Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

I built a collaborative whiteboard tool for interviews. https://interviewboard.io

Generate a unique whiteboard and share with a friend to see it in action.

We were struggling to conduct software architecture interviews since going remote at my job because we no longer had a whiteboard, so I built InterviewBoard to fix this. I've been surprised by the ways people have used it. I originally anticipated people would only use it for software architecture, but data scientists have also told me they find it very useful. I'm still currently allowing as many free whiteboards as you want. Hope you find it useful! If you have any feedback I'd appreciate it at aking@interviewboard.io

I've been working on a way to find Android apps that don't have ads or in app purchases. There are quite a few high quality apps. For example, just replaced Dark Sky weather app with Geometric Weather. I would never have found Geometric Weather without a tool like this. Would love feedback from the community: https://reallyfreeapps.appspot.com

Working on a unity game inspired by cookie clicker to destroy all onions in the universe.

If you want a preview build my email is in my profile, but dont expect much so far :)

A Project/Team management tool for academics: https://delv.io/

Professors have to run research groups in addition to teaching and committee work. It's very similar but different from the industry/corporate world so I'm working to tailor things specifically to academia.

I had actually started it before the pandemic, but it's even more relevant now! Trying to get a beta out soon very soon, and some real screenshots for the website. It's about 80% there but things are finally moving again for me.

I had a very stress inducing experience where I couldn't find something at home depot and had to ask an employee where it was, which was hard to do since talking to strangers during a pandemic is stressful even when everyone has masks on.

So I had the thought of making a chatbot that is hooked up to their inventory database that can tell you where particular items are located. I'm just building the first prototype entirely in AWS, both to learn AWS and to make it easier on myself.

I figure that shoppers will use it because talking to a chatbot feels safer than asking someone in real life, and businesses will want it because it gets people out the door faster so the lines to get in are shorter.