HACKER Q&A
📣 sakopov

What projects are you working on now?


With the quarantine being placed in effect in a lot of cities across the world, we all likely have a little bit more time to focus on personal projects or learning something new from the comfort of our homes. What are you guys up to these days?


  👤 lostintangent Accepted Answer ✓
I’m working on a tool that allows developers to record and playback interactive, guided walkthroughs of a codebase, directly from their editor. It’s called CodeTour, and it’s currently available as a VS Code extension: https://aka.ms/codetour.

I built it because I frequently find myself looking to onboard (or “reboard”) to a project, and not knowing exactly where to start. After speaking to a bunch of other developers, I didn’t seem to be alone, so it felt like this problem was deserving of some attention.

While documentation can help mitigate this problem, I wanted to explore ways that the codebase itself could become more explainable, without requiring unnecessary context switches. Almost like if every repo had a table of contents. To make it easier to produce these “code tours” I built a tour recorder, that tries to be as simple, and dare I say, fun to use as possible.

I’ve since found that this experience has value in a number of other use cases (e.g. simplifying PR reviews, doing feature hand offs, facilitating team brown bags, etc.), and I’m excited to keep getting feedback from folks as they try it out. It’s also fully OSS, so I’d love any and all contributions: https://github.com/vsls-contrib/codetour.


👤 zackb
I'm working on a morse code iOS app that can optionally use Force (3D) Touch. My dad had a stroke recently and is quarantined in a care facility. He can't talk but remembers morse code like a boss. He can't lift his finger off the screen to "tap" and there were no other morse apps out there for people with physical impairment. With this he's able to communicate... I've been coding for 15 years but this was life changing when it worked!

FOSS: https://github.com/zackb/forcecode

only TestFlight right now but AppStore soon under the name "Force Code"


👤 chdaniel
I'm making a new tool for writers. With it, you'll be able to write your essays on "layers"

The problem? Tweets are easier to read than long-form essays, as they require less time commitment. If the content is not good on a long-form article, you'll find out way too late. With this tool I'm developing:

Layer 1 is the shortest version of your essay, the 1 min read — like a tweet. The idea boiled down to the shortest version

Layer 2 is the same text from layer 1, but with extras added here and there. What's already read by you is in black ink. What's new is in blue ink. This is the 2 min read version

Layer 3 shows everything from Layer 1 and 2 in black ink, but what's new is now in blue ink. and you keep doing that until you get to the full version.

I can post some screenshots here of my mockups, as I'm a designer. PM me if you find this intriguing!

——

Edit: Since people are showing interest, here's how I see it happening — https://invis.io/GQWINO2YKU2#/410298082_1_Min_Verison

The first thing that you see is the first layer (1 min version). Go right for 3 and 5 min version!

——

Edit 2: since I'm seeing the upvotes and the emails, I quickly made this sign-up form for the people who want to be updated when the product is done: https://layered-ink.webflow.io/

I would put up the https://layered.ink link but the domain hasn't been propagated yet.

@Admins — please do let me know if this is not permitted so I can take it down. Apologies if so.


👤 karlicoss
I'm working on promnesia, a browser extension to enhance web browser history.

It allows you to answer different questions about the current web page:

- have I been here before? When?

- why have I bookmarked it?

- how did I get on it? Which page has led to it?

- who sent me this link? Can I just jump to the message?

- which links on this page have I already explored?

- which posts from this blog page have I already read?

https://github.com/karlicoss/promnesia#demo


👤 bartread
I've just finished off (within the last hour) my version of Asteroids, which I started with enthusiasm two or three years back, then did very little after getting the basics of the game working:

https://arcade.ly/games/asteroids/

Now I've finally added all the stuff I wanted to (black holes, satellites, power-ups) so it's time to pick up another project I started a long time ago and haven't really done much on: my very own version of Space Invaders:

https://arcade.ly/games/space-invaders/

(WARNING: this one is barely functional - e.g., no levels, no shield damage, no scoring, invader firing pattern is all kinds of wrong, invader movement isn't quite right, etc.)

Enjoy! (And feedback welcome!)


👤 rococode
Meta: This thread is fun to read, it's cool to skim through such a large variety of ideas and projects. I wouldn't mind seeing it as a monthly thing like the "Who is hiring?" posts. There'd probably be some overlap with Show HN, but I personally wouldn't mind if it's just once a month.

👤 sthottingal
I am developing a modern wikipedia interface - a Vuejs powered modern, single page, progressive, offline capable web application for Wikipedia. I have been working on this for last several months and have working version available at https://wikipedia.thottingal.in

Source code and more details available at https://github.com/santhoshtr/wikivue

It is a fully client side PWA application using wikipedia web apis, installable in desktops and mobiles and use like a native application. It has offline support - With the help of service workers, the application even works when there is no internet, provided, the content is previously viewed. It is a single page application - page does not reload when exploing wiki articles, presenting an immersed reading experience. uIt ses modern UI framwork Vuetify. Adapts to all kind of screen sizes. It presents an optimized reading experience with good typography and optimum page layout. Multilingual by default - All language editions are in single app. Using language selector user can select the language edition.

I wanted to make this as a p2p capable application. Currently it runs on dat protocol as well: dat://25689f3a757853a511474d38f0a6d6be2cd2b0cb161686d75fda5c1619137921(need beaker browser) or wikipedia.hashbase.io


👤 jpgvm
Log storage and search system for structured logging data in Rust.

i.e a database optimised for logs and log-like data and nothing else.

Existing solutions are too inefficient for the use case of logs (TB+/day), suffer under high field cardinality, are based on costly and unnecessary full-text-search systems that aren't well optimised for logs data or just plain and simply can't handle structured data and degrade to simply storing lines.

Design goals are super efficient/fast, extremely fast distributed regex matching backed by trigram bitmap indices, columnar storage for compression and cardinality reasons.

I have a prototype of the indexer and lowest levels of the query engine and regex syntax to trigram query optimiser. Will be adding the ingress and query frontends hopefully have something to show soon.

I don't know if I am going to go OSS or not but definitely designed to be run on-premise though I could easily run it as a multi-tenant service if people are interested.

I founded my own startup in the past and have been putting off actually doing a real side-project for the last couple of years but could never get away from the itch so this is going to be my swing I think.

If this is something you find interesting hit me up, or if you are just frustrated with ELK for some reason or another let me know what you think sucks and I'll try build something that sucks less at that.


👤 loufe
I bought an old trench coat from a thrift store and outfitted it with 350 programmable LEDs , an Arduino to control them, and a 24 AA battery bank for a music festival last year, it was a hit. I'm currently working on adding another 150 LEDs, fixing the power system (I burnt out the Arduino after a couple hours), and looking into adding a microphone and learning some sound programming to make the suit change colours to the beat for this year. I always wanted a living technicoloured dreamcoat.

👤 simonsarris
Working on simeville, a little 2D Canvas demo that builds a town. You can try it yourself here: https://simonsarris.github.io/simeville/ (pardon the graphics, they're stand-ins right now)

Click to make buildings (above the tree line only right now) and click and drag the sun down to go to night. Drag the moon to return to day.

Gif of night sky: https://twitter.com/simonsarris/status/1235761030996901888

The point is to replace the background town that's currently on https://simonsarris.com (which is animated purely by CSS right now, including the birds) with a much more interactive and playful one. (the current site background gives you an idea of what will be built and why it currently only works behind the tree line). The time consuming part right now is making pretty graphics. I had begun with buildings made from Canvas drawing code, with procedural params and all that, but I'm switching to images because it will be much prettier in the long run.


👤 burtonator
I'm working on Polar:

https://getpolarized.io/

It's been out for about 1.2 years now and we're really starting to nail some important features.

JUST about to post a new release now.

COVID19 is having us pivot a bit in that we're going to experiment with collaborative group reading in the hopes that students can work more efficiently with their colleagues without having to leave home.

The core idea is to have a fully-integrated reading platform sort of like an integrated development environment but for non-fiction material (textbooks, research papers, documentation, plus web content).

Right now we support PDF and web content but are actively working on EPUB and improved reading of web content.

The key functionality is built around annotating your documents and taking notes and building flashcards so you can maintain a personal knowledge repository.

It's also Open Source and supports cloud sync. We have a mobile webapp now and working on porting it over to Android soon.


👤 antonrevyako
I'm working on static analyzer for SQL: https://holistic.dev

It's a useful tool for DBA to identify issues in SQL queries automatically. Only 50 rules for now, but more than 1000 described in backlog :)

Funny, but initially this tool aimed at developers' needs.

I've made a lot of microservices, which only started the database queries. I came up with the idea of making a tool that would automatically generate all the microservices based on SQL queries. The MVP of such a tool was implemented, which reduced the developer workload by at least a quarter. In this tool, it was required to write queries in a certain way that did not make it universal and did not give a connection with the database structure.

The next step was to create a system that relies on the text description of the database schema in SQL format (DDL) and automatically understands the types that will return the SQL query. Such a tool can automatically inform the developer about possible errors on the interface between the application and database when changing the structure or the SQL queries themselves. It can also be built into the CI to provide the automatic code review at the version control system level and prevent the erroneous code from entering the repository.

But the developers did not appreciate all the advantages, as most projects are developed using ORM :(

But at the same time, DBAs expressed interest in implementing a system of the automatic search for bad requests already on the production database.

Any questions are welcome :)


👤 cushychicken
I'm working on building my own function generator!

If you're not an EE - a function generator is a pretty common piece of electrical engineering lab equipment.

I've got all the source files up on GitHub - feel free to take a look: https://github.com/cushychicken/bfunc

I've also been keeping a weekly project journal. I just posted the latest installment today if you'd like to see what I've gotten up to: http://cushychicken.github.io/bfunc-weekseven-log/

I'm already planning a second prototype and board spin with more functionality.

If you need or want a really bare-bones function generator for your home lab, get in touch! Instructions for how are in the post. )


👤 dnautics
Working on a major refactor of my elixir FFI interface for the Zig programming language. Lets you write zig inline in elixir, and takes care of all of the fiddly bits around setting up a nif correctly, in such a way that you can't mess it up.

https://github.com/ityonemo/zigler/

By the end of the refactor, an additional setting will be included that makes the beam vm "garbage collect" your zig for you, that is, you can lazily allocate memory in your nif, and it will be cleaned up for you afterwards. This is a major first step in making "safe nifs" which are OTP-supervised OS threads with, at least, memory resource recovery performed by a BEAM process if the thread happens to crash.

Also, why use zig over rust? because zig is aggresively unopinionated about its memory allocation, so Zigler makes it easy to use the internal BEAM allocator, which 1) lets the BEAM be aware of allocations that are happening for observability and telemetry purposes, 2) lets your memory allocations play nice with the BEAM's fragmentation preferences and 3) leads to potentiallly better performance as you can make fewer trips to the kernel for allocations.


👤 MattKelly
https://www.coronawhatnow.com - a website focused on helping people and businesses impacted by coronavirus.

Examples:

-Food banks (individual sites or directories)

-Financial aid

-Elderly grocery shopping hours and delivery

-Healthcare (shelter in place info, testing like Verily Baseline, etc)

This info is currently scattered across the Internet and we're aggregating it in one place. It's hosted on Github using markdown so anyone with spare time can be a massive help (https://github.com/coronawhatnow/coronawhatnow.com).

Join us at https://www.facebook.com/groups/coronawhatnow


👤 coderholic
https://host.io - an API to get domain name metadata (scraped web content, backlinks, redirects, dns data, ranking information and more). See https://host.io/google.com for an example.

We've been building out the infrastructure for a while (scrape all domains monthly, resolve all domains, progress the data etc), but have only recently launched the API (see htttps://host.io/docs).

We'll soon be releasing a Top 10M Ranked Domain list, like the Alexa top 1M, but 10M, and based on our own ranking signals, instead of traffic data like Alexa.

If you've got any interesting use cases for our data or any feedback I'd love to hear it! ben@ipinfo.io


👤 rikroots
Over a thousand comments? My project is gonna be lost in the conversation! But here goes anyway ...

I've been recoding my HTML5 library from scratch[1]. Most of the work is done - I'm now onto the fun documentation bit[2].

Something I'm particularly proud of achieving in the recode? Dynamically responsive bendy images in the web browser - with added animation capability![3]

[1] Scrawl-canvas v8 code base - https://github.com/KaliedaRik/Scrawl-canvas/tree/v8-alpha [2] Scrawl-canvas v8 code documentation (incomplete) - https://github.com/KaliedaRik/Scrawl-canvas/tree/v8-alpha/do... [3] Youtube video showing dynamically responsive bendy images in the web browser - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LebxNhVWyOQ&t=3s


👤 abhgh
Very research-y, but I am working on a pet idea of mine called "compact models" in Machine Learning. Essentially you take a model - say a decision tree of depth 20 - and "compact" it to a decision tree of size 10, without losing accuracy. The motivation is "interpretability": models are interpretable by humans if they are small. Another application would be low memory footprint models - but frankly, I haven't thought of this use case much. I have had some success with producing a model agnostic algorithm [1] (i.e. works for any model with some notion of size e.g. decision trees with size being the depth, linear models with size being the number of non-zero terms) - now I am exploring options to speed up the compaction process. The quarantine has given me some time to think about this.

[1] https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frai.2020.00003...


👤 joeblau
I wrote this tool (started on Thursday) called Doodle that is designed to give kids a quick drawing canvas. It's a super simple app that I made for my son who kept drawing over all of my Apple notes. You can draw, then press the button in the top right to quickly erase your drawing (Like an Etch A Sketch).

Someone nerd-sniped me and I added in the ability to record a video as well. Technically, you could use it to do quick 5-10 minute drawing/narrated lessons and export them for educational purposes.

Site: https://joeblau.com/doodle/

Source: https://github.com/joeblau/doodle

AppStore: https://itunes.apple.com/app/id1503601939


👤 kstenerud
I'm building a new twin ad-hoc encoding format to replace JSON and friends [1].

It has native support for all commonly used data types, so you don't need to artificially specify custom encodings just to get your data across.

It's a twin text / binary format, where the text format can be transparently converted to the binary format, and vice versa. This means that you can use the binary format for storage and communication, and only convert to/from the text format when humans get involved.

I'm currently building a reference implementation in go [2], which is now running faster than the JSON codec in my experimental branch [3].

[1] https://github.com/kstenerud/concise-encoding#concise-encodi...

[2] https://github.com/kstenerud/go-cbe

[3] https://github.com/kstenerud/go-cbe/tree/new-implementation


👤 qchris
I got a really old and broken inflatable dinghy off Craigslist about 2 months ago for $30, and am rebuilding/restoring it. Right now, I'm about 16 individual Hypalon patches and 2/3 a quart of internal sealant in, with one tube finally sealed and the other most of the way. Once that's done (in an garage test, anyway), I'll bring it to a local stream to if it floats. If it does, moving on to building a floor out of plywood and putting together an electric trolling motor setup.

I'm dubious it'll ever be actually seaworthy, but I'm picking up all sorts of little skills and experiences along the way, like troubleshooting a Halkey-Roberts valve this morning that only partially sealed.


👤 jsomau
I've been building a browser extension called Curb Your Consumerism that detects when you're on a checkout page for a website and redirects you to a screen that shows you how long you had to work to earn the purchase you're about to make. The idea is to get people to more consciously consume and in general reduce their consumption.

It's currently working, but I've stalled a bit because I'm not sure of the best way to promote it. ProductHunt is probably a good first step, but other suggestions welcome.

Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/curb-your-consumer....

Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/curb-your-con....

More info: https://www.curbyourconsumerism.app/#faq


👤 vedran
I'm building what I hope is an educational and entertainment project for when my son is older. It's a cross between Dynamicland[1] and Osmo[2], that combines a projector, camera, and computer vision to hopefully bring programming and creativity out of the monitor and into a semi-real world. I'm just designing the system now and I posted on reddit[3] to ask the machine learning community for advice. I'm also reaching out to computer vision engineers to offer to pay them for a few hours of their time via Zoom to get advice. Some examples of similar systems are [4] and [5].

I don't have a name for this yet.

[1] https://dynamicland.org/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87hKzrjRWww#t=1m10s

[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/fl2akd/d_a...

[4] http://tablaviva.org/

[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfFwz5Qjr3c#t=40s


👤 kgilpin
I’m cleaning out my garage to build an RV 12, a popular type of two-seat single engine home built airplane. Putting time at home to good use!

https://www.vansaircraft.com/rv-12is/


👤 toothbrush
The last few weeks have been spent on a pretty obscure project, that's finally kinda sorta ready to show to the world.

We were making silly games in Visual Basic 6, because that struck us as a cool thing to do. However, it's hard to show them to your friends, when they all use macOS or Linux. Plus, we didn't want them to miss out on the nostalgic feeling of booting up Windows 98. So, after a lot of blood/sweat/tears and a physical copy of the MS Windows 95 Resource Kit book, we finally can ±roughly automatically install a Windows 98SE machine in QEMU, load it with our games and some settings, and then upload it to S3 to be "played" with copy.sh's v86 engine.

Without further ado: https://paschke-images-test.s3.amazonaws.com/welcome.html


👤 ggerganov
Writing console applications with cool text UIs : https://asciinema.org/a/VUKWZM70PxRCHueyPFXy9smU8

👤 zamalek
A Minecraft server in Rust [1]. The hope is to make it obscenely parallel with actor-like design (Minecraft chunks are nearly perfect for this). The real challenge so far has been the complete and utter mess that is the MC protocol; there's two different forms of UTF8 in the damn thing and there's NBT and JSON (which achieve the same thing). NBT itself has 2 ways to encode i32 and i64 arrays. So I haven't reached the bit where I play with parallelism yet.

[1]: https://github.com/jcdickinson/racemus


👤 cdiamand
I'm working on https://topstonks.com - We're covering the speculative culture of investing coming from Reddit's WallstreetBets and 4chan.

I'm also considering buying a sewing machine and making masks for my local community. Shoot me a message if you'd be interested in branded (cloth) masks for your startup. This would help subsidize the cost. Still feeling the idea out.


👤 redka
I'm working on bot implementation for my latest game[1]. I only ever made bots for my first game[2] but it was a breeze then. Now I needed to setup waypoints, pathfinding algorithms and some funky chasing logic but frankly I'm loving it. It's amazing how fruitful javascript community is! Libraries like rbush[3] (and really just a lot of different things by mourner) and ngraph.path[4] make things so much easier.

[1] https://redka.games/shootout [2] https://redka.games/mages [3] https://github.com/mourner/rbush [4] https://github.com/anvaka/ngraph.path


👤 rafael859
I am working on a Firefox extension for search aggregation. It currently works with DuckDuckGo, Wikipedia, Stack Overflow, Reddit, and others. The idea is that for 80% of my searches I can find the answer on Wikipedia or Stack Overflow, removing the need for a general search engine such as DuckDuckGo or Google, and thus hopefully avoiding blogspam and tracking to some extent. Extraction works through XPath, and I am trying to make it easier to add new engines without looking at the HTML.

Unfortunately, it currently looks terrible, and so far has received one 1-star review, which is not doing much to help my motivation.

It's on the Firefox add-on store (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/metasearch). I plan to add the code on Github once I refactor it some more and add support for Chrome.


👤 nprateem
Fitness. The prospect of spending months at home with all the gyms closed has made me think now's the time to actually take fitness seriously and train hard at home with bodyweight exercises and calisthenics. Also writing songs too.

👤 _Mark
I am still working on my business which was started during the GFC back in 2008.

My business isn't important, but what is important is what you do over the next coming months.

During the GFC, I was a contract programmer and was let go in November. In Australia I figured nobody was going to hire in December, January is basically a write off, and could possibly find work in February.

Now I had 3 months up my sleeve. I could either lay down the foundations to my side project, or slack off, play video games, and watch videos all day.

So I worked hard on my side project which was making no money, and eventually it grew legs a year later when I was in a position to work on it full time, and have been ever since.

Now, what are you going to do with your current spare time? Nothing you do will make money instantly, but you could be planting those seeds, and maybe your tree might grow into something big.


👤 pkulak
Man, I should be working on something I can actually put somewhere, but I just don't have the energy for it after work these days.

Instead, I assembled a modest new desktop and put Arch Linux on it. It's been _years_ since I used Linux (even more since I assembled a computer instead of just buying one from Apple) and it's really been a lot of fun. I've gone totally all-in-crazy with it to. I use this obscure tiling window manager called Sway, and built the whole machine into a tiny little small-form-factor case. It's been a LOT of fun and I've learned a hell of a lot.

My only issue is cooling this little bugger. I've got a fan in there now that _just_ fits, but it creates a crazy amount of turbulence noise if I put the side panel on. I've given up on air cooling and ordered a water all-in-one cooler instead. We'll see how that goes. But either way, it's a blast to try all this stuff out.

Once I get everything perfect with this new rig... I'll go back to trying to get comfortable with Rust. :D


👤 rejacobson
I'm working on a game server hosting service: https://grryno.com

It's a pay-for-what-you-use service (no monthly fees) and I'd like to focus on open source and indie games. It features a live web-based server console, web-based ftp access, and real-time progress indicators as the server starts up.

It's been in development for the last 5+ years but I've used the last couple of weeks to finally get it to a point where people can start using it.

At this point I'm just looking for a few interested people to try out what I've built and get some feedback.

The infrastructure used to be entirely on Linode but I migrated everything over to AWS last year, and it's been a huge benefit. It greatly simplified everything and I got rid of huge swaths of code, which is immensely satisfying. :D

The game servers are run in Docker containers with a Node.js based api server for communication with the website.

I'm currently working on adding some more games to the library and learning about marketing.


👤 yrashk
I'm preparing a synchronous queue for the browsers. It's a queue that allows to send byte arrays between threads (workers) and it is based on SharedArrayBuffer and Atomics (subject to availability, currently works fine in Chrome, Firefox needs some reconfiguration). Early experiments show that it gives a 3-4x speedup comparing to using postMessage/onmessage. It also allows to synchronize some inherently asynchronous APIs, which is at times useful, especially when compiling C code to WebAssembly, as it often would have expectations of synchronous syscalls or other APIs.

There are still a few issues there I'd like to address before I publish it. Feel free to follow me on twitter (@yrashk) if you're interested, I'll announce it there.

I'm also considering making an experiment and publishing it under Prosperity license (https://licensezero.com/licenses/prosperity)


👤 leemac
I'm working on a self-hosted app to track family history and stories. I've got photos going back to the 20s and my dad seems to have so many stories I want to capture around them. I also had an uncle pass recently and finding photos of him for the services was so manual. I'd love to have some photo-tagging of sorts. Perhaps allow family to upload their stash of photos.

It's also giving me a fun chance to dive deeper into ASP.NET Core/React/TypeScript, something I work with professionally, but just haven't had the time to fiddle.


👤 barneygale
I'm trying to make Python's `pathlib.Path` something you can readily subclass and use for S3/FTP/whatever: https://discuss.python.org/t/make-pathlib-extensible/3428

Currently working my way thru a bunch of preparatory bugfixes: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TicFDMudKKA6CZcrscg1...


👤 mceachen
I'm working on PhotoStructure. After 20 years of taking photos and videos, and suffering through numerous cloud-based photo startups that end up folding in a year or two, multiple crashed servers, and having my smartphone camera feed the adtech beast, I decided I needed something that:

* ran on hardware that I owned (or rented in the cloud)

* had robust de-duplication [1]

* didn't require expensive or proprietary hardware

* ran cross-platform, so libraries can be created, updated, and used on different computers [2]

* uses a web-based UI, so I can see and share my library from any mobile or desktop browser

I'm giving access to the beta in exchange for feedback. I will release another batch of invites when the next release goes live. I've been releasing about every month, but this last version got a case of featuritis[3] and has taken a while to stabilize. If you signed up recently, expect an email next week; sorry for the delay!

If you want to read more: https://photostructure.com/about/introducing-photostructure/

[1] https://photostructure.com/faq/what-do-you-mean-by-dedupe/

[2] https://photostructure.com/faq/library/

[3] https://photostructure.com/about/release-notes/


👤 Gene_Parmesan
One of my main side interests is hobbyist game engine programming. I do enjoy playing games, but I don't work on programming engines because I'm trying to publish one. Instead, I find that engine development is a supremely fertile ground for learning about many, many different programming domains (with the benefit of being very close to the hardware). Just a few examples -- concurrency/multithreading/async, including streaming file IO; human-machine interaction (controllers/keyboards but also GUI); audio programming; optimization; graph algorithms (pathfinding and more); AI; data-driven programming; computational geometry (collision detection and more); linear algebra (often via rendering but other areas as well); networking; I could really keep going but I won't. If you're at all interested in low-level, algorithmic heavy software dev, hacking on a game engine is a great way to play with it.

I'm switching gears now to working on a roguelike engine, as the term is supposed to be used. Meaning, games like Rogue itself, but also Nethack, ADOM, Angband, etc, rather than games like Spelunky. I'm excited about this because roguelikes make up for their extremely simple graphics by tending to have extraordinarily complicated systems. Of particular interest to me are procedural map generation (tons of interesting algorithmic possibilities here) and monster AI.

Besides, building a 3D renderer is not something that particularly interests me currently, so skipping that and just using sprite sheets made to look like ASCII chars is perfect.


👤 kirubakaran
I'm working on https://histre.com/ - Effortless Knowledge Base

The idea that we throw away a lot of the signal we generate while doing things online and this can be put to good use for ourselves.

As it is right now, Histre aids the casual online research we all do (ie the explore -> filter -> decide loop). For example, it removes friction in taking notes on links you're looking at, with free-form tags that you don't have to create first and other such niceties that add up. And it easy to group notes into notebooks and share with teams. In short, when you have to look at a bunch of links for something (decide on AirBnB, people to hire, material for your next blog post, etc) Histre makes your life easier. But this is just the starting point for what Histre intends to do.

IMHO the biggest problem with apps like Evernote, Notion, Pocket etc is that it becomes digital hoarding, and not a knowledge base. And the knowledge base focused apps out there involve a lot of manual upkeep, which almost never happens, especially at work. Things start out okay and quickly fall into disrepair. I'm differentiating from the other note taking apps by automatically putting together a knowledge base (grouped by topic etc). Automatic Upkeep (WIP): Histre detects links/notes related to your existing notebooks and offers to update those notebooks with the new links and notes. This is similar to how Google Photos suggests new photos for your existing albums. This solves the upkeep problem. Currently people create knowledge bases with good intentions and it becomes stale and useless quite fast.

Exports: I'm working on org-mode exports, as I'm an Emacs user myself. Other export formats coming soon.

There is Hacker News integration that you may want to try. It lets you import and optionally share the stories you upvote.


👤 JohnTHaller
I'm putting some more time into PortableApps.com. I know it'll help people use their laptops for both work and personal stuff while keeping them separate. And I built a portable package of Folding@home which they're reviewing for release to hopefully get more folks helping attack COVID-19.

👤 eric_khun
Made a collaborative "corona stock" spreadsheet[1].

Now feel like a great opportunity to buy some "cheaper" stocks that could make great returns in the future. Also helps to have better perspective of my "limited" vision of the market.

[1] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bBsJnUIWg8BbET-h3oKN...


👤 oliv__
Working on a simple journaling app (web & mobile) that I initially made for myself. Super minimal but it works and it fills my own need.

I was thinking I'd start charging for it when it has more features (hashtags, search, pictures) but right now you can sign up for free to try it out (ignore the current copy).

It's online at: https://days.app

[EDIT] since people seem to be visiting the half baked landing page, here's a screenshot of what it looks like inside: https://i.imgur.com/ZkWtgi5.png (sorry this is my actual journal lol)

And on mobile: https://i.imgur.com/XgWXuBt.png

(I know there are a million projects on here already but if you find this and try it, let me know what you like/dislike! Cheers)


👤 mindcrime
AGI research. Just now re-reading Minsky's Society of Mind, and reading Goertzel's Engineering General Intelligence - Volume 1, and trying to integrate a lot of their ideas with stuff I've been doodling on for some time.

In addition to that, I'm working on some BPM stuff, looking into ways to more tightly integrate AI/ML services with automated BPM processes.

I also need to build a couple of new bookcases for my living room, so I can take all of these books that are stacked on every flat surface in sight, and put them away properly.


👤 jhallenworld
I'm working on RISC-V based SoC on a Lattice ECP5 FPGA. The end project is a low cost combination signal generator / oscilloscope for aligning antique radios that I eventually want to sell. But the firmware will be RISC-V based and I think this will be a great example design for others to use for their own projects. I show one way to make an SoC purely in Verilog (no external system-builder tools needed).

Right now the FPGA boots the PicoRV32 SoC example code out of the configuration SPI-flash memory of Lattice's ECP5 evaluation board (I started with the firmware in block-RAM, but now it runs right out of the SPI-flash). I also have interrupts working, and have the gcc header file macros for enabling/disabling interrupts and controlling the PicoRV32 timer. I will soon have much more (SDRAM controller, cache, many other peripherals..).

https://github.com/jhallen/radioanalyzer

Also I will port it to this very nice ULX3S board as soon as I get one:

https://www.crowdsupply.com/radiona/ulx3s


👤 zizee
After noticing that the growing number of people at my day job seemed to be using our internal jargon differently, I decided to write a team glossary using confluence. The experience left me wanting. No crosslinking of terms, no enforcement of structure/format. Ugly/outdated styling.

I thought there had to be a better way, but I couldn't find one so I built Jargonaut (https://www.jargonaut.net). It helps you build a nice, crosslinked list of terms/definitions, and provides simple slack integrations to allow you to pull in a definition into slack.

