Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

1336 points by dhr 6 years ago | 2248 comments

For those who are still under lockdown, what are you working on / building / learning?

I've been making excessive amounts of bread.

I've been worked for a while now on an new Supervisor / Init system written in Rust: https://github.com/FedericoPonzi/horust/ Learnt a lot in the process and there are so much things still to do! Feel free to drop me a message if you're interested in contributing, curious or just to say hi :)

jackkinsella 6 years ago |

After falling in love with the Destroy All Software style of genuinely advanced, all-encompassing programming screencasts, I started a YouTube channel with my own twist on the theme: Screencasts situated inside a decade-old, profitable, production web app, ones that emphasize actual workflow.

I've been an indie-hacker for 10 years so have seen the effects of my programming decisions over the same period. I've seen how fads come and go, sometimes wreaking havoc. I've also seen how coding decisions affect business (such as strategies to transform data into seo at scales of 10k+ items). I've seen how to keep something running day-and-night as if your livelihood depended on it - since it very much does.

That's the game plan anyway. I'm five episodes in: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UC17mJJnvzAa_e9qQqLIfIeQ

For fun I took up the tenor ukulele. Compared to any other instrument I've tried, it's got a much kinder learning curve. You can sound alright playing four-chord rock and pop songs in easier keys like C major after a month.

wmichelin 6 years ago |

I got an iPad and the pencil and I'm drawing a lot. It's super relaxing and fun to see the finished product. Plus, this is my first time really doing digital art so I'm blown away by how sophisticated the tooling is.

jez 6 years ago | |

Do you have app / tool / resource recommendations?

icipiracy 6 years ago | | |

If you'd be interested, you might want to join a beta test for a collaborative design for iPad: https://www.apance.com

notamy 6 years ago | | |

In the iPad space, Procreate[0] is really good!

[0] https://procreate.art/

netgusto 6 years ago | | |

* Procreate

* Adobe Fresco for its amazing watercolour experience

* Concepts for vector doodling on an infinite canvas (Mischief-like)

twaldecker 6 years ago |

I built a few online multiplayer boardgames: https://wunderwald.games code is at https://GitHub.com/twaldecker/halma Hi is in only in German for now. Initial build was done in one afternoon for a Skype birthday surprise party.

niftylettuce 6 years ago |

https://forwardemail.net

dananjaya86 6 years ago | |

Does it do webhooks? (As in email forwarding to an HTTP/2 endpoint) I am looking for a cheaper alternative to Mailgun.

niftylettuce 6 years ago | | |

I just released webhook support! See https://forwardemail.net/free-email-webhooks and https://forwardemail.net/en/faq#do-you-support-webhooks.

niftylettuce 6 years ago | | |

I'm releasing webhook support probably in the next 48 hours.

Email me at webhooks@forwardemail.net if you want notified when its up.

secretsinger 6 years ago | |

ha, that's awesome! I started using this for my side project a couple of days ago (found you via google).

Great product, really useful.

niftylettuce 6 years ago | | |

Thanks, if you need anything ever or any feature requests just ping me at niftylettuce@gmail.com

madushan1000 6 years ago |

I've been writing a sql parser + memory backend in rust called rustsql[1] I've been following this[2] go tutorial and converting code into rust. [1] https://github.com/madushan1000/rustsql [2] https://notes.eatonphil.com/database-basics.html

romanzubenko 6 years ago |

I'm building a 6 degree of motion robotic arm from (https://www.anninrobotics.com/). It's open source so all CAD models, code is available online with all electronic components available off the shelf.

End goal is to clean a portion of bath tub or toiler semi-autonomously: manually attach different tooling like cleaning agent spray and brushes, but let the robot do the rest of work.

richardgill88 6 years ago |

I built a powerful programmable recipe website. (WIP)

You write recipes in markdown, you can template in variables from javascript using handlebars.

Here is a recipe with a slider, it updates all the amounts in both the ingredients table and inline in the instructions themselves as you move the slider.

https://programmablerecipes.com/recipes/richardgill/bread-ah...

chandsie 6 years ago |

https://eater.net/6502

Started with just playing around with spare electronics/Arduino, but now I've gotten sucked into the wonderful world of retrocumputing via this kit from Ben Eater. I've already built the basic kit computer, and now exploring 6502.org and other websites for extending it.

eropple 6 years ago |

I've streamed live events for my local fighting game community for years and run charity events here and there, but COVID left a gap for my favorite game (Tekken 7) and I've decided that what better time than now to become a tournament organizer? So now I run something of a madhouse stream, with four total PCs and two separate lobbies to keep things flowing (nobody runs games as fast as we do) and it's genuinely an absolute blast to do.

Our events are open to the entire East Coast and last week we had 26 players from the US northeast. It is a good time to learn this stuff because it also helps my local community and others get in touch and start finding new players to play for now--and hopefully hang out with/play in person once COVID is lifted.

https://twitch.tv/tracecomplete https://tracecomplete.challonge.com

Aeolun 6 years ago |

Given that the schools are all closed, playing with my child has become my side project.

I’m also trying to build something to keep track of enterprise product requirements, since this is the eternal bane of my day job.

darcys22 6 years ago |

I’m building an open source accounting system with rpc endpoints being the primary method for inputting data and a SQL database that can be queried easily. GoDBLedger:

https://godbledger.com/

https://github.com/darcys22/godbledger For the most part that backend of the system is working how I want. I now need to build more front end ways to communicate to it. One of the front end methods I’m working on is programmable journal entries. So you write your journal entries in a JavaScript file which gets executed in the context of the accounting system so you will have full access to the account balances. However this is still early stages: Yurnell: https://github.com/darcys22/yurnell

deepitapai 6 years ago |

https://endorse.fyi/ * It’s been disheartening to see our colleagues affected by COVID-19 layoffs and so my friend and I built Endorse.

The idea is simple - sign up if you need assistance or volunteer to help out colleagues with resume review, mock interviews, or referral.

If you’ve lost your job recently, tell us what you need help with most. We’ll match you with an amazing volunteer who can provide you with the assistance needed to find your next professional position. * This week, we launched Endorse on a couple of Facebook groups, Slack channels, and LinkedIn and have received ~80 sign-ups so far. We're two engineers who've greatly benefited from the Tech community and have built this as a way to give back. While the # of sign-ups helps validate the idea, we desperately need more volunteers who can help with resume review, mock interviews, and mentorship.

stuartaxelowen 6 years ago |

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!

kerrsclyde 6 years ago |

I wrote a system so that people can help me to identify the steam traction engines featured in each one of my photograph collection.

The premise of the system was simple, you view a pic, type in the registration / license plate then move to the next. It has only three options, add, none visible or same as previous.

The system is offline at min whilst I prepare more images but here is a screen grab:

https://i.imgur.com/qWSiUEV.png

I advertised the link on a forum which I post on and was amazed at the response. The first 10k images I'd prepared were indexed within 24hrs and then a second batch of 20k in the same timeframe. The quality of results was very good, less than 5% error rate.

Ultimately I am going to choose the best and add them to a web site.

Some guys have said they'd like a similar system for their own photos. I suspect there could be a solution there for things like railway / transport photograph community.

pgt 6 years ago |

I built Bridge to help bring businesses online during lockdown: https://www.tradebridge.app/

Bridge is Chat for Business. It's basically a shopping protocol for chat that works over Telegram, WhatsApp or email – essentially chat commerce. It's not quite ready for a Show HN yet, but so far the interest in my city has been good.

I noticed that more and more companies were doing business over chat. Customers are clamouring to give them money over WhatsApp, Instagram, Telegram and Messenger, but these chat platforms are not designed for trade. Bridge is.

Under lockdown here in South Africa, every business has to become an online business, but traditional eCommerce is too heavy and inflexible for informal traders, especially if there is any barter and negotiation involved over delivery, shipping and payment method. Bridge crosses the chasm by adding structured negotiation to chat.

alvern 6 years ago |

https://list.alvernrocinante.com/

I've been setting up old GPUs for folding@home and recently acquired a Nvidia Jetson AGX Xavier for machine vision.

Currently I'm building a 6 camera rig using Raspberry Pi IMX219 or IMX477 cameras to create an ultra high FPS rolling shutter.

taylorhou 6 years ago |

Importing FDA authorized masks for everyone else that can't buy in bulk quantities. MaskHQ.org if you or anyone else wants KN95 masks that are authentic and have a paper trail back to the actual manufacturer.

After getting into this, I've found out that there are a literal crap ton of people selling fakes and it is extremely hard to prove the source of the masks so I've been doing everything possible to provide transparency in the supply chain (including having customer names added directly to production contracts with the manufacturer).

PSA: KN95, N95, FPP2, and other NIOSH certified masks coming out of China are at a minimum around $1.5 per mask FOB (meaning to the manufacturer) then you have to get the masks into America with import taxes, ocean or air freight and then local last mile delivery and warehousing. That easily can add $1 per mask. My point, if anyone is selling masks for <$2 per mask in small quantities, they are probably fake. The raw material cost alone has skyrocketed for 99% material that is used in the production of >95% masks.

For example, our cost to reliably (~20 days) get 2M masks landed in the USA, ends up being $2/mask. That's without any profit and not including local delivery.

Happy to answer any questions! Orders@maskhq.org

EllipticCurve 6 years ago |

A compiler for my own little language: https://github.com/MauriceGit/compiler

sudhirj 6 years ago |

Building the Redis API using DynamoDB as the storage backend. I want a way to have storage that can handle any load without having to provision server or pay when it wasn’t being used. Dynamo is superb, but the API is too low level and arcane to use directly.

Want to try selling licenses as well, let’s see if I can do open source full time.

throwaway17_17 6 years ago |

As I mentioned in a thread earlier today, and at the urging of some friends, I am working on the 0.1 release of my personal programming language.

It is a language based on explicit parallel and sequential composition of expressions (very similar to the concatenative languages family) with an underlying categorical semantic/type theory based on Adjoint Logic (work by Pfenning, Reed,Pruiksma et al and work by Licata, Shulman, et al with the Simple Intutionisitic fragment replaced by a Dependently typed fragment (ala Krishnaswami) and all based on work in the ‘90s by Nick Benton).

I set myself a goal since I’m in lockdown of having a landing page with minimal compiler and hopefully a small web based playgraound published before July 1. I have really been enjoying the work I’m doing on this and hope everyone else is having a good time working on their stuff amidst all the external upheaval.

kartoos 6 years ago |

Instead of stating something new, I updated and added all the features i wanted in an app. I built the app to help me make solutions for reagents in chemistry lab , I was getting irritated by the calculations every time i had to perform a reaction in lab. It balances any valid chemical equation and gives you stoichiometric calculations with support for limiting reagents. With their molar masses. Also supports equations with fractional atom molecule (Doped Materials)( which was the real reason i made this). It has 65k+ total downloads with 10k active users. Feed back is welcome (Noob at programming,Nano Physicist by education) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kharblabs....

realbarack 6 years ago |

I've been trying to become a better Clojure programmer, so have been attempting to use Clojure and Clojurescript almost exclusively for my side projects, especially since I don't use it at work. First I built a real-time version of the board game Gobblet, a pretty cool two-player board game I learned about recently (Kinda like Connect 4 with a surprisingly interesting twist). After getting it to the point where I could play with my friend over the internet I moved on. Now I'm working on a GIS project. I'm really slow at getting things done with Clojure but I can tell I'm getting faster.

I've also been enjoying lunchtime and evening walks. Something about going on walks seems to generate many project ideas for me. As a result, my list of projects to work on has been growing way faster than my ability to actually complete those projects.

sfrese 6 years ago |

I'm working on a platform to generate simple CRUD APIs from JSON schemas: https://stackprint.io

I noticed that while working on past side projects I spent a lot of time writing simple CRUD APIs, permission checks, client code to connect and model classes which (at least for me) is usually not the most fun part when working on new app idea ;) So I started creating a concept to automate most of that for future projects and developed a simple web platform around it.

During the quarantine I've been mostly working on a set of permission rules to control access to API resources. I also started on generating client code which at least works for Angular at this point. I'm very hopeful that I can stay productive and get it to work for React/VueJS and iOS/Android as well soon :)

schappim 6 years ago |

I wrote some Shopify Apps[1] (to scratch a personal need) that lets you run real Ruby scripts on your Shopify site.

Working on a robot pincking and packing system to fulfill e-commerce orders[2][3][4].

[1] https://apps.shopify.com/cockatoo

[2] https://schappi.com/experiments/user-servo-to-move-product-o...

[3] https://schappi.com/experiments/robtic-shelf/

[4] https://schappi.com/experiments/finger-manipulator-mk3/

ernopp 6 years ago |

I made https://lessnoise.net/, which recommends who you should unfollow on Twitter (right now it's very basic and just shows you who tweets the most out / is noisiest of everyone you follow)

Would love to hear any feedback!

smabie 6 years ago |

Working on my blog, https://cryptm.org/ and just released the 0.1 release of my new programming language, xs: https://cryptm.org/xs/

kyle_morris_ 6 years ago |

Mobility.

I'm in my 30's and have always struggled with how flexible I am. Since lockdown I've spent just about every evening mobilizing anything that feels tight or uncomfortable has been a game changer.

I'm finding that I feel physically pretty great, less tight, aches/pains have faded away though there are still a few old injuries I'm working through.

Lockdown has been hugely helpful in maintaining the habit: kids go down in the evening, take the dog for a walk and stretch until you go to sleep has been a great way to unwind.

If you're looking to get started, I initially followed this guy's[0] youtube channel for a month, then started doing what felt right for me.

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU0DZhN-8KFLYO6beSaYljg

Jemaclus 6 years ago | |

This is a great tip. Love it. Thank you! Hope you can touch your toes!

Tossrock 6 years ago |

I've been working on a texture/video synthesis framework for VJing / music visualization on a large LED installation. It uses a node editor (no relation to node.js) visual scripting approach to pipe data between different shaders (like a fluid simulation) and signal generators (like MIDI or Xbox controllers).

Fluid simulation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1JzOv4w65w

Audio reactive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyDpnzfSg_o

It's done with the Unity game engine, and is open source! https://github.com/SotSF/canopy-unity

vaibhavthevedi 6 years ago |

I have been working on this project which as an introvert maker who do NOT like marketing much will find helpful.

http://www.designtack.com

It is made for solo maker, indie hackers or solopreneurs who want to quickly design social media content, in bulk.

mettamage 6 years ago |

I'm trying to get myself to wake up at 06:00 AM to go for an early 20 minute morning run. As an insomniac this has proven to be really difficult. But I really like running, even when I'm out of shape, as it has been a part since I was a kid.

I think I'm inching towards a stable rhythm though, but time will tell. I always need 2 months of a stable rhythm to be fully sure that I got a rhythm locked in.

Here is what I figured out so far:

- Magnesium before sleeping

- Vitamin D when I wake up, especially now since I'm sitting inside all the time.

- Obviously basic sleep hygiene that all the popular blog posts write about (fun fact: I use Iris instead of Flux, it dims the screen even more).

- Melatonin when I can already tell I won't be able to sleep anytime soon. I used to try to fall asleep on my own strength for way too long. Things I've tried: meditation (my username is derived from it), progressive muscle relaxation, not thinking about anything (I am quite good at this), visualizations of being in familiar places, exercise and going to the doctor. It all doesn't work. What does work: melatonin. Only since recently I've been a bit more aggressive with it (after 25+ years of sleep issues).

This leaves me with one issue: sometimes I wake up after 4 hours of sleep. My usual way of dealing with this is being awake for another 4 hours, so I can sleep my second quartet of hours. The problem: I wake up around 11:00 AM when I go to bed around 11:00 PM.

So what I'm trying now, since my lifestyle supports it, is waking up between 04:00 AM and 06:00 AM so that I have enough leeway to sleep a bit more. I'm starting a job soon and I have to be 09:00 AM in the office. This is my makeshift solution.

I hope it works.

XCSme 6 years ago |

For me the quarantine turned my side-project into a full-time project. So I am now working non-stop on https://www.usertrack.net, trying to make the best analytics tool and also start a broader self-hosted movement.

eykd 6 years ago | |

Very interesting! I've been looking for a self-hosted analytics tool to replace the Google. I'm going to take a closer look.

Btw, I don't think you need to start a broader self-hosted movement; it's been building for a while. See https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted for example. Keep up the good work! You're not alone.

XCSme 6 years ago | | |

Thank you! I do know abnout that list (userTrack is already listed in the non-free section).

The problem with self-hosting now is that it's usually only for techincal people who know how to setup and maintain servers. I am trying to make so that you can setup, use and maintain my platform with a few clicks, without any technical knowledge. Currently I started doing that by using the cloud-init script for DigitalOcean, so you can go on DO, create a new droplet (with a few clicks), choose LAMP stack and add my cloud-init script which would automatically download and install userTrack. I think this could be optimized even better, in the future I "dream" of a world, where you chose your software (eg. self-hosted Facebook-like platform) and with one click you have your own server running it. I think the DO marketplace is a good start, but they should allow an easy way for developers to sell through their marketplace. I know docker somewhat solves parts of this problem, but for the non-techincal person, with the majority of the software you still need to do some configuration, SSH into some server or setup DNS records.

And with userTrack I feel like I can make a difference, as it's not only self-hosted but I do plan to make it the best analytics tool for landing pages or small websites. By having something that is better, you can make people think about the advantanges of self-hosting, people which would have never thought about that before.

Kaze404 6 years ago |

I finally got fed up with Discord and I'm building a competing product. Not sure if it's gonna get anywhere but I'll be damned if I don't try.

alicewinthrop 6 years ago |

Kidalist.com - crowdsourcing the best kid activity ideas.

Problem = parents get many suggestions some helpful, some clickbaity or low quality (too much mess/effort/clicking). Solution = crowdsource, moderate, and upvote for the highest quality ideas, categorize them and allow users to bookmark their favorites.

Anyone can submit an idea - a link plus short description and category choice. The moderator (just me right now) checks submissions for safety and quality before publishing them.

Visitors can upvote the ideas they like and submit comments on resources that might help other parents.

Logged in users (just email and password sign up) can bookmark their favorites.

If you have a great kid activity idea to share please submit it at https://kidalist.com/

Feedback welcomed, thank you.

reminyborg 6 years ago |

Me and my friend have been building a Social Sampler to make music over the internet. Now that the quarantine happened we managed to get a beta out, its taking up most of my free time: https://miidbaby.com/

cheeaun 6 years ago |

I've been working on my side project https://checkweather.sg/ - weather rain radar on a map thingie. Looks simple, usually boring when there's no rain, but I got to learn how to build those cool vector radars with d3-contour, Mapbox GL JS and stuff. Example: https://twitter.com/cheeaun/status/1259698644908834816

And a React Native iOS app to complement it https://twitter.com/cheeaun/status/1256206047837958144

zippoxer 6 years ago |

Finally completed my side project [1], a website/app to check in which countries Netflix streams that movie or series you've been wanting to watch.

As a heavy VPN consumer, this is really helpful to me :)

[1]: https://captainflix.com

qchris 6 years ago |

A submersible time-lapse camera set-up using a RPi Zero, battery pack, and camera.

I was working on repairing an inflatable dinghy earlier (over a dozen individuals patches!) and finally got it working and moving with a electric trolling motor. I can go free-diving from it and was looking for something else to do. The goal is to be able to put everything in the water-tight enclosure on shore, motor out to a spot in a kelp forest, drop anchor, hop over the side, and swim down to a good spot to place the camera.

When that's done, I'll hang out for a bit playing around in the water or eat lunch/read a book or something in the dinghy, then go back down to grab it and then head back inshore and hope I've gotten some cool imagery!

sci_prog 6 years ago |

Girlfriend and I made an online multiplayer game https://gibberishgame.com

dcrn 6 years ago |

I've been continuing work on my BitTorrent tracker software written in Rust: https://github.com/adcrn/tyto

If anyone's got some tips on how to optimize it, I'm all ears!

maxired 6 years ago |

With the rise of video conferences solutions, I have been working trying to make them better and reducing the gap with physical interactions.

One simple thing I've done is this chrome extension to add party poppers in Google Meet. This is so far the project I've done with the biggest traction. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-meet-party-...

My long term shot is creating a solution for agile teams and facilitators. https://meet.retrolution.co/

bovermyer 6 years ago |

I'm working on a system that generates fantasy worlds. It's meant for RPG players, especially those that do solo tabletop play.

It's more simulationist than similar worldbuilding tools. I recently rewrote the climate generation to be closer to reality. You can read about that here:

https://blog.ironarachne.com/major-update-to-the-climate-sys...

The website is here: https://ironarachne.com

And the code for the underlying API (Go) is here:

https://github.com/ironarachne/world

SuoDuanDao 6 years ago | |

Oh wow. I've been thinking about trying to get into a remote rogue trader campaign, this looks like an awesome tool for that system!

Jemaclus 6 years ago | |

Very cool! What inspired you to do this?

bovermyer 6 years ago | | |

It was no single thing. Probably the spark that ignited the flame, though, was this project in 2016:

https://github.com/mewo2/terrain

cracadumi 6 years ago |

The TDA, biggest art student competition in Europe, was scheduled in Barcelona in April. Because of COVID-19 it was impossible for the few thousands students to meet there. So I made a mobile app to host the competition online, which replicated all the rules of the traditional contest. It got around 2000 signups during the week of the contest and made the competition possible remotely. I decided to keep it live and run new contests for artists everywhere in the world during lockdown. You can check it out and vote for your favorite artists, or join the contest yourself, there : https://greatest.app.link.

benja123 6 years ago |

https://readastorytome.com

I did a show hackernews a month ago and it did pretty well. It's been pretty great since then. I have had people write to me thank you emails and some pretty cool stories like one grandparent that told me they used it to read to their newly born grandchild!

On top of that it has got me back into programming which I don't do in my day job and it finally gave me a project where I can use Phoenix liveview.

Now as a family we have also got into baking bread - we didn't realize how easy it is to make good bread at home and it just taste so much better. It's been a lot of fun and the kids love doing it with us.

ekn 6 years ago |

I built two projects since the lock-down started.

1. https://collabqa.com

A collaborative space to share/vote ideas and questions, in real-time. This was built using Elixir and Phoenix LiveView.

Related ShowHN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22881105

2. https://memoboard.io

This is a slack app that makes sure nobody would miss your memo/task. I'm currently waiting for Slack's app review, but it's ready for use. This is my first SaaS project too. It's built using Rails 6 and Sidekiq.

tristan123456 6 years ago |

I've been working on finishing a lot of things.

