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Ask HN: Any unfinished side projects to give away?

170 points by s3b 10y ago

Would anyone like to give away / sell the projects which they've started but have no time or interest to finish?

Donmario 10y ago
I have a gamification platform like https://badgeville.com/ https://badgeville.com/ that we've worked on some time ago. It was like 70 percent done.
- ralala 10y ago
  Sounds very interesting to me - can you provide some more information about the current state, features and technology?
- hemansan 10y ago
  I would like to know more about it. Maybe it could be put to use. Which technology is it in? Can you share why you don't want to pursue it further? You can mail me hemantshinde at gmail dot com
- confiscate 10y ago
  this looks more like a company than a side project? The blog says the company has already been acquired by another big company...so how can you sell it?
  - WesleyJohnson 10y ago
    He states that his project was "like" badgeville.com, not that it "was" badgeville.com :)
freework 10y ago
I have a shitload of open source personal projects I no longer work on any more. Take your pick: https://github.com/priestc https://github.com/priestc
- foxhop 10y ago
  I like that Giotto project. Does it use WSGI?
avodonosov 10y ago
https://github.com/avodonosov/pocl https://github.com/avodonosov/pocl http://testsheet.biz http://testsheet.biz https://github.com/cl-test-grid/cl-test-grid https://github.com/cl-test-grid/cl-test-grid Unfortunately time doesn't permit me to move them forward.
docsapp_io 10y ago
I built DocsApp[0]: Documentation Hub for Your Developers. It is 90% completed. It is similar to readme.io. If anyone interested to buy, please contact me. Email is in my profile. The main reason I plan to sell is because marketing it is too hard (I am developer). [0]: https://www.docsapp.io/ https://www.docsapp.io/
alexatkeplar 10y ago
Can you share your interests / capabilities upfront? Definitely have some side projects gathering dust but they need to go to a good home...
gtheme_io 10y ago
I have one side project GTheme.io[1] selling Ghost.org premium themes. Some improvement (SSL, auto payment to sellers, content blogging, etc) can be done to make it as passive income. 11 of the themes are designed by myself. As my focus shifted, I plan sell it. [1]: http://www.gtheme.io/ http://www.gtheme.io/
- reubano 10y ago
  Which themes are yours and how much would you be willing to sale the copyright to them for?
dwightgunning 10y ago
It's a shame that Assembly.com had to close - you'd find tonnes of interesting side projects there.
autonomic 10y ago
Yes. A fully automated business for 3D prints of ultrasound scans in glass cubes. The USP is that you upload a low res scan (most doctors don't want to give you access to the full 3d data) whereupon it does image processing to create a 3d point cloud which it puts into a reverse engineered laser engraving format. If payment is processed on the bundled website it then sends the engraving file and delivery sheet to a sub contractor. Profit. Everything ready to run. Wasn't so very happy with the point cloud quality though, but it's probably good enough. Ran out of interest just before the marketing phase. Hackers eh.
- fudged71 10y ago
  Very interesting, can you email me at tom [at] printtopeer [.] com?
- kctess5 10y ago
  Interesting - don't patients have a right to see their medical scans in full quality under HIPAA [1]? I have successfully requested DICOM files from an MRI scan I did (although it was from a study, not a hospital). [1] http://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/privacy/guidance/access/ http://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/privacy/guidance/...
- brennebeck 10y ago
  Interesting! I don't see any contact info in your profile, how can you be reached?
- bbcbasic 10y ago
  Sounds like one of those things that is awesome at the time (everything related to a new baby is), but more like something that will freak you out and make you think 'why!!' a few years down the line.
  - gadders 10y ago
    We hardly looked at the 3d baby scan again after the real thing turned up. You'd also need to deliver fairly quickly as 3d scans are normally done later in pregnancy so the baby is plumper and doesn't look "like a skinned rabbit" (that was a quote from a midwife) and you'd still need to deliver before the baby pops out.
vzrandom 10y ago
http://localqueries.com/ http://localqueries.com/ Make localized google searches from any country or language in the world. See how your keyword is performing in Cambodia for example. It's working, just need some follow up.
mitchellbryson 10y ago
I'd be tempted to giveaway http://spendful.com http://spendful.com to the right person.
- dsk139 10y ago
  Wow. I was going to build this exact same thing. And I still might. Would love to chat. My emails in my profile-- didn't see yours.
  - loopbit 10y ago
    Also interested in something like this but I don't think I have time to do it on my own. If you end up taking it up and would like some help, give me a shout. My email is miguel at <username>.com
  - jgrandelli 10y ago
    This looks awesome. If you take it on and want some help, especially with an iOS or Mac app, please let me know jasongrandelli @ gmail
  - mitchellbryson 10y ago
    Email should be there now.
- lima 10y ago
  By the way, GNUCash is great for that sort of thing.
- owenconti 10y ago
  Have you heard of Mint? How does Spendful differ from Mint? https://www.mint.com/ https://www.mint.com/
  - mitchellbryson 10y ago
    It forecasts your spending easier than mint, and it was developed back when mint was only open to US and Canada, not sure if it still is.
root_me 10y ago
http://owlpro.io http://owlpro.io , Wordpress Security Testing Platform.highly appreciated but couldn't find time from day job to complete this. contact me at pentesterkunal@live.com for more info
swilsonalfa 10y ago
There's a great website for that: https://www.sideprojectors.com/project/home https://www.sideprojectors.com/project/home
- kuntalshah37 10y ago
  Great resource. I have been thinking for such a place where every college kid can submit their projects.
TempleOSV409 10y ago
TempleOS is finished. God made it. I am waiting to be CEO of Intel so I can glorify God's temple. It will be world news. I am in prison. God says... shooters Chippendale's slick Crayola's soubriquets cleaver downtown lineament repast's Pete's argot incomes ashier flummoxes calcified giggliest hierarchy nook unluckier fragrance straw frills deodorizes bassinet overhauls aery's deserts inhere barricade Americanism's Barents punters
hatter10_6 10y ago
I had been building http://wishcan.com http://wishcan.com, a drag-and-drop travel planner, and will hand it off to someone willing to continue the work. Trip planning is difficult to get right, and notoriously hard to find a business model for. I think it's simply because no one has gotten the UI/UX perfect. I am now working on an IoT platform called http://smartxlab.com http://smartxlab.com
