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

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Post by subpixel »

iljya wrote: post #471

Creating paper nautical maps. NOAA has stopped updating 15% of all their nautical charts and will discontinue the rest by Jan. 2025. The proposed replacement for the beautiful maps they produce now is "print electronic maps yourself". Unfortunately the electronic charts are only usable with an interactive interface which paper is not, to say nothing about their aesthetic qualities. There are data errors too in the ne…

Love to know more. I want to print them, and I'm sure others have similar needs:

1. I want a paper backup chart on my boat when I'm in the ocean. The one I have is deteriorating.

2. I want a large-scale print or collection of them so I can plan and track journeys with my family. I have them pinned in my stairway wall on foam board, and have been considering a different approach.

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Post by arbitrage »

mikemcquaid wrote: post #638

I’m the project leader for Homebrew and have been maintaining it for 12 years. I have no planned dramatic changes for it or expectations I’ll radically improve it in any way. I just try to keep all parts of the project ticking along and I still enjoy doing so, despite feeling no real obligation to continue.

You do great work. Can I buy you a $DRINK for your dedication?

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Post by cure »

joegibbs wrote: post #143

I've been making a proper survival strategy game. I made a few games before but they were only about a week's worth of work each, so I don't count them as "proper". This time I wanted to make a full-on project with professionally-done models, art, music etc. It's a reverse of the 4X formula - rather than starting as a small country and becoming a vast empire over the course of the game you start off heading a vast em…

> you start off heading a vast empire that's on the brink of collapse and you've got to try and prevent that from happening as long as you can.

Neat. Reminds me of some of the scenarios in the old Simcity where you became mayor of a big city with _issues_ and had to turn the ship around.

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Post by nix23 »

sleepingadmin wrote: post #657

I have a honeypot network that collects a good amount of attackers, but I also have multiple other sources of attacker infos that let me build a threatfeed that is unlike any other. ISP scale SOC, ISP DDOS, etc. My threatfeed is insane, every firepower I add it to ends up blocking virtually all threats. Better yet, everything is fully automated. Why doesnt this succeed? I can't share it with anyone outside our non-pr…

>Why doesnt this succeed? I can't share it with anyone outside our non-profit membership.

Why?

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Post by SevenDucks »

maxencecornet wrote: post #635

https://marketcapvsmarketcap.com/ - it's a project I made to learn more about the static page generation (SSG) mode of Next.js If it's useful to people that's just an added bonus, but it was just a way to learn the development and CI/CD aspect of SSG The idea is that I pre-create hundred of thousands of pages at build time - all the pages can be seen here: https://marketcapvsmarketcap.com/sitemap.xml

You haven't explained how it works at all

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Post by yazan94 »

joegibbs wrote: post #143

I've been making a proper survival strategy game. I made a few games before but they were only about a week's worth of work each, so I don't count them as "proper". This time I wanted to make a full-on project with professionally-done models, art, music etc. It's a reverse of the 4X formula - rather than starting as a small country and becoming a vast empire over the course of the game you start off heading a vast em…

Wow, the premise of the game sounds really cool! Do you plan on adding a multiplayer mode to the game? Me and some friends have been on the hunt for a new fun mp strategy game for a while

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Post by thecleaner »

dorianmariefr wrote: post #664
franga2000 wrote: post #651

I've been working on a project that aggregates data for every public transport provider in the country (Slovenia) and presents it as a simple API, along with an application to find rides with as few clicks as possible (without having to check every provider's website). This has involved tiring meetings with city officials convincing them to give us access to the data and writing scraping bots where they weren't convi…

maybe not being in closed beta could help?

Maybe not. Right now the traffic is manageable and manual rate limiting, blocking etc is feasible.

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Post by thecleaner »

mikemcquaid wrote: post #638

I’m the project leader for Homebrew and have been maintaining it for 12 years. I have no planned dramatic changes for it or expectations I’ll radically improve it in any way. I just try to keep all parts of the project ticking along and I still enjoy doing so, despite feeling no real obligation to continue.

If you don't make money off of it, you really should. I'll definitely try to make my employer pay for it. Homebrew is quite important piece of tooling. Thank you for making it.
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