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Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?
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Re: Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?
#22I've recently written a Python app that selects a random location in an area defined by a user-supplied shapefile [1], grabs corresponding aerial imagery from Google Maps, and posts it as a geotagged tweet: https://github.com/doersino/aerialbot I've built this tool because satellite imagery can be extremely beautiful [2], and I was looking for a way of regularly receiving high-resolution satellite views of arbitrary…
This is amazing, great readme.
Re: Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?
#23I managed to launch a company.
Re: Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?
#24I built an education site teaching how to build apps and websites without code: www.nocode.mba
Re: Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?
#25I returned to creating music on an MPC after an 8 year hiatus. I’m loving being back at it again.
Re: Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?
#26It's simple, but essentially I built a super simple landing page and pay wall for any live class or any other link or digital good. My friend is a yoga instructor and wanted something more simple than her existing setup. Mostly have yoga instructors on the platform currently and am thinking about other product enhancements geared towards online instructors and classes. Check it out here: http://classup.io/
You should consider bundling video yourself and charging for it. Could use something like Mux.com to power it without much trouble.
Re: Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?
#27https://currentevents.email
It’s simply Wikipedia’s current events each day, emailed to your inbox. I prefer email more than RSS, but also it was nice to do a small, discrete project
Re: Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?
#28I've been working on making my YouTube channel actually useful/updated, and somehow triggered YouTube's algorithm with my Turing Pi (Raspberry Pi compute module) cluster: https://github.com/geerlingguy/turing-pi-cluster
I've also spent a bit of time cleaning and rearranging my workshop, and redoing a bit of my office for better video conferencing and streaming.
Re: Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?
#29I added Lensfun lens correction to my photo editing app Filmulator.
Re: Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?
#30I've been contributing to the Andorid port of Anki (HTML based flashcards + spaced repetition) for the past few months.
https://github.com/ankidroid/Anki-Android
https://github.com/david-allison-1
Knowing that I've actively been impacting students (particularly medical students) from around the world has been really good for the soul.