Ask HN: What is your current side-project? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What is your current side-project?

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Post by Glench » Fri, Mar 05, 2021, 12:48 AM UTC

Mine is a service to take payments inside browser extensions without needing to run your own server backend! https://extensionpay.com :D

I made it so I could use it in my own extensions. Definitely lowers the barrier to making profitable side-project extensions. Open-source library is here: https://github.com/glench/ExtPay

Re: Ask HN: What is your current side-project?

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Post by enonevets » Fri, Mar 05, 2021, 1:51 AM UTC

XCSme wrote: post #4

My main project is a self-hosted analytics platform: https://www.usertrack.net I am still struggling to accomplish my goal of becoming sustainable by focusing on the self-hosted part instead of the SaaS part, but I'm not giving up. I do think that self-hosting is the future! :)

Honest curiosity here. With so many competitors in the space both free and paid, and with many doing self-hosted, privacy conscious angle, and many open source as well, what are you doing to separate your tracking from those. At a glance, I wasn't able to discern the major difference and I'd imagine a lot of users looking for analytic solutions might fall into the same thoughts.

Re: Ask HN: What is your current side-project?

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Post by saahilclaypool » Fri, Mar 05, 2021, 1:52 AM UTC

I've been building a locally-hosted version of Pocket that saves articles (and pdfs) to a lucene index, and provides full text search over them. https://github.com/SaahilClaypool/SearchStory

Re: Ask HN: What is your current side-project?

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Post by krapp » Fri, Mar 05, 2021, 1:59 AM UTC

Godot tutorials[0..2]

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjT5sLMD7Kw&list=PLkhDORpHGm... Card Game Tutorial

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAbG8Oi-SvQ&list=PL9FzW-m48f... Make an Action RPG in Godot

[2]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRHN_WEulLc&t=6906s Godot 3D: Code architecture course in a single video

And a roguelike in C with SDL and Lua that really just exists to scratch my itch for "low level" development

Also getting thread folding working in Anarki.

Also a HN client in Godot/C#.

Why no, I'm probably not actually ever going to finish anything, thank you for noticing.

Re: Ask HN: What is your current side-project?

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Post by fooray » Fri, Mar 05, 2021, 3:36 AM UTC

I’m working on a pay comparison and career planning app for skilled trades workers. Went live last week, but still missing a ton of features. https://skilledpay.co

Re: Ask HN: What is your current side-project?

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Post by privapps » Fri, Mar 05, 2021, 5:42 AM UTC

Open source: End to End Encrypted Notebook / Website & Builder. Just had first release last week to fight for privacy and freedom of speech.

https://github.com/privapps/notebook

Re: Ask HN: What is your current side-project?

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Post by seymon » Fri, Mar 05, 2021, 6:11 AM UTC

I am building a CLI tool for OAuth and OpenID Connect based access control. It allows performing auth flows with and without browser redirects, decodes JWTs, inspect OIDC issuers, etc. It is written in the go language and has multi Platform support. The next steps are about adding login profiles as config values. Also adding impersonation support with the OAuth Token Exchange protocol.

https://git.schuerg.net/simon/actl

Re: Ask HN: What is your current side-project?

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Post by kilroy123 » Fri, Mar 05, 2021, 6:36 AM UTC

A daily newsletter about art: https://randomdailyart.com/

I feature random artists from around the world, plus a lot of classic art.

Re: Ask HN: What is your current side-project?

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Post by soulchild37 » Fri, Mar 05, 2021, 6:55 AM UTC

https://apps.shopify.com/cancellable

Did it for my cousin's Shopify store originally, as she was getting a few of order cancellation requests via customer email almost everyday. Thought to automate to let customer by themselves, and she is quite happy with this lol, and a few other stores owner in Shopify liked this app as well.

Re: Ask HN: What is your current side-project?

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Post by DarrenDev » Fri, Mar 05, 2021, 7:45 AM UTC

I'm working on a a text classification api. It's a huge project, but I'm starting small and hope to to have a beta out there next week. Initial target niche will be data from legal firms.

https://liet.io/