- I re-did a project I first pursued when I was really really young. It's called Mapnews.io and it shows you what's happening where today. It's a collection of RSS News with geolocations shown on a map. Uses Cloudflare Workers & Apple Maps - both have been awesome! Happy for any feedback! https://mapnews.io

- Also completed a simple Window Timetracker with a friend. If anyone's interested, check out https://github.com/RobinWeitzel/WindowsTimeTracker

sosodev 6 years ago |

I’ve been working on a simple document store API: https://quickstash.io

keyle 6 years ago | |

Neat!

sosodev 6 years ago | | |

Thanks :) I’d love to hear any feedback you might have.

rohanm93 6 years ago |

I run a career newsletter and a common topic/question I got from my subscribers was about choosing an online course to do and how to 'make the most' of quarantine.

Seems like so many of us (myself included) just miss the process of learning, whether that's learning a new skill or just personal development/mindset related concepts.

To help find a course to do, I made this simple one page site and included the most highly rated free courses from across a few different sites, whether that's Coursera, YC, edX or Youtube: https://resumeworded.com/free-online-courses/

AxiomaticSpace 6 years ago |

I had a very stress inducing experience where I couldn't find something at home depot and had to ask an employee where it was, which was hard to do since talking to strangers during a pandemic is stressful even when everyone has masks on.

So I had the thought of making a chatbot that is hooked up to their inventory database that can tell you where particular items are located. I'm just building the first prototype entirely in AWS, both to learn AWS and to make it easier on myself.

I figure that shoppers will use it because talking to a chatbot feels safer than asking someone in real life, and businesses will want it because it gets people out the door faster so the lines to get in are shorter.

adultSwim 6 years ago | |

I'm sorry you are bugging

johnjones4 6 years ago |

I've been building out new features like crazy on my recipe app Reciplay (https://getreciplay.com/) including a Google Vision and FastText powered recipe scanner.

softwarerero 6 years ago |

I post this a second time as it seems to have been deleted:

Quarantine (https://quarantine.softwarerero.com/) models a worst case scenario for reaching herd immunity without finding a cure.

Duobiblo (https://app.duobiblo.com/) allows to practice a language showing chapters of the bible side-by-side with a language you already know. I learn Portuguese currently on Duolingo, which inspired the name. If a browser supports the Web Speech API for the given language it is also possible to let the browser read the text.

dang 6 years ago | |

Your original comment wasn't deleted. There are just so many comments in the thread that the software is paging them, so you have to click through the More links at the bottom to see them all.

jinpan 6 years ago |

I've been working on a coronavirus simulator in rust/wasm.

https://coronavirus.simrnd.com/about/ is a draft of the intentions of the project, and the source code is at https://github.com/jinpan/covid-simulations.

https://imgur.com/a/wFTq7lD is a screen recording of a shopping scenario.

I'm aiming to publish a blog post with some initial simulation results by the end of the week.

trekhleb 6 years ago |

I'm experimenting with Machine Learning (CNN, RNN, MLP) and TensorFlow in particular:

https://github.com/trekhleb/machine-learning-experiments

In the repository there are several experiments, each consists of Jupyter/Colab notebook (to see how a model was trained) and demo page (to see a model in action right in the browser).

For now I've created only 10 experiments (i.e. Digits Recognition, Object Detection, Image Classification, "Write like a Shakespeare", etc.). But the plan is to do some more experimentations with GANs and RNNs.

micael_dias 6 years ago |

I've built https://opusone.ai/resume-builder over the past two months while still working my full time job. Now the hard part, marketing.

nkristoffersen 6 years ago | |

I created a super opinionated resume builder a couple years ago when I was helping friends get better jobs.

https://jobhero.org

Your builder is much more "builder". I like the drag and drop you implemented (that I can see in the video anyway). What I built was more "you can have any color as long as it's black".

But was fun to build. Was my first react project!

niyazpk 6 years ago | |

Looks great! I am not an expert on this, but I feel like your pricing model is very well thought out. Good work, and good luck!

jacob_rezi 6 years ago | |

Yea gunna be really hard to get people to use it!

you can take a look at our work too http://rezi.io/

Happy to share any ideas

lrip13 6 years ago | | |

I'm not sure to understand why a subscription business model is more adequate than a one time payment for a resume service. Who would need to update his resume every month ?

keyle 6 years ago | |

This is really nice. I made my own as well, but 1/10th of yours (but free) at https://rzume.co

dan1234 6 years ago | | |

I wouldn’t be able to use yours because the only sign up option is with a google account.

Ideally, I’d be able to use the service and then create an account (without google) if I chose to save my result.

gotzmann 6 years ago |

I'm digging into PHP and creating performant yet PSR compliant framework for building ultra-fast REST APIs:

https://github.com/gotzmann/comet

mathnmusic 6 years ago |

I continued working on https://learnawesome.org/. Can't get enough of it! :-) Now announcing a project-based learning program as part of it.

DanHulton 6 years ago |

A SaaS starter kit built with Nodejs/Express and Vue, called Nodewood.

https://nodewood.com

Hopefully I can get it rolled out in time to help other folks with their quarantine side projects!

coopsmgoops 6 years ago | |

An impressive amount of features going on there. The price is per month or annual?

DanHulton 6 years ago | | |

Thanks! The price gives you an annual license for upgrades. If you still want upgrades after a year, I'm thinking a 50% "re-subscribe" cost for another year.

cellularmitosis 6 years ago |

A simple spaced-repetition flashcard system, where the flashcard decks are github gists.

I know Anki and other alternatives exist, but after having written my own private wiki (10 years ago!), I have found value in DIY'ing important tools.

charlieegan3 6 years ago | |

Would you ever open the tool to the public?

cellularmitosis 6 years ago | | |

As soon as it is working!

mawise 6 years ago |

I've always thought it's a shame that all the blogging platforms seem focused on public access, so I've been working on an open-source private blogging platform. Nothing technically complex but aims for super-easy scripted deployment (currently on AWS, also thinking about Raspberry PI), so that you don't need to entrust a big tech company with stewarding access to your content. I'm using it for sharing pictures of my daughter with friends and family.

https://github.com/mawise/simpleblog

rjusher 6 years ago |

My project for this quarantine has been https://iober.com/ .

Yet Another Focus Music generator to solve many of my problems using other services throughout the years.

What works best for me to focus is a combination of many services that exists on the market, so at the end I had to tune into many web apps on my browser which hogged my memory and I had to pay for many subscriptions making it a really expensive solution.

So I created this service, is still a work in progress, but I have been running to polish everything during this quarantine, right now I feel it is at a 90%.

adnanc 6 years ago |

I've restarted work on https://ayahbyayah.com an iOS app which I originally released in 2012 as a simple app for listening to the recitation of a single Ayat (verse) of the Qur'an.

I've been performing intermittent upgrades over the years as I wanted to retain the simplicity, ease of use with a focus on providing the most accurate and clearest Ayat text in any app.

The latest update has incorporated word by word audio timings and advanced play back controls for a completely hands-free operation, even serves as a teleprompter for the Qur'an.

lovasoa 6 years ago |

I've done a lot of work on my opensource collaborative whiteboard, WBO: https://wbo.ophir.dev/

During lockdown, many teachers and companies are looking for new ways to work online, and google searches for "opensource online whiteboard" have exploded. I noticed a surge of activity on the site, and that motivated me to spend more time on it. The tool has also received its most significant external contributions since its inception several years ago. I just hope the interest will not fade away once the pandemic is over.

albi_lander 6 years ago |

I have built a rust based version of the 2048 game which runs in the terminal. The most interesting and fun part is the small AI that I implemented and which can be used to play automatically. It's nothing very new, but I enjoyed crafting this small game in the most elegant and efficient way I could.

https://github.com/adrienball/2048-rs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2048_(video_game)

rikroots 6 years ago |

Writing demos for my Javascript library, trying to push it to its limits, uncover bugs, etc. Fun stuff.

Also writing "teach yourself" lessons for the library ... which is not so much fun, but does helps uncover "softer" bugs like: "why do I expect people to code that thing this way? Is there a simpler, happier way to do it?"

(Yeah. Talking to myself out loud. Not a good habit to develop during the lockdown.)

Beyond coding, I've mostly been putting back on all the weight I lost over the past two years. I'll start exercising tomorrow.

tluyben2 6 years ago |

Took the lockdown time to completely revamp Flexlists(1) which is a side project we launched 15 years ago and has a solid (slowly growing) fan base who have been crying for new features etc but the codebase is a horrorshow (we used to launch 1 new project per week at that time so this was written in a week which the code does show). So I took this time to rewrite and redesign it completely. Hopefully the new version will launch this month.

(1) https://flexlists.com

vladvasiliu 6 years ago |

I'm building a small tool to automate authorizing and revoking AWS Security group rules.

I've been working from home on a sometimes unstable connection, so I've been using Mosh a lot. It was a bit tedious to update the security groups manually whenever my IP changed, and I'm also in the process of learning Rust, so this looked like a good project. It's not yet operational, though.

https://github.com/vladvasiliu/aws_ssh

stfurkan 6 years ago |

https://gez.la - Open Source Virtual Tour Database https://github.com/stfurkan/gez

https://pancovid19.com - Coronavirus (COVID-19) Statistics Dashboard https://github.com/stfurkan/pancovid19

Saketme 6 years ago |

I'm working on a cross-platform markdown editor written using Kotlin multiplatform: https://github.com/saket/press.

The plan is to start with an Android app and a macOS app to solve for my personal use-case and add more platforms in the future. The primary motivation was the lack of good markdown apps that sync between Android and macOS. Bear notes is the closest, but they don't have any plans of creating an Android app.

Jemaclus 6 years ago | |

This is cool! I love Bear as an editor.

tristor 6 years ago |

I've been learning to bake from scratch, and have successfully made several different types of bread, cookies, muffins, and biscuits. I am hoping to soon try my hand at making pastries.

keycloakthemes 6 years ago |

I have launched a project where I sell Keycloak themes and share tips for Keycloak users [1].

Keycloak is a very good Identity Manager but the default theme is not easily adaptable. Making new themes also requires effort and a little bit of knowledge, which means additional time to invest in learning the platform. On KeycloakThemes you can find ready-to-use themes (for now one, more to come) that you can upload and start using in 5 minutes.

[1] https://keycloakthemes.com

ak47surve 6 years ago |

Fun side project: Missing chaos during quarantine? Play urban soundscapes in a loop and #StayTheFuckHome

https://noisyloop.com/

vekker 6 years ago |

I'm making a dream journal app for lucid dreaming and dream analysis: https://oneironotes.com/

For many years I've had the habit of remembering and noting down my dreams first thing every morning. I wanted a place for collecting & analysing all these dream reports.

So I built this journaling app. It's a PWA that encrypts everything before syncing. For now I'm just testing it with friends, but I want to launch it in the coming weeks.

jeremymcanally 6 years ago |

It's not exactly a tech side project, but I recorded a 30 minute comedy special in my garage that's freely streamable. I was hoping to use it to raise some cash for COVID relief through ads, Google keeps denying my AdSense activation, so now I'm hoping someone at least donates to World Central Kitchen or buys a download version: https://insidejokes.org

Now with that shipped, I'm thinking about some actual code projects. :)

andrew-nguyen 6 years ago |

I have 2:

- [1]: I took a Coin Pusher arcade game and put together some electronics and software to make it playable through a Twitch stream. I thought it'd be fun to make and an interesting idea (especially with people being stuck at home), but it hasn't really gained much traction. It's currently a functional "MVP", but I haven't gotten any players so I can't figure out how to iterate and improve it. I built it using NodeJS, C++, a Raspberry Pi, an Arduino, a 3D printer, and an assortment of electronic components.

- [2]: Rebuilt my personal website. I've been hoping to write more (mostly for my own sake). One of the things that was mentally impeding me from writing was being afraid of being incorrect. I like to learn, but I think I'm a slow learner and don't always get things right the first time around. However, I tend to usually figure it out. I think writing could help me through that process (and potentially other people that are learning as well), so I think it'll be easier if I approach my writing with that perspective. I built it using GatsbyJS and its hosted with Netlify.

[1]: https://www.twitch.tv/coinarcadelive [2]: https://www.andrew-nguyen.com

hypertexthero 6 years ago |

Bread is lovely as are the green leaves shining during a beautiful day with clear, cool air in NY.

I’ve been writing and linking about flights from and to reality through art (usually videogames) at https://hypertexthero.com which is now published with a [static site generator][1] and no JavaScript other than [HTML Form File to Txt][2] to quickly create a text file for posting. The site design and format was inspired by Daring Fireball, and I aim to release it as a theme soon.

During this time I discovered [Focus Writer][3] which is open source, cross-platform, quite nice.

Hoping people will come up with fusion power and other climate crisis [solutions][4] during this time.

Peace out.

[1]: https://gohugo.io/ "Hugo — love the speed, hate the language syntax and some of the new defaults like .md extension instead of .txt"

[2]: https://www.simongriffee.com/notebook/form-to-txt/

[3]: https://gottcode.org/focuswriter/

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annus_mirabilis

ChrisHardman29 6 years ago |

Frustrated by the problem of information overload, I've been working on Sivv - https://www.sivv.io/ - a forum for sharing summaries of the most useful / actionable ideas from books, long-form articles and research. The idea is to boost the 'signal-to-noise' ratio of the information that people consume, helping them to both reduce the amount of time they spend reading while also learning more.

mysterydip 6 years ago |

I just finished releasing a mobile game, and have a new goal for my next game: Early DOS 3D game based on the Rise of the Triad engine (a modified Wolfenstein 3D engine).

As far as I know the engine wasn't used again, with most moving to a Doom clone. I think there's untapped potential in the ROTT engine, and want to show it off, while having the game still run on the original target (386/486).

So far the code analysis has been really interesting, especially compared to the Wolf3D engine that it started as.

0-_-0 6 years ago | |

There is an excellent (and free) book about the Wolf3D engine:

https://fabiensanglard.net/gebbwolf3d/

mysterydip 6 years ago | | |

Thanks, I have that and the doom book (ROTT used the WAD format from Doom) and have been using it for reference. I asked the author if he had anything on ROTT and he said no but I can add an annex to the GEBB once I'm done lol

roknovosel 6 years ago |

I've been working on a small project called https://CodeSnippetSearch.net. It allows you to search through code snippets using natural language. Currently, Python, Java, Go, Php, Javascript, and Ruby programming languages are supported. I think it's especially useful for new programmers because it allows you to search through code in a "Google-like" fashion. It also allows you to find similar code snippets to the ones found in search results. This enables you to explore different possible solutions.

As with any cool project nowadays, CodeSnippetSearch is powered by neural networks (six in fact - one for each programming language). The project is open-sourced and you can read about the implementation details here: https://github.com/novoselrok/codesnippetsearch This project started as a reimplementation of the models in the CodeSearchNet challenge by GitHub (https://github.com/github/CodeSearchNet/). I have reused their data and reimplemented the neural bag-of-words model in Keras. I didn't expect any improvements with my reimplementation, but I did manage to beat the baseline models by a little bit.

The search is still a bit of a hit-and-miss and I'm continually trying to improve it. If the match rating for the top result is below 50% it will most likely be irrelevant.

phumbe 6 years ago |

I shipped an MVP of an instant messaging app that re-imagines the dynamics of chat. Your conversation is no longer limited to the vertical direction. It can expand in the horizontal direction to separate different but simultaneous topics!

https://xpanxn.com

I also did a couple of Show HN posts for it. Didn't get much traction with either, but it's ok because I think my next steps are to revise the landing page and get a more proper UI.

Feedback is very welcome!

idealstingray 6 years ago |

Trying to learn frontend so I can make myself a better to-do list/calendar app. I'm a robotics engineer so I have no idea what I'm doing, but it's fun. Due to executive dysfunction, I tend not to have a very good idea of how long it'll take me to finish anything longer than about a day's work (so I assume it "won't take that long", which fuels dangerous amounts of procrastination), so my concept was that each task gets broken down into subtasks that are small enough that I can estimate time for them. These time estimates then get propagated to the root task, and leaf-level tasks can be dragged and dropped into today's calendar (with other events pulled in from Google Calendar so I don't accidentally double-book myself). On the task itself I'll be able to record how much time (in pomodoros) it actually took to complete; in addition to tracking how I actually spent my time, hopefully this will help calibrate my future time estimates.

I also finished knitting a sweater -- my second overall, and first time not working from a pattern. I had to redo the yoke three times (the torso and front/back panels of the yoke are lace, so I wanted to integrate the decreases in the lace pattern), but I'm really satisfied with what I ended up with.

ianmabie 6 years ago |

https://www.higifter.com/ It's an SMS-based chatbot that helps you remember special occasions (birthday, anniversary, mother's day), recommends gifts, and purchases them for you automatically.

Working on this with my girlfriend, mostly for fun and to learn something new. We're using Webflow for the site, Airtable as the backend, Zap to help stitch a few parts together, and Twilio for SMS support.

wortelefant 6 years ago |

My side projects are nonexistent, as corona created more business than usual. I found this sentiment of being behind side project expectations nicely displayed here https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/04/have-y...

photawe 6 years ago |

I've been working on this for close to 2 years, including in quarantine: https://phot-awe.com

It's a video editor with some really cool effects/transitions. In quarantine, I've been re-vamping the UI to make incredibly easy to create videos.

I hope to have another version in about 1 week where creating videos will feel quite seamless ;)

(Adding media into your video project has been hard - which is what I'm fixing right now.)

bobakanoosh 6 years ago | |

Maybe it's because I'm on mobile but I'm not seeing any images of the actual application. Personally when I work with an editor, me deciding to download it is heavily based on what it looks like. If I have to download it to see... I won't.

photawe 6 years ago | | |

I completely understand. I'm in the process of rebuilding the UI - so I did not want to post "stale" screenshots. I really hope to have the new version of the app ready in less than a week, and then take a few screenshots and post them ;)

Having said that, in the near future (3-4 months), I will redesign the site. Already hired a team. It's really interesting how things your idea of what should be on the website changes as things shape up. So, it will be a redesign from the ground up - but for that, I need to have a few more features ready - and that will take tiiiiime :)

EDIT: I should have mentioned: this is Windows10 only for now. I may port it to other platforms assuming all goes well.

vlucas 6 years ago |

https://www.seamless.cloud/

Easy, secure REST API for your SQL database (PostgreSQL and MySQL/MariaDB supported). You pre-define queries and get REST endpoints for them with token authentication.

I build a lot of side projects and got tired of always having to setup an API backend for each one that I wanted to use an SQL database with, so I made Seamless.cloud for myself. Maybe it will be useful for others too?

hcarlens 6 years ago |

I built a simple, community-maintained page that aggregates machine learning/data science competitions from across multiple platforms: https://mlcontests.com

I just wrote a short post about my experience so far: https://harald.co/2020/05/15/simple-free-website/

SimianLogic2 6 years ago |

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.

magicseth 6 years ago |

I'm a magician who invents new technology at a FAANG.

I've started posting podcasts showing how I use the magician's toolset to invent new technology that's focused on doing the impossible in a way that meets users needs and dreams!

http://patreon.com/magicseth

I also launched a webapp for me to keep track of the tricks I know: https://trick.app

thidr0 6 years ago | |

You should rebrand it illusion.app. A trick is something a who... oh nevermind

leovander 6 years ago | | |

"Illusion, Michael..."

pjagielski 6 years ago |

I created a live coding music environment in Kotlin: https://github.com/pjagielski/punkt

Here's a demo: Daft Punk's - Da Funk remix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdQQJPpL6Lo&t=138s

It uses Kotlin scripting as live-coded sequencer and SuperCollider as sound engine.

collyw 6 years ago |

Quarantine has made me realise how little free time I actually have. I am supposed to be doing a basic database for a friends lab. It's turning out to be mainly a data validation and cleaning project. Without a cycle to work, a cycle back from work to split up my day I have really little motivation to sit more hours coding after I have cooked dinner and eaten. I should get on with it though.

pinopinopino 6 years ago |

Studying: differential geometry, poetic edda.

Doing: lifting myself to hell and back and jump rope.

Building: Making maze generators in minetest (before moving them to minecraft)

And trying to figure out if I can find a function that takes two finite consecutive sequences with length N and M of natural numbers, which start by 1 (E.g [1,2,3], but not [1,2,4,5]) and give back a sequence which contain all the numbers starting from 1 up to the NxM, but not necessarily sorted without using the size of the sequences. So I want to number the cross product of the two sequences.

This crap is related to some programming problem I hit.

   t = {1,2,3...} -- <- can be lenght
   s = {1,2,3,4...} <- can be any length
   xs = {} 

   for i,h in ipairs(t) do 
       for j,k in ipairs(s) do 
           q = f(i,j) -- <- I want to know if f is possible 
  to write
           xs[q] = h * k 
       end 
   end

Well the answer is I think no, but I found some functions that work up to a certain number or that work within certain bounds, so how far we can stretch that? And of course it works for the whole set of natural numbers.

arnioxux 6 years ago | |

Pretty sure the answer is no as a math problem where f is pure. If f returns the same answer each time, the square ending at N,N contains [1, N * N]. Then the rectangle ending at N,N+1 must contain (N * N, N * (N+1)] in the nonoverlapping strip. Ditto for N+1,N. But then for N+1,N+1 all other locations must contain low numbers and there's only a single corner cell left which can contain the rest of the missing numbers between (N(N+1), (N+1)(N+1)]. Unless I made a mistake I don't think any function would work here for N > 1. What were the examples you found?

OTOH as a programming problem you can just cheat and store state somewhere to count the row width. This satisfies your interface requirements (python):

    lastJ = None
    def f(i, j):
        global lastJ
        if i != 0:
            return i * (lastJ + 1) + j
        else:
            lastJ = j
            return j


    N = 3
    M = 5
    seen = set()
    for i in range(N):
        for j in range(M):
            q = f(i, j)
            seen.add(q)
    assert sorted(seen) == list(range(N * M))

pinopinopino 6 years ago | | |

I am on work, so can't access my home laptop. But this problem is related to pairing functions (but those work for the whole domain of the naturals). It means you need to find a function that walks the numbers in a nice way, like seen here: http://szudzik.com/ElegantPairing.pdf

I think it isn't possible to find a function that works for arbitrary sequences. I know there is a function that works if the sets have the same size (n is size), it is trivial why those work. They have the form n^0 a + n^1 b, where a,b are in [1..n]:

      f :: Integer -> (Integer,Integer) -> Integer 
      f n (i,j) = i + (j - 1)*n
      -- For example: 
      f 3 <$> ((,) <$> [1..3] <*> [1..3])
      [1,4,7,2,5,8,3,6,9]

Now I want to find functions like (n,m is size, n /= m):

      f n m (i,j) = ..

And functions where n maybe chosen but m is between certain bounds. I have found a couple of those by mutilating pairing functions.

I know I can use a counter, but I don't like cheating :p

I need to draw your reasoning on a paper to see it or take some time for it. Little bit busy, working from home, having the kids and stuff :p

sphix0r 6 years ago |

Bought a 3d printer(Creality Ender 3, sub 200USD). Being able to print nice prints takes a lot of time and you'll learn a lot during the process.

