Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

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Post by nje32847 » Fri, May 15, 2020, 3:45 PM UTC

I've been working on an iMessage API, been able to learn a ton about Node.js in the backend. Website is built with React: sendblue.co

Has anyone else been perfectly ok with the quarantine? I can learn, build, explore, and I don't even have to interact with anyone. I guess seeing friends is nice, but I don't miss it.

Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

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Post by launchpf » Fri, May 15, 2020, 3:46 PM UTC

I'm working on a daily newsletter to curate interesting articles/blogs around personal finance and financial independence: launchpf.com

Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

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Post by johnboiles » Fri, May 15, 2020, 3:46 PM UTC

Spice up your video conferences with OBS compositing (allows you to do green screen, multiple cameras, etc)

https://github.com/johnboiles/obs-mac-virtualcam

Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

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Post by ldd » Fri, May 15, 2020, 3:48 PM UTC

Game Tools:

- Visual Tech Trees (React, javascript) [0]

Games:

- Slay the spire + pokemon (React, javascript) [1]

- HN Comments Matcher (Phoenix, elixir) [2]

[0]: https://ldd.github.io/react-tech-tree/

[1]: https://ldd.itch.io/nu

[2]: https://hn.lddstudios.com/

[0-source]: https://github.com/ldd/react-tech-tree

[2-source]: https://github.com/ldd/hn_comments_game

Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

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Post by isthispermanent » Fri, May 15, 2020, 3:57 PM UTC

The next, and first paid version of https://factfreaks.com. A math teaching tool.

Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

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Post by agrippanux » Fri, May 15, 2020, 4:01 PM UTC

Mine is pretty vanilla; I built a home server for development/media. It's been probably 13 years since I built a computer so the experience of researching parts, etc was fun. My wife appreciates it's almost totally silent :)

It's been a great project so far; using it to learn Prometheus, pick up more Go development, host my own NextCloud, and run Plex and a Minecraft server.

Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

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Post by justinmiller » Fri, May 15, 2020, 4:10 PM UTC

I have been working on https://bifocalnews.com -- a news feed that scrapes political subreddits. This allows for a democracy-driven news feed with explicit bias stated for each article. Started this site for myself after realizing I had nowhere to go to get reliable political perspectives from both sides on popular topics, and I do not like that major news corporations get to choose what is on the front page.

Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

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Post by eabraham » Fri, May 15, 2020, 4:36 PM UTC

I created https://www.pullchecklist.com, a Github tool that surfaces contextually relevant checklists for Pull Requests. I built it to scratch an itch of a common problem at work. Some of the member of my team were tired of manually checking Github checklists because they were not relevant to the PR they were reviewing. This tool layers conditional logic on top of Github's checklist functionality.

Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

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Post by systematical » Fri, May 15, 2020, 4:42 PM UTC

https://github.com/cnizzardini/cakephp-swagger-bake also combining various other cake libraries into a competitor to api platform for those who prefer to write code instead of comments (annotations) and YML.

Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

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Post by bredren » Fri, May 15, 2020, 4:45 PM UTC

I picked up my first open source maintainership: django-address.

Did my first triage release to pypi this past week. Learning about adding CI and all kinds of things about what it means to maintain a package on a popular web framework.