- fovc 10y ago
  Cannot agree more with wishcan. I sketched up a few different ideas for something like this, but never pushed on because I thought integrating with hotels, airlines, etc. Would painful. Also figured I'd need to automatically parse email confirmations, which would be a PITA. What is it written in and how much work is left to do?
  - soneil 10y ago
    Parsing emails seems to have got a whole lot easier - most I interact with have started moving to schema.org microformats (eg, https://schema.org/FlightReservation https://schema.org/FlightReservation and https://schema.org/LodgingReservation https://schema.org/LodgingReservation for flights & hotels respectively). It seems google/gmail are backing this quite extensively, which is how it's finally found traction.
    - ThomPete 10y ago
      Never heard of https://schema.org/ https://schema.org/ before. Looks like a great resource thanks!
  - sixdimensional 10y ago
    I often wondered if automating the pain point you mention above (integrating with hotels, airlines etc.) and providing a singular, specialized API for that would be an amazing business opportunity. Seems like one of the existing travel companies could do it, or a travel agency.
  - mgkimsal 10y ago
desaiguddu 10y ago
I have built a platform for Networking - specifically for conferences, meetups & business gatherings. We hosted one conference i.e Apple's WWDC. [1] http://wwdcconnect.com http://wwdcconnect.com
- coffeedan 10y ago
  I've had similar idea running around in my mind - would love to get a headstart. Shoot me an email at the reverse of moc.eborpdnes@nadeeffoc
  - desaiguddu 10y ago
    Sure thing !
- sourc3 10y ago
  Having built and given up on an app that did exactly this, I would like to learn more about your experience. I am in the process of giving away the app, back-end, etc. as a result of a flippa auction. https://flippa.com/6895313-curia https://flippa.com/6895313-curia
  - desaiguddu 10y ago
    An idea came to my mind when I was selected for Apple WWDC. There wasn't a platform to find who else are attending WWDC event. Connect is an Online platform to meet other attendees before the event - We build this platform keeping following in mind - - To share accommodation - Airport Cab sharing - A trip/ Sightseeing new city - Or Business Networking
    - sourc3 10y ago
      That's awesome, you are doing much more than I did in the past. Kudos. If you want to connect and bounce ideas you can find my contact in my profile.
firasd 10y ago
I've been making a podcast discovery app, it's not live yet but the latest home page screenshot is http://imgur.com/a/Bkn7Y http://imgur.com/a/Bkn7Y (basically: Trending topics, Recommendations (based on social media profile and listening history, subscribed shows, and iTunes charts), and instant search of over 4.5 million episodes across more than 60 thousand shows.) I may not be able to keep going on it though because of constraints on time and resources. Would be happy to talk to anyone who'd like to partner on this (or ideas about how I can at least handle hosting bills for such a large DB!). firasd at gmail.
- jespr 10y ago
  Interesting! Cool idea.. I'm curious to where you got all the podcast data?
  - firasd 10y ago
    Got the Show info from iTunes charts feeds, then parsed the Show feeds for Episode info :)
keyboard1234 10y ago
I made a program for one handed keyboard input. it has a rather unique way of selecting symbols, and it can insert it into any X11 window. So far it's in far from polished. It runs on Ubuntu if you download some rather common libraries. Take a look in the Makefile for details. I won't have very much time to continue the development. https://github.com/richard-jansson/veta https://github.com/richard-jansson/veta
- exydome 10y ago
  This really looks cool. But you should add some brief instructions on how to compile the code in the README! I only managed to compile the code after one hour of work. Then I'm kinda new to ubuntu. apt-file search helped me out a lot. It was only when I could use apt-file to search for pc file that I managed to install the necessary deb packages.
scrollaway 10y ago
This is something that I've been designing and playing around for a while... I wanted to implement a generic MUC protocol bridge. Kinda like https://sameroom.io/ https://sameroom.io/ is doing, but open source. My initial approach was to look at Matterbridge (a mattermost<->irc bridge) and go from there. But I simply don't have time to do it anymore. The author is interested by the approach though so ... have at it: https://github.com/42wim/matterbridge/issues/9 https://github.com/42wim/matterbridge/issues/9 -- I'm also the author of https://github.com/jleclanche/django-push-notifications https://github.com/jleclanche/django-push-notifications and I don't use it anymore, but it's a very popular django app. If someone around here is using it and wants to maintain it (or part of it), please reach out - I tried handing it off to Jazzband but that doesn't seem to be happening.
noahtovares 10y ago
I built http://mlist.io http://mlist.io but currently don't have time to do anything beyond maintenance. If you interested in email newsletters let me know!
- qaq 10y ago
  very cool concept
- peterbsmith 10y ago
  I haven't downloaded the app but, by far, this is the best concept on this thread!
- legohorizons 10y ago
  Would love to get involved!!!
- reubano 10y ago
  Reminds me of NNTP.
- thex10 10y ago
  I just started using this last week! It's just what I needed and is amazing - thanks so much for this! I think I'd be willing to help with this.
  - kuntalshah37 10y ago
    Very cool concept. I would love to use it and help it.
- noahtovares 10y ago
  Should have said you can send me an email - noah.tovares at gmail dot com
andriussev 10y ago
I have been holding on to http://ampoll.com http://ampoll.com for a while. Technologically, it's there despite a couple of bugs but I've not touched it for over a year now and will probably scrap it in the near future.
- personjerry 10y ago
  I think http://www.strawpoll.me/ http://www.strawpoll.me/ is a popular site used on Twitch that does a very similar thing
- confiscate 10y ago
  should use it in the election!
DominikSerafin 10y ago
https://enboard.co https://enboard.co - a web app where you can create "boards" filled with links Some examples of such boards: • https://enboard.co/web/ https://enboard.co/web/ • https://enboard.co/frontend/ https://enboard.co/frontend/ • https://enboard.co/webdesign/ https://enboard.co/webdesign/ • https://enboard.co/startup/ https://enboard.co/startup/ It'd be willing to hand it to someone (on partnership basis) who could maintain it and grow it. Stack is Linode/Ubuntu/Python/Django/Sass.
