I built https://upfollow.app to help a product manager have a better relationship with the software engineers. It makes it easy to create calendar reminders to follow up on features and other requests that she is waiting on. This provides a little structure, allows delivery estimates to change, limits interruption/nagging, and still catches rabbit holes or distractions before they can prevent features getting put in front of users.
Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?
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Re: Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?
#92A 15-minute-city analyser using OSM data. You gave it a list of everything you wanted to be close to (ie a school, restaurant, doctors office, food store etc.) and it would show you which parts of a given city had all those things with an N minute walk.
Hey this sounds pretty cool! If this is public would you mind sharing a link?
The code never advanced beyond some hack scripts and a Jupyter notebook. Cleaning it up and perhaps making it into web app has been on my todo list for the past 2-3 years. Maybe this reminder will be the kick I need to actually do something about it.
Re: Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?
#93Last August I built and launched EmailReputation API in about 12 hours both out of frustration due to spammers and bots signing up to things using syntactically valid but still bogus emails, and also as a test to see how much I could lean on AI coding tools to build something new as quickly as possible.
https://emailreputationapi.com/
Learned a lot and I now use the API for my other projects!
Re: Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?
#94Last year, my wife and I were planning a 12 day trip and I was struggling with Google Docs moving days around while we planned our final route. Told her to give me 2 days and ended up making a small app to help us plan our trip; the first version was built over New Years weekend: https://turas.app Kept working on it and it was good enough to share to Reddit 6 days later [0]. Got a good number of users and still keep…
Looks cool! Must try it out for our next trip coming up.
How did you land on the name Turas by the way? I was expecting an Irish connection as turas means 'trip' in Irish :)
Re: Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?
#95The remote location of, driving to for physical verification, extraction, and processing of a copper ore vein for lapidary purposes. All remote work done Friday morning via ASTER and LANDSAT, 3 hour caravan in 4x4 and AWD vehicles through nasty sand and mountains to the chosen location to verify findings, immediate camp set up and extraction begins that night and through Saturday morning and afternoon, break camp and depart that evening, spend Sunday cutting and polishing to reveal some of the most gorgeous blue and green you've ever seen in a rock.
Re: Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?
#96A 15-minute-city analyser using OSM data. You gave it a list of everything you wanted to be close to (ie a school, restaurant, doctors office, food store etc.) and it would show you which parts of a given city had all those things with an N minute walk.
Fascist! How dare you suggest I shouldn't ever go further than 15 minutes to access necessary resources to live my life! It's my god given right to spend at least an hour in traffic to get to the doctors...
/s there is actually a whole movement of people in the UK that beleive the very idea of a 15 minute city is a conspiracy to limit their freedoms...
Re: Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?
#97Last year, my wife and I were planning a 12 day trip and I was struggling with Google Docs moving days around while we planned our final route. Told her to give me 2 days and ended up making a small app to help us plan our trip; the first version was built over New Years weekend: https://turas.app Kept working on it and it was good enough to share to Reddit 6 days later [0]. Got a good number of users and still keep…
Looks cool! Must try it out for our next trip coming up. How did you land on the name Turas by the way? I was expecting an Irish connection as turas means 'trip' in Irish :)
> How did you land on the name Turas by the way
Give it a shot! It's not for everyone (definitely not casual planners). But if you budget, plan schedules, and especially if you plan multi-day trips with other travelers, it's a great tool!
Re: Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?
#98A 15-minute-city analyser using OSM data. You gave it a list of everything you wanted to be close to (ie a school, restaurant, doctors office, food store etc.) and it would show you which parts of a given city had all those things with an N minute walk.
Hey this sounds pretty cool! If this is public would you mind sharing a link?
Not the OP, but I've actually made something like that to help people figure out where to live in London based on the criteria they care about -- here it is https://findmyarea.co.uk/?search_type=areas
Would be great to see similar tools for other cities!
Re: Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?
#99Since I've heard very good things about Svelte & Sveltekit, I decided to give a go and build a trello clone with it.
It started as a weekend project, but I've since then continued working on it.
Re: Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?
#100I built an app to give us analytics on an LLM we are building for a client. It focuses specifically on “what people are talking about”. It’s literally one call to Gemini in terms of LLM usage… https://simplyanalyze.ai/ (We worked on this after the initial weekend but the basic app and UI you see there was working in a weekend)