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Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your side projects.

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Post by cfontes »

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Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your side projects.

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Post by makethetick »

I came up with a way to automatically modify your websites outgoing links with an affiliate code, useful for busy forums. Kind of like a lightweight, self run Skimlinks.

http://www.affililink.com

https://github.com/deanbarrow/Affililink

Edit: When I find some time, I'd really like to improve upon this and document it.

Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your side projects.

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Post by helen842000 »

hannesfostie wrote: post #21

Currently 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…

Hey, I wanted to solve a similar issue but I chose a different solution. I'm building an iOS app - it's in it's early stages but I've got limited time to work on it which is a shame.

I've got a few domains that I bought for it which may suit! Drop me a mail if you'd like to exchange ideas, or talk about naming/domains.

Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your side projects.

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Post by vignesh_vs_in »

rockfort wrote: post #68
vignesh_vs_in wrote: post #67

Started working on a SAAS concept recently, nothing solid to show right now. My list of side projects from 2010, Android: Personal Finance Calculator ( http://bit.ly/STAJ8n ) helps you to calculate Loan Interest rate. Baby Names ( http://bit.ly/STAJ8n)Provides List of Baby names and their meaning Mobile Number Tracker( http://bit.ly/STAIkI ) provides caller info based on the mobile number (Only India). Mobile Number…

Nice Side-projects, but you're in definite need of a designer ;)

Thanks. Ya i know, my games flopped big time :D

Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your side projects.

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Post by helen842000 »

I put http://www.foundcamera.com together as a quick 1 day project a few months ago. I wanted to put an interactive map at the centre of it all.

It really is an MVP of a project currently and I would like to expand on it as I'm getting a backlog of cameras to list on the site even without any promotion - just good search engine rankings for popular phrases.

Lots of people are offering rewards in their posts too, a few people have said if I promoted the posts with rewards this would entice more people to help out but I don't think this is right.

I'd also like to monetize it in an unobtrusive way, just to cover its own running costs, as there's only so many projects that you can keep paying for.

I'd really appreciate feedback/suggestions.

Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your side projects.

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Post by wukkuan »

Yesterday I launched my iOS receipt management app, Simple Receipts. My goal was to make the absolute simplest app possible, as all of the (many) existing ones were complex.

By default it simply saves your receipt images to your camera roll. If you link with Dropbox, it will upload them there.

As of today it's $0.99 in the App Store. You can find it here:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/simple-receipts/id509966025?...

Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your side projects.

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Post by sasoon »

daliusd wrote: post #64
sasoon wrote: post #20

My two side projects: http://www.sizeall.com site for comparing things by real size on screen http://www.newswebreader.com web Usenet client (three pane, like Thunderbird)

sizeall not working for me. I tried with my phone. It was almost right size when loaded but when I clicked "Actual size" it was 1.4 times bigger than actual.

Check if correct monitor size is selected (in upper right corner).

Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your side projects.

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Post by sasoon »

gamelodge wrote: post #57
sasoon wrote: post #20

My two side projects: http://www.sizeall.com site for comparing things by real size on screen http://www.newswebreader.com web Usenet client (three pane, like Thunderbird)

Sizeall That's a cool idea, how do you get the images?

Thanks :-). I get images usually from the manufacturer website.

Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your side projects.

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Post by matb33 »

1) http://my.sket.sh/ Paste screengrabs, sketch & add notes, share link with friends (can share read-only version or collaborative version where you can sketch together in realtime)

2) http://my.groceries.io/ Input your grocery stores, then aisles in the order you travel through them. Then make your grocery list and eventually through use remembers which aisles to find your items

3) http://www.gifttracker.net/ Family members each have an account, enter gifts they want, and reserve gifts to avoid duplicates. NB doesn't run under https, been meaning to take care of this. If you want to try it out keep that in mind, pick a test password.

Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your side projects.

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Post by jlengrand »

illdave wrote: post #63
eytanlevit wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Dude, This is a great idea, I registered and already asked someone for help. Writing the request was a bit tedious since it is limited to 400 characters and there is no counter.. so I had to open another browser window and find an online character counter. Great idea

Thanks for the heads up - I definitely need to fix that. Thanks for the kind words, let me know how it goes :)

I used it several times also, both to give and ask for help.

The idea is great and people are really willing to help :).

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