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 YoannMoinet » Thu, May 14, 2020, 10:11 AM UTC

I've made a mobile game because I wanted to try React Native. The pitch is: A brain teasing puzzle game. Easy to play, hard to master.

I know, very generic :)

https://zwout.fr

It's currently in closed beta (very closed) but if you're really interested, I can add you to the beta.

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

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Post by mkuklik » Thu, May 14, 2020, 10:12 AM UTC

https://youtu.be/cmETioVtRG0 Trying to build this on a smaller scale using Arduino, 25 droplets. Goal is to make it as cheap as possible. Interesting software problem is how to control many arduino's in synchronized fashion. Stack is C++ Arduino C++ ESP 8266 server in go and websocket.

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

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Post by frederikvanh » Thu, May 14, 2020, 10:14 AM UTC

I've been working on my sideproject BitPull, a browser automation tool. You can create pretty complex workflows with it to extract data or just automate things in general. https://bitpull.io

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Post by filipn » Thu, May 14, 2020, 10:15 AM UTC

I'm building a web app for sending newsletters with AWS Simple Email Service https://github.com/mailbadger/app. It's still a work in progress, I'm still a couple of features away from releasing a beta version, but basically you'll be able to import your subscribers, group them, create templates and create and send campaigns. After that you can see statistics such as bounces, complaints etc.

I'm using Go for the backend and React on the frontend, along with MySQL and NATS for message queueing.

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Post by mpodlasin » Thu, May 14, 2020, 10:18 AM UTC

List of free (and legal) resources (textbooks, lectures notes, videos) to study mathematics:

https://realnotcomplex.com

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

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Post by gijsnijholt1980 » Thu, May 14, 2020, 10:18 AM UTC

I’m working on a WhatsApp-but-using-email app. Prototype on https://nyholt.gitlab.io/whatsmail/

It has not been validated by Google yet so you get a big red warning box, but its all client side code. Basically you get the interface of WhatsApp, but the messages are plain old e-mails. No support for attachments yet, but works perfectly otherwise.

I’m using it myself, its really pleasant to use. It makes e-mail into a less formal communication method.

Made with React & Tailwindcss.

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

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Post by josteink » Thu, May 14, 2020, 10:19 AM UTC

I've setup a personal matrix[1]-instance, with the relevant bridges for almost all communications-platforms I use. Only exception is Signal, which ironically is open-source, but still somehow un-integratable.

Being able to access all my things, consistently in the same app, across devices, machines and networks is super-neat, and Riot[2] is a really smooth Matrix-client, on mobile, web and desktop.

This is without a doubt the most productive spare-time hacking I've done in a good while!

[1] https://matrix.org/ [2] https://about.riot.im/

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

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Post by code_box » Thu, May 14, 2020, 10:19 AM UTC

My girlfriend and I just finished the MVP for a live yoga class directory. See the demo here: https://demo.yogalist.live

It should enable yogis to find suitable online classes but also help out the studios to guide customers to their online offering. Lockdown is slowly lifted around here but there is still a limit on the number of people allowed in a yoga class.

Stack is based on flask. Took this quarantine time to learn more about container-based deployment; still battling a bit with cold-start times on google cloud run ;-)

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Post by burrnii » Thu, May 14, 2020, 10:20 AM UTC

I'm working on StreamSteam - "Scalable and Hackable Analytics on AWS" - https://github.com/ierror/stream-steam -

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

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Post by tristan123456 » Thu, May 14, 2020, 10:22 AM UTC

I've been working on finishing a lot of things.

- I re-did a project I first pursued when I was really really young. It's called Mapnews.io and it shows you what's happening where today. It's a collection of RSS News with geolocations shown on a map. Uses Cloudflare Workers & Apple Maps - both have been awesome! Happy for any feedback! https://mapnews.io

- Also completed a simple Window Timetracker with a friend. If anyone's interested, check out https://github.com/RobinWeitzel/WindowsTimeTracker