After being able to print I tried drawing. Both blender and fusion 360. Blender for organic objects and fusion 360 for practical engineering objects.

It's a really fantastic hobby and you'll be able to produce a lot of physical objects instead of only writing software.

fghorow 6 years ago | |

Good on you!

Please consider joining one of the PPE manufacturing efforts based on 3D printing!

I too bought a 3D printer -- solely to fight this effing virus in some way -- and have been busy doing that for nearly 2 months now.

It feels pretty good!

7373737373 6 years ago |

https://wikiscape.org - A visualization of all English Wikipedia articles

bluishgreen 6 years ago | |

Pretty cool. Did you bake the viz yourself? How does it work.. Can you explain a bit how you handle the sheer scale of it. And how the nodes are positioned - I can't imagine it is some sort of graph node attraction/repulsion algorithm as it will kill the server? Do you precompute?

7373737373 6 years ago | | |

I wrote down some things here: https://github.com/void4/notes/issues/48

The code is here: https://github.com/void4/wikiscape

tl;dr: wrote scripts to parse wikipedia dump, used LargeVis (https://github.com/lferry007/LargeVis) to layout the graph, wrote further scripts to generate tiles, tiles in layers up to a specific zoom level are saved as files and served directly by nginx, closer ones are generated dynamically by flask, which also handles querying for the closest node to the mouse position efficiently with https://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/generated/scipy.s...

shorting24x7 6 years ago |

SaaS for creating, editing and publishing audio content for global audiences http://narrationbox.com/. Still building a ton of features into it like audio widgets for news sites and blogs, audio editor. Basically making it end-to-end for audio content creators. Also reading Elon Musk's biography.

news_to_me 6 years ago |

I've been writing a 3D engine from scratch, which has been really interesting since it's well outside of my normal professional software experience. My goal is to make a game with it for the upcoming Playdate console.

You can follow along with my progress here: https://twitter.com/zackmichener

conroy 6 years ago |

https://sqlc.dev

Work continues on sqlc, my SQL compiler side project. I recently released v1.3.0, which mainly consisted of big fixes.

I’m really excited about the in-browser playground I launched at https://play.sqlc.dev. I hope it gets more people to install sqlc locally.

dt3ft 6 years ago |

https://20-things.com/

So far only a few people know about it and some of my friends are using it, but my goal is to keep it running and use it myself even if nobody else ends up using it. It is very cheap to operate and I use it as my own personal bookmarking and media upload service. Beware: work in progress!

klangdon 6 years ago |

When I need to make money: I code and build hardware. But when work is slow and my brain can wonder, I find myself wanting to tell stories with video. The sad part is I am not Casey Neistat.

Here is a video that the whole family worked on for a school project a few weeks ago: https://youtu.be/QHmkRBIzUMs

kchoudhu 6 years ago |

Survival mostly, I have kids and a fulltime job.

dukeofharen 6 years ago |

Since all gyms are closed in my country, I've converted my attic in a "make shift" gym. I've placed a desk, installed Ubuntu on an old laptop, placed a screen, put down a mat and some dumbells and just watch cardio and resistance workouts on YouTube. It's a great way to keep myself in shape and to break the day because I work from home all days.

tkgally 6 years ago | |

I'm doing something similar. In normal times, I go to the gym every day or two and work out for an hour and a quarter. Since I'm now home all day, I've been doing bodyweight and dumbbell workouts next to my desk for fifteen or twenty minutes several times a day. They break up the monotony and refresh my mind for the next round of work. I also fit in extra exercise during Zoom meetings that I only need to listen to.

The result has been that I am staying in shape despite being indoors all day. The staggered workouts may be more effective at building muscle than my usual gym sessions, too.

The greatest benefit of the exercise, though, is the mood elevation.

s_gourichon 6 years ago |

Been using for years for my freelance/consultant activity a bash-based environment with convenience enhancements: create context per client or project, get instant access to auto-created per-context-day working directory with easy navigation, per context environment + bash_history + logging of terminal content + ability to instantly create/edit timestamped files for note taking. Good productivity booster, helps a lot isolate clients, easily answer customer phone calls any time. Logging saved me a few times.

Been wanting for a long time to rewrite it into something usable by others. Been doing that rewrite during lockdown.

All this reuses existing tools and conventions, is lightweight, shell-completion friendly, easy to learn.

Also, written (again) a game for the 8bit computer Amstrad CPC of 1984, in clean modern C on a C compiler that understands most of C11. With optimized assembly for time-critical parts.

Both started earlier this year, got more time during lockdown.

I might offer a "show HN" for one or both. If you have any interest please tell.

Jemaclus 6 years ago | |

I'm interested!

s_gourichon 6 years ago | | |

Thanks!

Will you go to the "fire and forget" route of hoping I do some "Show HN" and be unaware in between, or will you provide some way to notify you?

Especially, since the thing is rewritten but partially modular I have started asking around me what features are most wanted, so that I can start the modularity effort in areas that make most sense. I've been considering an online poll. Will you participate? How to reach you?

dfraser992 6 years ago |

I am rebuilding the "framework" I wrote for doing my MSc dissertation on the classification of fake reviews. Now that I have the time, the code is far better organized and the higher level structure pretty clean in that I can copy a module, customize it a bit and now a different feature set can be generated. Churning out different ensembles should be fairly easy as well. And of course I'm throwing dask, mlflow and dvc into the mix...

I don't really need to do this (ought to be looking for a job...) <and I'd rather write code than pay to use someone else's SaaS>

but now that I have quite a number of different review datasets to play with, a framework that lets me spin up 10+ processes across the 5 machines I have at my disposal will make short work of most the sets. I will need the uni's HPC cluster to deal with the Amazon dataset, though. Using dask will surely help with that.

Then it's writing yet another paper... Not being allowed to go outside is rather motivating.

pdinny 6 years ago |

A movie recommender (item-item) that recommends movies similar to a proposed movie. The similarity is based on tags, specifically the tag genome created by GroupLens.

This is mostly because I have a personal need for this and I would like alternatives to existing movie recommendation services, but I may make it available online if time permits.

A second step would be to introduce an example critiquing aspect, allowing for interactions like "show me movies similar to 'Crimson Peak' but with less horror".

All of this is based on the MovieLens 25M dataset and an accompanying article (http://files.grouplens.org/papers/tag_genome.pdf) describing a recommender called 'Movie Tuner' that is no longer available.

It will be fun to tune the recommendations based on my own preferences. For example I don't need an algorithm to suggest movies that have the same actor/director.

Initial results are encouraging.

zumachase 6 years ago |

We found many of the virtual office tools too invasive for our tastes both physically with video emphasis and virtually by commanding a lot of attention. So we built a group intercom system that stays out of your way but gives you seamless comms when you need it. https://www.squawk.to

arcatech 6 years ago |

Just a personal website: https://dwayne.xyz

I rented a server from Digital Ocean, installed nginx and Go, and wrote a web server. No frameworks on the front or backend, just HTML, CSS, and a couple of small scripts. And I wrote my own authentication and admin pages to manage everything from the browser.

danimatic 6 years ago |

On the side I run my project https://fitnessmodern.de/ about showing people what you can do with modern wearables. When the corona crisis started in Germany I thought: ok, this could be the end for the project. Who is going to leave his apartment now to keep fit or to buy a new gadget.

But exactly the opposite happened. After a sharp collapse in visitor numbers in the first days of the crisis, they shot up again. More than I knew from before. That was astonishing but in retrospect logical: because here in Germany there was no real curfew, only a ban on contact with other people. So people probably thought: before I lounge around at home, I'll do something for my health and fitness. You can also tell from other comments here that fitness projects have worked. That motivated me to do my project even more intensively, because I realized that it is important to people.

sampsonbryce 6 years ago |

WeHero Home: A browser extension to donate money using ad revenue you gain just from browsing the web. Been working on it for some time but quarantine has allowed me to work on it more than I expected! https://www.wehero.co/browser-extension/

luos 6 years ago |

I am making a self hosted or maybe hosted website where you can just import youtube/your videos and you get a link to a podcast feed. None of the existing ones worked for me and I like to listen podcasts before sleeping, and there are a lot of channels which don't need the video part.

It's not public yet, but let me know your thoughts about the idea.

hopesthoughts 6 years ago | |

I definitely could use something like this! Or more specifically, something that will take a channel's RSS feed and convert it to the podcast format for my podcatcher.

jabedude 6 years ago |

I've been working on improving my Rust skills. I made a JA3 (TLS fingerprinting) library and some other small Rust projects.

akhong 6 years ago |

Wrapping Spark in Clojure:

https://github.com/zero-one-group/geni

I used to work at a tech giant, where the data team relies a lot on native Spark in Scala. I've always found the combination quite pleasant to work with. However, I did miss Python's faster startup time, dynamism and REPL, especially when doing data cleaning and exploration with no intention of putting it in production.

Now that I'm doing my own thing at a much smaller scale, I naturally gravitated towards Python's data stack, namely NumPy, Pandas, Sklearn and Dask. However, I found myself missing Spark's consistent SQL API and performance!

So yea, I've been wanting to use more Clojure for work and set up a Clojure shop. During the quarantine, I find myself having more time to do focused work. I thought this would be a good opportunity to convert some of the data wrangling stuff to Clojure!

steine 6 years ago |

I learned basic web development so that I could make this web app https://tpsteiner.github.io/public_companies_map/

I'm a CPA working as an external auditor for public companies filing 10-K financial statements. Looking for a job in public accounting is hard because audit firms do not have many differing characteristics. The one thing that is different is their clients. Clients are required to disclose their auditor, but obtaining a list of clients by firm/location is very hard.

My app uses public government data to plot US public companies on a map, and includes details on the firm that most recently audited their annual financial statements.

The data sources are: 1. a listing of all Form APs filed to the PCAOB (auditor-client relationship data), 2. SEC company data from the Corpwatch API database 3. Google search API for company locations

Tade0 6 years ago |

I'm designing analog guitar effects.

I only had a few courses in college concerning analog circuits, but if you understand the principles, it's easy to learn from the schematics available on the internet.

So far I've been exploring the use of MOSFETs - I found that the 2N7000 transistor is as cheap and abundant as BJTs, so I'm using it.

This type of transistor is less predictable and has a more complex working principle than a BJT, but with that come additional possibilities.

My last non-idiomatic-but-working design is a MOSFET-based A-class buffer that maintains an optimal operating point using a BJT differential amplifier as a comparator for the feedback loop, maintaining the DC output before the coupling capacitor at exactly half the supply voltage.

It's not linear, but that's the idea - if you plugged in a guitar to it the difference wouldn't be really noticeable, but doing the same with a bass should give a "sweeter", enriched with low harmonics tone.

aurbano 6 years ago |

Work in progress, but a couple of friends and me are making an online chat for small groups of people - just a quick place to have a random conversation, although if you come back we try to put you back with the same people if available

Online but still under development: https://dotdot.im :)

hieunc229 6 years ago |

https://inspired-ideas.web.app shares the one-idea that changes your life.

I often see an idea that help solve a problem that I was stuck. A few days ago, people start to shares those ideas that helped them, so I created Inspired Ideas that you can learn from other experiences

atsushin 5 years ago |

I'm helping out with a program for students (myself being one of them) that lost their summer internships due to the pandemic, called Summer of Shipping. Currently looking for more student builders and experienced mentors to grow out our initiative, but we've gotten some great numbers of both so far and want to reach as many people as possible. We're a pretty nice group and we've had a lot of great conversations so far in our comms channel. Open to developers of non-traditional backgrounds too.

If anyone's interested, check out our website at: https://summerofshipping.com/

Meetings are every Thursday for demos, presentations and networking over Zoom. We're currently on Week 3 but our doors are open to anyone at any point. We accommodate both people who prefer to work individually or in groups! :)

madcol 6 years ago |

I'm trying not to spend more time in front of the computer since I'm still doing it all day but at home now. I've started cooking, I knew how to cook basic things and basically feed myself but I'm following a lot of Kenji Lopez-Alt on youtube and it's really been motivating me to try something different that might take a little more skill or time that I wouldn't have tried before. https://www.youtube.com/user/kenjialt

Alternatively I'm having a lot of fun with Nats What I Reckon videos too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9sjrjr06K4

Eyeing up getting handier with Golang and Python later on though since our restrictions continue for a month or 2 longer depending on the numbers.

nati0n 6 years ago | |

If you're trying new things, I'd recommend making gumbo. Really tasty, teaches you how to make a good dark roux, and otherwise is relatively easy. Isaac Toups has good videos out there on how to.

madcol 6 years ago | | |

I've looked at doing something involving a roux but I'm always somewhat nervous of burning the shit out of it which I really shouldn't be.

I remember seeing Isaac on Binging with Babish once, I'll definitely check him out. Thanks!

jayfk 6 years ago |

A modern documentation viewer: https://dok.dev/

Bafno 6 years ago |

We've launched a series of challenges ( 30 riddles and puzzles) themed around a guy named Larry who is in quarantine with his pet hedghehog, for people stuck at home to complete! https://www.lockdownwithlarry.com

This is built in React and backed by Firebase.

neil_s 6 years ago | |

This seems promising! I'm usually decent at puzzles but am stuck on the first one and don't have enough confidence in the puzzle quality to donate to see the first hint.

unglaublich 6 years ago |

- Baking bread, brewing beer, making Kimchi and stews... these things that take time but have such tasty results. - Re-learning feedback control and linear algebra, then implementing them in C++. - Learning to fully maintain my road bike: replacing the chain, gears, shifter cables, etc. I still don't like dirty hands.

james2001 6 years ago |

https://www.ezail.com

It's a communication platform for small and micro businesses (spec. emerging markets) to send invoices and orders, keep track of credits/debits, log income/expenses, trade commodities, sell online, chat with customers and suppliers.

adz_6891 6 years ago | |

This is interesting! How did you come up with this idea for emerging markets in particular?

Also, out of interest, what service are you using for the SMS authentication?

james2001 6 years ago | | |

I am taking the learnings of okcredit, khatabook (digital ledger in India), bijak, procol (trading in India), choco, rekki (restaurant ordering from their suppliers) to what I believe is the final consequence of an integrated chat app to run small businesses.

I used MessageBird for sms notification of new messages, SendGrid for email and Firebase Auth for login.

Everything is run on Google App Engine.

Bedon292 6 years ago |

Self hosted home automation with Home Assistant [1] I haven't done a ton with it lately, but ended up finally updating an integration with it. Which lead me to learn more python async (still beginning this), github actions, and dev containers in VSCode [2].

My actual integration is for a WattBox, IP controlled power conditioner and UPS. Because apparently I am the only person to write an API wrapper for it. [3]

[1] https://www.home-assistant.io/ [2] https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/containers [3] https://github.com/eseglem/pywattbox

mnky9800n 6 years ago |

I'm building a freely available data set from a 50000 student survey of attitudes towards experimental physics. Typically this kind of data is never available without working at the institution where it's gathered. We figured that's BS and really against NSF guidelines for data collection anyways.

FailMore 6 years ago |

I made https://taaalk.co - it is quite like debubble (also in this thread). It's a platform for online discussions. It's not focused on debating, but on exploring topics and sharing knowledge.

You can create a Taaalk and invite any number of people to join it using an invite link and code. If you don't have anyone to Taaalk with you can leave your details on the Start a Conversation page.

Some friends and I started it a few years ago and then stopped, so I thought I'd rebuild it during quarantine.

Some of the old Taaalks are on there, e.g.: https://taaalk.co/t/how-to-think-about-chess

It's the first app I've ever deployed to production so it's been great to learn about servers and hosting.

voska 6 years ago |

I'm stuck on a small island in St. Vincent & the Grenadines after narrowing escaping the nationwide lockdown in Venezuela, so I've been learning to kitesurf.

I'm also rebuilding my website with Hugo. Feedback welcomed: https://www.voska.org

christian008 6 years ago |

I've created my own Read Later service using Pinboard and a Raspberry Pi: https://christianhans.info/12791/running-your-own-read-later...

Jemaclus 6 years ago | |

I've got three RPis laying around here... I should do this...

cushychicken 6 years ago |

I'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!

arethuza 6 years ago | |

For some reason I misread that initially as "fusion generator" - clearly I have been watching too many ITER videos.

bmsleight_ 6 years ago |

Inspired by article in Private Eye as well as a need to improve my own mental health during lockdown. Not only have I done five portions of fun a day. I wrote an app/website to help anyone journal Five Fun Things a day.

https://fivefunthings.com

alecthomas 6 years ago |

I've been experimenting with a programming language[1] on and off. The goal is to target the Go runtime, though I'm mostly still playing around with concurrency options.

[1] https://github.com/alecthomas/langx

YoannMoinet 6 years ago |

I've made a mobile game because I wanted to try React Native. The pitch is: A brain teasing puzzle game. Easy to play, hard to master.

I know, very generic :)

https://zwout.fr

It's currently in closed beta (very closed) but if you're really interested, I can add you to the beta.

aritztg 6 years ago |

Having a daughter. She is three weeks old.

Jemaclus 6 years ago | |

Congratulations! I hope she and your family are healthy and happy!

johnnyfived 6 years ago |

I started an open-source project in Python called Restless, to get more experience in both NLP / ML and security. Restless is anti-malware that's "always watching" (every time a file is modified or created, it's automatically sent to the classification pipeline, which uses a hierarchical attention network trained with PE header data).

https://github.com/jddunn/restless

Right now I'm trying to figure out how to speed things up with multiprocessing (Keras doesn't play nicely with that). It's definitely a proof-of-concept project as opposed to something that's a enterprise-level tool (otherwise probably wouldn't write it in Python heh). Mostly I just wanted to make a sick-looking CLI for once.

herval 6 years ago |

I started this: https://www.threaded.live/ - it’s an attempt to build some sort of “social network” in the browser (at least initially)

Also learned how to cook properly, and addicted to learning all the nuances of heat, acid, fat, etc.

jonnycat 6 years ago |

I've been building a product for automating the collection and production of customer testimonial & review videos - https://verifiablee.com/

Actually started just pre-pandemic, so the timing has been quite interesting.

And yes, also lots of bread.

gilli 6 years ago |

Wow, 1809 comments, that's amazing.

Anyway my quarantine side project has been my little SVG icon manager that let's you easily "batch" update color and size for icon sets and then drag, copy or export them to whichever format you want.

https://norde.io

matthewhartmans 6 years ago |

I built a game for Android using Google's Speech to Text API.

It's called Nonsense :) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nonsense.twa&r...

Ente 6 years ago |

I am working on my open source app [1] which allows shop owners to keep track of number of people in their shop, whilst also generating interesting analytics insights for later use.

[1]: https://github.com/Enteee/count

yoaviram 6 years ago |

I've built https://TimeForMe.today, a search engine for well-being sessions taking place online. From Yoga and Meditation to Taekwondo or and Dance. The website is free and many of the sessions listed are also free.

Any feedback is welcome!

sayzlim 6 years ago |

I redesigned my blog and started writing again during the quarantine. I've also run a clean install on my Mac because it couldn't boot for some reason. One valuable lesson I learned during the clean install was to set up the development environment correctly. I should've realized that most people don't understand Unix directory structure. As a result, they run `sudo` if something doesn't work.

I wrote the guide to myself, but I emphasized the importance of dependency manager in the post: https://sayzlim.net/setup-macos-web-development/

It becomes much easier to learn a new framework knowing that I've installed everything correctly on my Mac. No more struggling with permission errors.

3dprintscanner 6 years ago |

Been working with a group building a mobile COVID testing laboratory and have written a Rails app for managing the test data & laboratory flow.

https://github.com/UK-CoVid19/opencell-testing https://arcane-island-35232.herokuapp.com/

Also a set of mini-sites built on eleventy / netlify for local community COVID voluntary groups in London.

https://islington.coronacorps.com/ https://github.com/3dprintscanner/coronacorps

pnathan 6 years ago |

Learning viola. I've been thinking about it off and on for a few years.

I got a very cheap one off Amazon, and only through dint of my prior musical experience (bass 10 yr ago, violin 30 yr ago), was able to put it into a decently playable shape.

It's a lot of fun, but VERY hard! New physical skills, learning a new clef.

subdeveloper 6 years ago |

I've built a web app called COVID-19 vs Markets which shows the effects of COVID-19 on the stock market overtime. Ended up writing a chart library from scratch! https://covid-19-vs-markets.now.sh/

hootbootscoot 6 years ago |

1) starting upon the road to being a luthier... i want to make flamenco guitars

2) welding my staircase railings and adding random bits like wheels, gears, old wrenches, a chicken-grill...

3) finishing the workspace area off for #1

4) sundry home repairs et al.

5) alcoholic beverage consumption in amounts previously considered immoderate. (not sure if this a hobby)

Q_the_Novice 6 years ago |

https://github.com/qawemlilo/piflix

I built an electron app for organising and watching saved movies. In my part of the world, a lot of people still rely on external storage devices to share movies and music.

ratsimihah 6 years ago |

Music together: https://boomroom.co

Yoga music: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/beat-yoga/id1505203964

amake 6 years ago |

I finally got my perpetual yak-shave to 1.0: an org-mode file viewer for iOS and Android

https://orgro.org

It's cross-platform by way of Flutter. It's also open-source, so you can get it for free, or buy it on the App Store (Google Play coming soon).

amake 6 years ago | |

It’s now available on Google Play as well.

gvuksic 6 years ago |

I like playing with LEGOs, made small project and wrote blogpost about it: https://dev.to/gvuksic/where-s-chewie-object-detection-with-...

Jemaclus 6 years ago | |

Have you seen "Masters of Lego"?? I'm not a huge LEGO person, but that show blew my freakin' mind!

cjwebb 6 years ago | |

I enjoyed reading that - thanks for sharing.

koozz 6 years ago |

Work continues, seeing the kids a lot more. Reading all sorts of programming books and having a go on Rust with something simple but helping in my daily workflow. https://crates.io/crates/mgit

companycalls 6 years ago |

I wanted to use a Jamstack, so I made LockdownLinks

https://www.lockdownlinks.co.uk

It's a simple site that features some links you might find handy during the lockdown. I've tried to put together a list that doesn't feature obvious choices.

I used Vue w/ Gridsome, it's hosted on GitHub with Netlify handling deployments. Honestly, it's been a dream to develop on. Gridsome is very user friendly, and I learned about GraphQL while making it (something I'd been meaning to learn about for a while) Using Netlify and having 'git push' automatically kicking off a build and a deploy without me having to do anything else has been so convenient. I'm definitely going to use a similar stack in the future.

TheCyberBasics 6 years ago |

Decided to finally start a blog, it's slow going and I'm a total n00b at advertising myself but I've always wanted to provide entry-level programming/cybersecurity training to people. I started a blog over at Medium (https://medium.com/@thecyberbasics) and a Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/TheCyberBasics) and a twitter (@BasicsCyber). So far it's slow going, but I enjoy making it so that matters more. I realize the "get started with programming" arena is already slam packed, but I'm hoping someone will find my interpretation useful.

