Ask HN: Show us your abandoned (and probably incomplete) side projects

Wow, I have a lot of stuff like that!

http://github.com/MDamien/publicdb : Create datasets and have an (ugly) API. The goal was for everyone to create a database on almost anything (recipes, photos, party, budgeting). Later I discovered that it's what firebase/parse are doing. But I'm happy with my solution because you don't even have to use JSON to store you things and the interface is really simple.

http://kioto.io/ : Would be cool if any group could have an anonymous "suggestion box" ? Maybe! So I made this. But at the end I'm gonna do better a online discussion system based on ideas from reddit/discourse/disqus.

https://github.com/MDamien/GifMyLife : Just an app to take of photo of you at regular intervals and then it makes a timelapse GIF of that (good to see how your face and your mood evolves with time).

Really nice idea from OP, people are posting really interesting stuff

Yahooo... I am searching for my first customer or anyone who wants to contribute:

http://www.use-the-tree.com - (finding and) defining the single one right way there is for FAST MESSAGE TRANSFORMATION

It's what's left of SOA, if you remove all the fuzz

Poemr: http://poemr.com A suite of tools for writing and publishing anonymous poetry. People still use it from time to time, but not a lot.

LottoLane: http://lottolane.com A lottery pool management tool. Built this to use at work. We used it a few times and it works well. I just never marketed it that much.

That is pretty funny. :P

https://github.com/tom-seddon/yhs - embeddable no-dependency single-threaded HTTP server (debug use only! not for production!) with WebSockets support and a simple API. Written in C. I wrote this for use in an iOS project I was working on, intending to provide a browser-driven system for twiddling parameters at runtime. In the end, though, everybody preferred doing their tweaking on the device itself using some Cocoa Touch nonsense I cobbled together in an afternoon. So I saved myself some JavaScript coding and abandoned the web idea.

There's a few obvious things that it doesn't support (e.g., chunked encoding...), that make it hard to recommend as a general purpose solution. But for serving files and debug data it's OK, and it does promise never to call your callback on another thread.