irooster
K-BOOM
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irooster
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Ask HN: Publish old projects even though the source code embarrasses you by now?
I just published the source code for the first app I ever built, all the way back in 2003: https://github.com/aaronbrethorst/irooster
It "turns your Mac into a $2,000 alarm clock."
I originally made it because I had endless amounts of trouble waking up for my morning classes in college, and found that the only alarm that could get me up was a subwoofer right underneath my bed. So I hooked a 2.1 speaker system up to my Mac, wrote a little app to start playing an iTunes playlist at a particular time, and ended up productizing it.
It was never a huge commercial success; I think the best I ever did with it was about $2,000 in sales one month after Apple featured it in a newsletter (different times!), but it taught me several important lessons about building a commercial software product that still guide me today.
Enjoy checking out my super janky code!
K-BOOM
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Ask HN: Publish old projects even though the source code embarrasses you by now?
Recently I dug out the source code for a game a friend and myself made in school in 1997. It was amazing to compile it, which it did flawlessly in a DOS/Turbo Pascal emulation. Playing it with my kids was an amazing experience. The code is definitely something I would be embarassed about from a readability/maintenance standpoint today. But on the other hand it can play back video on a 80286 processor :) And I believe everyone understands that you make progress over the years. So I can recommend it, go for it!
My game is available at Github here:
https://github.com/mrichtarsky/K-BOOM
What are some alternatives?
ancient-3d-for-turboc
trualias - Mentally computable verification codes for email aliases implemented as a postfix tcp table or milter; uses asyncio.
transmit - Final Project for Distributed Web Systems (Fall 2016)
ghostedit - Usability focused WYSIWYG editor
lunchplanner - (VERY old code I keep for self reference, this is supposed to be a joke anyway)