December, but gave up too soon. I've since relaunched it as a smaller product and am super hap…

Dude - this is sweet. Like codeshare...but better. Thanks for sharing with us!
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