I have lots of ideas to add more value, but I want to get a feeling from others on whether you would use such a specialized tool instead of your bog standard wiki. Would you consider parting with money for it for your team?


👤 _hfqa
I am building an end-to-end text-to-video product that converts text/blog news into TV-like news using multiple AI techs including GANs, Transformers, variational autoencoders, motion graphics, kubernetes, among other techs.

It has taken me some months, but I have CI/CD in place, some traction in twitter, and subscribed users on our home page.

I have bootstrapped the product so far. I'm the solo dev, designer, and creator.

Soon I will have a big upgrade to the AI anchor.

Let me know what you think https://twitter.com/nius_tv

Official home page https://nius.tv


👤 perlgeek
In Germany there's currently a govt-sponsored hackathon going on, with lots of ideas to help with the Corona crisis https://wirvsvirushackathon.org/ (German only).

It's massive (42k volunteers signed up) and keeps crashing slack, but it's also lots of fun.

I'm working on a PoC that helps with triaging cases and tracks them in an ITSM tool.


👤 erwinh
It gave me quite some room to work on a new website I've been working on: https://space-search.io

I call it a search engine for space objects. It's a personal initiative with the aim to do something meaningful around space situational awareness and space debris.

The tool aggregates datasets around objects tracked in space and then makes it searchable and visualised with webgl / react overlays.

It's a good learning experience to work on (relatively) high performance web apps with high fps requirements for the webgl interactions while using webworkers for all the heavy lifting around filtering data and interpolating orbit trajectories.


👤 dpcan
I just completed an online adventure game engine that's a little different than what most people are used to. It's more like playing a live escape room than an old point and click game.

I made it so I can create a website of online adventures for people to play from their phone, tablet, or computer. I used to run an escape room business and I'm in the process of converting my closed rooms into online games. I'll be mixing up stories, puzzles, and answers a bit so they don't seem familiar to past players tho.


👤 burnt_toast
I'm finally trying to scratch my own itch and develop something I want (need). I run an auto detailing shop and am desperate for a web app to manage scheduling, quoting, and more. Initially the project was going to be a price comparer for detailing supplies but I decided to pivot. And I know there's other scheduling apps out there but none fit exactly what I needed.

With the whole pandemic going on my business has died off but on the bright side I get more development time.

Should be live shortly. Having trouble deploying the landing page. https://detailingarsenal.com


👤 PopeDotNinja
I'm building an Elixir app called Chimera. What is it? Heck if I know. It's just a bunch of stuff mashed together, hence the name. I just wanna keep busy. If you're fighting your inner perfectionist about creating the perfect side project, you don't need to! Make something beautifully hideous just for you :)

Chimera is currently an HTTPS client, an HTTPS server, and a tool that downloads pricing data from AWS for no particular reason. Why? Because I can!


👤 _peeley
I'm still in the super early stages of working on a collaborative sketch/whiteboarding web app. The idea is to have a site wherein users can sketch a diagram/write out some notes, with other users able to view in real-time or save and view later a la Google Docs.

Had the idea a few weeks ago, but with most universities converting to online lectures and many businesses working from home it seems like there's a definite niche in the market for it. Most professors (especially non-STEM) are totally oblivious to anything other than death-by-PowerPoint when it comes to online lectures, and most businesses either snap a pic of a messy whiteboard for posterity or re-draw diagrams through software after they've proven to be worth preserving.


👤 uhoh-itsmaciek
I play bluegrass mandolin and I'm working on https://fretboard.cool to better understand scale and chords patterns across the neck. Guitar and ukulele are also supported. Very few chord and scale types are supported right now, but I plan to add more when I figure out how to integrate them without complicating the interface too much.

👤 davehcker
I'm on a self-imposed sabbatical i.e. graduate school so I'm able to do quick context switching between the following things (no specific orders):

1. FINALLY, reading, chewing and digesting LISP. I can see the 'magical' prowess in it- but still not fully there.

2. Formalizing and standardizing an algorithm for one-shot learning using 'old-school' machine learning techniques that is freaking light-weight. Performs well on my problem set i.e. recognizing users from their mouse patterns (with as little as 10 secs of activity). But standardizing it to test it and benchmarking and then hopefully releasing it. Publication implementing the algorithm got rejected though :(

3. Growing highest quality and fresh produce indoors. Covid-19 has impacted some of my personal financial capacity but still doing my best. hexafarms.com

4. Writing essays.

5. A DSL for API testing (with things like API chaining, replay attacks, etc.)- the idea is to stack features slowly and then put a UI on top of it. Something like BurpSuite for those in the cysec space, but for programmers and pointy-haired bosses alike.


👤 YorickPeterse
Not specific to the quarantine, though I have been spending more time on it due to it: https://inko-lang.org/. It's a programming language I've been working on for the past few years.

In recent months I have been specifically working on making the compiler self-hosting. This has so far taken up more time than anticipated, as I had to rethink a lot of parts of the compiler (e.g. parts of the type system), and I didn't want to rush it.

With that said, progress is slowly improving as I'm making my way through implementing all the type checking rules. Hopefully in a few months the entire compiler is self-hosting.


👤 daxfohl
Investigating what an assembly language would look like for a CPU with unlimited cores. Basically if there was a way to provide a "Cloud Assembly" that would be like an assembly language running on Lambda. Not quite the same thing that fastly is doing with WASM, where WASM runs in the function, but rather something that defines the function. Doubt it goes anywhere.

👤 KevinBongart
This week, my wife and I made an online version of Cards Against Humanity: https://www.cardsagainsthumanity.online

Try it with 4+ players while on a video chat. We just play-tested it with 7 friends for 3 hours and had a lot of fun.


👤 dejawu
I'm working on my long-time side project, a general-purpose programming language called Kythera. Inspirations include the compact grammar of Go and the type system of ReasonML. Uniquely, types are first-class and can be treated like any other value - passed as parameters, returned from functions, etc. Besides maybe flexibility, there's no intended practical reason for this, it began as a "what if" when I first began the project and I just kept running with it to challenge myself.

I'd like to target the JVM, so I'm currently in the midst of translating the original JS implementation into Java. This does unfortunately mean that there's not a whole lot to show (the code doesn't even build yet), but if you're curious you're welcome to look through the code [0] or drop a comment if you want to talk about it further!

[0] https://gitlab.com/dejawu/kythera-jvm


👤 joshvm
At the moment, Flirpy - a library for controlling thermal imaging cameras: https://github.com/LJMUAstroecology/flirpy

Works with most of FLIR's camera cores (eg Lepton, Boson and Tau).

I'm also working on a system for detecting animals in aerial images in real time (on drones). I've spent a lot of time trying to automate as much of the hardware setup as possible using a mixture of Ansible and Docker. Currently private pending publication, but the whole platform will be open source (including ML pipeline, camera gimbal models, PCBs etc).


👤 abinaya_rl
I'm building https://remoteleaf.com so that it helps people land remote jobs during this COVID-19 crisis.

Remote Leaf[1] hand-picks thousands of remote jobs from 40+ remote job boards, 1200+ company career pages, Linkedin, Reddit, Facebook, Hacker News Hiring and only sends the ones that apply to you.

[1] - https://remoteleaf.com


👤 paranoyang
I'm working on BentoML, a python framework for ML model serving.

It makes it easy for data scientists to ship their trained machine learning models into prediction services for production use.

Key Features:

- Model packaging and dependency management

- Distribute your model as a docker image, CLI tool, PyPI package

- Adaptive Micro-batching in online API model server - this gives you an average 10-20x increase in throughput/overall performance compared to a regular flask API server implementation

- Model Management for teams

- Automated model deployment to AWS Lambda, AWS SageMaker and more

https://github.com/bentoml/BentoML


👤 fa7pdn
I am working on a browser extension called Toxnic that can block out trolling content on Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube. I have been wanting to develop this for quite some time in order to have a troll-free browsing experience when using social media. The extension uses deep learning to filter content that is considered extremely toxic or insulting. The model was trained on a standard toxic content data set by Google (Jigsaw). https://faizanahmad.tech/toxnic/

The extension code has also been made open source.


👤 StavrosK
I'm making a drone that blows bubbles:

https://youtu.be/xk99zrlAp9U

Hey, you asked.


👤 zaiste
I'm creating a Rails/Django equivalent in TypeScript called Huncwot [1]. The project draws inspiration from Self [2] and aims to combine a framework, an editor and infrastructure into a unified programming environment.

In other words, I'm on a quest for the Holy Grail of Programming. ;)

[1]: https://github.com/huncwotjs/huncwot [2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ox5P7QyL774


👤 jedberg
I'm catching up on movie watching.

For the last 10+ years, I've been collecting a list of any movie mentioned on reddit or HN as being good or excellent. I also will add the Netflix top 100 DVDs each month (yes, I'm still a DVD Netflix subscriber!). I'll also add all of the academy award nominated movies (although most of those already show up in the Netflix 100).

That list has grown to about 650 movies now (fun fact, Netflix will only let your queue be 500 movies per profile).

They are all stored in my Netflix queue, so I can't share the list.

My first task is figuring out a better way to maintain the list outside of Netflix, and a way to export the Netflix list to the new method, as well as having it auto-import some top films lists automatically.

If anyone has any suggestions on what to use to keep track of the list or any easily importable "top movies" lists, I'd love to hear them!


👤 DanielBMarkham
A book to help programmers move forward in their career by understanding and leveraging at a greater level of mastery how humans and computers interact. I'm about 300 pages in on the first draft, easily past the half-way point, and now all I need to do is push hard to get the initial content on paper. Then comes the hard work of editing/sourcing. (It's all hard work, actually. I have no idea why people go to the trouble to write books. It is an singularly difficult and thankless job for most authors, more of a calling than an occupation.)

👤 rickspencer3
I ordered an infrared temperature sensor. My idea is to build a prototype of a low cost device that a merchant can use to show to customers that their staff is healthy, or at least does not have a fever. The idea is that when a staff member handles something, they quickly get their temperature taken, which prints out a sticker with their id, the time, and the temperature, and then they affix that to whatever they were handling. So, when the customer is handed their package, there is some evidence that the staff is not sick.

An added feature could be a back end that alerts if a staff member begins to show signs of a fever.

Currently, there seems to be a shortage of low cost infrared temperature sensors. I'd also love to find a very small and low cost printer that supports this. So far, I have found some label makers that could work.


👤 kitotik
In the process of decoupling from the Apple ecosystem after 20+ years knee deep in it.

Kicked off the project by installing and configuring Arch+Wayland+Sway on an old MacBook Air precisely to my needs/desires to be used as a daily driver.


👤 anne_biene
Germany is running the biggest hackathon ever to fight corona. Challenges span everything, from tracking, organising material, designing tools for home office, mental health, reaching out to elderly, kids, parents, teachers ...

https://wirvsvirushackathon.org/?lang=en

Make an impact and give back!


👤 Seb-C
I am working on an online service that helps foreigners to learn Japanese by reading native material.

I have been frustrated while learning this language because the Kanjis makes smooth reading almost impossible, and for me it has always been the fastest way to fluency in a language.

I am building a browser extension that will help anyone to read and browse the Japanese internet.

Here in Tokyo we are not quarantined, but most events have been canceled and I have been remote working for almost one month now. So I made a good progress.


👤 acwan93
Our company just switched to WFH when we previously didn't have any tools. I guess this is a project on its own: moving the company operations from all on-premise and physically present to all remote.

Some tools we've adopted and I'm learning about as we go: Grasshopper (for VoIP call forwarding), MS Teams (we dabbled with Slack, but ended up using Teams because of our VS subscription), Zoom (for demos), and Stripe/PayPal (to accept one-time payments online from our clients).


👤 flomei
- Setting up a small webservice that creates PDF files with sample data for workflow development. I need this for work as it's easier than working with real customer data. Hopefully others find it useful, too. Will make a ShowHN once it's finished.

- Remade a small landingpage for tshirt-designs with motives for my hometown/area. Used a software called "Bootstrap Studio" for that. I think I found it through HN. Really like it for static one-pagers. Looking into doing more with that.

- Rebuilding an old commercial espresso machine. The electronics were fried, you can't get them as spare parts, so I'm doing a full rebuild. New casing, new electronics but the old mechanical parts. Waiting for the last exchange parts, then I will finish the mechanical work and can look into the electronics.

- Learning French via Duolingo. Been keeping it up for almost 30 days now, Homeoffice made some time for two or three more "lessons" a day. I like it so far.

- Maybe I should start meditating, but I'm not sure where/how to start. I looked into some apps but I find them rather distracting. Maybe I just need to sit in my bed for 10 minutes with closed eyes and everything and just focus on my breath every morning. Any recommendations on how to get this started?


👤 WrtCdEvrydy
Turning a Ender 3 3D printer into a belt printer was put on the back burner pending TaxAmmend.com

TaxAmmend.com was put on the back burner pending AmIAccessible.com

AmIAccessible.com was placed on the back burner pending my AWS Certifications.

My AWS Certifications were put on the back burner pending a Computer Forensics research paper into Consumer Grade Forensics.

My research paper is almost completed pending some Forensic Wipe testing using Roadkil's Diskwipe (don't use it, it just failed).

I am now rebuilding my Open Media Vault machine (as it has had a critical software failure), and rebuilding my small 1U penetration testing server, and creating a new forensics portable machine, and publishing a Computer Networks paper that I had kicking around since 2019.


👤 jimnotgym
I seem to have Coronavirus (UK are not really testing) so can't do too much before getting tired.

Project one: Our company has moved as many people as possible to work from home. I have spent most of the week on MS Teams and Teamviewer getting people ready, installing softphones, showing them how to use VPNs etc.

For myself we have had some OK weather, so I have been playing with my bonsai trees. Mostly I have been taking trees that were supposed to be growing on, and instead losing patience and cutting bits off them. I'm finding it a very peaceful diversion.

If the weather turns bad I think I might make some model planes (plastic kits). Somehow I don't have the patience for computers in my free time atm.


👤 liquidify
I'm making an algebraic filter that looks a lot like grep. Doing it in c++.

the python one lets you go through a log file and filter the lines out based on statements like...

You can currently use it to say "give me all lines that contain "substrA" and "substrB" but not "substrC" or "substrD"."

This current python implementation can only do AND for requirements, and OR for negative requirements.

But, I realized that I wanted to do a filter that could handle things like "give me all the lines that contain ... ("substrA" or "substrB") AND ("substrC" or "substrD")" and that was when I realized that it needs to be an algebraic system.


👤 canterburry
A portal/console for customers of saas products.

Every time I launch a new idea, I hate wasting my time on writing some basic customer facing admin/console where customers can see their invoices, change payment method, access support tickets, make some configuration change.

I am creating something more generic where I can just plug in firebase, zendesk, stripe, Braintree etc api Keys and all the base functionality is there. Easily extendable through react plugins.


👤 wyozi
Turns out working on many, many projects at the same time is actually a way to cope with a quarantine.

I've built a flight planning tool for complex itineraries https://flightnotebook.com/ (bad timing, I know)

Historical job vacancy tracking website https://careerspulse.com/

And topping it off with releasing a full-text search query builder for Postgres + Rails to github (https://github.com/wyozi/pg-searchable)


👤 mmmuhd
I am building a platform to enable anyone choose a real star in the universe and have it named it after them forever, it all started when I dreamt of having a ceremony to name a star after me, I got a big bang out of that dream and promised myself to have the coolest star named after me and have it stick forever. My intention is to somehow make it into kind of a galactic social network where you can explore stars and their owners and socialize. I have now data of about 500 million stars (sourced from ESA's GAIA space data) to start with, and more will be added later, I am hoping to be less busy in order to finish and launch it.

👤 glouwbug
I'm rewriting Age of Empires II (multiplayer only) in C:

github.com/glouw/openempires

I just enjoy pain


👤 bkeyes
I'm building GridBeams (http://www.gridbeam.com/) in my garage. I've wanted to play with them for years.

Seemed like a good time and I needed something to get me off the computer and away from constantly looking at all of the news.

The first few I made were a little ugly and off. Now they are getting nicer and I'm faster. I've got 4 8 footers done. I'll start cutting them up and building some small things today.

I'm going to use some with my daughter to prototype the inside of van she's converting to travel and live in.


👤 cryptoz
Using the barometers inside phones to improve weather forecasting

All Clear Weather: https://www.allclearweather.com/

I'm also hoping to use raw photos of the sky as weather data: after building a large training dataset of labelled photos, I think an ML classifier could begin to identify weather features in outdoor photos


👤 deep_thinker26
I am working on an application by which reader can read books as messages on their favourite messaging application such as Facebook Messenger, Whatsapp. Now a time people are spending a lot of their time on mobile phone and of which they spend 80 percent of their time on social media or messaging platform. They wanna read books but not able to get time for reading. So, we are creating a platform where users can select a book from our collection or upload a book and we will split the book into small twitter sized messages and then user can schedule the messages according to their availability ( no. of messages user wants to receive, In how many days they wanna complete the book ) and based on their schedule and our algorithm we will send them the text snippets. For Authors :- 1. It is very difficult for authors to do marketing for their book and as every year around 1 Lakh books publishes all over the world and of fiction books consist of a big section of this number. So, we are creating a platform where book authors by taking a little bit theme plot of their upcoming book and creates a small and interactive Facebook messenger based story which they can easily used for marketing and It will increase the sale of their upcoming book.

2. Now a days, people are more interested in interactive books where they can be also a part of the book and there are sounds, images but for authors creating a book on top of messaging application is not possible due to technical issues. So, To tackle this problem we are creating a Saas application where book authors can easily create an interactive book which going much into the technology.

More details about the application can be found here :

https://www.notion.so/Blinks-helping-authors-and-reader-4338...


👤 abhishektwr
I am working full-time on a new end-to-end identity platform Axioms. Authentication, Authorisation and Assurance - all in one platform . Ready for beta in a week. Unfortunately, I have been slow to get this out early due to health issues but I am glad I prioritised my well-being.

https://axioms.io/


👤 ViolentSnugglez
Just got back on my college senior project: code-explainer. It's a tool that you can paste any JavaScript code in there and it'll parse it and tell you what each keyword means (It's more of a learning tool for beginners).

I was only able to get a handful of keywords done and had to dropped it when I got out of college. Now I'm jumping back in to finish it and add more features.

[https://github.com/ChrisSannar/code-explainer]


👤 celicaraptor
I am working on a recycling bin/garbage bin location website. It's purpose is to find the nearest bin for you to throw away trash that you may have in your hand. It currently has 700,000+ bins from OSM data and users can add as well.I want to add some features like getting walking directions to the nearest bins and probably having to create am account to add a bin to handle the case of slamming. Here is the site https://recyclair.eu.org

👤 deforciant
Mostly https://webhookrelay.com/, adding serverless webhook modification feature (currently to store config, secrets, execution logs for debugging) so lots of Go, Rust (For wasm) and Lua :)

This is mostly fuelled now by feature requests where people are integrating forms and other services to report covid cases. Trying to help them for free and ensure they don’t have to pay for service as they are non profits. Partner not happy about these late nights:)


👤 zserge
Finally getting back to webview[1] and lorca[2], but also made a toy chess engine[3] today.

[1]: https://github.com/zserge/webview

[2]: https://github.com/zserge/lorca

[3]: https://github.com/zserge/carnatus


👤 patrickdevivo
I'm working a lot on https://www.tickgit.com, which is a glorified TODO comment finder for developers, to help us do simple project management in code.

It identifies code markers such as TODO, FIXME, HACK, XXX, etc (soon to be customizable) and surfaces them as cards in a web UI. There's a free and open-source CLI as well.

The web app is free for public repos and $3/month for private ones. I'm looking to add organization/team-based pricing soon too.

A feature that I'm hoping will have an impact will be a "TODO reminder" email that will email you within a configurable amount of time after a TODO is added to a codebase.

Right now it's just me working on it outside of the day job, I'm hoping I can turn it into a useful tool for developers!


👤 LethargicStud
I'm hacking on https://bankhooks.com

The premise is simple - define arbitrary conditions on transactions or balances, and get webhooks or emails when those conditions fire on any of your bank accounts.

I have >10 bank accounts and was having trouble monitoring them. I use this to alert me of any activity, on any of my accounts, that is unexpected. I no longer need to log into banks. I also use it to alert me if my balance gets too low or too high in any account.

I've also deployed Lambda functions to e.g. post my utilities bill to Splitwise to automatically split with my roommates, or pipe all transactions into a Google sheet so I can analyze my spending over time.

It started out as a simple hobby project but has grown into an immensely useful tool in my day-to-day life.


👤 vfinn
I'm writing a Telegram bot in Python for my own and my family's entertainment. It includes an interpreter so I can write for instance:

   /interpreter save "'https:'+REGEX('((?<=data-image=")
   .*?(?=" data-))',GET('https://www.dilbert.com'));" 
   dilbert
and then write just:

  /dilbert
which shows the strip of the day on our channel

👤 mncharity
IEEE VR starts tomorrow (Sunday-Thursday). Entirely online. Registration is waitlisted, until they see how their infrastructure holds up. But they also plan live streaming video of all presentation sessions (papers, panels, workshops, and keynotes) on Twitch, open to anyone.

streams: http://ieeevr.org/2020/online/ schedule: http://ieeevr.org/2020/program/overview.html hashtag: https://twitter.com/hashtag/IEEEVR2020

Also working on a video-rich[1] tweet thread "Atoms are {little, balls, sticky, jiggly, bouncy, stacking, etc}", as motivation while working towards an exemplar of transformatively improved science education content, which I hope will speed conversations about that. Anyone have any favorite media of atoms?

Also on desktop panning using head tracking. Also on using RealSense t265 tracking cameras with Google Mediapipe's TF hand tracking.[2] Also on a next rev of DIY 3D shutter glasses. Also on... sigh.

[1] example media: balls https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSCX78-8-q0 , sticky https://i.insider.com/5249da00eab8ea2172fa799a?width=700&for... , ball in the ball (nuclei) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVKZDmYrTHo [2] low-performance browser demo: https://blog.tensorflow.org/2020/03/face-and-hand-tracking-i...


👤 mikekchar
I'm plugging away at my Dwarf Fortress like game in Rust. I stream here fairly regularly: https://www.twitch.tv/urouroniwa Of course, like everyone, I've mostly been writing a game engine and not a game :-) I actually started streaming in September and I've found that it's been an incredible stress reliever. Especially since I'm a remote programmer in rural Japan working for a company in the travel industry, I'm incredibly worried about how long I'll have a paying job. Working on this and chatting to the amazing people who show up to my stream has done wonders for keeping me up beat and forward looking.

👤 a7b3fa
I like to think about software that helps you think. Knowledge management, wikis, outliners, task managers, mind-mapping tools, and so on. There's a piece of software called TheBrain (https://thebrain.com/) which I really like; it does a great job of letting you make connections between different topics that are connected in your mind.

However, I prefer the usability of an outliner. So I'm making a web app that is basically TheBrain but visualized as an outliner instead of a mind-map.

There's a prototype available here if the concept sounds interesting to anyone else: https://thinktool.io/


👤 wishinghand
Working on a rules light alternative to the Lancer RPG. I love the art and lore, but in between hearing about it and its release, I got more into OSR sorts of games and now Lancer feels almost overwhelming with its rules. I'm merely hacking Into the Odd for now, but adding mech combat and some other tables to help along gameplay. No idea what I'm going to do about art though. I don't have enough money set aside right now to hire an artist.

I'm also learning Flutter so I can make a desktop and tablet app to assist Game Masters in adding audio to their games- sound fx, ambiance, and music. Now that the quarantine is here I might see if I can make it compatible with Discord or Roll20.


👤 gw
I'm building a text editor in Nim that is rendered with OpenGL. I haven't figured out why that's useful yet...

https://github.com/paranim/paravim


👤 oblib
I've been working from home for so long this virus won't change anything in regards to my daily routine.

I've been working on setting up a CouchDB 3.0 server on a DO vps. The CouchDB team has been busy as possible working with devs on reported issues so I'll be waiting for a .1 release before putting the new version into use but I love what they've done so far.

Next week I'll probably be digging into using Python to handle cgi routines needed for the apps I'm working on. I couldn't get CGI.pm to install on the Ubunbu 18.04 server I spun up, or find any Perl package at all that would install to handle CGI stuff.

Feeling a bit long in the tooth after that experience.


👤 niamsidri
In the first few days of voluntary quarantine, I built a Firefox extension called Exploding Tabs: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/exploding-tab...

First, you intentionally add a website (e.g. https://facebook.com) to the list. Once you open that site in a new tab, a countdown begins. Unless you stop the countdown, the tab is closed once the countdown reaches 0.

I've been using this extension myself for a few days now. Up until now it seems ok.


👤 divan
Three projects that I'm prototyping/developing in a spare time:

- 3d visualization of the mental model of the code, based on static analysys, with a goal of drastically improving code navigation and comprehension, especially of large codebases. Currently for Go only, because Go OOP design unsurprisingly lacks ambiguities between language constructs and mental model blocks. I had WebGL-based prototype (written using GopherJS), but I see the future of this project only in VR/AR, so I'm exploring this space, trying to figure out what/how to do the next iteration in this emerging zoo of VR/AR frameworks. The logic behind this project and initial demo are in the blog post "Rethinking visual programming in Go", but it's a long read. https://divan.dev/posts/visual_programming_go/

- prototyping (docs and initial simulation) new messaging solution that is peer-to-peer first and is transport agnostic (i.e. will work over SDR in case of internet apocalypsis), and is aimed for the future stacks(IPv6/StarLink everywhere, NAT is in the computer archeology textbooks only). Plus configurable tradeoffs – instant delivery and offline storage (via federated server you own) vs non-instant but aggressive resilience to network disruption (should work over mesh networks), dark routing (for zero-trust hostile networks) vs fully exposing transport layer details (if you talk to your kid over your home wifi router, why would you care about hiding IP address or send your message to the datacenter across the globe). I spent some time in the messaging, and clearly see how many of the tradeoffs just push people to use centralized servers, and that makes sense and works fine, until it doesn't (think Telegram and Rostelecom IP addresses block). It'll probably have worse performance than current messengers, but it'll work when everything else is not. No links to share yet, sorry.

- txqr – I did an animated QR data transfer app in Go and Gomobile (https://github.com/divan/txqr), which uses fountain codes, but that was just for fun. Now, after working for a year or so with Flutter, I want to make a mobile/desktop/web app out of it (Flutter works with Gomobile) that people actually can use and/or embed into their apps, and that's on my backlog for side projects.


👤 jsd1982
I'm working on a multiplayer Legend of Zelda A Link To The Past (Zelda 3) ROM hack plus a fork of bsnes that allows for scripting enhancement, specifically the netplay aspect.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwPs_fR1TyQ

Right now I have two players able to see one another when they're in the same world/dungeon/room but they do not interact at all yet.

Next step is to synchronize some basic game state like pendants and crystals collected to allow some basic shared game progression. Maybe even sync up open/closed/bombed doors state per room.


👤 allenu
I’m working on a better SRS-based flash card app. I know there’s Anki and some solutions online, but I have not been able to find a good app-based solution (I.e. make your own cards, with no service subscription). Most of the flash card apps out there have awful UI. I’m trying to make mine the most easy to use and powerful flash card app.

👤 rileyt
I built a website that makes it easy for people to find ways to support their favorite NYC restaurants. Restaurants and their staff are having a hell of a time right now and it's not obvious to most people how they can help.

Save restaurants makes it easy to search restaurants by neighborhood and see if they offer takeout, sell gift cards or are accepting donations (with direct links).

I built it in 2 days using Zeit next+now and Firebase for the db. It's crazy how easy it is to spin up simple projects using that stack.

https://saverestaurants.nyc/


👤 jeffreyrogers
I am currently building a workbench in my garage, so that I can build a radio controlled plane from my own design. I'm planning on welding the frame from aluminum tube and using riveted aluminum sheet for the skin.

👤 tito
Launched a COVID solutions accelerator called COVID Accelerator. In 7 days 500+ devs, designers, and doctors signed up. Projects to help feed doctors, support small business, and build diy ventilators.

Can you build faster than a virus?

Join us at http://covidaccelerator.com


👤 sampl
I'm making all these remote meetings suck less with a real-time collaborative idea board.

The idea is that you can set up a meeting agenda, get everyone to add ideas, then discuss, vote and get consensus quickly:

https://getshuffleboard.com/?betaApproved=1

Also I film all my work on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFP8wPiIB7kz7pbYCnjIc...


👤 kevc
Currently writing a web app to help business owners navigate the Byzantine process of getting federal assistance (US) for Covid-related hardship.

👤 nikivi
Brushing up on dotfiles so they can be setup with few commands

https://github.com/nikitavoloboev/dotfiles


👤 neillobo86
Im working on building a way to capture peer acknowledgements or 'shoutouts' for developers in pull requests. The problem was that any recognition by my peer or manager on my code was not captured or tracked for performance reviews and I wanted an easy way to capture recognition by others as well as a way to track my own progress.

It is meant to be a native Github app. Feedback greatly appreciated https://giveshoutout.com/ (Landing page still in work)


👤 akaashmaharaj
I am working on a project in medical diplomacy: Israeli and Palestinian doctors working to provide care for patients across the region, irrespective of their faith, ethnicity, or ability to pay.

The project is part of my work with the Mosaic Institute ( https://mosaicinstitute.ca/ ), in partnership with the St John of Jerusalem Eye Hospital Group ( https://bit.ly/3dljQ3H ).


