Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

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Post by mackbrowne » Thu, May 14, 2020, 4:53 AM UTC

https://what-to-do-in-quarantine.web.app

I wanted to mess around and learn some new techniques. I created an app that will help you decide what to do while on lockdown. Users can submit their own ideas to the pool.

Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

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Post by jeremymcanally » Thu, May 14, 2020, 4:54 AM UTC

It's not exactly a tech side project, but I recorded a 30 minute comedy special in my garage that's freely streamable. I was hoping to use it to raise some cash for COVID relief through ads, Google keeps denying my AdSense activation, so now I'm hoping someone at least donates to World Central Kitchen or buys a download version: https://insidejokes.org

Now with that shipped, I'm thinking about some actual code projects. :)

Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

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Post by airstrike » Thu, May 14, 2020, 4:54 AM UTC

Learning F#. If anyone has good resources they'd like to point me to, I'm all ears

Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

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Post by nodesocket » Thu, May 14, 2020, 4:55 AM UTC

I bought a cheap used HP Proliant ML350p server on ebay for my home rig. 8 cores, 32 GB of memory, and 6X SAS drives in RAID 10.

  Run xcp-ng[1] virtualization:
    4x VM's running a Kubernetes cluster; three workers and a master.
      - Traefik load balancer in the Kubernetes cluster
      - Consul in the Kubernetes cluster for Traefik
      - GitTea[2] in the Kubernetes cluster
    FreeNAS[3] VM
    Plex[4] VM
    VPN[5] VM

 [1] https://xcp-ng.org/
 [2] https://gitea.io/en-us/
 [3] https://www.freenas.org/
 [4] https://www.plex.tv/
 [5] https://github.com/hwdsl2/setup-ipsec-vpn

Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

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Post by nikanj » Thu, May 14, 2020, 4:58 AM UTC

My mental health and wellbeing. Don't pile on more work when things are already really hard.

Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

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Post by medievalMoose » Thu, May 14, 2020, 5:01 AM UTC

Private pilot ground school online.

Free @ https://fly8ma.com/courses/pplgs/

Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

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Post by KFC_Manager » Thu, May 14, 2020, 5:02 AM UTC

Working on a pure email group challenge product. Basically you sign up with friends to complete a challenge and the product is almost entirely delivered through emails.

Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

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Post by ollerac » Thu, May 14, 2020, 5:11 AM UTC

I just made some bread the other day.

I'm also trying to get Remake off the ground: https://remaketheweb.com/

Currently working on 3 intro blog posts, as well as coming up with a sustainable pricing model.

Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

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Post by econcon » Thu, May 14, 2020, 5:11 AM UTC

Converting Plastic Waste into 3d printer filament

https://medium.com/endless-filament/make-your-filament-at-ho...

Hopefully, this will reduce the use of virgin plastic for creating art pieces in 3d printing community and you might be able to create beautiful and useful things out of waste plastic while cleaning plastic waste from the environment.

It's a profitable business.

I worked on this in my free time during quarantine.

I want to make the project more accessible so people around the world can develop local recycling unit. There is lots of work which needs to be done including making parts more standardized, demonstrating how parts fight together in a visual way and also have a microcontroller firmware to control diameter of filament. I don't have much experience with microcontrollers but I've ideas, so we'll see.

Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

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Post by ericmccarthy7 » Thu, May 14, 2020, 5:11 AM UTC

Built a simple web app for my girlfriend and I to "rate" our dates and add photos. That way we can look back and have a nice digitized archive of time we spent with each other.

Sounds dumb but could be nice one day in the future to be able to look back at it. Also wrote it in Rust so I'm learning a new language while I'm at it.