I don't know how y'all are getting so much free time? I'm out here trying to get a job, does that count?
Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
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Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
#872This is one of the best threads here!
I created a tool that lets you create ebooks from RSS feeds and send them to your Kindle.
I follow several long-form blogs, and I really prefer to read them on the kindle, so this was my attempt to solve this problem.
If anyone else has the same problem, I'd like to get feedback and feature requests!
Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
#873Recorded this with my 15 and 11 year old daughters (a version of The Specials' 80s classic Ghost Town) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tAUlAlMFEI
Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
#874I am working on Dwata, a (planned to be) power admin that is language/framework agnostic. Works with SQL and third party APIs (Stripe, Mailchimp, etc.) and has tons of team collaboration features, things that I have seen repeatedly in my 14 years/10 startups experience.
Self-hosted and open source, but I surely want to make a living off this.
https://github.com/brainless/dwata/tree/develop
I am working on this full-time, daily. The README is a bit out of date.
Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
#875Working on Loc.Tax which is a collaborative tax project management platform based on Git.
We're going to build a platform for version-controlled legal, financial, and tax data.
Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
#876I'm working on an app that tracks errors in your applications. Currently, it supports NodeJS servers and JS frontends. It reports detailed information about the error like console logs, code snippets, stacktrace, occurrences with timestamps, previous user interactions and custom data. In addition, it allows you to track data about your websites visitors such as page views, unique visitors, sessions, time on page, referrers and device data. It's all done in a very transparent manner with as little data as possible. It's written in Go and React and is completely open-source and can easily hosted by yourself.
https://github.com/jz222/loggy https://github.com/jz222/loggy-client
Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
#877https://github.com/Qu4tro/git-bookmark
A simple git subcommand to keep your browsing sessions together with whatever repository relates to the session.
It's kinda trivial, but learned a few different things, mostly about git and BATS.
For example:
git checkout --orphan
It's tested, CI integrated, already in use.
Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
#878Wow, 1809 comments, that's amazing.
Anyway my quarantine side project has been my little SVG icon manager that let's you easily "batch" update color and size for icon sets and then drag, copy or export them to whichever format you want.
Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
#879A latex "preprocessor" that lets you use some markdown while writing latex (so that all sorts of \textit don't get in the way of your thoughts), and also allows pure markdown documents to be compiled into PDFs using latex.
Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
#880My consulting work is pretty quiet right now so I'm working lots on Trolley [1] - my payments tool.
Lots of people right now seem to be looking for new ways to get paid / make money / start little businesses from home, and being able to send quick payment links over social / SMS seems a common requirement. (a 2nd / 3rd-order COVID effect I guess!)
Things are taking off for Trolley - acquiring 1-2 new customers a day right now :) Trolley is still just me, so I'm plenty busy!
[1] - https://trolley.link