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Re: Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?

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Post by hivacruz »

I improved a lot my side project called @whattheshot, a Twitter Bot that features a quiz around cinema since 2010: https://twitter.com/whattheshot.

It tweets a movie frame every 10 minutes and people have 5 min to guess the movie (from where the frame was taken). I improved a lot of things during 2017. It now interacts in three different languages (English, French, Spanish), accepts requests in DM from regular players, can be controlled by myself through DMs.

The bot can change behavior according to the news/day (like right now, it features shots from movies with fireworks, make-ups, to prepare for the New Year's Eve).

It is based on whatthemovie.com, which I co-develop as well.

Re: Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?

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Post by city41 »

alin23 wrote: post #74

Quitting my full-time job to pursue my side-projects was the best thing I could have done for my health and sanity this year. I am now working on a bunch of ideas that I hope will help some people around here: 1. A Pocket-to-Kindle service that syncs (almost) instantly to your Kindle whatever article you save, formats it like a professionally edited book, cleans up ads and takes advantage of the new typesetting engin…

I just recently joined Spotify. I have found their "we will play similar music after your music ends" feature to enable me to discover lots of new artists. I find it interesting you found Spotify lacking here, because I am finding the opposite.

Re: Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?

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Post by paulgb »

I got a pen plotter (AxiDraw v3) and it's been a great creative outlet. I wrote a couple tutorials on techniques I learned or discovered:

Fractal generation with L Systems: https://bitaesthetics.com/posts/fractal-generation-with-l-sy...

Surface projection: https://bitaesthetics.com/posts/surface-projection.html

Re: Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?

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Post by alin23 »

T2_t2 wrote: post #78
alin23 wrote: post #74

Quitting my full-time job to pursue my side-projects was the best thing I could have done for my health and sanity this year. I am now working on a bunch of ideas that I hope will help some people around here: 1. A Pocket-to-Kindle service that syncs (almost) instantly to your Kindle whatever article you save, formats it like a professionally edited book, cleans up ads and takes advantage of the new typesetting engin…

Dude, LINKS! My mate was looking for almost that exact spotify thing!

None of those ideas are ready for public use yet. I mean they work, I use them daily, but the interface for non-programmers is still in the works.

https://github.com/alin23/spfy is the core of that idea. If you want I can help you or your friend set it up. Or I can let you know when the finished website is ready.

Re: Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?

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Post by dvdsgl »

A friend and I created https://quicktype.io to generate TypeScript, Swift, Go, C#, C++, etc. from JSON sample data and GraphQL queries.

Many have tried to solve this problem – we've found at least 20 projects that attempt to turn JSON sample data into code to represent that data, but they're almost all abandoned and they all have the same fundamental flaws (they generate invalid code for most non-trivial inputs).

In the past two weeks we've created Xcode and VS Code plugins. I've had so much fun with this project! We'd love to create a business around quicktype but we haven't figured that part out yet.

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