What are you building over the holidays?

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by lowglow • 13 years ago

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The holidays are here, and it's the perfect time to dive into a project. So spill it. What are you building?

lowglow6• 13 years ago

I'm working on extension services for http://techendo.co/

CisSovereign2• 13 years ago

What's it going to entail?

lowglow6• 13 years ago

Working on extending tribes into a service people can use around the world to help entrepreneurs and projects in their area.

tjarratt• 13 years ago

Working on a ruby gem that makes it easier to use software defined radios. My goal is to let someone write a police scanner in 10 lines of ruby.

https://github.com/tjarratt/turtleshell

lowglow6• 13 years ago

Would you be willing to give a talk about this at a future SFHN (San Francisco Hacker News) event? (https://www.facebook.com/groups/gosfhn/)

younata3• 13 years ago

Been playing with iBeacons today: https://github.com/younata/Apartment

Other than that, more work on my flight simulator: http://younata.com/

lowglow6• 13 years ago

How have you been finding iBeacons?

younata3• 13 years ago

what do you mean?

It's built in to corelocation in iOS 7... You can even use an iOS device as an iBeacon...

younata3• 13 years ago

assuming by "finding" you mean liking.

The api makes it very easy to use. I would like to get a generic beacon I can just slap on my door and forget about for 6 months or so, rather my current hack of using another one of my idevices to play with this.

As it is, I'll probably just get a raspi with a bluetooth le dongle, and use that (when my phone gets really close to the door, it unlocks the door, is the thought).

CisSovereign2• 13 years ago

Using the extra time to finish up an initial version of http://www.flatdoc.com/.

Other than that, working on an a bitcoin price comparison site for bitcoin to track your different coin balances and at which prices you bought and sold (pure for fun)

lowglow6• 13 years ago

I just signed up for flatdoc! Interested in the arbitrage opportunities your bitcoin site might be able to provide. :)

japhyr2• 13 years ago

I'm continuing to work on http://introtopython.org, an open resource for people interested in teaching and learning Python.

I unwrapped my first good set of headphones in years this morning, so spending some time coding is even more enjoyable.

lowglow6• 13 years ago

can I link to this on techendo? We're going to start building out our learning services and links.

japhyr2• 13 years ago

Certainly! If you have any questions I'm happy to answer them, and email is in my profile.

madsushi• 13 years ago

I'm taking it easy and just rebuilding by Linode with 64-bit Ubuntu (instead of the 32-bit Ubuntu I picked years ago) so I can try out HHVM. HHVM seems interesting, but there's no 32-bit build, so I need to document and migrate to a new server instance.

ashokvarma2• 13 years ago

I'm working on a highly requested feature at http://reportgarden.com for templates and automatic reports

ocfx• 13 years ago

I'm building my trophy collection on AC4

Slix• 13 years ago

I'm going to work on a college grade tracker web app because I'm a student and spreadsheets are annoying.

notastartup• 13 years ago

working on an automatic data extraction API http://scrape.it

CJefferson• 13 years ago

Up until today, Christmas dinner for 9. Now I'm planning on working on some Turkey sandwiches.

albumedia• 13 years ago

Currently working on http://ultralighthq.com - basically an aircraft marketplace.

mpweiher• 13 years ago

Native code generation for Objective-Smalltalk http://objective.st

pentium10• 13 years ago

Adding some enhancements to Beanstalk Console https://github.com/ptrofimov/beanstalk_console/

manume2• 13 years ago

Yesterday I released Ruby Docs - Fast and searchable Ruby and Rails docs http://ruby-docs.org/

jalcine2• 13 years ago

Why not split this into sub modules? Like letting Rails have its own portion so that you can add in this like Sinatra, Nokogiri and the likes?

manume2• 13 years ago

I don't fully understand... are you talking about Git submodules? Or just allowing to generate the docs for any Ruby project? The latter is already high up on the feature list... :) (feel free to reply in the Disqus comments on ruby-docs.org, I don't check the comments on HN very often)

jzellis• 13 years ago

Writing a book about tech and innovation in East Africa. Just got back from a month-long research trip to Kenya and Uganda.

droidoverwifi2• 13 years ago

Building http://droidoverwifi.com free app

lazyfunctor• 13 years ago

Wow, I really wanted something like this. Thanks. Gave it a try, looks like it crashes whenever I try to upload a file.

ashayh• 13 years ago

You've miss-spelled "unlimeted".