Jemaclus 6 years ago | |

Everyone starts somewhere! I'll read your blog :)

TheCyberBasics 6 years ago | | |

Thank you! I greatly appreciate it.

Karupan 6 years ago |

I made a tiny service to embed CLOC stats for GitHub repos as an image in the project’s docs - https://git-cloc.fly.dev

Also enrolled for the science of well-being course on Coursera last week. Eye opening in some aspects so far!

joaomoreno 6 years ago |

I created a browser based, client-side only, GIF screen recording tool:

https://gifcap.dev/

It uses a fork of gifsicle compiled in WASM to produce highly optimized GIFs really fast. It supports trimming and cropping the end result.

Let me know what you think!

markosaric 6 years ago |

I'm working on Plausible Analytics: https://plausible.io

It's an open source, simple (all metrics on one page), lightweight (1.4 KB), no cookies (no need for cookie banner) and no private data collected (no need for GDPR consent) alternative to Google Analytics.

The code is on GitHub https://github.com/plausible-insights/plausible/

mstolpm 6 years ago | |

Congrats. Interesting project, looks great.

Could you comment on how you achieve GDPR compliance without the need of me getting a user consent from my visitors? I was always assuming that using a hosted solution like Plausible for analytics will at least result in the visitor IP address leaking to the service provider ... and for this I'd need consent if including your script?

markosaric 6 years ago | | |

Thank you!

Here's how we've done it. There's no legal precedent but we believe this makes us compliant:

To enhance the visitor privacy, we don’t actually store the raw visitor IP address in our database or logs. We run it through a one-way hash function to scramble the raw IP addresses and make them impossible to recover.

To further enhance privacy, we add the website domain to the IP hash.

We also add the User-Agent string to the hash.

We've shared more details on this here https://plausible.io/data-policy

carapace 6 years ago |

I'm working on what I'm calling a "provenance server" that tracks the spread of information. It's a little hard to explain. In my notes I wrote "better Twitter" and "no bullshit".

Rather than track people surreptitiously it's completely public and voluntary. It allows for feedback to let people "+1" items on several dimensions (basically a big bag of emotional adjectives) and I want to rank the "truthiness" of facts, from physical laws and math (at one end) to opinion and interpretation at the other, with a (metaphorical) low-pass filter for BS and crap.

All information on the network is public, there is no walled garden or silo. The idea is to think things out together, in public, avoiding repetition and noise.

WildGreenLeave 6 years ago |

As a full-time Asana[0] user with Bitbucket[1] (and Github[2]) I am missing so many features with regards to connecting these two services. Meet Astogi.com[3] which essentially does the following:

1) Automatically generate unique task IDs for all created tasks. (e.g. TA-12)

2) On push in Bitbucket/Github, post a notification in the Asana task that is mention in the commit message. (e.g. Changed login form to fix TA-12)

If anyone is interested hit me up! I'm in dire need of some good feedback. :)

[0] https://asana.com

[1] https://bitbucket.org

[2] https://github.com

[3] https://astogi.com

Jemaclus 6 years ago | |

Awesome idea! I like mashing up services!

tebeka 6 years ago |

Wrote too (small) books so far - Go Brain Teasers (https://gum.co/iIQT) - Python Brain Teasers (https://gum.co/iIQT)

Working on the 3rd ...

Delfino 6 years ago |

I've been learning Blender. Started with Blender Guru's doughnut tutorial then branched out from there. Made a simple virtual pet game where I made all the art myself. I ended up also downloading LMMS to make my own theme song for the game. It's been pretty fun.

appel 6 years ago | |

Link for the lazy: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjEaoINr3zgEq0u2MzVgA...

elisee 6 years ago |

I've been focusing on re-making my various Web party games into a more unified platform at https://jklm.fun/

The previous iterations were built years ago using CoffeeScript, Grunt/Gulp, Jade, Stylus, etc. This time around, I went for vanilla HTML/JS/CSS, no transpilation, no bundler, no build step at all (and no frameworks). It's been a joy. I'm using the TypeScript compiler in VS Code for sanity checking and might add some JSDoc to leverage the type checks even, but for now it's quite nice as is.

I've also enjoyed building up a Discord community for it all, got almost a thousand people in there now and it's a lot of fun interacting on a daily basis.

Pamar 6 years ago |

I live in Germany where the actual lockdown was way less severe than most other EU countries, especially in my region (which on the other hand had a very small of cases).

I did get some extra time because one of the few things that were actually closed down was my Aikido dojo. But mostly I exploited the fact that friends in Italy and Belgium could not go out at all and... I started an online RPG campaign using Discord as a platform and Mini-six for the rules.

We are having a blast - I hope that the players will like enough to keep playing even after they get back to a more normal schedule in their life (me, as the GM, I have done some up-front investment in preparing lots of content and so I think I will be able to run it even when I go back to 3/week practice).

DenisM 6 years ago |

A folding hardtail mountain bike with a mid-drive electric motor, a torque sensor, a geared rear hub, and a coaster brake. Maybe a belt too (I wish).

The e-bikes I've seen offer a small motorcycle in disguise, but what I want is a set of superman's legs, while not being a superman.

mbrameld 6 years ago | |

Which e-bikes have you been looking at? I've ridden the Trek Powerfly and the YT Decoy and they're both exactly like what you're looking for. They only add to your output and in proportion to it. I also have a Raleigh cruiser e-bike and it works the same way. I was under the impression that all but the cheapest class 1 bikes work the same. I have ridden a couple rear hub drive bikes like the Rad Rover and they have a more "on or off" feel. The motor starts as soon as you start pedalling at whatever power setting you have selected

DenisM 6 years ago | | |

Thanks for your comment! I have tried the Rad Bikes and I had the exact same feeling like you. No cadence assist for me.

I looked at all the bikes you have suggested, and sadly none fit the bill. I didn't think they would - I have studied the subject extensively.

1. All popular mid-drive motors such as Bosch and Shimano are designed for European market, capped 250 watts, sometimes 350 watts. The max legal in the US is 750 watts, and I really want the max. I might even need the max when bike packing, or simply climbing up the hill where I live (it's pretty bad).

2. All legal powerful motors are rear-hub or front-hub. They can't take advantage of the rear wheel gearing, so they can't climb the hills. Rad Bikes have it written in the instructions that one must not use max assist when climbing uphill.

3. One can find non-street legal motors (how about 3000 watt) and they will climb rather well without gearing, but I want to stay within the law and conserve battery power. They are also heavy, and I might need to carry my bike on stairs.

4. There is a handful of street-legal powerful mid-drive motors, but they are mostly use on custom builds (Bafang, Tonsheng, etc), and even then only some of them seem to support torque sensors.

Then there are other concerns: it's nearly impossible to find full-size folding mountain bike, they are all 20" tire size. The $4k+ tag is about twice as much as I am planning to spend. Most of the bikes have rear shocks (stealing power - see "bike bobbing").

itsAustinKing 6 years ago |

I built a collaborative whiteboard tool for interviews. https://interviewboard.io

Generate a unique whiteboard and share with a friend to see it in action.

We were struggling to conduct software architecture interviews since going remote at my job because we no longer had a whiteboard, so I built InterviewBoard to fix this. I've been surprised by the ways people have used it. I originally anticipated people would only use it for software architecture, but data scientists have also told me they find it very useful. I'm still currently allowing as many free whiteboards as you want. Hope you find it useful! If you have any feedback I'd appreciate it at aking@interviewboard.io

Imanari 6 years ago | |

Careful, the public board shows porn

itsAustinKing 6 years ago | | |

Hahahaha jesus christ. Of course this happened. Appreciate you letting me know!

cesarferradas 6 years ago | |

That's awesome Austin, will take a look and recommend it at my workplace.

austinking 6 years ago | | |

Hey Cesar, that's great to hear. Mind shooting me an email at aking@interviewboard.io? Would love to run through some questions to get product feedback if you have the time.

Stay well!

awillen 6 years ago |

I started selling make-at-home frozen dog treats: https://coopersdogtreats.com/. It's pretty sweltering here in San Diego, so I wanted to make frozen treats for my dog, but all the recipes online are mainly yogurt (which he hates) or peanut butter (which I use to feed him his flea pills, so he flees when he smells it now).

I started by putting some freeze-dried meat into a food processor until it became a dust, then I started adding some other ingredients for flavor/smell/consistency. I was really happy with the results, so I thought I'd try selling them! So far just a few sales, but I haven't done much marketing to this point.

Jemaclus 6 years ago | |

Fantastic! My dog would LOVE these!

swyx 6 years ago |

I'm writing a career advice book for early career developers.

https://gumroad.com/l/bAZJq

It's my first book, and I have to fight a lot of impostor syndrome to give nontechnical advice (because its context dependent and who am I to give it). But the feedback for my prior writing indicates there's some sort of demand for this, and I do believe that the "soft skills" side of early dev careers aren't talked about enough.

There's a lot of "break into tech" and then "go from engineer to engineering manager" content out there. I'm trying to fill the space in between. We'll see how it goes... aiming to launch June 1st.

roessland 6 years ago |

Bought 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.

gnur 6 years ago | |

What piano software was your favorite? And what device do you connect your piano to?

roessland 6 years ago | | |

Simply Piano was pretty fun but the Android version is lacking in features. I connected a Roland FP-30 to my Samsung Note 10 using a OTG adapter and it works just fine. I also had some issues getting audio without using the phone speakers since there is no minijack and Bluetooth latency was unacceptable.

I tried Playground sessions and Flowkey only briefly but I liked the UI in Piano Marvel better. Also Piano Marvel doesn't require your credit card to get a free demo.

I ended up with Piano Marvel and a Windows laptop. What I like is that it's just sheet music. Very good for training rhythm and tempo. The UI is a clunky and buggy SPA, but it works. Biggest con is that the music is pretty bad. Simply Piano has licensed tons of popular music while Piano Marvel has mostly free and classical music.

rwb618 6 years ago |

A good friend and I have been making meditation seats for people that are inflexible and struggle to sit cross legged. It’s been going really well! https://www.practicemeditation.co

chanchal1987 6 years ago |

It is go pprof agent and client yo run and collect pprof remotely from go binary, an alternative yo net/http/pprof

https://github.com/chanchal1987/grpc-profile

frederikvanh 6 years ago |

I've been working on my sideproject BitPull, a browser automation tool. You can create pretty complex workflows with it to extract data or just automate things in general. https://bitpull.io

lbutler 6 years ago |

I've mostly been learning/practicing my French.

My wife is due to have our first child in six weeks and she is keen for our children to speak French and English.

Besides all the benefits of being bilingual, I mostly fear my wife and children will tease me in French with me none the wiser!

jmsad 6 years ago |

Video Chat Game Night: https://vcgamenight.com

As the name suggests, this web app is meant to help groups of friends play some common party games (Cards Against Humanity, Taboo, Poker, etc.) over Video Chat.

nbclark 6 years ago | |

This is cool. I did something similar for just poker (https://pokerinplace.app). Would love to chat and share notes.

eden_hazard 6 years ago |

I've been trying to build a medical dictionary app in the Bengali language. I want to make that knowledge accessible to Bengali speakers that don't speak English. Hard part has been finding someone to translate drug information from English to Bengali.

johnys 6 years ago |

Built a site to connect startups with free MBA interns for the summer (https://hireastartupmba.com/intern-stipend).

I’m an engineer exploring “the dark side” and saw a lot of classmates losing internships because of covid.

Contrary to the bad rap I feel that MBAs get amongst hackers, I’ve been pleasantly surprised how kind, scrappy, and effective my classmates are when applied to the right work “around the tech” e.g. marketing, running numbers, and fuzzy stuff that is important as companies grow.

Grew larger than we expected to a lot of other schools.

One disappointment: I wanted to call it “Hire the Dark Side,” but couldn’t find a single MBA who understood the joke!

pielambr 6 years ago |

I've started to make a simple website where people can share useful snippets of code, handy Linux commands or just anything useful regarding code. Urbandictionary-wise you can view topics, or go to a random snippet. Probably use this as a personal fun wiki

cpcdoy 6 years ago |

I've been working on optimizing inference time of a BERT-based multilingual NLP model in Rust, check it out here: https://github.com/cpcdoy/rust-sbert

agacini 6 years ago |

I've written a picture viewer for my 2 years old kid while he learns and asks a lot about everything nowadays.

https://sinaler.github.io/react-native-media-viewer

balazstorok 6 years ago | |

really nice, my 2 year-old is going to love it

scottcheng 6 years ago |

I made https://lostjourneys.live, a virtual bot that road-trips around the world in Google Street View and broadcasts its journeys, because I want to travel and see the world so badly!

tunesmith 6 years ago |

Creative writing website for people to write silly hyperfiction novels together. It's closed beta, but over the last month a handful of us have written about eighty chapters totaling about the length of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. We're slowly looking for more writers that like doing round-robin-ish fiction like that. The site ends up owning the content but it's doubtful it will ever end up truly publication quality - it's mostly about just the fun of riffing off each other's submissions. The first version of the site existed almost 25 years ago so there are a lot of in-progress stories, I just brought it back to life with updated tech because of the virus.

strongbond 6 years ago | |

I know it's a closed beta, but would be interested in (at least) reading it.

tunesmith 6 years ago | | |

I dropped you an email.

zzo38computer 6 years ago |

I am working mainly on TeXnicard [0]. While not yet complete, I have made a lot of progress in writing it (and I have mentioned it on here before, I think, but I implemented more since then).

I also read some books, too.

Also, I have a comment about the pagination on Hacker News. I will want to know how many pages there are in order to quickly skip to the last page. (Really, just implementing NNTP would help. It has a high water and low water number, to easily find the oldest and newest messages. It has a lot of other benefits too, including user-defined sorting, offline mode, etc.)

[0] http://zzo38computer.org/fossil/texnicard.ui

bartligthart 6 years ago |

Created a Lighthouse tracking tool. Takes a Google Lighthouse test every night. Give you a report every Monday morning.

It's free to use till I figure out if people really want this tool.

https://pages100.com/

ollerac 6 years ago |

I just made some bread the other day.

I'm also trying to get Remake off the ground: https://remaketheweb.com/

Currently working on 3 intro blog posts, as well as coming up with a sustainable pricing model.

LeegleechN 6 years ago |

Learning electric guitar and toying with the idea of making a trainer game/app, primarily for practicing chords. Realtime chord detection is not too difficult for a single person to implement, but at the same time it is not a commodity technology either.

slantyyz 6 years ago | |

Rocksmith pretty good and goes on sale on Steam regularly, if you end up finding that building something will take too much time.

LeegleechN 6 years ago | | |

I'm using Rocksmith and Yousician (the free version), but I think there's room to improve over what both of them provide for practice / exercises. For learning and performing songs they're definitely the best due to the sheer amount of content they have.

I'm very early in my learning journey so I'm not concerned that developing a prototype version I could use for myself will take too long (it could be that I'm underestimating the difficulty of the problem). I was already able to slap together most of the "glue" code in Unity in a couple hours, and given my signal processing background I have solid ideas for how to approach the difficult algorithmic parts.

OrangeBacon 6 years ago |

I've been working on writing a c11 compiler, to x86_64/x64 assembly, currently just finished implementing function pointers and global variables. I still need to implement arrays/struct/string literals/optimisation, so a lot to do, but it is good enough to allocate memory and print hello world. It would be nice if I could make the compiler output binary files, not assembly source, but that seems like it would be a lot more todo. Implementing the type syntax was I think the hardest part so far, given c’s weird type syntax. https://github.com/OrangeBacon/mcc

johnboiles 6 years ago |

Spice up your video conferences with OBS compositing (allows you to do green screen, multiple cameras, etc)

https://github.com/johnboiles/obs-mac-virtualcam

bleakgadfly 6 years ago |

Started on these at mid-March when the recommendation for quarantine came in effect in my country. Most are incomplete and WIP (I love switching back and forth between projects):

- Slack RTM bot which picks up my morning and goodbye messages in our channel and stash the duration into our time registration system so I don't have to do it manually. Using Slack library for Go, compiled to C library using gccgo for C ABI compatibility, then using Zig's cImport functionality to develop the bot in Zig (because why do it the easy way)

- mbedTLS bindings to Zig (Zig can generate alot of this out of the box, but I'm tailoring it by hand)

- HTTP/1.1 client in Zig, ties into the mbedTLS bindings I want to provide TLS support

HeavyStorm 6 years ago |

I'm finally (finally!) taking the time to learn Unreal Engine. I'm actually working on "porting" my favorite board game to it... I began doing that in Unity but I later decided that I should also use this moment to learn something new.

circlefavshape 6 years ago |

Recorded this with my 15 and 11 year old daughters (a version of The Specials' 80s classic Ghost Town) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tAUlAlMFEI

nodesocket 6 years ago |

I bought a cheap used HP Proliant ML350p server on ebay for my home rig. 8 cores, 32 GB of memory, and 6X SAS drives in RAID 10.

  Run xcp-ng[1] virtualization:
    4x VM's running a Kubernetes cluster; three workers and a master.
      - Traefik load balancer in the Kubernetes cluster
      - Consul in the Kubernetes cluster for Traefik
      - GitTea[2] in the Kubernetes cluster
    FreeNAS[3] VM
    Plex[4] VM
    VPN[5] VM

 [1] https://xcp-ng.org/
 [2] https://gitea.io/en-us/
 [3] https://www.freenas.org/
 [4] https://www.plex.tv/
 [5] https://github.com/hwdsl2/setup-ipsec-vpn

yuegui 6 years ago |

I've continued to work on my open source BI application: https://github.com/shzlw/poli The roadmap is to make it a all-in-one database application!

murphy214 6 years ago |

Finally biting bullet and learning react (I've had run ins in the past) by converting a vanilla js handcoded-web (super complicated) app to react. Probably not the best app to learn on as it requires a Mapbox map which means you have to interface with the map api in a very untraditional way.

Was a little new to npm as well, but got rolling after a while. Not done yet, still little issues with flow state, for example, if I have a dual range slider in react with clearly styled and labeled beg and ending sliders values, how do I drag one slider over the other and force swapping the two but continue the UI motion. Currently I'm just overriding the event target.

hariharasudhan 6 years ago | |

try https://www.bytehub.dev/ for some cool react components

gghootch 6 years ago |

An app to re-connect with your favorite people you don't necessarily talk to quite often. It combines Tinder-like swiping with a LinkedIn-like profile that only highlights what you do best and are proud of.

Preview here: https://i.imgur.com/ZNdStSm.png

I imagine this being used by people to reconnect with acquintances that they really admire, who will naturally start new projects / bands / companies / skateboard crews after learning of each other's mutual admiration.

It's super early stages, but would love to hear from you on hello@gethelden.com if you think it's interesting :-)

sharedmocha 6 years ago |

I am working on creating a product that performs 'Log Aggregator + Metrics Analysis + decentralized distributed tracking' for blockchain apps. Today's log analysis and metrics applications are focused on providing services to micro service or monolithic applications wheras blockchain apps are decentralized in nature and run across multiple parties or organizations. This creates a challenge when monitoring the system and performing log analysis or distributed tracing as systems span across multiple parties or organizations. I am trying to simplify this by creating decentralized logging apps which work like dApps (decentralized apps)

bondolo 6 years ago |

I am working on a novel. It is the third novel/story I have started since 2016. I will probably abandon it before completion but I am practicing and improving my writing. Eventually I hope be able to write a complete novel. I haven't had anyone review the writing as I am still at the point where self diagnosis and correction is fairly obvious (I make a LOT of mistakes). There is plenty of good writing advice and exercises on the Internet; my writing problems are extremely typical for new writers.

Like my early software, I expect that my current novel will eventually collapse under the weight of inherent lousiness. I will then start again and do better.

Jemaclus 6 years ago | |

Don't abandon it! Keep writing! Then publish it so I can say I cheered on a budding writer on HN :) I'm sure it's a wonderful story!

ggurgone 6 years ago |

Host watch parties, invite people and applaude the speakers! https://applause.now.sh

Auto archive long standing open tabs (chrome extension) https://twitter.com/giuseppegurgone/status/12533505569718149...

Continuing to work on ReadMo - read viewer app + audio player https://twitter.com/giuseppegurgone/status/12376578494146805...

anonymoushn 6 years ago |

I noticed that the syntax and semantics of Lox and Monkey mostly don't conflict with each other, so I am making an interpreter that does both.

I also made a fully incremental static site generator, but this will probably never be something I can show off because it isn't cleanly divided into "library code" and "configuration for he specific sites it generates." It has no non-incremental mode. You might say "Performance is a non-issue for static site generators!", but incremental builds means you can make expensive operations like pngcrush part of your build without having to wait forever.

xutopia 6 years ago |

I am making bread once a week, trying my hands at making croissants and just this week I decided I would give charcuterie a go. I've started with drying duck breasts but I'm sourcing what I need to make some saucissons.

k00b 6 years ago |

I'm building https://choremate.co with a working tagline of 'The Best Chore Chart in the World.' Living with other people tends to suck and I know it can be better.

I'm also working on Crisp https://github.com/huumn/crisp which is a cryptocurrency written is Lisp. It's currently a toy meant for exploring, but what I want to do is have the transaction language be designed around spawning subchains. A blockchain for creating blockchains.

makach 6 years ago |

I'm working on sorting my collection of digital family photos. Tedious, nostalgic and important work.

How can I secure this collection for my children, when I have passed on, how can I ensure that they can access and get a copy of the files?

Dumblydorr 6 years ago | |

Print a book of them, that'd be the 100% safest

Nr7 6 years ago |

I've started doing some maintenance on my old computers. I just finished recapping my Amiga 1200 earlier this week and this morning I ordered a long T15 torx driver so I can open up my old classic Macs.

I'm also planning on looking into modifying an old digital clock radio I have with and ESP that uses NTP to keep time more accurately but I haven't gotten very far with that yet.

The lockdown is really only half the reason I'm doing these projects now. The other reason is that I moved to a bigger apartment earlier this year so now I actually have space to hack around with this kind of stuff.

hackeraccount 6 years ago |

Ha ha - I'm such a slacker. It's getting IPv6 working the way I want it at home. Currently I'm playing around with getting the DHCP server to add a AAAA record. I'm actually still using Unique Local Addresses (ULAs) addresses while I figure out how this all works.

Once I've got that I'll play around with the firewall. And then get an actual external working address. But I think I want to keep that ULA.

It's super simple stuff and I move amazingly slowly.

It's also sad compared to other people in this thread who are starting businesses and creating software that will save the world.

davinci26 6 years ago |

I am working on my new year resolutions and learn to invest in individual stocks. I am slightly biased towards tech companies.

