Ask HN: Which personal projects got you hired?

• treebender

  1 39 0.0 Rust

  A HDPSG-inspired symbolic natural language parser written in Rust

• epanet-js

  6 97 0.0 TypeScript

  Model a water distribution network in JavaScript using the OWA-EPANET engine

  

I created a handful of application around water engineering/modelling [1], plus an open source library to run the simulations in javascript [2].

A water utility in Spain spun off a start up to create a similar web based water modelling application and they used my open source library.

They approached me and I joined them and have been able to maintain the open source library as part of my role.

[1] https://github.com/modelcreate/epanet-js#featured-apps

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  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.

  

• fast-sqlite3-inserts

  11 363 0.0 Rust

  Some bunch of test scripts to generate a SQLite DB with 1B rows in fastest possible way

• py-caskdb

  14 1,120 3.3 Python

  (educational) build your own disk based KV store

• gitarena

  4 81 3.6 Rust

  Software development platform with built-in vcs, issue tracking and code review

GitArena - https://github.com/mellowagain/gitarena

GitArena is a GitHub/Gitea/GitLab clone written in Async Rust using Tokio and Actix-Web on the backend and server-rendered HTML with htmx for interactivity.

I commented on the "Who wants to be hired?" thread of this month with this being my main portfolio show-off project. It worked and I have gotten already 2 job offers now.

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

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