What is your current side project? Hi All HN, 1) What is your Current Side Project? 2) How you got the idea? 3) What you want to achieve with your current project? (Learn something new/ Want to do earn / just for fun) I think it is very inspirational and motivational for others if you share your experience. Thanks |
2. Being tired of how unproductive I was. My friend sending a spreadsheet of him tracking his time and finally watching this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZexvTZ1sV8U
3. I just want to help myself in becoming productive and in the process help others. So far the app has helped me become more productive and I have received many emails/DMs thanking me for helping others achieve this too. The most important thing I want to learn is how to launch a product and keep updating it with the user's feedback. I received a negative feedback from a bug on my initial app, then I fixed it with an update (and added more features) and the user then changed his negative review to a 5-star positive reivew on the app store and was very happy. This alone sold me on the importance of listening to your customers. This is one of my first iOS apps, so I'm learning about iOS development and launching a product at the same time.
I wouldn't call my self a "real" app developer just yet as I'm still learning app development (i.e. still don't know how to sync core data with iCloud). I used to focus mostly on web, but recently started iOS. I'm not working yet, I'm still in University studying CS.
I usually don't like to discuss the exact amount I'm making from my app, however I would say I'm "ramen profitable" for a student.
We can study patterns that cause other patterns, the type of productivity, behaviours and so much more.
2. Had a kid and discovered how hard it is to take a baby outside the home. We didn't know where to go or how to easily solve small problems like diaper changes.
3. GF and I are doing this learn the whole lean startup / app / growth thing.
Currently in the Apple app store with an MVP and see a lot of room for growth and improvements. We've been live since the summer and have managed to get into Product Hunt as well as the newsletter for the editor of a major news publication in Sweden.
Just two of us. I'm the only technical one. We do a lot of scraping and automation where possible which is how we scale the data side of things. However we are still doing things that don't scale. One of those things is still manually entering good spots as we find them. Feel free to reach out with feedback and suggestions.
GF is in New York this week taking meetings and showing the app to mama groups. Any intros are appreciated
I should also mention that we are constantly adding locations. Where in Canada would be most helpful for you?
I've not touched it for a while, but it managed to handle around 20 million queries last month, and at least one DNS-update a day on average.
I need a prettier website, but the technology pretty much just works and hasn't been updated in a long time. I keep meaning to delegate the website-redsigne to my partner.
In open-source work I've spent the past few weeks restarting my console-mail client, with integrated Lua scripting. The rewrite gives a much more unified API, and a lot better implementation.
Delegating more work to the Lua side of the application makes it more flexible, more customizable, and more interesting to develop for:
https://github.com/lumail/lumail2
Still early work - since you can neither compose a new email, or reply to existing ones, but the core is good for viewing things. (It is a modal email client, with a user-interface that is somewhat like mutt.)
2) It started out because I needed to geocode a large set of addresses for another side project. Ended up building a geocoder and realized that others might find it useful too
3) Making geocoding affordable to the masses and having built something to be proud of. Continuously learning new things because of it too.
For some projects I had to geocode with multiple providers. Bing seems to be better than Google at geocoding in some parts of the county. I esp. noticed it in the Midwest / Illinois.
2. I had no choice, traditional financial evaluation failed after the great recession (08). Federal Reserve interference in the market, prevented traditional stock analysis. I couldn't get a job in 09-10, even with an MBA. Taught myself how to code and write stock algorithms. Very dark days, I had to teach myself coding, or otherwise I was going to have to go back to the Marine Corps. (I loved Marines, going to back to the Marine Corps, would have been fun and paid the bills, but not a good career move, long term.)
It paid off in the end, I'm a programmer now and I don't seem to have a problem getting work now. However the bad news is that people keep playing me program there lame ideas and my bank account keeps getting bigger. But at the end of the day I want my side project to be only project.
Ugh..... Money doesn't solve everything.
3. I want my side project to become my employment.
(P.S. Looking for some kind of marketing help.)
I started it out as a "create your own hackernews clone" idea, but it's now evolved into a more of community management tool. I'm hoping that it'll soon be able to charge people for the service it's providing. Would love to hear your feedback!
2. I think my fondness for snails was originally sparked by a game I made up at my grandparents' summerhouse in Ukraine when I was little - I collected a bunch of snails and taught them to race against each other. I got the idea for the project itself over 10 years ago during a move from the US to Australia with my family. It was summer and I was bored, so I had this idea for a snail racing game. At the time it was meant to be a game, but as the idea stayed in my head over the years it evolved into focusing on realism as much as possible and dropping "fun" from its main focus. I did not have the technical ability to build this at first in its full scope and it has gone through quite a few iterations over the years.
3. Learn something new, have my snails surprise me.
This project also taught me plenty about scheduling. I'll be adding in support for scheduling using a more stable tool later. For now it's using cron :D.
Oh. Source code is here https://github.com/kiriappeee/reply-later
Shameless plug:
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2. Had a terrible experience - rented a place only to find out that the neighbourhood isn't right for me. Thank goodness that I only had to endure for a year before finding another place that suits me better.
3. Hoping to build an online residential real estate database for Canada so people can search for homes that fit their lifestyle. Hoping that people can search based on different lifestyle parameters (i.e. good schools, commuting time, neighbourhood amenities, favourite brands/restaurants, investment potential etc.)
propertywizard.io
It's a tool that plugs into the leading UK property website and allows Estate Agents to share their properties, news and status updates automatically (or scheduled) to social media.
Currently making around £1000 per month, if anyone has any questions i'll be happy to answer :)
Thinking about potentially turning it into a plugin that would allow blog owners to build email newsletters that can more easily include their Wordpress posts.
https://medium.com/@kkoppenhaver/a-digital-newspaper-with-gr...
I got the idea because a bunch of my previous clients / colleagues from when I worked in the adult industry are still stuck on shared hosting environments because of cPanel and the like.
I want to achieve the simplicity of shared hosting, with the awesomeness of being able to deploy it anywhere and the beauty of Docker.
2. I wanted to implement the free tier Heroku feature, sleeping off the inactive apps and activate them whenever someone accesses them.
3. Learn about Docker, Go and use it on my Raspberry Pi!
I.e. ZERO risk of losing bitcoins while having fully automated online store.
I just closed on a house and the process was really painful. So I decided to put a list of resources together in the hopes that they will have an easier time on what should be a joyful experience.
2) Got the idea from wanting to create something more niche than current dating apps.
3) I'd like to get some side income from it at some point.
Also doing some data mining on a roughly 2TB collection of esoteric texts.
Good luck!
First off I don't "cherry pick" data. Stock recommendations are made on a daily basis via an algorithm (crontab / php) while I'm at my day job. Right now the algo tracks 500 stocks, so I don't have time to cherry pick data for those each flavor of the week stock. So on 1/28/15 I got a signal to buy Amazon, that signal hasn't changed so it is possible to gain 100% return. It's also doing wonders for http://www.strategic-options.com/trade/stock/chipotle-mexica...
Where I do see your valid point, this could be perceived as a scam. Which ultimately becomes a marketing issue. I'm not really doing a good job of convincing an audience of the potential. I'm to much of programmer/data analysis, that I forget to market it to a general public. Jim Crammer on CNBC is a great marketer, but he is a pretty poor stock picker.
My newer strategy has been http://www.strategic-options.com/trade/alerts at $9.99, seems like it's pretty difficult to scam someone at that low price point.
The end result is I'm in need of internet marketer / growth hacker / seo guru...