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Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?

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Re: Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?

#111
I built an app https://hopinio.com - a UGC reviews collector for Instagram sellers.

[1] makes it easy for sellers to collect and showcase genuine customer reviews on Instagram. just shipped the initial version. still working for the launch.

[1]https://hopinio.com

Re: Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?

#112
The initial version of my online Numeric Base Converter (https://apps.4fips.com/nubco/) was done in a day, mostly to try out Rust + egui. The app hasn't changed much since then, and I no longer have to search for some random online converter when I need one :)

Re: Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?

#113
https://easyrecruitment.tools

All it does right now is it takes a CV, adds branding and standardises its format. I built it as a sort of sweetener for recruiters with the plan of adding more tools.

I used chatgpt to extract and re-word the candidates experiences though and it does tend to hallucinate, so not practically useful.

-edit seems to be down but will have to wait to fix it

Re: Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?

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post #44

A minimalist MP3 player for my grandmother. The whole user interface is a single physical button on her desk : - ON : indefinitely play all MP3 files randomly - OFF : stop playing The longest task was to find her favourite pieces of music from my aunts and uncles. https://github.com/remipch/radio_colette

Love it! Well done!

Re: Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?

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post #11

https://github.com/turol/valoserveri It's for controlling DMX colored lights over network. It takes UDP packets (and later Websocket messages) and turns them into DMX protocol packets which get sent over USB serial adapter to the DMX wire. It's a rewrite of a previous node.js version which had bitrotted. I think I made the MVP in about 7 hours during one saturday afternoon. Finishing it up took a few weeks more of ev…

  // put some magic into packet
Ha, great.

Re: Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?

#117

I had access to a Windows server VM at a previous job that was commissioned for a piece of work. The actual work was then stopped, but the IT folks never decommissioned the VM so I had a nice little server on the local network to play around with. It didn't have Internet access so I was somewhat limited in what I could do with it. I ended up building a hacky internal IIS/PHP web app (I guess these days one would call…

That sounds like something that could just as easily get you into a heated political kerfuffle. You got lucky.

Re: Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?

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post #67

https://github.com/checkly/headless-recorder - got ~15k GitHub stars. - AWS copied it. - We deprecated it as better stuff came on the market with @playwright/test's codegen. But I did code the initial version in a weekend. Was called Puppeteer Recorder then.

Congrats! I remember when this came out. It was very cool. What did AWS do?

Have a look here. It spawned quite a thing! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24799660

Re: Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?

#119
Official (and Accessible) website of a local county in 2006. Zero to deploy in 40hrs (I slept 4hrs per night).

Project, design, implementation, copywriting, bought vps, installed, secured, and configured RedHat, apache, tomcat, the website (a Java-based portal system I used to build together with a team of 5), configured DNS, go-live, attend to the press conference.

No errors, no known security issues. Spotless.

Re: Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?

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post #27

I wrote the British Placename Mapper ( https://placenames.rtwilson.com/ ) last weekend, and it got a bit of traction on Twitter here in Britain over the last week. It lets you search for parts of British place names, and will plot the places that match on an interactive map, so you can search for places that start with 'great' or end with 'burgh' or contain 'sea' (or you can use regexes for more complex stuff). Peopl…

Awesome project. One of my favourites is places ending "-wich" which are very few and scattered throughout non-Danelaw England
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