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Ask HN: What (side) projects are you working on?
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#22I'm woking on a AI/NLP interface to connect enterprises to customers through whatsapp and other messaging apps.
I'm using Python/Django and Yowsup (a python lib that reverse engineered whatsapp's protocol) with PostgreSQL/Redis.
I wonder what you guys think about building a company around this idea. I have a prototype and a couple of customers, so the market is there, but I don't know if whatsapp could sue me or something.
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#23I wanted a static site generator that could have a CMS so that I could pass the sites over to friends or clients so they could update it. Essentially, a not-terrible Wordpress that wasn't blog centric and bloated.
I built it over the summer, funded it through Kickstarter and have slowly been building a nice little client base of recurring revenue. The code itself is open source so it's self-hostable and free, but we provide a quick one-line deploy hosted solution as well.
Probably the most fun bit has been trying to just remove the barrier of troublesome local installation for these kinds of things. Usually people go with PHP because you can just run it everywhere, but that still requires setting up apache/mysql somewhere. We use Firebase and Node, so were able to get the entire package installed through a downloadable app. I think we probably have the fasted installation available for this kind of thing.
I work on it mostly full-time, then design client sites with it on the side.
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#241. Monkey HTTP Server: scalable HTTP server for Linux
http://monkey-project.com
http://github.com/monkey/monkey
http://duda.io
http://github.com/monkey/duda
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#25I've been working on a little quizzing SaaS: http://jquizzy.com
Tech: Laravel on HHVM + Postgres plus a lot of little things.
History: Did a soft launch of the beta sometime ago on HN. No comments here but drove a bunch of traffic and feedback so I'm iterating.
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#26Still working on a Python-like systems programming language (Rust-like memory management -- no GC, compiler in Python targeting LLVM IR).
In my march towards getting exceptions working (using Intel's Itanium exception ABI), I'm currently hacking on option types and memory management. In particular, trying to figure out how to sensibly insert destructor calls for expiring owned pointers. So far, I clean up just before "return" nodes, but this doesn't do the right thing (a) in the face of reassignments (old object stays alive), and consequently (b) in longer-running loops. I think I can do sufficiently smart liveness analsysis, but I haven't figured out a clean algorithm yet.
Code is still private for now, while I do some more experimentation to see if I can get things to work.
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#27I'm currently working on Kobra, a realtime collaborative code editor, mostly during my lunch breaks.
Tech Used: AngularJS, Firebase, Firepad, EasyRTC
Statistics: Just broke 700 registered users and 5000 file collaborated on. Have made a little over $2000 from 125 people going Pro.
History: I started back in December, but gave up too soon. I've since relaunched it as a smaller product and am super happy with how it's been received. Here's some blog posts about my journey. Please let me know if you have any questions for me!
https://mattkremer.com/how-i-got-2200-pre-signups-for-my-saa...
https://mattkremer.com/how-i-made-2033-in-4-days-while-valid...
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#28A fully customizable dashboard, like geckoboard, new relic, etc. They all fall short on building an actually useful tool for monitoring (they look pretty, but that's about it). I plan on having it be open source soon as I believe the market for something like this is too full.
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#29hamsterdb
http://hamsterdb.com
a embedded key-value database with storage structures and algorithms similar to column store databases. basically you can create your own column store database in your application.
Right now i'm busy making the next release, and writing a research paper about database compression.
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#30So many things, that I have yet to finish:
* A toy programming language of my own. Been working on it on and off (but mosty off) for the past 2 years. Every couple of months or so, I will go on for a couple of days to add a few features (last additions were functions and if conditions). I have learned a ton while doing this project, mostly about programming language implementation. My ultimate goal in this project is compiling the language to brainfuck. Useless I know, but a very good learning experience. Using C# for the initial version, but will transition to a bootstrapped compiler when the language is mature enough.
* I recently started playing with Event Sourcing, and I'm writing a PHP library for it.
* A collaborative, real-time todo app using Laravel and Ratchet for the real-time stuff. PHP.
* Some time ago, I inherited the maintenance of Testify.php, a simple PHP unit testing framework. I had great plans for it, but never came around to execute them. Maybe someday.