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Re: Ask HN: Any unfinished side projects to give away?

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Post by exydome »

keyboard1234 wrote: post #26

I made a program for one handed keyboard input. it has a rather unique way of selecting symbols, and it can insert it into any X11 window. So far it's in far from polished. It runs on Ubuntu if you download some rather common libraries. Take a look in the Makefile for details. I won't have very much time to continue the development. https://github.com/richard-jansson/veta

This really looks cool. But you should add some brief instructions on how to compile the code in the README!

I only managed to compile the code after one hour of work. Then I'm kinda new to ubuntu.

apt-file search

helped me out a lot. It was only when I could use apt-file to search for pc file that I managed to install the necessary deb packages.

Re: Ask HN: Any unfinished side projects to give away?

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Post by sathishvj »

I bumped into an acquaintance a few days ago who reminded me that he was still using a project I'd written a while ago: A language reinforcement app. I had occasional ideas to revive and monetize it, but haven't yet.

[About Glowso](http://gcdc2013-glowso.appspot.com/#/about)

[GlowSo Web App](http://gcdc2013-glowso.appspot.com/#/home)

[A talk I'd done for GDG Tunisia about how I developed it](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBwOuK9x5VQ)

Re: Ask HN: Any unfinished side projects to give away?

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Post by sdsk8 »

yegortimoshenko wrote: post #73

I made Paper, an Instapaper addon for Firefox: https://github.com/yegortimoshenko/paper The problem is, I don't use Firefox anymore, so I'm looking for a new maintainer.

Hello, i am a heavy firefox and instapaper user, i want to help with this extension

Re: Ask HN: Any unfinished side projects to give away?

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Post by bayonetz »

Blanqd. It's a prett neat daily news headline quiz app concept. Built hybrid style and works on both iOS and Android. The quizzes are generated daily using NLP word substitution hacks. Could be cool/lucrative if someone had the energy to put into promoting it, adding in app ads, maybe making it player vs player, etc.

http://blanqd.com

hit me up at mr.manager@blanqd.com

Re: Ask HN: Any unfinished side projects to give away?

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Post by sdsk8 »

jpliska wrote: post #37

I'm looking for someone to partner with me on http://www.ballotbin.com The system needs changes (in frontend, backend, sysadmin). It is pretty much the same as in 2002.

I can help you with the sysadmin/devops stuff, if you want contact me: hn at leandrosf dot com

Re: Ask HN: Any unfinished side projects to give away?

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Post by mgkimsal »

fovc wrote: post #20
hatter10_6 wrote: post #19

I had been building http://wishcan.com , a drag-and-drop travel planner, and will hand it off to someone willing to continue the work. Trip planning is difficult to get right, and notoriously hard to find a business model for. I think it's simply because no one has gotten the UI/UX perfect. I am now working on an IoT platform called http://smartxlab.com

Cannot agree more with wishcan. I sketched up a few different ideas for something like this, but never pushed on because I thought integrating with hotels, airlines, etc. Would painful. Also figured I'd need to automatically parse email confirmations, which would be a PITA. What is it written in and how much work is left to do?

Strikes me that you could turn this around somewhat...

When people are publishing what they want, that looks to be a good starting point for travel/lodging companies to come in and make offers to these folks.

"You're looking to stay in Bucharest on Sept 18 and 19? Our hotel can offer you XZY for $ABC on those nights."

Sort of like lendingtree-model for travel. Not quite sure why that's not taken off yet, other than, perhaps, larger company IT systems?

This could possibly work well for smaller regions - contact a local chamber of commerce and have them have all the local businesses make offers to people looking to stay in areas on specific days.

Basically... define a format and let them integrate with you if they want access to the market you've defined, not the other way around.

Re: Ask HN: Any unfinished side projects to give away?

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Post by mitchellbryson »

merlin_g wrote: post #55
mitchellbryson wrote: post #11

I'd be tempted to giveaway http://spendful.com to the right person.

Hey Mitchell, Merlin from https://thisisbud.com here. Looks like a cool tool you've made, what's made you close the door on it? I've sent an email over to you anyway as I'd love to hear more about it.

I don't want to close it, just pass it on. I use it myself but neglect the maintenance of it.
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