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 d_luaz » Wed, Aug 19, 2015, 5:44 PM UTC

StackBus: what stack you use, why you choose it and what you build with it? http://www.stackbus.com/

The purpose is to provide more insights and usage statistics when evaluating something new (server, language, framework, database, IDE, etc.).

It also show which company or product is using which stack and why.

It also double up as your online tech resume.

Hope you guys find it useful :)

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

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Post by ftfish » Wed, Aug 19, 2015, 6:18 PM UTC

http://www.botwiki.org -- an open-source collection of tutorials, articles, datasets and other resources for creating useful/interesting/artistic online bots.

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

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Post by brador » Wed, Aug 19, 2015, 7:02 PM UTC

gkelly wrote: post #79

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

I have 48 hours of Hacker news at http://skimfeed.com/news/hacker-news.html

Planning to add pagination soon for even more history.

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

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Post by zewaldo » Wed, Aug 19, 2015, 7:30 PM UTC

http://www.Tinykernel.com a platform that connects (new) programmers together to work on toy projects. The reason I am working on this is because I see post like "I want to build something, but don't know where to start" all the time. Currently, I am still trying to pinpoint the core features of the site so any feedback is welcome. I am probably going to release something within 3 weeks.

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

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Post by krapp » Wed, Aug 19, 2015, 7:36 PM UTC

Still working on the same uninteresting projects.

Working on making Space Invaders in C++/SDL. Since the last thread i've added vector motion (with terrible "physics"), sound, gotten enemy fire to work and a basic game state running. Currently i'm working on string rendering and UI so I can have buttons, then the first game state transitions (title screen to play screen.)

Also, a threaded forum which is turning out to be an anonymous Hacker News clone in PHP: https://imgur.com/Yojr7Dv (I'm not actually calling it Slacker News though, I just thought it was funny.)

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

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Post by someotheridiot » Wed, Aug 19, 2015, 10:10 PM UTC

https://rebrickable.com - A LEGO database that shows you which sets you can build from your existing collection, also includes thousands of fan-submitted designs.

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

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Post by lsiebert » Thu, Aug 20, 2015, 12:45 AM UTC

I'm building a REST API for project gutenburg book info, using flask. I haven't picked a backend database, but it's only ~50,000 records, so I don't know that it will matter hugely.

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

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Post by sideproject » Thu, Aug 20, 2015, 2:15 AM UTC

guiomie wrote: post #24

I'm building a social network for scuba divers, mixed with some stackoverflow concepts (upvoting posted dive spots).

for building a community type, you can check out http://hellobox.co

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

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Post by sideproject » Thu, Aug 20, 2015, 2:16 AM UTC

nubela wrote: post #31

I worked on javelinbrowser.com, but it's now lay to waste due to the focus I have to put into my startup. Anyone wanna take it over? Send me a mail.

want to post it on http://sideprojectors.com ? :)

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

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Post by getdavidhiggins » Thu, Aug 20, 2015, 2:27 AM UTC

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