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Ask HN: What is the most impactful thing you've built?

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Re: Ask HN: What is the most impactful thing you've built?

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Post by spery »

nicbou wrote: post #15

Definitely All About Berlin. A few years ago, I started documenting how to deal with German bureaucracy as a foreigner. The website grew and grew until it became a well-known resource for immigrants. It has become my full-time job at some point in 2020. It's been a little over 5 years since I started, and I'm still super stoked about my work. I still enjoy doing the research, rewriting guides a dozen times, and answe…

I use your site often. Thank you for creating it, it's a great resource!

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Post by wvenable »

I built a content management system back when that meant something like Slashdot instead of Wordpress. It powered many sites but the main one was https://www.coffeegeek.com. It was launched in 2001 and I stopped working on the software in 2007 and it continued to power that site, basically unchanged, until 2020.

I think a 20 year run for a popular website and application was probably most impactful thing I've done.

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Post by jbirer »

I developed a model contest mobile app where models from Venezuela and Latin America can submit their SFW pictures and earn Dash coin as upvotes. Many of those ladies thanked us for giving them a way to earn during the tough times in Latam without having to resort to camming work. I am kind of proud of myself that I gave them an opportunity to survive the pandemic.

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Post by soinus »

I think the most impactful thing I've built for now is an open source project used to auto complete C++ code in sublime text: EasyClangComplete. It does not take over the world, but I've been using it for years along with tens of thousands of people and that's good enough for me.

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Post by Minor49er »

jcuenod wrote: post #55

In an MA program in biblical studies, I realized that the best way to understand what words mean in context is to see how they're used in similar contexts. To do that, you've got to be able to find similar contexts. I didn't like the solutions available from the major software vendors, but it turns out there's a whole bunch of tagged data that's openly licensed. So I built a webapp that has all the search functionali…

I like the layout of this. Do you plan on adding any other versions of the text? BibleHub also shows multiple versions of the text, but has a wide variety of translations to choose from. Though their layout isn't quite this elegant

Re: Ask HN: What is the most impactful thing you've built?

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Post by nicbou »

atlasunshrugged wrote: post #44
nicbou wrote: post #15

Definitely All About Berlin. A few years ago, I started documenting how to deal with German bureaucracy as a foreigner. The website grew and grew until it became a well-known resource for immigrants. It has become my full-time job at some point in 2020. It's been a little over 5 years since I started, and I'm still super stoked about my work. I still enjoy doing the research, rewriting guides a dozen times, and answe…

That's awesome! Wish I had heard about it when I moved there, definitely going to hunt through the site to see if you have a guide to getting some of my pension payments refunded now that I've moved

I do! https://allaboutberlin.com/guides/pension-payments-refund

Don't forget your tax return too. If you didn't work the full year, you'll get money back.

Re: Ask HN: What is the most impactful thing you've built?

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Post by ryanbigg »

Maintained Spree as it’s community manager (https://GitHub.com/spree/spree) for 2.5-3 years, depending on how you count. Taught me a lot about OSS. Dollar figures processed using code I wrote / maintained hurt my brain. What hurt my brain more was US sales tax rules.

I also wrote quite a few programming books (https://ryanbigg.com/books) and some of the Ruby on Rails guides. These have gone on to teach thousands of people around the world. I really love hearing from those who’ve read my work.

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