Ask HN: How long did your last side project take?

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Post by alixander » Mon, Jul 14, 2014, 5:53 AM UTC

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Post by osmanthegreat » Mon, Jul 14, 2014, 6:42 AM UTC

6 weeks. very loose working hours and very relaxed coding. if i were working on it during my actual work hours it could have taken 2-3 days.

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Post by Jacky800 » Mon, Jul 14, 2014, 12:42 PM UTC

5-months and still working on it. For about 2 months did not do any work on it. Now i am resuming.

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Post by devendramistri » Mon, Jul 14, 2014, 12:52 PM UTC

A year and half. And Then it failed. :)

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Post by wongwf82 » Mon, Jul 14, 2014, 1:32 PM UTC

http://www.TrendsFormer.co took me 3-4 days.

I created the site as a hobby project to show the trend of something over time, starting with restaurants/locations from Google Places and Yelp.

It started as an idea after I had a really bad quality food and service from a restaurant rated 4 out of 5. So with TrendsFormer, I'll be able to see whether the restaurant's quality has gone down over time through a "trend line".

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Post by schmidtc » Mon, Jul 14, 2014, 3:22 PM UTC

8 years :-|

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Post by Pratheeswaran » Mon, Jul 14, 2014, 4:33 PM UTC

The first version of my side project (http://www.kopyscreen.com/) took about 8-10 hours, but somehow my interest level went down after showing it to my friends.

I want to add few more features to complete it but for about 6 weeks, I did not do any work on it :-(

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Post by jonasingvar » Mon, Jul 14, 2014, 4:40 PM UTC

http://teamsite.io - Over 6 months working evenings and weekend and am almost done... It's an existing space so I needed to have all the features of my competitors upon launch.

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Post by penetrarthur » Mon, Jul 14, 2014, 6:34 PM UTC

schmidtc wrote: post #6

8 years :-|

What is it ?

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Post by jordsmi » Mon, Jul 14, 2014, 7:23 PM UTC

Pratheeswaran wrote: post #7

The first version of my side project ( http://www.kopyscreen.com/ ) took about 8-10 hours, but somehow my interest level went down after showing it to my friends. I want to add few more features to complete it but for about 6 weeks, I did not do any work on it :-(

Problem with this is there are already apps that do this for you on your computer.

Grab the small bit of screen you want to screenshot, not the whole screen, draw, save local or auto upload to imgur