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Re: Ask HN: What weekend projects have you created?

#31

I built discurse ( https://discurse.xyz/ ) for learning PHP/Laravel. It's mostly a clone of reddit, with the key difference that you can post anonymously, though you need to make an account for upvoting posts. I posted about it on HN and reddit previously, but it didn't get much traction, so it's pretty much dead as of now.

Kinda bad that it has almost the exact name of https://www.discourse.org/, also a relatively new forum.

Re: Ask HN: What weekend projects have you created?

#32

http://postcardbot.co And http://parseaddress.io Both were spun up in a weekend. They’ve changed a lot since then, but only because of how many people use them now :)

Seems like a fun idea, but sadly the bot doesn't like my images (tried with 2 images): https://i.imgur.com/848OFut.png

Also, at least in Germany, I can use Deutsche Post/DHL to do the same thing, for cheaper: https://www.deutschepost.de/de/f/funcard.html

Re: Ask HN: What weekend projects have you created?

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post #31

I built discurse ( https://discurse.xyz/ ) for learning PHP/Laravel. It's mostly a clone of reddit, with the key difference that you can post anonymously, though you need to make an account for upvoting posts. I posted about it on HN and reddit previously, but it didn't get much traction, so it's pretty much dead as of now.

Kinda bad that it has almost the exact name of https://www.discourse.org/ , also a relatively new forum.

Well, the "curse" part is kind of important to the name, due to the anonymous nature of the forum :)

I am not well versed with the specifics of how trademarks work, but I hope this is enough of a differentiator to keep it safe.

Re: Ask HN: What weekend projects have you created?

#36
A Vim plugin for managing sessions https://github.com/bgrohman/vim-bg-sessions

A really simple backup system with bash and gnupg http://bryangrohman.com/simple-encrypted-backup-system/

A custom bookmark service for managing my bookmarks across multiple browsers with Node and LetsEncrypt. Planning to add end to end encryption at some point. I don’t have the code hosted anywhere yet.

Re: Ask HN: What weekend projects have you created?

#38
My wife & I are crowdsourcing memorial benches across the world

https://openbenches.org/

Only been working on it for a few weekends, already have 2,300 listed on there. Would be great to get some more from the USA & Canada though. So if you spot any, please take a photo and upload :-)

All the code is open source and the photos are CC-BY-SA.

Re: Ask HN: What weekend projects have you created?

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https://macvendors.com was a side project from 5 years ago, gets $600-800/m in ad revenue now and the API serves up about 30-35 million request a month

https://sendfly.co just launched this last week. Still have to do some documentation and UI work to make it a bit more intuitive. It’s a contact form endpoint.

Re: Ask HN: What weekend projects have you created?

#40

http://postcardbot.co And http://parseaddress.io Both were spun up in a weekend. They’ve changed a lot since then, but only because of how many people use them now :)

I used to work for UK startup https://www.touchnote.com/ - which is a similar idea. I like how simple your interface is. And bot interaction is very hot right now. You should contact them to see if they're interested in it.
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