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

#583
I post this a second time as it seems to have been deleted:

Quarantine (https://quarantine.softwarerero.com/) models a worst case scenario for reaching herd immunity without finding a cure.

Duobiblo (https://app.duobiblo.com/) allows to practice a language showing chapters of the bible side-by-side with a language you already know. I learn Portuguese currently on Duolingo, which inspired the name. If a browser supports the Web Speech API for the given language it is also possible to let the browser read the text.

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

#584
I made an emulator of the Turing Tumble marble-powered mechanical computer where can use to work on puzzles together in real time so I can keep teaching my nephew computer science remotely. You can try it out here: http://tumble-together.herokuapp.com/ It was great to use its development to teach about MVPs, and then he helped teach me some harsh lessons about feature creep!

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

#587
We do mob programming at work, and one of the main tools we use is a timer. Plenty of apps out there for timing on one machine, not many for sharing the timer. I started spiking out a shared/collaborative timer.

That eventually became https://mobti.me , and it's working well for us. If anyone else tries it, I'd be very happy to get feedback here or on twitter ( @mobtime_app ).

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

#588
A multi host capable personal cloud computing platform. Using primarily existing technologies and influenced by the "Arch Way" (Simplicity, Modernity, Pragmatism, User centrality, Versatility) the design requires a small amount of technical attention and allows a wide range of functionality. To make it immediately useful, I'm creating a few simple applications and utilities: data, social, personal apps.
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