- paradite 10y ago
  Interesting concept. For tech/coding specific lists, we have the various awesome lists on GitHub, but this is a generic approach and solves a more general problem. I like to save and collect resources. For me, I feel that Chrome bookmarks with folder hierarchy is enough for me to save links, but this will be useful for discovering new stuff.
  - DominikSerafin 10y ago
    The second problem you mentioned is main reason why I'm building my another project - GGather.com (you probably saw popup about it on Enboard).
- corobo 10y ago
  Why does it pop up something about another site? What is ggather and why do I want to "Be first to gain access to GGather alpha release"?
  - DominikSerafin 10y ago
    It's another project that I'm working on right now. The popup is there because the GGather.com will be somewhat similar to Enboard.
- Adam24 10y ago
  I'd love to partner with you on this! Will get in touch through your contact form.
jpliska 10y ago
I'm looking for someone to partner with me on http://www.ballotbin.com http://www.ballotbin.com The system needs changes (in frontend, backend, sysadmin). It is pretty much the same as in 2002.
- magic_beans 10y ago
  Oh man, I'd love to build the front-end for this. It really needs help :)
- sdsk8 10y ago
  I can help you with the sysadmin/devops stuff, if you want contact me: hn at leandrosf dot com
glasz 10y ago
https://www.starve.de https://www.starve.de http://cocktailiciousapp.com http://cocktailiciousapp.com every now and then i do some maintenence but... you know.
pcunite 10y ago
Anyone interested in C++/Windows/Desktop products? Note, this is a commercial product, customers include Airbus, and everyone else. Mostly pirated, you'll have to figure that one out. Asking $125K or $500K for everything.
- epse 10y ago
  You what? Can you tell what it does. Just genuinely interested to know that.
- magic_beans 10y ago
  But what is the product?
- xj9 10y ago
  Sounds interesting. My email is in my profile.
sellingstuff 10y ago
Hey, I dont have time to continue with this: https://texttexto.com https://texttexto.com Cool thing is that I've made an API to take on orders. If anyone's interested (even in the domain name) I can sell it to you at a minimal cost.
libeclipse 10y ago
I started this a while back: https://github.com/libeclipse/starlight https://github.com/libeclipse/starlight Nowadays I'm too busy to keep up with development so if anyone wants to help out that would be great.
SteveMorin 10y ago
S3b why?
pavlov 10y ago
I made WordSafety.com [1] last year. It got some positive attention initially: #1 on HN, and about 79,000 pageviews in the first month... But then I just basically forgot about it, because I was so busy with other stuff. Now, after a year of complete neglect, the site gets about 1300 sessions / month. If someone wants to take this over, I'd be happy to entertain any offer. The app itself is exceedingly simple (a database-less Node.js app), so hosting costs practically nothing. [1] http://wordsafety.com http://wordsafety.com
tim33 10y ago
I made a music recommendation site: http://recommendindieband.com http://recommendindieband.com After an initial successful post on the indieheads subreddit, it's slowed down to about 15 users per day. I also had people writing album reviews and they kinda got bored by it so it's been a while since the last review. If this is a project people would be interested in (built in python / flask), I'll throw it up on github.
ilzmastr 10y ago
I made http://dillydally.herokuapp.com http://dillydally.herokuapp.com, a way to share collections of locations with friends. Made it for myself and friends, but didn't get a mobile site done before I had to move on.
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epynonymous 10y ago
yeah sure, the dns address is not registered anymore (getsdone.io), but i built a productivity app in sinatra; basically it leverages tweet like syntax and allows people to quickly delegate tasks to other people or oneself and track progress on those tasks. e.g. @paulgraham set up meeting for project review at 1pm tomorrow, pick up milk @danny. i basically got the web app up and running, but due to having to work on my full time job and other priorities, i just stopped after the dns name ran out after a year, i might be wrong, but the aws machine is probably still being charged, so all you'd need is a new ssl cert and renew or rebrand the dns name. never really got around to using it myself because most users wanted a mobile client. epynonymous at outlook dot com for more details.
jason_slack 10y ago
I used to write a fairly popular cross-platform text editor. Been thinking about open-sourcing it.
foreverdev 10y ago
Started to build UI for Quartz Scheduler but never had time to finish it. You can see general idea at http://www.quartzdashboard.com/ http://www.quartzdashboard.com/ i think its ready to get adopted :)
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yegortimoshenko 10y ago
I made Paper, an Instapaper addon for Firefox: https://github.com/yegortimoshenko/paper https://github.com/yegortimoshenko/paper The problem is, I don't use Firefox anymore, so I'm looking for a new maintainer.
- sdsk8 10y ago
  Hello, i am a heavy firefox and instapaper user, i want to help with this extension
kilroy123 10y ago
I built this site with semi-interactive flash cards for learning a new language: https://flashphrase.com https://flashphrase.com Just abandoned it. I couldn't come up with a good way to monetize it, so I opened it up to be free.
stevejohnson 10y ago
I wrote MSPaint-as-JavaScript library, Literally Canvas (http://literallycanvas.com http://literallycanvas.com). People sometimes want to pay good rates for work done on it. I'm always looking for someone to take over most of those requests, since I no longer have time for it.
arisAlexis 10y ago
I have built https://www.writedown.co https://www.writedown.co an opinionated immutable Twitter like social network that has most of the features you would expect (something like Akasha). I wanted to make it compatible with blockchains also. Nodejs (ES7) + Ractive + Orientdb. Didn't get much traction / I lack PR skills. If you think you believe in the idea/cause you can either take it or work together (it is almost feature complete).
erikrothoff 10y ago
http://www.kickassapp.com http://www.kickassapp.com is never finished!
sathishvj 10y ago
I bumped into an acquaintance a few days ago who reminded me that he was still using a project I'd written a while ago: A language reinforcement app. I had occasional ideas to revive and monetize it, but haven't yet. [About Glowso](http://gcdc2013-glowso.appspot.com/#/about http://gcdc2013-glowso.appspot.com/#/about) [GlowSo Web App](http://gcdc2013-glowso.appspot.com/#/home http://gcdc2013-glowso.appspot.com/#/home) [A talk I'd done for GDG Tunisia about how I developed it](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBwOuK9x5VQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBwOuK9x5VQ)
