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All of my side-projects from 2012

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Re: All of my side-projects from 2012

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Post by jazzychad »

hnriot wrote: post #39
jazzychad wrote: post #9

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That's a fair question. It could be that this is a solved problem by some other system/app, but I couldn't easily find one while my problem persisted... so I did what every over-active nerd does: I just built my own solution. I think Pixit is different because it is solely for quick photo sharing between friends in 3 steps. Simple, quick, and effective. However, I'm not sure how much mass appeal it would have. It wor…

I don't get it? "I thought up an app that would make it extremely easy to send many pictures to a group of friends in one go." Isn't that email?

yes, it is. however, accomplishing this with email on iphone is extremely tedious (many steps) and error-prone.

Re: All of my side-projects from 2012

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Post by hnriot »

jazzychad wrote: post #41
hnriot wrote: post #39

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I don't get it? "I thought up an app that would make it extremely easy to send many pictures to a group of friends in one go." Isn't that email?

yes, it is. however, accomplishing this with email on iphone is extremely tedious (many steps) and error-prone.

Not in my experience, camera roll, select photos, share, email, auto-complete friends email address's, send

This isn't in any way tedious or error prone.

Re: All of my side-projects from 2012

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Post by freework »

hnriot wrote: post #38
freework wrote: post #30

I don't mean to be negative, but I've never been impressed with people who have dozens of side projects. Instead of writing 10 crappy side projects, who not make 1 great side project? My side project, at the time is called Giotto: https://github.com/priestc/giotto . It's a python web framework. I started it in April, and still commit to it almost every day.

That's very negative, despite the disclaimer. And from what I've seen of the above, people aren't writing ten crappy side projects, many of them are excellent. Staying focused on one thing is fine too, but for many of us, we like to dabble in many things. If Giotto is your way of learning python and building another (python) web framework then that's fine too. One difference is that many of the above side projects ar…

Its not about size, its about length of development. Great software takes more than a few days to create. I think the most direct indicator of software quality is number of commits. A project with 10 commits is probably full of bugs. A project with 400 commits has probably had enough chance to adapt really well to whatever problem it is supposed to be solving. Its not a direct correlation, but its usually true.

I've had co-workers who had 50 github repos all filled with 30 line "projects" with 5 commits each. Those types of projects don't make you a better programmer. Work on the same project all year. That will make you a better programmer. Craft the project. Let it adapt. Test it, deploy it. Tweak it. Deploy it again. Seek feedback from users. Tweak it some more. Going through that process will make you a better programmer.

Re: All of my side-projects from 2012

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Post by koenbok »

Only three, but some are quite big.

Framer http://www.framerjs.com - Modern prototyping tool for web and mobile using javascript and css transitions.

Cactus http://github.com/koenbok/Cactus - Simple static site generator with s3 deployment aimed at designers.

Cavia http://github.com/koenbok/Cavia - Document store on top of sql modeled after bigtable/appengine datastore, and how FriendFeed stored data in mysql.

Re: All of my side-projects from 2012

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Post by __sb__ »

HN has really motivated me to start thinking about side projects seriously, even if just as learning exercise or solving my own problems. I only just started publishing them a few months ago, but I've had a lot of fun these:

Chroma https://github.com/seenaburns/Chroma - Python color handling and manipulation library

Desaturate https://github.com/seenaburns/Desaturate - Menu Bar app to force Mac OS X into grayscale display

Tungsten https://github.com/seenaburns/Tungsten - Wolfram Alpha API wrapper for Python

Open URLs In Tabs https://github.com/seenaburns/Open-URLs-In-Tabs - Port of John Gruber's OS X service to open links in tabs, modified to work for Chrome (/ your default browser).

Desaturate is definitely my favorite. Now for 2013, I have to learn to comment more and write more.

Re: All of my side-projects from 2012

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Post by nickbarnwell »

Only one true sideproject for me in 2012:

CallMeMae.be: http://callmemae.be

Business Card sharing and exchange. Built it at an eight hour hackathon and won the grand prize, making it my only profitable project to date! In the new year I'm hoping to rewrite from the ground up as a telephone proxy service, but still need to do the customer validation.

Re: All of my side-projects from 2012

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Post by nickbarnwell »

laktek wrote: post #29

Here are mine. All of them are open source: - Punch - http://github.com/laktek/punch (my most popular open source project) - Punch Blog Boilerplate - https://github.com/laktek/punch-blog - Extract Values (JS) - https://github.com/laktek/extract-values - Distraction Free Writing for Vim - https://github.com/laktek/distraction-free-writing-vim - Go wrapper for Stack Exchange API - https://github.com/laktek/Stack-on-Go…

Currently using Punch to build up an MVP and loving it so far :) Hoping to contribute back a few boilerplates and helpers in the near future

Re: All of my side-projects from 2012

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Post by 46Bit »

typpo wrote: post #25
chrisjack wrote: post #21

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Your Asterank and Asterank 3d is pretty cool. How did you get the value of the asteroids ?

Thanks. I estimated the value based on spectral class, which gives us an idea of composition based on how they reflect light. I combined this with current prices for materials mostly from the London Metal Exchange. Other costs such as getting to the asteroid and mining overhead are factored in.

This sounds awesome, nicely done.

I've been planning to do a hack like this to demonstrate the realities of interstellar travel, modelled after a game I played as a child.

Re: All of my side-projects from 2012

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Post by richerd »

JohnsonB wrote: post #43
richerd wrote: post #37

- PairMixer - http://pairmixer.com - Find someone to Pair with (got sued for this one had to take it down) - Sink or Ship - http://sinkorship.com - Ship Your Project In Time, Or Else...

Can you say why you got sued for PairMixer? Was it patent related?

I probably shouldn't say yet, suit is still ongoing and isn't settled yet.
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