What is your current side-project?

I’ve been running https://kvdb.io as a side project for a while. This weekend, I woke up to a bunch of alerts that the server had run out of open file descriptors (rookie mistake, I never expected to receive more than a thousand simultaneous requests).

It turns out someone wrote a tutorial on how to automate COVID-19 appointment slot bookings and used KVdb to store SMS OTP codes. Never expected it, but a great surprise. Long tail of SaaS is just wonderful :)

Recently it was mostly updating my wiki (https://github.com/nikitavoloboev/knowledge).

Now, it's working on https://github.com/learn-anything/learn-anything and picking it up again.

I put together an email newsletter that curates HN stories which didn't reach the front page.

Every Friday, I send out a list of 50+ articles. I'm a typical HN reader so the interest profile ends up similar to HN. But I try to omit product/press releases and big corp stuff.

SInce I curate from the 'newest' section of HN, my newsletter has little overlap with other HN-based newsletter and digests. They cover 'top' stories. I cover stories that you probably missed.

Also, I wrote a big intro to it at this Ask HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27343897). You can read more about it there.

If you'd like to read interesting stuff that went unnoticed by Hacker News, please have a look at my newsletter. It's at https://bengtan.com/interesting-things.

I got into scuba diving a year ago and every dive you're supposed to log data about the dive like duration, location, type of air etc. It's partly for safety, partly for curiosity, and partly to prove that you are as experienced as you say you are for advanced trips. It seems like 75% of people use paper booklets, 5% a myriad of shitty apps and the rest (like me) don't bother logging because it's so tedious.

So I'm putting together a really simple "Strava for diving" app in react native to suit my needs and then at the same time having a reason to learn a bit about go for the server.

Also @op one of my coworkers told me she built something to track some Disney collectibles game, and she gets thousands of users which is really cool, but you won't believe the entitlement from people asking for bug fixes on a free web app lol

https://sumi.news — A peaceful newsfeed. Read RSS, Twitter, and newsletters without ads, algorithms, or distractions.

Starter kit to "transform your project into a SaaS", with auth+payments.

https://github.com/saasform/saasform

I'm working on a new programming language that compiles to the JVM. It's statically typed and structural. Still in the very first steps of it but it's Turing complete and I've just nearly finished adding structs (custom types) that can describe variables or function parameters. The next step is Java interop.

Of course there's no plans to compete with other existing languages, but if I get far enough I'll use this language to work on some personal projects. I've learned a ton about programming language design so far so the project has already been a success.

https://matthall.codes/blog/imp-jvm-compilation/

Working on https://extensionpay.com — a service to let browser extension developers accept payments for their extensions. It's open source, free to sign up and start using, and works cross-browser.

I've been attempting the '12 projects in 12 months' challenge for a couple of months now.

Most recently I created a book written and illustrated entirely by AI (GPT-3) - https://grimtalesbook.com

I've almost finished a prototype of a physical product for people with a specific desktop PC case which I'm looking forward to launching (nothing technical, more for the DIY builder crowd).

There are a few more ideas that are queued up for the coming months. It's exciting knowing that there's a timeline for each project. There's no need to slog away losing motivation on a single project!

I bought a bunch of professional printing equipment at a foreclosure auction last year and have been printing and selling, amongst other things, dev-humor stickers and tshirts: https://geekshirt.se/

Also working on a Sticker Mule clone to teach myself Blazor.

https://traiggy.com Traiggy is a simple (PWA) Progressive Web app that will help the plantation of trees around the world using blockchain technology. It has 2 advantages: - helping reforestation organization to audit and to gain insight and transparency on how their funds are getting spend - allow local citizen to plant tree and get rewarded for doing it

https://twitter.com/OldTechAdverts

Building a twitter community around Adverts from old technology magazines like Byte, Compute!, Crash and ZZap64. Mostly around 8bit computers and the retro computing scene, but also retro stereo decks, cameras and electronics. Most from 80s, 70s and older.

Discovering strange and wonderful creation that are lost in time. :-)

I am working on an open source non-profit project to facilitate loan-free education that will also help education institutions and its staff increase their income. More details of the project idea is at: https://loan-free-ed.neocities.org

Critic, feedback, improvements to the idea are most welcome.

