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Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

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Post by culopatin »

onychomys wrote: post #60
culopatin wrote: post #34

I’m building a databank for Cyanobacteria specific information. Like a genbank but for Cyanobacteria. I’m not even a biologist so I don’t know what the impact will be, but my girlfriend is and I saw her struggle with some things and I decided to jump on it. Right now I’m just building the basic forms and such, but I plan on implementing fasta file parsing and an algorithm to locate the conserved regions

I mean, actual genbank has cyanobacteria in it[0]. Not to be discouraging, but you're just duplicating a lot of work there. And I assume that's where you'd have to go get your sequences from anyway. So are you actually just building the file parsing and analysis tools? [0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/?term=cyanobacteria

My project would focus on the ITS region motifs. Which I think are not in genbank. Genbank has the whole sequence but the motifs are not identified.

The way the bio people I talked to explained it to me, when they want to compare ITS structures they need to find the motifs themselves and compare it that way. Is this incorrect?

I’d love to chat if you are in the world.

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

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Post by coffeefirst »

catsarebetter wrote: post #2

I have a blog that I write hshidara.com that I don't care about doing well. My mind tends to wander and I have a hard time articulating and forming abstract ideas verbally, usually I need to write it out in a journal, but this helps me get my thoughts even more in order because of the public nature of the content creating more social pressure to get it right. I have a tools section where I make small edge-case tools…

At this point I absolutely don't want my personal blog to "succeed." I don't want attention, or fame, or any of the shenanigans that come along with a large following. If it ever achieved these things I'd probably delete it.

Building stuff just for yourself is underrated.

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

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Post by Victerius »

bijection wrote: post #53

I posted this as a show HN a few weeks ago, I maintain a small, completely free html/js game. There's no chance of it ever making money in its current form, it's just a fun waste of time with a few hundred players[0]. [0] https://wallsmash.com

Fuck, this is hard.

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

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Post by oliwary »

Built a daily word game in two dimensions, with a 5x5 wordsquare to uncover using valid word guesses.

https://squareword.org

It's been such a joy to work on it and add features and improvements. No way of making money, but seeing the game evolve and getting positive feedback from players has made it worth it already. :) I love small projects like that where there are no expectations or real targets, just the pure fun of creating.

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

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Post by notuger »

titoasty wrote: post #56

I launched a stupid game last week: Let It Slide. (if you like Altf4/getting over it/painful games) https://store.steampowered.com/app/1778910/Let_It_Slide/ It was my first entirely finished project: gameplay, 2d elements, sounds, musics (but not 3d). I'm just proud I finished this project, having a tendency to get bored extremely easily and only motivated by new stuffs (oh a bird!)

are you a NL fan? kind of game that he likes. Only have a mac right now but the game looks great!

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

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Post by malux85 »

akuro wrote: post #58

I am currently building a suite of software that'll allow users to easily design and run Monte Carlo simulations to solve problems in statistical physics. I am in no rush, mostly because there are probably only a few thousand people who will ever need such capabilities and it's fair to say that most of them will have enough knowledge to build their own Monte Carlo simulations from scratch. Honestly, I'm only doing it…

This sounds cool! Is it open source? Or some way for us to follow or see a release?

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

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Post by shakezula »

I am working on a magic: the gathering board state emulator for the browser. Eventually I want to make a parser for the game’s card language.

I don’t care if it succeeds because, like most projects of mine, I made it out of curiosity for the domain.

It’s in beta right now, and I don’t have any plans to make it paid. I just wanted to bring mtg to the web.

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

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Post by _jordan »

akuro wrote: post #58

I am currently building a suite of software that'll allow users to easily design and run Monte Carlo simulations to solve problems in statistical physics. I am in no rush, mostly because there are probably only a few thousand people who will ever need such capabilities and it's fair to say that most of them will have enough knowledge to build their own Monte Carlo simulations from scratch. Honestly, I'm only doing it…

that's awesome! I tried to do the very same thing: https://github.com/simulatedphysics

do you have a website by any chance where I can follow progress?

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

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Post by titoasty »

notuger wrote: post #65
titoasty wrote: post #56

I launched a stupid game last week: Let It Slide. (if you like Altf4/getting over it/painful games) https://store.steampowered.com/app/1778910/Let_It_Slide/ It was my first entirely finished project: gameplay, 2d elements, sounds, musics (but not 3d). I'm just proud I finished this project, having a tendency to get bored extremely easily and only motivated by new stuffs (oh a bird!)

are you a NL fan? kind of game that he likes. Only have a mac right now but the game looks great!

NL? Sorry I'm uneducated :)

Yeah no Mac version because I don't have a Mac to compile and try it.. :'( (maybe a Linux version coming later)

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

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Post by aaronbrethorst »

I built a website to help me track my Apple Fitness+ workouts. Specifically, I needed several features that Apple doesn't offer today:

- A chronological history of the workouts I've completed.

- Notes and like/dislike tracking on the workouts I've completed.

- Real search capabilities to let me find particular types of workouts (e.g. filter to yoga workouts and search for "pigeon")

And, if people actually use it, then that'll be a big win, because I'd love to be able to see others' thoughts on workouts, find out what's popular in a category, etc.

I have an 'invitation only' system in place on the site today to help mitigate the risk of spam, but I've been sending out invitations to people who sign up pretty much immediately.

https://myworkouts.xyz

p.s. in case anyone's curious about the tech stack: it's a completely boring Rails 7 website with a Tailwind-based UI, backed by Postgres, and running on Render (https://www.render.com).

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