Good luck.

droidoverwifi2• 13 years ago

Building http://droidoverwifi.com

Isofarro• 13 years ago

Building a website that can help manage/organise/monitor private link networks, or be a dashboard/admin for multiple websites hosted on a variety of web hosts.

awjr• 13 years ago

Building resistance to a flu variant. :(

jfi• 13 years ago

Working on two chrome extensions! I've been putting some polish on one that enables you to mute people on Twitter (https://github.com/jeffreyiacono/penalty-blox). The other is not yet published (soon though) and lets you send tabs from your comp to your friend's comp. It's been pretty neat to be browsing around and have a new tab pop up that was sent from my friend who is using the extension too.

koenbok• 13 years ago

Framer 3 with cleaner code and rewritten animation backend so we can play around with more physics effects in ui prototypes.

http://www.framerjs.com

jalcine2• 13 years ago

Finishing up a MVP at 4:30 AM EST. No biggie.

pouzy• 13 years ago

Rebuilding www.friendsvite.com with AngularJS instead of crappy Jquery. But I'll only work on it in the plane though, without a web connection. Makes it spicy.

alexanderb• 13 years ago

Adding new features to https://likeastore.com

wsieroci• 13 years ago

Adding some improvements to my project (keyword research tool for Google): http://metrics11.com

aboodman• 13 years ago

Been working on Camlistore: http://camlistore.org/

It's still quite early, but it's starting to look a little like something that might be useful someday.

abeiz• 13 years ago

Trying to get my poker app to beta https://bitflop.me

defied• 13 years ago

Writing a NodeJS daemon to better manage VM spawning at http://testingbot.com

shayanbahal• 13 years ago

Instagram Python-Django API

ttty• 13 years ago

Anti-gravity tower 2D defense game (3 days) for browser (Javascript):

- Build hanging towers (where you want, really);

- Enemies can destroy your towers;

- You can move object freely in the world by dragging it;

- You can upgrade your towers (interface built with backbone + bootstrap)

- The damage is calculated with the force of impact of the bullet (in next version you can change the bullet type: slowing action, mines/explosions...).

- You can build crates (will be named crap in next version)

Play now here in browser (no download, ~600KB): https://webdesignporto.com/

r3nd• 13 years ago

Learning to fly my self built and coded arduino/nodejs quadcopter drone. https://github.com/fluentart/drone2

aaronbrethorst• 13 years ago

Building a proper github issues app for iOS that'll allow me to filter and sort open bugs in my projects.

I'm planning on releasing the source under some sort of OSS license and eventually releasing the app for free on the App Store. Follow me on twitter if you want to learn when it's released in either capacity.

rb2nxt• 13 years ago

virtual machine image to run the nextcoin wallet in an isolated environment. Currently for virtualbox, looking at delivering a live CD. http://nextcoinbox.github.io/nextcoinbox/

babby• 13 years ago

NodeJS article/blog module. Think Ghost.js but more in the form of a module (not only a "package/platform"). I'm really just building it for somewhat selfish reasons; be a portfolio piece, run a portfolio, to speed up a high-traffic blog and to experiment with ways of creating content more efficiently for users (Such as built in infrastructure for adding article templating + web scraping + markdown for text bodies and comments etc.).

Ideally I'd love for there to be a way to explicitly modify database structure, easily and predictably, and have it all just work in several SQL dialects, so that you could meld the engine and the admin interface etc. to any project whether it's a blog or not. I feel like most of these bloggy engines make database structure either invisible or too difficult to understand and minipulate.

Definitely want to open source it proper, build it to be extendable etc. Don't care about competing with anything else, just want to be another option out there. Nothing all that special but maybe my use-cases will create something that fills a niche.

pedalpete• 13 years ago

Building an IDE, hopefully more integrated to the way we actually work.

Concours• 13 years ago

I'm working on http://www.feedsapi.com and on a small side-project for the Hacker News crowd, I hope to have it ready today for review.

NicoJuicy• 13 years ago

A club management web application... Not a dance club, but more like a sport club. It can also be used for events and logging revenue, guests, ... and generate some reports (graphs or PDF) arround it. The good thing will be the checkin process, i thought hard on minimizing the input form... Creating it was less of a hassle :P

First release will be in dutch (had some prospects before i build it), but everything is ready for localisation :)

stelabouras2• 13 years ago

We have been building Horizon, a universal iOS app that brings an end to vertical videos, allowing users to always shoot horizontally. It is set to be released in the following days!

http://evilwindowdog.com/horizon

zebra2• 13 years ago

But this will bring the resolution down, right?

stelabouras2• 13 years ago

The resulting video can still be up to 1080p but it will be a portion of the original, depending on which mode the user will choose. The app supports both fixed & dynamic frame modes. The dynamic one will adjust the frame based on the device's rotation (much like the interactive demo you can see on our website) :)

zebra2• 13 years ago

Project crystallizer in the form of nested tree todo with drag-n-drop and other bells and whistles.

