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Ask HN: Weekend side projects?

16 points by bazookaBen ↗ HN
What weekend side projects are you working on?

I'm working on a mobile HTML5 social game that backends into Parse.

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pizza
Pro-tip for those without any: keep an ideas.txt file. Keep it on GitHub, too, so others can use it.
sergiotapia
Currently working on a Dota2 fansite with my brother. I'm really groking the usage of Mercurial for source control. It's really amazing.
decadentcactus
Right now, a chrome extension for Steam, adds a bit of functionality to the store. Some extra links, prices from all regions, probably some other crap too.

Currently the goals for it are to implement and use redis in a production site, learn to make a chrome extension, and just to get another thing launched. Possibly also to install/config a server from scratch (on Linode).

yolesaber
My friend Joseph (http://josephcurley.me) and I created ExploreMore as a fast and fun way to find interesting local events and happenings. We used Flask and the Eventful API. Feedback appreciated! http://bit.ly/O5b2jU
yossilac
Looks promising, but the event list was cut off at the bottom, with no way to scroll. It was not intuitive at first, but then I clicked the "See a list of events?" link and it was all pulled up - but then the search field was on top of the last event.
yolesaber
What browser and OS are you using?
unixpickle
Right now I'm working on a command-line utility for ripping albums off Youtube. It uses some music database APIs to lookup tracks for a specified album, and then finds individual youtube videos to rip for each track. Once a video is downloaded, it will be converted to m4a and metadata will be added to it as is available.
andthejets
Sounds like fun, but won't the quality be fairly bad?
zdeluna
I am making a language learning HTML5 game using the Kinect through the Zigfu API.
jamesjguthrie
I'm learning Xbox 360 (Xbox Live) Indie game development
adam-_-
More of a side project than a weekend project but I'm working on http://twitcherhq.com - a social media analytics and monitoring tool.
Donito
My stale side project (haven't worked on it for a bit), a fun way to chat anonymously with other random Facebook users -- http://www.letschattr.com. If you want to try it, you'll need a friend to use it at the same time as well (or use two windows).
stewie2
a photo processing tool on ipad.
dholowiski
More of a side project than a weekend project: http://localbeer.me - helps you discover locally brewed beer. I just added Facebook open graph actions last weekend
cdawzrd
How do I add breweries? I'm in Boston and there are none on the map, but we have tons of breweries.
dholowiski
I add them manually, state by state. I'm about 1/4 of the way thought (there are thousands). Regular users can add them too, but in practice nobody does.
yossilac
I like the idea, but I got to say the UI is a bit confusing... I really wanted to add a couple of places, but just couldn't figure out how.