Looking for co-developers to work on the project.

Slowly plugging away at a resurrection of a very old MMO. writing the server software from scratch as the original was lost to time and life. Got client source and some server files so just reconstructing the server in Go.

I've always wanted to be able to do some development work on my phone, or my iPad. So I'm building a tool that let's me build and deploy backend APIs easily, and without much code.

https://smoothtrack.app - AR-based 3D head tracker for sim games. Replaces the need for expensive headsets like TrackIR.

I'm building Github for robotics maps - a platform for robotics software engineers to manage, share, and edit maps in the cloud. https://airbotics.io

It's very much in the Alpha stage and I'm currently working on a demo video that shows the basic functionality of the platform.

I have a daily newsletter that sends out art.

I don't use social media much these days and prefer newsletters or RSS. I got tired of not going to art galleries or museums during the pandemic and thought others might like their inboxes being a bit brighter each morning.

https://randomdailyart.com

I had a ton, but I just discovered LuaJIT and its C FFI was a thing and now I'm going to be going down that rabbithole and rewriting a lot of code for projects I haven't even started.

I hate these threads, by the way. I always want to have something cool finished by the time one pops up. "Writing vector and animation modules for SDL's float API that will eventually appear in a roguelike, or shooter, I haven't decided which" doesn't have punch.

I'm also working on and off on a HN client for Godot. It basically works.

Also working on the Anarki forum very, very slowly.

Unfortunately I'm a magpie and I'm distracted by shiny new toys, which right now is the fact that I can write C in Lua much more easily than I could write Lua in C.

Thank God none of this my job...

Oh, and I started a blog with Lektor that still has nothing on it.

Playing with a site that displays a bunch of stats about your (my) team's dev 'health' based on GitHub (eventually others?) PRs. Fun little web app so far and I like to see the things I think are good indicators. Next wave of work I'm thinking about after the base stats is to automate everything and proactively warn me to look at things that seem to need attention (PRs that are 'stuck', certain reviewers over/underloaded, certain authors not getting reviews at the same rate as everyone else, etc etc etc). I like it but I have far more ideas than time to implement them at the moment.

Made https://anonfeedback.io last weekend after looking for a way to get anonymous feedback from colleagues and not wanting to sign up for any service.

Trying, and largely failing to set up a solar-powered environmental station sending data via Lora and MQTT. My problem is living in the North of the UK where rain and solar don't mix. I'm not giving up hope though.

-Renovating a cabin and trying my hand at doing the YouTube thing and all its appurtenant editing, etc.: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh0YKCZZHcfAIJgX9WwiTmA

-Researching for an article on Google and Facebook's collusion in the ad industry, specifically w/r/t Europe.

-Working on a pair of podcast projects, one related to the first item and another getting stories recorded from older family members.

-At the research stage on an article about the future for GPT-3 in the tax realm.

That timeline thing [0]. It puts all sorts of personal data on a timeline, producing a rich personal diary with photos, files, conversations, social media posts, geolocation, transactions etc. It's a way to back up and browse the data I generate.

It's kinda crazy that a few companies already hold this much data about you. Building this made me rethink of how I interact with those companies.

[0] https://nicolasbouliane.com/projects/timeline

Body weight logger: - Repository: https://github.com/drola/weight-logger-pwa - App: https://weight-logger.catdad.net/

It's a backend-less SPA, inspired by draw.io.

Product perspective: I was using MyFitnessPal previously and got tired of all the bloat in the app. Weight Logger does exactly one thing and keeps you in charge of your data. I plan to add integrations with Dropbox, OwnCloud, Google Drive and Office 365.

Developer perspective: For work I mostly do web apps where every inch of the (desktop) screen is covered with numbers and buttons. We churn out features and try to squeeze as much information on the screen as we can. In contrast, Weight Logger is about simplicity and working well on mobile devices. It's also the first time in my career that I get to use my own app every morning. Surprisingly this gives me warm fuzzies about programming. I was at a point where I was starting many different hobbies (electronics, 3D printing, woodworking...) to escape somewhat emotionally dry world of software development. In day to day business we value pragmatism more than code we're really proud of. Feature requests come in before development is complete on the previous one. Weight Logger reminds me every day that it doesn't have to be that way and that I can still find positive experiences within software engineering.

