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Re: Ask HN: What is your side project?

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Post by jwho82 »

exolymph wrote: post #20
jwho82 wrote: post #10

https://logmyhours.com Time tracking, invoicing, project & employee management. Launched it in Aug 2015, and launched the app last Aug. Hoping to go full time in the next 12 months if things work out.

How's your traction so far?

Bit slow at first, but doing pretty good now. Been maintaining around 10% growth MoM since Jan 2015. This month has been awesome though, almost doubled last month's revenue!

Re: Ask HN: What is your side project?

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Post by OhSoHumble »

One project is Padmapper for affordable housing since the affordable housing sites built by government contractors are not great.

https://github.com/codeforsanjose/findahome

Another project is the programmatic serving of California drought data via a JSON api.

https://github.com/codeforsanjose/calidrought

I also am thinking of a tiny little golang website that helps people organize board game parties - basically a wrapper around meetup.com.

As far as non-tech projects, I want to make a bar cart I own prettier by lining the inside of its top tray with an LED strip.

Re: Ask HN: What is your side project?

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Post by Rodeoclash »

https://cineargus.com/

Follow directors, script writers and DOPs on movies and get alerted when new movies they work on come out.

I wrote it mainly for myself. When I sit down to watch a movie I decide on what I want to watch based more and more on who made it rather than what it's about. E.g. Taylor Sheridan wrote "Sicario". Based on how much I enjoyed that movie, I knew I would likely want to watch "Hell or High Water".

Still a bit incomplete, I haven't written the "how it works" section yet. But you can search for movies and find people that worked on them, follow them and get alerts.

Re: Ask HN: What is your side project?

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Post by jfajobi »

https://www.skipthestamps.com/

A simple tool to send people postcards (either anonymously or signed). Choose from 5 of my preset photos or upload your own.

Mainly wrote it because I always had issues abandoning side projects before I ever released it to the world.

I also wanted to get more comfortable with React.

Re: Ask HN: What is your side project?

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Post by kazinator »

SOFTWARE:

TXR: data munging and system scripting language, in active development since mid 2009. Contains innovative Lisp dialect and original document pattern matching language.

http://nongnu.org/txr

NON-SOFTWARE:

Currently subtitling an epic 1980's Japanese rock concert video of the group Show-Ya. Captioning of the original language done. English translation done for the first song.

Re: Ask HN: What is your side project?

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Post by jwho82 »

bbcbasic wrote: post #25
jwho82 wrote: post #10

https://logmyhours.com Time tracking, invoicing, project & employee management. Launched it in Aug 2015, and launched the app last Aug. Hoping to go full time in the next 12 months if things work out.

Whats the USP?

Cheaper than most of the competition, easy to use, and epic customer service (Doesn't everyone say this though?).

Basically I reach out to every new user to see if LMH is working out for them, and if there's anything missing or any challenges they might have encountered. I had one user with a few employees that was looking to switch over from one of our big competitors, and he really needed timesheet tags and timesheet approval & locking. I managed to build most of the timesheet tagging while in China on holidays :) and had the locking/approval system in later that week.

I have a few more exciting things I want to do once most of the main features have been built and I'm working full time on this. Currently doing around 20 hours a week.

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