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

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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…

This is awesome!

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#912

I run JQBX [1]. I have no plans to monetize it but its cool to just have it out there as a thing I made. I really enjoy the community and its a cool way to help with music discovery. It's also really rewarding to provide a meaning experience for some people out there using the web. A nice counterbalance to boring enterprise software! https://www.jqbx.fm

I’ve been using JQBX with a small group of friends and we love it! It works pretty flawlessly except for the occasional song just refusing to play.

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

#913

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Thank you for your wishes. For future needs I was able to return to private health insurance which suffers from no such problem. However this cannot cover claims arisen prior to policy issue, so the subject matter remains open. No judge ruling in this court actually has public health insurance.

Well, for what it’s worth and I sincerely mean this, if there is anything I can do to help you out (medically, not legally) please let me know.

I appreciate the offer. Otherwise I did have a superb experience with the medical system, that is real doctors not state workers with lapsed qualification.

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I don't think it took that much time. If you count the time involved in the regex engine though, you might get a bit closer. :-)

Thanks for all your hardwork! I've been dabbling in Rust and doing toy projects, but have years of experience in other languages. Are there any rust projects you recommend contributing to that have a good community?

Rust itself for sure. And rust-analyzer. I'm sure there are more. :-)

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

#915

I posted this as a show HN a few weeks ago, I maintain a small, completely free html/js game. There's no chance of it ever making money in its current form, it's just a fun waste of time with a few hundred players[0]. [0] https://wallsmash.com

This is a lot of fun; spent way more time than I should have on this just now.

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

#916

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…

Wi-fi enabled hot sauce. I did not know so much satire could be packed into four words. That's satire-rich semantics, right there. SatiricWeb3.

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

#917
During the early days of the pandemic I started working on a videogame with lots of help from my son and we both loved working on it for the last two years. It's available on Steam for a fiver (with free demo) but it was never about the money or attention. We just loved the process of working on it a little bit every day, coming up with new game mechanics and levels. It got to the point where all I was doing was focusing on making levels that my son would find challenging (not easy as he knew the game mechanics better than me by that point!).

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1595300/Kells

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

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Likely. The dude who developed ripgrep spent like 2 man-years on it full-time, apparently. Interesting (long, detailed) blog post about it: https://blog.burntsushi.net/ripgrep/

I don't think it took that much time. If you count the time involved in the regex engine though, you might get a bit closer. :-)

LOL. I thought I read that somewhere in your blog post about it (which was amazingly detailed and interesting), but human minds are poo. Thanks so much for this sweet tool! Is there a ripgrep lib that other software can build on this, btw?

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

#919
I really enjoy reading newsletters and I have always really liked the idea of RSS feeds. So I thought to myself, why not combine the two? So I made a service that sends me daily/weekly/monthly digests of all the new posts from the blogs I follow:

https://www.blogar.io/

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