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

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post #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.

> 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, ...

Some of these jobs can involve crunch time, low pay, and other forms of employee abuse, since people are willing to suffer for the sake of their passion. Sometimes boring work is the healthier option.

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

#132
I'm making a proof of concept UI library that runs in WebAssembly!

Pros:

- Rendering for multiple platforms

- Much efficient server side rendering with all the goodies of SPA (no need to scale nodejs servers)

Cons: It's just a proof of concept and I don't have enough bandwidth to take it to a full blown framework

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

#134

Built a stock market scanner for my own needs and it has been a culmination of all my skills. Market is pretty saturated, however huge sense of pride which nobody can take from me. On top of that it's what I use to trade. Hearing the feedback from my subscribers is my gold. https://mometic.com

just fyi firefox give a SSL error if I click the link, though oddly not if I open in a new tab.

"Websites prove their identity via certificates. Firefox does not trust this site because it uses a certificate that is not valid for mometic.com. The certificate is only valid for *.mometic.com."

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

#136
post #84

"Oh By"[1] It's a "universal shortener" which means it doesn't just shorten URLs - it shortens anything and turns it into a short, recognizable code. Or, what would be a recognizable code if anyone used it :) Here's an example: https://0x.co/examples.html ... and for some reason I am still enamored with the " send a text to someone in the future " use-case. [1] https://0x.co

The lost and found example is horrible LOL. If I came across that glove, I guess I might be tempted to Google the code, but that's because I'm a nerd. At best you still need to write "IF FOUND PLEASE GO TO 0x.co". And bear in mind that 0 and O are very similar.

If I found that I would think "how weird, someone wrote a hex code on this," and best-case might try to translate it to ASCII or google "hex code graffito" or the like, which I doubt would bring up this site because it doesn't use the term "hex code" anywhere.

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

#137
https://flat.social - a fun video conferencing app where meeting attendees can fly around and speak with others around them.

While I do care about the outcome, I work on it regardless. It's a lot of fun from a technical point of view and I keep meeting amazing people through it.

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

#138
post #64

Built a daily word game in two dimensions, with a 5x5 wordsquare to uncover using valid word guesses. https://squareword.org It's been such a joy to work on it and add features and improvements. No way of making money, but seeing the game evolve and getting positive feedback from players has made it worth it already. :) I love small projects like that where there are no expectations or real targets, just the pure fun…

really enjoyable, clever take and I like that you have a target goal set.

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

#139
post #91

Oh, all of them. https://imgz.org , say. I make them for me, usually I make them available because other people might want to use them. Yesterday I made Dia[1], a small cli utility that helps you keep a work journal. [1] https://pypi.org/project/dia/

The imgz FAQ is hilarious, thank you for that.

Thanks, I'm glad you like it!

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

#140

Not tech related, other than using tech to promote it, but music. I tried a go at making a name for myself 10 years ago and failed. Now, I'm finally ready to write and record an album but I don't care if anyone listens to it. Just want to leave a tiny little piece of something to show I was here and made something.

Same here, at least IT paid for a kickass studio to play around in...
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