Ask HN: What (side-)project are you working on? • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by pronouncedjerry » Wed, Mar 17, 2021, 1:55 AM UTC

shanecleveland wrote: post #6

I filled my own need with https://howsyourblank.com . I have a minor, but chronic medical condition I am trying to get in check, and I just wanted something incredibly simple to identify good and bad days. I was inspired by "year in pixels" calendars. And I took the opportunity to try out Userbase[0] and build something with a secure backend and no tracking, considering the potentially sensitive nature of it. No plan…

great job! you took a problem, came up with a solution, and executed it very well.

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

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Post by Jemaclus » Wed, Mar 17, 2021, 1:57 AM UTC

person_of_color wrote: post #61

I want to do a side project but not have web development be part of it. Any ideas?

There are tons of CLI tools that might be useful.

Personally, my go-to side project is to build a MUD (an online text-based multiplayer RPG, totally free. To play around with a popular one, type this in your terminal: telnet avatar.outland.org 3000. No affiliation with Avatar, but it's my favorite one to play.) There are some open-source MUD libraries written in C, C++, and other languages that might be a good reference. No web interface required!

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

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Post by winrid » Wed, Mar 17, 2021, 2:02 AM UTC

I've been building FastComments: https://fastcomments.com

For the past year or so.

I'm also building an MMO game, and you can read the technical details/build thread here: https://jvm-gaming.org/t/tdworld-development-thread/69948/10...

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

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Post by namigop » Wed, Mar 17, 2021, 2:11 AM UTC

I am working on FINT, a gRPC test client that combines functional testing and performance testing in a single application. Been doing this for over a year and the software now has an extensive list of features.

http://www.bytesmotion.com/fint/full-list-of-features

http://www.bytesmotion.com/fint/

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

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Post by ecesena » Wed, Mar 17, 2021, 2:35 AM UTC

chdaniel wrote: post #40

ecesena wrote: post #4

MultiPreview: https://multipreview.com Create sharable links with different images, so you can share the same article multiple times, e.g. on twitter keeping your feed nice and clean. For those interested in the details, it renders an html page with custom metatags and immediately redirects to the target. Redirect happens in js, so crawlers actually display our metatags vs the target ones. It's just a hack I've teste…

Ohh, kinda like Seth Godin's blog! If you share any of his blog posts, there's a rotation of pics that come up in Twitter's preview. Did I get it right? P.S: Feedback for feedback, if you're down? https://bychgroup.com/price-unlock/

Thanks - do you mean increasing the price or blocking signup with credit card? The first I can do. :) The second it's not worth my time to handle the complaints, especially if I post it on HN to ask for feedback.

For Seth Godin's blog, it seems he's periodically rotating the image tag at his blog level. All the post get the same image for a certain amount of time.

With MultiPreview you set the images you want. But the time rotation could be a nice feature, I'll add it to the list! Thanks again!

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

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Post by chrisdalke » Wed, Mar 17, 2021, 2:35 AM UTC

Most recently I built https://www.timelineify.com/ - Spotify messes with the order of albums & singles, making it difficult to hear an artist's works in the order they were released. Timelineify generates a chronological playlist of an artist's entire discography with a few clicks!

I was interested in playing around with the Spotify API and this was a narrowly-scoped problem I personally had and could solve in a single weekend. I'm happy with the results, about 500 users have logged in and created a playlist.

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

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Post by timqian » Wed, Mar 17, 2021, 2:37 AM UTC

I am building an social RSS reader: https://feeds.pub

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

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Post by inssein » Wed, Mar 17, 2021, 2:39 AM UTC

Still pretty early, but I am working on a web based database editor that has a lot of other niceties built on top (column based permissioning + rbac).

https://app.aidmin.io

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

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Post by bepitulaz » Wed, Mar 17, 2021, 2:45 AM UTC

I'm building a cryptocurrency automated trading platform and use it for myself. I feel it's a good side project to learn Rust and quantitative trading.

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

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Post by vinhnx » Wed, Mar 17, 2021, 2:56 AM UTC

I have been working on a universal Calendar app for Apple platforms, as iOS, iPadOS, watchOS and macOS specifically; named Clendar. [0][1]

My goal is to learn SwiftUI and explore new Apple technologies.

The app is now open source on GitHub as well, it's my way to give back to the community as I was learning it. [3]

Feedback welcome!

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[1] Download link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/clendar-a-calendar-app/id15481

[2] Landing page: https://vinhnx.github.io/clendar-site

[3] GitHub: https://github.com/vinhnx/Clendar