Why I am doing this:

- Improve my business (learn about different business models) - Improve my product sense - Hearing good CEOs talking at their investors is a great lesson.

What I am building:

- Use Azure to automate stuff and set up notifications for events I am interested in.

- Use python to backtest strategies.

I wrote this thing last week https://medium.com/@davinci260/why-only-buy-when-you-can-als...

chrisyeah 6 years ago |

We used the time to work on renovating an old historic vault, in order to make it an outdoor vault / barbecue spot.

We actually already started renovating before the lockdown. But since there are not so many leisure activities anymore, now we took almost all our free time to focus on this private project.

Some days ago I started documenting it on Instagram, if you want to check it out: https://www.instagram.com/gewoelbefichtelgebirge/ (texts are in German).

flancian 6 years ago |

I started an Agora: https://anagora.org.

The Agora is an enhanced social contract for the internet: https://anagora.org/wiki/Agora

The site itself is just based on MediaWiki, no ad-hoc code for now. In the future I hope to be able to port it to AthensResearch: https://github.com/athensresearch/athens.

ermir 6 years ago |

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.

wodow 6 years ago |

Rebooted https://www.lancelist.com —- it’s a directory of sites for freelancers, especially those new to the game, to find work

cedricmar 6 years ago |

I’ve released a side project I’ve been working on for a bit.

I use Notes on OSX quite a bit (and GEdit on Linux...) for gists, reminders, cheatsheets etc... Mainly to re-use code bits and idioms I find useful. But then I switch computers / OSes quite a bit and I don’t have these notes with me everywhere.

I wanted to solve this problem for me in a way that was compatible with my usual workflow (copy / paste!).

So I built https://www.sheethub.io it is very Beta ATM, but if you find a use for it I'm happy :)

elfanjo 6 years ago | |

Awesome exactly what I needed thxs !

spuz 6 years ago |

The pandemic has caused demand for oximeters to skyrocket (going from around £10 to £90 in some cases). I've been working on a project based on a the MAX30102 heart rate and oxygen level sensor which cost me only £5. Actually I am simply tweaking the code that someone else has written which you can see demoed here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/esp32/comments/g64w16/esp32_heartra...

gijsnijholt1980 6 years ago |

I’m working on a WhatsApp-but-using-email app. Prototype on https://nyholt.gitlab.io/whatsmail/

It has not been validated by Google yet so you get a big red warning box, but its all client side code. Basically you get the interface of WhatsApp, but the messages are plain old e-mails. No support for attachments yet, but works perfectly otherwise.

I’m using it myself, its really pleasant to use. It makes e-mail into a less formal communication method.

Made with React & Tailwindcss.

kregasaurusrex 6 years ago |

Been working more on the Advent Of Code (AoC) problems in Python, almost halfway complete. https://adventofcode.com/

ryanchants 6 years ago |

Working on "Grow a Story". It's based on the old drill/game "advance and expand" where someone starts a story and hands it off to someone else. As a user, you have three actions: start a new story, expand an existing story, or refine.

Refine is the most interesting part, you are essentially editing the transition between two story nodes. The goal is to not add much, but make the transition smoother. Was thinking of capping the allowed delta in some way and requiring the original authors to approve the story "PR".

snyena 6 years ago | |

Can I follow this online somewhere?

ryanchants 6 years ago | | |

unfortunately, not yet. I came up with the idea a few days ago and it's just thoughts in a notebook right now. probably start working on something concrete this weekend

changetheway 6 years ago |

During the quarantine, I decided to pivot my project and focus 100% on online teaching.

Our vision is to improve online teaching and learning experience. The first tool we are building is interactive presentations.

https://www.prezelive.com/

Education is very important and I feel like people forget about teachers and how they need to transform towards online teaching. I see a great opportunity in this fast-growing market.

What do you think guys? Do you know anybody that could help me share this idea with my target group?

netjiro 6 years ago |

1) A bit of cleaning up of an online tabletop game.

https://github.com/netjiro/hactac

Happy to host a game for anyone interested once I have functional internet restored. Stuck in France and connectively handicapped.

2) Baking cakes !

The best one yet is an almond chocolate cake which functions really well as proper-food-replacement.

3) On the work side I've been helping a few companies migrate to remote work. Improving organisational habits and behaviour so people see that remote can be a positive thing. Measurably.

lucjac 6 years ago |

A gratitude journal app - since you really need to be mindful of your mental health these days! https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mind.happy...

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mindhappy-gratitude-journal/...

jnajafov 6 years ago |

I was working on building an IOS app to improve productivity.

Finally today, "Smart Sloth" is out on Product Hunt

Check it out and let me know your thoughts - https://www.producthunt.com/posts/smart-sloth

Smart Sloth is a task manager that helps you be more efficient with YOUR TIME. Smart Sloth uses the concept of timeboxing, which is to allocate a set amount of time to each task, therefore, creating a deadline which can increase the productivity of the user.

nakabonne 6 years ago |

I've been building a TUI tool to operate Golang linters intuitively, called golintui (https://github.com/nakabonne/golintui).

A noteworthy feature is that you can open a file by specifying the issue line.

"What do you like about Go?" when asked, I always answer, "easy to make a linter". Thanks to that, a bunch of linters are on the rampage. I've been wanted to try them on the UI in a casual way, that's why I made this tool.

ChicagoBoy11 6 years ago |

Ended up watching some of the F1 guys play videogames and thought it was kinda funny but pretty stupid. Then I kept watching it... and became a little obsessed. Now it's turned into my time pit (outside of work hours) through a mixture of watching better drivers to learn from them, optimizing my rig and recording setup to allow me to be fully immersed in VR while still capturing video with all sorts of interesting overlays, and trying to mitigate a huge temptation to spend a lot more money on making my setup more elaborate.

Hoasi 6 years ago |

- Wrote the documentation and put online Supply, an e-commerce site with Gumroad integration built with Jekyll and Tachyons: https://supply.templates.supply/about/. Repo: https://github.com/YJPL/Supply

- Putting together a leporello book

- Drawing colouring book(s) for kids and adults

- Not a side project per se, but learned how to work in SketchUp & Storyboard Pro

programbreeding 6 years ago |

I started a blog at https://theforgetful.dev. It's extremely basic. I'm still figuring out Hugo, and my writing style, and everything else. It has been a fun experience so far.

I used to store this info in a private wiki but I'm trying to find a way to do it properly in this format. I did it 99.9% for myself, because if I don't write things down then I forget them. But if it ends up being useful to someone else then I figure that's even better.

lanius 6 years ago |

I started working on a MyFitnessPal clone, the app is great but some features I want are missing or require a subscription. If any open source project like this already exists, please let me know.

marz0 6 years ago |

Initially worked on a game very similar to Avalon / The Resistance but using different concepts for good and bad (Firefighters vs Arsonists). Lost interest in this eventually since playing Avalon on netgames.io with friends has been good enough despite a few minor bugs.

Started a different side project that attempts to create a large collection of newsletters:

https://www.radletters.com/

Also learning more about Docker and Kubernetes to get a better sense of how the architecture works.

bpicolo 6 years ago |

Very much still in progress, but making something akin to active_storage / carrierwave but for Dotnet (getting familiar with the dotnet core ecosystem). I think by the end of the month it'll be pretty darn usable, but want to add dead simple handling of image processing and similar beyond that.

https://github.com/bpicolo/bulletin

I always find it fun to play with the limits of library ergonomics under language / ecosystem constraints.

darekkay 6 years ago |

I've made some good progress on my Dashboard project [1] during the quarantine. Currently I'm (re-)writing the tests from enzyme to react-testing-library.

I've also decided to redesign my Bookmarks app [2] recently - it's now one of my few designs that I'm really happy with :)

[1] https://dashboard.darekkay.com/

[2] https://darekkay.com/static-marks/

Deestan 6 years ago |

I was already speedrunning bread due to parental leave. Got sourdough down to <10 minutes active labor including prep and cleanup.

Now my project is a 1000 science per minute factory in Factorio. I'm 100 or so hours in. It is a game I'll recommend to any programmer: It exercises optimization, planning, testing, debugging, (coaching and collaboration if multiplayer), prioritizing right, and the balance of living with hacky imperfections while still not letting them overwhelm your design and grind everything to a halt.

mayormcmatt 6 years ago |

My coworker and I got laid off, so we decided to play around with React and the Mapbox GL JS API to generate this map of restaurants open for take-out in the SF East Bay (from static data scraped from our local alt-weekly paper). It was really fun and interesting to do.

We're now working on a Reddit clone that uses (again) React and Firestore (for auth and storage). It's just for education, not some planned product.

http://www.eastbay-takeout.com/

Jemaclus 6 years ago | |

Great map! It's hard to find good restaurants in the East Bay through the major sites...

adultSwim 6 years ago | |

Sorry you lost your job

ZacharyPitts 6 years ago |

I made a chicken coop and chicken run in my backyard. My chickens are now 10 weeks old, and happily running around in the run every day.

Now that I'm done (as of a week ago), I need another side project!

ryanstorm 6 years ago |

I lasted about two weeks without climbing before I built myself free-standing backyard climbing wall:

https://www.westby.io/woody/

I had to pick up all the tools for it, and with those I'm on a kick for other craft projects. I have plans for some wooden climbing holds, a raised planter box, a little free library for the neighborhood, a bench.

Woodworking is such a fun hobby I didn't know I liked. I think it's because it's so tangential to tech.

RangerScience 6 years ago |

We're taking https://www.brian.bot/ and making a domestic violence chat line (and a few other things).

swhelan 6 years ago |

I made this as a quick pick-me-up and reminder to go for my dreams and whims: https://www.toooldto.com/

matsutsu 6 years ago |

https://patchgirl.io a REST client that allows you to play scenario of http requests to test/setup your project

zhte415 6 years ago |

Building a rabbit hutch and nice area for running with protection against predatory birds.

Working with a friend who went back to the farm three years ago - for context at 40 he's the youngest person in the village - on local country cooking, sustainable farming, and promoting the area as an attractive break-away resort to breathe some prosperity into what is a really quite sustenance area.

And of course my non-side project that I decided to dive in to at exactly the worst time in a decade. Oh well. But optimistic on that.

gavreh 6 years ago |

1. GitHub CSV Tools (https://github.com/gavinr/github-csv-tools) - import/export issues from GitHub

2. split-polygon-demo (https://gavinr.github.io/split-polygon-demo/) - demonstrates the ~4 geographical operations you can perform to split a polygon into n roughly equal area polygons.

logicprog 6 years ago |

I've been working on my novel, and learning a new RPG system. I worked on my novel before quarantine too, but I'm trying to speed up my progress. I wrote 2099 words yesterday.

ells1231 6 years ago |

I've been working on a my new Hacker News client for Android, called Panda!

It's still early days but has the basic features done and the extra lockdown time is definitely helping build out the more needed features (you can't currently log in to your hacker news account but that's coming soon)

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.co.elliotmu...

topbanana 6 years ago |

I've installed Cat6a in the house and placed a few UniFi access points around. Not much but then my regular job is keeping me super busy. Oh and cooking every meal from scratch!

lemiffe 6 years ago |

I always wanted to make YouTube videos but never found time or energy after work. Finally decided to give it a go, and combined 2 things I love: Making music and gaming. So I now make videos playing Geoguessr, writing stories about the places I end up in, and composing songs to those stories. I'm thinking now about adding a programming aspect into these videos somehow. https://youtube.com/lemiffe

spuz 6 years ago | |

This sounds very similar to GeoGuessrWizard's content (which is great by the way). He makes music, plays games and has some great travel/adventure films. Good luck!

ORioN63 6 years ago |

https://github.com/Qu4tro/git-bookmark

A simple git subcommand to keep your browsing sessions together with whatever repository relates to the session.

It's kinda trivial, but learned a few different things, mostly about git and BATS.

For example:

     git checkout --orphan

As its name suggests, creates a branch without a parent. Pretty trivial, but I hadn't encountered it before.

It's tested, CI integrated, already in use.

fiveSpeedManual 6 years ago |

I've been busy building Pantry - a free JSON storage service for small personal projects.

I posted it a few days ago on HN and a lot of you had some great ideas and feedback. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23030298

For now I'm keeping busy maintaining Pantry. You guys can check it out here! https://getpantry.cloud/

HMH 6 years ago |

I turned my iPad into a graphic tablet for my Linux system as I was in need of taking handwritten notes there. I posted a Show HN a few days ago but it did not get much traction [1]. You can have a look at it here: https://github.com/H-M-H/Weylus

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23082036

have_faith 6 years ago |

I'm writing a javscript chess board rendering library similar to chessboard.js but with some new ideas thrown in.

I also made this to play with SvelteJS for fun (UK government alert message generator): https://adamjaggard.github.io/stay-alert/public/index.html

I was working on a tongue-in-cheek web game called Political Campaign Simulator but it's parked at the moment.

garl923 6 years ago |

I made a referral-sharing service: https://referd.io

It's a free way to distribute your referral codes and find new deals :)

geckoquaint 6 years ago |

I 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.

Arkdy 6 years ago |

https://devpost.com/software/coronavirus-charts-org https://github.com/rainbow-bamboo/coronavirus-charts/

I've been making a way for reporters to cite covid-19 data and models through a url based citation system. All help is welcome ^_^

ioseph 6 years ago |

Started playing around with the VCV Rack SDK, I've made a somewhat functional pitch detection module so you can create V/Oct signal using audio from a real instrument.

bsldld 6 years ago |

Attempting an opensource non-profit moonshot project to reduce student debt and increase salary of everyone involved in that student's education. It is at a very early stage. Trying to get as much inputs from everyone who matters. Details are here: https://gitlab.com/bsldld/s/-/blob/master/README.md

Everyone is welcome to join.

mpodlasin 6 years ago |

List of free (and legal) resources (textbooks, lectures notes, videos) to study mathematics:

https://realnotcomplex.com

ASquirrelsTail 6 years ago |

I made an emulator of the Turing Tumble marble-powered mechanical computer where can use to work on puzzles together in real time so I can keep teaching my nephew computer science remotely. You can try it out here: http://tumble-together.herokuapp.com/ It was great to use its development to teach about MVPs, and then he helped teach me some harsh lessons about feature creep!

raivo 6 years ago |

I'm helping educators so they can offer home based camp experiences to kids. Ages 4-9 right now. https://www.kidshomecamp.com/

Additional plans include:

- home work help, maybe even proper homeschooling classes;

- setups for public school teachers to run their classes (I hear the current experience leaves a lot to be desired).

If someone has public school teacher contacts interested in experimenting with delivery, I'd love to talk to them.

winterismute 6 years ago |

I started publishing a tragicomic, episodic novel about a group of youngsters that decide to move from playing CoD all the day to develop their own game. It is unfortunately in Italian, but if you happen to understand it, here is the first episode: https://ilsognoindie.substack.com/p/001-la-scoperta (the name means "The Indie Dream")

spookyuser 6 years ago |

(1) Have recently started learning how to touch type, I figure if I leave the pandemic alive and with that extra skill it will be a huge win.

(2) In march I spent way to long on an extension that adds Hacker News Comments to Goodreads https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-reads-for-g...

ylere 6 years ago |

https://wearehearted.com

A platform that brings together people that are mentally struggling with isolation due to Corona with screened volunteers ("Hearts") that have a professional background in psychotherapy or social work (for free). The technical implementation is a huge hack right now but it works and our 50+ hearts are having video sessions with people from all over the world every day!

total_plus 6 years ago |

I worked on TurboVar EmailBroker, a self hosted email sender application that lets you send emails via 5 popular email API service providers.

With TurboVar EmailBroker you can use a concise and uniform API to send emails using REST requests. If you prefer no-code, you can use a Web UI page.

It was launched this week. Check it at https://turbovar.com/turbovar/emailbroker.jsp

Feeback is welcomed!

willthefirst 6 years ago |

A giant permanent wall of text for and by the internet. Anyone can write on it.

https://wordsoftheweb.web.app

zarkov99 6 years ago |

Archery. Went from worthless to mediocre on a recurve bow. I enjoy shooting at the end of the day a great deal. Plan to switch to compounds soon, maybe even hunt one day.

donnie3000 6 years ago |

I started an ambient radio station — http://moss.garden

A sort of sonic wallpaper to accompany work or daily activities.

Mr_Sweater 6 years ago | |

Thats very cool, I sort of started doing the same thing with black/death metal. Care to share your source?

donnie3000 6 years ago | | |

Using radio.co and will eventually move to Icecast. Would love to check out your station, a friend of mine started one for lofi hiphop — https://loft.radio

intpbro 6 years ago | |

Neat. Love the domain too

keyle 6 years ago | |

So you pay $49 a month to stream your own music?

spieglt 6 years ago |

I am working on a Linux program that will show you the files opened/read/written by another process (and its child processes/threads). I wanted to be able to run an installer and see exactly what files it creates. Or when LibreOffice magically loads a font that seems to not be on my system, I want to know where it got it from. Basically a stripped-down version of strace that only tracks certain syscalls and aims to be more user-friendly.

indigochill 6 years ago |

As an amateur music dabbler, I've been more prolific musically in the lockdown period than I've ever been. Part of this is that I've also committed to improving, but the other is just getting sufficiently bored to put more time into it. The latest three tracks here were all made within the past couple months: https://soundcloud.com/vaguseques

baruchel 6 years ago |

I wrote a multi-player idle text game for playing on IRC: https://pink-dragon.surge.sh It had been running for about three weeks now. Not too many players unfortunately, but still three ascensions which are automatically broadcast on Mastodon: https://botsin.space/@pink_dragon

johnmarcus 6 years ago |

Repeter. Forward traffic from a custom DNS domain to my localhost via an ssh tunnel.

Pulumi (like Terraform) stands up the t2.micro ec2 instance, configures nginx, and assigns the dns in Route53, and enable letsencrypt for https. Then tear it down when your down with it. I find it's much faster than the sass alternates, like ngrok.

https://github.com/nelsonenzo/repeter

ch4s3 6 years ago |

I was recently injured, but before that and as I recover I'm working on a couple of things.

- I'm making improvements to my small apartment brewing setup, making a lot of beer and doing some infrequent contactless growler deliveries to friends.

- I'm also playing with Phoenix LiveView[1] to make my own home brewing tools to replace the subset of BeerSmith(http://beersmith.com/) that I actually use.

[1]

talkinghead 6 years ago |

https://www.oceanwaves.io

make music together with your friends using just your web browser

got a bunch of buzz during lockdown

spirobel 6 years ago |

A Plugin for discourse that makes it easier for students to enter Math equations: https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-math-editor-user-frie... I also work on other discourse plugins. if anyone wants to chat about creating discourse plugins please send me a message on meta.discourse.org.

keriati1 6 years ago |

I learned using the TICK stack and Grafana.

Originally I wanted to see some Covid data with my own visualization, was thinking on D3 first.

Ended up with full TICK stack and Grafana, monitoring all devices I have at home and setting up alerts for all kind of silly stuff. Usefulness is questionable, but I learned a lot.

I have now some insight in the local area covid spread and happy to report, no new cases in my town discovered since a month \o/ (according to the government provided API)

dekhn 6 years ago |

Catching up on a few maker projects I wanted to do for some time. Meshroom is a image to 3D model system, I hate taking a hundred photos manually, so cooked up a rotating platform, greenscreen, and some high power LED lights. Most of the work is just tedious wiring, reducing the total number of power supplies, power cables, etc.

Results are pretty good- I can take ~100-200 photos in a few minutes, import into Meshroom, and have a 3D model an hour later.

mrozbarry 6 years ago |

We do mob programming at work, and one of the main tools we use is a timer. Plenty of apps out there for timing on one machine, not many for sharing the timer. I started spiking out a shared/collaborative timer.

That eventually became https://mobti.me , and it's working well for us. If anyone else tries it, I'd be very happy to get feedback here or on twitter ( @mobtime_app ).

posedge 6 years ago | |

Would like to try it out, but I don't know what mob programming/mob team ist. Maybe mention that on the front page?

rogerdoger123 6 years ago |

https://jotdot.honchohq.com/#/anonymous

Jot Dot - Its a note taking tool I wrote based on workflowy's style of hierarchical bullets l, but I wanted to allow multiple documents and public sharing of notes (eg. My favorite Netflix shows or management notes etc.).

This link takes you to the public notes section. Not released yet so it's just my notes for now.

sigmaskipper 6 years ago |

I've built a website to help restaurants out in this time. It's called Expoed. https://expoed.restaurant

The idea is that restaurants offer reservation time slots, reserved parking spots, a menu item named after you, or really anything they want in exchange for money from diners. Ultimately, it provides another source of revenue for restaurants during these tough times.

ramsj 6 years ago |

I've been working on a way to find Android apps that don't have ads or in app purchases. There are quite a few high quality apps. For example, just replaced Dark Sky weather app with Geometric Weather. I would never have found Geometric Weather without a tool like this. Would love feedback from the community: https://reallyfreeapps.appspot.com

johnmarinelli 6 years ago |

I've been working on an audiovisual project that gets data directly from Ableton Live and feeds it into my THREE.js app. You can see a couple of demos here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9k1pv6hhGE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pxj8g_Y1BtA

metta2uall 6 years ago |

https://foodview.app - a photo food diary that aims to be super-simple, quick, privacy-respecting and free - made with Flutter

https://github.com/eug48/cmd-frontend - a framework for creating customisable web-based GUIs for command-line tools, e.g. for administering Kubernetes

vascofazza 6 years ago |

I've built my own 8bit cpu from scratch https://youtu.be/qSviFkpLFKI

hans0l074 6 years ago |

Been trying to work on a lite "Logging Service" implementation. Something along the lines of Seq[0]. Needs to be extremely simple to use on the cloud and locally. Mainly for practicing more Go which I've come to love. Have barely scratched the surface since I have regular work + a toddler at home + baby arriving in 3 weeks!

[0]https://datalust.co/seq

davidgatti 6 years ago |

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgRepT4AO6mGsJaWsS_mHbA

Started a YouTube channel, where I show how I work on AWS. Completely unstructured, the video are just a memory dumps in a hope to give some frame of reference to new AWS people, or to give some ideas to those that already know a bit of AWS.

ps. Bread, I remember the days I eat it :D

hariharasudhan 6 years ago |

Here we go https://www.bytehub.dev/ for some cool free React.js components. Wanted to create some cool react components which are used commonly. My proud one here https://www.bytehub.dev/components/animated-file-upload

zeptoon 6 years ago | |

Very cool!

mixedmath 6 years ago |

A unified page for math research seminars (and extending to general research seminars): https://mathseminars.org/

Why not use this moment as an opportunity to set up a common portal for announcing and finding research seminars, especially since most are now delivered digitally?