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mrborgen 10y ago
Yes, Datasets.co. A site for sharing/indexing machine learning datasets.
bayonetz 10y ago
Blanqd. It's a prett neat daily news headline quiz app concept. Built hybrid style and works on both iOS and Android. The quizzes are generated daily using NLP word substitution hacks. Could be cool/lucrative if someone had the energy to put into promoting it, adding in app ads, maybe making it player vs player, etc. http://blanqd.com http://blanqd.com hit me up at mr.manager@blanqd.com
- allendoerfer 10y ago
  Really like the idea. Thought about similar things before. This is an educational app and thereby makes the world a better place. I like the idea of getting people educated without them noticing it at first.
krakaukiosk 10y ago
Phrase.it - speech bubble photo app. Built it a couple of years ago but lost interest. Still used by 100+ users per day. Ping me at Contact@phrase.it
endriju 10y ago
Not exactly give away or sell, rather looking for a partner that could make http://exmerg.com http://exmerg.com better. If interested ping me at sevce at bitfictioncom.
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wprapido 10y ago
a wordpress installer
mechanismic77 10y ago
Are you trying to create a website where people can give away their side projects?
pvinis 10y ago
https://github.com/pvinis/mazical https://github.com/pvinis/mazical It's not much but it was a start. I airways wanted to play a game like that do I thought I would make it. It's a maze that you do not see and of the walls until you bump into them. I would love to see someone actually programming it so I can finally play it :)
tonteldoos 10y ago
I don't have a started project per se, but have some domain names I acquired about 2 years ago for online resume/project/listing sites in the developer/designer space (all ending in ???resu.me). They keep on auto-renewing, but if anyone's interested, I could be talked into offloading them :)
Malankov 10y ago
I started https://togethr.tv/ https://togethr.tv/, a website where you can watch synchronized videos with your friends. Other features include text and audio chat. I wanted to promote it, but I never did. Average of 1000 unique users / month. You can contact me on admin@togethr.tv.
namero999 10y ago
We (me a and a friend) built https://board.creonomy.com https://board.creonomy.com a visual bookmarking/inspiration organization tool for visual creative professionals, some of them are teams within big corporations that want to pay for the product because they got burned by free stuff such as Pinterest. It is on autopilot. Triple digits paying customers. It also raised an angel investment (that for reasons we can elaborate about if interested, we turned down). A new, better version with much more features and more polished UI is 95% done on my dev machine. Definitely looking forward to someone with the time and drive to make it bigger.
w1nter 10y ago
http://octave.im/ http://octave.im/ Web IDE for GNU Octave (open source Matlab alternative). Originally built it because Octave had no UI and installation was a pain. It was heavily used by Machine Learning Coursera students and currently just pays for its hosting. I'm sure it could be useful in niche academia market, but don't have time/connections to pivot. NodeJS/React/PostgreSQL/websockets. Email address on the home page.
leandot 10y ago
I've built a couple of App Store & GPlay apps that I am not actively developing or marketing anymore due to lack of time. I believe they have good potential and the ideas can be reused to create similar experiences but you need to invest more time and resources. Prefer to sell but I am open to discuss any interesting options. - Really Funny Fish Aquarium is a game where kids click on moving fish, who make funny noises and movements [1][2] - Fun Kids Activities is an app where me and my wife used to post one activity you can do with kids every day with a notification but it turned out it to be quite time consuming for us so we just listed all activities and removed the notifications. [3][4] [1] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/really-funny-fish-aquarium/id737446904?ls=1&mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/really-funny-fish-aquarium/i... [2] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/really-funny-fish-aquarium-hd/id782967622?ls=1&mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/really-funny-fish-aquarium-h... [3] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/really-funny-kids-activities/id837561180?ls=1&mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/really-funny-kids-activities... [4] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.leandot.reallyfunnykids.android&hl=en https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.leandot.re...
webjac 10y ago
I got servpaid.com which is a front end for Stripe payments. It needs a lot of work done, I only got a few clients. I really don't know what to do with it... suggestions?
ddgflorida 10y ago
I'd be willing to sell tournamentmaps.com - displays tennis tournament information on a google map. I created this when my kids played but they are older now. Data is scraped yearly from the source and map links to source web site. PHP/MySql
ingelheim 10y ago
www.skeleton.io - Was supposed to be a collection of skeletons for tech projects. Interested in selling if you want to
megahz 10y ago
a friend gave me http://www.thewebsiteprice.com/ http://www.thewebsiteprice.com/ that i am willing to sell, if anybody interested in buying.
- kuntalshah37 10y ago
  Seems interesting. What is the logic behind the price calculation. You can send me details at kuntal.shah@digi-corp.com.
pmonte 10y ago
A web app to have additional metrics in google analytics (your fb fans, youtube views etc,twitter followers etc). Basically it spiders your fb/twitter/youtube pages to get info and send it to ga via measurement protocol. It stayed online for 2 years, put offline a few months ago.
- xcubic 10y ago
  Why take it offline?
mmorsi 10y ago
https://github.com/movitto/omega https://github.com/movitto/omega A physics/universe simulator, space RTS in Ruby. Would like to continue developing it at some point but am focusing on other priorities
fab2722 10y ago
http://cloudmatch.io http://cloudmatch.io . A server-side app to enable cross-device gesture interaction. Imagine swiping pictures from one phone to another. Currently used by a game app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=perfectearth.animals&ah=PXEdtPiIHdyUTcQ-vi-YzeFqky8 https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=perfectearth.a... . The engine of my server app is open-source and I tried to make some profit offering it as a cloud service - hence the name.