👤 XERQ
https://www.ssdnodes.com/

SSD Nodes is a bootstrapped cloud hosting provider I've been working on since 2011. Our servers are 90% lower cost than DigitalOcean, Vultr, and Linode when you commit to 1 or 3 years in advance.

We recently launched a Performance line of servers leveraging NVMe technology that boasts millions of IOPS and up to 6,400MB/s disk throughput, while still being 75% lower cost than what you would pay with at competitors.


👤 thejefflarson
I’m almost finished with a RISCV core in verilog targeting FPGAs:

https://github.com/thejefflarson/little-cpu

I’m four instructions away from implementing the compressed extensions, and probably next week I’ll tackle the control and status registers. It uses an open source tool chain and is formally verified using riscv-formal. My hope is to eventually be able to compile some rust and get an fpga to blink an led :)


👤 alin23
I'm working on making Lunar ( https://lunar.fyi ) work with as many monitor setups as possible.

Lunar is a macOS app that can change your external monitor brightness and contrast based on your Macbook built-in display brightness (which already reacts to ambient lighting).

It can also change the brightness based on the sun position or can just add some hotkeys for you to change the brightness manually in case you are using a MacBook in clamshell mode, or a device without a built-in display like a Mac Mini

Lunar doesn't use dark software overlays, it actually changes the hardware monitor brightness/contrast using the standard DDC protocol that's been implemented in monitors for the last 20 years.

In the latest update, it also adds hotkeys for changing the monitor’s volume which was a very requested feature.

Right now I’m trying to make it work with all the esoteric setups that users have. As you can imagine, there are a lot of ways you can connect monitors to your device: hubs, docks, adapters, AirPlay, cables with missing wires etc.

While DDC works most of the time, I still have to implement all kinds of workarounds because the system doesn’t play well with those setups.

The code is a spaghetti mess of Swift because I didn’t know reactive frameworks for Swift existed at the time: https://github.com/alin23/Lunar


👤 dominicr
I had a need for an API middleman, recording and replaying API messages between an application and provider APIs, without setting up a local proxy. So I decided to built something myself instead of another product. As with many side projects, I'm using it to learn new skills and brush up old ones.

With working from home and schools closed, I don't have much extra time, but the restructured day does mean I have pockets of time where I'd usually be out and about but can now be used at home.


👤 sramsay
Well, I am a connoisseur of command-line weather apps. In fact, I've written three:

1. wu -- written in Go some years ago, and actually pretty successful (as these things go). Picked up by a couple of distros, etc. It used the Weather Underground API, which was truly fantastic. But alas, they closed off free access to the API, and I had to shut down the project.

2. dsw -- wrote this one in C++. Uses the Dark Sky Weather API. The API is great -- maybe even better that WU -- but not quite as feature-rich as Weather Underground. Then I discovered that they don't want you to distribute your program and ask people to get an API key. So I shuttered that one too.

3. wwo -- another, fairly recent C++ effort that uses WeatherAPI.com. I like the way I designed this one, and the API itself is easy to work with, but honestly? The data just sucks. It's often wrong, too far behind, not enough of it, etc. So . . .

I am now working on a yet-to-be-named thing written in straight C that uses the NOAA API. I've stayed away from this API, but honestly, it's the one to use. JSON linked data all over the place, sort of cumbersome in some ways, but the data is awesome, and barring government shutdowns, the API is pretty much always on. Not sure what to call it. Sort of afraid to cloud the namespace with "noaa" (noah is also taken). But as you can see, I am a Serious Expert on cli weather apps, so maybe I'll just take one of those.

And that is what I am doing with my quarantine. Thanks for listening!


👤 uaas
We are working on a pfsense/opnsense firewall traffic visualization tool based on ELK stack. It is a highly customizable solution that let’s you have extensive insight into your network traffic.

Key points:

* pfsense/opnsense support

* openvpn event parsing

* suricata/snort dashboards with interactive Maps support (MaxMind GeoIp fields, src -> dest locations, heatmap, etc.)

* deploy with ansible playbook, docker or script.

https://github.com/3ilson/pfelk


👤 xorand
"We can program a computer to do anything. What if we had the same power over the molecules of our bodies?"

Almost finished project, you can spend hours in there. https://chemlambda.github.io


👤 the_gipsy
A turn based multiplayer game, like a simpler (and shorter) Risk. Based off kdice, which was based off dicewars.

I made it to learn Elm and fell in love with the language. Lots of lessons learned, not only on the code side but also in terms of process, getting feedback, product design and such.

https://qdice.wtf

https://github.com/gipsy-king/qdice


👤 si1entstill
I posted this to "show" yesterday:

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The last couple of months, I have been working on Paysly (https://paysly.io) to make it easier to accept payments online.

At its core, Paysly allows developers to create payment flows using Stripe Elements - all from the fronted. During development, I though it would also be cool if it supported the creation of dynamic Stripe Checkout flows from the frontend as well, and also provided a way to verify both kinds of payments using JWTs.

I think the tutorials are the easiest way to understand how Paysly works, and I have created examples for one-time and recurring payments using both Checkout or Elements in the docs (https://docs.paysly.io).

By signing up and linking a Stripe account, Paysly will generate both a live key (for regular payments), and a test key you can use to set up and test integrations.

I think that Paysly makes the (awesome) Stripe developer tool set even more simple to use, but I have been struggling to figure out how to find interested users(...).

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The last bit is what I am working on now. Trying to figure out where to post/advertised to help devs writing payments integrations.


👤 akavel
A toolchain for writing Nim apps for Android (.apk) without need for Android Studio (or JRE). Assembling minimal .dex files from scratch based on openly published spec of the file format, then implementing actual app logic in Nim via JNI. A sample WIP hello-world demo project is at:

https://github.com/akavel/hellomello


👤 badtuple
I'm building a lightweight timeseries database/log abstraction called Remits. Remits stands for "Remote Iterator Server".

The concept is that you can push Messages to an append only log, but can only query them back out via Iterators. An Iterator is a map, filter, or reduce function that iterates over either a Log or another Iterator.

Iterators can be composed and optionally persisted. So the data can be transformed at query time, or persisted and just read from disk. Iterators allow you to start at an arbitrary message, so it can be used as a persisted message queue or similar.

I'm only a few commits in, and there isn't much to see yet. I'm really excited by the power and simplicity of the idea, and to have a lightweight Kafka alternative. Feel free to follow along if interested: https://github.com/badtuple/remits . If you feel like working on something in Rust, feel free to reach out on Github issues or email. It's always fun working with other people.


👤 simonhamp
I’m building a platform to try to support better, privacy-focused email marketing.

I see two challenges to current email marketing:

1) It’s tricky for senders to build an audience in a very crowded space - mind-share is coming at a premium.

2) Recipients are having to deal with more and more noise in their inboxes.

My solution is a topic-based email platform that lets recipients choose areas of interest which senders can then pay to broadcast to.

I am trying to make this possible in a totally private way - so senders will never see recipients’ email addresses or any demographic data; they will only be able to target groups of people (think FB ads).

On top of this, I see an opportunity to pass the financial gains onto recipients, so every message you read earns you money.

And to take it one step further, I want to promote ethical business by donating proceeds to the Golden Lion Tamarin fund to help preserve some of the world’s most endangered species and forests.

If any of this is appeals, I would love it if you’d sign up to the waitlist. I’m trying to gauge interest before I invest too much into it:

https://goldtamarin.com


👤 asar
I wanted to explore game development in the browser for a long time and I got no excuses now :)

Currently looking at matter.js which was very easy to learn so far.


👤 Shrugs
we're (re-)building a platform for virtual art fairs in the wake of coronavirus — most fairs and galleries are cancelling or postponing events that will work super well online. We're building a novel experience from the ground up, not relying on VR or skeuomorphic interactions

here's a tour of the initial exhibition last year: https://lds.wistia.com/medias/4ucxldnz9n

if you or your friend is the operator of an art fair that'd like to move online, please do hit us up at hello at dot.gallery


👤 jameszol
I'm helping a friend sell their farm's ancient grain production online since they have a mill on their farm. They grow and sell spelt, emmer, einkorn, and other types of grain. Our family farm is considering planting and producing those grains, too.

Also building an outsourced, full-time, subscription-based digital marketer staffing / agency hybrid at GruntWorkers.com.


👤 Cyph0n
My current pet project is Vaulty. It’s a service that allows you to send email attachments to your cloud storage account. At the moment, I’m considering pivoting this slightly into an email archiving service, but haven’t yet decided.

I ended up learning quite a bit about how email works and how to setup an email server from scratch. The email backend is written in Rust and hooks into a Postfix server as a filter. Since I am not storing any mail, I’d like to eventually migrate to either an LMTP server or a custom SMTP server.

I also used this as a chance to learn Ansible. I’ve been pretty impressed with how much easier server provisioning becomes, especially when compared to a more manual approach.

Currently, the mail backend is fully working for Dropbox. Right now, I am setting up a landing page to gauge interest. After that, most of the work will be on the web app side.

The project is open source, for now: https://github.com/aksiksi/vaulty


👤 federicoponzi
I'm writing a supervisor / init system in Rust, called Horust (from Horus "the one from the above" + Rust). It's inspired by supervisord, you define a service in toml with a bunch of properties (like start delay, restart strategies, start after another service and so on) and then you just let horust manage the system.

I've designed it with the use case of running multiple processes in a single container in mind. I know this is not a nice thing to do, but still people do it. I've not tried using it as an init system (yet) but it should be possible with the current features.

It's not released yet (https://federicoponzi.github.io/Horust/) but I hope to release it this week (MIT license). If anyone with some knowledge in Rust / Linux want to join the fun, feel free to hit me with a message @federico_ponzi.


👤 simplecto
I'm working on this: https://newshots.simplecto.com

Remember when we/our parents would save newspapers and magazines of significant events? We lost that now that so many publications have gone 100% digital.

This site is an exploration of that idea.

It makes recurring screenshots of different/ popular/niched news sites and magazines from around the world.

It builds on the simple screenshot site, a separate open-souce screenshot-as-a-service project.

I should mention the Newseum's "Todays Front Pages"[1] site had the same idea long before I did. This exists in the context of a proper Mesuem with dedicated resources and curators. Their front pages are really nice, high fidelity PDFs of the dailies. They also offer mobile applications. Check them out!

[1] - https://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/


👤 sentinel
Mick Tagger – a macOS app making it easier to organize your Spotify and iTunes Music playlists – https://bit.ly/micktagger

I'm currently working on an "evergreen playlist" feature, where the app would automatically remove tracks you skip often in those playlists. Thus keeping your playlists fresh / evergreen.

I'm going to start with something simple (e.g. removing based on some rules I decide initially - percentage played over multiple listens), but I'm planning on adding an ML algorithm that can figure out when to remove a song based on multiple criteria (e.g. stuff like how often you skipped songs that day, what genre they were etc.)

If anybody is looking for a nicer way to manage their playlists, give it a try and reach out – https://twitter.com/micktaggerapp


👤 hugozap
Adding support for Mind Maps to https://diagram.codes.

👤 joaomoreno
I'm working on a browser based, client side, GIF screen capture tool. Give it a try: https://gifcap.dev/

👤 DizzyDoo
I'm writing a computer game called The Eldritch Zookeeper (https://store.steampowered.com/app/654960/The_Eldritch_Zooke...), it's a spooky management/tycoon game where you're a cursed zookeeper and have to run a zoo full of monsters. Very much inspired by old Bullfrog games. Lots of fun to dream up weird creatures and program a very data/systems-driven simulation that still uses lots of physics!

Indie game dev is my full time job, so this isn't so much a personal project as my regular job that I thankfully get to continue in my small home office. Getting to paint and animate and design monsters, as well as write code, or do the marketing parts - it's all interesting and engaging in different ways.


👤 Sekretaryuk
I'm working on https://AFLO.io -- we're a marketplace for marketing strategies. We connect entrepreneurs to expert marketers at affordable prices, and we send you actionable marketing and sales strategies specifically designed for entrepreneurs.

We write practical blog posts on growth like:

- Listle’s (YC S19) zero to 7000+ Users Strategy in <1 year (https://aflo.io/blog-post/Listles-YC-S19-zero-to-7000-Users-...)

- 100+ Places to Launch/Share your Product (https://aflo.io/blog-post/100-Places-to-Launch-Share-your-Pr...)

We're looking for feedback! #roastus


👤 kevincox
I have a couple of projects.

Right now I am trying to make an archlinux IPFS mirror. There are existing projects like this but I wanted to save more history to avoid the issue where you get a 404 when installing a dependency if you haven't synced in a while. https://gitlab.com/kevincox/archlinux-ipfs-mirror/-/blob/mas...

I've also been updating a first-player-picker app that I made a long time ago. It's very lightweight, delivering the main functionality in <2KiB. https://gitlab.com/kevincox/playerone/-/blob/master/README.m...


👤 jokoon
A city street generator. It's a long project because it's maybe too ambitious. I'm struggling to spread "lots" alongside street while considering road intersections. I'm not using L-systems or other things.

I've already written a generator that makes 2D blueprints of buildings, with thick walls, openings, etc. Going 3D might be a little tricky but it should be fine.

When this will be finished I'll move on writing a good enough character controller with bullet-physics. I'm worried because I decided to use opengl since I have found no good alternative to ogre3D (I'm radically against bloated engines like unreal and unity, I need something very light and thin that does only one specialized thing, in this case 3D rendering), but since low-poly is trending it will be just as good, and this will probably allow me to have larger scenes.


👤 nodatall
I’m making a real time visualizer for the VeChain blockchain. Every time data is written to the ledger, a bubble appears with size and color corresponding to the amount of gas paid for the transaction. I have the MVP at https://seevechain.com.

👤 mk4p
TimeyTim - a web-based CRON, Dead Man's Switch and Monitoring service - https://timeytim.com

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I've worked on a number of projects that needed some scheduling capabilities, like "Archive this object in 4 weeks", or "Make sure this process runs every 2 days."

Rather than rebuilding this logic, and for those who hate dealing with CRON syntax, I wanted to create a scheduling API.

My goals are to 1) make it useful, 2) make it easy for developers, and 3) keep it low-cost (using DynamoDB and Lambda).

You can set up schedules via the website, or programmatically using the API.

Feel free to poke around - it's close to launching but the back end is currently disabled.

If this service sounds useful, please add your email to be notified when it launches - https://timeytim.com.

(Thanks, and suggestions welcome!)


👤 ohitsdom
Finally polished off my personal site (basically a dev portfolio) and now working on a site comparing orbital rockets with back of the napkin math.

https://fotijr.com/

https://rockets.fotijr.com


👤 dietrichepp
A sound effects generator in the style of SFXR (or its many clones), but with a larger library of sound effects.

https://www.ultrafxr.us/

Under the hood, it’s a software modular synthesizer with certain limitations—for example, the modules can’t be connected in a cycle. The modules are connected with code in a simple language that checks units, so you write “500ms” instead of “0.5” if you need a 500ms delay. If you write 500Hz instead, that’s an error. This part already works.

On the surface, I’m figuring out how to expose the parameters with simple sliders and knobs in a web page. The idea is that you click a button like “explosion” and then tweak the knobs to get the explosion sound that you want. This is how SFXR (and as3fxr, BFXR, JFXR, etc) work, but they have a fairly limited set of sounds.


👤 cedricbonhomme
Exactly right now, I am working on Newspipe, a web news reader[1].

It is written in Python. A documentation is available[2].

I uses it since 2010. And I am quite happy with it. I started recently to work again on this old side project since I have some ideas in mind.

If you want to test it, there is an official instance[2]. Also there is a Dockerfile.

[1] https://git.sr.ht/~cedric/newspipe

[2] https://man.sr.ht/~cedric/newspipe

[3] https://www.newspipe.org

[4] https://github.com/sponsors/cedricbonhomme/ (optionally, if you decide to use it ;-)


👤 mbochenek
I've been working on https://yakondi.com which helps people around the globe get more out of their travel experience. Noone really want to travel right now - so COVID19 means we are focusing less on marketing and more on development and clearing our feature backlog. The technology stack is pretty simple (MySQL, Java REST & Angular) but I've also been experimenting with Jupyter and Dataiku for analytics of usage behavior. If you are not already familiar with our service, yakondi.com is a free network of locals and experienced travelers who will help you organize your next trip. It already connects 1000s of travelers across the globe and provides users with unique and tailored travel advice.

👤 virtualritz
Working on integrating a high end offline 3D renderer into Adobe AfterEffects as a plug-in.

Did that before, company tanked briefly before being profitable six years ago. Customers are still asking to bring the product back.

I though I give it a shot. We were five at the time for two such products. I figured I can do a single product with less features myself.

API changed on both sides (host app & renderer). Old codebase was C++ and I have limited rights to it.

I am writing the new product from scratch in Rust. I am probably the first person to write an AfterEffects plug-in in Rust. Luckily that app is now so old that the API is pure C99, great for Rust bindings. That's actually the most fun part of this. Rust is pure bliss. Particularly now that the community has moved to Discord feedback seems to be more instant than on IRC before.


👤 transitivebs
https://saasify.sh - trying to make it easier for developers to monetize their side projects.

👤 febin
I am working on building a tool to help educators build explorable courses easily without writing any code.

Inspired by the explorables from "It's Nicky Case!"


👤 pgutkowski
I'm working on basketball manager game with fully fledged game simulation engine, similar to Football Manager. I'm developing it in Kotlin, with TornadoFX.

I've spent a lot of time on optimizing the engine. Fortunately with correct techniques JVM is surprisingly efficient, so it is able to simulate single game (30 frames per second, around 110k frames in total, each with collisions, path finding & decision making) in ~900ms on single 2,4GHz core.

I'm far away from having anything usable (or fun to play), right now I'm working on team defense behavior, little GIF representing current state: https://gfycat.com/jampackedsparseindianglassfish


👤 ChuckMcM
Hmm, its quite a list.

GPS Disciplined 100Mhz clock source. I've got the QRP Labs "fake" temperature controlled synthesizer, an Icebreaker FPGA board, and an Adafruit ultimate GPS with 1PPS output.

Reminder/message board which is two parts, a server that monitors a file for messages and puts the top 8 on an LED sign in my office/lab. A set of transponders that generate messages for the file. And a 'grooming' process that looks at the available messages and prioritizes them for the sign.

Moving my iBitsy LED clock over to a nice 64 x 64 LED panel. This is mostly 3D printing a case, and updating software on the ESP2866 controller using Micro/Circuit Python.

Building a NAND driver for an embedded system that is currently booting off internal flash. The NAND option lets you encrypt the firmware which is a handy feature and you can have larger boot images.

Debating ideas for future Pandemic prep with friends over zoom.

Working out aspects of DSP that I have code that implements but I don't feel I really understand as completely as I should. The goal here is just learning, especially about polyphase channelizers.

Building kits that I've bought but haven't assembled. (The "big" one is the replica IMSAI 8080)

Noodling on design ideas for 3D printing custom spacers so that I can stack test equipment without have to rack it. Vendors design their gear so when you have multiple instruments from them you can stack them on your bench, but when you mix vendors that falls apart. My thought is that you can 3D print pieces that adapt from one vendor to another.

Drilling down a rabbit hole while making a 3.3V -> 5V push-pull driver with 100mA sink and source current, at 50MHz. Ideally I'll end up with a design and layout that I can replicate 'n' times on a board to create an 'n' wide driver board. For bonus points I'd like to figure out if I could make it bi-directional so I've been looking at the circuit diagrams of FPGA and SoC pin circuits to get ideas of how they do that.


👤 rawoke083600
I'm working on a "Maintenance Solution" (MainTech) for the mostly the fast-food & restaurant industry. Places running it already in some parts of the world includes KFC, Pizza-Hut, Paul Bakery etc.. This is helping them to manage, track, assign any maintenance issue they might have as well as well as a big push for "Preventative Maintenance (daily, weekly) for their shops and store assets". Think of it as JIRA for the restaurant industry.

You guys knows what is funny... The NUMBER ONE item on the list that is broken across multiple brands and over 90 stores.. is "LED LIGHTS". I find it funny since LED LIGHTS are always toted as having such a long life span.


👤 arsenykogan
I'm working on iOS app that lets you TRANSLATE WITH YOUR FINGER ;) It works for printed text: you just point at the word with your finger (yes, right in the book), point your phone camera and see the translation.

Here is the demo: https://booktopus.com/yc_demo.mp4

On the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1490757013?pt=12010...

Currently we support only Oxford explanatory dictionary & english-russian dictionary, but adding more languages soon


👤 horia141
I'm slowly hacking on [jupiter](https://github.com/horia141/jupiter) (and [announcement](https://dev.to/horia141/jupiter-dev-log-0-intro-1ni9)) which is my tool for life planning, goals management, habit building, metrics tracking, etc. It's pretty hacky and tailored to my _way_. But it is fun to code (especially since $dayJob doesn't involve that anymore), fun to blog about, and definitely something I'm using daily.

👤 choltz
My roommate and I despise LinkedIn, and all the soul draining "thought leadership" that comes along with it. We also found that it's absurdly easy, and absurdly funny, to poke fun at the mish-mash of content marketing, thought leadership, and broetry that makes up 90% of our LinkedIn feeds.

So we've been working on a "satirical social network," part fake LinkedIn, part The Onion, part something else, and right now we're calling it...ShlinkedIn.

It's been a ton of fun to work on, and we'd love any / all suggestions as we build it out!

Link: https://www.shlinkedin.com/about


👤 mmaunder
I'm working on https://www.fastorslow.com/ - provides website performance from 13 locations globally through browser simulation.

Soft launched this week. Already getting some exciting results. Working through an issue with the South African based server this weekend because we think the ISP we're using has a crappy network and may have underspecced their servers severely which is causing results to drift way out of the mean. But could also be an overloaded internet over there. We'll probably take ZA offline until Monday. Everything else working great!


👤 xrd
Learning Svelte and using it to build a site that allows you to read public domain works, take notes on the words by selecting them, and then automatically make flashcards (Leitner method) to help you remember them.

For example, read the classics in Japanese, take notes on the words you don't know, get them automatically translated, and then automatically generate flashcards to help you remember those words.

I've always wanted to read Kokoro from Natsume Soseki (perhaps the greatest Japanese novelist ever) in the original and this is helping me to get past the words I don't know.

If anyone is interested in playing with it I would love a to share: xrdawson@gmail.com.


👤 marklacey
> What are you guys up to these days?

Practicing the piano. I’ve been playing for around three months.

Sometimes it’s nice to step away from the computer keyboard.


👤 mindentropy
I am currently learning on how to emulate a CPU and have picked the MSP430. I am trying to emulate it in Qemu and also thinking how I can also do it in Gem5.

I have selected MSP430 considering it has just 27 instructions and I love the architecture.


👤 lukeda
I'm working a tool to track and report git commits across multiple repositories in an organisation. I am also adding more features to validate commit messages and branch names to help maintain a standard across the repositories.

My goal is to provide qualitative analysis on Git usage throughout the team and identify users who may require additional Git training. It is such a powerful tool but I see so many dev's still writing commit messages like "changes", "updates", "fix" multiple times per pull request.

I'd love to get some feedback

https://sheriff.dev


👤 blantonl
Broadcastify Calls

A Full featured managed radio calls ingest platform. Every call on every captured radio system is available live and archived. I'm currently doing some of the final beta development work before I make onboarding call ingestors available to the general public. We have 18 systems being sent to the platform at this time.

https://www.broadcastify.com/calls/

This will be part of a new direction for how Broadcastify takes in content and distributes it to end users.

Technologies used include:

DynamoDB, Redis, PHP/Mysql/Apache, Bootstrap, Lambda, NodeJS, Trunk-Recorder


👤 gliese1337
I am working on a card game based on braid theory (in the braid group B_4).

I am also working on a private journaling app, with a mild mental-health focus, aimed at teenagers; the idea is that if your parents want to have access to your phone and keep track of what you do, maybe they'll at least be OK with privacy in the form of an app that doesn't have sharing or messaging, doesn't allow for images or video, but just let you write text or record audio messages that are guaranteed private by 256-bit symmetric-key cryptography. No more worrying that your mom might flip through your diary while cleaning your room!


👤 emeth
I'm working on https://hackthe.company/ - a blend of HackThisSite and ProjectEuler, focused on real-life hacking events that have occurred.

👤 eivarv
An app that persists your OS state as a "context" - saving and loading your open applications, their windows, tabs, open files/documents and so on.

Started because of frequent multitasking heavy work with limited resources, and I've found it to facilitate human context switching.

Open Beta (macOS) as soon as I finish license verification and delta updates.

https://cleave.app

Also working through Penetration Testing with Kali Linux (PWK) course toward the Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP) certification, and trying to write and record more music, and work out more at home.


👤 maxrmk
I've been building a web api fuzzer for the last couple of months, and this weekend has been a good opportunity to make some progress.

I built it because I'd been participating in a couple of bug bounty program and felt like I was just trying random mutations to see what broke things.

There are other web fuzzers out there, but they're super limited. They test each piece of API functionality in isolation, whereas my fuzzer can test sequences of calls that depend on each other.

I'm also trying to improve my drawing skills. It's a bit of a struggle, as it takes a lot more patience than most things I do on a daily basis.


👤 swilliamsio
I'm looking into Xamarin for the first time. I've looked at the Xamarin 101 tutorial and seen the bare-bones note taking app they walk you through developing, and I'm hoping to improve it significantly. I've already added the feature to edit notes and set a title for a note, but there's still a few more ideas I want.

I think taking an existing project and improving upon it, as opposed to starting a fresh new project, has helped me somewhat. I have to think less about how to get it started and whether the framework or style is right, because some of the code is already there.


👤 soumyadeb
Working on RudderStack (https://github.com/rudderlabs/rudder-server), an open-source segment alternative.

👤 boduma
I’m working on ProgrammerBackpack. It’s my blog, started it 2 months ago and I write about Machine Learning and programming stuff, mostly tutorials. Recently I started doing a thing where I approach every subject in 2 parts, I call them “mini-series of 2”: one where I write about the theory, the math or the intuition behind a model and one where we play with implementation on a small dataset.

It’s fun and I love writing and I try my best to write as much as I can.

Here’s the blog in case anyone wants to see it:

https://programmerbackpack.com


👤 zeroxfe
Slowly hacking away on my open-source projects for music and audio:

- VexFlow - https://vexflow.com - VexTab - https://vexflow.com/vextab - Pitchy Ninja - https://pitchy.ninja

Also been working on experiments for chord recognition and music transcription (writeups on my blog: https://0xfe.blogspot.com)


👤 kachurovskiy
I'm working on https://www.idea-matrix.com/ but have hard time motivating myself to invest more time into it :/

👤 jos-
Working on a search engine that responds with a conversation instead of a list of search results.

The conversation helps you to narrow down what you're looking for. I.e. a combination between a chatbot and a search engine.


👤 charleshmartin
I'm developing the weightwatcher tool for deep neural networks into a full fledged product

http://github.com/CalculatedContent/WeightWatcher

The weightwatcher lets you detect potential problems in a trained neural network

https://calculatedcontent.com/2020/02/16/weightwatcher-empir...


👤 gbourne1
I am working on a way to better track and gain transparency into your Firebase costs. The goal is prevent you from getting a surprise bill at the end of the month. I’ve started out with a daily and month end reports of your usage and costs. I’ve even been able to give cost metrics that aren’t in the Firebase console. Eventually will have a dashboard so you can dive into your historical costs and setup custom alert that are more fine grained than what google allows.

https://www.firerun.io


👤 dschnurr
I'm building a no-code web app development platform. There are numerous existing tools in this space, but I don't think anyone has really hit the sweet spot of having the same composability/reusability/conditional benefits of code in a WYSIWYG interface that drastically increases development speed.

Also happen to be looking for a cofounder as well. I'm a developer myself but I'd love to partner with another product-minded dev or a product person with significant industry experience. Let me know if you're interested.


👤 newswasboring
I am working on implementing the raytracer in a weekend but in a month. Of course the timeline has been disrupted because of the Covid-19 and me being bummed out as I had to cancel my trip home.

The catch in this one is I am using it to learn Julia, and I keep reworking stuff as I learn more. I want to be able to look back on the logs and see how I evolved. Here is a link if anyone is interested

https://github.com/rick2047/Ray-tracer-in-a-month


👤 petethepig
Making a CNC machine that makes string art https://www.instagram.com/string.art.bird/

👤 RpFLCL
An open-source website for creators that allows them to follow and interact with each other's personal sites. The theory being that it can be useful to build tools that allow people to create their own ad-hoc social "networks" instead of building yet another central platform.

I envision it like this: You log into your own domain to post content, this is shared with your followers (and available to anonymous visitors), then from your site's dashboard you can see and interact with the latest posts on your peer's websites. The hopeful result being distributed networks of creators. Instead of policies coming from one company in one country, creator's sites would be governed by their host in their preferred locale.

I've been thinking about this for a while and just started working in earnest this weekend. I've been spitballing it among my artist-friend circles with positive feedback. It does require commitment to invest the time and money to setup their own website, though I suppose it's possible for different services to exist that automate and federate hosting for them. Personally I've maintained my own gallery for years and I practice POSSE[1] but there's always that nagging reminder that the "elsewhere" has different motivations than just sharing my content.

[1] Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere: https://indieweb.org/POSSE


👤 Flemlord
I am teaching my daughters to code. (10y and 7y) They are taking classes remotely and all the extracurricular activities are cancelled. I am also working from home. This is a unique opportunity that I may never have with them again.