(This is being developed by a group of mathematicians, and I'm not the main dev, but still).

strtw02 6 years ago |

I’ve been working on a scheduling application that will allow healthcare workers to volunteer their time. For instance, retired or at risk healthcare workers who can only video conference, behavioral health specialists. The project got started for a covid-19 hackathon.

https://github.com/CareConsultApp/careconsult/

frasermince 6 years ago |

I'm working on a project to help people learn languages from reading books: https://unchart.io/ I've been using machine learning to highlight different parts of speech which I've found makes looking at a foreign language slightly less overwhelming. My stack is Elixir + React Native + Purescript + Spacy for the machine learning.

krishan711 6 years ago |

I've been working on everypage (https://www.everypagehq.com), a declarative landing page generator - you provide a json file and it will generate a landing page with your specification. its not ready yet but will have an mvp up in about a week. very exiting to be working on something new after many years of only working on day-job stuff.

quaffapint 6 years ago |

Working on a dotnet deployment platform to make the backend as simple as deploying a static site. Point to the repo and let it handle deployment, scaling, and upgrades. Like netlify for dotnet.

Tech wise its hosting it all in kubernetes and building the yaml dynamically. Right now focusing on database support. The challenge is routing from external locations securely.

https://bitleaf.io

niceduck 6 years ago |

I 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.

jstgord 6 years ago |

Have been busy building a basic working prototype for http://boxi.chat : a live shared whiteboard + chat, with markdown and latex support.

some examples : http://blog.boxi.chat

Also.. doing some paintings of internet people : http://art.tiyuti.com

vitiell0 6 years ago |

I started working through this Bioinformatics Jupyter notebook and found that it is really well put together! If you're interested in working with DNA or proteins with Python I highly recommend it. https://github.com/applied-bioinformatics/An-Introduction-To...

asaq 6 years ago |

I build something where i can store my image collections into different categories (lots of art atm + some dwarf fortress maps + plans). Drag drop images (or whole folders) into collections. Its not 100% done yet and I am looking for feedback. Sadly normal work has crept up on me and I feel the motivation slowly leaving my body.. :)

https://collect.cat/

caogecym 6 years ago |

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.

mkuklik 6 years ago |

https://youtu.be/cmETioVtRG0 Trying to build this on a smaller scale using Arduino, 25 droplets. Goal is to make it as cheap as possible. Interesting software problem is how to control many arduino's in synchronized fashion. Stack is C++ Arduino <- serial -> C++ ESP 8266 <- wifi -> server in go and websocket.

soapboxrocket 6 years ago |

I've been working on an Expanse based theme syntax and UI for Atom: https://github.com/CraigDamlo/expanse-syntax https://github.com/CraigDamlo/expanse-ui

Now I'm starting on a daily logging package.

nevode 6 years ago |

I'm creating a collection of written interviews to mainly people in the tech ecosystem about productivity, like how to organize the todo lists, what tools they use, routines, how to manage emails & co.

I always want to know more about how people get things done but it's almost impossible to find high-quality content about it (apart from click baity resources like "what top CEOs do to be more productive").

sentinel 6 years ago |

An app called Mick Tagger – I listen to a lot of music, and this app, which is like a specialized Alfred, helps me more easily manage my Spotify playlists.

It's free on the App Store in case you care to check it out: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mick-tagger/id1490366427?mt=12

dinoreic 6 years ago |

I created Ruby API lib named Joshua, out of frustration with Grape

https://github.com/dux/joshua

* Can work in REST or JSON RPC mode.

* Automatic routing + can be mounted as a Rack app, without framework, for unmatched speed and low memory usage

* Automatic documentation builder & Postman import link

* Nearly nothing to learn, pure Ruby classes

* Consistent and predictable request and response flow

* Errors and messages are localized

ljsocal 6 years ago |

I’m one of the 7,400 Peace Corps Volunteers who had to suddenly evacuate from our overseas posts. I’ve organized a group of 59 leaders to support the rest of the evacuees by providing service opportunities. If you have ideas for volunteer tasks and projects (here or abroad) that can be performed remotely, please serve them up. Average PC Volunteer is 27 with above average communication and tech skills. Thanks!

isthispermanent 6 years ago |

The next, and first paid version of https://factfreaks.com. A math teaching tool.

langitbiru 6 years ago |

Mamba (https://mamba.black), the Pythonic blockchain development framework. It's like Truffle framework (https://trufflesuite.com). If Truffle is Solidity+web3.js, Mamba is Vyper+web3.py.

Prior to Covid-19, I barely got a time to work on it. Now I have plenty of time to work on it.

heofizzy 6 years ago |

http://saasinspire.com/ it's a list of saas inspiration. Right now there are only design listings of successful saas companies, however I plan to make this project as a great resource for developers and designers to create saas products. It will include various interesting articles, design ideas, tools, case studies, etc.

takyn 6 years ago |

https://newworldfans.com

It's a website for Amazon's New World MMO that I started before the quarantine, but I have been able to work on it a lot during this time. So far the project enabled me to use and/or learn: Kubernetes, Discord.js, Twitch API, Nuxt.js (not the main site but an upcoming tool), and a whole bunch of non-coding tasks.

mguerville 6 years ago |

I built 5 no code apps and a hydroponic garden, one of the apps is a companion app for a card game I built pre-quarantine, another one is a decision journal app, one is for tracking my hydroponic garden, one is for curating news for my sales team, and one is a voice app to experiment with. Also in the process of cofounding a startup so built a landing page and a bit of commercial backend (CRM, email, etc.)

jedieaston 6 years ago | |

What did you use for your no-code apps?

mguerville 6 years ago | | |

Glide, which makes PWA rather than native apps (though I tried Adalo too and taht could make native apps) and Voiceflow for the voice app

deallocator 6 years ago |

I've been diving into Elixir and Erlang, writing a library to build Discord bots with. I've been toying with bots for a while, but building the library myself gave me some interesting insights in Discord all while learning Elixir myself.

I'm trying to make it so that if you spin up multiple nodes it automatically balances the sharding over all nodes, monitors traffic and attempts to balance the work evenly.

saravananl7 6 years ago |

I am developing a integration platform for EDI(X12, EDIFACT) messages to be easily integrated with cloud based SaaS ERPs like Dynamics 365 F&O, BC, NetSuite etc. EDI is a complex piece of integration - diff formats, cryptography, data conversions, etc. this should be a easy to use platform that can act as a gateway to receive your messages and convert and relay it back to your ERP, backend, etc.

Danbana 6 years ago |

I added watermarks to my video tools iOS app, and changed the name to Clippy: https://apps.apple.com/us/app//id1281825133

It's one of my smaller apps but seemed to be gaining a bit of traction. Looks like this update has not helped gain new users as the last small update did... shrug

ropeladder 6 years ago |

I've been learning the web extensions API and trying to make some improvements to an existing extension that exports a webpage directly to a markdown file (markdown-clipper). I haven't touched JavaScript in a while so it's been great getting back into that, and somehow extensions feel more like 'real software' than SPAs or python scripts, so that's kind of exciting also.

NiagaraThistle 6 years ago |

I am in process of launching a web app that lets you plan that trip to Europe you'll be taking when this is all over. Create and share trip Itineraries, show and rank Countries, Cities, and attractions with costs and details. Data is i a beast, its slow currently slow as molasses, but its the first time i've ever put a side project live:

eurotripr.com - feedback would be great as i continue to work on this

naikas82 6 years ago |

I am working on a streamlit app that helps me understand financial statements and fundamental ratios (PB, PE ratios, EPS, etc.) of traded companies.

The stack is basically python + streamlit and APIs for stocks data. More about streamlit here: https://streamlit.io/

I am not able find lot of public domain data of German companies. Any help is appreciated.

Lukas_Skywalker 6 years ago |

I'm a teacher, and these days I frequently need to email the grades to my students. I created a tool where you can upload a spreadsheet containing name, email, grade, etc of the students and write an email template that references those columns. You can try it here: https://sheetmailer.io (you get 30 free emails to start).

iamsmooney 6 years ago |

I'm working on a project that will allow my wife (who's an iPhone user) and me (stubborn Android user) to have our photos sync together in a shared place without changing our own personal workflows. Tried using Synology software for our NAS but there were some gaps when it comes to the Catalina update and Synology Drive's ability to access the Apple Photos' internal directory.

jackyinger 6 years ago |

On top of working from home...

Tilting once again at the windmills of mechanical CAD software. I’ve gotten further than ever before in the coding, and in past attempts built up good knowledge on topological data structures, mathematics of splines, and solving systems of polynomial equations.

Also doing just-for-fun things like playing the guitar, working on a boat design (and learning strength of materials), biking, cooking, etc.

hitchnsmile 6 years ago |

[NSFW] https://clicy.app - Adult relations library.

Still in the early stages so not much content.

woutr_be 6 years ago | |

Out of interest; what kind of "full experience" is provided when I do disable my ad blocker? Are ads part of the experience?

deepan_s 6 years ago |

https://thelovetab.com

I have been spending most of my free time on it for a while. It's a chrome plugin that shows random tweets from the user's like list, every time a new browser tab is opened.

A few of my friends have been using this tool for the past few weeks and the feedback is positive so far.

This is my first side project that has reached the launch stage.

chirag64 6 years ago | |

Looks really cool. Looking forward to trying it out on Firefox :)

deepan_s 6 years ago | | |

Hey thanks for the feedback. I am planning to start working on the Firefox version once I get some validation on the idea.

WarChortle18 6 years ago |

A non Electron desktop app for Gotify. It uses Dot Net Core and AvaloniaUI to support all 3 platforms. Looking for Mac testers as I don't have one and honestly feedback/bug reports. It works fine for me atm. Not sure what else people would want.

https://github.com/ajmcateer/GotifyDesktop

nikaspran 6 years ago |

I've built a small VSCode extension to query TypeScript and JavaScript abstract syntax tree via esquery: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=nikaspra...

It's been an awesome exercise and I've been quite impressed by the API available to extensions.

Fomite 6 years ago |

Epidemiologist - My quarantine side project is my job.

Jemaclus 6 years ago | |

In some ways, this must be kind of a jackpot for you. How often do you get to study novel viruses like this?? What are your thoughts about it, and what kind of work do you do with it?

launchpf 6 years ago |

I'm working on a daily newsletter to curate interesting articles/blogs around personal finance and financial independence: launchpf.com

nicholasjarnold 6 years ago |

Home improvement projects!

Currently I'm working on a) replacing a badly-cracked concrete walkway in my front yard with 2" flagstone which is native to the period in which my home was built and b) installing a 300 ft^2 brick patio in my back yard using a herringbone pattern while setting the pavers.

It feels good to get AFK, feel some sun on my face and improve the value (aesthetically and monetarily) of my home.

theryangeary 6 years ago |

Quarantine has given me the time I needed to bring a little shell program I've been working on to v1.0.0: https://github.com/theryangeary/choose

Haven't been able to bake any bread on account of how I can't find yeast in the grocery store anywhere...might give sourdough another shot.

philipcamilleri 6 years ago |

(...apart from the breads -- banana bread, cheese-beer bread and home-grown yeast :-|)

I've been working on https://FoundersList.com -- a place for founders to connect, share ideas/posts/launches, connect with professionals/experts, ask questions, find cofounders, events, etc.

Would love any thoughts/comments/feedback!

A4ET8a8uTh0 6 years ago |

Not a project since I am still working full time and vacation is still a little while away, but me and my buddy will be saving the world of Divinity 2 together, while trying to stream it using OBS ( so far I am happy with it ).

It feels oddly cheap to list it, but here it goes https://www.twitch.tv/ample_llama

nlake44 6 years ago |

Simply put, SuPragma is a tool that programmatically scans your organization with the goal of finding issues that can lead to problems or inconsistencies with culture health and style. Some issues can even be automatically fixed for you!

https://github.com/supragma/supragma/wiki

underwater 6 years ago | |

I tried to skim through to understand what it actually does, but this all seems rather abstract, and the memes make it seem slightly unhinged.

igeligel_dev 6 years ago |

Building stuff in the apartment and plant care :)

On the technical side I am working on https://getworkrecognized.com - a work achievement tracker with email reminders (soon) and a nice interface to create Self-Reviews/Brag sheets that will ultimately help you with your next promotion/performance review cycle.

darkseid 6 years ago |

I've been working on a little tool for freelancers/consultants (maybe sales people too!).

It's designed to make it easier for their clients to book a call/meeting with them, saving them the email ping pong to find a time slot that works for both of them.

Here it is - https://timeslot.co

Would love to chat with anyone who might find this useful!

zebnyc 6 years ago | |

How does this differ from services like calendly?

darkseid 6 years ago | | |

I think Timeslot is cleaner UI wise. In terms of features, I'm still figuring this out, so open to suggestions!

If you're currently using another scheduling app, I'd love to pick your brain on what I can add that's missing from these others :)

tiger_rocky93 6 years ago |

All: I wanted to make use of this quarantine time. So I have resigned my day job & I have started to build my own tech website https://androidfist.com/. I created this on April 17th with 30 Lakhs+ alex ranking. I worked hard & now it has grown with 6 Lakhs+ ranking in less than a month.

tlapinsk 6 years ago |

1. https://www.puzzletradr.com/: A Classifieds website to trade puzzles. MVP built with WordPress before building something from scratch

2. Lots of baking with my girlfriend. This turned out to be a ton of fun

3. Studying for the AWS CSA Associates test on Linux Academy

4. Rebuilding my LinkedIn and resume. Way more time consuming than expected

lsb 6 years ago |

Before starting the fast.ai deep learning course, I made a light pollution map as topography. I channelled the panic about contagion into finding somewhere with low human activity: https://leebutterman.com/light-pollution-topography/

The fast.ai course is super cool though

crazybigdan 6 years ago |

Awesome to see what other people have been doing. I have been getting more familiar with common-lisp and emacs / slime. Specifically using those tools to build a website to track the books that I have read, with the reviews and ratings that I've given them, so my sister and I can keep track of each other's reading lists.

Sort of like goodreads minus the blatant marketing.

parkeragee 6 years ago |

I have 2 that I'm currently working on.

1. HireRemotely - Real-time job opening notifications from the best remote-friendly companies. (https://hireremotely.co)

2. Sugar Shack CRM - Build, manage, and grow your cookie business (https://sugarshackcrm.com)

robmerki 6 years ago |

https://adhdpro.xyz/

It's a book for adult professionals who suffer from ADHD & distractions. The literature for ADHD is mostly geared towards parents or is too scientific.

I'm writing down all of the strategies and tips that I have learned from countless therapists, doctors, specialists, friends, and articles.

w1 6 years ago |

N-body problem gravity simulator, in vanilla js:

https://www.thorbjorn444.com

Jemaclus 6 years ago | |

Whoaaaa, this is so clever and well done. Vanilla JS, too! I'm impressed!

w1 6 years ago | | |

Thank you so much! I'm a ML/scientific computing guy exploring more generic web design, and this was my first crack at it.

DaveWM 6 years ago |

I've got a couple of side projects on the go:

1. Intention (https://i.ntention.app) - a todo app where your todos are arranged in a DAG. 2. JSON Viewer (https://json-viewer.io) - a simple web app for displaying JSON reports in a nice UI.

p4bl0 6 years ago |

It's been four years since I've got an associate professor position. This quarantine is the first time since then that I found the time to actually do research. I finally started to work on a project I had in mind for years. And I'm glad to say that it's working and the implementation is efficient, and I'm currently writing a paper on it :).

jerzyt 6 years ago |

I'm working on gerrymandering. Both parties claim that the other party is better at it. My hypothesis is that some gerrymandered districts benefit the incumbent to the point of actually benefiting the opposing party in the adjacent districts. So, the incumbent has a safe seat, but the net is a loss for his own party.

I'd like to be able to demonstrate and quantify it.

w1nter 6 years ago |

A mobile app for the Joking Hazard card game https://jokinghazard.app/ (skip the signup page https://get.jokinghazard.app/start). A fun way to socialise when everyone is staying at home.

avipars 6 years ago |

Working on my app, https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aviparshan...

It's a powerful unit converter for android. Right now, I am adding support for more languages and going through a bunch of feature requests.

bojanz 6 years ago |

I've gone deep into Go, finding it a fun change from daily work. The project I'm working on isn't ready yet, but I've managed to extract and share my first package[1], for handling and formatting currency amounts.

[1] https://github.com/bojanz/currency

kuzaxe 6 years ago |

I created an app called 'Calcula' (iOS - Free) to help individuals strengthen their math skills. Built with SwiftUI. I'm surprised by how much documentation and tutorials are available online!

But it's been really interesting learning the process of publishing an app. Each feature brings a 100 challenges but it's been fun overcoming every mountain.

cultofthecow 6 years ago |

https://clickradar.io

Some small real problem I faced before: test\validate idea by counting how many times website visitor clicked the certain button. So I automated it with google sheets and some custom script\backend.

Landing is still in progress... Don't kill me for the language skills, English is not my native)

tsamtsam 6 years ago |

I think I should do this: Build a fun resume parser - improving UX of resume parsing when applying for jobs - auto recommend keywords one can add in to resumes when uploading through an ATS - just for laughs (seriously though), a bot running through your resume and informing you of your chances at getting past first screen (through a chrome extension)

akeck 6 years ago |

Raspi 4 "Desktop" with encrypted SSD for root and tiered swap (zram at high priority plus compressed swap on SSD) plus write up. Debian 10 NUC samba file server for my home dir on Mac. Case bound book from scratch. Finish long running migration from Apple Photos to Darktable. Already done: Blurb book of pics of our dog drop-shipped to my aunt.

sanedigital 6 years ago |

https://couchclub.app

I wanted to make an all-online Meetup of sorts, a place where people could find and create communities that host events and get-togethers. Got the MVP done in about a week (thanks to Jitsi!) and then had to focus back on client work. I'm still considering next steps with it.

scary-size 6 years ago |

I've finally started a blog to republish my Medium posts:

https://franz.hamburg

Also I'm working on a small server side analytics solution:

https://franz.hamburg/writing/visits-from-page-views.html

And of course: bread.

chaitanyapandit 6 years ago |

I built Logicboard: https://logicboard.com a tool for conducting remote programming interviews. It's like Google Hangouts + you can write/run code in over 28 languages.

It's kinda amazing how much you can learn building something new, I improved my Elixir, ReactJS and Devops skills.

alexkearns 6 years ago |

I've been working on an interactive timeline of US presidents to promote a new timeline maker product I will be launching soon.

https://www.chronoflotimeline.com/timeline/shared/3114/USA-P...

hokustalkshow 6 years ago |

Been working on https://www.codingtrivia.com. It's an iOS / Android app for preparing for interviews and learning programming skills by playing trivia.

Built it mostly to scratch a personal itch as I wanted a way to be productive and learn in a more lightweight and enjoyable way.

iBelieve 6 years ago |

I've been working on a toy Lispy language and self-hosting compiler that targets JS. My goal is to explore building a full-stack web framework with a template compiler similar to Svelte that runs minimal JS on the frontend.

https://github.com/iBelieve/knight

BeniBoy 6 years ago |

Non tech-related, but I have been building a touring bicycle. Very satisfying to get to learn the standards, choose the parts, assemble. Even builded my own wheels! And now I am fixing my friends bike with the tools I have accumulated.

Getting a little off the computer was nice, plus this summer local bike touring will propably be the only option. Can't wait!

jlebar 6 years ago |

I've been building a tool to make it easier to upload chains of dependent PRs to github, https://github.com/jlebar/git-pr-chain

Works pretty well for me, but there are lots of ways it could be improved if anyone is interested in hacking on it with me.

msoliman9 6 years ago |

I started an accountability community for wellness and personal growth. We are up to 117 members with 50+ active weekly members.

kirchhoff 6 years ago |

https://random.earth

A simple way to discover interesting satellite imagery.

kostarelo 6 years ago |

I've been contributing to https://github.com/excalidraw/excalidraw/ lately. It's an amazing distraction-free hand-drawn like sketching app. Online with secure end-to-end encrypted collaboration mode. Check it out!

totemandtoken 6 years ago |

I've been working on a "newsbetting" site. Basically, you get a de-titled article and have to place a bet whether you think the source has a right leaning bias or left leaning bias. The idea is this betting market will force people to contend with their biases which will then reduce the proliferation of fake news. Theoretically

dri_ft 6 years ago | |

And where do you get the ground truths for the bias of the sites?

totemandtoken 6 years ago | | |

At the moment I'm using allsides.com[1]. There will always be some dispute about how biased a news organization is, but most people have the general understanding that, for example, Breitbart is more right than the HuffPo. At some point I'd like to add a voting feature, so you're basically trying to compete against the crowd

[1] https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-ratings

ViolentSnugglez 6 years ago |

Been trying to complete a project I started back in college: codeexplainer.org . It's nothing fancy, built with a MERN stack and currently trying to get it deployed on AWS.

My hope is that I can integrate multiple languages (only supports vanilla.js at the moment) and eventually allow highlighting to explain "sentences" instead of just keywords.

sgriff 6 years ago |

I've been working on this: https://indexpricealerts.com

It provides free email price alerts for an increasingly popular football gambling site in the UK: Football Index.

It's the first time I've built a website from the ground up and it's been great fun. Have really learned a lot.

rexf 6 years ago |

Updating https://cpechecklist.com/ - a site for US public accountants to stay on top of license requirements. The site isn't really for the HN crowd, but it's been a great experience using Vue/Nuxt on Netlify to serve my static site for free.

artiscode 6 years ago |

I did not get any extra time as both my and I wife work remotely and we're both employed in the tech sector. We got busier as daycare and school closed down(three kids). I invested all my spare time into gardening. I learned how to level ground, how to garden and take care of plants. Interestingly I did not learn anything tech related.

abinaya_rl 6 years ago |

https://remoteleaf.com

I'm actively working on Remote Leaf for the past few months, to help people land remote jobs during these tough times.

Remote Leaf collects remote jobs from 40+ remote job boards, social media feeds & 300+ company career pages, LinkedIn and send the ones that apply to you.

nishparadox 6 years ago |

I am trying to add a few neat math animations to my personal tool "panim", especially implementing boid. (Of course, highly inspired from "manim" by Grant Sanderson, but with a bit different intention).

https://github.com/NISH1001/panim

kgutteridge 6 years ago |

Physically I've swapped the commute for a reasonable amount more cycling outside which is nice. Mentally went through the AWS Solution Architect associate and professional certifications and ticked those of. Next up will be to finally update my blog and launch a couple of Slack apps all things I've been meaning to do for a while

alexcarlton 6 years ago |

I made a Spotify playlist that is automatically updated with songs recently played on BBC 6 Music.