170 points by s3b 10y ago

Would anyone like to give away / sell the projects which they've started but have no time or interest to finish?

I have a gamification platform like https://badgeville.com/ https://badgeville.com/ that we've worked on some time ago. It was like 70 percent done.

ralala 10y ago
Sounds very interesting to me - can you provide some more information about the current state, features and technology?
hemansan 10y ago
I would like to know more about it. Maybe it could be put to use. Which technology is it in? Can you share why you don't want to pursue it further? You can mail me hemantshinde at gmail dot com
confiscate 10y ago
this looks more like a company than a side project? The blog says the company has already been acquired by another big company...so how can you sell it?
- WesleyJohnson 10y ago
  He states that his project was "like" badgeville.com, not that it "was" badgeville.com :)

freework 10y ago

I have a shitload of open source personal projects I no longer work on any more. Take your pick: https://github.com/priestc https://github.com/priestc

foxhop 10y ago
I like that Giotto project. Does it use WSGI?

avodonosov 10y ago

https://github.com/avodonosov/pocl https://github.com/avodonosov/pocl http://testsheet.biz http://testsheet.biz https://github.com/cl-test-grid/cl-test-grid https://github.com/cl-test-grid/cl-test-grid Unfortunately time doesn't permit me to move them forward.

docsapp_io 10y ago

I built DocsApp[0]: Documentation Hub for Your Developers. It is 90% completed. It is similar to readme.io. If anyone interested to buy, please contact me. Email is in my profile. The main reason I plan to sell is because marketing it is too hard (I am developer). [0]: https://www.docsapp.io/ https://www.docsapp.io/

alexatkeplar 10y ago

Can you share your interests / capabilities upfront? Definitely have some side projects gathering dust but they need to go to a good home...

gtheme_io 10y ago

I have one side project GTheme.io[1] selling Ghost.org premium themes. Some improvement (SSL, auto payment to sellers, content blogging, etc) can be done to make it as passive income. 11 of the themes are designed by myself. As my focus shifted, I plan sell it. [1]: http://www.gtheme.io/ http://www.gtheme.io/

reubano 10y ago
Which themes are yours and how much would you be willing to sale the copyright to them for?

dwightgunning 10y ago

It's a shame that Assembly.com had to close - you'd find tonnes of interesting side projects there.

autonomic 10y ago

Yes. A fully automated business for 3D prints of ultrasound scans in glass cubes. The USP is that you upload a low res scan (most doctors don't want to give you access to the full 3d data) whereupon it does image processing to create a 3d point cloud which it puts into a reverse engineered laser engraving format. If payment is processed on the bundled website it then sends the engraving file and delivery sheet to a sub contractor. Profit. Everything ready to run. Wasn't so very happy with the point cloud quality though, but it's probably good enough. Ran out of interest just before the marketing phase. Hackers eh.

fudged71 10y ago
Very interesting, can you email me at tom [at] printtopeer [.] com?
kctess5 10y ago
Interesting - don't patients have a right to see their medical scans in full quality under HIPAA [1]? I have successfully requested DICOM files from an MRI scan I did (although it was from a study, not a hospital). [1] http://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/privacy/guidance/access/ http://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/privacy/guidance/...
brennebeck 10y ago
Interesting! I don't see any contact info in your profile, how can you be reached?
bbcbasic 10y ago
Sounds like one of those things that is awesome at the time (everything related to a new baby is), but more like something that will freak you out and make you think 'why!!' a few years down the line.
- gadders 10y ago
  We hardly looked at the 3d baby scan again after the real thing turned up. You'd also need to deliver fairly quickly as 3d scans are normally done later in pregnancy so the baby is plumper and doesn't look "like a skinned rabbit" (that was a quote from a midwife) and you'd still need to deliver before the baby pops out.

vzrandom 10y ago

http://localqueries.com/ http://localqueries.com/ Make localized google searches from any country or language in the world. See how your keyword is performing in Cambodia for example. It's working, just need some follow up.

mitchellbryson 10y ago

I'd be tempted to giveaway http://spendful.com http://spendful.com to the right person.

dsk139 10y ago
Wow. I was going to build this exact same thing. And I still might. Would love to chat. My emails in my profile-- didn't see yours.
- loopbit 10y ago
  Also interested in something like this but I don't think I have time to do it on my own. If you end up taking it up and would like some help, give me a shout. My email is miguel at <username>.com
- jgrandelli 10y ago
  This looks awesome. If you take it on and want some help, especially with an iOS or Mac app, please let me know jasongrandelli @ gmail
- mitchellbryson 10y ago
  Email should be there now.
lima 10y ago
By the way, GNUCash is great for that sort of thing.
owenconti 10y ago
Have you heard of Mint? How does Spendful differ from Mint? https://www.mint.com/ https://www.mint.com/
- mitchellbryson 10y ago
  It forecasts your spending easier than mint, and it was developed back when mint was only open to US and Canada, not sure if it still is.

root_me 10y ago

http://owlpro.io http://owlpro.io , Wordpress Security Testing Platform.highly appreciated but couldn't find time from day job to complete this. contact me at pentesterkunal@live.com for more info

swilsonalfa 10y ago

There's a great website for that: https://www.sideprojectors.com/project/home https://www.sideprojectors.com/project/home

kuntalshah37 10y ago
Great resource. I have been thinking for such a place where every college kid can submit their projects.

