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Post by zcbenz »

anthony88 wrote: post #224
zcbenz wrote: post #64

A native GUI library https://github.com/yue/yue . It was a disaster when I announced it on Hacker News, and I got numerous harassments from strangers. But anyway 3 years since then and I'm still working on it. Edit 1: 2 => 3 years Edit 2: If anyone is interested, I wrote a blog on the mistakes I made http://cheng.guru/blog/2018/02/18/lessons-learnt-from-open-s... .

As a GUI framework, my first feedback is that there is no screenshots available anywhere to be found.

In the "Examples" section of README, you can find links to examples with screenshots.

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Post by seanwilson »

A browser based single player word game! See what score you can get and what level you can reach. :)

https://seanwilson.itch.io/wordoid

It's a remake of a game I made for Android years ago that I still get messages about for being really addictive. It was fun remaking it using only HTML5, while polishing the presentation and rules.

I also work on a freeium Chrome extension that crawls multiple pages at once to check for SEO, speed and security issues. Try it on your website or landing page to see what issues it can find:

https://www.checkbot.io/

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Post by blackrock »

garbene wrote: post #28

https://kindmind.com It’s a free, private online journal with a focus on mental health. I spent $4k usd in the domain name in 2015 and around another $4k in operating costs since then. It has virtually zero marketing and has organically picked up around 1,500 users. I use it myself every day which is success enough for me. Fun project that has helped me land a few jobs, and my scant user base seems to dig it.

How do you encrypt such a thing?

Is it encrypted at rest?

I would be too paranoid to put personal stuff on some website, if I don’t know the encryption techniques and technology used behind it.

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Post by jdthedisciple »

pk78 wrote: post #130

Mind mapping: https://www.mapsofmind.com More of a scratching my own itch kind of thing. Has over 30k registered users but I don't even get enough to pay for my server! LOL.. So meh.. doesn't matter...

how the hell would 30k users not be enough to pay for servers? if everyone just pays $0.50 a month you got $15k. Congrats!

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Post by Veen »

kevinwuhoo wrote: post #59

https://bready.io/ A simple (mobile-first) website that helps you convert volumetric recipes to weight. Made this during my baking phase of the pandemic to help me more accurately (and quickly) measure out ingredients.

That's cool. Although, it's beyond my comprehension that people still use volumetirc measures. It's not as though accurate scales are expensive or hard to use.

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Post by meheleventyone »

I thought most WebAudio wrapper libraries aimed at games were kind of useless or only really designed for simple usecases so I wrote my own. Also partly as an excuse to learn TypeScript, the horrendous web build architecture better and put something up on Github that was kind of an end-to-end project.

https://github.com/meheleventyone/mixdown

It's been on a bit of a hiatus from development because I've been busy with other parts of another project and the whole pandemic thing.

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Post by njsubedi »

TheNewAndy wrote: post #135
NKCSS wrote: post #133

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why don't you have that video on the app store listing? It would explain the game so much better than the 2 screenshots you have up there?

I'm working on it. It is incredibly hard to get videos in the format that apple demands when you have limited hardware. I now have an M1 mac, and I was hoping it could do things in real time in the simulator so I could capture videos that way, but something about OpenGLES support or whatever that I don't understand means that simulators still run really slow.

Record the screen and airdrop to your mac. There’s an option in iMovie to export as screenshot video. Also it’s not available for download worldwide?

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Post by thatcherc »

Terrain2STL - http://jthatch.com/Terrain2STL/

Creates 3D-printable elevation maps of Earth's surface. I originally made it because I couldn't find a tool to make a particular 3D model I wanted, and then decided to open source it. However, to use the code you need to download ~80 GB of elevation data, which I thought would be a stumbling block for a lot of other hobbyists, so I put together a little web interface and hosted it myself.

It sometimes breaks even over a month from the occasional donation, and I think it's gotten me at least one job, but the best thing is the emails I get from users showing me what they've made with it. Seeing these really cool art and education projects from people more creative than me is pretty awesome!

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