I'm currently working on app that allows you to pay all your bills in a single click.

As the guy who pays all the bills in the house I have like 7+ bills to pay in a single time. I hate to pay it 1 by 1 so I created the app to solve that problem.

This is the link https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bayaqapp.w... but it is only for Malaysia.

Working on a modular archiving tool that, so long as an appropriate archiving "kernel" has been written, will be able to archive files from compatible URLs without the end user needing to care which tool is used or how it's downloaded. (https://github.com/joshbarrass/UArchiver)

I'm also working on integrating this into a Telegram bot (https://github.com/joshbarrass/ArchiverBot) that will allow me to archive things to my NAS whilst on the go. UArchiver is provided with the URL and will just download the files without me needing to care how.

I've been too busy with other things to put major work into it recently, but both projects are in a functional state, just without tonnes of features or supported sites. Whilst it may not seem like much, I'm particularly pleased with the GitHub Actions pipeline I set up recently, which will automatically upload UArchiver releases to PyPi, and automatically build ArchiverBot Docker images and upload those DockerHub.

I recently made a Twitter bot that posts a daily random photo from my 13+ year archive of phone photos. A novel feature is auto generation of hashtags using the Imagga image recognition API to analyze the image. The hashtags are not always accurate but building the bot was an interesting learning experience.

https://mobile.twitter.com/phonefotos

I have been working for a few years now on Exomind[1], a personal knowledge management tool that takes the form of a unified inbox in which you can have your emails, tasks, notes and bookmarks organized into collections. I have an iOS and a web/electron client at the moment, and a simple Chrome extension for bookmarking. It supports basic extensibility via WASM applications.

Its backend (Exocore[2]) is built on top of a personal / private blockchain and is made from the ground up to be hosted in a semi-decentralized fashion on your own personal devices (your computer, raspberry pi, a cloud instance, etc.). It is written in Rust and has iOS, C and Web (WASM) clients.

It has very rough edges, but I'm using it daily to organize my life. It has also been my learning playground to improve my Rust skills over the last two years (it was on another tech stack before). [1]: https://github.com/appaquet/exomind [2]: https://github.com/appaquet/exocore

My next project is going to be a (hopefully simple) fuzzy search database, and I'm seriously considering using Nim.

Thinking about calling it Gramcracker (ya know, for n-gram).

The idea is to store lots of data with little memory usage and have predictable performance, by having an on disk index similar to sqlite.

The goal being to get rid of the existing in memory search engine that fastcomments uses, since it's rarely queried but data size keeps growing.

I'm working on a workout app. Specifically targeted to programs with multiple circuits. I purchased one of Eric Leija's kettlebell programs and wanted an app that would allow me to follow the workouts without setting multiple timers. As I figure out the DSL I want to use for defining workouts, I may extend it to another app for powerlifting coaches to push workouts to their clients and track progress.

I’ve put aside most of the projects I’ve conceived/barely started but here are some of the ideas:

- Fully features user mode ISDN stack for Linux. This was going to include some reference applications like a softphone, softswitch and H.320 multiplexer.

- Hackish kernel-mode X.25 driver for Windows built atop existing serial hardware

- Custom DOCSIS modem built on a limesdr. Was going to try to go further and create a Ethernet drive so that I could plug a PC directly into my CMTS and get a connection.

- Reverse engineering the file system for an old piece of ISDN test equipment I have and maybe building some sort of FUSE interface for it.

- Turning my HP-85 into a controller for some of my old equipment since I was able to snag the serial and GBIP cartridges for it. Was also thinking about making an X.25 stack for it as well.

- A RS-449 <-> V.35 or X.21 converter since the few people who make them don’t seem to want to sell them to me. I’m not much of a hardware guy though so converting to X.22 may be easier since I believe the signals are mostly compatible.

