Kind of a circular activity, but I'm working on an app to help me be productive in quarantine. Planning on making a "Show HN" announcement in a week or to, but for now you can find details at: https://txtodo.app
Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
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#122Built a site to connect startups with free MBA interns for the summer (https://hireastartupmba.com/intern-stipend).
I’m an engineer exploring “the dark side” and saw a lot of classmates losing internships because of covid.
Contrary to the bad rap I feel that MBAs get amongst hackers, I’ve been pleasantly surprised how kind, scrappy, and effective my classmates are when applied to the right work “around the tech” e.g. marketing, running numbers, and fuzzy stuff that is important as companies grow.
Grew larger than we expected to a lot of other schools.
One disappointment: I wanted to call it “Hire the Dark Side,” but couldn’t find a single MBA who understood the joke!
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#123clquery, a SQL interface to cloud resources. Using SQL and tables to interact with AWS (and eventually others) makes it easier to quickly query and join across various resources and services without needing to remember how to make and parse the underlying API.
`pip install clquery` or https://github.com/dongting/clquery
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#124I've been working on a my new Hacker News client for Android, called Panda!
It's still early days but has the basic features done and the extra lockdown time is definitely helping build out the more needed features (you can't currently log in to your hacker news account but that's coming soon)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.co.elliotmu...
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#125https://debubble.me
Frustrated by filter bubbles and the general state of online debate, especially on Twitter, I made Debubble.
It’s a publishing tool that will let you challenge another Twitter user to a debate. If they accept, the two of you will be able to engage in a public but distraction-free conversation. Debubble will make sure you wait for your turn before you can deliver your arguments. It will also limit each response to 1500 characters (roughly one page) and the entire debate to 12 turns. Instead of cheering for their side like sports fans, registered readers will be able to signal the value they got from your conversation by starring the whole debate.
I haven’t properly tried to launch it yet, as my day job and kids are keeping me very busy at the moment.
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#126Started on these at mid-March when the recommendation for quarantine came in effect in my country. Most are incomplete and WIP (I love switching back and forth between projects):
- Slack RTM bot which picks up my morning and goodbye messages in our channel and stash the duration into our time registration system so I don't have to do it manually. Using Slack library for Go, compiled to C library using gccgo for C ABI compatibility, then using Zig's cImport functionality to develop the bot in Zig (because why do it the easy way)
- mbedTLS bindings to Zig (Zig can generate alot of this out of the box, but I'm tailoring it by hand)
- HTTP/1.1 client in Zig, ties into the mbedTLS bindings I want to provide TLS support
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#127Visual Contract Tracing with AI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4pyEu5milo
OnCovid19.com: http://oncovid19.com/
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#128I made a tiny service to embed CLOC stats for GitHub repos as an image in the project’s docs - https://git-cloc.fly.dev
Also enrolled for the science of well-being course on Coursera last week. Eye opening in some aspects so far!
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#129SaaS for creating, editing and publishing audio content for global audiences http://narrationbox.com/. Still building a ton of features into it like audio widgets for news sites and blogs, audio editor. Basically making it end-to-end for audio content creators. Also reading Elon Musk's biography.
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#130An app to connect women travelling solo.
I've seen women posting on solo travelling facebook groups their current or next location and PM each other, especially in non-english language groups.
With the app, you would receive a notification when a new traveller (speaking your native tongue or not) is close using geolocation, then you check their facebook profile and message them (via messenger).
No need to display the app: you just wait for the notifications (which frequency can be changed). This is my idea for solving the egg & chicken problem, so obviously the app doesn't display ads (and is free).