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Re: Ask HN: What (side) projects are you working on?

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Post by aepearson »

kremdela wrote: post #74

My team built a spin off project to create an office directory / floor plan for your small business / co-working space. http://www.floorplan.io/ Tech-stack wise it's not all that interesting, but we've seen it help a lot of small companies on-board people / meet their coworkers more easily, so that's been fun.

What a great idea - I wish every employer did this. A secret of mine : I always carry a notebook at work, when I start a new job I have made a habit of sketching the floor plan myself and labeling it with names and positions of the people I meet. This has helped me tremendously... I gotta say this seems like a tool that businesses NEED to make new hires more comfortable.

Re: Ask HN: What (side) projects are you working on?

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Post by Khao »

snide wrote: post #23

I wanted a static site generator that could have a CMS so that I could pass the sites over to friends or clients so they could update it. Essentially, a not-terrible Wordpress that wasn't blog centric and bloated. http://www.webhook.com I built it over the summer, funded it through Kickstarter and have slowly been building a nice little client base of recurring revenue. The code itself is open source so it's self-hos…

This is really awesome! I looked quickly at your self-hosting guide and I was wondering is the only option to deploy the static website Google Cloud Storage? I would like to setup webhook on a Heroku with free-tier dynos and deploy to AWS because those are the services I already use and love. If it's not possible, do you think I could fork your project and integrate AWS deployment somewhat easily?

Re: Ask HN: What (side) projects are you working on?

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Post by ihatehandles »

Active with:

(http://tractionengine.co) A small SaaS for publishers/websites that want their direct ad sales automated (window shopping, purchasing, serving). Runs on a subdomain or root of your liking, branding plus). Works with several payment gateways (we no touch your money), allows real time previewing of slots, publishers can customize the look, texts and wording on the site, got an API, plays with DFP etc. Growth so far is strictly word of mouth (hence no attention to the marketing site), caught the attention of some massive publishers hoping on now. Paying customers. 0 hours/week for most weeks. [AngularJS/FatFree/GoLang] About 8/9 months in.

A news aggregator engine in python for anyone to build their news aggregator upon. Scores using social media vitality, hits & age. Example user http://www.topnews.co.zw [Python(flask)] Runs well on Heroku. Work on it here and there (by span of months)

More brewing...

Re: Ask HN: What (side) projects are you working on?

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Post by aepearson »

franksup2 wrote: post #75
aepearson wrote: post #64

I love threads like this - so inspiring. At the same time, reminds me how much of a lazy ass I am. I have like 10 side projects that I have about 0.005% complete right now. Any advice for a guy like me? (besides, "stop being a lazy ass", I already know that...haha)

I've had the same problem too. Focus on one project and work on it at least 30 minutes every day. It will be much easier to get motivation once you'll see progress

Makes sense - 30 min a day is manageable for sure. It's just a matter of actually sticking to it. (I realize how ridiculous I sound right now)

But I think you are quite right about finding motivation with visible progress.

I better get crackin!

Re: Ask HN: What (side) projects are you working on?

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Post by elsamuko »

diasp wrote: post #39

Problem: PGP isn't usable! Now my grandma can send encrypted messages with https://encrypt.to * Technology Rails, JS, HTML, CSS * Statistics 1452 messages successfully delivered

That's a great idea and execution. I'd consider a "Show HN"-posting on its own, so it won't get buried.

I'd add a captcha though to reduce potential misuse.

Re: Ask HN: What (side) projects are you working on?

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Post by hpagey »

ericmarcos wrote: post #22

I'm woking on a AI/NLP interface to connect enterprises to customers through whatsapp and other messaging apps. I'm using Python/Django and Yowsup (a python lib that reverse engineered whatsapp's protocol) with PostgreSQL/Redis. I wonder what you guys think about building a company around this idea. I have a prototype and a couple of customers, so the market is there, but I don't know if whatsapp could sue me or some…

This is very interesting idea. I met two realtors last week who use whatsapp to answer questions from current and potential clients. My gut instinct is there is definitely a market for it. How do I contact you ?

Re: Ask HN: What (side) projects are you working on?

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Post by reaktivo »

abemassry wrote: post #54

A quick and easy way to send files from the command line. https://wsend.net Tech Used: Bash, Node Statistics: 612 users, 7 paying customers History: I started working on this in Jan 2013, I wanted a quick way to send files from the command line and get a URL. I later found after building this backend, I, or anyone could expand upon it in many ways https://github.com/abemassry/wsend https://github.com/abemassry/wsend-…

Just logged in to say wsend is one of my favorite "do want thing well" tool.

Re: Ask HN: What (side) projects are you working on?

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Post by ericmarcos »

hpagey wrote: post #86
ericmarcos wrote: post #22

I'm woking on a AI/NLP interface to connect enterprises to customers through whatsapp and other messaging apps. I'm using Python/Django and Yowsup (a python lib that reverse engineered whatsapp's protocol) with PostgreSQL/Redis. I wonder what you guys think about building a company around this idea. I have a prototype and a couple of customers, so the market is there, but I don't know if whatsapp could sue me or some…

This is very interesting idea. I met two realtors last week who use whatsapp to answer questions from current and potential clients. My gut instinct is there is definitely a market for it. How do I contact you ?

ericmarcos.p at gmail

Re: Ask HN: What (side) projects are you working on?

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Post by nyddle »

I'm crafting a time tracking app for Google Drive, https://whathaveidone.today.

Stack: Python/Flask + MongoDB Statistics: 60 signups, 1000 pageviews so far. History: my friend came up with an idea and I coded it as it seemed like a couple of evenings (it turned couple of weeks actually).

Re: Ask HN: What (side) projects are you working on?

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Post by captn3m0 »

I've been working on a todo app that is powered by Slack (slack.com, the service). It identifies slack @mentions and #channel names and allows you to search by them. New items are created directly from chat.

I built it because nobody on our team likes to use Redmine issues, because its so bloated. Slack is adored by our team, so it made sense to connect the two dots together.

Tech: I wrote the prototype in PHP+Parse.com as backend. Realized parse was too slow, and then shifted to Rails+postgres.

Its called Roy, and is available at https://github.com/captn3m0/roy

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