Ask HN : What side project are you working on? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN : What side project are you working on?

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Post by napoleond » Wed, Aug 19, 2015, 3:53 PM UTC

Two things:

1. A better wiki, especially for personal use or for small teams. I find wikis are really difficult to keep organized over time, so I'm making it "self-organize" using a few simple heuristics to define structure and relevance.

2. A podcast in which I interview local business leaders. I don't live in a big city, and the tech scene here is not very mature, but there is a lot to learn from brick-and-mortar folks and this is a neat way for me to meet them.

If anyone is curious about either, please don't hesitate to contact me! (Email in profile.)

Re: Ask HN : What side project are you working on?

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Post by dr_win » Wed, Aug 19, 2015, 3:55 PM UTC

An attempt to build structural lisp editor (ClojureScript in this case): https://github.com/darwin/plastic

Re: Ask HN : What side project are you working on?

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Post by noxToken » Wed, Aug 19, 2015, 3:57 PM UTC

Cross platform, open-source app for parenting. Initial plans are mostly for logging events: sleep tracking (manual entry), eating times, audio playback (for ambient noise and shushing), and diaper changes. No ads, no centralized servers, no trackers, no cruft. Parents will be able to import/export their data to sync between devices.

Admittedly, I have not done a ton of research into the different apps on the market, but there are a lot of crappy apps. From what I have seen though, there are plenty with annoying advertisements, absurd permission requests, steep prices for little functionality, and apps with an agenda. There is an app that plays a sound file on loop for 30 minutes and prompts you to purchase for indefinite looping for $3.99. There is literally no other functionality, and they want $3.99. Devs gotta eat, but that's ridiculous.

Re: Ask HN : What side project are you working on?

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Post by romansanchez » Wed, Aug 19, 2015, 4:02 PM UTC

If you've ever used elasticsearch and needed monitoring and alerting for your cluster without the overhead of running tools in the cluster itself, you'll realize there's not many options. So came up with the idea to separate monitoring and alerting for elasticsearch clusters to create Pulse. Close to launch. https://www.espulse.com/

Re: Ask HN : What side project are you working on?

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Post by dglass » Wed, Aug 19, 2015, 4:03 PM UTC

Cohort analysis for your Stripe account - https://cohorts.co

Re: Ask HN : What side project are you working on?

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Post by arcameron » Wed, Aug 19, 2015, 4:05 PM UTC

Something like Netflix, but for your home

https://github.com/qq99/muvee

- rails, open source

- find & torrent movies and tv shows

- organize your media and enrich files with art, descriptions, ratings

- controls your Hue lights to match playback

Re: Ask HN : What side project are you working on?

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Post by tjiwasaki » Wed, Aug 19, 2015, 4:05 PM UTC

tomtoise wrote: post #7

I'm writing a quick frontend to search the AM leak database. And sticking some ads on it. /s

Charge to reveal more than last initial?

Re: Ask HN : What side project are you working on?

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Post by thecolorblue » Wed, Aug 19, 2015, 4:27 PM UTC

Food loss tracking app for personal use. Put in perishable groceries and it alerts you when things are about to go bad.

Re: Ask HN : What side project are you working on?

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Post by gkelly » Wed, Aug 19, 2015, 4:33 PM UTC

A twitter bot for HN, but stories are delayed for 24 hours and then must meet a score threshold. I use it to catch up on news after a few days away from the internet. Bot is hosted on Google within the free quota! I plan to post the source to github eventually...

https://twitter.com/icymihn

Re: Ask HN : What side project are you working on?

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Post by joeseeder » Wed, Aug 19, 2015, 4:33 PM UTC

DanHulton wrote: post #30

I'm working on a receipt-saving service for small businesses/freelancers: https://receiptron.com/ The goal is to make it the easiest way to save receipts. No app to install, no complicated expense report forms to fill out, just take a picture of the receipt with your phone camera, email it to our specially-trained robots, and it gets saved and sorted for you for later.

Ha, i've done something similar. It's dirt simple , you put total price and categories / tags in the subject of the email ( because you are much more accurate than any OCR, and doing 1 receipt at a time it's not even noticeable work ), and attach a picture/pdf or the expense.

then i have a ruby script which connect to the imap account, creates reports based on sender and tags, including attachments in the breakdown. Simple and effective.