Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

Order matching engine written in Go

I built a digital whiteboard that was a little better suited for 5-year-olds than the current crop for my mom to use with my youngest and my niece.

Figured out how to properly use the bread machine (making approx 1 loaf a day, currently have carrot cake going).

Currently working on a proof of concept for a desktop version of a web business I own.

8-year-old is super obsessed with primitive tech and has been digging up clay out of the back yard. I imagine we'll be making a kiln this weekend and eventually bricks.

Please checkout boardgames: https://bordga.me/

Three of us are building online board games. Idea is to enable people to bring their board games online, and play with their friends. You can bring boardgames online by simply taking pictures of the board, cards, pieces etc., configure and launch.

Gameplay would be very similar to real world. You have to move the pieces and run the games yourselves unlike the usual online games where 'computer' will do the heavy lifting. We believe that managing the game is big part of having fun. Games will have integrated video chat and can play with friends like real life.

This is still an early stage. For example, we haven't opened up to users adding their own games yet. We added some games to test our platform. We are working on adding more capabilities to enable more games.

Some questions we are looking to find answers for: - would you be willing to play boardgames with the current experience? - what game would you be excited to play here?

During the first two weeks of quarantine, I launched a Shopify website to sell/rent home fitness equipment. It's been a great learning experience in the world of Supply Chain Manufacturing. While the site was an initial success and led to dozens of orders the first week (with no paid advertising), I hit a major roadblock that I was not expecting. My suppliers had to temporarily halt equipment manufacturing due to the emergency law that required them to start producing PPE. This led to the shortage of gym equipment nationwide. You can't even find dumbbells online.

Although my website got a lot of organic traffic and orders within the first two weeks, I was unable to fulfill most orders since manufacturing was on pause and everything was already sold out.

Since then I've continued studying SCM, and I'm also learning Python so that I can build a model to predict this kind of event in the future.

I am making my own platformer game with a custom engine, with the hope of eventually adding user editable levels and WebRTC based multiplayer.

https://infinitower.suldashi.com

There are no mobile controls at the moment, and movement is done via WASD keys. There are not many features at the moment since I’ve been focusing on the core engine functionality, but the development process has been very rewarding and educational.

I also want to use this material to write a series of tutorials or maybe even a small book.