Started a scripted podcast with my little brother about our misadventures trying to get our scripts produced in Bollywood (Indian film industry) and Hollywood. It's called The Content Podcast -- https://contentpod.substack.com/
Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
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#302I taught people web development mostly friends and cousins, to help them discover this as a career opportunity.
And I got better at cooking, I'm thinking to open a restaurant soon.
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#303I've been working on a function generator for my own personal use! I can get sine, square, and triangle waves out of it, and I'm just starting to implement modulation schemes like PSK and FSK.
I'm also just starting to help my fiance launch a consultancy on remote teaching. Crossing my fingers that goes well!
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#304I have been working on typescript runtime reflection https://github.com/aenario/tsmirror
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#305I've actually found myself coding in the evening again due to quarantine. Contributing to OSS, releasing stuff on GitHub, ...
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#306I created a directory project for thrift stores as a learning project.
https://thriftstored.com/
'thrift stores' is a high traffic search term with low competition and low value traffic. I aggregated data from various store brands and websites and categorized based on locations data. The site is run on Python Flask framework on AWS Lightsail.
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#307I'm working on a vegan catering platform (launch page: http://launch.vegcraver.com/). Stack is nextjs, postgraphile and stripe as payment provider.
Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
#308I started learning some machine learning and nlp.
Built a Product AutoExtract API, to extract clean product data from any e-commerce product page automatically, without any selectors or rules.
Most of the project uses off the shelf open source software: chrome headless and puppeteer for rendering, some computer vision algorithms tech and Cloud Run to slash costs for hosting.
Still training the algos, but you can try it our for a spin here: https://crawlify.io.
Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
#309Bought a digital piano and started learning piano from scratch. Been trying out different software for learning piano using MIDI input. (Simply Piano, Playground Sessions, Flowkey, Piano Marvel).
Sorted and deduplicated all my photos.
Set up backups for all my important stuff using Restic to BackBlaze B2.
Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
#310I've starten writing a series of articles on getting started with data science form an organisational perspective, in my own native language (Danish).