Its goal is to help you when you project grows and you can't contain it in your head anymore. The ordinary todos didn't worked for me when the projects became brain suckers if you know what I mean.

(edit: added description)

pepicon• 13 years ago

I just switched to Android from iOs and missed a lot PlainText. It lets you edit any txt sitting in your dropbox (tasks.txt?), with a very smooth sync - you don't have to touch anything to save your edits or to get the latest version from the cloud. Simple and fast, my kind of tool.

I searched a lot and gave Google Keep a chance, but it has no API so I can't write on it through Alfred or Terminal. Also the sync is crazy as sometimes takes MINUTES to an updated file appear on my mobile. The dropbox app is not good for my needs too because it requires too many steps to see the updated file - when I start it and the file is already open I need to go back to the files list and get back to the file so it can refresh.

So I decided to build it.

My surprise was that dropbox supplies the entire code for an app with its API (Notes Example) that's very, very, very similar to PlainText! Two days using and nothing seems to be missing or not functioning well. So no coding, just compiling ;-)

3stripe2• 13 years ago

Love bikes? You might like this...

I'm planning to extend my MVP at http://my.cyclelove.net/ to include physical products, printed with a customised graphic of your bike.

Eg http://my.cyclelove.net/deluxe/ but with your bike logo printed to order on a tshirt, iPhone cover, stickers etc.

Currently researching possible suppliers including the likes of https://www.shirts.io and http://www.stickermule.com/ (no API?)

3stripe2• 13 years ago

PS. If you're US-based and would like to be a beta tester email me via http://www.cyclelove.net/contact/

(1) Send me a photo of your bike (2) I will immortalise it as a myCycleLove logo (3) Your myCycleLove will then be printed to a t-shirt of your choosing and mailed to you

RossM• 13 years ago

I'm attempting to write shoddy, lazy code that creates a working prototype. I have a stack of ideas that are really quite small applications, however I keep trying to build them 'properly', as an API-first client-side application, which ends up with these projects never getting finished.

Just finished the first prototype - a don't-break-the-chain app in a single PHP file (embedded HTML, the horror). It's liberating!

krapp• 13 years ago

-Wordpress plugin to display stuff from Github

-Threaded outbound link aggregator

-Brochure site for somebody

-Lots and lots of "Hello World" tutorials for Android

collyw• 13 years ago

Nothing. My keyboard keeps playing up. Responding to HN posts is frustrating enough.

js7• 13 years ago

A social site.. if I ever get a chance. Really busy with family, friends, good food and good drink!

aes• 13 years ago

A human-friendly JSON-like serialization format.

Time permitting, a simple bitcoin gambling site.

Time permitting, a really easy way to do microdonations.

fatback• 13 years ago

A RaspberryPi/PiFace-based Trivia game

https://github.com/SandyWalsh/trivia-box/tree/master/pi

https://twitter.com/TheSandyWalsh/status/415600847184465920/...

dantle• 13 years ago

Wrote an app[1] to help Windows tablet users operate push-to-talk apps (like Ventrilo, Mumble, or TeamSpeak) without external hardware.

My first time playing with old Win32 GUI stuff, and my first blog entry!

[1] http://blog.dantler.us/2013/12/23/using-push-to-talk-ventril...

jozan• 13 years ago

I'm learning Meteor and building a recipe site with it. So far basic features are covered and I'll continue working on UI and more advanced features in the following days.

bradleyland• 13 years ago

Lego Fallingwater. Slowly. It's a great break from computing.

http://architecture.lego.com/en-us/products/architect/fallin...

kosmetika• 13 years ago

I was building these days ngDialog.js - http://likeastore.github.io/ngDialog/ provider and directive for easy modal dialogs for Angular.js applications! No jQuery or any dependency needed, check it out!

w001y• 13 years ago

I'm building a dashboard interface for a REST API I built allowing folks to work game mechanics into their apps or processes for really cheap - https://gamify.ws

Zuph• 13 years ago

Building a toaster oven reflow soldering controller.

droope• 13 years ago

bulding some feautures into mitmproxy!

http://github.com/mitmproxy/mitmproxy

harpb• 13 years ago

BiteRant mobile app - for leaving tips on menu entries of a restaurant. Working on figuring out the Android and JSON mashup.

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