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Re: Ask HN: What (side) projects are you working on?

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Post by PhrosTT » Wed, Nov 05, 2014, 5:17 PM UTC

A 'front page' of manually curated songs (good for coding to). I hope to begin playing with ML to identify tastemakers and improve track rankings (but first I need some users).

It was pure Bacbone but now switched to a React views with Backbone router & models for data syncing. Backend is Express + Mongo.

Listens are tracked with extreme granularity using Socket.io so I can differentiate between songs with an average listen time of 20 seconds vs. 2 minutes.

No real stats. Just recently got it to a decent point. Need to sex up the UI and branding next.

Re: Ask HN: What (side) projects are you working on?

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Post by jevyjevjevs » Wed, Nov 05, 2014, 5:24 PM UTC

mkremer90 wrote: post #27

I'm currently working on Kobra, a realtime collaborative code editor, mostly during my lunch breaks. https://Kobra.io Tech Used: AngularJS, Firebase, Firepad, EasyRTC Statistics: Just broke 700 registered users and 5000 file collaborated on. Have made a little over $2000 from 125 people going Pro. History: I started back in December, but gave up too soon. I've since relaunched it as a smaller product and am super hap…

> To celebrate us not getting a YC interview

I loled

Re: Ask HN: What (side) projects are you working on?

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Post by jevyjevjevs » Wed, Nov 05, 2014, 5:29 PM UTC

aepearson wrote: post #84

franksup2 wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've had the same problem too. Focus on one project and work on it at least 30 minutes every day. It will be much easier to get motivation once you'll see progress

Makes sense - 30 min a day is manageable for sure. It's just a matter of actually sticking to it. (I realize how ridiculous I sound right now) But I think you are quite right about finding motivation with visible progress. I better get crackin!

Maybe try to release something VERY early and collect feedback from people. That way you know EXACTLY what to focus on because people will use it. Motivation level: Awesome!

Re: Ask HN: What (side) projects are you working on?

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Post by snide » Wed, Nov 05, 2014, 5:32 PM UTC

Khao wrote: post #82

snide wrote: post #23

I wanted a static site generator that could have a CMS so that I could pass the sites over to friends or clients so they could update it. Essentially, a not-terrible Wordpress that wasn't blog centric and bloated. http://www.webhook.com I built it over the summer, funded it through Kickstarter and have slowly been building a nice little client base of recurring revenue. The code itself is open source so it's self-hos…

This is really awesome! I looked quickly at your self-hosting guide and I was wondering is the only option to deploy the static website Google Cloud Storage? I would like to setup webhook on a Heroku with free-tier dynos and deploy to AWS because those are the services I already use and love. If it's not possible, do you think I could fork your project and integrate AWS deployment somewhat easily?

The reason we went with GCS is because AWS limits you to 100 static sites (buckets). That's a block for our hosted solution.

The code is MIT, so do with it what you want. May be a little bit more complicated then just switching out the build layer, but if you can get something working that's configurable, feel free to send in a PR.

Re: Ask HN: What (side) projects are you working on?

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Post by stevetjoa » Wed, Nov 05, 2014, 5:33 PM UTC

A collection of IPython notebooks for music information retrieval (MIR). Work in progress: https://github.com/stevetjoa/stanford-mir

We began using these as instructional material at a summer workshop on MIR at CCRMA, Stanford [https://ccrma.stanford.edu/workshops/music-information-retri...]. For many years, we used Matlab, but we decided it was finally time to move over to Python. The GitHub repo includes a Vagrantfile that allows you to use Vagrant to provision a Virtualbox VM with all the audio libraries preloaded.

For included technologies, see the Vagrant box website: https://vagrantcloud.com/stevetjoa/boxes/stanford-mir/versio...

Your feedback, including pull requests and issues (and stars!), are most welcome.

Re: Ask HN: What (side) projects are you working on?

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Post by juanre » Wed, Nov 05, 2014, 5:47 PM UTC

I build and sell high-resolution posters of the sky at

http://greaterskies.com

I've been at it for some years now, and it's been featured here a couple of times. The backend (astronomical computations and generation of the PDF) I implemented in Common Lisp. It's still tiny: I get around 20 visits a day, sell around a poster a day, and can't figure out how to make it grow.

Re: Ask HN: What (side) projects are you working on?

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Post by dllthomas » Wed, Nov 05, 2014, 5:56 PM UTC

I'm currently working full time on building a funding platform for FLO works at Snowdrift.coop

The backend is Haskell using Yesod. The front-end is not very interesting so far - we're sticking with progressive enhancement for a host of reasons, and haven't focused much on enhancing yet.

We don't get a tremendous amount of traffic yet, as we're not launched. There's a lot of writing and discussion on the site, though. Been working on it - mostly part time - for about two years now, with deep involvement of one non-technical co-founder, and on-and-off involvement of varying depth from others.

We're aiming to be launched by the end of the year.

Re: Ask HN: What (side) projects are you working on?

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Post by takinola » Wed, Nov 05, 2014, 5:59 PM UTC

Handy.js (http://handyjs.org) - a simple template for nodejs apps

I started playing around with nodejs about 18 months ago and I decided to put all the common functionality of all my projects (user management, cron, backup, content management, etc) into one package that I could maintain separately.

It is built with

Node.js Redis MySQL

Re: Ask HN: What (side) projects are you working on?

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Post by davegaeddert » Wed, Nov 05, 2014, 6:04 PM UTC

Our company has had a side project going for the last couple months called Beluga. It's a simple, straight-forward task sharing iOS app for small teams. We just made it free today for a limited time, have been getting some awesome traction so far.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/beluga-shared-tasks./id83683...

Technology: Django, AngularJS, django-tastypie, Mandrill, iOS (obviously)

Statistics: Almost 300 new users so far today...

History: We built this to satisfy a need for ourselves, instead of sending each other texts and Hangout messages all day with small tasks, we decided it could make for a really simple app that could do exactly what we want and nothing more. Turns out it's also great for sharing to-dos with your significant other...

Re: Ask HN: What (side) projects are you working on?

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Post by fdik » Wed, Nov 05, 2014, 6:23 PM UTC

Actually because I'm in kind of sabbatical, my current side project is my main one: pretty Easy privacy, http://pep-project.org – no one pays me for that. The thing I'm hacking now is a preview app for Android based on K-9.

I'm continuing my work of research in language theory, modeling theory and automation of software development, see http://fdik.org/yml and http://fdik.org/pyPEG Today I'm working on Intrinsic, a language with variable syntax while runtime. pyPEG is the prototype of the Parser Framework for that.