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Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

#705
Me and my friend have just started something we are calling PomPals, which is pomodoro timer which basically syncs with your friends, so you can hang out during your breaks together.

It is an electron (toolbar) app, which uses WebRTC, so should be fully P2P.

It is too early to use or show, but I did not want to miss out on this thread!

https://github.com/pompals/pompals

Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

#706
Started way before quarantine, but was able to complete /tap, https://www.tatatap.com with extra time. It's something like a build-your-own note-taking system.

Notes can be sent to /tap via SMS. Once received they go through a parser to pull out key symbols to organize and register different aspects of the note.

There's a lot of functionality hidden behind a simple interface, the best place to get an overview is the how-to https://tatatap.com/how-to

Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

#707
Ledcompliant.com

This is a hyper-niche pain point in commercial LED lighting energy rebate qualification where a manufacture has X number of skus and needs to predict which one will be the least energy efficient. The web tech determines the exact skus based on the technical input parameters given, saving manual time and redundant certified body testing.

Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

#708
Deployed a website/API monitor https://ihook.us. Could be used to extract data in a remote site and send notifications the way you like. By setting up CSS selector, JSON path expression, people can receive daily U.S. Covid 19 total number email/SMS/Slack by crawling CDC site, or monitor Target food supply by hitting their public API.

Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

#710
I've always been fascinated at looking at public feedback, for products and companies. I've been working on a dashboard that lets you explore recent iOS app reviews:

https://www.thoughtvector.io/vertext/

There's all kinds of fun stuff you can learn, like apparently Instagram just ratcheted up the number of ads shown and people don't like it. You can see different text topics people mention, and select time ranges in the volume and rating over time charts to filter.

You can look at other iOS apps too, just by adding the app ID in the search params. This page shows DoorDash's reviews:

https://www.thoughtvector.io/vertext/?app_id=719972451

It's still very much beta-level in terms of all the things I want in there, but it's been a fun distraction so far!

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