Yesterday my oldest started to use the Roblox editor. I am researching Roblox training courses (would love some suggestions). An hour ago I showed her Zork and introduced her to Inform. (http://inform7.com/)

She is coding as I type this. :-)


👤 zeke
QQuiz, a map quiz where you have a few seconds to click on the correct country. https://qquiz.com/eu_med.html

I started off making it for maps. Now I am trying to make a more generalized version. This is for learning biology with parts of a cell: https://qquiz.com/cell.html

With that I am mostly working on a geojson editor for creating and updating quizzes.


👤 brianyu8
A friend and I are home from college right now because of the virus. We just started working on HighlightKit (https://highlightkit.com/), which makes it incredibly easy to add Medium-esque text highlights to your own website/personal blog. Users can save their highlights, view top highlights from other users, and share highlights on Twitter. We're open to feedback and are looking for pilot users!

👤 LaundroMat
I'm working on a very limited feature CRM for my wife who has started her own business last year and is now struggling with Excel to keep up with following up on client contacts.

👤 maher_au
I'm working on developing a collaborative learning framework. To be used when designing online learning experiences.

I believe it works across most groups (early learners all the way through to university and professional development).

Initial idea https://t.co/7MvEMI5xSl

Further development of the framework and value proposition for learners and educators. I am also workong to develop/document examples is my current plan.


👤 igravious
Working on a Lambda Calculus Interpreter variant in Ruby called Lispish that currently parses and evaluates named expressions only.

Why?

Because many lambda calculus interpreter variants "cheat" by using the lambda already built into the programming language being used.

So you don't really get to learn how the alpha-conversion, beta-reduction, and eta-conversion work, and so on, magic happens.

I have a hard time picturing things functionally and can't readily read Haskell or Coq or Idris or any of those so the many many lambda calculus toy interpreters out there are opaque to me. I can read procedural/imperative/object-oriented code so I thought I'd build it in Ruby, and put it on a website with documentation.

Currently struggling to get nameless representations working.

One nice design feature is that I've used Parslet which is a “A small Ruby library for constructing parsers in the PEG (Parsing Expression Grammar) fashion.”

Another feature is that I've built a suite a lambda expression test cases (about 60 in total) which believe it or not is unique afaict. You' be surprised at the corner cases.

Want to be able to switch between different evaluation strategies and language flavours. Want to add nice abstract syntax tree diagramming using D3.

Finally, once that base is finished I want to have a a crack at adding types :)


👤 appler
A small set of tools for developers (i.e. myself):

https://appler.dev/

I’ve been using a lot of online web tools while at work or at home to prettify json, convert unix epoch timestamp or convert ipv4 address to integer, but always surprised that online tools out there are quite slow for what they’re doing because they post what I enter in the form and do the processing on the server side.

So I started writing a react.js single page web app (not single file any more tho) which does all the processing on the client browser without any server interaction (also there’s an exception) so you can see the result in real time as you type with no server round trip involved. Also thanks to the client side processing, you don’t need to worry about data privacy cause it’s all happening in your browser. Included tools are just quite random (pi approximation for example) cause I was adding anything that looks interesting to me at the monent.

Beware that some of the tools are buggy and might not be well supported, but I’ve had so much fun along the way and experienced a lot of client side web tech like react.js, service worker and an awesome tool like zeit.co now which I don’t get to play with that much as a back end dev.


👤 Nihilartikel
It's been on the back burner for a year due to starting a family, but my side project is a still|animated meme captioner.

https://ultime.me

I was frequently annoyed at the lack of middle ground between easy purpose-built image captioning tools (as opposed to general image editors like Gimp), and full blown video editors just to make animated memes.

I intend to use some of the extra home time to improve the UI and maybe start adding social features and content import from external urls/clipboard. The user experience is pretty rough now.

Not sure I want to host user generated content and deal with DMCA for a hobby project.

It's not open sourced (yet), but the fun facts are that it's Clojure/Clojurescript w/ Rum as a react wrapper for the frontend. Have to say - Clojure(script)'s immutable data model is a dream for handling undo/redo in content editing. It also makes the path to a multi-user editor a'la Google Docs pretty simple.

Video encoding to animated gif & webm uses:

https://github.com/Kagami/ffmpeg.js

It's an almost completely a client side app - the video encoding happens in browser so the user content remains private.

(edit: better words)


👤 koehr
I'm working on an RPG Card generator. It allows you to design a set of cards in a wysiwyg way and then print them out to do good old Dungeons&Dragons or whatever tickles your fancy. It's not usable yet but if this is interesting for you, you can track its progress here: https://github.com/nkoehring/rpg-cards-ng/

👤 gkoberger
A live radio station about dev tools! (Live on Thursday, March 26th)

https://wapi.fm/

"Getting a bit RESTless in your apartment? To help fight the boredom, ReadMe is launching WAPI—an ephemeral live radio station that will air for only 24 hours. Tune in to talk about building developer experiences people love. We'll have a live chat, dozens of awesome guests joining us and a few surprises!"


👤 mattbgates
https://rewindwp.com

I usually don't mention products I haven't completed yet, but considering this case in which we are all quarantined and getting more time to work on our projects, it has been a great excuse to work on it, and so, I'll tell you about it.

The concept behind it is: I've seen demo websites where people show off different things about their website or plugins or things they have made to potential customers or clients. They have their visitors go in and "try before you buy". Those visitors might make changes to the site and you have to go in and undo their changes. Or maybe manually run a restore feature or cron job to do it. Didn't find anything in the mainstream that does it. The web app + wordpress plugin will automatically do all of this for you so you don't have to worry about having to do it manually.

I'm almost finished with the WordPress plugin. The sign up feature works so you can at least create yourself an account. Can't do much more than that though, but for anyone interested, feel free to sign up and stay up to date on the latest progress. I do hope to be done with it by mid-April.


👤 soneca
A personal journal that you can share with trusted ones: https://www.quidsentio.com

I want to evolve it to a quiet social network where the incentive is to nurture relationships with closed ones, not optimize for number of people seeing your posts.

I am writing a few thoughts about my journey here: https://blog.quidsentio.com


👤 sarangab
Have been working on an algorithmic trading product. We are building a product to help traders get their trading strategies to live algorithms without worrying about the infra.

http://invsto.com/

If you have used TradingView, MT4 or Zerodha based bots, you would have definitely faced automation and execution related problems that you can relate to.

Currently building the system, EAs and bots to help assist traders.


👤 bdibs
I’m working on my podcast listening website and apps, https://www.podalong.com.

Podalong is (eventually) going to help connect listeners of their favorite podcasts with each other and in new ways with the podcasters themselves.

A lot of work still to go, but I’m more and more excited every day about its future.

Website is built with Elixir/Phoenix Framework, app is built using Flutter. I highly recommend both!


👤 sir_pepe
I'm working on Warhol [1], which performe tests on web design based on pattern libraries right inside your dev tools. Think reverse DOM diffing on the CSSOM. Sounds way WAY easier than it is, but that's sort of true for web development in general I suppose :) Currently working on rolling out tests for interactive styles (hover and friends).

[1] https://warhol.io/


👤 woudsma
I'm working on a Dokku-like tool for Docker Swarm mode, where you can describe your entire application (stack) in a docker-compose.yml file and simply git push to deploy your stack on a self-hosted server cluster with automatic load-balancing and SSL using Traefik and Let's Encrypt. The main idea is to develop locally instead of spending hours on server configuration.

I'm including some nice metrics and examples like Swarmpit, Swarmprom, Grafana, Gitlab CE + Gitlab Runner and documentation using Docusaurus. It works with any amount of server nodes so it's easy to start with a single test server and expand as you go.

I'm planning to open-source it ASAP, but things take time.. Hopefully next week v0.1 is done. Mostly it's been a learning experience, finally getting more fluent with bash and learning about distributed systems and networking. I've used Dokku for years but I wanted more flexibility and experience. I've noticed that I learn better when I write about something, so I'm putting extra effort in writing documentation.

It's funny that this question comes up, I just thought about it today. We should have #madeinquarantine badges for our repo's!


👤 BilalBudhani
I'm working on a simplified Ghost hosting service.

To give you some background, I've been running multiple Ghost blogging platforms for quite sometime and have successfully automated a lot of the heavy lifting involved in hosting. I realised a lot of people around me are now using Ghost for their blogs too and they might not need the expensive hosting out there. So I'm working to provide an option to address this niche.


👤 eli
I’ve been working on a child’s toy built with a button/led grid and a raspberry pi. It’s loosely based on my memory of this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merlin_(console)

I’m using a Novaton Launchpad Mini for the buttons which is probably overkill but came already assembled and is easily controllable over MIDI.


👤 grey-area
I've been working on a little set of charts to plot coronavirus growth globally, based on data from John Hopkins. Rather than putting them on a map I find it more useful to have graphs per country/region.

For example here is the US:

https://coronavirus.projectpage.app/us

https://github.com/kennygrant/coronavirus

The data is based on the nightly time series from John Hopkins, based in turn on collated data from WHO and governments, which they have plotted here on a world map:

https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.h...

I'd quite like to do a bar chart of cumulative deaths/cases per country as well. Unfortunately deaths is probably the most reliable measure when looking at growth. There are a few irregularities in the data I'd like to fix too - for example the UK has no regional breakdown.


👤 demircancelebi
There's a game called Hnefatafl, also known as Nordic chess. I've created a platform similar to lichess to play this game with others online: https://litafl.web.app/ There are still some rough edges but please check it out and let me know what you think. - P.S. Anonymous games / ratings do not work at the moment.

👤 sudhirj
Wanted to take some time off to write a book on fullstack development, so I have to build a book writing and publishing platform first. Obviously.

Working on https://papiary.com - I’m starting off with a reader, putting a few public domain books on it, free to read without login. Hoping to get some buzz by asking people to tweet me about which books they want on next. Will add a paid Pro Reader plan that lets you choose better fonts (very high quality expensive ones) adjust the typesetting and theme, sync across devices, PDF downloads etc.

For the authors, I’ll write the first few booklets on it and then open it out to others, but so far I’m thinking direct payments and subscriptions into your Gumroad / Stripe / Paddle account, no commission. Manage all your readers as a list of email addresses, so easy export to Mailchimp or import off external sales. Will also handle demand curve pricing if you want. Can write in simple Markdown or the gold standard AsciiDoc. Will charge money making authors based on headcount, maybe $5 per 100 paying readers.


👤 florian_s
I've built the website quarantaenehelden.org with some friends. It's a platform to connect people from risk groups or those who are under quarantine with those who want to help out.

It's been a pretty wild ride and we've grown a lot since our launch 7 days ago, but building our infra with react + firebase made it pretty smooth in terms of scaling.

Come check it out at github.com/kenodressel/quarantine-hero


👤 imvetri
I'm working on a tool called ui-editor (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22116528)

  Project is aimed to build ui-components and build an abstraction around frameworks. It is a UI developer tool that is web based built on modern stack - ReactJS, Webpack and supported by public npm modules and most importantly babel-core.

  UI-editor is also aimed to generate code cross frameworks and it currently can generate code for ReactJS and storybook out of the shelf.

  Web development has been misguided a lot by mix of paradigm yet the problem remains the same. 

  Link to project : https://github.com/imvetri/ui-editor

  Demo to project : https://imvetri.github.io/ui-editor. 
If you use storybook try this

1. UI-Editor -> Toolkit -> check "React - Storybook" button. 2. UI-Editor -> Components -> click "Page" component. 3. UI-Editor -> Components -> Page -> Export.

Extract the zip and import it in storybook project.


👤 conroy
I'm working on a tool that compiles SQL queries into type-safe code. It's called sqlc and it already works really well: https://sqlc.dev

Go and PostgreSQL are currently supported, with Kotlin and MySQL support on the way.

https://github.com/kyleconroy/sqlc


👤 netko_netkovic
Just realized that sec (simple event correlator) is exactly what I need for home automation - and now creating / gathering logs from all devices (TVs, 433Mhz sensors, camera motions etc), shipping to central log, and setting / fine tuning different alerts. E.g. sending images from cameras while my mobile device is not on WiFi, similar auto on/off for home alarm etc

👤 nazgul17
I'm working on a character manager for Pathfinder 2e. PF is a board game in the same realm add Dungeon and Dragons but it's rules, which allow more customisation, are more complex, sand there isn't much for tools - except for Pathbuilder 2e for Android. I'm learning a bunch of stuff as I go, since I'm mainly a data scientist and not a software engineer.

👤 grafolean
I am making Grafolean, easy to use monitoring system: https://github.com/grafolean/grafolean (generic, but network monitoring is first niche being served).

Currently there is support for protocol-agnostic agents (just send whatever values you have via REST API and observe the dashboards in UI), or you can use existing agents for SNMP, ICMP, NetFlow.

If you give it a spin, I would be happy to hear from you, good or bad (via GitHub issues or info@grafolean.com).

It is not FOSS, license is Commons Clause + Apache. Not 100% sure about it, but it seems fair - the goal is to allow anyone to use fully featured version for free, with source available and sharing allowed (basically "Right to Repair"), but with a restriction on selling to 3rd parties, which allows me (or potential other future maintainers) to sell convenience - hosted service, support and similar. This is not set in stone though, so I would appreciate (constructive) feedback.


👤 light_cone
I am working on a file archive tool, written in go, to add random file access to .tar.gz of arbitrary size while maintaining compatibility as a valid .tar.gz.

The idea is to embed in gzip metadata the tar file index, and compress the gzip using small chunks of 1MB, whose offsets are also indexed in the metadata.

Since the indexes are written in metadata fields, it is invisible for normal linear decompression.


👤 AdamCraven
I'm working a tool that lists Apple Computers by sound levels.

To help people who value silence choose the quietest mac: https://quietmac.app/

A very small side-project that was something I wanted to do for a while.

There's no plans to monetise it, it's a resource for those who want a quiet desktop.

Mostly finished (not mobile friendly, yet)


👤 jmstfv
A couple of days ago, I launched a major feature for my website monitoring service (https://tryhexadecimal.com), and that is status pages. I have been meaning to do it for a long time since some customers were asking for it, and it will help to differentiate from competition in a major way. I had to migrate my Rails app from Heroku to EC2 to accommodate this change (I need to obtain both a wildcard TLS certificate for my domain and certificates on behalf of my customers).

Over the next few weeks, I will be polishing it and expanding the feature set, but that's not where most of my brain cycles will go, though.

I am still looking for marketing channels that will consistently bring right people to my website every month. A few things I am considering:

* Double down on writing. I do have a behind-the-scenes journal-y thing ... with 2 articles on it. It certainly needs more love. What I want to do:

1. every N days publish a "behind-the-scenes" story about running a one-person business

2. share it on relevant communities, get on some newsletters, and perhaps get some backlinks

3. build an email list

4. get organic traffic from search engines every month

* Double down on SEO. I have picked most of the low-hanging fruit already (technical & on-page SEO). I do have a single webpage that accounts for most of the organic search traffic (pretty low in absolute numbers), however, I feel like I'm missing on several adjacent keywords. Ungood!

* Start writing in-depth technical guides. You know, the ones that would rank for a whole slew of keywords, and bring in targeted traffic to the website. That's what DigitalOceans and Linodes of the world are doing, and I'm sure it does wonders for them.


👤 slhomme
I'm working on an IoT rotating light (think like a real police light) that turns on with the sound of your choice whenever you receive a notification of your choice. It can be set up via Zapier/IFTTT or an API. New sale on your Shopify website? New star on a GitHub project? Website down? New mention from a specific person/word on Twitter? New subscriber on YouTube? Someone ringing your doorbell? Your fav sport team just scored? You get the idea. It just makes notifications a lot more fun and "real". I like to think it will help capture the same excitement as in Ghostbusters #1 when they get their very first client and set off the alarm.

Ghosbusters ref: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXMcbhn6Np0

More info on my YouTube channel (in French): https://youtu.be/pkoNW3ifuYE


👤 Gehinnn
I'm working on my debug visualizer extension for vscode [1]. It let's you visualize your data structures while you debug them!

[1] https://github.com/hediet/vscode-debug-visualizer/blob/maste...


👤 taborj
Rewriting the NodeMCU-based chicken coop door in MicroPython (currently written in Lua). Also gotta rebuild/clean my anemometer and rewire the temp sensor for my homebrew weather station. Oh, and replacing the IRF510 on my Bitx40, since I blew it up.

Aside from that, I'm getting a lot of non-technical work done around the house, from painting to gardening.


👤 smcameron
Still working on my multiplayer LAN spaceship bridge simulator game called Space Nerds in Space[1], possibly the worst genre of game to be working on with coronavirus on the loose, since it involves inviting people over to touch your keyboards.

[1] https://spacenerdsinspace.com


👤 erjiang
I'm working on a tool to make web apps without writing any code, so basically a WYSIWYG that's like Airtable + Squarespace in one. If you have a need for any internal apps for your company I'd love to hear about it! https://www.fabrica.dev/

👤 dwg
A language study application (focused on Japanese and perhaps Chinese in the future) which learns and adapts to your skill level as you use it, to make time spend studying easier and more effective. In the app store soon?

The idea is to enter terms as you come across them. This could be from classroom materials such as a textbook, or from sources encountered in your daily life such as an article, book, or conversation. The terms entered become part of your repertoire. More frequently encountered terms are prioritized during study sessions. One of the difficult parts about learning Japanese and Chinese is the number of characters that must be learned. The app helps here too, by prioritizing the most commonly encountered characters as well.

Studying is done typical flash cards and a built-in writing journal. The flash cards are pretty simple to begin with but I imagine them getting more capable over time if the app catches on.


👤 pastrami_panda
Saw this post kind of late, but I'm working on an event system for Unity 2020 that can handle multiple serialized parameters and use reflection to figure out the parameter types to use for each event. The idea being to slot in an event in the inspector and have the editor script update the fields to only show valid types.

👤 That3Percent
I'm working on Tree-Buf: a serializer for data that is more efficient than the leading binary protocols, while still being self-describing like JSON or XML.

You can read more about it here: https://github.com/That3Percent/tree-buf


👤 pugworthy
I had just bought a sewing machine to learn to sew and make an outfit for Burning Man. Now I’m going to make face masks.

👤 ww520
Working on an extendible hashing based database. 10 years ago I've built a storage product with the extendible hashtable functionality. Seeing haveibeenpwned recently I realized there's a need for this kind of db so I decided to redo it as a standalone program. I'll do it in Rust instead of C++ this time.

👤 brettkromkamp
Working on https://contextualise.dev/. Contextualise is a simple and flexible tool particularly suited for organising information-heavy projects and activities consisting of unstructured and widely diverse data and information resources.

👤 zikani_03
I'm studying reactor-netty[1], micronaut[2] and armeria[3] - to learn how to write production-grade servers with Netty from the pros. I have a couple of protocol ideas I know will be useful for some use-cases.

Also working on adding Java 14 support to zerocell[4] for mapping Excel rows to Java Records, efficiently!

[1]: https://github.com/reactor/reactor-netty

[2]: https://github.com/micronaut-projects/micronaut-core

[3]: https://github.com/line/armeria

[4]: https://github.com/creditdatamw/zerocell


👤 shakna
Film restoration, though it doesn't technically fall under "restoration".

I run a site [0] that has a lot of old and indie films. Some of these are really great, but terrible quality, because they are very old with very few copies in existence.

Proper restoration is a crazy time consuming process, and often requires you have access to some of the analog sources, and the machines to read them.

But... What if instead of a full restoration, you focus instead on just making it watchable? Allow some quality loss to trick the human eye into seeing what is important?

The best result so far is on The Great Train Robbery [1], and I have a brief breakdown of the process over here [2]. (I also put together a soundtrack for it, using a MIDI synth).

However... Currently the process is _slow_.

Restoring a full-length feature film, like I'm trying with the Blancheville Monster, will take months, despite it running in parallel to cover as many frames as the CPU/RAM combo can handle. (The Great Train Robbery took about 2 weeks).

Anything I can do to speed up the process is helpful. Unfortunately, the most time-consuming step (up to 20 seconds a frame, but usually around 1-2sec), is also the most important and I don't think I can optimise it. (The simplify step that uses k-means clustering).

The process is also not perfect yet. There is still too much quality loss. It's watchable, easily, but could still be better.

[0] https://sixteenmm.org

[1] https://sixteenmm.org/s/thegreattrainrobbery_2020

[2] https://sixteenmm.org/blog/20200318-Filmscope%20Progress


👤 novusteck
I am working on a Coronavirus Survival Calculator see: https://corona-virus-chart.co/calculator It uses the statistics from https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/covid-19-c..., https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19 and https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus to give a percentage of survival to the people that test the application. Feel free to comment

👤 samhh
I have a side project called Bukubrow. It's a WebExtension that plugs into Buku, a CLI bookmark manager.

I'm currently rewriting it in PureScript. It's hard to get pure functional programming's foot in the door at work - understandably, the business case against it is reasonable given our employee demographics (i.e. mostly Java devs) - so this is the next best way to learn.

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Bukubrow: https://github.com/SamHH/bukubrow-webext

Bukubrow PureScript dev branch: https://github.com/SamHH/bukubrow-webext/tree/purescript

Buku: https://github.com/jarun/buku


👤 m1guelpf
I'm working on a service that generates a static version from any site in one click, then keeps them updated when content changes [1]. It's currently used in production for a few sites, and I plan to launch the beta soon.

[1]: https://sitesauce.app


👤 myself248
Working on my slides for an intro-to-UART talk aimed at fledgling hardware hackers. I've been meaning to do this for a while, but now it's focused on tools a lot of people might already have laying around at home.

Building a DC UPS for some of my infrastructure. I had been postponing this as long as my RIPE ATLAS probe was rockin' a 6-month-plus uptime, but a corrupted flash drive ended that. Soooo, time for a whole pile of Schottky diodes! :)

Tending to my pepper and tomato seedlings. It's too cold to put them outside yet, so they're in my kitchen oriel window alongside my GPS/GNSS monitoring receiver.

Learning systemd unit files so I can have better startup and log-rotate and stuff for said monitoring receiver.

Tinkering with Docker and TheLounge so I have a better handle on my always-online IRC client, and maybe other stuff that might end up running on that box.


👤 vbagain
I'm trying to visualize Czech political Twitter, as cached under https://www.hlidacstatu.cz/data/Index/vyjadreni-politiku (10000 latest tweets from a selection of prominent politicians accounts, and no Twitter account needed to access them). As an example, http://www.mangrove.cz/vitrinet/sankey.html shows the premier retweeting/pestering the minister of health as the biggest flow, which looks correct, but hardly an insight...

A question I'd be interested in is discriminating organic, personal accounts from PR operations, but I didn't even formulate how to approach that yet...


👤 rojcyk
I have a Figma plugin that shows different display sizes with their respective market share. It helps designers to test their mockups for different devices and make decisions based on that.

I have over 18k installs https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/732240841094697441/Vi...

I'm currently working on a BE that would enable you to bring your own product data for a small fee. But as a designer, it takes far too much time. If there would be anyone who would like to join, let me know.

I wrote a small article about the stack behind it:

https://rojcyk.com/blog/what-i-learned-creating-my-first-fig...


👤 davidajackson
I'm working on CallStop, which is Superhuman for your phone number. Here's the app store link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/callstop-call-manager/id145589...

The problem: spam calls. Most current solutions use blacklisting, which doesn't work well. CallStop uses whitelisting, and allows you to accept whitelist requests, pause filtering, or let groups use secret PIN "extensions" to reach you. You can revoke or edit these PINs at any time.

You can use CallStop to filter out 100% of spam on both cell phone numbers and landlines. CallStop has a free trial (30 days) and after that it's $6.99 per month. Right now, I have a paying user base and am working on scaling it.


👤 cube2222
I'm working on an open source project - OctoSQL[1] - which allows you to query and join data from different datasources using SQL.

Be it MySQL, PostgreSQL, JSON, CSV or Excel.

It's now also being my Bachelor thesis.

Recently we've been working hard on getting event time supporting exactly-once streaming into OctoSQL. Which means we currently (on the streaming branch) support Kafka as a datasource. Run using on-disk state (which allows grouping big datasets and is still blazingly fast thanks to Badger which we use as our underlying storage).

Obviously with streaming SQL extensions, which allow you to view partial results even with standard datasources. We use a dataflow-like retraction model for that.

We should have a big release out soon, so stay tuned!

[1]:https://github.com/cube2222/octosql


👤 sideproject
SideProjectors has been a long and continuing project that I work on.

https://www.sideprojectors.com

It's a marketplace for people to sell & buy their side projects. It started as a hackathon project and morphed itself into a community of its own.


👤 geerlingguy
Current project is "how to entertain the kids after days at home without leaving the house or playing with the neighbors' kids.

Other than that, I've been trying to shore up some long standing bugs with a side project (hostedapachesolr.com) that I've been meaning to get around to for 3+ years.


👤 equifi
I have been working on a calculator tool that aims to clearly show you how much your equity is worth (including information like taxes on exercising and selling, which recruiters typically do not focus on) and show how you can optimize your profit.

Currently, the main way the tool shows you how to optimize your profit is to show how much money you can make from exercising early. We also help you exercise the options with no personal recourse to you if the company goes under (we take a % of the profit during liquidation).

This is a problem I have faced with my equity and my hope is that a tool like this can help others from making similar mistakes with their equity.

Check out the product at https://equifi.io/ and please let me know if you have any questions!


👤 darcys22
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://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


👤 dxbydt
I’m building an online math community for middle schoolers, by middle schoolers, of middle schoolers. Front end was written by a 7 year old so it looks quite funky. I want to keep it fun and quirky, no adult influences :)

http://jojomath.com


👤 codingdave
I'm putting even more hours into my day job. I build software for small government entities, and their transition to remote governance means we're picking up the pace and pivoting to features that will help them continue to govern our cities and schools during this crisis.

👤 nullpage
Mostly just a toy to learn some AWS/Serverless and security stuff, but a tool similar to burp collaborator for dns / http canaries tied into a slack bot. Essentially request a new canary url, you get back a unique endpoint such as 123456789abcd.detect.domain.com, and any time there is a DNS request or http request of any kind to that canary url it sends a message to a slack bot with relevant info, and includes some geoip data and a static map image of IP locations (via mapbox static image api). Considering doing my own plugin for mitmproxy (similar to burp collaborator everywhere) that can be useful in looking for ssrf vulnerabilities. A couple tools out there that do this, kind of just wanted to build one myself for the learning experience.

👤 warent
I'm working on an app/website called GroceryFriends.

GroceryFriends allows people in need to create a shopping list and post it so that other people who are feeling generous and/or have surplus can find people in their area in need of certain groceries and provide it for them.

I've noticed a lot of at-risk people are putting their lives on the line (and potentially spreading the virus) just to go shopping at stores that are sold out. Also, a lot of people are out of work and are completely screwed by this, struggling to provide for their families. It's absurd, and there should be an easier way to help for those willing.

https://github.com/warent/groceryfriends-fe


👤 MaxLeiter
Trying to figure out how to host an online hackathon now that all universities are closed. Requires a lot less logistical work and _way_ less funds but hard to drive engagement. Hopefully people will be bored enough in a few months and we can still get great prizes from sponsors

👤 wgx
Couple of projects with a friend (pairing on stuff is way more fun for me than working alone) Built a free Chrome extension with a friend that shows a UX Design Principle with every new browser tab, and a remote UX jobs bot which generates a site and posts the jobs to twitter. The latter is written in Python and runs off a Raspberry Pi under my desk - so I don't need to pay for an EC2 for an experiment.

Remote UX jobs: https://remotivo.com

Chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ux-principles/lkoc...


👤 blobster
I'm working on Slide to Subscribe, an embeddable signup form and universal subscribe link.

https://slidetosubscribe.com https://subscribe.to


👤 sideproject
Newsy is my current project. I have quite a few un-used idle domains, which I have been meaning to develop for quite some time but never had time for.

I wanted to quickly create a site that worked well, runs on its own, content-driven and few other features that I wanted in it (e.g. membership, automated newsletters, ability to sell domain or get leads) - imagine a Reddit-like content aggregator site. So I created Newsy.

https://newsy.co

We're currently in beta so lots of bug fixing. Here's a few sites that run on Newsy.

https://www.heystartup.com https://www.faithfulnews.com


👤 nibuen
Working on Iterary for mobile! If you are interested in game/board game design or tooling check and have Android (for now) check it out here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.boarbeard.... also check out website if you haven't seen that before for a beefier idea of where I am headed: https://www.iterary.com

Still early phases, so keeping it Android only for now, but I have been using Flutter so looking forward to expanding to iOS once I have the design flow and enough parity with the website.


👤 ericboehs
I'm working on a Hacker News client that I've named HackiNews [1]. It's inspired by HckrNews [2]. I've made it simply to scratch my own itch but with others in mind.

I wanted more granularity in the score that I filtered out. I also wanted night mode (automatically switches with system chosen theme) especially in the comments section.

I have the code available here on GitHub [3] but it's not documented for use as I've only spent a couple days on it.

[1]: https://hacki.news

[2]: http://hckrnews.com

[3]: https://github.com/ericboehs/hackinews


👤 hukola
I'm working on a web application to help kids in the Netherlands learn basic math: https://elkedagrekenen.nl/

I'm working together with my son's teacher, who is also working at a local school. It's for kids that might not have the privilege of getting private lessons. I'm a backend developer, but I fell in love with Elm and built the site entirely with it. I host it on GCP.

