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Ask HN: What is your side project for 2017?

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Re: Ask HN: What is your side project for 2017?

#11
1. Last year I built a sports' klub listing website [1] which shows where you can train different sports on a map in Slovenia. The most challenging part is keeping the data up to date. This year, it's going to be about automating it fully, such that it can operate with almost no supervision, by means for crawling and automatic emailing klub owners to confirm the validity of the data.

2. Something based on hardware -- still thinking what to do with my Raspeberry 3.

[1] http://www.zatresi.si/

Re: Ask HN: What is your side project for 2017?

#14
I believe that people want help finding "smart home" devices that will work well with the existing equipment in their home, and that they would pay good money for that because buying the wrong equipment is a frustrating (and expensive) mistake.

I'm building a way to help you pick the connected equipment that will work best for your home, based on what you want to control, how you want to control it, and the equipment that already exists in your house.

For example, I've got an Ecobee3 thermostat, Lutron Caseta lights, a SmartThings hub and an Echo Dot. My system will tell you the best connected door lock for your home that will work with that setup.

Re: Ask HN: What is your side project for 2017?

#19
I want to learn C and I have two projects on my mind that I will use for experimenting with the language:

1. a cli spotify controller (control spotify through mpris and consuming the REST api for search/playlist related commands)

2. a cli GTD tool. I have some experience porting OmniFocus to Android (in Java) and I want to use what I learned from that to build my own GTD tool.

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