Ask HN: Side project you're working on? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Side project you're working on?

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Post by canadapups » Mon, Apr 23, 2018, 10:57 PM UTC

My wife is a dog breeder in Canada. She was starting to get worried about her dependence on Kijiji as the only site to advertise her puppy litters. Kijiji is a de facto monopoly due to network effects and they have slowly been increasing the fee they charge to post. In addition all other alternative sites are terrible - filled with pet scams.

I built CanadaPups.com as an alternative. Free to post. Started a couple of years ago. Growing slowly but consistently. I pretty much spend my nights afterwork fighting pet scams. I wanted to hire a web designer but she prefers the site to look "hand-made" for a softer feel… ok dog brown color it is then :). Any constructive feedback is welcome! Trying to grow it.

https://canadapups.com

Re: Ask HN: Side project you're working on?

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Post by funkaster » Mon, Apr 23, 2018, 11:09 PM UTC

Dowwie wrote: post #30

If every programmer working on a side project were to collaborate on a single project together, just for a full day one weekend, I wonder what could be achieved.. If selection of the project were democratic, would you participate?

probably not much. Just on coordination you would spend a huge amount of time. Only one day commitment is too short. Maybe a week distributed in a month might be better. Or even better a 2 week sprint distributed in a month (10 "work days").

Re: Ask HN: Side project you're working on?

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Post by Schweigi » Mon, Apr 23, 2018, 11:18 PM UTC

https://www.teamcalapp.com - to do employee scheduling/planning directly on existing Google Calendar data.

This time i only used “old” technologies so that I can spend the least amount of time on actual development work. Uses Python/Django/Postgres under the hood and all is running on Heroku. Frontend built with Angular 1.

The biggest issue for me is always to find enough time next to work/family. What worked well is to split tasks into tiny work units (e.g 15min) and making sure to finish one each day.

Re: Ask HN: Side project you're working on?

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Post by awillen » Mon, Apr 23, 2018, 11:42 PM UTC

It's not quite as interesting as a lot of stuff here, nor is it something I can link to just yet, but I'm writing a book about interviewing for product management roles. I took a sabbatical recently and have just started interviewing, and already I've had very mixed experiences - some really well organized and thought out, and others that were clearly thrown together with no thought.

I started taking notes on what was good/bad, so I could ensure we have a good process wherever I end up. Then I started writing a book out of that. Then I realized there's not quite enough content for a book there, but I can still help improve the process by preparing interviewees. So that's what I'm doing now - about 20,000 words in so far!

Re: Ask HN: Side project you're working on?

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Post by tpae » Mon, Apr 23, 2018, 11:47 PM UTC

https://www.superteam.io/

I've been working on it for a while, gaining momentum with customer and freelancer base. We're at ramen profitability at the moment, still trying to grow.

If anyone has a project or wants to work on other people's projects for money, let us know!

Re: Ask HN: Side project you're working on?

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Post by omani » Mon, Apr 23, 2018, 11:58 PM UTC

hey there,

Show HN will come soon (the next days).

I have finished my side project (SaaS/PaaS) called triggerFS.

triggerFS is a distributed, realtime message passing and trigger system. triggerFS enables you to build distributed systems and do high-speed realtime messaging in a service-oriented fashion. What really powers triggerFS is the gigantic amount of plugins you can use to do any kind of task.

Check out https://github.com/triggerfsio/packages for an overview, features, use cases and more.

I am about to launch the next days after I have finished writing the documentation. I am super excited and hopefully will get the attention of the HN folks when doing my Show HN.

Re: Ask HN: Side project you're working on?

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Post by troycarlson » Mon, Apr 23, 2018, 11:59 PM UTC

https://getdevour.com (marketing site and old app)

https://app.getdevour.com (new app I'm slowly migrating users over to)

This is incredibly niche at the moment, but people who follow Renaissance Periodization nutrition templates can upload their template and turn a complex spreadsheet/PDF into a simple, filterable app experience. Soon expanding to more nutrition plans.

Re: Ask HN: Side project you're working on?

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Post by wompo » Tue, Apr 24, 2018, 12:04 AM UTC

http://www.ternaryplot.com

Some courses required me to make these kind of charts and the quickest options were Excel templates or drawing them by hand. There are some Python and R libraries that are pretty good but they were a little too cumbersome for most of my relatively simple charts. So I made this simple page with d3.js to quickly make pretty ternary plots.

Re: Ask HN: Side project you're working on?

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Apr 24, 2018, 12:05 AM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: Side project you're working on?

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Post by patmurraydev » Tue, Apr 24, 2018, 12:06 AM UTC

https://atlas.patmurray.co

A small app to create pretty wallpapers for iPhone and iPad out of various map designs. Has become quite popular in Germany.

It started after I tweeted a screenshot of my iPhone home screen and people wanted me to make them a similar wallpaper of their city, so I built an app for it. Took exactly one week from tweet idea to App Store!