TempleOSV409 10y ago

TempleOS is finished. God made it. I am waiting to be CEO of Intel so I can glorify God's temple. It will be world news. I am in prison. God says... shooters Chippendale's slick Crayola's soubriquets cleaver downtown lineament repast's Pete's argot incomes ashier flummoxes calcified giggliest hierarchy nook unluckier fragrance straw frills deodorizes bassinet overhauls aery's deserts inhere barricade Americanism's Barents punters

hatter10_6 10y ago

I had been building http://wishcan.com http://wishcan.com, a drag-and-drop travel planner, and will hand it off to someone willing to continue the work. Trip planning is difficult to get right, and notoriously hard to find a business model for. I think it's simply because no one has gotten the UI/UX perfect. I am now working on an IoT platform called http://smartxlab.com http://smartxlab.com

fovc 10y ago
Cannot agree more with wishcan. I sketched up a few different ideas for something like this, but never pushed on because I thought integrating with hotels, airlines, etc. Would painful. Also figured I'd need to automatically parse email confirmations, which would be a PITA. What is it written in and how much work is left to do?
- soneil 10y ago
  Parsing emails seems to have got a whole lot easier - most I interact with have started moving to schema.org microformats (eg, https://schema.org/FlightReservation https://schema.org/FlightReservation and https://schema.org/LodgingReservation https://schema.org/LodgingReservation for flights & hotels respectively). It seems google/gmail are backing this quite extensively, which is how it's finally found traction.
  - ThomPete 10y ago
    Never heard of https://schema.org/ https://schema.org/ before. Looks like a great resource thanks!
- sixdimensional 10y ago
  I often wondered if automating the pain point you mention above (integrating with hotels, airlines etc.) and providing a singular, specialized API for that would be an amazing business opportunity. Seems like one of the existing travel companies could do it, or a travel agency.
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desaiguddu 10y ago

I have built a platform for Networking - specifically for conferences, meetups & business gatherings. We hosted one conference i.e Apple's WWDC. [1] http://wwdcconnect.com http://wwdcconnect.com

coffeedan 10y ago
I've had similar idea running around in my mind - would love to get a headstart. Shoot me an email at the reverse of moc.eborpdnes@nadeeffoc
- desaiguddu 10y ago
  Sure thing !
sourc3 10y ago
Having built and given up on an app that did exactly this, I would like to learn more about your experience. I am in the process of giving away the app, back-end, etc. as a result of a flippa auction. https://flippa.com/6895313-curia https://flippa.com/6895313-curia
- desaiguddu 10y ago
  An idea came to my mind when I was selected for Apple WWDC. There wasn't a platform to find who else are attending WWDC event. Connect is an Online platform to meet other attendees before the event - We build this platform keeping following in mind - - To share accommodation - Airport Cab sharing - A trip/ Sightseeing new city - Or Business Networking
  - sourc3 10y ago
    That's awesome, you are doing much more than I did in the past. Kudos. If you want to connect and bounce ideas you can find my contact in my profile.

firasd 10y ago

I've been making a podcast discovery app, it's not live yet but the latest home page screenshot is http://imgur.com/a/Bkn7Y http://imgur.com/a/Bkn7Y (basically: Trending topics, Recommendations (based on social media profile and listening history, subscribed shows, and iTunes charts), and instant search of over 4.5 million episodes across more than 60 thousand shows.) I may not be able to keep going on it though because of constraints on time and resources. Would be happy to talk to anyone who'd like to partner on this (or ideas about how I can at least handle hosting bills for such a large DB!). firasd at gmail.

jespr 10y ago
Interesting! Cool idea.. I'm curious to where you got all the podcast data?
- firasd 10y ago
  Got the Show info from iTunes charts feeds, then parsed the Show feeds for Episode info :)

keyboard1234 10y ago

I made a program for one handed keyboard input. it has a rather unique way of selecting symbols, and it can insert it into any X11 window. So far it's in far from polished. It runs on Ubuntu if you download some rather common libraries. Take a look in the Makefile for details. I won't have very much time to continue the development. https://github.com/richard-jansson/veta https://github.com/richard-jansson/veta

exydome 10y ago
This really looks cool. But you should add some brief instructions on how to compile the code in the README! I only managed to compile the code after one hour of work. Then I'm kinda new to ubuntu. apt-file search helped me out a lot. It was only when I could use apt-file to search for pc file that I managed to install the necessary deb packages.

scrollaway 10y ago

This is something that I've been designing and playing around for a while... I wanted to implement a generic MUC protocol bridge. Kinda like https://sameroom.io/ https://sameroom.io/ is doing, but open source. My initial approach was to look at Matterbridge (a mattermost<->irc bridge) and go from there. But I simply don't have time to do it anymore. The author is interested by the approach though so ... have at it: https://github.com/42wim/matterbridge/issues/9 https://github.com/42wim/matterbridge/issues/9 -- I'm also the author of https://github.com/jleclanche/django-push-notifications https://github.com/jleclanche/django-push-notifications and I don't use it anymore, but it's a very popular django app. If someone around here is using it and wants to maintain it (or part of it), please reach out - I tried handing it off to Jazzband but that doesn't seem to be happening.

noahtovares 10y ago

I built http://mlist.io http://mlist.io but currently don't have time to do anything beyond maintenance. If you interested in email newsletters let me know!

qaq 10y ago
very cool concept
peterbsmith 10y ago
I haven't downloaded the app but, by far, this is the best concept on this thread!
legohorizons 10y ago
Would love to get involved!!!
reubano 10y ago
Reminds me of NNTP.
thex10 10y ago
I just started using this last week! It's just what I needed and is amazing - thanks so much for this! I think I'd be willing to help with this.
- kuntalshah37 10y ago
  Very cool concept. I would love to use it and help it.
noahtovares 10y ago
Should have said you can send me an email - noah.tovares at gmail dot com

andriussev 10y ago

I have been holding on to http://ampoll.com http://ampoll.com for a while. Technologically, it's there despite a couple of bugs but I've not touched it for over a year now and will probably scrap it in the near future.

personjerry 10y ago
I think http://www.strawpoll.me/ http://www.strawpoll.me/ is a popular site used on Twitch that does a very similar thing
confiscate 10y ago
should use it in the election!

