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 shinycode » Thu, May 14, 2020, 11:25 AM UTC

I've finished my Bullet Journal iOS app. I've never really found an iOS app that allowed me to managed tasks like my paper Bullet Journal (which is to heavy to carry around all the time). https://bulletweek.app

Also I'm using a lot the timer with my Apple Watch and I needed something faster than the built in timer and I can't every time use Siri. So I made one fast is more fun & faster as well with multiple modes: https://primetimer.app

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

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Post by wsc981 » Thu, May 14, 2020, 11:25 AM UTC

I'm working on a turn-based rogue-like RPG. So no fancy graphics and such. Not sure if I will finish this project, but it's at least fun to work on and educational.

I also play a bit of Summoner [0]. Perhaps I can finally finish this game, which I couldn't when I played it a long time ago.

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[0]: https://www.dsvolition.com/games/summoner/

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

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Post by cdiamand » Thu, May 14, 2020, 11:26 AM UTC

Working on https://topstonks.com aggregating the most mentioned stocks on 4chan and wallstreetbets

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

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Post by s_gourichon » Thu, May 14, 2020, 11:26 AM UTC

Been using for years for my freelance/consultant activity a bash-based environment with convenience enhancements: create context per client or project, get instant access to auto-created per-context-day working directory with easy navigation, per context environment + bash_history + logging of terminal content + ability to instantly create/edit timestamped files for note taking. Good productivity booster, helps a lot isolate clients, easily answer customer phone calls any time. Logging saved me a few times.

Been wanting for a long time to rewrite it into something usable by others. Been doing that rewrite during lockdown.

All this reuses existing tools and conventions, is lightweight, shell-completion friendly, easy to learn.

Also, written (again) a game for the 8bit computer Amstrad CPC of 1984, in clean modern C on a C compiler that understands most of C11. With optimized assembly for time-critical parts.

Both started earlier this year, got more time during lockdown.

I might offer a "show HN" for one or both. If you have any interest please tell.

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

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Post by arethuza » Thu, May 14, 2020, 11:26 AM UTC

Just started sketching out some ideas for an open-source tool similar to Microsoft Power Automate (Flow) and Azure Logic Apps.

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

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Post by markosaric » Thu, May 14, 2020, 11:27 AM UTC

I'm working on Plausible Analytics: https://plausible.io

It's an open source, simple (all metrics on one page), lightweight (1.4 KB), no cookies (no need for cookie banner) and no private data collected (no need for GDPR consent) alternative to Google Analytics.

The code is on GitHub https://github.com/plausible-insights/plausible/

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

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Post by zumachase » Thu, May 14, 2020, 11:30 AM UTC

We found many of the virtual office tools too invasive for our tastes both physically with video emphasis and virtually by commanding a lot of attention. So we built a group intercom system that stays out of your way but gives you seamless comms when you need it. https://www.squawk.to

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

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Post by jstayton » Thu, May 14, 2020, 11:30 AM UTC

I launched a side project that allows you to run your customer's code from your app: https://www.lateral.run

I went back-and-forth at first on whether now's the time to launch a commercial side project like this, but with some uncertainty about the security of my VC-backed day job, I settled on this being precisely the time to have something of my own going.

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

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Post by websinthe » Thu, May 14, 2020, 11:31 AM UTC

I've been learning how to code. Mainly to make bots. Mainly to make bots who'll keep me company.

I had no idea how much of the world is built on Python.

Learning how to use computers via SSH alone has been fan-TAS-tic. I should have started long ago.

Also, bread is great. Keep it up.

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

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Post by bradmerlin » Thu, May 14, 2020, 11:34 AM UTC

https://sync.haus

I wanted a free, easy way to listen to music with my friends, so I built this a month ago. It's still pretty rough around the edges, but it's simple and usable enough. It's mostly Go, with a nice ring buffer to keep streaming synchronised.

Also, baking a lot of banana bread.