Ask HN: What weekend projects have you created? • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by edent » Sun, Sep 24, 2017, 4:50 PM UTC

acangiano wrote: post #69

edent wrote: post #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.

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.

Thanks! We've got that in the works. Photos can be attributed to the photographer - see https://openbenches.org/bench/610

We're also working on a leaderboard - https://openbenches.org/leaderboard - will have to think about badges :-)

Cheers for the feedback.

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

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Post by encoderer » Sun, Sep 24, 2017, 7:16 PM UTC

andrewhayter wrote: post #54

augustflanagan wrote: post #45

https://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…

This is cool! Please talk about the stack!

Mostly Python. Django for web app and rest API. The Falcon micro-framework for telemetry collection API.

The dashboard is a React SPA (since 2014!) that is powered entirely by our REST API so new features are always API-enabled.

Alerting rules are handled by a Python daemon that processes the event stream.

Healthchecks are dispatched by coordinators to Lambda workers in a half dozen regions around the world. We started using Lambda before the launch of great frameworks like Serverless so we had to roll our own lambda deployment tooling with Fabric and Boto.

We use several AWS services including Route53 for global latency-based routing, SQS and SNS, etc. You can check out our May AWS bill if you're interested in learning more: https://blog.cronitor.io/the-aws-spend-of-a-saas-side-busine...

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

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Post by samlewis » Mon, Sep 25, 2017, 12:13 AM UTC

charlieegan3 wrote: post #64

I recently made https://mycriticmatch.charlieegan3.com to help people find a movie critic to follow. I built it as a static site experiment largely in a single weekend.

This is really cool! It'd be even more awesome if there was a permalink so I could save/share my results.

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

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Post by charlieegan3 » Mon, Sep 25, 2017, 6:36 AM UTC

samlewis wrote: post #73

charlieegan3 wrote: post #64

I recently made https://mycriticmatch.charlieegan3.com to help people find a movie critic to follow. I built it as a static site experiment largely in a single weekend.

This is really cool! It'd be even more awesome if there was a permalink so I could save/share my results.

Thanks! Glad you like it. If you fill out a few films you’ll see a blue button called “get share link” - this will gzip and base64 encode the state into a URL param so it can be shared.

Bit of a hack but I wanted the app to be truly static.

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

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Post by hobbes_calvin » Mon, Sep 25, 2017, 7:07 AM UTC

I started working on http://statemaps.org to highlight inequality among states within a country.

I realize that a lot of attention is being given to inequality among countries but even within a country, some states are much less developed than others.

In statemaps.org, I am trying to present all this data through maps so that it can be easily comprehended. I have released for one country as of now and will expand based on response