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Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
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#202Built a home maintenance todo list for myself and then decided to write up some details for each, link videos, etc so that others could use it to track their maintenance tasks around their home.
Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
#203Ha! I've been working on https://movielandmarks.com/ since 2006 or so. It has gone through various changes (started out as a LAMP stack). It is currently a static site built from a pile of json and a go program to assemble all the parts. I'm the only contributor these days, and only work on it when I feel like it.
At the start I had dreams of selling tons of DVDs via Amazon associates. But I'm terrible at marketing :) So these days it's just a simple site with no ads -- just 1258 landmarks from 322 movies. I sometimes announce new additions on twitter from https://twitter.com/movielandmarks but it only gets about 30 or so visitors a day (mostly bots).
Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
#204I built a few utilities that help PeopleSoft developers do their job. It's a pretty niche market and it's all MIT licensed. I work on it when I need it to do something, or someone requests a feature. They have stayed pretty low on radars since they were released (the oldest was 6 years ago). I don't work on them for them to be popular. I work on them because the few times I've needed them, they were indispensable.
Trace Wizard [0] - Peoplesoft App Server trace file analyzer. Shows execution paths, sql statements, exceptions and a bunch of stars.
DMS-Viewer [1] - Peoplesoft uses a program called Data Mover to migration data between databases. It exports the data into an undocumented file format. This utility allows you to inspect and alter the data before importing to a new database.
Pivet [2] - command line utility that dumps various Peoplesoft definitions/code to disk and leverages git for tracking the changes. Intended to be run as a scheduled process.
[0] - https://github.com/tslater2006/Trace-Wizard
Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
#205I've been making a proper survival strategy game. I made a few games before but they were only about a week's worth of work each, so I don't count them as "proper". This time I wanted to make a full-on project with professionally-done models, art, music etc. It's a reverse of the 4X formula - rather than starting as a small country and becoming a vast empire over the course of the game you start off heading a vast em…
I like the terrain rendering. Is that a prepackaged thing or did you write it yourself?
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#206Believe it or not, I sell the following on Fiverr as radiantxp21: "I will special stocks and option picks lose all your money fast and intelligently" I know, it sounds a bit, non-English, but in my defense: it was my first time using Fiverr and I had no clue how to use it. The ad is up for a few months already, and I had many laughs creating it, but yesterday I had my first client! I panicked, I realized that I am as…
> I know, it sounds a bit...non-English
Should one in 18th century verse himself be passingly versed
your crier's cry rings out artfully.
One fraud's earnest scheme to a knowing fraud's great mirth does bring
a wild-cat's prey; loss an LLC's bounty.
edit: s/knowing fraud/knowing fraud's/g; sorry for the typo
Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
#207After reading Parsing Techniques by Grune and Jacobs, I wanted to write a parser in Rust... I got it working in the end, but took me at least 6 months.
Nobody uses it, not even me... but damn was I happy when all the tests passed for the first time
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#208Almost every one of my package projects is like that.
I create them for my own consumption, but make them available to anyone that wants to use them: https://riftvalleysoftware.com/work/open-source-projects/
Nobody seems interested, which is just fine, by me. Releasing them as shipped products, is one of my “best practices.” It keeps the Quality of my work high.
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Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
#210I've been working on a 5/3/1 app for a while now. My goal is to make $1000 from it so I guess I do care if it succeeds a bit? Made about $180 so far.