Built with basic node server, puppeteer and the Spotify API.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0xft9w8N7FUe23a4G4YzvG?si=...

achillesheels 6 years ago |

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.

iguanayou 6 years ago |

Practicing bluegrass mandolin, adjunct teaching, and running online classes for my commercial drone school. NOT programming.

futurefocused 6 years ago |

I'm collecting insights on the impact of coronavirus on the future of various aspects of our world: https://postcovidfuture.com/ . If anyone took this time to write anything on this topic, please share. I'll be happy to add it to the list.

migueloller 6 years ago |

Building an 8-bit computer from scratch [1]. Planning on building a quadruped [2] after.

[1] https://eater.net/8bit

[2] https://spotmicroai.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

moritzmoritz21 6 years ago |

I already posted mine on HN and did some re-work on it! => https://molytics.io

So far I have a few users in the "trial" and they are really helping me to push it further.

It is a SAAS to improve the implementation of tracking in your product :) - have a look. Always looking for feedback.

yboris 6 years ago |

Still working on my favorite 2-year-old project Video Hub App

https://videohubapp.com/ - over 1,600 sales now!

https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App - open source!

quangrau 6 years ago |

During the COVID-19 situation where all workplaces and schools were closures. My kids were switching to home-based learning so I made an app for them to learn ABC and counting.

Github: https://github.com/quangrau/flutter_kid_starter

xyproto 6 years ago |

An editor for Linux/Unix/FreeBSD named just `o`: https://github.com/xyproto/o

I wanted an editor that would open instantly, had general syntax highlighting and was limited to the VT100 standard.

`o` is mostly written in `o`, with just a few detours to NeoVim.

treyhuffine 6 years ago |

https://skilled.dev

Careers have been put on hold and many people have had setbacks, so I want to help developers find jobs once the quarantine ends and economies open back up.

I'm building a course to show developers how to succeed in the coding interview and stand out during the job hunt.

gregalbritton 6 years ago |

I’m creating a vessel inventory and maintenance tool for fellow boaters. Essentially, a boat’s headquarters.

I live aboard my sailboat and have found a need to have everything in an app for quick access and reference.

https://myvesselapp.com/

It’s in beta and I have 15 fellow boaters testing :)

Currently a web app.

systematical 6 years ago |

https://github.com/cnizzardini/cakephp-swagger-bake also combining various other cake libraries into a competitor to api platform for those who prefer to write code instead of comments (annotations) and YML.

hagy 6 years ago |

I've been learning how various database components work (e.g., log-structured merge trees) by implementing them from scratch and benchmarking their performance with different workloads and configurations. Sharing the results at https://dbfromzero.com

PStamatiou 6 years ago |

I began learning Swift and SwiftUI and working on my first iPhone app - a simple stock tracking app.

Here's some of my progress: https://twitter.com/Stammy/status/1258404361232883712 (scroll up for thread)

jeremiahlee 6 years ago |

Getting a lot of writing done and trying out magazine-style layouts for the Web. My first post was about my experience working at Spotify: https://www.jeremiahlee.com/posts/failed-squad-goals/

sohamsankaran 6 years ago |

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/

gargs 6 years ago | |

Subscribed! Been looking for some interesting podcasts.

brikmaster 6 years ago |

I have been doing a daily blog to track the return of sports since my startup is in sports and sports are toast right now - https://wherearesports.com/

Feeling a kindred spirit with all my startup friends in the travel, hospitality and live event space.

domedefelice 6 years ago |

A spaced-repetition software, inspired by SuperMemo and Anki.

I'm working on reaching the simplicity of Anki, while keeping more features like in SuperMemo, e.g. native support for incremental reading.

It's still in early stage but almost usable. I'm planning to push the repository on GitHub as soon as the last couple of to-dos are finished.

nagarjun 6 years ago | |

Interesting! I'm a big fan of spaced repetition. Are you building it as a native desktop/mobile app or as web app?

domedefelice 6 years ago | | |

I'm building it as a web app.

I'm still undecided on whether hosting it myself or just releasing it as a self-contained stand-alone app (startup script launching a lightweight webserver and opening a new tab in the browser).

There are pros and cons with each approach and I'm making up my mind on the best one to follow

watermelonbread 6 years ago |

Just completed my first webdev project today: https://gravity-doc.com/

It's essentially a 2D rigid body simulation reskinned to look like a text editor. At the moment it supports basic commands like copy, paste, save, etc. Also, there are cheatcodes.

KrishMunot 6 years ago |

I don't know how y'all are getting so much free time? I'm out here trying to get a job, does that count?

realbarack 6 years ago | |

That counts. I wish you good fortune in your job search.

kentlyons 6 years ago |

I've been making progress with my art project. I made an attachment for my 3d printer to turn it into a pen plotter. And then wrote a bunch of code to turn an image into a stylized CMYK pen drawing. https://youtu.be/Vxd-ndoMD1o

Greg_hamel 6 years ago |

I've been developing a Flight Planning web app for Canadian Airspaces. Includes Weather and NOTAMs. The quarantine has given more time to invest into it. Currently working on authentication and better filtering of NOTAMs

https://www.weatheredstrip.com

krazykonkani 6 years ago |

I'm continuing to work on: https://www.bigoofn.com/

Started it on the side few months ago to help my own job search, there is still a lot of work left to improve data quality and completion, and also add more data points which will help engineers.

raphaelj 6 years ago |

I designed and released an opensource contact tracing app.

This was designed around the time Google and Apple announced their partnership, and the overall idea is similar (renewed anonymous identifiers).

https://github.com/RaphaelJ/covid-tracer

krewast 6 years ago |

I'm working on an Arduino Pomodoro Timer. I wanted to do a little electronics project again and this is something I find useful as it helps me to stay focused.

https://github.com/krewast/simple-arduino-pomodoro

ryannevius 6 years ago |

I made a few digital Montessori tools for my wife and her students. Somewhat unexpectedly, it's seeing about 15k visitors per day: https://montessori.tools/

There's a lot more I would like to build, but "real work" takes priority.

billylo 6 years ago |

A shelter-at-home helper tool to avoid overspending time away from home (using wifi info, not GPS location, to protect privacy). Sends local notification every 15 minutes* to remind us to keep distance when away. (*configurable)

https://home-sweet-home.app

anegri 6 years ago |

Been working on a CLI tool for stock trading since I tried to look for one and it doesn't seem to exist. Was also a fun excuse to get more experience with Go and try out the Cobra library.

Besides that, lots of more involved cooking and baking projects to fill the time. I'll come out of this ready to be a stay at home dad!

aquaphile 6 years ago |

We built the lowest-cost full face respirator mask in the world. As a side project, it has taken on a life of its own. See https://kioma.us/shop/kioma-origami-respirator-mask

theshadowmonkey 6 years ago | |

If I order now, when can I expect to receive it?

aquaphile 6 years ago | | |

Depending on where you live (how many USPS zones distant from our location in Dallas), probably at the end of next week.

colfax23 6 years ago |

Once WFH started to take over many workplaces, I created a modern sort-of TFLN (texts from last night) to accomplish another goal of mine, to learn Node/React. Let me know what you think!

http://www.wfhconfessions.com/

rumpelsepp 6 years ago |

Since I read stuff in the internet every day and I forget the interesting stuff all the time, I started to record my "bookmarks": https://rumpelsepp.org/stuff/bookmarks.html

ohashi 6 years ago |

https://StuckAtFuckingHome.com

hopesthoughts 6 years ago | |

I love linkblogs like this!! Reminds me of 2005, when there were a whole lot more of them around.

pelmo 6 years ago |

https://www.mediaforkids.org/

I made a simple website for parents to browse things that your kids can get busy with, that's basically like a "list of things", but is organized into different pages (categories).

abrichr 6 years ago |

Visual Contract Tracing with AI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4pyEu5milo

OnCovid19.com: http://oncovid19.com/

danesparza 6 years ago |

I'm learning how to sew. Adam Savage (sewing his EDC bag) and other folks sewing masks (to give them away) have inspired me.

I have found this to be a great starting point: https://youtu.be/rnTwT-ifLkU

nacraft 6 years ago |

Started my side business selling handmade concrete planters: https://www.nacrafts.co

I 3d print the initial models, finish them and make silicone molds. The final product is made of concrete. My shop is running on Shopify.

avipars 6 years ago |

Working on my app, https://aviparshan.com/unitmeasure .

It's a powerful unit converter for android. Right now, I am adding support for more languages and going through a bunch of feature requests.

sudhanshuraheja 6 years ago |

Mine is a tiny bahasa indonesia to english dictionary using wordnet - https://dictionary.lana.school, helps both with learning a new language as well as building something new with the free time.

avoidboringppl 6 years ago |

Continuing to work on my finance and tech newsletter to help others avoid boring people: https://avoidboringpeople.substack.com/

Trying to learn art history as well

Also trying to host virtual cocktail lessons

pgirard 6 years ago |

I coded an app to help artists and small entrepreneurs monetize their work during the pandemic. It allows to charge for livestream easily by selling tickets. (Only works in canada at the moment)

https://starstream.app

blueridge 6 years ago |

I've discovered the world of fountain pens! I purchased a TWSBY pen, Pilot ink, and a notebook with Tomoe River paper. I feel like I have been missing out on a truly wonderful handwriting experience for my entire adult life. I had no idea pens could be so enjoyable.

embit 6 years ago |

I made site [0] to appreciate all of our front-line workers whether they be nurses, doctors, truck drivers, grocery shop workers — all of them. Just my small appreciation for them.

[0] https://hope.embit.ca/

ericvanular 6 years ago |

Over the quarantine, I shipped https://enviro.work as a complementary jobs board to the community at https://collective.energy

alex_young 6 years ago |

COVID-19 forecasting tool: https://cv19.report

Time series ML model for each state combined into a US forecast. Models are generating static assets, front end is in React, everything is hosted on S3 behind Cloudflare.

blizkreeg 6 years ago |

I'm working on a tool that links technical documentation to code. The problem: product specs/technical docs are often out of date with the implementation.

If anyone is interested in sharing their pain with this, I'm all ears and would love to brainstorm! Email in my bio.

Budabellly 6 years ago |

Built a simple WebGL landing page for an older iOS project where you can wear President's faces in AR. Most of the work actually enough went into optimizing load time... still some room to improve.

https://cloan.me

protdum 6 years ago |

Community driven movie recommendation app - check it out https://www.movvio.com Now the biggest challenge is to how to get ppl to subscribe for Early bird access while we are finishing the app :(

karmakaze 6 years ago | |

As a developer, I'm curious to know how 'Step 3' is supposed to work compared to other ways making recommendations.

One of the big problems I have with recommendations is recommending things I've already watched. Netflix used to be so good at the start, now my tastes are just pooled in with what everyone else is watching now.

protdum 6 years ago | | |

So, when you join the app, you will go through onboarding flow where we try to understand your movie genre interests, as well as, you can opt-in to give suggestions in the future (this way you become part of community). So, once you submit a request, app will send those request to selected ppl from the community asking for a good suggestion. Once they suggest movie/TV show/series, you will be notified and will be able to pick those that you like/dislike. App will try to understand who are ppl from the community which suggestions you liked the most and in the future will connect you profiles similar to those people. That way you will have your unique path. The main reason for this is when we did PoC most of the participants stressed that they take suggestions from people they know and share similar taste. But again, we are in stage of releasing our MVP, so I'm sure there will be more things to learn :) Hey, why not subscribe for "Early access" and help us crack that part :)

nje32847 6 years ago |

I've been working on an iMessage API, Learning a ton about creating a node backend and used React for the front end. sendblue.co

is anyone else completely ok with quarantine? I'm not able to understand the need for social interaction, maybe because I'm an awkward dude.

perf1 6 years ago |

I started developing a chrome extension that basically allows to watch videos together (synchronizes video playback) and also has an extra twist.

But Google shutting down reviews (temporarily) and all the other drama I read in the pusbullet thread on HN yesterday is a concern for me.

daviducolo 6 years ago |

released a simple RSS search engine called DatoRSS https://datorss.com.

There is also the associated API https://feedirss.com also created by me.

notyourplayer 6 years ago |

I’m working on a fitness platform, enabling you to find people to workout with either in your area, or with someone who shares the same interests/fitness levels as you. Super early stage, we have some designs and a landing page which you can check out here:

duderoso 6 years ago |

Small site that accesses the posts and comments you save on reddit and allows you to search or filter using elixir/phoenix and liveview.

Also ordered a few raspberry pis to build a cluster as motivation to learn/experiment w kubernetes and distributed systems in general

sen4ik 5 years ago |

I built a website where users can subscribe to receive daily text messages with an inspirational Bible verse. It is for USA or Canada residents. https://versefrombible.com/

JoeAltmaier 6 years ago |

Gardening, when weather permits. Have 7 old raised beds, 16X4. Been doing carpentry (rotted boards), hoeing, amending, raking. Some plants in now, which was too early as a late frost killed 4. Off to the nursery today to replace what got frozen and plant again!

horizontech-dev 6 years ago |

Working on Horizon Project where a bunch of engineers mentoring freshers in getting their job. Kinda Google Summer of Code. For the interested folk's https://www.horizontech.dev

red2awn 6 years ago |

Building a chrome extension to block spoilers on youtube. Got frustrated with "Spoiler Protection 2.0" since it doesn't cover the thumbnails. For some type of contents (ie combat sports/MMA), the thumbnail basically gives away the results.

edbentley 6 years ago |

Made a game engine :D

https://replay.js.org

zentiggr 6 years ago |

I was an active Palm user, Life Balance was my task tracker of choice, so much so that for a while i tried to run it on PHEM on my Android phones. (Don't ask. Ouch.)

I'm trying to reimplement it with personal mods, in C# to start, and likely do something in Xamarin.

gvpmahesh 6 years ago |

I have started a book club software when the lockdown started, dint put much time into it. Still need to put a couple of days to make it an MVP. https://www.pustak.io if you are curious

mrgalaxy 6 years ago |

https://mrgidle.com

I've been building a silly little idle/incremental game. I've wanted to make this for years and finally found the motivation. In early access now, hoping to release soon.

LarryPage 6 years ago |

I've been making videos showing off my collection of old computers, and finally repairing a lot of them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJEHSliAisk

etiennebch 6 years ago |

SEC filings browser. Currently just a prototype: displays the most recent filings as they occur

AlwaysBCoding 6 years ago | |

Possibly unrelated but I would pay $ for a one-click earnings call app. Type in a stock ticker, get the most recent earnings call in an audio player in one second.

etiennebch 6 years ago | | |

Thank you, great insight, I'll give it a thought. I want to have a focused, narrow scope for the MVP, but I think finding and digging (public!) financial information is a mess currently, even with all the apps, blogs, yahoo finance and the likes out there

robodale 6 years ago | |

Do you read directly from SEC's EDGAR system?

etiennebch 6 years ago | | |

Yep. Currently, I only parse their RSS feed. Later, I want to extract and organize information in a way that's easy to search, look at and save.

zaabis 6 years ago |

https://github.com/evzaboun/garage-door

Raspberry pi garage door opener build with React+NodeJS.

Admin panel | User roles | Signup/Login flows | responsive | Progressive web app

Indy9000 6 years ago |

I've read a lot about mindfulness and the benefits of it recently. So being an engineer, I had to build an app. Minimalist way to get started in mindfulness https://sanebrain.app

mettamage 6 years ago | |

Checkout: search inside yourself

I used to be really into figuring out the science behind it. That book is a good summary.

jonotime 6 years ago |

* Learning to make sourdough bread.

* Some home audio hacking. Right now this means turning my old CHIP computer into a bluetooth receiver.

* Ripping tapes to mp3. I have a box of 100 tapes of my old jam sessions. I borrowed a tape deck and I'm ripping them one by one using Audacity.

exabrial 6 years ago |

Learned to play a bunch of piano riffs from classic rock songs. I also took up mountain biking

holgersindbaek 6 years ago |

I've been optimizing an old side-project of mine: https://online-solitaire.com/. As you can probably guess from the URL, it's a solitaire card game site.

bbno4 6 years ago |

Ciphey - automated decryption tool using deep neural networks & natural language processing :) https://github.com/brandonskerritt/ciphey

erwinh 6 years ago |

Started it before quarantine but adding a lot of features to it during quarantine: https://space-search.io/

Making satellites and space debris searchable and visualized in 3d/web.

jokull 6 years ago |

    1. Aggregate all ebikes for sale in Iceland on orflaedi.is
    2. Started Awesome Reykjavík, a community project to make moving
       from abroad to the capital region smoother
    3. Quit consulting and started something new: planitor.io

Spearchucker 6 years ago |

Built a water wheel for my pond from an old scooter wheel.

Build a Japanese style bridge for my pond.

Built an outdoor cupboard for my balcony where I can keep my martial arts gear (I train on the balcony).

Building a little shed for our bicycles and the roof box for the car.

Computer work has been limited to work stuff.

nerdlogic 6 years ago |

I made yet another simulation of the spread of a disease: https://tsan.me/post/modeling-and-simulating-a-pandemic/

happppy 6 years ago | |

It killed my browser

nerdlogic 6 years ago | | |

oops... that's not good. Thanks for letting me know.

nmfisher 6 years ago |

I’ve been making a video series for people to learn basic conversational Chinese.

https://incrediblechinese.com

I’m hoping people can forgive the unruly hair - it’s lockdown after all, so haircuts are out!

jansan 6 years ago |

I am restoring old teak wood garden furniture. This involves cleaning and sanding the wood, polishing brass parts, and replacing the fabric if there is any. The results are absolutely stunning. It's not that difficult but a bit time consuming.

vpj 6 years ago |

Coded up a PyTorch GPU implementation to rank Texas holdem poker hands (7 cards), and some models to predict the poker probabilities.

https://github.com/lab-ml/poker

airstrike 6 years ago |

Learning F#. If anyone has good resources they'd like to point me to, I'm all ears

KeenDisregard 6 years ago |

I am making new habits and routines effortless (or at least way more effortless). I've been repurposing a writing app I threw together for myself years ago, now using it every morning to remain consistent in my routine and track performance.

pydanny 6 years ago |

My wife and I released the alpha of Two Scoops of Django 3.x: https://www.feldroy.com/products/two-scoops-of-django-3-x

sgaduuw 6 years ago | |

Congrats on the alpha! Will the final product also come in paperback?

I have your crash course book on preorder currently :)

palebt 6 years ago |

Awesome thread! Probably going to spend the next few hours exploring.

Not a quarantine project, but got some love in quarantine: https://www.health101.net (recommended medical test by age)

hopesthoughts 6 years ago | |

Hah, I've spent the past 18 hours or so here.

boraoztunc 6 years ago |

I'm curating resources, like digital tools, articles, new with remote jobs on a free newsletter, publishing weekly. https://remotejobscenter.substack.com

zaiste 6 years ago |

Kretes (https://kretes.dev/) - a boilerplate on steroids for building full-stack TypeScript applications faster and without accidental complexity whenever possible.

madskdc 6 years ago |

Strengthening my lungs. I've had a persistent cough for over 6 months, and decided that with a respiratory-based pandemic going around, I ought to do what I can to get rid of it, or at least strengthen my lungs while I have the chance. So I've picked up running and cycling, and have gotten more exercise in than I have in years.

And after deciding to pair it with some calorie monitoring, I've gone down almost 5 kg since C-19 started!

l0b0 6 years ago |

Trying to create a mouse mat from tōtara wood, by cutting it into thin diamonds and gluing them together. It's been tricky to get the slices properly flat with the tools at my disposal, but it could be an interesting result.

steve-benjamins 6 years ago |

Youtube channel sharing our startup story :) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdgsCa2Ap6AqHSk3QVjjHzw

maxko 6 years ago |

Launched Widgetery.com (A Product Hunt-like widget for lead capturing) yesterday. Still have to learn a lot of things on making such kind of widgets, however it was really fun to build. By the way, any feedback is appreciated!

bvanremortele 6 years ago |

Working on Loc.Tax which is a collaborative tax project management platform based on Git.

We're going to build a platform for version-controlled legal, financial, and tax data.

https://loc.tax

bergamot 6 years ago |

Growing veggies! I tried my hand at starting a small vegetable garden. So far we have tomato, cucumber, and zucchini seedlings, and are planning on planting carrots and beets once we finally stop getting snow (Ontario).

chadlavi 6 years ago |

I built a really basic typescript react design system for my personal toy/mess around web apps. It was a great excuse to learn how publishing an npm package to github packges works and learn more about styled-components.

aynyc 6 years ago |

I was learning Spark, then facebook recruiter called. Now, I'm doing leetcode.

skadimoolam 6 years ago |

I have been working on https://bestoflaravel.com It's a content curation site, where Laravel developers can learn more about the PHP framework.

kamalkishor1991 6 years ago |

https://github.com/croma-app/croma-react I made a color palettes app in react native. My first react native app.

elsigh 6 years ago |

Me and a friend are working on a chords/lyrics/music tool: https://Songbook.Studio

It's a PWA, based on Dropbox APIs built using NextJS & MaterialUI

mnd999 6 years ago |

I’ve dug out my old Amiga 1200, replaced the hard disk with a CompactFlash card and am now trying to connect it to WiFi.

I may also have to replace all the capacitors which would be an adventure. Might end up paying someone else to do that.

geocrasher 6 years ago | |

Don't pay somebody- learn how to do it! For what you'd pay somebody, you can buy a soldering kit on Amazon for $15 that includes solder even, and works just fine. And then Youtube the rest. The capacitors themselves will be cheap, and I'm sure the online Amiga community could help you with sourcing them and learning how to do the job. Electronics is a fun hobby :)

costinEEST 6 years ago |

Work in progress: an application that helps you learn the pronunciation of Hebrew words - https://costineest.github.io/hebrew

brickmort 6 years ago | |

!סבבה

supremerumham 6 years ago |

I’ve been writing a book about podcasting using stand-up comedy as examples throughout the book https://gumroad.com/l/gaMxO

thoughtspeed7 6 years ago |

Launched. BloodIQ lets you search (and share) blood availability across 2000+ blood banks in India. https://bit.ly/bloodiq-android

nickspicer1993 6 years ago |

https://productpedia.co.uk/

A way to catalog all possible product categories and for people to vote which is the best product to buy for each category.

eykd 6 years ago |

I'm building a daily writing habit. At least five minutes of writing every day, no matter what. Got myself a nice timer and everything.

Once I have the habit solidified, it's back to that novel I've always wanted to write.

kthartic 6 years ago | |

What timer did you get?

eykd 6 years ago | | |

A Time Timer. :D The name is dumb, but I love that little thing. No ticking, and the alarm doesn't make me jump out of my chair when it goes off.

huntedman 6 years ago |

Chord Guru -> a webapp made with react, that helps you memorize/practice chords. With desktop chrome, you can even plug in a midi controller.

https://chord.guru

bredren 6 years ago |

I picked up my first open source maintainership: django-address.

