Ask HN: What projects are you working on? • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by chrismorgan » Sat, Jun 28, 2014, 4:01 PM UTC

ThePhysicist wrote: post #41

I'm working on a document-oriented database engine written purely in Python: BlitzDB! https://github.com/adewes/blitzdb My motivation was that I needed (wanted?) a pure-Python document database that does not have any dependencies (like pymongo) and provides querying capabilities similar to MongoDB. Currently, Blitz is under active development and comes with a file-based backend as well as a MongoDB backend. Contribut…

Have you heard of ZODB? You might find it interesting to look at—perhaps you might even find it does all you want, and more.

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

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Post by s_kilk » Sat, Jun 28, 2014, 4:03 PM UTC

I'm working on an open-source snippet-saving app (think a dumber version of Evernote), with the intention of making it easy to self-host: https://github.com/ShaneKilkelly/jetcan-server . At the moment I'm in the process of refactoring how user accounts are handled, so it's not quite ready for self-hosting in a serious way.

I'm also planning on writing a CLI client and an Android app for that project, but have yet to get started on it.

I've also been working on a clojure library to provide a key-value json store abstraction over PostgreSQL (https://github.com/ShaneKilkelly/bedquilt). It's mostly for fun, but I'm thinking of moving all the core logic out into a PostgreSQL plugin, so that all the "smarts" can be done on the PostgreSQL server instance, and then reduce the client library to a thin wrapper over some SQL functions.

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

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Post by Buetol » Sat, Jun 28, 2014, 4:06 PM UTC

Building an open-source forum-as-a-service platform, so schools/companies/friends can have a cool place to speak online. I hope this will be cool and appreciated.

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

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Post by truthmagnet » Sat, Jun 28, 2014, 4:06 PM UTC

A survival guide for creative geniuses. You can sign up here for early access: http://diepenniless.com/

A quick warning: as the title suggests, this book isn't for everyone.

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

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Post by baken » Sat, Jun 28, 2014, 4:07 PM UTC

Vaanir wrote: post #53

I'm working on making a JSON API for Tennis scores, as I couldn't find one!

I'd be really interested in how this turns out!

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

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Post by Killah911 » Sat, Jun 28, 2014, 4:07 PM UTC

The Giant Tetris Build. Everything from Hardware to the Web. We're building an LED array that will hang on the window of TrepHub, run by a raspberry Pi. People walking by outside can just hook up to the Pi's wifi (via smartphone browser) and control the display (I.e play Tetris or space invader). Gamers I the community can develop other low res games for the display too (we're building he game framework out in python and using Flask for the web controller interface).

http://www.meetup.com/Coders-Hackers-Founders/events/1917388...

http://www.meetup.com/Melbourne-Makerspace-Florida-USA/event...

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

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Post by y3di » Sat, Jun 28, 2014, 4:10 PM UTC

I'm working on a simple little utilty for finding and exploring internal rhyme schemes in poems and songs. I made this in order to better show people just how complex a rap artist's rhyme combinations can get. You can view my work in progress online at http://reasonedrhymer.com (Click on a combo or word to filter the results)

https://www.dropbox.com/s/j7u3f9rllmb1jbx/Screen%20Shot%2020... The screen shot shows a subset of the rhyme combos found in the Eminem song 'Lose Yourself'.

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

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Post by apike » Sat, Jun 28, 2014, 4:11 PM UTC

I'm working on a competitor to Meetup called Caravan. We're focusing on larger, more established meetups that aren't served well by Meetup. http://launch.caravan.io/

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

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Post by gabemart » Sat, Jun 28, 2014, 4:12 PM UTC

I'm working on a hobby project called vidyabuzz [1]. It's a search engine / instant newspaper for video games. You give it the name of a video game that's been in the news lately (or a studio, or a developer) and it gives you a bunch of article snippets in a newspaper-esque format.

It's just a toy, but I'm interested in the format for more serious applications in the future.

[1] http://vidyabuzz.com

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

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Post by arafalov » Sat, Jun 28, 2014, 4:15 PM UTC

I am working on popularizing Apache Solr search engine: http://www.solr-start.com/ . It's a couple of books, a website, a mailing list and a bunch of connected Open Source projects, all having the focus on making it easier for people to learn Solr.

The fun part is that doing this for/by myself, I can scratch any itch I want, as long as it's around the core theme. The extra interesting - and challenging - part is to ensure there is a positive-feedback and self-fulfilling prophecy across those products.