I'd like to build a template system to support multiple languages, but I'm not sure the so-called calculation strategies kids in the Netherlands learn are the same for kids in other countries.

If you have kids in primary school: please give it a try and let me know what you think?


👤 rafaele
I'm working on a small tool to reconcile resource associations that may be lost when exporting data out of one service and importing into another.

For example, if you want to transfer your stuff from Evernote into StandardNotes, you can export your note content as ENEX and use a conversion tool for it. https://dashboard.standardnotes.org/tools

Unfortunately neither export file nor the provided import tool handle Notebook info (StandardNotes doesn't have notebooks but it can approximated with tags).

So this tool creates some of that missing metadata that is extracted from the export service and is converted into a format that can understood by the import service.


👤 medymed
Resident physician in NYC, not yet called as backup on the front lines. From comfort of home at this point refreshing my knowledge of ventilator settings. Also in spare moments have been considering similarities and differences between operating scheduling algorithms like multilevel feedback queues etc and heuristics used in crisis management, especially when there are both technical tasks like patient emergencies and managerial tasks like organizing staff and equipment going on at once. In a similar vein, comparing which process loads cause failures of scheduling algorithms, and which set of process loads would cause failure in various processing units of the hospital, some of which may be more obvious than others.

👤 raybb
I've been chipping away at a New York Public Library python client. They don't have an api so it's just scraping. Their website is just painfully slow to login and check the status of books so I'm building this for fun. https://github.com/RayBB/nypl-patron/pull/1/files

Edit: I also just finished a blog post about Zhong Tai in software architecture: https://medium.com/@RayBB/what-is-zhong-tai-front-end-back-e...


👤 padseeker
A smart form builder called Keenforms;

https://www.keenforms.com

Imagine google forms/wufoo/survey monkey with a few things that all those other apps don't, like;

-dynamically calculated values

-conditional validation for inputs

-hide/show options

-more that is still under construction

It could be used to take user input, but it also be a UI calculator tool that could be put up on the web very quickly, (not unlike howmuchtoiletpaper.com), allowing non-technical individuals to build dynamic user interfaces.

It still needs work, still trying to decide if it a SaaS app or a tool to build dynamic forms for people. It's inspired by the "configurator" part of a Configure Price Quote (CPQ) app. I'm hoping to release it by the end of spring 2020.


👤 toto444
I am working on my website that represents my view on how to learn a language (here Japanese) in a fun way by reading a ton of comprehensible input from day 1.

https://necodesca.herokuapp.com/


👤 HolaMan
We are working on a "no code" editor - sketch to react

Our goal is improve 10x productivity for frontend engineer to write web and app UI code by using the editor. Our first version is target on the most popular design tools "sketch" and most popular FE framework "React"

The idea is developer just import the sketch and can generate the UI code with some editor adjustment

We have come out the demo video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xzm0PF30Wwk and subscribe more info in the future via https://pxcode.io/studio

We would like to hear any feedback Thank you !


👤 westoncb
A fully local, tag-based system for annotating/searching a number of different "data sources" (i.e. browser bookmarks, local files, twitter bookmarks) that all get unified under one interface.

You set it up to monitor some data source and then it keeps track of when items are added/removed to/from it.

The items from all data sources can be tagged, have notes attached to them, etc.—then quickly re-discovered through the search interface.

Still early, but it's functional for Chrome bookmarks atm (should get local files handled in the next day or so): https://github.com/westoncb/mymex (scroll down for screenshots)


👤 mebr
A website builder that is 10x easier to use than the competition.

Why? There are too many small businesses without a website. The upfront cost is too high to see if a website benefits their business. Wix and Squarespace and such are way too complex to use for an average small business owner(or say their kid). Most customers of these websites hire a 3rd party to develop their website. That costs more and takes longer.

Solution: if you can build a website without any training using an intuitive interface 10x quicker than what you thought it would take, most likely you build a website for your business yourself.

I have the MVP ready, and some customers. Currently I'm trying to scale to meet the demand. There is still a long journey ahead.


👤 debarshri
I have been obsessing on creating kubernetes clusters on existing virtual machines. As part of learning how to create them, I ended up writing two projects - A golang SDK to provision a cluster on premise. This basically abstracts kubeadm. https://debarshibasak.github.io/go-kubeadmclient/

Using the SDK, I wrote a tooling similar to kubespray to create cluster, add node, delete node and delete cluster. https://debarshibasak.github.io/kubestrike/

Probably useless project, but learned a lot.


👤 juliawu
Working on aggregated product search for peer-to-peer and resale marketplaces (OfferUp, eBay, Poshmark, StockX, etc): https://www.meetsuperset.com

Resale is the fastest-growing category in online retail.

1 in 3 Gen Z shoppers are on it, 60% of women consider it. On top of that, there's the Marie Kondo effect and the current macro situation. I wanted to build something that lets you search in multiple places at once, so it's faster and you don't miss out on deals. No ads, no fake reviews.

I'm hungry for feedback! This project is also a winner on https://pioneer.app :)


👤 hondo77
A comparison shopping app for (legal) digital movies, so I can just go to the app to find the best prices rather than the one app and six web pages that I go to now.

Between being laid off then having to go on disability for a year just after that (2019 was fun), I need some additional skills in the current job market. It just so happens that this project covers all the bases: new language (Go, which I really like), cloud computing, cloud-native architecture (containers and much more), and mobile app development. I really hope I get a job before I'm finished but this is something I'm motivated to work on and will give me some experience that the next job may or may not.


👤 treyfitty
This is what I replied with last time this was asked. I had big plans for April to August, including going to trade shows, and ramping up pop up shop locations. Obviously things changed quite a bit, but it comes to show just how out of control ones business can be at times:

Skincare for men (https://www.mendskin.co). I commented in a similar thread 6 months or so ago, and it’s been solid. First started as D2C, but that proved to be a terrible decision. D2C is effectively dead. Now working with online retailers and my own online store. Wasn’t profitable last year, but so far this year looks good because of our partners.


👤 holistio
I’m working on an IT job platform which aims to improve on a range of aspects that generally suck about recruiting and getting hired.

We focus on actual understanding and clear communication of tech expectations, personality and team fit, culture and meaningful benefits.

There’s too much bullshit going on.

I’m currently in the phase of doing demos for customers, it will soon be available at https://moonka.space.

Meanwhile, whether you’re a developer looking for a job in the midst of this turmoil or an entrepreneur looking for people, join us on Telegram, https://t.me/moonkaspace


👤 hudvin
I am working on search tool for images.

It detects faces, objects, tags, extracts metadata and provides search interface and API. So you can for example find image with "cat and dog near river with some person" I want to build enterprise level image search :)

Google Images, for example, uses in most cases alt text and surrounding content. Google Photos is limited to personal collections.

I have finished prototype and now trying to convert it to startup

Demo https://app.khumbu.im/search/5dff72e66483e25b40e0222e info https://khumbu.im


👤 Infinitesimus
Built a small android app to check global entry interview slots https://github.com/dkotin02/global-entry-monitor.

Backstory: When scheduling my interview, I realized that the scheduler API didn't require auth while snooping around the console. Figured that most people looking for interview times would be tired of logging in several times a day just to find openings so I built this app a few weeks ago. Long term goal is to have it notify you when a slot + location you're interested in opens up but it's open source so anyone can have at it!


👤 lutorm
Building a 3d-printer filament dryer and storage box.

I mostly print nylons and PC and with the humidity here in HI it's a big pain to keep it dry enough. Even drying the spools in the oven doesn't really work because it takes days for the inner parts to dry out. So instead I'm building a heated and dehumidified box that will hold 8 spools and can feed the filament directly into the printer. The box itself is foam and fiberglass, the heater I'm reusing an old 3d printer bed heater, and the dehumidifier a thermoelectric element from a broken wine refrigerator.

https://a360.co/2Wy78Zm


👤 alexburlis
Working on a marketplace that shows you all kinds of subscription services/tools with free trials in one place, combining it with automatic reminders so you can hop through hundreds of trials for free without forgetting to cancel.

Also made a Chrome Extension that automatically detects trials on websites and makes adding reminders pretty much just one click.

https://www.getbluefox.com

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bluefox/hikaomanci...


👤 jason_zig
Working on a couple of things that are relevant to the new normal of #QuarantineLife:

https://www.roseandrex.com/pages/resources - Index of Covid-19 related online resources for families

https://www.jqbx.fm - Listen to Spotify with friends online

https://www.zigpoll.com - Embeddable polling widget for websites.

With the bump in traffic on all the web properties due to the quarantine it's a been pretty hectic week! I wonder if y'all feel the same. Stay safe!


👤 dk574
My brother and I are working on a site where users can create fanfiction comics to post and share online. It's basically Webtoons, except, all the content is fanfiction in art/comics form

We just started the actual website this week after planning.


👤 qpiox
I work at a University, where face-2-face lectures have stopped and the premises are closed for students, but teaching will continue to go online.

I teach programming courses, but I have always organized them around projects with real f2f communication and intensive critique of the work that is being done. This will have a heavy impact now, as none of the online tools (commercial such as Zoom, Webex, Kaldura, and open source Jitsi, BigBlueButton) can really help.

Most such technology is designed for online meetings of "disconnected" collaborators, and not as a real substitute for close collaborators where the whole body language takes part in the communication.


👤 hydandata
Writing a book on how to set up a simple but flexible tech stack that will scale without issues.

Backend, frontend, testing, team comms, CI/CD, cloud stuff etc. Mostly FOSS.

Friends and colleagues have been bugging me to get it done for a while, guess now is the time..


👤 harlanji
Getting back in the daily live streaming routine and dogfooding my platform. I’ve been homeless for 2 years after burning out in tech and recklessly draining my savings to build a POSSE streaming video system. I felt the calling. Continuing to work on it from the back seat of my car. Marketing is my shortcoming.

I recently decided to find 10 people who want to create interactive video projects or vlogs. Email me if you want one. I’m about 5/24 hours into a hackathon, streaming on Twitch and YouTube as ispoogedaily (iSpooge Daily) and email is in my profile. I’ve been dogfooding for 2 years and have gotten great feedback in 2 big hackathons.


👤 tobinharris
I've got a few things going:

1. A company playbook writing tool that helps you document team and company processes. It gives you a nice online browseable playbook, along with .epub and .mobi download.

2. Adding more advanced features to my https://yuml.me UML tool, including text formatting, UML packages, and a more succinct DSL.

3. A contract e-signing tool that doesn't suck on mobile. For some reason, every digital signature tool I use feels yucky.

4. A tool that lets you write out user stories and converts them into example mobile wireframes by parsing the text. You can also do point estimations for relative sizing.


👤 nomitch22
I'm working on a simple site for running polls using alternative election methods like Instant Runoff Voting, the Condorcet Method, and Borda Counts: https://poller.io

When I looked for sites to run polls with ranked voting, I was surprised that nothing really fit my group's needs, so I figured I'd make one. The site is working (in MVP form), and I'll iterate on it more in the coming months. I'm hoping it can spread awareness about different voting schemes in addition to being a useful/simple tool for decision making.

Also, it was a fun way to learn ReasonML :)


👤 escot
A React component that adds zooming/panning to any div, like google maps

https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-map-interaction


👤 culopatin
I am not a trained fabricator nor a certified welder but I’m starting a turbo manifold for a non-turbo car and I’m trying to avoid learned mistakes from other DIYers. We’ll see how it goes, luckily I get to work from home this week.

👤 dsauerbrun
This started as a way for me to learn RoR and angular a long while back but it ended up becoming my passion project... https://www.climbcation.com is basically a wiki style site that lets you filter through world-class climbing destinations. A lot of climbing destination catalogs don't have much structured data so Climbcation gives people a chance to filter through with parameters which are useful for planning trips.

It's not exactly the most useful site given the pandemic but hopefully people will derive some value out of it when this is all over.


👤 AlchemistCamp
Still building Alchemist Camp: https://alchemist.camp and working on an analytics product.

I've also been digging into and learning more about how Git works under the hood.


👤 soinus
The quarantine did not change much for me. I am still mostly working on EasyClangCompelete [1] - an easy to use (at least that's the goal) auto-compeltion of c++ code in Sublime Text. The goal is to make it work out of the box for as many systems as possible. I've been working on it for a couple of years now.

Otherwise, I did find out that now I have the time to learn some things I wanted to for a long time (like OpenGL) or play guitar again, so that takes the remaining time.

[1] - https://github.com/niosus/EasyClangComplete


👤 stanislavb
I'm slowly improving https://www.saashub.com every day.

Apart from that, planning the new version of LibHunt.

Unfortunately, I find myself too much distracted by Coronavirus news :/


👤 khnov
Working on Dipla, I mini social network for local communities, you can post things and comment anonymously, posts stays the area for some days. We believe this could be used to warn about things around, or say some critics for shy people ...

Android : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.dipla.app iOS : https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dipla/id1501533164

Enjoy !


👤 jugg1es
I am leading several efforts helping multiple state HIEs (health information exchanges) and hospital associations gather COVID-related data which they can't obtain any other way due to the US's terribly disjointed healthcare system. The data we are providing to the various states is pretty depressing.

We are also getting close to standing up a solution that allows Washington State and NY state and others to search for patients that took COVID tests but for whom they only have partial demographics. The solution will allow the states to find hospital visit history and full addresses.

This week has been very crazy for my company.


👤 martim
I'm working on a site where creative people can find others to collaborate and work together on creative projects. For creative I mean visual artists, musicians, developers, moviemakers, writers, designers, etc, etc... Example of projects I foresee: game developers searching for artists, moviemakers searching musicians for a film score, writers looking for designers, etc, etc: https://collabomate.org - Right now the site is very simple but my plan is to take the quarantine as an opportunity to add more collaboration features.

👤 wes-k
Inspiration: http://worrydream.com/DrawingDynamicVisualizationsTalkAddend...

Currently building a web drawing program that can create custom data visualizations. Think “no code D3”.

It has required some pretty cool tech. I’ve essentially built a reactive expression evaluator in typescript. This allows me to do things like “rectangle.height = foo + bar”. It’ll then setup “foo” and “bar” as dependencies of “rectangle.height”, watch them for changes, re-evaluate the expression, and update the rectangles height.


👤 herve76
I am developing an algorithm to trade cryptocurrencies and the platform to test in real time the performance of potential strategies. I am using Node.js/AutoML for the algo and Vue for the platform. You can check it out at https://bitcoinvsaltcoins.com This platform is open and free to everybody to add their strategies for real time PnL tracking. The goal of this project is to provide an easier way to trade cryptocurrencies by simply allowing you to follow the trades from the best auto trading bots/strategies.

👤 dbfa
An email sandboxing and testing application called MailSpons: https://mailspons.com/ Primarily, it allows developers to set up fake inboxes for their local development environments. The only thing you have to do is change the SMTP settings of your local environment and then all mails will be caught by MailSpons.

The next step is to automate end-to-end testing of applications by reading the sent emails via the API. I am currently writing the documentation for that.

Please don't be put off by the homepage. I, a developer, "designed" it ;)


👤 gabriel_dev
I’m working on a problem I have myself as a developer-founder: how to prioritize my dev and product time and focus on one project. Happened so that this is not only my issue. It is pretty common that it was a topic of one of the y combinator startup schools lectures. Here’s a link to the early version built on firebase and react: https://www.priorittime.com/ Still have to figure out how to make it smooth and intuitive. But using it now myself: dogfood. So if anyone has suggestions, pls comment. Thanks.

👤 xtrp
I'm working on a password manager desktop app called JSON Password Manager. JSON Password Manager fixes a few problems that I've found in other password managers (e.g. LastPass or Dashlane) in the past, namely:

- security -- while most popular password managers use "military-grade" encryption, everything is still stored in the cloud, and the user does not have direct access to where the data is actually stored - customizability -- I want the freedom to design how passwords and encrypted data in whatever way I wish, not having to conform to a particular online UI or mobile app

JSON Password Manager is based on JSON, meaning all of your encrypted passwords and account data can be completely edited as plain JavaScript-like objects. You can store key value pairs for your username, password, and email of an account, and include an array of objects for your security questions, for example.

Every piece of data and JSON stored in JSON Password Manager is encrypted with AES-256 bit ("military-grade" encryption) and stored as hex in a singular file. The encryption key is derived (with pbkdf2) from the users chosen master password.

The desktop app allows users to download the encrypted data file with all their passwords and transfer/use it as they wish, which means users have complete control of their encrypted data.

When they want to view the data, they can just upload the file to the desktop app on their given device, enter the master password, and they can use the encrypted "vault" on that device.

JSON Password Manager is all completely open source (MIT License) on Github: https://github.com/xtrp/JSON-Password-Manager, which is great because any potential bugs, security problems, and feature updates can be done quickly and effectively.

I've currently built out the entire password manager (although not fully tested yet), and am just working on expanding the desktop app to include new features like a strong password generator, a settings tab, etc.

I'd love suggestions, so feel free to respond to this comment or email me at xtrp@xtrp.io.


👤 zulban
Working on my chess AI sandbox game ChessCraft on Google Play. Version 1.7 will have pieces that cannot be captured (iron pieces), and choosing your language to override my crappy translations, optionally. Popular request ;)

Almost done!


👤 nlh
I’ve been diving deeper into Crystal (which I think is amazing and elegant and really fun to code in) and learning Svelte, which is also awesome and powerful.

I released a super early alpha preview do-not-use-this-in-production version of a mini-framework to builds web apps with Svelte as a drop-in for the view layer and Crystal on the back end:

https://github.com/noahlh/celestite

It’s nothing fancy - but it works with existing Crystal web frameworks and, I hope, could be pretty cool eventually.

Would love feedback and extra pairs of eyes on it!


👤 kroltan
An extensible node-based system for designing visual novels and other kinds of narrative games, with a visual editor that tries to encode as much plot information as possible, so it can provide useful visualizations.

👤 zzo38computer
Yes, I am working on some stuff. Mainly, I am working on TeXnicard (fossil repository at [0]; if anyone is interested in it, I would like to have some help, please), although I might also set up a telnet service (possibly with some card games).

Some other things I might do (but currently am not because I am working on TeXnicard) include Free Hero Mesh (a puzzle game engine), and a media-independent poll/survey program I am writing.

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


👤 Gazoo101
I'm making a touch-based audio/video performance tool. The elevator pitch is that it fuses dj'ing and vj'ing together in an attempt to allow for more interesting audience experiences, but that's semi-misleading as touch surfaces aren't good for what's traditionally considered Dj'ing.

Hence, I instead prefer to think of it as an audio/video tool somewhere between production and performance. Some out of date info can be found here: http://www.planmixplay.com


👤 geff82
We (wife and I) decided 2 weeks ago to go into producing learning materials, paper based and computer based, for several topics. Me appreciate making money, but have a better feeling when trying to make the world better by educating people. We will produce several smaller projects in 3 languages: German, Persian, English. We do not plan to "take over the world" with what we do, we just want to do something useful. Next week we will have the first release of an exercise book for grammar (parts of it were written some time ago, but never refined).

👤 ThomPete
I'm working on a task and field management tool for non-desktop workforce.

We were supposed to launch it to the market next month but because of the situation we are in we are adding a few more features that will make it even better to ensure proper communication in hectic environments and with a better overview of geo-fenced task lists and we are not going to charge until we are out on the other side of this.

You can see some screens here:

https://www.realwork.ai (the website is just a placeholder for now the pricing will free)


👤 egypturnash
Mostly working on the same thing I’ve been working on: a YA SF comic. “Parallax” is about culture clash, adults acting in the cold interests of what they think is the greater good, growing into adults facing those same kinds of hard decisions, and lots of cute cartoon animals. I draw it, my SO writes it.

It’s free online at http://egypt.urnash.com/parallax/, if you have piles of money from your software job and you like what we’re doing then there’s a Patreon.


👤 zerosingularity
I'm currently working on https://seeme.ai, the AI marketplace: easily create, use and share AI models.

After talking to a lot of companies and engineers, it was crazy to see how long it takes them to create and deploy AI solutions.

I initially added it as an extension to my computer vision training, but am working on sharing it with everyone: https://www.seeme.ai/blog/seeme-ai-marketplace/


👤 scythe
Not a personal project, but I've recently decided to start contributing to the Vala compiler. If you're bored and have any interest in compilers, I recommend it. It has a relatively low barrier to entry and the code organization is decent by the standards of 90000 line projects. The barrier to entry is I think a little lower than with rustc, although to be fair I only know a little about rustc.

Other than that—not a coding project, but I have been messing with a novel cement composition. It's stalled due to coronavirus making it hard to get equipment.


👤 arcturus17
https://coviz19.web.app/compare

I'm building a covid-19 visualization app, and today I've been working on an interactive comparison tool that allows you to set the base time for graphs, eg, "cases after confirmed case number 100".

First feedback has been great. It's in Spanish and although I intend to translate it to English, I want to prioritize other features like a table, and enriching my data with demographic and healthcare stats like hospital beds per thousand.


👤 nicebill8
I'm currently on a post-university gap year and making a couple of iOS apps, having been doing so for the past few years.

The first app [1] is pretty niche but a technically interesting challenge nonetheless; it's a fast auto-checkout bot to be used on Supreme [2]. There's other apps just like it but they all seemed to cost upwards of $50, so mine's available for around $10.

[1] https://autocart.page

[2] https://supremenewyork.com


👤 spicystudios
I grew up playing tower defense games on Kongregate and Warcraft 3. I loved building an intricate maze of towers, optimizing it's structure to get the maximum efficiency, and building on my mastery of the game. Even more than that, I loved how players could collaborate and build these mazes together to form an even better structure. I've been working on an indie tower defense game that I hope captures this essence of strategy and multiplayer. I'll be releasing this game on Android within the next week and iOS shortly after!

👤 utk09
I, with a friend of mine, worked on creating a static website - https://learn-from-home.herokuapp.com/ to learn from home during the lockdown. It has a list of many of the free resources available right now. While going through the comments, I was inspired/amazed by https://grocy.info/ and I'm thinking of building something similar. It is really helpful.

👤 adamqureshi
Im working on this: https://tryoldster.com/ If you know any devs seeking remote work with. 10+ years of experience please send me your contact / info. If you are a company seeking experienced developers / engineers / technology experts please send me your job listings. I needed content for the landing page so i grabbed it from the monthly HN thread. I suspect there will be a LOT more remote job / work from home opportunities coming.

👤 Kye
I'm working on an album that represents my shift away from synths to sampled instruments. Synths are fine, but my computer is old and a whole orchestra runs on the same amount of CPU as one synth.

👤 stepbeek
I'm building a side project around launch SaaS products as quickly as possible on a JVM stack right now. As a dev who cut their teeth at a bank then a FAANG, I found it really tough to move from working on a small complex part of a big thing to working on broad problems where I felt like I was implementing the same things (password reset, user management etc) over and over.

I know that Laravel for PHP and Rails in Ruby land have this kind of thing locked down, but I would have loved to have something like Laravel Spark on a standard JVM tech stack.


👤 fwsgonzo
I just finished the 32-bit parts of a RISC-V emulator, and I have been doing performance optimizations. Just hit a wall and can't make it any faster, but I'm happy with the speeds now so it's all good.

Now I have this really stupid idea to replace my Lua scripts in a game engine with RISC-V binaries. So, if it's stupid and it works... I've already measured it to be wildly faster than Lua, but Lua has a convenient interface.

The emulator can be serialized to memory and restored elsewhere / later, but I have no idea what good that will do.


👤 aloukissas
1. Supporting an online community of WFH people who have virtual happy hours on Zoom (wfhappyhour.com)

2. Launching https://cellars.la to support local Los Angeles restaurants

3. Help people navigate the stock market crisis by making free tools and resources available from my startup: https://blog.agentrisk.com/how-agentrisk-is-helping-investor...


👤 runarb
I am giving Portable-VirtualBox some love. It is an open source software tool that lets you run any operating system from a USB stick without separate installation. A lot of issues with Windows 10 is unresolved: https://github.com/vboxme/Portable-VirtualBox/issues (Any help would be greatly appreciated).

Website: https://www.vbox.me/


👤 0x38B
It's nothing yet, but I'm trying to hack on ProseMirror(1) and make an easy way to make quizzes (think EdX, or something - cloze, multiple choice, drop-down, etc) that can then be embedded in a page (e.g. export HTML, paste in Ghost CMS).

It needs to be usable by regular people like my teacher.

Learned about ProseMirror here in the thread on Edtr.io. It's very 'lego-y' and I think it'll work well, but the complexity is off-putting.

1: https://prosemirror.net/


👤 finaliteration
My current personal projects/areas of focus:

- Writing a lot of music, both for practice and for an indie rhythm game some friends and I are developing.

- Spending a lot of time with my kid now that she’s home from school and I’m working from home without my commute sucking up time. We’ve been playing games together, building with LEGO, and just enjoying some carefree kid time.

- Cooking all meals at home. My spouse and I are both decent cooks but this is a good chance to get more practice in and try some new recipes.

- “Socializing” with friends online via Slack and online games.


👤 IgorPartola
I am working on bringing my Honda Rebel 250 back to tip top shape. I have been riding a bigger bike for just about a year but want to get the Rebel working properly so I can sell it to the next new rider to get them into one of TK favorite hobbies.

Never underestimate the power of working with your hands. It has a wonderful effect on the mind. And when you are able to, get your motorcycle license. It’s the original social distancing machine, gets you into fresh air and the Rebel gets 65-70 mpg which will be great in the apocalypse.


👤 techaprl
I am working on building a student accelerator. The first version is available here https://horizontech.dev

Everything is completely remote. Meetings through zoom. Messages through WhatsApp and Slack. Project Management using trello. Code in github and gitlab. Video with the help of loom

We have open-sourced our code https://github.com/HorizonTechnologies/website


👤 ryanmarsh
Working on a way to take the output of Event Storming and translate it into serverless applications.

hashtag DDD, CQRS, etc. etc.

I really don't know much about either (learning a lot), and when I tell people about it their eyes glaze over but whatever I still wanna do it.

https://github.com/stochastic repo is still private but I'm willing to add anyone interested. I just don't want to be judged on how bad a programmer I am before I have time to clean it up a bit.


👤 matijash
Hey everybody! I am together with my brother working on a DSL for building full-stack web apps. It is a pretty big task but we are trying to go step by step.

It's an OSS, you can check it out here: https://github.com/wasp-lang/wasp

Our latest demo, visually inspecting your web-app code: https://wasp-lang.dev/#wasp-inspector

Would love to hear what you think!


👤 neal_jones
Working on a Twilio auto-responder. It is pretty simple, but also building a front end so people can manage the keywords. I have all of that working, my next step is to put an actual password on it. I'm looking at Okta, but I'm not sure if that isn't total overkill. It is going to never get used by more than 10 people and mostly just by 1 or 2.

For the moment I just have the least secure setup possible using some JavaScript to hide the HTML until you add a password. Anyone who can inspect the page can bypass it.


👤 brandoniscool
https://superwet.live chord and lyric generating neural network

I'm working on Superwet Fantastic.it's very tongue and cheek for now. But i'm making progress. Spent 3 months amassing a 30gb chord/tab data collection. Most of my time being cleaning the human uploaded mess. It's showing good potential now and I have a todo list hours long that hopefull will result in the model being powerful enough for commercial applications.


👤 protoduction
I'm building Chimera, which is project that brings sandboxed cell-by-cell (scientific) notebooks to the browser.

It's a blend of Jupyter Notebook, Project Iodide, JSFiddle, CodeSandbox, Glitch, and Observable.

Here are two screenshots:

- Notebook: https://i.imgur.com/nDUC817.png

- View Source: https://i.imgur.com/KhaiCfz.png

This is a tool that I wish existed after having worked with Jupyter notebooks a lot.


👤 sebazzz
I created a remote planning poker application in ASP.NET Core Blazor! It is called PokerTime: https://github.com/Sebazzz/PokerTime

It came in very useful during our first remote kick-off, last monday.

Besides PokerTime I also created a remote retrospective app, also in Blazor, called "Return": https://github.com/Sebazzz/Return


👤 navalsaini
I am working on a low-code volunteer management system for crowd tasking volunteers. It will use Whatsapp, Google sheets, and Google forms for registering volunteers and notifying them about volunteer tasks.

https://github.com/crowd-tasking

I have a second personal project which also takes up some of my time. It is a chess game played on a smaller board (also has a blind mode).

https://halfchess.com


👤 zbtaylor1
I'm working on a web app to track bike fit: http://app.mybike.fit

I like to tinker with my fit to dial things in, but there are so many potential dimensions to tweak that it's easy to "get lost."

Long-term I envision it as version control for bike fit where you can make a change, test it, add some notes, and then decide whether or not to commit the change to your new baseline fit.

At this point, though, I've only implemented the input forms and a historical record.


👤 adityarao310
We are currently working on building https://kaapi.team/

Super easy slack app to send weekly check-ins to your distributed team and get back insights from them. Some of our early beta customers are using this to figure out who's disengaged, is everyone on same page for the project and who needs more 1:1 time with the manager etc

Excited to help grow the remote ecosystem. We just closed our first annual customer and super excited to keep heads down execute


👤 vira28
With everyone working from home, One of the challenges right now is how to connect to your remote applications securely.

I set up a secure way to connect to my application and you can demo that at https://viggy28.dev/book

Also wrote about how to set up here: https://viggy28.dev/article/how-to-secure-your-remote-applic...


