Ask HN: What (side-)project are you working on?

• name-needed

  7 96 7.6 Rust

  🕹 A one man effort to produce an intuitive and high performance Dwarf Fortress-esque game. Needs a name.

I've been alternating between two long term Rust projects, which seems to work in keeping the motivation up for both!

A Dwarf Fortress-like game (and engine): https://github.com/DomWilliams0/name-needed

A x64 operating system: https://github.com/DomWilliams0/DomeOS

• userbase

  13 2,248 3.9 JavaScript

  Create secure and private web apps using only static JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.

  

I filled my own need with https://howsyourblank.com.

I have a minor, but chronic medical condition I am trying to get in check, and I just wanted something incredibly simple to identify good and bad days. I was inspired by "year in pixels" calendars.

And I took the opportunity to try out Userbase[0] and build something with a secure backend and no tracking, considering the potentially sensitive nature of it.

No plans for monetization at the moment. I could see adding more features such as tracking multiple data points, stats, correlations, notes, etc., and creating a premium version. I would need more users and feedback.

[0]https://userbase.com

• SurveyJS

  surveyjs.io featured

  Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

  

• dotfile

  9 99 4.8 Go

  Simple version control made for tracking single files

Dotfilehub: https://dotfilehub.com

I've always found various solutions that use git for sharing configuration files cumbersome. I set out to make my own simple version control system, and a lightweight web application where I can browse and edit them remotely. The main idea is that paths are aliased to simple names, so I can say `dotfile pull i3` and it will install https://dotfilehub.com/knoebber/i3 to ~/.config/i3/config

Overall the project is stable and I use it daily for all sorts of miscellaneous files.

• deltaflow

  1 10 3.2 Python

  A GPU-accelerated differentiable fluid simulator written in JAX.

A couple on and off, but most recently a GPU-accelerated differentiable fluid simulator: https://github.com/maxwells-daemons/deltaflow

• coprocessor.js

  2 11 0.0 JavaScript

  serial-based, nodejs-backed, remote code execution system

I'm working on a system hand off nodejs workloads over a serial port to another machine running some host software.

My intent is to easily write Internet-connected software for old machines where a host machine is doing all of the heavy lifting. I have been messing with 68k Macintosh systems first. The code is very much a work in progress that I am actively chipping away at, and not in a usable state just yet. I write a lot of nodejs professionally but haven't used C since college so its been a fun project.

nodejs software for the "modern" machine: https://github.com/CamHenlin/coprocessor.js

C software (targeted at a 68k mac) for the "slow" machine: https://github.com/CamHenlin/retro68-coprocessorjs-test

• dev-portal-frontend

  1 7 0.0 Vue

  A StackOverflow / Reddit / Disqus / Talkyard clone

• kanception

  10 72 0.0 JavaScript

Kanception.io

Open source recursive Kanban board https://github.com/hpennington/kanception

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com featured

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• cloud-from-scratch

  1 238 1.8

  Build yourself a private self-hosted full-stack personal cloud system.

This CloudFromScratch, right? https://github.com/technomada/cloud-from-scratch

I have a document for myself where I note down what I believe to be future industries — trying to time the market. In the same way you might've timed the market in the early part of the previous decade by betting on remote working becoming a pretty viable option (hindsight is 20/20 tho!)

Self-hosted for privacy reasons, to me, is like a bomb waiting to explode. Just like covid accelerated our habits around healthcare (Perhaps future generations will look down on those who don't wear a mask when one catches a cold, the same way we look down on those who don't wash their hands after using the toilet... but in the 17th century that wasn't a thing), I believe mass privacy-awareness will come with a major leak/event.

Looking forward to Apr 1st (if the beta is launched there and it won't be just April Fools' lol!

P.S: Feedback for feedback, if you're down? https://bychgroup.com/price-unlock/

• archivy

  25 3,148 4.4 Python

  Archivy is a self-hostable knowledge repository that allows you to learn and retain information in your own personal and extensible wiki.

  

I'm working on Archivy [0] - a knowledge management system built around extensibility.

[0]: https://archivy.github.io

• SearchStory

  3 2 0.0 JavaScript

  Lucene based search application to search your own history (notes, papers, browser history)

I came across that app a little while ago - it definitely inspired my current side project! https://github.com/SaahilClaypool/SearchStory which is a similar locally-hosted web app with a Lucene search index

• Clendar

  10 582 7.8 Swift

  Clendar - Minimal Calendar app. Written in SwiftUI.

I have been working on a universal Calendar app for Apple platforms, as iOS, iPadOS, watchOS and macOS specifically; named Clendar. [0][1]

My goal is to learn SwiftUI and explore new Apple 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

• sogdb

  8 7 0.0 Vue

  An open database for stadia games

I've been busy with a couple of projects

With a friend I build Kameleont.me ( https://kameleont.me/ ) - A link "shortener" where the url redirects to diffrent targets based on device or OS.

On my own I build SOGDb ( https://sogdb.com/ ) - An open database for all available Stadia games with filtering options for local/online multiplayer support and such.

• server

  2 1 0.0 TypeScript

  Scinna is a self-hosted screenshot sharing site (by scinna)

  

I'm building Scinna (https://scinna.app/)

It aims at being a fully featured server app to share screenshots, and will be having a desktop and android client. The far-far end goal is to have something as good as ShareX but self-hosted and cross platform. The client will feature a toolbox as the one found in ShareX which I really love but with the added benefit of allowing plugins to enrich it

• tubesync

  63 1,643 8.4 Python

  Syncs YouTube channels and playlists to a locally hosted media server

I've been working on and off on TubeSync, a PVR for YouTube:

https://github.com/meeb/tubesync

• bayes-bet

  1 7 8.7 Python

  Productionized NHL hockey model predictions with Django fontend

I wrote a bit about it in a blog post over the summer: http://everettsprojects.com/2020/08/18/modeling-the-nhl-bett...

There are other posts on my blog about this project. There are links directly to them in the GitHub README: https://github.com/evjrob/bayes-bet#associated-blog-posts

• qrxfil

  1 8 0.0 Rust

  Exfiltrate files via QR codes

qrxfil: file exfiltration across airgaps using QR codes.

https://github.com/OverkillGuy/qrxfil

Splits files across multiple QR codes for “sending” across air-gapped computer systems. Generates numbered PNG files to scan.

The codes contain metadata about chunk number (e.g. “007 of 078”) to enable out-of-order scanning.

It's a fun way to learn Rust, and a great trick to get terrified looks from security folks.

• pull-request-stats

  4 327 5.1 JavaScript

  Github action to print relevant stats about Pull Request reviewers

  

A Github action to print relevant stats about the pull request reviewers in team: https://github.com/flowwer-dev/pull-request-stats

• SaaSHub

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