1. Photo sharing platform 2. An Investment portfolio management platform.
What kind of platform?
Photo sharing :P
Ask HN: What is your side project for 2017?
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Re: Ask HN: What is your side project for 2017?
#52Simple "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.
Sounds similar to Safari in Reader mode on Mac.
Re: Ask HN: What is your side project for 2017?
#53I 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.
Yes! I've been thinking of ways to do this, and the idea on top of my list is a live usb image that asks for stuff like network parameters, then configures the live image as a 90% functional node from which the first real host can be pxe booted. After the first host(s) have been installed the admin should be able to reboot the live host and add it to the cluster for real.
Right now i have a running Openstack cluster with Fuel for deploying new nodes over pxe. It works ok-ish, but it has some strange glitches every now and then. nothing production critical going wrong, but it still doesn't inspire confidence in me.
Re: Ask HN: What is your side project for 2017?
#54I am going to write a novel. Does that count?
Re: Ask HN: What is your side project for 2017?
#55Simple "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.
I'm working on something like this at the moment, but it's on hold while I finish something else.
Re: Ask HN: What is your side project for 2017?
#56A small programming/computer science dictionary with lots of links to related resources (videos, blogs, articles, etc).
Re: Ask HN: What is your side project for 2017?
#57I 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 :)
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Re: Ask HN: What is your side project for 2017?
#58I 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 :)
The word "guys" isn't so gendered in 2017 as it might have been 50 years ago. Far more importantly, though, gendered advertisements have had thousands of years of success. Don't insult or belittle any demographic, but keep in mind that it's entirely possible that many different sales pages targeting different demographics is the long-term solution.
For a first trial though, I'd narrow to a laser tight focus and pick one person you believe the book will most serve and write all your copy as if you were talking only to that one person. After you get uptake, expand.
Re: Ask HN: What is your side project for 2017?
#59I 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.
Sounds good. Would it be something like Triton? http://www.infoworld.com/article/2900832/virtualization/joye... https://www.joyent.com/triton
Tbh it's been a while since I looked into Triton, but it should operate in the same "feed it hardware and run virtual machines" space. I might experiment with running the components on top of smartos because of all the niceness that brings (i.e. crossbow, dtrace and zfs), but for now I’m building on top of Ubuntu.
Re: Ask HN: What is your side project for 2017?
#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 :)
What word would you suggest in its place? As a native English speaker I can't think of something similar which is both gender neutral and casual without being quirky (I'd use 'peeps' in conversations with friends, but not in marketing text).
I use "folks" and some people like "y'all" (iirc the Recurse Center took that as their "guys" replacement). Not sure how quirky that is for you though.