Ask HN: Weekend side projects?

#1

Post by bazookaBen » Sun, Aug 12, 2012, 1:28 AM UTC

What weekend side projects are you working on?

I'm working on a mobile HTML5 social game that backends into Parse.

Re: Ask HN: Weekend side projects?

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Post by pizza » Sun, Aug 12, 2012, 1:31 AM UTC

Pro-tip for those without any: keep an ideas.txt file. Keep it on GitHub, too, so others can use it.

Re: Ask HN: Weekend side projects?

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Post by sergiotapia » Sun, Aug 12, 2012, 1:56 AM UTC

Currently working on a Dota2 fansite with my brother. I'm really groking the usage of Mercurial for source control. It's really amazing.

Re: Ask HN: Weekend side projects?

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Post by decadentcactus » Sun, Aug 12, 2012, 2:03 AM UTC

Right now, a chrome extension for Steam, adds a bit of functionality to the store. Some extra links, prices from all regions, probably some other crap too.

Currently the goals for it are to implement and use redis in a production site, learn to make a chrome extension, and just to get another thing launched. Possibly also to install/config a server from scratch (on Linode).

Re: Ask HN: Weekend side projects?

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Post by yolesaber » Sun, Aug 12, 2012, 2:51 AM UTC

My friend Joseph (http://josephcurley.me) and I created ExploreMore as a fast and fun way to find interesting local events and happenings. We used Flask and the Eventful API. Feedback appreciated! http://bit.ly/O5b2jU

Re: Ask HN: Weekend side projects?

#6

Post by daleharvey » Sun, Aug 12, 2012, 2:54 AM UTC

http://pouchdb.com/

in browser version of couchdb, mostly its a database that works offline and syncs online.

Re: Ask HN: Weekend side projects?

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Post by unixpickle » Sun, Aug 12, 2012, 4:10 AM UTC

Right now I'm working on a command-line utility for ripping albums off Youtube. It uses some music database APIs to lookup tracks for a specified album, and then finds individual youtube videos to rip for each track. Once a video is downloaded, it will be converted to m4a and metadata will be added to it as is available.

Re: Ask HN: Weekend side projects?

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Post by factorialboy » Sun, Aug 12, 2012, 5:01 AM UTC

BrowserDB - http://srirangan.github.com/browserdb

Re: Ask HN: Weekend side projects?

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Post by factorialboy » Sun, Aug 12, 2012, 5:02 AM UTC

daleharvey wrote: post #6

http://pouchdb.com/ in browser version of couchdb, mostly its a database that works offline and syncs online.

We should exchange notes, I'm trying the same thing with BrowserDB - http://srirangan.github.com/browserdb - 'cept the API is inspired by MongoDB.

Re: Ask HN: Weekend side projects?

#10

Post by zdeluna » Sun, Aug 12, 2012, 5:48 AM UTC

I am making a language learning HTML5 game using the Kinect through the Zigfu API.