👤 tanin
I'm working on a native programmable tooltip that can be used with any Mac OS app.

You can select a text on any app and hit the configured shortcut to activate tooltip.

I program this tooltip to speed up several of my workflows like opening a JIRA ticket , opening a file in IntelliJ from a stacktrace, and show humand-readable time from seconds from epoch.

The tooltip has been very helpful to me, and it might be useful to you.

Check it out: https://github.com/tanin47/tip


👤 samelawrence
A lot of my friends are electronic music producers and DJs, and many of them have now lost all or most of their income from live events. I made a super hacky site to host a "TV Guide" for all the online streams these artists are hosting. It's been a mix of tutorials, production sessions, and DJs sets so far.

The hack: It's a Google Calendar embedded into the README of a default Github Pages theme. Open to PRs lol.

https://choon.stream/


👤 cluoma
Wow lots of interesting projects in this thread.

I'm currently working on a blogging engine I call bittyblog

https://github.com/cluoma/bittyblog

I'm not a professional coder so it's mostly a toy project to get me programming and learn new things but I also use it for a couple of my blogs and add features as I want them.

It's CGI/fastCGI based with SQLite3 for storage. It integrates well with lighttpd because of its fastCGI process manager.


👤 bemmu
I was playing Minecraft with my son, and besides clicking on things, it also has some commands that you can type in to change blocks. For example you can fill rectangular areas with the same block. I got curious about whether you could compress images by reducing them into a bunch of rectangles. Due to some limitations it wouldn't really work for images, but I got it working for QR codes: http://craftqr.com/

👤 iamwil
Working on a SQL query builder with vim-like keyboard interface to explore data.

Often times, for any real-life data, there are exceptions to the data over different periods of time. Building complex queries that handles these exceptions while not having to hold these in my head gets to be challenging. I want to build these queries iteratively with contextual help and autocomplete. I wanted something that makes me feel like I'm touching the data directly.

If this is something you find yourself wanting, let me know.


👤 sibit
A few color palette based PWAs: https://colorpalette.app/ is a tool I'm building to quickly generate color palettes and https://accessiblecolors.app/ is the second stage of the process that systematically ensures color palettes follow an accessibility standard loosely based upon tailwindcss default colors.

👤 analog31
Completely irrelevant to the world, but I'm finally breaking free of my ISP. I've been going to all sorts of accounts and pointing them to an e-mail address that isn't locked to an ISP. Then I will move my little personal web page, and transfer my home phone number to a prepaid cell phone.

This was triggered by realizing that with the whole family working from home (2x work, 1x college, 1x high school), our old slow ISP was going to be overwhelmed, so we signed up for new service.


👤 flurdy
Letterbox, contact form as a service.

Needed one for several of my sites, so decided to build it.

Started it earlier this year as a side project and meant to focus on it now as I don't have a real client. But honestly finding it hard to be very focused on anything at the moment.

Idea: https://code.flurdy.com/project/Letterbox

Site: https://letterbox.flurdy.io


👤 creature_x
I built a workout app for Android/iOS in React Native! It's called Workout Warrior (https://workoutwarrior.app).

It allows you to create your own workout from scratch and tracks your progress. I built it to give users users complete freedom over their workout; you control the sets/reps, the rest-time, and even notifications (or lack thereof).

The project is still in its infancy and I am adding new features as we speak (:


👤 aliabd
I'm working on http://trymaniac.com which is a set of tools to make documenting code easier and faster.

The basic idea is having the code itself drive the documentation. This means:

- Autocomplete that's powered by the codebase/previous docs. - Code tracking so documentation doesn't go stale. - Automatic updates when the changes are simple/minimal.

Would love to hear everyone's thoughts/feedback. Anything I'm missing?


👤 catchmeifyoucan
I’m working on amna. It’s a better way to manage everything we do. We’re constantly switching between different tasks and use various pieces of information to help us (docs, websites, emails, chats) to help us get those things done. Consider this across all your head spaces, maybe you’re planning a trip at home, and coordinating with volunteers at work. A better to way to keep up with all that is what I’m building.

If it’s interesting, drop me a msg. Planning to open source it (getamna.com)


👤 yolo42
I'm building two things:

https://repocounters.com This is a tool to track download history for Github releases over time. I'm working on adding support for Github packages. And Docker is next on the list as well.

The other project is Stilton. Not available yet. It is a centralized certificate issuance server for ACME protocol, primarily targeted for organizations running large number of domains and need TLS certs for them.


👤 parhamn
A Inbox/Superhuman for SWE type tool:

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNSpDIqCa5A

- https://cloudsynth.com/

A better backend as a service:

- https://cloudsynth.com/products/core

Both are in limited preview! Email me at parham@cloudsynth.com if you want a try one :)


👤 par
I'm working on my meme making app, Meta Meme https://metameme.app/. It's a meme maker i've had out for a couple years, started as a side project, now generates mid four figures in revenue monthly, recurring. Also just released Token, a new dating app, match making for misfits. https://tokendating.app

👤 swlkr
I'm working on a janet web framework

Source: https://github.com/joy-framework/joy


👤 kiwicopple
I’m working on making Postgres a real-time database (like Firebase): https://github.com/supabase/realtime

At its core it’s an elixir server which listens to Postgres’s built-in replication functionality, converts the byte stream to JSON, then blasts it out over websockets.

It’s working in production at a few companies now. My next goal is to build connectors to other systems like Kafka, SQS etc


👤 jcubic
I'm working on my scheme/lisp interpreter in JavaScript, it's getting closer to real Scheme. Right now I'm reading R5RS spec and adding new functions. It have pretty nice interop with JavaScript and work in browser and Node.js.

https://jcubic.github.io/lips/

There is lot of features in devel branch I need to release soon version 0.21.0, but first I need to write unit tests.


👤 hacksonx
This here for my personal use http://hacker-news-card-ui.herokuapp.com/

👤 dougbarrett
I created https://projectconnect.us a few nights ago as a central location for small businesses that are still open in our area to promote that they are so. The service allows for businesses in other locations as well.

It had a lot of traction the first day, but kind of lost traction. As long as people are able to reliably find the resources they need, then I’m OK with mine not being their first choice.


👤 nbardy
I'm working a piece of generative art, a rendering of the milky way galaxy.

I enjoy doing interactive art on the side. e.g. https://nicholasbardy.com/, but I've always hacked it out on my own. I've recently been studying some of the state of the art techniques(Signed Distance Functions) and I'm excited to make something running on the GPU.

Over the holidays I studied Signed Distances func


👤 pdepip
I've been working on a personal knowledge base called mmap.it. It's like spotlight for all of your workflows and code snippets.

Basically combines a markdown editor with full text search and all functionality is made accessible through global shortcuts so you can look up information without context switching.

It's free with plans to be open sourced in the next day or so. You can check it out here (https://mmap.it)


👤 AlphaGeekZulu
"A Beautiful Remind" - HTML renderer for Dianne Skoll's "Remind" program. This is a side project of mine to learn the Rust programming language while under lockdown.

Teaser: https://klostermaier.de/abremind_demo/index.html#today

(hint: you can switch themes if your browser supports alternative stylesheets. In Firefox that is View > Use Style)


👤 Thundernerd
I made a twitter bot a while ago that tweets about free games! https://twitter.com/fgiafg

While that's cool and all. I didn't really like how it turned out so I started rewriting it. Right now I have an api, separate scrapers, and a discord bot. It all works independently so if one of them dies the rest keeps chugging along.

Now it's time to rewrite the twitter bot and I'm all good :-).


👤 MikeHardman
I'm making music to escape the screen, so I don't just sit at my terminal for 16 hours a day I'm taking a few hours at least every day to try and make something other than software/hardware.

It's been received pretty well so far, so maybe some of you will enjoy it - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBSW6TUB53c is probably the most rounded so far.


👤 bootlooped
The washing machines in my building are often on the fritz or steal money. I was going to make a simple web app where you can see which ones have been recently confirmed working or broken. It would rely on user input. I think I'll try to do this with AWS s3, lambda, and athena. I want to have operating costs below a couple dollars a month, since I will likely make no money on this. I've also considered trying to use Google Sheets as a backend.

👤 CalmStorm
I am working on a key-value decentralized datastore on blockchain called Kevacoin. Some people are using the datastore to record the events and news related to COVID-19.

👤 mkcg
I've been working on a lite PHP library acting as an agnostic query engine to aggregate content from different (files, API, SQL, document oriented, ...) kind of datastore and ease the usage of some aggregations : terms, facets, ranges, min, max, average, ...

https://packagist.org/packages/mkcg/php-query-model

And also working on a search engine (in C).


👤 didizaja
I’m creating a QR Code Generator web application! I’m a CS student, but haven’t really done a lot of personal projects, so I saw this as a unique opportunity. I’m using it as a way to learn more about TS/JS, Firebase, the math behind error correcting codes, and the web in general.

I’m really excited about this even though I feel it’s a bit beyond my current abilities and may take awhile to complete. Seeing myself make small amounts of progress is exhilarating! :)


👤 RMPR
I'm working on an automation app https://github.com/rmpr/atbswp

👤 lpaone
Researching and learning more about fuel cells, hydrogen, and the "hydrogen economy". Planning to start a company in this industry sometime in the next few years. I am trying to gain a better understanding of the market and current technology + limitations so that I can start working on solving the fundamental barriers to bringing my ideas to market.

Coming from a software background it is really fun to learn about something completely different and new!


👤 rozenmd
I'm continuing to build PerfBeacon - https://PerfBeacon.com - an automated alternative to manually running Google Lighthouse tests.

Background: I couldn't find a service that could tell me if the latest deploy of my web app would make it slower, so I decided to build it. Since getting started I've become aware of several competitors, but I enjoy solving problems in this space.


👤 robotichead
I am writing my own project management system - currently working hard to bring it out of alpha into beta over the next week. It is called NearBeach

Demo - https://demo.nearbeach.org Site - https://nearbeach.org

Any feedback will be greatly appreciated. I am hoping to update the demo site in the next few days with a more stable version


👤 saadatq
I’m working on a platform (Distill) to learn people learn more effectively (one place to gather blog posts, articles, podcasts, webinars etc), and share learnings with your team. If Reddit, Genius and Pocket had a baby, this would be it.

https://distillforteams.com

Pricing model ala Github - open learning plans are free, per user pricing for private/team knowledge repos.

Let me know if you want to take it for a spin.


👤 DrNuke
Revising materials for already out and incoming booklets at https://www.tenproblems.com : the pandemic made about 1/3 of my references obsolete. Also starting with the SaaS skeleton of my Materials Informatics consultancy for http://www.cudmit.com ... all in all, busier now than one month ago.

👤 boraoztunc
I'm working on a remote working website; Remote Jobs Center https://remotejobs.center

As the virus spreads, remote working gaining its well-deserved attention. From remote jobs listings to digital collaboration tools, profiles and admin panels both for candidates and employers, creating them a space for communication, following, shortlisting and starting a healthy hiring process.


👤 silverdrake11
Coronavirus tracker in the US. A plot updating every few hours summarizing cases confirmed / state population. https://laughing-villani-877af6.netlify.com/ https://github.com/silverdrake11/covid_rates_per_capita

👤 matlin
I'm working on a CLI to download and index from any API like Spotify, Gmail, etc. It puts all of your data in a single database that you can query. There currently aren't many integrations but it's really easy to make plugins to share new data sources, queries, etc. Feel free to make a PR!

Code: https://github.com/aspen-cloud/aspen-cli


👤 jcelerier
Mostly trying to improve https://ossia.io, a sequencer for all kind of media and interactive art :)

👤 foxhop
I'm continuing work on my backyard food forest, great exercise, food for my family, beautiful to look at and be in, and safe for physical distancing.

I'm also working on "MakePostSell" a shop platform for selling digital downloads.

My wife who is a certified teacher is my first "customer" dog fooding the service: you may check it out her shop here:

https://shop.printablepromots.com


👤 jonahlibrach
I'm building Sciugo, which will help COVID-19 researchers share data and find relevant results.

http://sciugo.com/ gives biomedical researchers a repository to store and share their research.

The research is formatted in a way that emphasizes reproducibility and reusability by other researchers.

The site is being built for general biomedical research and its especially important during the current outbreak!


👤 bogdanu
I'm working on a DiC library[1] for TypeScript that supports autowiring interfaces, array of types and generics without decorators by leveraging typescript's compiler API.

To be more exact, it visits the entire project's AST and generates mapping code (creates an AST that is outputed by the compiler to valid ts/js).

1. https://github.com/manole-ts/ana


👤 nickswan
I have been working on https://SEOTesting.com and released it on Friday. It’s a tool to help run SEO Tests to see whether your page and site changes are improving your rankings in Google. I’ve decided to make it free for the next 3(+) months while Corona Virus is going on as it’s one of the ways I can help so many people and businesses struggling with the impact.

👤 DanHulton
I'm working on a Javascript SaaS Starter Kit. Every time I start a new SaaS app, there's mountains of boilerplate I have to write, and I always skip out on some of it to get to the business logic and regret it later.

I figured, if I'm doing that for myself every time, I can do it once more and do it RIGHT, and then sell that to others in the same boat.

https://nodewood.com/


👤 geophile
Marcel: A modern shell. https://github.com/geophile/marcel

👤 mess110
Wrapper around three.js to help me prototypoe games https://github.com/mess110/vrum

also a few games. here is one I made using my engine during ludum dare: http://mess110.github.io/html-games/ld/040/index.html


👤 42droids
Working on https://www.yuzumetrix.com a platform for Content Creators and Brands and Agencies. Agencies can create campaigns and invite Creators. Once the Creators finished the work they can create a Campaign Report which includes each social media posts and Campaign metrics, RoI, etc. It’s in Beta right now but planning on launching V1 in about a month.

👤 PeterStuer
(1) Careteam & services coordination platform for elderly living in full care homes, assisted living homes or in 'virtual' care at home.

(2) Exploratory platform looking into 'cross silo' team coordination workflows and data sharing for healthcare workers and social services based on HL7 FHIR for preventive healthcare and post-intervention at home recovery care.

Both of these initiatives started long before COVID-19 was in the dictionary.


👤 messutied
I’m working on a tool that allows you to build newsletters from external sources like static blog posts (Gatsby, Hugo, Jekyll), Shopify products, Airtable data, and more.

https://postbear.io

Basically providing you with a browsable “gallery” of data items from which you can filter, select and customize in order to assemble your newsletter avoiding repetitive copy/paste and styling.

Feedback is welcome :)


👤 themodelplumber
I've published a new productivity method I call Task BATL:

https://www.friendlyskies.net/intj/the-balance-first-approac...

It's helped me personally avoid a lot of overwork issues during the pandemic, and so far the feedback on it has been pretty good...I still have lots of new modules to publish as well.


👤 ParanoidShroom
Reverse image search for dirty XTC: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=be.harmreducti...

Custom Android tablet with speech to text: getting my deaf grandmother out of social isolation.

Converting an old school moped to an electric high performance version: On hold due to COVID-19 ...


👤 shadowfaxRodeo
I've been trying to start a movement to get quarantined folks to divest from fossil fuels, sign up to climate pressure groups, and register to vote.

The idea being we have all this time on our hands, time we can use to fight the other global catastrophe that's unfolding — the climate crisis.

https://greenquarantine.org/

If anyone wants to chip in and help, please let me know!


👤 haxel
I'm building a way to roughly (and simply) track your own viral risk in real-time and compare it with others.

https://howfunctional.com/viral-risk

Android-only right now. Precision is not the intention. Getting the ball rolling is.

The tracker is currently in prototype form so it may look or act a bit odd, not least because I quickly extended an existing platform.


👤 gabergg
I run an online collaborative songwriting platform (https://songcraft.io). With the quarantine, I'm going to be pushing to launch a matchmaking system for songwriters looking for collaborators. I've already heard from a bunch of people who are looking for new ways to collaborate on music.

If you're in this space at all, I'd love to chat!


👤 thebouv
Looking for something to do myself, actually.

I recently built https://www.warcache.com to save paint recipes and army lists for wargaming, or print out sheets of proxy cards for Underworlds.

It was fun to build, but kinda stuck thinking of what to add.

If anyone out there has a Python/Flask project they need help on, let me know. Stuck in the house, might as well help some projects.


👤 lnenad
I am building https://mockadillo.com. So many times I have had to write mock servers and have to have friction with colleagues when they're lagging behind (or when I am lagging behind) on development of dependent features. It's now a 5 second thing to bring up a mock of the response and keep working decoupled from annoyances.

👤 lukaszkups
Hmn where to start?

1. Static site generator

2. Table component for vue.js that actually deliver solutions for common use cases I had in my projects lately but had to customize existing solutions to achieve what I needed.

3. Live tile pure js library (like from Windows phone OS) - just for fun

4. Form generator based on provided json structure for vue.js projects.

5. I occasionally write random tech articles on my website and also run weekly lifelog/devlog since the beginning of this year.


👤 failingGrace
I'm working on a bulletin board for people to post and manage speed running bounties. Right now speed runners and fans post and publicise bounties, to explore bugs or beat times, ad-hoc on a variety of platforms. Hopefully people will find a central place to store and talk about these bounties useful. Its still in the prototyping stage but hope to roll it out during my current 2 week self-isolation!

👤 islandert
I'm working on a python script that downloads web serials as ebooks. It's set up to check if a new chapter has been posted, and if there's a new chapter that finishes a book, it outputs the book as an epub so I can read offline.

To add a new story, I just write a function that takes a webpage and returns the next link and chapter content. It's low enough overhead that I can easily add new stories.


👤 egonzalesevans
I'm working with a group of volunteers to a develop a map that helps folks find COVID-19 testing sites and get relevant information: https://findcovidtesting.com & https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22650725

👤 dmitshur
Converting a simple issue tracker written in Go to run completely in the frontend [1], so that it’s easier and faster to iterate on its development at the cost of initial page load.

[1]: https://github.com/shurcooL/home/compare/dev

That said, I don’t think I have any additional time due to quarantine.


👤 pawurb
https://abot.app/ . I've noticed an increased number of sign-ups as more companies are going remote. I've also decided to give it away for free for educational purposes. Already a couple of university teachers are using it to facilitate and encourage asking of "stupid" questions during online classes.

👤 new_here
Building a developer community called Able - https://able.bio/

Been focussing on the markdown editor and finishing up some new data portability (easy import / export of posts) over the last couple of days.

You can try out the editor here: https://able.bio/new

Would appreciate any feedback.


👤 defied
I’m working on HeadlessTesting.com - launched last month.

It is a grid of browsers; currently Chrome, Firefox and Edge, which can be used to run Puppeteer and Playwright scripts.

Your existing Puppeteer and Playwright scripts can be easily configured to connect to our grid. The advantage for the user is scalability, no maintenance and setup of infrastructure and support.

Usecases include generating PDFs and screenshot and headless browser testing.


👤 chickahoona
I am working on my password manager's android app. Implementing Android's autofill capability. Alot of fighting with flutter, android, kotlin, ... The password manager is Psono (https://psono.com) if someone wants to know. I built it myself because a couple of years ago when I started good alternatives did not exist.

👤 ChrisHardman29
I'm building a community for knowledge sharing (www.sivv.io). People use this to share and discover short summaries of useful ideas, knowledge or advice that they come across in the books, articles, podcasts etc that they consume. This allows members to learn more while actually reading less. You can sign-up to the beta version at www.sivv.io - any feedback would be very much appreciated!

👤 stridera
I've been working for a while now to get my PC to play the game Robotron directly on the xbox360. Tried multiple reinforcement techniques (DQN, DDQN, Etc) and I haven't had any luck. Converting it over to work with Rainbow now. Lets hope. https://github.com/stridera/robotron

👤 taf2
Figuring out how to wire a raspberry pi to solar with battery and a Arduino to power it off at night and on in the morning. Just figuring out how to use a relay to control power to the pi. Figured out how to program the Arduino that was fun having it toggle an led on and off. Keep burning myself with the soldering iron and maybe next I should learn about breadboards... electronics are fun

👤 CrackpotGonzo
This or That, simple surveying over SMS.

The main idea was to make it super simple to survey random people about anything. Right now you ask a question along with submitting two images and the app posts a survey to 50 random users on MTurk.

Would like to expand features down the line to expand number of survey respondents and adding filtering etc.

Site: https://thisorthat.ai


👤 danjac
My own small-community social site (demo at https://demo.localhub.social, source at https://gitlab.com/danjac/localhub/). I have an instance for family stuff and as a private weblog/photo gallery.

👤 rabuse
I've been working on a bunch of car repairs that I've been putting off. I've found it really enjoyable working on the fixes myself.

👤 raja_senapati
I am working on enhancing my pet project called bootman. It basically uses Redhat byteman to inject code at run-time in a Springboot application and exposed via swagger endpoint, taking care of differences due to java version specific quirks. https://github.com/rajasenapati/bootman

👤 danfang
I've been working on an ad-free social network and group chat app that puts the focus back on the people who matter most to us -- family and close friends. It combines a lot of features I personally want to see in a social app - messaging, photo sharing, event planning, and more.

Check it out at https://get.thread-app.com


👤 shireboy
I'm working on customers' projects mostly. One personal project I'm excited about - I'm writing a childrens book about space. I plan for it to teach very young kids concepts like "space isn't just about going high, it's about going _fast_", and possibly why many rockets have two stages. Would love to hear some other concepts it should teach!

👤 ssimono
I am building Freecount (https://github.com/ssimono/freecount) a little progressive web app to track expenses in a common pool (like a trip, a shared housing etc). It is meant to be entirely free and open source, without server to deploy, app to install nor account to create

👤 d21d3q
Car rear dashcam, based rpi zero w with camera and gps. Device is going to detect idiots on highway driving too close (hanging on bumper in urge to overtake), save video and upload it automatically (not decided yet where) when parked in home wifi range. Distance between cars can be estimated from distance between lights. GPS for ignoring traffic jam (speed), and video overlay.

👤 grinnick
I'm working on an open source chat bot for Helm. https://github.com/larderdev/kubewise

It posts a message in your team chat when someone installs, upgrades or uninstalls a Helm chart from your Kubernetes cluster.

It's the first code I've written in a long time and I'm really enjoying it.


👤 toxicFork
I'm working on a little vocabulary helper app. As I'm reading books I run into words that I don't really understand so I want to keep track of them easily. I have a screen that allows me to enter a word and it looks up definitions automatically and allows me to add them to a list for now. When I get a bit more time I will add a review stage, a bit like anki.

👤 illuminated
Working on an app that enhances communication and collaboration within a building, among its tenants, or within a neighborhood. Beside the obvious "project planning" for the chores around the building it also boosts "good behavior" among the neighborhood. Finishing the mobile part in the next few days, then dealing for a while with the server setup...

👤 raymi
Having worked on a designer to create and share templates for Würfelmosaik, which is a physical game for kindergarten kids where they have to lay patterns with wooden cubes that have different colors and patterns on each side.

Currently only available in German, but it should be pretty much self-explanatory.

https://wuerfelmosaik.ch


👤 Hashimm
I am working on social media marketing and trying to get user feedback for my IOS App. Keyword plus, which is an alternative to Google Trend and SEMRush but for Iphone.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/keyword-plus-seo-research/id14...


👤 firefoxd
We are building a community of drivers at https://ottomon.net.

When a good part of the US population lives paycheck to paycheck, a single parking ticket can impact their finances. This summer, we will offer a kind of insurance for parking tickets (crowd sourced). Pay a small monthly fee, and we pay for your all tickets.


👤 JaggedJax
I just finished up the MVP for my small side project, BuyALabel, https://www.buyalabel.com

I wanted to make it dead simple to print a shipping label in seconds without having to create an account like you do everywhere else.

It's USA only for now, but noe that it's actually launched I can start making some improvements.



👤 micimize
I did my first graphql/flutter/dart development live coding session today: https://youtu.be/TnTOksZ3lUs

My intent is to stream development of both the libraries I develop/contribute to (graphql_flutter, built_graphql, gql), as well as complete examples that I will deploy and release


👤 stexx
Im working on a chrome extension which list your current gists in a chrome dev panel.

You can modify the code in the panel and copy/execute code console.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/gist-devtool-explo...


👤 0mbre
Working on applying machine learning to source code to increase code maintainability. It started with a semantic search engine for Javascript codebases: https://codecue.com/ and now working on the accompanying code analysis tool that would guarantee efficient searchability of the code

👤 RagnarAzru
I am working on a reminder app to help with power users.

What features would you like to see in a iOS and Apple Watch reminder app.

Currently contemplated use-cases:

  * Set schedule created with on-click (multiple reminders)
  * soft confirm before next time
  * escalating reminders if you don’t confirm
If you have any use-cases, suggestions or questions email me at: ragnar.azru@gmail.com

👤 duxup
Playing with firebase / react and just making an allowance tracking app for myself / kids.

Nothing amazing, but I'm a noob so it is fun.


👤 jamesgt
I'm working on a JS lib that makes zones in an overlay to any HTML element. With two modes (edit and view) you'll be able to draw and store polygons without coding and then use them somewhere else. Like in your home automation's floorplan where you want to handle actions by just clicking to your night stand light, or zoom into a room, etc.

👤 Inversechi
Although I haven't touched it for a few weeks I was working on reverse engineering our smart home heating system so that I can integrate it into Home Assistant. Managed to get the auth with their remote systems done and building out the web socket based event bus.

Not sure if I'll ever be able to share it since it feels like this lives in the grey zone legally.


👤 dot
I'm working on a data-centric site that tracks COVID-19 cases across the world. You won't find any ads, loading screens or slow maps and it's easy to navigate on mobile: https://coronanumbers.com

Next step is adding more data (testing rate, state/county specific numbers, etc.)


👤 mathnmusic
I have been building learnawesome.org for past few months as an open-source, hobby project. The idea is to organize high-quality, multi-media learning resources across topics and formats, so that searches like this become possible:

Show me videos about machine learning which are no more than 30 minutes long, are entertaining and are recommended by academics.


👤 maverick2007
Nothing super innovative, just working on some forum software to power a ring of forums I'm building around my love of roller coasters and theme parks. If by some chance you're interested, the first site in the ring is up (minus forum) at https://norcalthrills.com

👤 madisvain
Working on a offline-first Invoicing app for freelancers & small businesses. Built to be cross-platform with Electron & react.

https://upcount.app https://github.com/madisvain/upcount


👤 AlAtrice
I'm working on a modern and friendly cron/job scheduler with centralized execution/logging/monitoring.

It is combination of a web app which controls cron agents in other servers.

It is somewhat between your OS's job scheduling system (*nix cron/Windows Task Scheduler) and the very sophisticated workflow systems like Apache Airflow or Netflix Conductor.


👤 blakbelt78
I’ve been building an email newsletter with stock market indicators like futures, premarket data and historical performance going from one day up to ten years of all the major indexes like S&P 500, Nasdaq and Dow Jones.

The idea is to send an email every morning before the markets open so I can plan my day and decide if it’s time to buy, sell or hunker down.


👤 CatsAreCool
I'm working on https://mathlore.org (previously called mathpendium). A site for creating a community driven collection mathematical theorems, definitions, axioms, and conjectures to allow people to share new and existing discoveries and explore what has been discovered.

👤 gabrielaldea
Alonside with my colleagues we're working on a collaborative visual storytelling project. We plan to sell the works and donate money to NGOs that fight coronavirus these days in our city.

More on our FB Page: https://www.facebook.com/komiti.media/


👤 slugiscool99
I'm working on building a service that provides on-demand customer support for your SaaS app, e-commerce store, or anything else you can think of. It uses your existing documentation and will forward you things you need to see, like bug reports.

https://forefront.support/


👤 eruci
Quarantine or not, I'm working exactly the same as before on [3geonames.org](https://3geonames.org) a 3d location encoding scheme and [geocode.xyz](https://geocode.xyz) a geoparser / geocoder.

👤 victorNicollet
I started working on a C# library that provides LINQ features for Span : https://github.com/VictorNicollet/NoAlloq

I suppose it's a bit like adding a copy-paste app to iOS, only for iOS to finally introduce that feature the next year.


👤 sfrese
I'm working on a REST API generator for small app projects that I've been building for a couple of months now: https://stackprint.io

My tasks for the coming days are extending the permission configuration and looking into generating fully typed client code for generated APIs :)


👤 insiderq
I'm working on an NFT Issuance and marketplace platform. Right now we've getting a steady traction from Twitter Crypto Art community. If you always wanted to have a blockchain collectible i encourage you to create and sell your first one at http://rarible.com

👤 najre
I am currently developing an application for the smart bike trainer; similar to Zwift you can do workouts, aimed on power, cadence or heart rate.

You can also create and share workouts made out of segments with friends. It will also have a Chrome plugin that enables you to lay your live statistics on top of let's say Youtube or Netflix.

Or at least that is the idea ;-)


👤 rikkipitt
I'm putting a bit more time than usual into refining Paced Email: https://www.paced.email

Things I'm aiming to achieve during this downtime include setting up some onboarding emails, thinking about team functionality and figuring out the best way to upgrade the power users!

Help appreciated!


👤 jakecodes
It really bothers me that current password managers will never be used by the ones we love, who probably need them just as much if not more. I'm building "a password manager for everyone." In hopes that I can get my dad, wife and everyone else I love to be safe online.

It's still a WIP. But I hope to release it in the next few weeks.


👤 tromp
I'm exploring a lambda calculus based variant of the Busy Beaver function at https://mathoverflow.net/questions/353514/whats-the-smallest...

