Ask HN: What did you make this year?
Here, I'll even start.
In January I made http://wagr.herokuapp.com/ in a weekend. It takes a future-dated wager and, if things are still working, emails you on the date you told it to remind you to settle up.
In April I made http://www.redditlater.com/, which is basically Buffer for Reddit.
In May, I made https://addressbin.com/, an email-marketing service with few features to discern it from a circa-1990 mailing list.
In June, http://learnxinyminutes.com/ was hastily assembled and released. It contains community-provided quick code references for way more computer languages in way more human languages than I ever expected. This was probably the best thing I did this year. You may recall tutorials from this set hitting HN repeatedly for a short time until everyone was sick of it.
In December I rewrote the marketing copy for Address Bin to produce https://easyecourse.com/, which provides trickle email campaigns with a minimal interface.
But enough about me. What did you build in 2013?
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 62.2 ms ] thread-I made a wilderness survival game for 7DRL 2013. http://humbit.com/rogue/ It's not for everyone, but it did make a "Best of 2013" list for roguelikes.
-I made my own static site generator in PHP that uses S3/cloudfront. Because why not. The result is a fast blog I think looks great. http://jere.in
-I made Autumn.js, a library for hashing keys to colors. https://github.com/nluqo/autumn
-I just finished up (and am desperately looking for feedback on) http://letspaste.com/ a gaming screenshot site. I think this is a really neat idea, but I'm not sure if anyone gets it yet. It did teach me about a few JS libraries though: packery and hopscotch
My goal for 2014 is to start writing things people actually need/want and to get off of Dreamhost ASAP (yea I know).
I am going into 2014 strong as I just released an Android application that I will continue to improve in the coming months...
https://github.com/michaelcarrano/seven_minute_workout_andro...
and here http://profiles.wordpress.org/kennethrapp/
and here is an example of something i've been messing with this all semester: http://precis.gopagoda.com?url=https://news.ycombinator.com/...
None of it is brilliant or groundbreaking and almost none of it has made me a dime.
I also have two semesters of Java and C++ projects which should probably never see the light of day and a forum/HN clone in Laravel which does work but has been put on the back burner for months and months, and my own site which is currently running a half-arsed attempt at a custom PHP framework.
So yeah.
For me: I re-built Namecast (https://www.namecast.net) this year. It allows you to manage your DNS using Git and GitHub.
http://www.mememakerscript.com http://www.customqrscript.com http://demo.pinscriptpro.com
have a look
-PushPlan, a group decision making app: https://pushplan.meteor.com/huddles/pBpn7KJ7jtAqNbNrJ
(A better way for groups to brainstorm ideas and schedule events.)
This year I hope to bring the project to a level such that people brand new to programming can go from hello world to completing their first games and simple web apps. I aim to make the project section useful for experienced programmers who want a clear explanation of how to build interesting projects in Python.
It's on github: http://github.com/ehmatthes/intro_programming
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.avabodh.le...
This is (free on Android and paid on iOS) sketch recognition diagramming app.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/football-heroes/id543009156?...
It's something I've used myself for a while now and I created it as a digital download to learn more about validating an idea, selling digital products & marketing them.
weeee!
http://helpknow.com/apps/yayapad/ http://helpknow.com/apps/drumapp/ https://github.com/wktdev/soundstones http://interactiveaudio.wikiaudio.org/
A foreign exchange data platform.
Check it out on a tablet or desktop for the full experience.