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

#763
I'm working on a pomodoro app. It's called Session. I've been beta testing it for a month to 30 people. Daily active user for the past month is 25% (8 person), so I'm happy with it!

Session focuses on these points: - beautiful design. - analytics: what you worked on and for how long. - introspective: after each session, it'll ask you whether you got distracted. If so, why? - meditative: breathing in and out once at every session.

I have bought the domain; but not yet designed the websire so progresses could be seen on https://www.twitter.com/philipyoungg

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

#765
I've built a website to help restaurants out in this time. It's called Expoed. https://expoed.restaurant

The idea is that restaurants offer reservation time slots, reserved parking spots, a menu item named after you, or really anything they want in exchange for money from diners. Ultimately, it provides another source of revenue for restaurants during these tough times.

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

#767
I've finally started working on my game based around markets and trading in a fantasy setting.

I've got a very naive global market running with some incredibly dumb bots, and am currently implementing local markets with their own needs/wants.

It's multiplayer by design so hopefully at some point I'll have some nascent player-base competing with each other =)...

I'm trying to keep everything simple and scope small.

To be honest, I wasn't really expecting anyone to ever be interested in my toy project, beyond spending a half hour idling their time, but a friend of mine has already started kicking the tyres which is very exciting, he's written a bot that scrapes the site and trades against it which I find hilarious.

There's far too much I could write here about ideas, but I'm just trying to keep my mouth shut and make it ;)...

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

#768
I built a half-pipe with my 10-year-old son! We designed it in Sketchup, did a material takeoff in Excel, and built it with lumber that got delivered to our house. 4’ high, 8’ wide and 29’ long—-and hours and hours of fun. Teaching things like trig and how to use a chop saw and the difference between different grades of plywood to a boy who’s learning-starved since school closed has been one of the more rewarding things I’ve ever done.

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

#769
I've been working on this for close to 2 years, including in quarantine: https://phot-awe.com

It's a video editor with some really cool effects/transitions. In quarantine, I've been re-vamping the UI to make incredibly easy to create videos.

I hope to have another version in about 1 week where creating videos will feel quite seamless ;)

(Adding media into your video project has been hard - which is what I'm fixing right now.)

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

#770
Checkout https://www.wfhcave.com

Hypothesis: As many of us work from home, there are several different things we all do. Be it cooking, hobbies, writing etc. WFH Cave is a place to share your projects and help inspire each other. I currently have around 30 users, mostly friends and family.

Feedback that would help - what is that would stick here. Currently it feels like a normal photo sharing site. Any ideas would be much appreciated.

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