Ask HN: What weekend projects have you created?

A Github App providing CI for OpenEmbedded/Yocto projects: https://github.com/apps/yottaci, https://yottaci.idempotent.info

Initially I tried to use TravisCI, but it proved to be very inconvenient for the case of OpenEmbedded-based projects because of its time limits. So, I've created my own on top of MS Azure Functions. Currently it's used to do test builds against pull request to https://github.com/bmwcarit/meta-ros. But it can be used by anyone who's maintaining Yocto meta layers.

My project, Postways [1], started a side project but it's now a little bit more than that. I used to work for a startup were we where sending a lot of email, SMS and mobile push notifications to our customers. We used various different services for this at the time. The main problem was managing our message content. Our message text, such as SMS and mobile push, was stuck in source code and the HTML email templates were hosted in some marketing email platform. Every time the product people wanted update a message it was too much work because and at least one dev had to be involved. It was all quite messy and difficult to maintain.

Think of Postways as a content management system for transactional message templates with a unified API.

Even though this started as a side project, it quickly became more than that. It was a great opportunity to see if I could turn this into a service (a product), and that became the real challenge.

The main stack is pivoted around PHP 7.1. I use Symfony 3 for the web-tier and Doctrine 2 for the persistence layer. It runs on AWS and uses services such as EC2, RDS, SQS, Elasticache, Route53 and of course, SES and SNS.

[1] https://www.postways.com

Got tired of fiddling with deployment and built Exoframe [1] that handles most things during project deployments for me.

[1] https://github.com/exoframejs/exoframe

Financial App, for us to keep our household bookkeeping and finance management in.

Initially written in the abandoned Angular 1 framework and legacy ASP.NET, I'm now rewriting it using Knockout (with router5 for routing) and ASPNET Core 2. Initial version used gulp for bundling, new version uses webpack (for development) in combination with hot module replacement. Webpack has been a real nice experience.

https://github.com/Sebazzz/financial-app/tree/ko-rewrite

Nice. My suggestion would be to give people more incentive to contribute. A byline for the photographer (with the option of going anonymous), karma points, a profile page showing all of their contributions and ideally even a map of them. This profile page could then have a bio, a link to their site, social media, etc.