It's not much, but I've been working on http://nflscorebot.github.com for a while now. I built it mainly for myself; I always have a Twitter client open and wanted an easier way to get football scores. I've since built versions for hockey and college football, as well as French versions.
Ask HN: Tell us about your side projects.
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#32Going slow on http://www.migrainevibe.com (a migraine journal) on weekends mostly.
I've been on HN a while now (just reading, no comments), and I have to say that it really is worth going after your dreams one line of code at a time.
Thanks for the thread, I would never have the guts do a "Show HN" post with my project.
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#33I'm working on FreedomSponsors (http://www.freedomsponsors.org) - a micro-crowdfunding platform for open source projects.
People can place money bounties related to the projects' issues, and pay after they're resolved.
Currently, payments are handled by Paypal. Right now I'm looking into Bitcoin and bit-pay to enable bitcoin payments into FS. There are a few user experience challenges that I have to work out first though (see https://github.com/freedomsponsors/www.freedomsponsors.org/i...)
FS is open source on Github. Any kind of collaboration and feedback is very welcome :-)
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#34Currently working on a little app that sends email reminders for movies you want to see in theaters. It happens far too often that I see a trailer somewhere, think "woah I want to see that movie" then just forget about it, only to remember when it's no longer playing in local theaters. Just finishing up the frontend, should be able to release this soon... if I find a good name, at least. Current working title is Film…
moviememory?
or movieminder?
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#35I bought http://livelystocks.com and I'm rebuilding it. It's a live streaming news service for stocks and shares. If you want to know why Apple shares have tanked, you go to livelystocks and check the live news as well as the latest headlines.
It's a little like stocktwits but many more sources and much more focused on just news, as fast as it happens.
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#36I've been working on http://www.weartolook.com for a while now, we're a fashion shopping mall with 250 of the best high street, luxury and department stores here in the UK, we just crossed 2m products and are gearing up for a proper launch over the next few weeks. Interested in any feedback.
(For you US guys, we're just about to add a wave of ~100 US stores)
edit: clickable
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#37I'm still slowly working on Hackerbuddy: http://hackerbuddy.com/ - fun fact, the user base is now at a level where I can find people on Hackerbuddy to help improve Hackerbuddy. Is there a name for apps that recursively improve themselves?
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#38Since I was a little kid I've played on text based "mafia" games, where the idea was like any other game, to be the highest rank, the richest, the one with the most "kills" or in the best "crew", etc. I started learning to code because of these games in all honesty, over the last couple of weeks I've been working on an open source mafia game (with an installer and configuration page, control panel for moderators, etc…
I learned to code for exactly the same reason, i even started an uplink style computer hacking game while learning. Unfortunately it got a bit too popular for my skills and i had to shut it down because i didnt know enough at the time to squash the bugs and make it properly playable. One of my biggest mistakes was shutting it down. One day ive said ill start it up again now that i know my shit.
You should do it, it really shows you how far you've come when you revisit a project from your past, even only 6 months earlier, you can see how you have improved.
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#39I have a terrible memory, and want to remember more about the little things that happen in my life, and remember the facts I come across that I find interesting. Spaced Repetition Learning is a proven tool for improving memory, but still isn't available in a well designed simple app. (I've tried them all!). I am busy building this app as a side project. I was excited when http://memstash.co/ launched but it doesn’t u…
i think this is a really good idea!!! the "reminder" could also be a question which you have to answer correctly. if you do, you won't be prompted for that specific item again for some time. if you answer incorrectly, the question will appear again soon after.
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#40My side project is http://www.imobee.com.br, it's a real estate search engine for Brazil...
We are trying to build something close to Trulia because our real estate sites suck bad.
We are still on alpha and only the main interface is working, but we will add a lot of statistics and analysis to it so it can become useful.
Coding on my free time with a friend and trying to find some money to work full time on it, but it's very very very hard to do that here in Brazil.
Opnions are welcome.