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Ask HN: What weekend projects have you created?
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Re: Ask HN: What weekend projects have you created?
#42https://canpicker.com/ It's taking longer than a weekend though. My usual projects are more complicated and I wanted to do something brain dead and relatively instantly gratifying. Clojure + clojurescript(react based).
OK, how do I buy the cans you've told me I want?
I'm on the page for "HIFIMAN Edition S" - I'd expect an Amazon affiliate link or something. Earn yourself some cash :-)
Re: Ask HN: What weekend projects have you created?
#43Primarily a systems guy, hadn't really looked into web dev. After I burnt out and quit my job I developed https://discoverdev.io - a daily list of awesome engineering blogs!
Initial prototype developed over a couple of days, using plain HTML and CSS! Absolutely no JS.
This project was primarily to recharge myself after a bad job. I loved collecting and sharing links with my friends, so I made this!
I recently also added a mailing list and got a good number of subscribers :)
Re: Ask HN: What weekend projects have you created?
#44https://canpicker.com/ It's taking longer than a weekend though. My usual projects are more complicated and I wanted to do something brain dead and relatively instantly gratifying. Clojure + clojurescript(react based).
AKG K240 (MKII)/Sennheiser HD 598 seem to be missing (I only know of these two)
Re: Ask HN: What weekend projects have you created?
#45https://cronitor.io started as a weekend project. I had an acute need for the product which enforced getting a working version quickly. After using the result of that first weekend hackathon in production for a couple of weeks my co-founder and I decided to put in another couple weekend afternoons and evenings to make it a saas product. We've been working on it part-time ever since.
I wrote more about it in an Indie Hackers interview a few months ago - https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses/cronitor
Re: Ask HN: What weekend projects have you created?
#46I 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.
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#47A simple vue.js application to display classes of my college: https://stuv.chagemann.de/
Our student organization already has a native Android app for this and it looks better (native is always better than web, of course), but as nobody really wants to continue its development or the development of an iOS app, I built this.
This way, we can just have a single codebase whose website can be displayed in simple wrapper apps for the major platforms.
In the next days I'm going to add current events (just another .ics to parse) and possibly guidance information for "ersties", the german word for Freshmen.
Stack used: Vue.js, Pug, Stylus, moment.js, ical.js
Re: Ask HN: What weekend projects have you created?
#48Just launched https://www.medistudents.com. Not technically fancy (it’s PHP+MySQL) but I thought I’d do something a little unique with how it’s built and managed.
The front end (apart from educational modules - see below) is built as a static HTML/CSS site with very minimal PHP and JS, and uses the Zurb Foundation framework as a full Gulp build environment. This helps keep the UI efficient and fast.
To provide database-linked services (i.e registered user-based services), I built an API using Silex. Without the API being operational, the static UI works absolutely fine, just an error when you try to log in. I use PHP file_get_contents as the very simple interface to this.
Finally, as the content is to be edited by non-technical doctors and eventually translators, I’ve used Bitbucket as a CMS. Learning modules are simple markdown files and images on a separate repo, which can be edited online using Bitbucket’s editor. When a new update has been approved via pull request, BB Pipelines will build and deploy an updated version of the static site. This process will even re-build all the PDFs which members can download.
It’s a unique yet simple solution, providing me with incredible control of the site, all without having to use or build a bloated CMS.
Re: Ask HN: What weekend projects have you created?
#49https://buildme.gg
Heroes of the Storm builds auto generated from pro matches. Just a fun little thing that was useful to me, no current long-term plans to turn it into a business or anything.
Re: Ask HN: What weekend projects have you created?
#50https://cronitor.io started as a weekend project. I had an acute need for the product which enforced getting a working version quickly. After using the result of that first weekend hackathon in production for a couple of weeks my co-founder and I decided to put in another couple weekend afternoons and evenings to make it a saas product. We've been working on it part-time ever since. I wrote more about it in an Indie…
I really think you should write something about the purpose of the project & the stack used