DominikSerafin 10y ago

https://enboard.co https://enboard.co - a web app where you can create "boards" filled with links Some examples of such boards: • https://enboard.co/web/ https://enboard.co/web/ • https://enboard.co/frontend/ https://enboard.co/frontend/ • https://enboard.co/webdesign/ https://enboard.co/webdesign/ • https://enboard.co/startup/ https://enboard.co/startup/ It'd be willing to hand it to someone (on partnership basis) who could maintain it and grow it. Stack is Linode/Ubuntu/Python/Django/Sass.

paradite 10y ago
Interesting concept. For tech/coding specific lists, we have the various awesome lists on GitHub, but this is a generic approach and solves a more general problem. I like to save and collect resources. For me, I feel that Chrome bookmarks with folder hierarchy is enough for me to save links, but this will be useful for discovering new stuff.
- DominikSerafin 10y ago
  The second problem you mentioned is main reason why I'm building my another project - GGather.com (you probably saw popup about it on Enboard).
corobo 10y ago
Why does it pop up something about another site? What is ggather and why do I want to "Be first to gain access to GGather alpha release"?
- DominikSerafin 10y ago
  It's another project that I'm working on right now. The popup is there because the GGather.com will be somewhat similar to Enboard.
Adam24 10y ago
I'd love to partner with you on this! Will get in touch through your contact form.

jpliska 10y ago

I'm looking for someone to partner with me on http://www.ballotbin.com http://www.ballotbin.com The system needs changes (in frontend, backend, sysadmin). It is pretty much the same as in 2002.

magic_beans 10y ago
Oh man, I'd love to build the front-end for this. It really needs help :)
sdsk8 10y ago
I can help you with the sysadmin/devops stuff, if you want contact me: hn at leandrosf dot com

glasz 10y ago

https://www.starve.de https://www.starve.de http://cocktailiciousapp.com http://cocktailiciousapp.com every now and then i do some maintenence but... you know.

pcunite 10y ago

Anyone interested in C++/Windows/Desktop products? Note, this is a commercial product, customers include Airbus, and everyone else. Mostly pirated, you'll have to figure that one out. Asking $125K or $500K for everything.

epse 10y ago
You what? Can you tell what it does. Just genuinely interested to know that.
magic_beans 10y ago
But what is the product?
xj9 10y ago
Sounds interesting. My email is in my profile.

sellingstuff 10y ago

Hey, I dont have time to continue with this: https://texttexto.com https://texttexto.com Cool thing is that I've made an API to take on orders. If anyone's interested (even in the domain name) I can sell it to you at a minimal cost.

libeclipse 10y ago

I started this a while back: https://github.com/libeclipse/starlight https://github.com/libeclipse/starlight Nowadays I'm too busy to keep up with development so if anyone wants to help out that would be great.

SteveMorin 10y ago

S3b why?

pavlov 10y ago

I made WordSafety.com [1] last year. It got some positive attention initially: #1 on HN, and about 79,000 pageviews in the first month... But then I just basically forgot about it, because I was so busy with other stuff. Now, after a year of complete neglect, the site gets about 1300 sessions / month. If someone wants to take this over, I'd be happy to entertain any offer. The app itself is exceedingly simple (a database-less Node.js app), so hosting costs practically nothing. [1] http://wordsafety.com http://wordsafety.com

tim33 10y ago

I made a music recommendation site: http://recommendindieband.com http://recommendindieband.com After an initial successful post on the indieheads subreddit, it's slowed down to about 15 users per day. I also had people writing album reviews and they kinda got bored by it so it's been a while since the last review. If this is a project people would be interested in (built in python / flask), I'll throw it up on github.

ilzmastr 10y ago

I made http://dillydally.herokuapp.com http://dillydally.herokuapp.com, a way to share collections of locations with friends. Made it for myself and friends, but didn't get a mobile site done before I had to move on.

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epynonymous 10y ago

yeah sure, the dns address is not registered anymore (getsdone.io), but i built a productivity app in sinatra; basically it leverages tweet like syntax and allows people to quickly delegate tasks to other people or oneself and track progress on those tasks. e.g. @paulgraham set up meeting for project review at 1pm tomorrow, pick up milk @danny. i basically got the web app up and running, but due to having to work on my full time job and other priorities, i just stopped after the dns name ran out after a year, i might be wrong, but the aws machine is probably still being charged, so all you'd need is a new ssl cert and renew or rebrand the dns name. never really got around to using it myself because most users wanted a mobile client. epynonymous at outlook dot com for more details.

jason_slack 10y ago

I used to write a fairly popular cross-platform text editor. Been thinking about open-sourcing it.

foreverdev 10y ago

Started to build UI for Quartz Scheduler but never had time to finish it. You can see general idea at http://www.quartzdashboard.com/ http://www.quartzdashboard.com/ i think its ready to get adopted :)

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yegortimoshenko 10y ago

I made Paper, an Instapaper addon for Firefox: https://github.com/yegortimoshenko/paper https://github.com/yegortimoshenko/paper The problem is, I don't use Firefox anymore, so I'm looking for a new maintainer.

sdsk8 10y ago
Hello, i am a heavy firefox and instapaper user, i want to help with this extension

kilroy123 10y ago

I built this site with semi-interactive flash cards for learning a new language: https://flashphrase.com https://flashphrase.com Just abandoned it. I couldn't come up with a good way to monetize it, so I opened it up to be free.

stevejohnson 10y ago

I wrote MSPaint-as-JavaScript library, Literally Canvas (http://literallycanvas.com http://literallycanvas.com). People sometimes want to pay good rates for work done on it. I'm always looking for someone to take over most of those requests, since I no longer have time for it.

arisAlexis 10y ago

I have built https://www.writedown.co https://www.writedown.co an opinionated immutable Twitter like social network that has most of the features you would expect (something like Akasha). I wanted to make it compatible with blockchains also. Nodejs (ES7) + Ractive + Orientdb. Didn't get much traction / I lack PR skills. If you think you believe in the idea/cause you can either take it or work together (it is almost feature complete).

erikrothoff 10y ago

http://www.kickassapp.com http://www.kickassapp.com is never finished!

