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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 thsealienbstrds »

koliber wrote: post #513
thsealienbstrds wrote: post #488

I've been working on `moncat`, a tool that concatenates e-mails. It's very 'Unix-y' in the sense that it's supposed to do this and only this. I created it because I wanted to have a way to make notes without being dependent on apps. With moncat, I can use any e-mail client to incrementally create larger text files. Currently, I'm using it to write a journal in Markdown that is automatically converted to HTML. How tha…

Ha! I love it. I just recently created a tool for personal use that does something similar to this. I use Evernote notes with bullet lists as my TODO list. I created a tool that takes each line of a received email and adds it to my TODO list at the top. It is very convenient. My wife can email me things that need to get done!

Nice! I like that basically now you have an e-mail interface to Evernote. What I like about that is that you get all operating systems for free and crazy robustness in terms of forwards compatibility (at least, on the client-side).

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 luked22 »

Well i'm hoping to turn them into money making projects but I enjoy just building in general so here is my list:

https://techjobshtx.com https://www.jobcrate.io http://www.bulgebomb.com http://www.technicalproductmanager.co/

Nothing special in these but I use it mainly to learn new languages and frameworks, especially in the backend

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 ztravis »

abusaidm wrote: post #444
ztravis wrote: post #248

http://www.arabicreference.com I've always wanted a good Arabic root-based dictionary with vowelling, plurals, etc (basically Hans Wehr online). I also wanted the structured dataset for some linguistic "research". It was a fun project - I built out a web interface for reviewing and updating entries and put in a lot of hours of manual correction (just to get all the entries to validate - I still have a lot more correc…

hi, great project. any idea if you plan to release the code or article of how you built the similar matching? Thanks

Yeah, definitely! I'm planning on writing a blog post about how it was built, and I'd be happy to release the code (although I'd like to clean it up some, and I'm not sure how much of it would be of general interest).

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 jakobegger »

http://lupa.at

It's a database of roman stone monuments. We have 50000 photos of 27000 stones. The content is collected by two retired archaeologists who travel Europe in their Volkswagen bus driving from museum to museum. After funding for the project dried up, I volunteered to make the new website.

The page is in german, but the pictures speak for themselves. For example, have a look at this query for my favorite mythical hero: http://lupa.at/queries/691886695

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 Insanity »

devotedtoneu wrote: post #469
Insanity wrote: post #449

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow, that is really cool! I did not have the idea of creating an emulator, but some time ago I got curious as to how games were made for the GBA, so to try that I made a small Pong game [0]. It's really fun to play with 'old' technology from our childhoods. [0]: https://github.com/DylanMeeus/GBAPong

Very cool. I wonder why you disqualify your multiplayer mode? Sure on the SP it would be unrealistic but I see no reason two players couldn't share an original model GBA, holding one end each.

Thank you :-) I suppose it could work indeed

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 tonetheman »

rayalez wrote: post #137

I occasionally create digital art: https://www.artstation.com/artist/rayalez and make video tutorials about it: https://www.youtube.com/digitalverse Computer graphics is still by far the most fun hobby I've ever had, I absolutely love it, it's like the most engaging computer game you can imagine times 100. There's not much profit in making art(unless you want to do it professionally), but it's an awesome way to spend…

beeeeeeeeee-youtiful stuff. Keep doing it!

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 tonetheman »

anfractuosity wrote: post #15

A few of mine: https://www.anfractuosity.com/projects/painting-a-christmas-... - 'painting' the LEDs on my christmas tree. https://www.anfractuosity.com/projects/optical-magnetic-stri... - optically decoding data from magnetic stripe cards. https://www.anfractuosity.com/projects/zymeter-simple/ - a rather unsuccessful attempt at measuring specific gravity. https://github.com/anfractuosity/musicplayer - playing .wav f…

The xmas tree is great. Good stuff.

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 rayalez »

tonetheman wrote: post #548
rayalez wrote: post #137

I occasionally create digital art: https://www.artstation.com/artist/rayalez and make video tutorials about it: https://www.youtube.com/digitalverse Computer graphics is still by far the most fun hobby I've ever had, I absolutely love it, it's like the most engaging computer game you can imagine times 100. There's not much profit in making art(unless you want to do it professionally), but it's an awesome way to spend…

beeeeeeeeee-youtiful stuff. Keep doing it!

Thank you! =)
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