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Re: Ask HN: What (side-)project are you working on?

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Post by chdaniel »

taphangum wrote: post #21

https://planflow.dev - The easiest way to PLAN your website or mobile app. It tries to make planning a website or mobile app as close as possible to the pen and paper experience. It does this in a simple but (from my, and the experience of those who have tested it out) very effective and engaging way. I share a bit more about how this is done here: https://simpleprogrammer.com/information-architecture-develo... .

Just subscribed, Tapha! Curious to see how it'll work, as I do UI/UX design as well

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Re: Ask HN: What (side-)project are you working on?

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Post by chdaniel »

JohanCutych wrote: post #27

We created https://www.getwelder.com/ as side project. Turn into main project and then back to side project haha. Great for recording content (interviews) remotely easily & in high-quality.

This pic: https://assets.website-files.com/5e93b09565892b4fad16784a/5f...

Drives the point home! Would love to try it, as I've recorded a podcast with 13 episodes before: https://chdaniel.com/podcast

What made you turn this from side -> main -> side project? What are you working on now, specifically, on Welder?

Re: Ask HN: What (side-)project are you working on?

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Post by chdaniel »

Jefro118 wrote: post #10

I'm building https://pygma.app , a tool to turn Figma files into real websites. Perhaps not quite a side project as I've been spending half of the week on it. Should be launching this week.

I'm currently on Sketch, but been looking at Figma as I like the browser-dependency, as opposed to OS-dependency.

Question (and bear in mind I haven't used figma more than 5 min): what do I have to do besides the mockup in order to be able to use Pygma?

Looks v cool!

P.S: Feedback for feedback, if you're down? https://bychgroup.com/price-unlock/

Re: Ask HN: What (side-)project are you working on?

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Post by ngokevin »

high_byte wrote: post #36
ngokevin wrote: post #14

Coupling: language learning app for bilingual couples looking to pick up each other's native languages https://learncoupling.com

Cool. I've fiddled with A-Frame and I've seen supermedium before. cool stuff. Why do you focus on couples though? I love the concept of partnering together but I don't think you should limit your audience.

Awesome!

I'm just starting with a clear niche and solving my own problems. Where many of my friends and myself are in bilingual relationships that have been trying to learn our partner's languages.

In the US, 15% of new marriages are multi-ethnic, so that's pretty large already. I think people are surprised how common it is. And it easily pique's people's interests who are in the situation versus another generic language learning platform.

If the project goes well, it can expand and branch out (e.g., adding friends/family, connecting to other peers, finding strangers to learn with). Right now, it works very well as a language learning tool, even without a partner.

Re: Ask HN: What (side-)project are you working on?

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Post by taphangum »

chdaniel wrote: post #41
taphangum wrote: post #21

https://planflow.dev - The easiest way to PLAN your website or mobile app. It tries to make planning a website or mobile app as close as possible to the pen and paper experience. It does this in a simple but (from my, and the experience of those who have tested it out) very effective and engaging way. I share a bit more about how this is done here: https://simpleprogrammer.com/information-architecture-develo... .

Just subscribed, Tapha! Curious to see how it'll work, as I do UI/UX design as well P.S: Feedback for feedback, if you're down? https://bychgroup.com/price-unlock/

Awesome! Thanks chdaniel. Happy to give you feedback. Check back in a few.

Re: Ask HN: What (side-)project are you working on?

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Post by knoebber »

chdaniel wrote: post #37
knoebber wrote: post #7

Dotfilehub: https://dotfilehub.com I've always found various solutions that use git for sharing configuration files cumbersome. I set out to make my own simple version control system, and a lightweight web application where I can browse and edit them remotely. The main idea is that paths are aliased to simple names, so I can say `dotfile pull i3` and it will install https://dotfilehub.com/knoebber/i3 to ~/.config/i3/…

Would love to comment with feedback but I'm not techincal enough to use it! Sounds like a time-saver though. Do you have any plan with Dotfilehub? Sell it as a product, keep it free, accept donations if it becomes widely used...?

My plan is to find some users for it, but I'm not sure the best way to get it out there.

I don't think I'd ever want to accept donations or sell it. It should always be pretty cheap to host unless it blows up, which I kind of doubt. But who knows!

Re: Ask HN: What (side-)project are you working on?

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Post by mnembrini »

A Csv editor/viewer in Rust using druid. Very early stage, but the goal is to open large files (1 GB and over) easily and have some good filtering / sorting options. Excel stops at a certain amount of rows, LibreOffice is ok but slow and other editors I looked are not cross platform I know you can just import a Csv into a sql DB but it can be finicky it can take some time to map the columns, filter out invalid data etc. This can and should be all be automated

Re: Ask HN: What (side-)project are you working on?

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Post by denysvitali »

chdaniel wrote: post #39
denysvitali wrote: post #26

A StackOverflow / Discourse alternative: https://github.com/denysvitali/dev-portal-frontend https://github.com/denysvitali/dev-portal Porting Linux to the Surface Pro X (and failing doing that due to my lack of kernel experience): http://github.com/denysvitali/surface-pro-x-linux/ Creating a Microsoft Teams library + client (WIP): https://github.com/fossteams/teams-api Unfortunately my free time is quite limited :(

The screenshots here look interesting: https://github.com/denysvitali/dev-portal-designs Any live demo?

Thanks!

Still WIP, no live demo at the moment, but the screenshots that you see on the dev-portal repo are already what you get :)

The design reference that you link is how I want it to be, I spent quite some time focusing on the look and feel with Figma, and I'm really happy about the results, I just need to do the 90% of the work now :D

Re: Ask HN: What (side-)project are you working on?

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Post by ycm2007 »

chdaniel wrote: post #38
ycm2007 wrote: post #33

Cloudblast: https://cloudblast.network Working to solve the online privacy problem by making it easy to discover and host copies of existing privacy-respecting web apps. Cloudblast spawned from my original "what I'm working on" project CloudFromScratch posted to this similar thread a year ago.

This CloudFromScratch, right? https://github.com/technomada/cloud-from-scratch I have a document for myself where I note down what I believe to be future industries — trying to time the market. In the same way you might've timed the market in the early part of the previous decade by betting on remote working becoming a pretty viable option (hindsight is 20/20 tho!) Self-hosted for privacy reasons, to me, is like a bo…

Yes, that's it, though needs an update for 2021.

Easy self-hosting is great for privacy and a lot fun, finding it makes the web/net/computers exciting like it was when computers and the net were new. It does feel like a lot of things are coming together where self-hosting solutions may boom.

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