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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?
#202Some good old open source on Hackster.io, started the lockdown with a thermal-camera Corofence mainly for the door entrance (food for paranoia inspired by the 3 little pigs and bad wolf story)
https://www.hackster.io/dasdata/corofence-thermal-detector-f...
Then after several hackatons on the subject designed a end-to-end medical remote condition monitoring called MultiSenseCrown with some ai on the edge. https://www.hackster.io/dasdata/multisensecrown-e0daf9
Good thing that I will get soon a NVIDIA Jetson board, more fun for the next Pandemic session
Re: Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?
#203Two things mostly.
First i created a corona statistic site (in german mostly) that displays the historic data from middle march till now(). It may not be super fancy still it has hourly record of all data i get. http://corona.scriptjungle.de
Than i created a cli tool that is rather simple but usefull (in my pov) "gss" => https://github.com/voodooEntity/gss Short for "go static server". This tool allows you to list directories/contents recursive via http on a defined port.
Rn starting with 2 other projects. - A web ui/devtool for my selfdeveloped DB server(slingshot). - A javascript based 2d game engine (may switch to cpp)
Re: Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?
#204Fruition (https://fruitionsite.com) - Build your next website or blog with Notion, for free.
Notion has taken over the tech/design industry by a storm, and many people have used it to create web pages. However, Notion doesn’t allow custom domain and the page URL contains a long uuid (for example: https://www.notion.so/The-Beauty-of-Notion-4663b221fd154c07b...)
I built Fruition to solve exactly that. You can use a custom domain and add pretty URL slugs like https://fruitionsite.com/showcase. You can also add custom font and scripts like Google Analytics. It’s all free and open source.
I shared this on a couple of Notion communities a month ago, and 40000+ people have checked it out since. Hundreds of sites have been built with Notion and Fruition.
Re: Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?
#205I made an automatic chess board that allows you to play with another person over the Internet (using lichess), but with a physical board. It has been described as "very lockdown chic". Each chess piece has a magnet in the bottom. The board senses your moves by looking at where magnets disappear and appear, and it plays your opponent's moves by dragging them with an electromagnet underneath the board moved by a pair o…
Have you considered Kickstarting this?
Your pitch could be: "like Regium, except it's not vaporware and actually works."
I mean that company had nothing and they were well on their way to raising 50k, before they were stopped. You have a real product. That $50,000 should've been yours.
https://thehustle.co/03092020-chess-kickstarter-regium/
https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/fcfcpi/the_regium_eb...
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/soontech/regium-automat...
Re: Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?
#206I'm still working on it but began learning Swift and SwiftUI dev (I'm a designer by day) and making my first iOS app: a basic stocks tracking app (and lets you input your purchases to see value over time)
Re: Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?
#207I came up with a bad way to share files. It's a website that takes a file, encodes it into a series of URL parameters, and then allows you to put them back together again. (it's really only practical for small text files) https://podje.li/ https://github.com/willcipriano/Podje.li
This is really cool! How did you do the encoding though?
Re: Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?
#208I rebuilt my side project in Vue. It's meant to be an API generation tool for .NET Core. Basically provide a swagger definition and it generates a ready to run solution based on that definition. Still working through the details but it works on a basic level now.
Re: Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?
#209Re: Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?
#210This: https://narrationbox.com/ Still adding a ton of features very frequently. Working on this out because of me and my cofounder's own misery of creating narrations, voiceovers and other audio content. idea is to create one platform for everything audio and voice marketing.