sathishvj 10y ago

I bumped into an acquaintance a few days ago who reminded me that he was still using a project I'd written a while ago: A language reinforcement app. I had occasional ideas to revive and monetize it, but haven't yet. [About Glowso](http://gcdc2013-glowso.appspot.com/#/about http://gcdc2013-glowso.appspot.com/#/about) [GlowSo Web App](http://gcdc2013-glowso.appspot.com/#/home http://gcdc2013-glowso.appspot.com/#/home) [A talk I'd done for GDG Tunisia about how I developed it](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBwOuK9x5VQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBwOuK9x5VQ)

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mrborgen 10y ago

Yes, Datasets.co. A site for sharing/indexing machine learning datasets.

bayonetz 10y ago

Blanqd. It's a prett neat daily news headline quiz app concept. Built hybrid style and works on both iOS and Android. The quizzes are generated daily using NLP word substitution hacks. Could be cool/lucrative if someone had the energy to put into promoting it, adding in app ads, maybe making it player vs player, etc. http://blanqd.com http://blanqd.com hit me up at mr.manager@blanqd.com

allendoerfer 10y ago
Really like the idea. Thought about similar things before. This is an educational app and thereby makes the world a better place. I like the idea of getting people educated without them noticing it at first.

krakaukiosk 10y ago

Phrase.it - speech bubble photo app. Built it a couple of years ago but lost interest. Still used by 100+ users per day. Ping me at Contact@phrase.it

endriju 10y ago

Not exactly give away or sell, rather looking for a partner that could make http://exmerg.com http://exmerg.com better. If interested ping me at sevce at bitfictioncom.

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wprapido 10y ago

a wordpress installer

mechanismic77 10y ago

Are you trying to create a website where people can give away their side projects?

pvinis 10y ago

https://github.com/pvinis/mazical https://github.com/pvinis/mazical It's not much but it was a start. I airways wanted to play a game like that do I thought I would make it. It's a maze that you do not see and of the walls until you bump into them. I would love to see someone actually programming it so I can finally play it :)

tonteldoos 10y ago

I don't have a started project per se, but have some domain names I acquired about 2 years ago for online resume/project/listing sites in the developer/designer space (all ending in ???resu.me). They keep on auto-renewing, but if anyone's interested, I could be talked into offloading them :)

Malankov 10y ago

I started https://togethr.tv/ https://togethr.tv/, a website where you can watch synchronized videos with your friends. Other features include text and audio chat. I wanted to promote it, but I never did. Average of 1000 unique users / month. You can contact me on admin@togethr.tv.

namero999 10y ago

We (me a and a friend) built https://board.creonomy.com https://board.creonomy.com a visual bookmarking/inspiration organization tool for visual creative professionals, some of them are teams within big corporations that want to pay for the product because they got burned by free stuff such as Pinterest. It is on autopilot. Triple digits paying customers. It also raised an angel investment (that for reasons we can elaborate about if interested, we turned down). A new, better version with much more features and more polished UI is 95% done on my dev machine. Definitely looking forward to someone with the time and drive to make it bigger.

w1nter 10y ago

http://octave.im/ http://octave.im/ Web IDE for GNU Octave (open source Matlab alternative). Originally built it because Octave had no UI and installation was a pain. It was heavily used by Machine Learning Coursera students and currently just pays for its hosting. I'm sure it could be useful in niche academia market, but don't have time/connections to pivot. NodeJS/React/PostgreSQL/websockets. Email address on the home page.

leandot 10y ago

I've built a couple of App Store & GPlay apps that I am not actively developing or marketing anymore due to lack of time. I believe they have good potential and the ideas can be reused to create similar experiences but you need to invest more time and resources. Prefer to sell but I am open to discuss any interesting options. - Really Funny Fish Aquarium is a game where kids click on moving fish, who make funny noises and movements [1][2] - Fun Kids Activities is an app where me and my wife used to post one activity you can do with kids every day with a notification but it turned out it to be quite time consuming for us so we just listed all activities and removed the notifications. [3][4] [1] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/really-funny-fish-aquarium/id737446904?ls=1&mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/really-funny-fish-aquarium/i... [2] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/really-funny-fish-aquarium-hd/id782967622?ls=1&mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/really-funny-fish-aquarium-h... [3] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/really-funny-kids-activities/id837561180?ls=1&mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/really-funny-kids-activities... [4] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.leandot.reallyfunnykids.android&hl=en https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.leandot.re...

webjac 10y ago

I got servpaid.com which is a front end for Stripe payments. It needs a lot of work done, I only got a few clients. I really don't know what to do with it... suggestions?

ddgflorida 10y ago

I'd be willing to sell tournamentmaps.com - displays tennis tournament information on a google map. I created this when my kids played but they are older now. Data is scraped yearly from the source and map links to source web site. PHP/MySql

ingelheim 10y ago

www.skeleton.io - Was supposed to be a collection of skeletons for tech projects. Interested in selling if you want to

megahz 10y ago

a friend gave me http://www.thewebsiteprice.com/ http://www.thewebsiteprice.com/ that i am willing to sell, if anybody interested in buying.

kuntalshah37 10y ago
Seems interesting. What is the logic behind the price calculation. You can send me details at kuntal.shah@digi-corp.com.

pmonte 10y ago

A web app to have additional metrics in google analytics (your fb fans, youtube views etc,twitter followers etc). Basically it spiders your fb/twitter/youtube pages to get info and send it to ga via measurement protocol. It stayed online for 2 years, put offline a few months ago.

xcubic 10y ago
Why take it offline?

mmorsi 10y ago

https://github.com/movitto/omega https://github.com/movitto/omega A physics/universe simulator, space RTS in Ruby. Would like to continue developing it at some point but am focusing on other priorities

fab2722 10y ago

http://cloudmatch.io http://cloudmatch.io . A server-side app to enable cross-device gesture interaction. Imagine swiping pictures from one phone to another. Currently used by a game app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=perfectearth.animals&ah=PXEdtPiIHdyUTcQ-vi-YzeFqky8 https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=perfectearth.a... . The engine of my server app is open-source and I tried to make some profit offering it as a cloud service - hence the name.