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Ask HN: Show off your weekend project

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What's the coolest thing you've built in a single weekend? I find that the more weekends it takes me to finish a project, the less likely I am to finish it, so I'm interested in what people have managed to squeeze into a weekend.

Links to the deployed project or code are appreciated!

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rezashirazian
I built a Pokemon Go map and anonymous chat over a weekend couple of months ago. I ended up hating the project because it kept getting rejected by Apple for a whole week and when it went through there were already ton of similar apps.

Either way I released the code if anyone is interested: It's Swift with Firebase backend

https://github.com/kingreza/Social-Go

ponyous
Less than a month ago I started working on this small app that lives in your taskbar and monitors your servers by doing HTTP requests. I built it because I needed/wanted it.

I plan to test it a bit more before I post it to /show. Feedback is welcome

https://github.com/meznaric/ServerStatusApp

maxencecornet
https://nomansskystreams.com

As I am obsessed with No man's sky lately, and I wanted to play with Twitch API, I built a web app + android app to watch No Man's Sky live streams, during a week-end 2 weeks ago

bert2002
https://www.ean-now.com/

In the need of ean codes for a product I created ean now so others dont face the same problem when they are once step in front of selling their products.

tmaly
I wrote a food dish by location web app

http://bestfoodnearme.com

As a way to solve a problem I have while trying to find great/healthy food when traveling. I am still working on improving the look.

I also used the project to teach myself Go

hacknat
I wrapped the zero-copy socket system call, for linux, for Golang:

https://github.com/nathanjsweet/zsocket

I've developed it quite a bit more now, but I got the basic functionality done in a weekend.

The thing I'm proudest of is that the project doesn't directly reference the cgo package, has no locks, but is threadsafe (the no locks took more than a weekend to do ;) ).

wingerlang
For the cool-factor, if you're in the right niche you might find it cool. Although it isn't super advanced and without example-code for the pure C parts I wouldn't have made it.

https://github.com/jontelang/syslogWindow

It displays the console output on jailbroken iOS devices, right on the screen.