I finally got fed up with Discord and I'm building a competing product. Not sure if it's gonna get anywhere but I'll be damned if I don't try.
Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
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#732I built a climbing wall at home for myself and the kids, since the bouldering gyms have closed. Its not as good as a gym, but hopefully I'll keep my some of my grip strength!
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#733I'm digging into PHP and creating performant yet PSR compliant framework for building ultra-fast REST APIs:
Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
#734WeHero Home: A browser extension to donate money using ad revenue you gain just from browsing the web. Been working on it for some time but quarantine has allowed me to work on it more than I expected! https://www.wehero.co/browser-extension/
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#735Wrote an app that OCRs your old-school bathroom scale so you don't need to buy a smart one:
https://snapscale.life/
This also motivated me to write a critic on Google's AI-First kool aid: https://medium.com/@anton.grbin/ai-first-a-modern-anti-patte...
Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
#736Self hosted home automation with Home Assistant [1] I haven't done a ton with it lately, but ended up finally updating an integration with it. Which lead me to learn more python async (still beginning this), github actions, and dev containers in VSCode [2].
My actual integration is for a WattBox, IP controlled power conditioner and UPS. Because apparently I am the only person to write an API wrapper for it. [3]
[1] https://www.home-assistant.io/ [2] https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/containers [3] https://github.com/eseglem/pywattbox
Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
#737Small and stupid, but I'll share anyway.
I started playing the new Animal Crossing and wanted a good reference for all the fish and bugs to catch. I wasn't happy with static tables that were hard to sort and filter, so I created the interactive reference tool that I wanted: https://ac-catches.com/
First site I've made with TypeScript, so at least I was learning something along the way.
Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
#738Posted this on another thread, but posting again here. If you're building something and want help, or looking for an idea to help build, add yourself/idea to this list: https://bmac-design.typeform.com/to/RbA4JL
About 30 HN community members have signed so far. Post your projects and ideas and email/chat/Zoom with the people you find interesting.
I'm putting it behind a form so that recruiters don't jump on and spam message everyone. Keep building + stay safe y'all!
Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
#739I am building a wifi enabled remote control for my flat with an ESP32 microcontroller, a 128x64 OLED screen, two rotary encoders and a 3D printed case.
Planned software features:
- detect which room I’m in by strength of various bluetooth devices
- default screen controls Sonos volume in current room with one rotary encoder, light levels of Hue lights with the other
- pushing the encoders to control other rooms
- scope for adding more screens a simple configuration schema
Current status: hardware prototype (inc. case faceplate working on bench power supply, software about 15% done
Incredible reading all these! Definitely motivating to make a bit of progress this weekend :)
Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
#740I made this as a quick pick-me-up and reminder to go for my dreams and whims: https://www.toooldto.com/