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

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

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Post by joisig » Fri, Feb 11, 2022, 7:28 AM UTC

I love using the Bear note taking app and am building a Bear-powered CMS so I can run my blog on Bear (with a tag controlling what is published publicly) and also have whatever set of notes I like (again based on tags) available to me and possibly a few others like my wife, behind a log-in, via a browser, as Bear itself is macOS/iOS only.

Success will be when my blog is hosted on it and I open source the code so thst it might be useful to other Bear aficionados. No expectation of anything more.

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

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Post by gcampos » Fri, Feb 11, 2022, 7:28 AM UTC

Charlieholtz wrote: post #112

I built a satirical social network called shlinkedin. It started as a way for me to learn elixir and make fun of thought leadership with my roommate, and has gradually gotten bigger. It’s all open source and a ton of fun to work on. Everyone is an alter ego (think Beff Jezos or Office Spider), and it’s hilarious to see how much people commit to the characters they create. And I can’t say enough good things about work…

Love shlinkedin and I think you have a shoot of making it successful. Not "the next Google" kind of successful, but could be at least a life style business.

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

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Post by kebsup » Fri, Feb 11, 2022, 7:29 AM UTC

I'm working on a gif making website: https://gifmemes.io. My plans for the future are implementation of wasm ffmpeg and supporting videos also. I wouldn't say i don't care about the success, but my friends and I use it enough to keep me motivated.

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

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Post by mavci » Fri, Feb 11, 2022, 7:32 AM UTC

Hacker News is part of my daily life. I try to follow the top stories every day when I have the opportunity. In order not to miss important stories on my busy days, I prepared a notification service. It was a very simple, ~40-line PHP script that sends me notifications for stories with over 200 points. I have been using this service for 7 months and I no longer worry about missing important stories.

Finally, I made this service available to everyone so that it can be useful to others. I have also obtained the necessary permissions from the HN moderators to share such a service with you. So, I hope you will not miss important stories from this awesome platform with the help of this service. Also when I share this service with HN, I hope I will receive this story as a notification.

And this is my "I don't care if this succeeds" project because I am already using and I just shared with everyone.

Also I just received this post via this service and just came here to share this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30153116

https://hnn.avci.me

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

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Post by alexmingoia » Fri, Feb 11, 2022, 7:35 AM UTC

FailMore wrote: post #405

alexmingoia wrote: post #7

Mine is https://sumi.news . I use it, others use it, and I consider that a success.

This is AMAZING

Thank you. I'm always looking for ways to improve it.

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

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Post by ryanbigg » Fri, Feb 11, 2022, 7:36 AM UTC

I’m working on building an implementation of Magic: The Gathering in Ruby: https://GitHub.com/radar/mtg

It’s fun trying to work out the different card / game mechanics and how they all interact.

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

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Post by ryanbigg » Fri, Feb 11, 2022, 7:37 AM UTC

I’m working on an implementation of Magic: The Gathering in Ruby. https://GitHub.com/radar/mtg

It’s fun to work out the different card / game mechanics and how they all interact. It’s a good different project from the typical web-dev-y stuff I do every day.

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

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Post by langsoul-com » Fri, Feb 11, 2022, 7:39 AM UTC

kebsup wrote: post #453

I'm working on a gif making website: https://gifmemes.io . My plans for the future are implementation of wasm ffmpeg and supporting videos also. I wouldn't say i don't care about the success, but my friends and I use it enough to keep me motivated.

I was thinking about something similar.

Use wasm ffmepg to convert video into avi format (most size efficient). Since it's done on client side, you don't exhaust all server resources.

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

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Post by ArcMex » Fri, Feb 11, 2022, 7:40 AM UTC

Current projects

- App that documents all the steps to successfully get married - App to organize my video game collection

They are personal projects so I don't care if they succeed.

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

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Post by jupiterandmoon » Fri, Feb 11, 2022, 7:42 AM UTC

https://expiringcake.com

I built it to get email reminders about things that expire, such as passports, free trial cancellation dates, Covid antigen tests, travel reward and free night expiration dates, etc.

My real sob story is that my passport unknowingly expired and I didn't notice until I was checking in to an international flight. I really don't want that to happen again, especially now that I have more passports to keep track of in the family.

It's built with blitz.js, Go, Postgres, and runs on a tiny VPS. I use it for myself and haven't marketed it much.