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Mostly it's a conceptual art piece that's meant to offer a different model of being social online — one that's wholly about ongoing presence and participation, not accumulation and curation. I think I'll try to sell it for a buck in the app store.
http://pypy.org - Python interpreter with a just in time compiler. It's the only alternative python implementation out there, after failures of unladen swallow/pyston etc.
http://bloc11.co.za - Own climbing gym. It's cool to work directly with people and pursue own ideas in a small space.
A website that shows if there's a scene after credits for movies in theaters. So long for all that people standing on the stairs because a scene just started. Simple stuff, some scraping
Why/how will yours be better than all the others? ex. http://aftercredits.com/
I've done this probably a dozen times over the last couple of years as a demonstration of the technology.
It always ends the same: Every party fights for ownership of the data, but nobody can figure out what to do with the data once they have it. Nobody wants to pay for it, much less support a subscription model. The free sites are held together with duct tape and chewing gum. Nobody wants to support it in the field. There are too many variables in network infrastructure. You can't use the network in the store because the cashier system is on there and PCI says no way. Getting a solid 802.11 signal in a room full of sheet metal is a nightmare. Customers want to use off-the-shelf cellular hotspots that are pieces of garbage and couldn't hold a TCP packet if it was covered in crazy glue.
But the demonstrations always go well. The customers think it's cool.
So on we go, boldly onward into the IoT future. I just pushed the next release up.
It's cool because it makes her life better and I've had some great feedback from other people trying to manage their intake of sugars about how it makes their lives easier :)
Sketch to React Native: https://github.com/nanohop/sketch-to-react-native It takes designs for mobile apps (from Sketch files), and tries to convert those into React Native components. It's still early days, but it's a promising start. It's cool because if I can get it working fully, it can replace a large chunk of my consulting projects (taking designs and converting them to the initial code)
Have you looked at airbnb's sketch/react tools?
They can generate sketch files from react components (https://github.com/airbnb/react-sketchapp) but not the other way around.
The painting with code demo (https://airbnb.design/painting-with-code/) was a step towards that though, and I think it's really interesting as well.
It's a little music production community. You know how everyone on HN laments that small quirky websites have been eaten by bigger ones, so they don't exist any more? My website is cool because it has that sort of community - intelligent and good at music but also funny and super weird. We all kinda know each other, which makes it fun.
Also, a bunch of us have gotten a lot better at making music, which is another nice win. :)