👤 anasbarg
I’m working on a domain-specific language for building GraphQL APIs in no time.

I’m building this because I think that building APIs is unnecessarily tedious and I wanted to he able to iterate on ideas faster.

It’s called Pragma (https://pragmalang.com). I would really appreciate any feedback.


👤 karateka
Not building anything exciting, just a basic app for tracking my kata reps[1]. It's a tool I've wanted for a while and it's giving me a chance to play around with Cordova and Android.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karate_kata


👤 nicholast
I am building a platform to prepare tabular data for machine learning. It's a python library that has options for automated numerical encoding, and can also serve as a platform for feature engineering. It's pretty cool you should check it out.

https://www.automunge.com


👤 tfolbrecht
Working on a sort of universal dock for usb mass storage devices. It's a little linux box wallwart, udev rule, fstab, systemd unit config generator that runs scripts when the device is plugged in.

I've used this pattern for automating stuff with my Point and Shoot Camera and Kindle. Attempting to make it simple and accessible to non techies


👤 malczak
Free time I'm currently spending on a super simple date to/since counter: web: https://timerto.xyz github: https://github.com/malczak/timerto.xyz

👤 jevans
I'm writing about helping cats run a farm by building a website. The goal is to teach kids and whimsical adults some basic web development skills using Ruby on Rails. I hope to compile and expand the blog posts into a book. https://rubycat.farm/

👤 vhpoet
I'm working on

https://readthistwice.com

A book recommendation website (side project) where I compile verified book recommendations from the leaders in their fields. The product was #1 on Product Hunt a few days ago. Focusing on this really helps me stay sane with this quarantine thing.


👤 kimikelku
I'm building an web app that presents information of your pc, like temperature, memory and power usage and so on. The app will run in a raspberry, with a small screen attach to it, inside the pc cabinet. Right now the proccess to make it run is a little confusing, so i'm trying to make as simple as possible to run it.

👤 microtherion
An online Jazz lead sheet editor: https://woodshed.in

👤 jdbiggs
I made http://PodHound.co to help us find better podcasts. It's currently transcribing about 3000 individual podcasts and will match podcasts based on semantic analysis. Any advice on the best services to use is welcome. I'm currently just using AWS.

👤 SIRHAMY
Working on some creative coding projects that I've been putting off for the last few years. Latest one I've released is https://coronation.xyz/ - a visualization of the spread of coronavirus around the world, which I built with threejs

👤 maxired
I have been working on a fork of jitsi video conference web client, aka meet, to add features dedicated to Agile teams. So far added Poker Planning and post-its.

Demo available on https://jitsi.retrolution.co/ (new features are visible in the chat section)


👤 SergheiM
Do you often feel in need of a fun and impactful idea for a side project? As a student I do need ideas+guidance. I was thinking about making a platform to connect organizations/open source with developers (esp. junior) and provide them with meaningful projects or challenges. This could be a win-win, what do you think?

👤 block_dagger
Im working on a micro gratitude system (“karma bot”) for Slack with other chat platforms on the way. See karmachest.com.

👤 heidtn
Making a generative strength to weight optimizer for 3D printed objects. It's been something I've wanted to try for a while and has been an excellent experience in learning about FEM and mesh generation.

There's been some work on it in the past, but mostly papers or paid apps. I wanted to make something open source and free.


👤 thisBrian
I am working on webby, an app for neatly organising your social media into collections.

Instead of only relying on algorithms, you can group and keep tabs on exactly what you want. [1]

Currently supports reddit/YouTube. I hope to release an MVP soon.

1: https://streamable.com/hlrye


👤 zchwyng
I'm working on a React Native app showcasing skateparks and skate spots around the world. Only available on App Store so far. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/shinner/id1476836516

👤 Shorn
With all the "we care about you" emails being flung around because the current happenings, it's motivated me to work on implementing "single click" blocking of burner addresses for my mail forwarding service - https://kopi.cloud

👤 Avi-D-coder
A visual debugger for Haskell, that will graph data structures, sharing, and laziness as data is updated and then GCed.

👤 cwaffles
I'm working a simple online faxing service[0] that doesn't ask for your email, and sends faxing quickly. Not free, but 0.20/page. Still working on converting the in memory db to sqlite. Feedback would be great.

[0] https://faxtail.com/


👤 rpastuszak
My girlfriend broke a toe so I made a game about it: https://reddit.com/r/iosgaming/comments/f4bkov/my_girlfriend...

👤 codingunicorn
I am working on https://dev.events – an ad-free, open-source listing of developer conferences, meet-ups, and training.

I missed a listing with minimalist design, iCal support, RSS feeds, so I built it myself. You even get sweet karma points for contributing events :)


👤 colinprince
I'm making a French verb practice app, sort of like flashcards but more fun. It's called Verbiage.

https://colinprince.com/promo.html

Any French language learners, hit me up and I can add you to Testflight, also apk for Android is available too.

Email in bio. Thanks!


👤 semireg
A second child (due May 25) and adding “sheets of labels” support to Label LIVE (www.label.live). Basically, rendering dynamic text and barcodes to a PDF in the format of Avery, ULINE, etc. The epitome of Microsoft Office mail merge / template hell. Label LIVE is an Electron app I created almost two years ago.

👤 gatleon
i'm working on an auth tool for developers. it's a crowded space. i'm differentiating my tool by focusing very very strongly on convention over configuration. it won't be nearly as configurable as services like auth0 but it should be much more approachable for early-in-their-careers developers.

👤 spossy
Working on https://www.tricoda.com/ - Multi-cloud management tool that organizes all your providers servers into a single pane of glass.

Idea came about from having my own servers across so many providers and wanting to make it easier to manage.


👤 antropofagico
I’m working on a reader app for newsletters (kind of like what Google Reader was). The idea is to remove these things from the mail box and keep it organized in the app.

I’m also planning to add email address obfuscation, similar to what sign-in with Apple provides. That should make it easy to forever unsubscribe from newsletters.


👤 escot
An app to donate and volunteer as a friend group https://www.givecrew.org/

You start a 'crew' of friends, everyone pitches in $x amount each month to a communal fund, and you donate it together. You can also organize volunteer events.


👤 emrehan
I’m building a platform to connect volunteers with those in need during this global pandemic.

It should go live in a few days on https://pandemicvolunteers.org

It will start with “Hospital Support Staff” working under nurses formed from SARS-CoV-2 immune volunteers.


👤 errozero
I'm rebuilding my Acid Machine web based synth + drum machine app using Vue instead of jQuery and handlebars as it is now. Adding some new features whilst i'm there and making it work on tablets.

I have also been working on a more feature complete web based daw type system but that's been on and off for years.


👤 paulgrimes1
https://tryelevator.com - a platform where people get paid for companies to connect with them. Currently open in Australia, looking for US-based partners to push it there.

In the current market situation we’re getting a good few people coming on board.


👤 flipp
Pathi (https://www.pathiapp.org/), which is a free app that connects people who really need someone to talk to with volunteer listeners who want to help.

We are recruiting listeners, and looking for someone to help build an Android version!


👤 sitkack
Making hand sanitizer with Everclear, folding masks with shop towels and burning down the neighborhood playground.

👤 creimers
I'm working on a webapp that enables people to include non-smart (i.e. pdf or paper based) data about their carbon footprint into https://north-app.com/.

The alpha version is available here: outsmart.superservice-international.com/


👤 vjeux
Working on https://excalidraw.com/ a whiteboarding tool with hand-drawn like feel. We just added live collaboration support recently to help with architecture brainstorm and interviews while everyone is working remotely.

👤 patrick91
I'm working on porting https://pycon.it from Gatsby to Next.JS, unfortunately, it turned out Gatsby is not a good fit for our use case.

Tomorrow I'll probably work on Strawberry a GraphQL library for Python, I've been slacking a bit on it!


👤 DLarsen
I'm working on https://spendlight.com a SMS-powered spending journal.

With all the uncertainty and risk to our personal finances, it seems fitting to work on a project that will (worst case) help me buckle down and improve my spending habits.


👤 mohit_agg
I and a friend are validating an idea: A product to track your (and competitor) Shopify app ranking and reviews. If you'd like to help, please fill this survey. It will only take 2 minutes. Thanks in advance!

https://bit.ly/2Uy82md


👤 alex-wallish
I'm working on a website for founders and VC's to meet through games. The website is https://www.matchbox.vc and so far it has had some moderate success. Turns out lots of founders and VC's really like Fortnite.

👤 sudoit
I'm building a iOS app that lets you build native iOS apps and test without compiling. Exports to Swift code. Works pretty well so far. https://testflight.apple.com/join/zElad2Q2

👤 nickelbob
I'm working on https://lazysurfer.app - it's an app that helps surfers dial in the exact conditions they prefer at their breaks. It's been a great way to learn some react native and also explore meterology.

👤 tixocloud
I’m working on building monitoring and analytics for machine learning (visualizing patterns of data around the data pipeline and model itself).

You’d be able to track long term and short term data distribution changes so you have an idea of when your model could be underperforming and will require retraining.


👤 mfolaron
I am working on an open source project management system. Something to replace Asana or Jira. A tool that can be installed quickly and runs in almost any environment.

https://github.com/leantime/leantime


👤 dshanahan
Building https://dopebrands.fyi - highlighting great new dtc ecommerce brands, and initially focusing on the smaller end of the market to help encourage shoppers to discover them and try them out. Launching next week!

👤 garysieling
DevOps work for the Penn CHIME project (hospital capacity planning tool)

https://predictivehealthcare.pennmedicine.org/2020/03/14/acc...


👤 dewey
I'm working on website that's like Last.fm or Trakt.tv but for podcasts. I'm building it together with a friend as we both wanted to play around with Rails, so far it's going pretty well and we hope to be mostly ready to ship a first version in the next 2 months.

👤 brlewis
I'm spending some more time on https://en.howtruthful.com/ which is for creating trees of arguments and evidence. I've also been thinking about using deno for multiplayer text adventures.

👤 chrisfrantz
I’m working on ga-insights.com

Businesses are seeing insane volatility right now and we provide real-time alerts and reports for everything from revenue spikes to page speed lag to conversion rate drops from certain browsers.

If you have a Google Analytics tag on your site, you can set up the platform in a few clicks.


👤 Lichtso
Distributed version control for a graph database.

Not just serializing the graph and putting that in a DVCS, but an actual graph based DVCS which manages graphs (reflectively).

https://github.com/Symatem/SymatemJS


👤 gnclmorais
Small notes/link manager that will be a standalone page and, hopefully, a browser extension. Sometimes I find myself hoping I could have a list of the links/documents I’m working on at the moment on my New Tab page, so I’m making one. It’s mostly a reason to learn Elm.

👤 jianzong
I am working on a personal finance App for iOS that help you to manage assets easily.

Features:

- Dead easy to book keeping

- Plain text export

- Focus on assets management

- Support many iOS platform only features

Currently this is Chinese only but I am looking to support English as well: https://xxz.jakehao.com


👤 johnxie
We are a distributed team working on Taskade (https://taskade.com/new), a real-time organization and collaboration tool for remote teams.

Our entire team is working from home now given the coronavirus situation.


👤 heycesr
I'm working on Typehut, a super-simple publishing platform for blogs, newsletters, changelogs, devlogs, etc.

Currently adding support for private sites and fully custom templates, to enable more use cases.

https://typehut.com/


👤 tttp
We are working on a petition tool (more broadly an online action tool, think emailing or calling your representatives before a vote)

Https://proca.foundation

It's as well a pretext to learn react, graphql and elixir, all opensource, feel free to join and contribute ;)

Github.com/TechToThePeople/proca


👤 monokai_nl
Working on https://mybrandnewlogo.com — an automatic logo generator. Going great at the moment, and lots of areas to grow. Keeps it interesting from a design & development perspective as well.

👤 alde
I'm working on PgTyped, a code generator that makes it possible to use inline SQL in TypeScript code with guaranteed type-safety. https://github.com/adelsz/pgtyped

👤 bbernhard90
For me it's mostly fitness (as all the gyms are now closed in Austria, I've to become creative) and working on ImageMonkey - a public open source image dataset. (https://imagemonkey.io)

👤 dbecks
I just finished re-writing my little app, HiFutureSelf, from ObjC to Swift. It was extremely satisfying to remove 10-year-old code.

The original codebase was written for iOS 4. Feels like a lifetime ago.

https://hifutureself.com


👤 eberyvody
building a collaborative product management tool, called co-op-os. the core idea is to standardize and codify a lot of the ceremonies teams run to build alignment around problems, decide on solutions, and actually ship features that benefit customers. the most effective teams i've worked on didn't have one person building out a master sprint plan, but had a bunch of individual contributors coming up with ideas for optimizing a goal, getting another smart person to sign off, then building it. this is an attempt to standardize that more distributed planning/operating model in a scalable way.

feedback more than welcome!

https://www.co-op-os.com/


👤 parthi
Working on https://acrossapp.com for the past 3 weeks. Built a side project when everyone started WFH: https://hallway.chat

👤 NoenDex
I'm finalizing script engine for attaching network shares during windows session user log on. MS SysAdmins will love it: https://github.com/NoenDex/Hikari

👤 misterbrian
earlier this year I was working on a project called emojirama.io for building interactive stories with emoji. I started it as a way to learn and practice lots of different things: Vuex patterns, PWA, Quasar Framework, Django Rest Framework, Social Authentication, path-finding algorithms, web sockets with Django channels and other random things. I took a break from working on this recently but hopefully will revisit it soon.

It is currently deployed on https://emojirama.io and all of the code is on GitLab here: https://gitlab.com/emojirama/game


👤 cordite
I am writing macros in Elixir to describe schemas mapping to IANA Considerations as objects and enumerations with accompanying references. My hope is to get it to where I can describe data and APIs that I can confidently map to IETF and other specifications.

👤 phemartin
I'm working on a tool that allows sharing documents as websites (https://magicdocs.co)

I built it because I think PDFs look awful on mobile and are boring (static). Would love to hear your thoughts :)


👤 mpurham
I'm building premium WordPress themes at https://radarthemes.com and occasionally writing at https://marcell.me

👤 mrdazm
I’ve got a couple things going with my transferable data store, Passbox (https://passbox.co):

- the final touches of a dead man switch feature - outlining a marketing/promotion plan for the app overall


👤 jevincrest
My partner and I are working on SendEnvelope — a website where you can mail a letter online with just a few clicks :)

You can follow our progress @ https://www.sendenvelope.com/blog


👤 perezperret
A simple expense tracker (https://pocketpatch.io). I built it for personal use when my spreadsheet just wasn't cutting it anymore. I am now trying to turn it into a small product.

👤 philipskinner
I've been working on a lowish code development platform that provides a standards based approach, and doesn't preclude the inclusion of third party systems or self developed applications.

It seems to be going well, I should be able to release a first version soon.


👤 nojvek
I’m building https://boomadmin.com. It’s like AirTable UI but for relational databases like MySQL.

Giving databases easy to use spreadsheet UI so they can be easily used as a content management system.


👤 jointpdf
Small potatoes, but last week I started working through Project Euler problems as a soothing distraction. A good number of #1-50 are solvable as nice Python one-liners.

I’m getting bored of prime number puzzles though, so next up is dabbling in generative art and music.


👤 thedoods
Working on a simple newsletters library https://tuepe.com So far collected more than 50.000 newsletters. Just adding the feature for competitors newsletter marketing activity tracking.

👤 j_z_reeves
Working on creating a SaaS app to help and facilitate customer demos. It's not impressive but I have never shipped an actual app or tried monetizing something, so I'll start with this.

Along with creating the app, I'm learning how to design it with figma.


👤 znpy
I am learning some foundational skills that I've always lacked or that I find interesting. Things like ldap, DNS (I'm reading DNS&bind).

I'm (finally) setting up a gitlab instance at home so that I can finally manage my (small) infra via gitlab-ci.


👤 ZNick1982
I am working on REST API prototyping tool (https://fake.rest) The goal is to make a quick REST API prototypes for web, IoT, and mobile applications for the testing of ideas.

Any feedback appreciated.


👤 adaline
I'm making a carbon fiber bicycle using 3D printed tools, you can see the process so far here: https://www.instagram.com/vapourcycles/

👤 jives
I'm working on the programmable outliner I've always wanted.

* User-defined node types * Node properties * Customizable node display & styling * Programmable hooks for various events * Links between nodes * Dynamic "query" nodes

Starting with a web interface.


👤 babuskov
Making a big free update to my game Son of a Witch. So all the players who already bought my game in the past few years have something new to play:

https://sonofawitchgame.com/


👤 phumbe
I've been working on a chat web app for the past few months. Its defining feature is that it reimagines the way in which conversations flow, allowing them to be really nonlinear.

It's almost ready for a ShowHN. I just have to get the websockets working!


👤 leeoniya
prototyping scatter support for uPlot: https://github.com/leeoniya/uPlot

discussion: https://github.com/leeoniya/uPlot/issues/107

also helping mom set herself up for continuing to teach Russian remotely via Zoom video, audio, screen-share + bi-directional android tablet control (via ADB debugging & https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy)


👤 escot
https://www.friscoteca.com/

A place to share my and my wife's favorite music via youtube videos. It's typically house, dance, funk & disco old and modern.


👤 mulholio
Learning haskell, getting some writing done, trying out some hacking/info security.

👤 thom
I'm working on chess analytics! Lots of interesting tools for statistical analysis of openings and other potentially useful things for tournament prep. Writing it as a Clojure library but it includes its own engine just for kicks.

👤 mmq
Working on Polyaxon (https://github.com/polyaxon/polyaxon), an open-source machine learning experimentation and automation tool.

👤 bengebre
Detecting moving objects (asteroids, TNOs) in TESS data:

https://www.benengebreth.org/dynamic-sky/TESS/sedna/


👤 gonza
Getting into macOS development and Swift. Working on a small menu bar app on weekends: https://github.com/grdnrt/MenuBarTimer

👤 winrid
Working on FastComments and TDWorld. Links in my profile if you're really interested. Three months in and have some customers and revenue passes operating costs now. Mostly working on them on Sundays and an hour or so at night.

👤 rahulrajpl
I have build a Hans Rosling styled analytics on Covid19 India data. http://randomwalk.in/covid19India/bubble/

👤 Aeolun
I’m currently working on a project that started 1.5 years ago and has been consuming most, if not all, of my time outside of my day job.

It’s raising a child, and it’s left absolutely zero time and motivation to do anything else (I love it though).


👤 hestefisk
I’ve started to teach myself Swift and iOS development to prepare for a potential career change if unemployment happens. I need, however, an idea for an app. Any takers? The standard Apple app tutorial ideas are pretty horrendous.

👤 hatsunearu
Working on an open source light for photography and videography. Working mainly on the firmware now but the board layout still needs a bit of work and my school's shut down so all the resources I had got stripped from me. RIP

👤 anandchat
One of the problems I've noticed with AR games is that they don't interact with the real world meaningfully. I'm working on an API that can create levels for AR games that incorporate the environment into gameplay.

👤 tomaszs
I am working on a web tool to track numbers and count them. For example: smoken cigarettes, or eaten callories etc. The idea is to make it extremely easy to use. So that people can track progress of various things they are up to

👤 Minor49er
I'm rewriting a web crawler that I created a decade ago. Part of it is to see how much my development has changed. Another part is to create a general purpose crawler infrastructure that I can easily reuse for new projects.

👤 dr_j_
Still working on my interpreted programming language https://github.com/benhj/arrow and it’s still slow as fuck. Fun though :-)

👤 hvaoc
Centralized logging for development

Free centralized logging to be used during development which uses your browser as the data store (IndexedDB).

Features available

Live Streaming logs from multiple apps / tiers Complex Search (Mongo like queries) Views (Saved Search queries)


👤 aivisol
I happen to own couple of medium sized amateur telescopes and relatively cloudless and dark skies. I have started to convert them into remote observatories so other people can watch stars remotely. It is on early stage though.

👤 will_walker
I’m working on a sub irrigation planter (SIP) for succulents and small houseplants to reduce the need to water and problem of overwatering. Currently working on the case mold and working plaster mold for ceramic batch casting!

👤 jlevers
One thing I made last night as a result of a joke a friend made: https://getmesometp.com, a place to find where there's still toilet paper online :)

👤 codr7
Working on my programming language [0], currently in the middle of a major refactoring to add register allocation.

https://github.com/codr7/gfoo


👤 tumidpandora
I’m working on a tool that lets you create a professional self-learning chat bot with just one click. Check out Presbot.com

I built it to supplement a LinkedIn profile which is a more static representation of one’s skills and accomplishments.


👤 cygned
Reflecting on all my Go project I am trying to come up with a scalable and easy to maintain application structure that is not too much OOP (no hexagonal stuff) and easy to grasp. Lots of drawing and thinking ten steps ahead.

👤 moriquendi
WYSIWYG Editor for SwiftUI for iOS :) https://acrylapp.tech

Basically it’s the app where you can design and build app’s UI by drag & dropping real SwiftUI components.


👤 certera
Working on https://certera.io

Think of it as PKI for Let's Encrypt certificates. LE certs are great, but Certera is aiming to make it simpler, easier and more useful.


👤 bsmith0
https://braeden.xyz/favsnek

Snake in a Favicon (desktop only - arrow keys)

I know it's been done before, but I thought it was a fun project to throw together quickly.


👤 trenpixster
I'm making a game where you have to click a button as fast as you can. Just an excuse to explore new tech really :)

https://xn--smash-k014d1q.ws/


👤 kwent
I built a dating app for open-minded people, gender Neutral and for singles and couples. It's available and called Delycatel. https://delycate.com

👤 WolfOliver
I'm working on a writing application optimized for scientific articles like a bachelor thesis: https://www.monsterwriter.app/

👤 nhorob67
Putting the finishing touches on a side project that will enable two-way, threaded SMS with Help Scout and other help desk software.

https://relay-sms.com/


👤 elbear
I'm working on a desktop app that will allow me to manage my infrastructure assets.

By that I mean being able to create a new DigitalOcean Droplet or Space, but also have the app install PostgreSQL on a droplet and enable backups.


👤 EllipticCurve
I am currently writing my own compiler for a smaller language :)

This is my first real compiler and it's lots of fun!!! It's also my first time working with x86-64 assembler (compiler target).

I'll write a Show HN post when I finished it.


👤 safwan
I am building an Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tool which is going to be Open Source. It is very early stage now, just started yesterday so can not provide any link. I hope I can make a alpha release soon!

👤 soheil
I'm making a tool to create videos from podcasts. It transcribes the podcast audio and displays the text over an image as the video is played. [1]

https://0work.co


👤 gioscarab
I am working since 2010 on the PJON (Padded Jittering Operative Network) protocol: https://github.com/gioblu/PJON

👤 gpnt
I'm creating a multipage programable form builder. Example: https://p.evaluatly.com/psycho/anxiety

👤 stephenr
I already worked remotely, so it’s business as usual for me.

Edit: to expand, that means mostly client work, currently preparing/debugging/fixing for launch of their (client) second+third site using the same code base.


👤 astuary
I'm working on a tool for generating a webapp from an OpenAPI (swagger) spec describing your REST API. https://spireui.com/

👤 philip1209
I'm helping New Yorkers find restaurant still offering take-out (food, wine, cocktails, etc) during the shutdown: https://cellars.nyc

👤 postgrescompare
A schema comparison tool for PostgreSQL. Evenings and weekends for a while now https://www.postgrescompare.com

Soon to include data comparison.


👤 makeee
Been working on https://divjoy.com, a React codebase generator. Wrapping up database integration (can choose between Firestore or Mongo).

👤 swagasaurus-rex
Tree-shaped discussion board!

https://viz.chat/

Wanted a better way to layout reply-based social media sites. Please, post interesting programming related content!


👤 crobertsbmw
I'm working on ComputerEngineeringForBabies.com. Basically it's a baby book with two buttons and an LED that shows how basic logic gates work. I'm hoping to ship it in the next few months!

👤 taleodor
Reliza Hub - https://relizahub.com - single pane of glass DevOps solutions that answers 5Ws - Who changed What, When, Where and Why.

👤 ad31mar
Funny how meta this is, but I'm now working on a project [1] to help others find short dotcoms for their own projects.

[1] https://damnshort.com


👤 duncan-donuts
I’m working on a site builder for small businesses that run live auctions.

👤 jasoncartwright
Tool that informs people what food is needed at UK foodbanks https://www.givefood.org.uk/needs/

👤 osprojects
https://github.com/adnanh/webhook - an incoming webhook server that can run your shell scripts

👤 philippz
https://epicseller.id - marketplaces intelligence for the Indonesian market. Basically Helium10/JungleScout for Indonesia.

👤 peterwwillis
Building some wooden trays out of plywood with sloping sides. Turns out it's pretty complicated trigonometry, and very hard to adjust correctly with a cheap table saw with a floppy miter gauge.

👤 awscherb
Building a mobile analytics platform for tracking daily / monthly active / new users, etc. similar to Fabric (thankfully they extended the shutdown). Not a big fan of the Firebase console.

👤 oleks75
Working on https://folge.me - tool that helps bulding step by step guides. This is my first experience with writing desktop apps.

👤 Diesel555
Fighter pilot here, working on making target imagery for training bombing on ranges faster. https://dieselplanning.com

👤 100-xyz
Create animations in minutes.

Here is one with Siebel of Ycombinator https://toonclip.com/fork?key1=1be05af368


👤 nbschulze
I’m working on this:

https://findsome.help/

Hoping to open-source it this weekend. Trying to create a better way for communities to coordinate aid.


👤 DaveSapien
I'm finishing up a game I've been working on solo for the last few years.

It's a mindfulness game that aims to bring its players to a meditative state of flow. (through casual gameplay)

Its looking good so far :D


👤 erwincaco
All I've done these past few weeks is build cloud-based call centers on Amazon Connect for customers who need to move their workforce to WFH due to COVID. It's been pretty surreal.

👤 chiefmcloud
Working on a new semi-anonymous social network. You can share your thoughts with friends without being afraid of getting “cancelled”. In case any front end devs are interested please say hi

👤 GonzaloQuero
Waste, an anonymous counter of wasted money in meetings (as a way to practise Elixir)

https://waste.apps.gonzaloquero.com


👤 gbuk2013
I wrote a class management system some years back for the dance school I go to and now I am writing v2. :)

Maybe I’ll open source that Node.js Etcd-like KVS I wrote for the various micro services at work...


👤 nbclark
I'm making a variation of the board game Ricochet Robots with integrated video/audio chat.

https://ibb.co/mFfsYhm


👤 vially
I'm currently working on a Wayland Flutter embedder for Linux (the existing GLFW embedder is using X11 so desktop Flutter apps are running through XWayland in Wayland environments).

👤 MichaelMoser123
i am trying to understand memory management under golang: https://github.com/MoserMichael/openshift-memusage/blob/mast... that's part of my larger effort https://github.com/MoserMichael/openshift-memusage

👤 narrationbox
An easy to use and cost effective speech synthesis platform for voiceovers, audiobooks, and podcasts:

https://narrationbox.com


👤 riantogo
Thinking of dusting up my webapp for kids to get some math practice while school is out: http://arcadejack.com

👤 KajMagnus
A knowledge sharing and discussion tool — a cross between StackOverflow and Slack: https://www.talkyard.io

👤 danielmichaelni
A gift card directory for NYC restaurants.

We're hoping this can help local restaurants survive COVID-19.

https://menurescu.com/


👤 regera
I recently joined a bunch of volunteers to build a web app allowing hyper-localized communities to fulfill requests using a volunteer ticketing system during the COVID-19 crisis.

👤 soheilpro
I'm working on https://pikaso.me.

It's a tool for taking screenshots of tweets. It supports themes and has an API too.


👤 adamnemecek
For the past couple of years, I've been working on an IDE for music called ngrid (http://ngrid.io).

I hope to finish it soon.


👤 ChrisHardman29
I'm building a community for knowledge sharing (www.sivv.io). The idea is that people use this to share and discover short, structured summaries of useful ideas, knowledge or advice that they come across in the books, articles, podcasts etc that they consume. This allows people to learn more while actually reading less and is currently focused on the following topics:

- Business - Personal Development - Professional Development - Behavioural Science - Science & Technology - Wellbeing

You can sign-up to the beta version at www.sivv.io - we are publishing new summaries daily. Any feedback would be very much appreciated - feel free to message me at info@sivv.io. Many thanks!


👤 johnnythehutt
I'm building a no-code "click-button" open-source machine learning platform.

https://flytehub.org/


👤 nunoferreira
I am building a Vehicle to Home (V2H) charger to use the batteries from my Nissan Leaf to use only off-peak energy (cheaper and greener). Also allows to run the car as backup.

👤 sjdegraeve
* #plottertwitter (twitter.com/landscapeartbot)

* a book of thousands of loglines to inspire writers with writer's block

* a vacation itinerary generator (started months ago, completely useless today)


👤 donnie3000
I'm working on an ambient radio station — http://moss.garden

Soundscapes and environmental music for calm and focus.


👤 seancoleman
Modulate.com - A project tracking tool for cross-functional, remote / async development teams building incredible software products.

Using Modulate will spark joy among your team.


👤 impatient_bacon
I'm working on Bitmelo. It's a free game editor that works right in your browser:

https://bitmelo.com


👤 RabbitmqGuy
I'm working on a paid library that sends exceptions/errors generated by your application to your datadog account.

If this is something you are interested in, hit me up.


