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Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

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Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

#551
I got laid off due to covid and needed to know how long my severance/covid check was going to last me so I built a site that looks at all your recurring income and expenses and tells you when you're gonna run out of money. Definitely still a work in progress so be kind :)

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Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

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I've been learning websocket stuff with Socket.io. Built a game to play with other remote friends that is comically simple, but really fun:

1. Item appears on the screen (like 'vacuum', or 'Q of spades'

2. Whichever team finds it in their house first and returns with it to their screen wins a point

http://www.rummagerush.com/

Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

#554
This quarantine I decided to restrain myself from starting a new side project (many of you might agree that we've got too many abandoned projects) and just pick one from the abandoned queue.

My pick: http://seriesreminder.net It was going to be the first choice when you wanted a new series recommended or just wanted to see which tv shows will air this week.

It was still using Rails 5 and Sprockets so I had to make the proper upgrades (including migration to Webpacker) and revamped the design using React and MaterialUI. I wrote an article about that https://medium.com/@cionescu1/how-to-use-react-components-in...

My only goal moving forward is to find the sweet spot (not really MVP, but a nicely working state) where I can go back to just ignoring this project again

Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

#555
I’ve been working on a scheduling application that will allow healthcare workers to volunteer their time. For instance, retired or at risk healthcare workers who can only video conference, behavioral health specialists. The project got started for a covid-19 hackathon.

https://github.com/CareConsultApp/careconsult/

Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

#559
I started selling make-at-home frozen dog treats: https://coopersdogtreats.com/. It's pretty sweltering here in San Diego, so I wanted to make frozen treats for my dog, but all the recipes online are mainly yogurt (which he hates) or peanut butter (which I use to feed him his flea pills, so he flees when he smells it now).

I started by putting some freeze-dried meat into a food processor until it became a dust, then I started adding some other ingredients for flavor/smell/consistency. I was really happy with the results, so I thought I'd try selling them! So far just a few sales, but I haven't done much marketing to this point.

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