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Re: Ask HN: What is your current side-project?

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I primarily build in python/flask with mysql. How's Your Blank is a javascript app with https://userbase.com serving as the backend to keep the user data encrypted and out of my hands.

didn't know userbase, seems interesting, thanks!

I would definitely recommend. The price is right. There are definitely some limitations, but I think that comes with the territory with what they are doing around privacy and simplicity.

Re: Ask HN: What is your current side-project?

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I’ve been running https://kvdb.io as a side project for a while. This weekend, I woke up to a bunch of alerts that the server had run out of open file descriptors (rookie mistake, I never expected to receive more than a thousand simultaneous requests). It turns out someone wrote a tutorial on how to automate COVID-19 appointment slot bookings and used KVdb to store SMS OTP codes. Never expected it, but a great surpri…

Great work.

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I’ve been motivated many times in my life to change my diet to improve my physical and financial wellness. I’ve always found making these changes to be difficult and time consuming. I started building https://freshbatch.io to make it easier for myself and others who feel my pain. We’re opening it up slowly to private beta users this month if you’re interested in seeing more.

Re: Ask HN: What is your current side-project?

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I'm currently working on app that allows you to pay all your bills in a single click. As the guy who pays all the bills in the house I have like 7+ bills to pay in a single time. I hate to pay it 1 by 1 so I created the app to solve that problem. This is the link https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bayaqapp.w... but it is only for Malaysia.

autopay

Re: Ask HN: What is your current side-project?

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Working on a modular archiving tool that, so long as an appropriate archiving "kernel" has been written, will be able to archive files from compatible URLs without the end user needing to care which tool is used or how it's downloaded. (https://github.com/joshbarrass/UArchiver)

I'm also working on integrating this into a Telegram bot (https://github.com/joshbarrass/ArchiverBot) that will allow me to archive things to my NAS whilst on the go. UArchiver is provided with the URL and will just download the files without me needing to care how.

I've been too busy with other things to put major work into it recently, but both projects are in a functional state, just without tonnes of features or supported sites. Whilst it may not seem like much, I'm particularly pleased with the GitHub Actions pipeline I set up recently, which will automatically upload UArchiver releases to PyPi, and automatically build ArchiverBot Docker images and upload those DockerHub.

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