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Re: Ask HN: What side projects are you working on?

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Post by allyant »

I am working on a (to be, hopefully) open source support ticket system based on Laravel and Bootstrap (So easily themeable). The primary feature is that it works with, not against other ticketing systems. For example I can 'push' a ticket to github or bitbucket. I also want to try and integrate email, so that sending an email to a support mailbox will automatically create a ticket. It would be nice to also have an API for web sites to use, so support tickets will also be created on errors on the production servers.

Just in the initial planning stages but it would work well in my workflow.

Re: Ask HN: What side projects are you working on?

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Post by kohanz »

Automated NBA game recaps with more context than your typical boxscore.

Note: I am not a web developer, so this project has been mainly to teach myself a new technology (Rails, primarily). It is very much a work in progress. Also, clearly, I am not a designer and am not really sweating that for now.

http://recappd.com/games/2014/2/24

Re: Ask HN: What side projects are you working on?

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Post by PhrosTT »

A music discovery site: http://tuned.io

SoundCloud API + Node + Backbone + MongoDB

Intend to use it as a learning platform for a lot of data analytics / machine learning. Grouping similar users, identifying tastemakers, etc.

Currently it's a lot of electronic, no-vocals, coding music.

Re: Ask HN: What side projects are you working on?

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Post by implicit_none »

http://www.lessonwell.com

(https://github.com/qdonnellan/lessonwell)

the current task: refactoring my code to incorporate new things I've learned, namely: TDD and knockoutjs + json API. After 2 years of self learning python, I'm looking to transition from teaching into development and am hoping to use this project to showcase what I've learned!

Re: Ask HN: What side projects are you working on?

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Post by jpwright »

kohanz wrote: post #12

Automated NBA game recaps with more context than your typical boxscore. Note: I am not a web developer, so this project has been mainly to teach myself a new technology (Rails, primarily). It is very much a work in progress. Also, clearly, I am not a designer and am not really sweating that for now. http://recappd.com/games/2014/2/24

Love it. Please keep it going!

Re: Ask HN: What side projects are you working on?

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Post by tomek_zemla »

Designing and prototyping an elegant bookmark manager. I find existing solutions clumsy in their functionality and ugly on top of it. The inspiration comes from the design world. Think about the look of table of contents in a beautiful art book or signage and navigation in a modern library building. I would like to have my hundreds of links presented with minimal elegance and modern information design functionality...

Re: Ask HN: What side projects are you working on?

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Post by sehr »

kohanz wrote: post #12

Automated NBA game recaps with more context than your typical boxscore. Note: I am not a web developer, so this project has been mainly to teach myself a new technology (Rails, primarily). It is very much a work in progress. Also, clearly, I am not a designer and am not really sweating that for now. http://recappd.com/games/2014/2/24

Site seems to be down.

But when you're finished, hawk this on /r/nba. Lots of devoted fans there, and contributions are very much appreciated.

Re: Ask HN: What side projects are you working on?

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Post by kohanz »

sehr wrote: post #19
kohanz wrote: post #12

Automated NBA game recaps with more context than your typical boxscore. Note: I am not a web developer, so this project has been mainly to teach myself a new technology (Rails, primarily). It is very much a work in progress. Also, clearly, I am not a designer and am not really sweating that for now. http://recappd.com/games/2014/2/24

Site seems to be down. But when you're finished, hawk this on /r/nba. Lots of devoted fans there, and contributions are very much appreciated.

Thanks for the feedback! It's running on a single droplet on DigitalOcean, so my guess is it can't handle even the slight amount of traffic I'm getting from this HN post. Beyond server-side caching, I think my code is fairly non-optimal.

If anyone has any tips for serving up a site like this with limited resources, feel free to teach me.

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