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Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

#151
we'll see how long I hold out. This stuff is beta at best, maybe alpha

https://jsgist.org

It's basically a clone of jsfiddle/codepen but uses gists for storage. Not really sure why I made it and it's missing features but I use it daily

https://jsbenchit.org

jsperf disappeared and I didn't like the alternatives so I made this. It's really alpha but I've used it a bunch and so have some friends

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

#152
post #102

Mine is a side business: https://panelbear.com/ I started building it for myself at first, scratching my own itch. I don’t feel the same pressure as I had with my open source projects. I’ve been adding features when I feel the need for my own use (i.e. alerting system), or customers made a good point for why it’d be useful. Also, I don’t work on stuff that nobody requested yet. For example, you can’t even change your…

I like the project. Gl!

Reading through, change "loose' to "lose" in:

> you won't loose data as soon as you reach the limit.

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

#153
I am working on https://drwn.io

It's a set of logos with hand-drawn aesthetic. It is meant to create presentations, software architecture diagrams, documentation, tutorials, etc. in the fastest way possible. They are also compatible with Excalidraw[0].

I'm doing the project with my best friend. He's an architect (the buildings type of architect, not a software architect), so he's drawing, and I'm building the site. We would like to make some money out of it, but we are mostly doing it for fun.

[0] https://excalidraw.com

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

#154
https://soliloquy.cc/manana/

My take on the todo list, with a feature the procrastinator in me appreciates. Don't forget to bookmark the URL (with UUID) if you don't want to lose your list, as there are no user accounts.

https://www.propup.net/

Whenever I want to try out new tech stacks, I add a project here. So far I've played with (and really enjoyed) Django+intercooler, ClojureScript + REST API and Phoenix LiveView, but have only made the bug reporting/feedback system public (that's the ClojureScript one).

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

#155

Finger.Farm https://finger.farm Love a good / dubious project I can bang out over a rainy weekend. Finger.Farm is a modern re-implementation of fingerd in Node, but with an API and whatnot. I built it mostly as a demo for the Jr devs on my team who haven't had the opportunity to finger each other, but there are some ideas there I might bring back in other projects...

Nice. One can still get the weather by fingering, for example, paris@graph.no.

If you want encryption there is a way to hang it out over ssh protocol.

Which brings me to a very small project to create a quick password.

ssh -q passwd@netzbasis.de

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

#156

A Lisp machine from the 80s from a parallel universe with hi-res graphics and sprites, built-in p2p networking on a rudimentary "WWW clone", sound engine, database support, etc. https://z3s5.com It's quite functional but nothing to download yet. I expect it to be out of alpha by the end of this year. I plan to put it on Steam but I don't think it could be a "success" - it's, mildly put, quirky. Maybe I should add mou…

Honestly think this is brilliant. I'm about to start my lisp journey (at the age of 39!).

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

#157
post #132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Best $1.99 I spent all morning. Your score disappears on game over, so I didn't get a chance to see my exact high score. Somewhere in the 1,700s I think.

Thanks for the kind words. Your highest score should be displayed in small black text under your current score. 1700 is a very impressive score.

Thanks! Old Angry Birds muscle memory probably.

Found the high score, 1773.

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

#158

I made my own version of the bullet journal to get organized. https://bulletweek.app I use it everyday and I like this way of splitting tasks and getting things done. There is so many options out there from a simple txt file to complex apps... this means there isn’t a one app fit all and I enjoyed taking a year off to prototype it and shape it around my paper bullet journal habits. If people find it useful it’s great…

This looks really nice!

Note that the video in the phone frame at the very top returns a 404 - https://bulletweek.app/assets/media/trailer_1080_1.mp4

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

#159

Code evaluation service https://pastebin.run/ I'm too lazy to open text editor, save a file and run a compiler, so I wrote a service that allows me to do that easily in a web browser. It's kinda buggy, and probably unusable for anyone that isn't me, but it's on the internet anyway.

This is great. Like a faster, more minimal ideone.com. The command line options are a nice touch too.
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