Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

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Post by dhr » Wed, May 13, 2020, 7:38 PM UTC

For those who are still under lockdown, what are you working on / building / learning?

I've been making excessive amounts of bread.

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Post by protdum » Wed, May 13, 2020, 7:52 PM UTC

Community driven movie recommendation app - check it out https://www.movvio.com Now the biggest challenge is to how to get ppl to subscribe for Early bird access while we are finishing the app :(

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Post by saluki » Wed, May 13, 2020, 9:05 PM UTC

Learning Tailwind CSS, alpine.js and livewire and finally finishing my SaaS.

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Post by seanwilson » Wed, May 13, 2020, 9:11 PM UTC

I'm tinkering with a single player word game in HTML5. Feedback welcome. :)

https://seanwilson.itch.io/wordoid

I've tried to make it intuitive enough that you don't have to read a page of instructions first but let me know if I've missed the mark. I'm hoping you can learn the gameplay mechanics as you play.

I'm not using any web frameworks for this which was actually fun to do. It gave me a chance to improve my understanding of CSS animations + reflows, and catch up with changes to JavaScript.

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Post by Kkoala » Wed, May 13, 2020, 9:17 PM UTC

I made a website to connect and chat with people who are listening to the same song right now on Spotify.

https://tunemeet.com

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Post by colebowl » Wed, May 13, 2020, 9:20 PM UTC

I'm building TidyCloud. It's a toolset on top of common cloud storage drives to provide cross platform search, duplicate identification, security risk identification and usage statistics/analytics across your files stored in the cloud

https://tidycloud.app

I'm looking for beta users if you dig the idea and want to help out a feel HNer.

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Post by closed » Wed, May 13, 2020, 9:24 PM UTC

porting the R library dplyr to python. :)

(I set aside 2020 to work on this, but quarantine definitely created much more time for it)

https://github.com/machow/siuba

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Post by dangoljames » Wed, May 13, 2020, 9:27 PM UTC

So much stuff. New raspberry pi 4, that and.. ...Exploring Alpine Linux ...Exploring NixOS ...Exploring Lightweight Linux Containers/VMs ...Writing a Hacker News Crawler ...Continuing my sometimes-paying (wx)python work

pretty much the usual, actually...

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Post by cwaffles » Wed, May 13, 2020, 9:35 PM UTC

I'm working a simple online faxing service[0] that doesn't ask for your email, and sends faxing quickly. Not free, but 0.20/page. Still working on converting the in memory db to sqlite. Feedback would be great.

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Post by almostarockstar » Wed, May 13, 2020, 9:43 PM UTC

My cofounder and I threw together a virtual table quiz platform. We stream the questions on YouTube live and accept the answers through a web app I built.

We've been able to host quizzes with over 250 teams, scoring their answers in real time. The scoreboard is auto generated and players can make a contribution with stripe.

So far we've given over 6k euros to various local charities. I'm very proud of what we've achieved so far.