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

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

#71
I’ve been making mint-tin tabletop games. I’m aiming for a new game every other month. Being a web person for like 20 years now, everything I make disappears in months-to-years. As someone I worked with once described it, we’re digital ice sculptors.

So as a change of pace, physical games! I’ve released 2 so far, next one coming in March.

One is a set-collection competition called Come to Call where players are royal PR people. You’re trying to win the favor of rich patrons without seeming too desperate. Your goal is to send the least interest delegate that will still steal the show. It’s a game of kings, queens, fools, and way too many butlers.

The second game is a push-your-luck dice-rolling egg hunt called Egg Roll! You’ve only got time to make 6 stops to find eggs. Roll the dice to find eggs. If you find some, you can move those to safety or roll to find more. Find nothing and score nothing for the round instead. Works well with kids and adults alike! And comes with 6 variants to change the game up.

You can see both at my little corner of the web, https://fredandfun.com

If you use the coupon codes on my site, I make less than 50¢ per game sold. I’ll never recover what I spent on art. But I dob’t care. As long as someone anywhere has fun with either of them, it’s all worthwhile.

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

#72
I'm building a golf course wiki: https://golfcourse.wiki/

It's stupid that there is no centralized database of detailed golf course information. People love their local munis, but they never get enough attention because there is no marketing dept for a municipal golf course. Jr golfers shouldn't have to pay hundreds of dollars for yardage books to compete on the same level. On top of that, the number of golf courses that even exist is shockingly low.

Using SVGs, now supported in all browsers, the course maps/yardage maps can be easily be editable (especially once I build an in browser editor).

This is a website that should obviously exist and i will keep building it and adding courses i've played, alone, by myself, until the day i die.

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

#77
I made this website for various little calculations and references I need to look up all the time for the day job.

Its useful for me, and kind of relaxing to work on, so I'll keep hacking away at it, adding new tools over time. But I haven't really shared it with anyone yet.

https://calcs.app

Built with React, hosted on Netlify. Probably riddled with bad practices, but it seems to work for now.

My current task is trying to figure out Fabric.js integration with React so I can do some more dynamic graphics (like general frame and truss analysis)

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

#80

My day job. Personal projects get a little more heart, but "success" to me is usually intrinsic, not extrinsic. I'm probably a little weird when it comes to motivating factors, but not alone.

Oof. This is probably most people, too.

There need to be more jobs where the interest alignment in work is 100%. Disney animators, Nintendo programmers, audio programming, SpaceX engineers, ML/AI, bioinformatics, ... Rockets, chemicals, machines, visual toys, solving moonshot things, ...

Less plumbing and glue code. Less adtech. Less studying and optimizing trivial human interactions that nobody will remember.

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