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Re: Ask HN: What is your side project for 2017?

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Post by hubert123 »

bartvanH wrote: post #27

I want to build a set of tools to build a full private cloud on bare metal with zero single points of failure. Essentially a full replacement of Fuel and Openstack. I've already started on a full multi master dhcp server to assign ip adresses to hosts and instances.

well please make it so that it's truly easy to install. And I mean REALLY easy. I have tried at least 10 cloud solutions and I havent managed to successfully install any of them. The best one yet was tectonic but their error messages were too non-existent or vague at the end and the emphasis here is on non-existent.

Re: Ask HN: What is your side project for 2017?

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Post by leroman »

A framework which makes it easy to manage- scraping, crawling, job orchestration. It build on top of a special "data as code" declarative language. Have been working on it for years as a side project, now taking time off from consulting to make it usable for my other side project ideas.

Re: Ask HN: What is your side project for 2017?

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Post by herbst »

I kind of side project fulltime now, so i plan to create a few actually. In the next days i may finish a travel destination site (boring i know, buts its super useful to me :) and there is a flight suggestion thingy that does not get out of my mind i may start next. Scratching my own itches there as well.

Re: Ask HN: What is your side project for 2017?

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Post by 300 »

powmonk wrote: post #21
300 wrote: post #13

I am writing a book on Vim [1] for a while now, so it's going to be my main side project in the first months of 2017. [1] A crappy page about the book: http://jovicailic.org/mastering-vim-quickly/

As a piece of constructive criticism (as it seems like maybe English isn't your first language) using gendered words like "guys" can seem a little bit sexist or at least exclusionary. You don't want to put women off reading your book just with the blurb :)

You're right, English isn't my first language. Thanks for the tip!

Re: Ask HN: What is your side project for 2017?

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Post by ZenoArrow »

jeffclark wrote: post #14

I believe that people want help finding "smart home" devices that will work well with the existing equipment in their home, and that they would pay good money for that because buying the wrong equipment is a frustrating (and expensive) mistake. I'm building a way to help you pick the connected equipment that will work best for your home, based on what you want to control, how you want to control it, and the equipment…

Just one suggestion, can you offer information on device security also? A collection of devices may work well together, but if I was buying a smart home device I'd want to be informed of any security issues as they're discovered. The escalations in DDoS size that we saw in 2016 were supposedly driven by a high number of insecure smart home/IoT devices, I'd like to do what I can to stop this becoming a trend.

Re: Ask HN: What is your side project for 2017?

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Post by SFJulie »

My life.

Making better bread, cider, and delete all my open source projects.

Creating the first post-luddites anti computer guerilla movement.

Oh, and since I am bored of all the terrorism laws that results in our countries converging to soviet unions mood, I will also make pirate parties spike water with recreational harmless drugs so people stop look like scared zombies and give them a smile back on their face.

Then in 2018 we make a fun revolution with no casualties, and we all live happily ever after.

I become a dictator edicts every one have the responsibility of leading their life make the country a democracy and retire after a day in Corsica because this place is amazing and life to short to take yourself seriously.

Re: Ask HN: What is your side project for 2017?

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Post by mrgrowth »

herbst wrote: post #7
bharani_m wrote: post #6

Simple "email this link to me" service. If I find something interesting, I want to be able to click a button (chrome extension/bookmarklet) that will extract the text from that page, format it nicely and email it to me (preferably to a separate Gmail label). I can then read it from my email client (iOS/Android email app) during my commute. I don't want the overhead of a complete app like Evernote or Pocket.

This sounds like something i would use.

Second, that I would use this.
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