👤 BjoernKW
Right now, helping as a mentor for https://wirvsvirushackathon.org/

👤 schoenobates
A ThreeJS clone on go to learn more OpenGL and Vulkan and Go, plus and Ordnance Survey map viewer with MapboxGL JS, also teaching the kids some more python ...

👤 bobbyz
Just relaunched - tierlist.fyi -

Its an aggregator for tech company rankings in tier list format. Takes all user generated tier lists, combines them, and shows a “master” list.


👤 Insanity
I'm working on workwithgo.com, a job website targetted for Go engineers.

Been developing it on and off for some time though, but now have some extra time to put into it.


👤 21stio
https://metamate.io it's a semantic service bus, an api for everything in a sense

👤 charleskinbote
Any-time heuristic search algorithm library in Rust. Going to build some other projects on top of it for research purposes and maybe even to sell a product

👤 mister_hn
Besides working from home for my employer, I do spend time with my family and taking care of our sons, playing with them, etc. That's my side project

👤 agsqwe
I'm working on a soft skills interview prep tool https://mrsimon.ai/

👤 pythonist
Release notifications for Software engineers https://newreleases.io/

👤 lukaseder
I'm finally adding JSON and XML projection support in jOOQ. Hoping to tackle MULTISET projection support, too, and emulating it with JSON or XML.

👤 alperars
I am building a warehouse work order managemet system for a client who is in quarantine... It is a web app and I am having lots of fights with django.

👤 db1
Working on my site that lets you annotate and skip around youtube videos - tubenotes.xyz

I built it mostly to organize and catalog guitar tutorials that I learn from.



👤 kyledrake
https://restorativland.org

Was planning to do some livestreaming of working on it too.



👤 config_yml
Working on turning a Sketch document into a REST api to allow automating stuff like linting palette, font styles and maybe some other ideas.

👤 eternalny1
I wrote this:

https://www.wingswatch.net/

Mostly to hone my .Net Core skills and Angular.


👤 zabana
I'm taking a free online course called English for Journalism, created by the University of Pennsylvania. It's pretty good so far.

👤 HellDunkel
Driving simulator (UE4) to help design an Advanced Driving Assistance System (Lane keeping, dynamic cruise control). A bit like testdrive.

👤 TaylorGood
I've launched a Hand Sanitizer DTC. http://handsyhealth.com

👤 tardis_thad
I'm working on high frequency historical crypto market data API

https://tardis.dev


👤 chris_f
Search engine project - https://www.runnaroo.com/

👤 qntmfred
My girlfriend beat my high score at this mobile app Blockoduko so I'm working on a genetic algorithm that'll 100x her score

👤 samirsd
https://mixtape.ai contribute directly to indie bands and labels

👤 johnchristopher
I am focusing on doing a lot of work related things every day, I have to submit a sheet every day with tasks done.

You know, trying to keep my job.


👤 EamonnMR
Http://flythrough.space

Just fixed a long-standing bug where explosions stop happening. I haven't merged that branch yet though.


👤 jshawl
https://httpz.app/

^ inspect webhooks and restful http requests


👤 beamatronic
Staying alive....

👤 oneplane
I'm intending to learn Go and maybe a start with both C and Rust to get a feel for why one is better over the other.

👤 marxdeveloper
Browser Retro Pixel MMORPG called RPG MO - https://mo.ee

👤 pythonbase
Building a corona tracker website that will compile data from various sources and perform some time-series analysis.

👤 pankajdoharey
I am working on an org-mode inspired online todo list which has screen splits scripting and emacs like command mode.

👤 flicken
Working on a better way to edit calendar events: finding conflicts, grouping series of events together, etc.

👤 kohtatsu
Moderate brain dump (sorry). I'm writing some DSLs, including a DSL to implement config DSLs. I'm also pining over a new OS/shell environment, featuring a terminal where perhaps things like vertical line height isn't always fixed. And also a shell that grants permissions to invoked programs, enforced with vms or chroots or selinux idk. Probably starting with Qubes. Maybe fancy terminal output integration like TempleOS (links and programs; maybe graphics, maybe font awesome idk). Definitely want helper panes based on context of the shell/OS/running program. I've also been wanting a trackpad driver w/ OS integration that's closer to gestures-with-visual-feedback, but I guess Apple stole the thunder on that one with iPadOS. I still want it in the ISE tho, I think it's important for the UX to be discoverable. It'll probably have keyboard shortcuts too I just don't want to commit to a paradigm for that yet. I'm probably too slumped to have any of this built anytime soon; but that's what I'm working on for myself. Here's my twitter https://twitter.com/nomsolence, mostly about covid right now but I keep it to random terminal screenshots normally.

edit: Project will be called MajOS; the ethos is a witch's cabin in the woods.


👤 cl3m
I'm building a secure diary app for iOS that stores text files encrypted with Cryptomator in iCloud.

👤 tmilard

👤 jherdman
I'm breathing life into an old RSS/Atom reader project of mine as a means of learning Elixir.

👤 threeio
uBitx v1 build.. bought it and never got around to it.. have to build the original before I ponder getting a new version ;)

https://www.hfsignals.com/index.php/ubitx-v6/


👤 hkhanna
Building a tool to help couples manage their finances together. My fiancee and I are using it already!

👤 natural20s
Finishing a tabletop game simulating Robowars and Battlebot competitions. Looking for playtesters ;-)

👤 killjoywashere
please, for the love of god, someone go help this guy:

https://github.com/2grep/coronavirus-diary/blob/develop/CONT...


👤 tenaciousDaniel
I'm working on two things right now:

1. A coding language for UI designers.

2. An online drawing game for my and my local friends.


👤 JoeAltmaier
I work from home anyway. Still plugging away, upgrading old hardware to old versions of Android.

👤 scary-size
A sqlite based web analytics tool, currently working on week-over-week, month-over-month view.

👤 gentleman11
Indie game! I just wish I had a website to link to, it’s not going up for another month or so

👤 XCSme
A self-hosted analytics tool with heatmaps and session recordings that was a side-project for the last 7 years, turning it now in a full-time project after the company I was working for went bankrupt: https://www.usertrack.net (landing page has to be updated though).

👤 pachico
In my scarse free time, I'm working on a web analytics platform. Js, go and ClickHouse.

👤 bigbird-media
Wordflow AI: Generate media with AI to automate mundane reporting (weather reports, sports, etc.) and automate SEO content.

Here's a sample of what we made: https://notrealnews.net

You can learn more at https://wordflow.dev


👤 unixhero
Encrypting ALL data at rest in my house

Improving my overall data integration skills

Training AI models with scikit learn


👤 rs23296008n1
Just a little project to let me talk to my lights and a few gadgets around the place.

👤 qatanah
working on a graph tool similar to google trends but for reddit. It's still in alpha stage.

https://reddit-trends.now.sh/remote%20jobs


👤 drakonka
I am taking a break from my snail simulation to work on an escalator simulation.

👤 crorella
Auto tuning of table’s structure (partition, bucketing) based on access patterns

👤 pvinis
github.com/pvinis/tichu

I'm trying to write an online clone of tichu, a card game that's famous in greece! :D

It's fun to play around with this game lib I found, maybe some state machines, some firebase deployments etc.


👤 urlgrey_
An app that lets you send thousands of messages to one person every second..

👤 szczepano
chromecast manager / media server / playlist player https://github.com/vane/playlistcast

👤 dkdk8283
This sounds like a pretentious question. Shouldn’t we all be with family?

👤 moneytide1
Space Engineers - I want to mod it. It's been released for 7 years now - Keen Software has been keeping it intact and adding features (VRage). I think of it as Minecraft but with a near-true physics engine.

There is terrain deformation according to the force exerted by the object crashing into it. Ships colliding will either destroy or crush blocks according to that force. A "grid" is considered a powered assimilation of blocks, which could function as static "station" or moving vehicle. Thrust is measured in Newtons, block locations are measured in Cartesian coordinates. Everything has precise mass (kilogram) and this effects collision damage. Someone made a mod where there are aerodynamics (atmospheric force on fast traveling bodies, though this is computationally expensive). There is already a large workshop of mods that other players have made.

I say "near-true" physics because gravity of planets only stretches out a few kilometers above the planet. After that there is "zero" gravity and you can turn engines off and stay in that spot forever. Ship speeds are capped at 100 m/s. These limitations are required for now because computers cannot keep up with that many calculations especially if grids are interacting and causing terrain deformation or casting functions often.

There are sim speed drops during large scale events, and that is a challenge that draws me in. Keen uses rendering tricks for view distance draw and object visibility according to user settings (reflecting the power of their PC), eventually I'd like to standardize things so that players could interact planet-side without trees disappearing and nullifying camouflage attempts.

The vanilla game requires you to find and extract ore (iron, magnesium, nickel, platinum, cobalt, silver, gold, uranium, more could be added if you wish). These elements can produce things that somewhat reflect their utility IRL, then they are refined using energy (solar, wind, battery, nuclear, hydrogen). Then produced into components that you weld into the block for its completion.

When you join an official server right now, you are confined to a max speed, as this is a safety measure to prevent the game from crashing. A server sets up conditions for players to build in their secret remote spot away from everyone else, though sometimes they will group into factions. There is seldom any interaction and NPC ships are randomly spawned in near the player, flying in a straight line - they have no deeper function and they are meant to be your salvage.

My big picture is that there should be no speed limit, but players locations give off visual signatures if they want to go fast all the time. Space implies distance, and distance implies travel, which implies a set amount of time. Controlling this time would be key to bringing players together much more often, and we will remove risk of their creations being destroyed (automated respawn, at some sort of liquidity cost, which players will be ultimately competing for by chasing objectives that the game already allows - mining and transporting mass).

I want there to be a real functioning economy, where dumping a load of ore on the market has real repercussions, like EVE Online. If you see the price of iron go down fast, you'll know this has happened. So a player gets a huge cash payout, even though they are selling far below market rates because they wants to "get rid" of bulk iron (which costs them energy and time, of either him or his bots). Because of this event, you as a market participant can buy that up and the reduced price, and have a cheaper source of iron that takes you less time (transport). AI agents will also respond to these events in varying degrees of effectiveness, in order to create competition that economically active players must consider. We want the higher level players to have production assets and ownership in the economy, whereas newcomers can choose to pirate, pillage, or mercenary contracts which rewards them with liquidity if they succeed, which results in them being able to buy equipment quickly and return to combat, but other players may be funding this behavior by selling the ships and weapons produced with ore and energy.

I said big picture because all of these things would come in time only after some sort of standardized transport system was put into place, which the game needs now (it currently uses a simple jump drive which makes you suddenly appear in a new spot) - if we allow extremely fast travel speeds there cannot be collisions otherwise the SIM speed will drop.

Since there are so many physics elements, this game feels like a canvas and I'd eventually want to implement concepts to suggest new technologies that actually may be up and coming in real life. Think of it as a sort of education platform in that regard, but when you don't want to learn, you can just go and realistically blow up space ships and compete on a leaderboard.


👤 weitzj
I flutter mobile application with iBeacons to teach social distancing.

👤 bluedino
Setting up ceph on my homelab system. Introduction to ansible as well.

👤 smarri
I've been spending the extra time learning to DJ, just for fun.

👤 kleiba
I had a daughter last week. Lots of work, but the ROI is amazing!

👤 andriosr
Transforming the Ledger CLI in a REST API: ledgersight.com

👤 jerrysievert
DSP, lots of DSP.

specifically, writing audio plugins for VCV Rack and VST3.


👤 adreamingsoul
Playing with my son.

👤 bobbydreamer
I am just makin a new version of my site using gatsby

👤 exigo
I'm working on Godot Engine plugin for IntelliJ.

👤 postgrescompare
A schema comparison tool for PostgreSQL. Evenings and weekends for the last little https://www.postgrescompare.com

👤 esac
Solving Hearthstone (Blizzard) by Deep learning

👤 calinf
llidia.com - An audio encyclopedia for general knowledge lowers.

Like a podcast player with Wikipedia and Encyclopedia Britanica audio content.


👤 thisistheend123
I am working on Google News like aggregator.

👤 swsieber
Virtual whiteboard input via hand tracking.

👤 sebastianconcpt
I'm building a new Smalltalk IDE.

👤 amrx101
Am extending RUSTLS to work with HSM.

👤 DamnYuppie
Completing my custom welding table.

👤 fpvsoop
I'm finally learning Clojure.

👤 Hoasi
Learning animation at the moment.

👤 c0nrad
Making an angular cms for my blog

👤 rossnordby
With the gradual accumulation of parallel projects, I've recently adopted a constantly-jump-around approach to development to keep everything braincached. About four projects in flight that I can talk about at the moment:

1) Neural approximation of surface light scattering (learned BSDF approximations, in other words). Historically, real time BSDFs used in games have been statistical models that make quite a few simplifying assumptions. GGX and other modern BRDFs do an admirable job and get about 90% of the way there, but creating new surface models is very time consuming. You need a mostly-unique model for retroreflective cloth, another for faraway swaying grass, another for plastics, another for skin, and so on. It's doable (and much has been done), but the process is far from easy.

So, an attempt at a workaround: trace trillions of statistically modeled paths and use the resulting distributions to train a small network that can be baked into an efficient ALU-only shader representation. Results are promising so far: https://twitter.com/RossNordby/status/1241224996518838272

Added bonus: as a part of this process, you get a PDF/importance sampling network for ~free.

2) ML applied to physically simulated character animation. Lots of neat work in this field already- the recent motion matching -> RL balancing paper seems like a very promising path for reducing the size of RL's responsibility: https://montreal.ubisoft.com/en/drecon-data-driven-responsiv...

My own work is still in 'side project' territory and I haven't exactly caught up to SOTA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Haz9o3lbJJQ), but there are a bunch of things I'm looking forward to trying. Different heuristics (muscular control delay, effort minimization, etc.), some variants of off policy learning, different exploration approaches, some low level architecture tweaks, and so on.

3) Gradually resurrecting and modernizing a bitrotted renderer from a few years ago (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIax_ProQ8c) and expanding its functionality. Beyond just fixing the massive problems it has accumulated, I'd like to flesh out a full surface space rendering pipeline. All shading would be computed on the surfaces of objects (and, where appropriate, in volumes) rather than in screenspace, so temporal reprojection is made far easier and there's no geometric blurring. Final rasterization is extremely cheap (~1 texture sample read) and can be decoupled from shading, so with 144hz+ geometric rendering in combination with late latched camera input, you can get application contribution to display latency below 10ms pretty easily.

The surface space caches and decoupling also give you a path towards tons of other interesting approaches- surface space shadow maps, low resolution directional occlusion and global illumination caches, conetraceable prefiltered surface representations, and all sorts of cool stuff.

4) Continuing to improve the physics engine (https://github.com/bepu/bepuphysics2). It exited beta last year, but there is always more to do. Next target is the tree structure used by meshes and the broad phase. While it is more than an order of magnitude faster than v1's, it should be possible to extract more parallelism, eliminate the need for a separate cache optimizer step, and cut down the aggressiveness of the static tree refinement. Simulations with hundreds of thousands of sleeping or static objects could see some significant gains, among other things.

Was also considering training a network to compress in-memory solver data since, on manycore AVX2 capable systems, the solver is always memory bandwidth bound, but down that path may lie madness... maybe not everything needs to have DL thrown at it. Maybe.


👤 sasha_fishter
I'm working on tennis software. The idea started 2 years ago, when I started to play a tennis. In my local club all reservations where written down on the sheet of paper and people were have to come personally to book court. I started working on idea just to prove myself that I can do it. First version were pretty basic, but with complex logic for court reservations.

They liked the idea, so we were live, and they threw paper bookings away. 100+ users in a few weeks. It was little bit of pressure to get things right, but after fixing bugs, I was pretty satisfied with first alpha version, which was basically MVP and POC (proof of concept).

Then another club joined and there was around 150 users very fast.

I expand app so players can have their own ratings when they store their results. It was pretty fun to watch how everything suddenly changes. Players started to have conversions about their rankings, and they started to play more tennis. They have all history now for their matches, so no more 'I beat you that time, how can you not remember that :)"

I wrote some cool stuff too, like module for leagues and tournaments, which we organised under our Sliceer brand. We have pretty successful league and tournament with over 150 players.

We expand reservations to more clubs outside my hometown, and we are trying to reach even more.

I have some income from app too, but it's very basic, mostly from Premium users who can see little bit more advanced features like 'one sign in', i.e. non Premium users have to login every two hours, etc.

Now, I'm improving registration page which has to be very simple and fun. So I wrote some 'onbording' process to make it even simpler for users to sign in. There is little bit more data then just email, so it has to be fun. Here is a short video https://imgur.com/B6g0YwX

This year we will be in more clubs, and with bigger tournament under our belt (waiting for corona shit to be over).

I like what I'm doing so far, and I'm enjoying building software that other people are using, which is in fact solving real problem. I see a lot of things that I can improve, but for now, I'm sticking to booking module to be the best it can be, so people will be forced to use it. I want to be that good.

For now, I have little less than 600 registered users, of which - in tennis season - 100 and more are using app every day, and there is around 1000 active users per month (this numbers of active users are from last year, still waiting new season to start). We have one guy who recently passed 100 matches!

For now, we are operating only in Croatia, and app is only translated in Croatian, but I'm looking forward to translate it to other languages so other people can use it.

And, yes, booking module (what I have so far) is free for all clubs. Advanced features like statistics and some custom logic for clubs is payed separately - already have on club with custom logic (payed).

If you have any questions I would love to answer them.

Sasa


👤 xoelop
I'm working on https://goodcompanies.io, a site to share companies that are letting their people work from home during the coronavirus pandemic

I compiled the list of companies originally from the answers to DHH's tweets and now people can add their own companies too


👤 loblollyboy
Watching bojack horseman

👤 m3kw9
Working on a timer.

👤 masa331
Accounting company

👤 evanxsummers
syncing Redis streams for distributed messaging

👤 edoceo
web conference, zoom competitor.

👤 convolvatron
declarative reflective tower

👤 danShumway
I'm working on a static site generator (Raise) that's taking a bunch of lessons from one of my previous projects, a testing library called Distilled[0].

The development philosophy with Distilled was to have a very, very small but flexible API, and to basically try to get out of your way. Distilled takes the view that some parts of testing are a lot easier than people think, so it explicitly doesn't do those things. It doesn't give you a test harness out of the box, it doesn't give you a `beforeEach`, stuff like that. It gives you a very solid, very predictable base that you can very quickly morph in different directions. I've been using Distilled for ~2 years at this point, and it's been a mild revolution in how I approach testing.

So the philosophy with Raise is very similar. With Raise, there are no built-in transpilers or templating engines, there is no CLI. I expect you to do whatever text transformation you need yourself, either manually or through a 3rd-party library. What Raise does do is make it very easy to recursively pipe directories through transform functions, and very easy to build complicated transforms.

So if you want to compile a bunch of markdown files:

  await Raise({
    input: './source',
    output: './public',
    transform: {
      '**/*.md': async (info) => ({
        [`${info.filename}.html`]: marked(await info.contents())
      })
    }
  });
And you can also do fun things like recursively return transforms, which makes Raise really easy to extend and adapt to different projects. So for example, if your sitemap was being managed by a CSV file or something:

  await Raise({
    input: './source',
    output: './public',
    transform: {

      /* structure: "page_name", "page_location" */
      'pages.csv': async (info) => {
         let pages = parse(await info.contents('utf8'));
         return pages.reduce((result, page) => {
           result[page[1]] = async (info) => ({
              [page[0]]: marked(await info.contents())
           })
         }, {});
       }
    }
  });
There are a few other cool tricks you can pull with it, but they're hard to explain in small code samples. But you're not getting any transforms for free, and I'm not trying to intuit anything about the structure of your site. There's no magical behavior. But what you get in return for that is an API that is extremely consistent, extremely predictable, very easy to learn, and very easy to adapt to novel situations.

Still a work in progress, but I should be done with the last few chores for the alpha within the next few days, at which point I'm going to start testing it out by converting some of my own sites to use this as the builder.

[0]: https://distilledjs.com/


👤 oscargrouch
A "application browser" based on p2p technologies like bittorrent.

Its based on a (heavily modified) Chrome codebase, and the application sdk its in Swift and later also one for C++.

Apart from the application process use to remote render the UI, i have a "instance" process that run for the "apps" that works for handling the RPC messages (which is in gRPC).

The instance process, will expose the RPC interfaces as in a background service, where the RPC is designed by the app developer accordingly to its needs. (For instance it can even control when to launch the app window).

The RPC can be exposed to the outside or only internal, and im using the bittorrent DHT as an update service with a constant address that the app developer can share so others can install and update the apps.

The application is container like, where you can have key-value databases and files already there. So when you launch the instance process (aka. the service process) it can use this persistent layer as its state. Files, databases, assets, applications and the shared module to be loaded by the instance process will be all there already (as in zip, git or docker).

On top of that there will be the common window, the same as browsers, only that its shared by installed applications that was synced through torrent.

The cool thing is that giving theres a instance/daemon process for each app, they can run and handle RPC' s or network in the background and notify you about events, where you can optionally launch the app UI to see them.

(Eg. a messenger can receive messages via RPC, handle them in the instance process, and persist them without any UI, than let you know about it through the common window, where you can launch the new UI)

(Im also planning to let install in "standalone mode" where it will install and be exposed as a ordinary app in the native OS)

The SDK will have direct access to the web layer, and it will be easy to develop a web browser for instance. The rendering layer is the same used by chrome and blink.

The biggest motivations to this, was not only something i've always wanted to have, but also political, as in civil rigts, giving it will give us more control of our digital lives.

Imagine a search index like Google only being able to index your contents if you allow them, and only what you want. Or the capacity to have your personal list of friends and the social networks will have access to the list if you want and not own them like they do now.

Im about to launch it in about a month, but giving i was already in a bad financial shape (because i have dived all the way for this project), now with the pandemic, i dont know if i can launch something really stable and finale, be it for health or the world economy nosediving (i hope it wont affect me that much and i can do at least this).


👤 carapace
Last Sunday I was messing around with Godot engine[0] doodling and I made a kind of "physics toy" (calling it a game would be too much, although it's a lot of fun.) I loaded a simple space ship model from a free game assets site,[1] turned off gravity, and added some simple controls. I found a cool background[2], also free, and put in some asteroids and a little star.

And that's pretty much it.

All you can do is fly around and bounce off of things. I didn't implement any collision logic, so everything is indestructable, but you can chase and attempt to herd asteroids, or bounce off the sun! The physics of the ship mimic the real world: turning doesn't affect your velocity (no swooping.) But conservation of angular momentum was such a PITA that I made it so the ship automatically damps it. I also made a "magic" brake that just slows you down relative to the frame of the sun.

Godot is really tight. It has a few weird glitches here and there but overall it's a joy to work with. (As an aside, I was trying to make some meshes and things in Blender and O how I hate that UI. I have a total love/hate thing with Blender. One the one hand it's so good and powerful and has such a compelling life story, on the other hand it literally gives me a headache when I use it.)

Anyhow, FWIW I just pushed the "game" to srht: https://git.sr.ht/~sforman/SpaceGame so y'all can take a look.

You should be able to load it into Godot 3.2 and run it or edit it. It's a little messy, I apologize. It's only a week old and I haven't spent a lot of time on it, but I'm learning techniques and adding little things here and there.

There are soooo many possibilities... I didn't plan to make this, but I imagine I'll keep messing with it. Scratching an itch. (In a world that contains e.g. Kerbal Space Program and EVE Online do I really want to spend a lot of time on this?) One thing I want to try is connecting to a Prolog server via websocket and using it as the ship's computer.

BTW, the thought occurred to me the other day that, since Godot has HTML as an export target, it's a valid front-end authoring tool, especially if VR|AR takes off, eh?

[0] https://godotengine.org/

[1] Space Kit from Kenney.nl https://kenney.nl/assets/space-kit

[2] https://opengameart.org/content/ulukais-space-skyboxes


👤 chrisdalke
I'm building a real-time telemetry platform for makers. The project lowers the barrier of entry for data collection on hardware projects: You can very quickly wire up a hardware system to a server/UI and collect, analyze, and act on data from multiple data sources. This lets the maker focus on building better, more intelligent systems.

Out of the box with minimal configuration, my telemetry platform has:

- Support for many common telemetry protocols, for example: (NMEA 0183, Mavlink, CAN-bus, VE.Direct, Key-Length-value strings)

- Realtime data streaming, play/pause/replay, time scrubbing

- Dashboard editor and component library (charts, gauges, text displays, instrument panels, etc)

- Data syncing in realtime between servers and the cloud; dashboards can be shared and viewed anywhere

My background in this is from my work at the University of Rochester leading a manned electric boat racing team. A need we saw across teams at our competitions was the ability to integrate realtime data from many embedded devices into a single data stream, plot data live on dashboards during races, store data for later analysis, and easily share that data among team members. Building out the infrastructure to do this gave our team a great advantage as we were able to back up high-level decisions with quantitative data we received from our system.

For example, where other teams would guess based on sparse data the ideal propeller pitch for a desired event, we had exact data on the RPM/torque from our drivetrain and current draw on the motor, and were able to quantitatively compare our propeller selection in different events to optimize for speed, efficiency, etc.

The professional ecosystem in this area is huge:

- ROS is the dominant telemetry platform across hardware systems

- The Mavlink protocol is used for drone communication

- CAN-bus and other hardware standards are used in the vehicle industry

- Matlab is commonly used for data collection & analysis among researchers

Across all these systems there is a common problem for beginners: There is a huge amount of domain knowledge and setup required before you can effectively build complex systems. Across almost every amateur project that does hardware data collection, people are repeating the same steps: Set up a custom protocol for streaming from an MCU over serial, write a program to receive/store that data, use an external tool to load, process and chart the data, etc.

On some level, that experience is really valuable, and I'm building the platform not to force you into a certain method: Using one piece of the system does not require buying into every feature. For example, you could just use the server for data collection, and read data points directly from the server into your own UI. conversely, you could use the server/UI to point at a ROS instance and just use the UI as a UI layer for dashboards.

Overall, I'm really excited because I think that building a ready-to-use server and a powerful UI into a single package represents a real step forwards. There's a real need for this type of system that I've seen time and time again in the field from makers, researchers, and anyone else building hardware systems.


👤 iskander
Peptide vaccine for SARSCoV2

👤 songzme
TLDR - I'm teaching my local community to code. My vision is to show tech companies that you don't need to spend money to find good engineers. You can invest in your local community instead and you will find really talented engineers.

My 10 year journey:

Ever since college, I had been teaching. Teaching and helping others keeps me humble, develops my patience, and makes me a better developer. I am constantly forced to follow best practices so I don't teach the wrong things.

2010 - I started coding as a junior in college. I was objectively the worst coder having started so late so I convinced my best friend at the time to learn how to code while he was pursuing an econ degree. This way, I know somebody worse than me at coding. It helped boost my confidence.

2012 - After graduation, I got a job! Shortly after, my best friend got a job too despite having only an econ degree and no coding background. This inspired my ex-girlfriend at the time (who had a stats degree) to learn how to code. She got a job shortly after.

2014 - I started thinking... could anyone get a coding job without a degree? I reached out to a high school friend who was working as an uber driver. His college degree didn't work out for him, so I invited him to stay in my home while he learned to code. I eventually hired him onto my team and we worked together for awhile.

2016 - I wanted a definitive answer to the question "could anyone get a coding job without a degree?". My hypothesis was a yes and to verify that and I needed more students. I made a public post offering a free coding bootcamp with no interviews. First 12 students got to join for free.

2018 - Teaching those students turned out to be really difficult because they all came from all different backgrounds. I had to change my curriculum many times to not only train them to become good software engineers, but also prepare them for interviews. Eventually, all the original students (2 of whom I hired myself) got a job as a software engineer. I invited new students and started drafting up a formal curriculum.

2019 - Wrapped up a first draft of our formal curriculum. Started a free coding group at our local library: https://www.meetup.com/San-Jose-C0D3

I show up before work every day (M-F at 8am) to help students who are learning how to code.

2020 - Throughout my journey, I worked as a software engineer. Our curriculum has proven to be pretty effective and I'm currently in the process of hiring some students who started coding at our library into my engineering team. My goal this year is to launch our curriculum to the world for free as open source.

Due to the current pandemic, we have paused all in person meetup groups and we interact online. If you want to beta test our product, start here: https://c0d3.com/book


👤 catchbepis22
Making a way to save web apps so they work totally offline without your browser knowing the difference. open source:

https://github.com/dosyago/22120

also a way to stream and record and replay a browser session remotely:

https://github.com/dosyago/RemoteView

apart from those two serialization projects, I'm also building a side project in stylegan to generate art, and a self reporting pandemic tracker, relevant to C19.

and a bunch of other open source stuff:

https://github.com/cris691/Portfolio

contributors welcome!


👤 forkexec
Current project: Quarantining myself in my camper van for another week to see if I or my family members are ill before living together.

I have a Mac Mini with upgrades and a 4K monitor waiting.

Also, working on a boro water cooled virtualization/workstation dual EPYC that I've been piecing together before AMD made the press rounds. I'm supposed to have a dual CPU & VRM waterblock but the seller has been deflecting, dodging and dicking around for 4 months... they only mailed half of it.


👤 0xff00ffee
I'm developing a low power wi-fi edge node that does low power beam forming and speech verification. really pushing the limits of this Cortex M4. Did i mention low power? Trying to get 10hrs of battery life on a few 2032s is not easy with 802.11b.


👤 red-indian
Planting crops!