- Additionally there’s some technologies I’ve wanted to play with but haven’t really found a project for. I’ve been wanting to do some Smalltalk for a while. I wanted to do something with visible light communications (perhaps when 802.11bb is bit more developed) and for some reason I had the odd urge to do something crazy with OLE (yes, that OLE). I’ve also wanted to play with PLCs and maybe find something cursed to do with SmartNICs.

Some of these got a little more work done on them then others, but I just kinda lost interest in everything a while back for partially unexplainable reasons. I’m currently prepping to go back to school.

An asset store for the godot game engine: https://godotassetstore.org

https://icebergcharts.com

Iceberg Charts are an information format in which the most well-known/popular information is placed in the top tier, and each level down ever less known and finally obscure information is placed that only subject matter experts are aware of.

This makes it an interesting structure to explore and learn more about topics one isn't too familiar with.

This work was inspired by suricrasia's "Cursed Computer Iceberg": https://suricrasia.online/iceberg/

Traditionally, icebergs are only presented in an image format, like in https://www.reddit.com/r/IcebergCharts/, but I wanted a site that made it possible to optionally add links and descriptions too

I created a simple, low cost alternative to square appointments called Unstuck (beunstuck.me). You can use it for managing virtual appointments (booking page, payment handling, creating event). I use it for my math tutoring business, and am hoping other tutors and content creators can use it to connect with their audience in a different way.

Becoming Studs Terkel for the gig economy. Working with people who have done different gig / freelance jobs successfully and asking them how they did it... (a no-bs, show your numbers alternative to the YouTube gurus...)

https://highestpayinggigs.com/

I have been working on a universal Calendar app for Apple platforms, as iOS, iPadOS, watchOS and macOS specifically; named Clendar -- it's Calendar without an "a", I know, I'm not good at naming. [0][1]

My goal is to learn SwiftUI and explore new technologies.

The app is now open source on GitHub as well, it's my way to give back to the community as I was learning it. [3]

Feedback welcome!

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[1] Download link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/clendar-a-calendar-app/id15481...

[2] Landing page: https://vinhnx.github.io/clendar-site

[3] GitHub: https://github.com/vinhnx/Clendar

Hope you all have a great weekends! :)

Form automation (generator) javascript library (with vanilla JS/react/svelte support out of the box)

https://github.com/lgirma/boost-web/tree/master/boost-web-fo...

Scratched my own itch on a few things recently ...

Simple mood/symptom tracker: https://howsyourblank.com

I have almost six months of data in it myself, and I am excited to see what my "year-n-pixels" looks like at the end of the year.

Leaderboard app: https://leaderboardhq.com

My family plays a card game that includes 9 rounds with a cumulative score. This app is tailored for that, but I made it generic enough with a few basic settings so that it can be pretty universally applicable.

Blog by sms/text: https://textpost.me

Saw another project like this, but built it out the way I wanted to see it work for me. Pretty much the only blogging/journaling practice that allows me to remain consistent.

I'm working on Asana CLI, at first I wanted to work on asanawarrior, but realised that I'd like to support more of the collaborative aspects of Asana in the terminal, so that's what I'm doing.

Also it makes sense to have work-related tasks and personal tasks split into two.

My side projects are mainly Open Source JavaScript libraries

* LIPS: https://lips.js.org/ Powerful Scheme-based Lisp interpreter in JavaScript

* jQuery Terminal: https://terminal.jcubic.pl/ for building CLI applications in Browser

* Sysend.js: https://github.com/jcubic/sysend.js for sending messages to other tabs/windows in same browser

* Favloader: https://github.com/jcubic/favloader Favicon animation library

I am writing a basic database from scratch in C++, trying not to use any third party dependencies. I followed bits of the cmu videos to get started. It's not something I knew about before starting but it's a lot of fun and I got to learn a lot so far.

I was tired of paying a bunch of money for 5-second user tests on the bigger UI testing platforms, so I made a free option. https://isthisclear.com/

I've been building a few nodejs + vuejs apps in order to round out my typescript skills lately, but my real side project doesn't involve a single line of code.

I'm writing a book about career advice for programmers titled "Junior to Senior" that will be published later this year by Holloway[0]. It's been years in the making and there's still some work left, but it's been encouraging to hear the positive feedback since I announced it publicly.