Did my first triage release to pypi this past week. Learning about adding CI and all kinds of things about what it means to maintain a package on a popular web framework.

greatNespresso 6 years ago |

I have some ideas of static sites but instead of using an already made static site generator, I have decided to write mine from scratch, because why not. Learning Go, I picked it for the task (even if Hugo is awesome)

hkdobrev 6 years ago |

I've started an open source bash tool for managing notes and todos: https://github.com/hkdobrev/notetaker

Jack5500 6 years ago |

we're building an implementation of Pictionary you can play with your friends online from home:

https://www.supersketchy.party

Works with Vue & WebSockets.

Still very early, though.

abrie 6 years ago |

I've been polishing my story/book about travelling by bus from Seattle to Atlanta:

https://goeiebook.ca/story/bussing2

w_t_payne 6 years ago |

A distributed simulation framework for Python based on Kahn process networks, intended to provide support for design automation based on a novel hybrid of statistical techniques (including DNNs) and rules-based AI.

nathcd 6 years ago |

I switched text editors and window managers! kakoune to textadept (which has been great) and i3 to awesome (which I'm still getting the hang of). I'm thinking about switching from chromium to luakit, too.

orsenthil 6 years ago |

A bot looking to reddit feeds to send me CoronaVirus news by email: https://github.com/orsenthil/redditbot

juanuys 6 years ago |

Corn Wars. An android game made with libgdx, inspired by Civ and Slay. I've tweeted a few GIFs here:

https://mobile.twitter.com/opyate

jupp0r 6 years ago |

Covid Statistics I'm interested in: https://jupp0r.github.io/covid-stats. Very unfinished, just getting started.

jiberwarrior 6 years ago | |

a cool feature would be to toggle the graph scales to logarithms of any arbitrary base, in order to track the exponential growth rates based on what the current infection-constant-number is

jupp0r 6 years ago | | |

done

mordfustang21 6 years ago |

I've been adding and polishing more features to my startup so I can hopefully start selling soon. https://getdocuverse.com/

RMPR 6 years ago |

I'm working on a macro recorder https://github.com/rmpr/atbswp, I recently made a release, you can try it :)

mcculley 6 years ago |

I launched a SaaS for monitoring domains and websites for common misconfigurations (security and otherwise): https://domainproactive.com

mparr4 6 years ago |

A partner and I started making high resolution terrain maps: https://ramblemaps.com

We started in my home state, but are about to push a Cascade Volcano line.

ashtonkem 6 years ago |

I took up the French Horn to get away from the computer. Surprisingly cheap to rent from an appreciative local business, and it’s been nice focusing on something artistic and separate from my career during lunch.

zitterbewegung 6 years ago |

I've been trying to learn about AR by making some kind of tool to let people understand social distancing (sort of took a break from this). The other thing I am trying to do is make music using Logic Pro X.

tomcooks 6 years ago |

Along with way too much homemade food, a turn based combat boardgame

https://www.tomcooks.com/projects/snipr/

tenaciousDaniel 6 years ago |

I'm creating a declarative language built specifically for UI designers. The idea is to allow designers to describe a UI in a platform-agnostic manner while preserving their own verbiage and mental models.

ScottFree 6 years ago | |

Not to be a debbie downer, but don't most UI designers like to specify UIs graphically rather than verbally?

tenaciousDaniel 6 years ago | | |

Great question! You're not being a debbie downer, that's a totally reasonable thing to ask.

Sure, lots of UI designers do. But it isn't a process that scales. If you're trying to define design requirements for a product that's very large or distributed (i.e. Netflix), manually drawing pictures of a UI is simply too slow.

Some designers have taken to writing CSS, and some even prefer it as their main design tool. I think that's awesome, but CSS exposes lots of implementation details that are only relevant to the web. I'm trying to create a declarative syntax that feels as easy as CSS, but exposes lots of functionality that would normally require javascript. And it will be abstracted from the platform, so this would serve not just web designers but also iOS/Android/TV/etc.

captn3m0 6 years ago |

Learning Crystal, and working on a CLI to download and stitch books from Project MUSE:

https://github.com/captn3m0/muse-dl

ijustwanttovote 6 years ago |

- Writing posts on my personal blog https://www.michael1e.com - Reading stock trading books - Updating my personal management workflow

adrianchifor 6 years ago |

Drank a lot of G&Ts and wrote a serverless database https://github.com/adrianchifor/Bigbucket

elymar 6 years ago |

I made my first game: https://elymar.itch.io/social-distancing It's super simple, but I learned a lot.

ozdevi 6 years ago |

Hi, I am not sure does it count? My quarantine project is https://userbricks.com I've just started to bring some bricks together!

derwiki 6 years ago |

I built http://www.postcardmailer.us a few years ago as a spaghetti jQuery project, and am working on transitioning it to React.

nicwest 6 years ago |

I'm investigating the way that encounter difficulty is estimated in Dungeons and Dragons. I've felt for a long time that the influence the number of opposing monsters have is somewhat exaggerated.

kiernanmcgowan 6 years ago |

Siev - a fuzzy reverse image search API. Siev lets you match images even if they have been modified by text, watermarks, or other alterations.

https://siev.io

saluki 6 years ago |

Learning Tailwind CSS, alpine.js and livewire and finally finishing my SaaS.

arzzen 6 years ago |

I've been working on converting a free foreign exchange & crypto rates API

https://exchangerate.host

I worked on this in my free time during the quarantine.

DmitryOlshansky 6 years ago |

A digital coin w/o blockchain:

https://github.com/glow-stack/vbjt

And it’s basically done and usable. I will likely do ICO soonish.

napolux 6 years ago |

Started publishing some LCB (Low Content Books) on Amazon KDP.

Not doing that for the money, but I would like to publish a "real book" someday, so I've learnt a lot about the Amazon self-publishing platform.

So far, 3 sales.

bad_good_guy 6 years ago |

I have gotten very into D&D over videocall after being asked if i wanted to join a game with fellow newbies.

Now I DM a game as well as play in one, and spend a load of time coming up with adventures and worldbuilding

gmac 6 years ago |

A Postgres library for TypeScript, without the abstractions of an ORM: https://jawj.github.io/zapatos/

straumat 6 years ago |

An open source trading bot framework available as a sprint boot starter https://trading-bot.cassandre.tech/

sgottit 6 years ago |

https://umbra.replay.software/

Spent some time learning Swift UI to build a mac app to manage dark mode & matching wallpapers.

mendelbot 6 years ago |

Capitalism has trained us to equate productivity with our self-worth. So please don't feel the need to be constantly busy during the pandemic. You are enough, regardless of what you're building / making / cashing out on.

Having said that, if you're truly interested in a project and it keeps you engaged, go for it and I hope you're enjoying it!!!

HelloFellowDevs 6 years ago |

I've finally gotten around to working on a idea of mine, the ability to clip podcast segments and share them. Still figuring out some stuff but the beginning stages are looking and feeling great!

Kye 6 years ago |

Getting back into photography: https://www.kyefox.com/photography/

A 70-300 lens is great for keeping a distance.

user5994461 6 years ago |

I've made a webapp showing the progression of the virus worldwide day over day. https://coronaprogress.com/

mrjivraj 6 years ago |

Started writing more on my Substack about investing: https://playingfordoubles.substack.com/

Feedback is welcomed! :)

vojtamolda 6 years ago |

Plotting library for the Swift numerical computing ecosystem:

https://github.com/vojtamolda/Plotly.swift

iambvk 6 years ago |

I wrote a browser extension and command-line tool for password-store. See https://github.com/bvk/past

vpoulain 6 years ago |

I made this small multiplayer game. Invite friend and make them guess movies using only 3 emoji: https://renga.party/

apvarun 6 years ago |

Revamped https://confs.space A place to find development related conference talk videos to keep you learning new things each day

mycentstoo 6 years ago |

I've starting picking back up the piano. Currently working through Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag and Beethoven's Moonlight (1st movement) after taking years off.

I did spend sometime looking at Flutter too.

intpbro 6 years ago | |

How is it? Always wanted to learn

mycentstoo 6 years ago | | |

Flutter is pretty great. Code development is faster in my opinion when compared with React Native. Dart is fairly similar to JS but that's probably the biggest learning curve.

imvetri 6 years ago |

Taking a break for the rest of the lockdown from this https://github.com/imvetri/ui-editor

uallo 6 years ago |

I'm working on a CMS that stores its content in a plain JSON file directly into your Git repository. That allows easy CI/CD integration, version history, multi-branch support and more.

rchaudhary 6 years ago |

I started https://www.programmerweekly.com/ - A language agnostic weekly newsletter for programmers.

aenario 6 years ago |

I have been working on typescript runtime reflection https://github.com/aenario/tsmirror

notamy 6 years ago |

Started building my own tool for TTRPG/worldbuilding/... note-taking, partly from wanting to do it, but mostly because solutions like "Google Docs" didn't scale well...

apapli 6 years ago |

I built https://www.provedore.com.au -> a way to find local producers who sell online and deliver to your door.

masahiko 6 years ago |

Relaunching http://www.pedalr.com initially as a newsletter then overtime a better marketplace for people who love bikes

AndyPa32 6 years ago |

I'm learning how to do my own book keeping. The yearly tax declaration will still be done by a specialist but keeping the books will be my task from now on. I am using ledger-cli for it.

renatello 6 years ago |

Slowly creating Tailwind UI components for Bootstrap 4 https://renatello.com/components/

daijj 6 years ago |

Working on a development project surrounding user engagement with content creators and having users help drive the content that the creators come up with. (although it isn't ready yet).

platz 6 years ago |

making a minimal self-hosted bookmarking site https://github.com/jonschoning/espial

grangerize 6 years ago |

I built a simple compound interest calculator because I was fed up with the ones filled with ads.

https://compoundinterest.info

jjice 6 years ago |

In the back of the Dragon Book, they recommend a Pascal compiler because of it being a very structured language. I've been building it out, and I'm working on codegen right now.

davedx 6 years ago |

An autonomous boat that drones can land on to recharge automatically.

Techasura 6 years ago |

I 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.

benoror 6 years ago |

Working on a Low-code / No-code tool based on GraphQL tech! Preview here: https://www.baseql.com/

caviv 6 years ago |

I have created a RSS scraper for 9gag that also colors posts you have already seen: https://9gagrss.xyz/

faike 6 years ago |

Death and Co. cocktail book app let's you search for cocktails by ingredients.

https://sphynx.fshaik.now.sh/

zarkone 6 years ago |

mostly learning new languages and tools.

Convert & store CSV to JSON, with Docker build: https://github.com/zarkone/csvproxy [typescript]

Get last failed logs from github actions, with native image build (i found it is quite annoying to go to UI and scroll it each time :) https://github.com/zarkone/faillogs [kotlin]

ropable 6 years ago |

Trying to improve my home-made pizza bases. There's only so far you can go without a dedicated pizza oven, but I've gone from "bad" to "decent" at least.

pythonist 6 years ago |

I am implementing organisations feature to https://newreleases.io, which is a software release tracker service.

smilebot 6 years ago |

I've been taking some time to improve my dev experience. I've been writing some scripts for common tasks and setting up aliases, getting to know VSCode shortcuts better etc.

aaronsnoswell 6 years ago |

I've been making tabletop game to enter into competitions (there are lots running!) and my significant other has been experimenting with making home-made ice-cream and sorbet :)

straumat 6 years ago |

I developed a trading bot framework named Cassandre https://trading-bot.cassandre.tech/

par 6 years ago |

Meta Meme, a photo/video meme maker with lots of templates to choose from. https://metameme.app/

r0b05 6 years ago |

I am getting to know the local birds, growing 2 plants and learning machine learning. Soon, hopefully, I will start building some side apps using ml and maybe teach it to the birds.

jmkni 6 years ago | |

Where I'm from, birds is slang for women. Was very confused reading your comment for a second.

r0b05 6 years ago | | |

Well I wish it was the birds you are referring to but I am confined to pigeons.

rahu_ 6 years ago |

I built a website to find that quote amongst millions in 90+ languages. https://satyaquotes.com/

thound 6 years ago |

A JS library to model and draw graphs https://github.com/mlarocca/jsgraphs

ericmcer 6 years ago |

Options trading robot, it is currently doing ok in simulations but I am too scared to give it real money. I have never written so many tests for such a small amount of code before.

dehrmann 6 years ago | |

> I am too scared to give it real money

You should be. I hedged a bit recently with some options. Options can be low-volume, so the bid/ask spread alone can kill you. Read that bit again. If you're not accounting for the spread, you might get killed. They're also incredibly volatile right now. I've had days +/- 30%. I'm not sure if someone like Robinhood goes lower, but a contract is for 100 shares, so the min bet is big.

ericmcer 6 years ago | | |

Yeh your right, It’s programmed to not mess with anything where the bid ask is >3%. Otherwise yeah, it would get eaten alive. It uses a combination of unusual options flow and some basic technical analysis to make trades and has been doing well so far but... it is easy to lose a lot quickly if ya blow it.

edoceo 6 years ago | | |

Always 100 shares

cik 6 years ago | |

It's cathartic. I've been running one for 3 years now. Just turn it on, there's no other way to learn.

moneywoes 6 years ago | |

Was working on something similar myself, what is your tech stack?

ericmcer 6 years ago | | |

NodeJS wrote a custom little api for cheddarflow and Robinhood so it can check unusual options activity and contract prices instantly(ish)

jamesogrant 6 years ago |

I put this together: https://copyscanpaste.com

...to easily copy and paste long links, test creds, etc. to test devices.

awfulaxolotl 6 years ago |

A multiplayer game where everything's text, the points don't matter, and players can program any region of the world with arbitrary WebAssembly.

Can be played in a browser or terminal.

josephwegner 6 years ago |

Been working on this app for sharing Switch screenshots: https://switch2cloud.herokuapp.com

hellweaver666 6 years ago |

Keyboards. I bought a mechanical keyboard and customised it, then I handmade a little mechanical macro keyboard and now I'm getting into the custom cables scene as well.

dnr 6 years ago |

Finally got time and motivation to continue working on my collaborative crossword puzzle app:

https://squares.io/

neil_s 6 years ago | |

This is exactly what I've been looking for, thanks for making!

jasonlfunk 6 years ago |

I made a goal tracking system for my time tracking. It helps me make sure I'm working enough.

http://timegoalie.com

silentprog 6 years ago |

I'm following the second part of: https://www.craftinginterpreters.com/

apelin 6 years ago |

We've started building a platform to help landlords and tenants come up with installment plans for missed rent and security deposit payments during C19. www.xspaced.com

chadwittman 6 years ago |

Building out Houseparty for families, auto-highlighted into keepsakes: https://trypersonalive.com

Zardoz84 6 years ago |

Well... I'm creating a pet/toy game engine inspired on DIV Games Studio, with D. And I resuscitate two D packages. A simple VFS and a fluent assertation library.

thosakwe 6 years ago |

Learning touch typing. I've never been 100% on typing without looking at the keyboard when going fast, and I think that learning to do so would boost my productivity.

rovr138 6 years ago | |

Another useful skill that I’ve found helps is getting good at reading from a source and typing it as you go. When someone’s presenting, I can quickly type something they’re showing. Usually quicker than interrupting, asking them to copy & paste and then waiting for them to get on track.

Another is if for some reason you get sent a printout, an image or something, transcribing whatever you need from it is super quick.

If it’s too fast I don’t internalize what it says, I just type, but it’s nice.

A personal story, My grandma and my mom where both secretaries. I used to sat down on the typewriter at home for fun. As soon as I did and started typing you would hear, “back straight!, hands!, feet on the ground!”

When we finally got a computer, it died a bit. They couldn’t hear the keyboard when I typed so I had some time to slouch before they walked in and saw me.

That’s of course if I remembered to turn off/down the speakers when I booted the computer up.

thosakwe 6 years ago | | |

Ah, definitely. I'm in a work-from-home situation right now, and have been trying to type things during video calls (being careful to mute my audio and not show the typing on video, of course). I can imagine that within two weeks, I'll be at least at my old speed, if not far faster.

Jefro118 6 years ago | |

What are you using to learn and how are you finding it?

I ask because I myself am working on a touch-typing course for developers[0] because I wasn't satisfied with the other options available. It's one of my two quarantine projects.

[0] - https://typeright.herokuapp.com

thosakwe 6 years ago | | |

I've been using https://typingclub.com, and finding it excellent so far.

bouk 6 years ago |

I just released https://gizmopack.app, which adds a bunch of useful new actions to Shortcuts on iOS.

medievalMoose 6 years ago |

Private pilot ground school online.

Free @ https://fly8ma.com/courses/pplgs/

Giorgi 6 years ago |

Well I created https://mp3owl.com for fun, but now getting hit by DMCA takedowns like crazy. Oh well.

cdiamand 6 years ago |

Working on https://topstonks.com aggregating the most mentioned stocks on 4chan and wallstreetbets

KFC_Manager 6 years ago |

Working on a pure email group challenge product. Basically you sign up with friends to complete a challenge and the product is almost entirely delivered through emails.

r0rshrk 6 years ago |

We're making it easier for students to practice their GRE/SATs/GMAT essays.

https://getessayer.com

ikkjo 6 years ago |

Lowpoly art from user uploaded photos. Just went online: https://lowpolynator.com/

userium 6 years ago |

We built a free Covid-19 Risk Assessment tool for workplaces https://finnovatec.com/

fidrelity 6 years ago |

I started blogging about PM, agile and engineering topics: https://andreschweighofer.com

iagooar 6 years ago |

24/7 childcare is an unexpected "side project".

awwaiid 6 years ago |

Working with some folks making https://covidcanidoit.com ; built with VueJS, Firebase.

Also made some bagels.

itsmeamario 6 years ago |

Working on my blog (https://mariocod.es) and learning for a Google certification.

Also looking for a side project.

wesz 6 years ago |

I've been working on personalized web archive/crawler and search engine to manage my bad data hoarding habits. Inspired by the look and tech from the 90s.

_evnc 6 years ago |

I’m building a bidet: https://github.com/evancohen/bidet

blakbelt78 6 years ago |

I've been building a stock market newsletter called Bullish▲ https://bullish.email

ovulator 6 years ago |

A website to record historical college football data, super exciting stuff!

http://cfbpedia.com/

hobs 6 years ago |

Working on a unity game inspired by cookie clicker to destroy all onions in the universe.

If you want a preview build my email is in my profile, but dont expect much so far :)

sdoering 6 years ago |

I started to learn Greek. And I am trying to learn enough Blender to animate a fictitious TV show's logo to help my SO for an university project of her.

alexbanks 6 years ago |

1. A basketball management sim game 2. A cloud computing platform 3. Reacclimating myself with Java 4. Learning React/Typescript

I basically just rotate between these 4.

hariharasudhan 6 years ago | |

if you're using react then definitely checkout https://www.bytehub.dev/ for some cool react components

wilbertliu 6 years ago |

I built nicetweeps.com to diversify my Twitter timeline ;)

bosky101 6 years ago |

A terminal with screen recorder, replay and conferencing

https://youtu.be/P3uFhJvFSFs

in9 6 years ago |

I am studying for the entrance exams for graduate school in statistics here in Brazil. But it is quite tough to study math on my own, specially for exams.

AdamHede 6 years ago |

I've starten writing a series of articles on getting started with data science form an organisational perspective, in my own native language (Danish).

danfang 6 years ago |

I've been trying to build a better, more expressive messenger:

https://get.thread-app.com

dyu 6 years ago |

clquery, a SQL interface to cloud resources. Using SQL and tables to interact with AWS (and eventually others) makes it easier to quickly query and join across various resources and services without needing to remember how to make and parse the underlying API.

`pip install clquery` or https://github.com/dongting/clquery

ssttoo 6 years ago |

Mostly soldering, building audio gear from kits. Two Neve 1073 microphone preamp clones and one UA 1176 compressor clone (still working on the second).

adamqureshi 6 years ago |

Testing this out: Hiring Platform for Senior Engineers. https://tryoldster.com

moxchehalis 6 years ago |

Music, finally

https://soundcloud.com/moxchehalis/tracks

tsamtsam 6 years ago |

two main kinds - 1) one (more practical, i.e making sure that the side projects actually hone my existing skills - still deciding between building another CRUD app or just brushing up on my ds/a more -- any advice?) 2) exploratory (trying to build a scraper for entertainment venues and creating a map based visualization for public to use when the covid-19 measures are eased in my country)

pkukkapalli 6 years ago |

I'm making a web emulation of the Metal Gear Solid V emblem creator. Felt it would be a good way to learn about web components and Typescript.

spacec0wb0y 6 years ago |

Https://tunesource.net

A searchable library of folk & traditional Irish music, displaying the abc notation as sheet music and allowing midi playback.

OatsAndHoney 6 years ago |

Studying algorithms, math, and physics. That’s it.

leonfedden 6 years ago |

working on a AI for poker - we've trained some agents on a 20 card deck version of hold'em poker and they're not bad at all, now working on scaling it up to the full 52 card deck no limit hold'em https://github.com/fedden/poker_ai

lapirca 6 years ago |

https://www.lapirca.es a platform for rock climbing bolters

thoughtspeed7 6 years ago |

Launched. https://bit.ly/bloodiq-android

matvp 6 years ago |

I've actually found myself coding in the evening again due to quarantine. Contributing to OSS, releasing stuff on GitHub, ...

billions 6 years ago |

https://sneezemap.com Crowdsourced COVID-19 symptoms map

- It's darker - It's less noisy - There's a better bed - There's no-one sleeping next to me in the same bed - Maybe I feel safer if I sleep on the second floor of a big house instead of right next to a street?

>>> vehicles = hl.import_table('vehicles.csv', impute=True, delimiter=',', quote='"') >>> t = vehicles.filter(vehicles.make == "Saab") >>> t = t.order_by(t.year) >>> t.show(3) +-------+--------+-------+-------+----------------+-------------------+---------------------+-------+----------+-----------+-------+-------+ | id | make | model | year | class | trans | drive | cyl | displ | fuel | hwy | cty | +-------+--------+-------+-------+----------------+-------------------+---------------------+-------+----------+-----------+-------+-------+ | int32 | str | str | int32 | str | str | str | int32 | float64 | str | int32 | int32 | +-------+--------+-------+-------+----------------+-------------------+---------------------+-------+----------+-----------+-------+-------+ | 380 | "Saab" | "900" | 1985 | "Compact Cars" | "Automatic 3-spd" | "Front-Wheel Drive" | 4 | 2.00e+00 | "Regular" | 19 | 16 | | 381 | "Saab" | "900" | 1985 | "Compact Cars" | "Automatic 3-spd" | "Front-Wheel Drive" | 4 | 2.00e+00 | "Regular" | 21 | 16 | | 382 | "Saab" | "900" | 1985 | "Compact Cars" | "Manual 5-spd" | "Front-Wheel Drive" | 4 | 2.00e+00 | "Regular" | 23 | 17 | +-------+--------+-------+-------+----------------+-------------------+---------------------+-------+----------+-----------+-------+-------+ showing top 3 rows