[0]: https://www.holloway.com/b/junior-to-senior

Chess game with Purescript Halogen and Purescript Bridge: https://github.com/peterbecich/halogen-chess

I built https://webcamplus.app last year. It is a very basic app that just lets you use your iPhone as a 1080p usb webcam for Mac.

SmartEdit Biz -- an editing Add-In for Word and PowerPoint for business users to help in editing documents. It looks for things like excessive use of jargon and buzz words, word and phrase repetition, terminology inconsistencies and formatting issues.

It's a sister product to my existing creative writing Add-In but with a different focus and feature set.

Only a sign-up form exists at this time, but the creative writing Add-In gives a good indication of how it will work.

https://www.smart-edit.com/

I'm currently working on an open-source "sand-table", an art piece drawing infinite patterns in sand (as an alternative to Sisyphus).

It runs of a Raspberry Pi Zero and all parts will be 3d-printable or off-the-shelf.

Here's the current status of it: https://imgur.com/a/jmnR5Tk

Also writing updates and progress here: https://www.reddit.com/r/shibusa/

https://www.usertrack.net - Self-hosted analytics.

Initially I was marketing the platform to end-users that have just a few websites, but it receives more interest from web agencies that want to get userTrack for their own clients. Although my goal is to promote self-hosting and decentralization, I think enabling agencies to use a self-hosted solution instead of popular SaaS alternatives is a good start.

Windows 10 userland driver for the Sony DualShock 3 Controller (https://github.com/ViGEm/DsHidMini)

SOCKS5-Proxifier-DLL for anti-censorship tunnel solutions (https://github.com/nefarius/socksifier)

And many more :) , currently working on a bot for a Discord Community with dotnet core and RavenDB.

I've been cleaning my house, and binging old anime like dragon ball and sailor moon. Aside from that, dabbling in tabletop game design. Usually card focused role-playing.

I’ve been motivated many times in my life to change my diet to improve my physical and financial wellness. I’ve always found making these changes to be difficult and time consuming. I started building https://freshbatch.io to make it easier for myself and others who feel my pain. We’re opening it up slowly to private beta users this month if you’re interested in seeing more.

I am working on peer to peer serverless media sharing and chat application that works in the browser.

https://github.com/prettydiff/share-file-systems

I am thinking about adding screen capture/video sharing and file system synchronization

This application has already done wonders for automation across my home network, but it seems there is no interest in the idea.

Big fan of Pocket, the article saver, but noticed that I wouldn't read much of the articles saved in Pocket. However, I do check my email multiple times a day, so my buddy and I made a tool to email a random Pocket article to ourselves once a day. We are able to get through 5-7 articles a week now. https://www.savedzero.com/login

If you're running Google Lighthouse manually, you might want to check out a tool I'm building - https://OnlineOrNot.com - it automatically monitors your page speed (as well as uptime, and soon Puppeteer checks). It uses Google Lighthouse v8.0.0 as of this yesterday.

We have a free tier with no time limit or credit card required, if you want to check it out.

I'm trying to build a pastebin for links - https://shelf.gg/

Working on an Idea Tracker to....keep track of my ideas. Maybe more at some point. And learn some laravel8/inertia/vue/etc. while i'm at it.

https://github.com/shmooth/ideatracker

I'm also trying to figure out a web stack I like for side projects going forward.

This one is not it.

And neither is any other one.

Feedo: An RSS/Atom reader that feels like an SPA but it is not.

Built 100% on JavaScript, using node, express, prisma, tailwind and unpoly.

Just invested a weekend and a couple more hours after work this week, so not many features and not well tested yet, but works.

https://github.com/msurdi/feedo

I’ve been learning SwiftUI and building an encrypted social network app. It’s called Circles, and it’s almost ready to go.

https://github.com/KombuchaPrivacy/circles-ios

Next I need to make the Android version. I’m hearing a lot of good things about Flutter.

I studying biology to grow mycelium and run data analysis on growth rates and metabolism of fungi via microscopy. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27362285 Anybody biology-savvy interested in collaborating, leave a comment.

Discovering rising trends at https://treendly.com

I am currently working ItemFinder.io in my free time https://itemfinder.io/

I believe E-commerce do need metasearch engine. I launched it in couple of subreddits and got good feedback. Currently, I am working on following features

1. Compare multiple products

2. show shipping cost

3. show product detail

Audio Deck - https://avdeck.co

It's a clean music player with cloud storage and sharing, geared toward musicians and producers (i.e., me).

After years of native SDK development, I've switched to React Native and not looking back!

I've been working on J[ira]PT-3 (https://jirapt3.com/), a GPT-3 Product Management tool that writes your Jira tickets for you, turning user stories into fully-fledged feature tickets

I'm currently curating Initiator Creator, https://initiatorcreator.com which is a newsletter for all the professionals like us. Also, exploring React-Next-Firebase based projects.

I'm working on a visual search engine for screenshots, videos on iOS/macOS ( using OpenAI ClIP + Core ML )

https://www.producthunt.com/upcoming/sorting

My side project is Kingpin browser: https://kingpinbrowser.com/

It is private browser for Mac and Windows. Paid for Mac users and Free for Win (Win version still has some bugs)

Also experimenting with mobile development (for now a Progressive Web App) slowly building https://engramhq.xyz - the closest thing I can get to a brain computer interface

I'm the creator the of https://thegamingpub.com/. It's a weekly curated links newsletter for the gaming world.

Think of the Hacker Newsletter, but for games.

https://www.themediapedia.com/

A library for tracking video games. Written in Vue and Go. Looking to add TV, movies, and podcasts in the coming months.

https://gez.la - Virtual Tour Database

https://github.com/stfurkan/gez

Created a backend form API, https://formcake.com with friends last year and have been growing it ever since. Backend is all AWS, Nuxt, and Node.

Very simple Twitch stream previewer/switcher https://switchtwitch.com

Made it so I could stream multiple streamer's perspectives in a tournament.

Don't regret today: http://dontregrettoday.com/

Each day a different message/tweet/video to encourage you to own your day.

https://github.com/atomashpolskiy/bt

Has been my primary side project for the past 5 years. Looking for collaborators btw.

A cryptographic algorithm for practical white-box obfuscation.

https://github.com/haael/white-box-fapkc

Looking for contributors!

A generator of kleinian groups, featuring a dos-like terminal for non-iconizable commands and a Javascript transcompiler. I hope one day to embed the second into the first project.

Working on a faster web, trying to make a fast theme/framework for Shopify: https://airthemeone.com

A list of apps/ideas to copy and know people will pay for it. https://ideasfilter.com/

Having fun with https://www.taskfiler.com/ - an absurdly large list of to-do app reviews.

I have been running scrapingdog.com as my side project. This is a web scraping api which can scrape any website in just single GET request. I launched this last year.

I've bought an original Apple LaserWriter that I'm going to restore to working order. The first problem I have is sourcing a toner cartridge for it.

I'm currently working on a Storefront for Shopify Lite plan users.

https://tinystore.app

I have a daily newsletter that sends out quotes. https://bitcreek.ca

this week I've been hacking away on an advertising booking systems for people publishing email newsletters. I'd love to chat with people in this space! If you're interested, you can check it out - https://www.sponsaurus.com

Smart contracts / blockchain programming. Deploying contracts to the BSC mainnet for fun & profit.

A Reddit/HN clone. For the moderation system, each user uses their own user whitelist.

working on greeting website with french language https://textevoeux.link/

it's small, but, i've built an embeddable community platform: http://yen.chat

A companion app for a friend's board game

a proper todo list: https://supreme.li

Writing an operating system.

I have been wondering whats the best way to store my important web links, since chrome's bookmarks arent organized in a good way, you have to scroll through a long list, and sometimes they are lost as well. so i created a personal web link manager software for windows and works well with chrome. the idea is, just create a topic, add the links related to that topic, every link has a title and comments with which they can be later found using the search bar, an option of starred link is also added. check the software here at the link. https://github.com/PHANTOM9009/WEB-DICTIONARY.git