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Ask HN: What did you build in March?

117 points by amoore 14y ago

I've enjoyed reading these in the past, and I think some folks who have recently built or launched something have enjoyed the brief publicity and chance to get some early feedback. So, If you built or launched something in March, let us know, and maybe even show it off with a link.

Lukeas14 14y ago
Just today finished building my web app search engine and directory http://www.iwaat.com http://www.iwaat.com (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3784625 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3784625). Still a ton of work and features left to build.
jgrahamc 14y ago
Not quite what you were looking for, but I built this: http://blog.jgc.org/2012/03/ambient-bus-arrival-monitor-from-hacked.html http://blog.jgc.org/2012/03/ambient-bus-arrival-monitor-from... and this: http://blog.jgc.org/2012/03/home-made-iphone-scanner-stand.html http://blog.jgc.org/2012/03/home-made-iphone-scanner-stand.h...
yatsyk 14y ago
Created one page site for browsing and filtering GitHub watches http://gh.hnresources.com/ http://gh.hnresources.com/
sycr 14y ago
Nothing overly ambitious. A jQuery plugin (https://github.com/jdjkelly/jQuery-haversine https://github.com/jdjkelly/jQuery-haversine) and a Chrome extension (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fljocfllbkbekpoaihfcocfphbljohgm https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fljocfllbkbekpoaih...)
nbertram 14y ago
https://arrangemyseat.com/ https://arrangemyseat.com/ :D
spazmaster 14y ago
We had a hack-day with our team and built this: http://eightmedia.github.com/hammer.js/ http://eightmedia.github.com/hammer.js/
espeed 14y ago
Bulbs 0.3 (http://bulbflow.com/overview http://bulbflow.com/overview), a Python framework for graph databases (released it in March, but started building the 0.3 in November).
IanDrake 14y ago
Virtual dog fighting - http://PuppyShowdown.com http://PuppyShowdown.com - OK, more like puppy pillow fighting. It's still rough around the edges and buggy, but I should have an update ready tonight or tomorrow to smooth things out.
- shpen 14y ago
  I really wanted to use it, but I gave up as soon as soon as I realized that Facebook is the only way to log in. Not everyone will trust your website, and requiring Facebook limits the number of users you will receive.
  - IanDrake 14y ago
    Yeah, I understand that. I've gone back and forth on it a bit. When I complete my vision for the site there's going to be a lot of fun features that depend on your social graph, so I decided it's worth it. The one thing I tried to avoid was asking for too many permission. The site only asks for basic permissions + your email address.
Turing_Machine 14y ago
Ebook creation software for the Mac: http://contraterrene.com/abulafia/ http://contraterrene.com/abulafia/
rfurmani 14y ago
It's been a good month: I'm about to launch http://workwolf.com http://workwolf.com : an online marketplace for parttime and odd jobs (which, for various reasons, I feel just does not exist) I've also had a number of conversations recently on the state of academic publishing and how it can be improved, so I put together a reddit-based interface to the arxiv pre-print server, where hopefully people can now discuss up and coming papers and let the cream naturally rise to the top: http://arxaliv.org/ http://arxaliv.org/ I'm also a developer on http://lmfdb.org/ http://lmfdb.org/ but that's a rather technical site for research mathematicians.
jfoucher 14y ago
I had a small part in the building of mention: http://mention.net http://mention.net
cperciva 14y ago
I built a high performance 99.999999999% durable key-value data store: http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2012-03-27-adding-durability-to-kivaloo.html http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2012-03-27-adding-durability...
- pestaa 14y ago
  Just so you know, kivaloo (or, more precisely, kiváló) means `excellent` in Hungarian. Good luck with the project!
par 14y ago
I started a blog in March, http://devcodehack.com http://devcodehack.com Working on a better RSS reader at the moment, hoping to launch it in April.
there 14y ago
I released Pushover, a mobile notification service with clients for Android and iOS. https://pushover.net/ https://pushover.net/ How I built it: http://jcs.org/notaweblog/2012/03/16/on_building_pushover/ http://jcs.org/notaweblog/2012/03/16/on_building_pushover/
- jurre 14y ago
  Very cool project and I enjoyed reading your notes. I'm going to look into using this for the project I'm currently working on.
- kaolinite 14y ago
  there, wow. Really nice service. I will get your Android app in a few days time. It would make me more confident in your service however if you could open-source the server software, and allow the client to connect to other servers. As there's no monthly charge, as far as I'm aware this shouldn't affect you negatively, but your call of course :-)
robinhouston 14y ago
An interactive animated cartogram ‘squishy map’ http://www.carbonmap.org/ http://www.carbonmap.org/
- jmah 14y ago
  This is great! Very impressive.
pbjorklund 14y ago
I built my first complete rails app interacting with a remote API. http://www.tweepsmanager.com http://www.tweepsmanager.com and then I put the repo up on github https://github.com/pbjorklund/Tweepsmanager https://github.com/pbjorklund/Tweepsmanager for everyone to see and judge. Some day im going to come back to it and walk through the commit history and see if I ever made any progress in my rails skillset. It's one of those everlasting work-in-progress projects, right now I'm not sure what functionality I want to provide. Right now im thinking about collecting data and drawing some conclusions. But that will probably be another app. It also made me realize that something like Sinatra + backbone would be a better fit. So I guess thats something atleast.
rwmj 14y ago
In libguestfs (part of our open source virtualization tools suite): - the ability to mount VM filesystems on the host via the API, which was a huge amount of work for a fairly small gain, mainly wrangling FUSE (https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2012/03/29/libguestfs-mount-local/ https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2012/03/29/libguestfs-mount-local...) - a way to make it easier to use libguestfs from Linux distros other than our primary ones (ie. other than Fedora, Debian): http://libguestfs.org/download/binaries/appliance/ http://libguestfs.org/download/binaries/appliance/ So two deceptive features that are small, but involved a huge amount of work and wrangling behind the scenes, particularly the first one. Made much harder by the primary requirement to write most things in C.
TheSmoke 14y ago
The TurboGears Development Blog: http://tglogs.wordpress.com http://tglogs.wordpress.com
thibaut_barrere 14y ago
I kept building https://www.wisecashhq.com/ https://www.wisecashhq.com/ (and we're starting dogfooding which is a great feeling!). I also launched a little website for my favourite Ruby ETL at http://www.activewarehouse.info/ http://www.activewarehouse.info/.
aantix 14y ago
A platform for content creation with Mechanical Turk (e.g. stories, discussions, question/answers). Here are some screenshots : http://imgur.com/a/RGirp#0 http://imgur.com/a/RGirp#0 If anyone has a fresh startup/website that needs content to get it off the ground, I can be of assistance. I am the creator of the Rails/Mechanical Turk integration gem Turkee ( http://www.github.com/aantix/turkee http://www.github.com/aantix/turkee ), and am an expert with Mechanical Turk and content creation. Drop me a line if you'd like to see a demo, jim.jones1@gmail.com . I do contract work on the side and live in San Francisco.
bond 14y ago
I built my first Live Wallpaper for Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.monzonito.halo_free https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.monzonito.... Also built an android app for a manufacturer of GPS tracking systems. The app allows owners to control their assets(cars, motos, boats, etc).
gravitronic 14y ago
Ported my app DJPad to Playbook (it outsold Android and WebOS immediately). No port for iOS as they already have really great dj apps that are much more mature than mine.
rbreve 14y ago
I launched a pixel art app for the ipad http://pixelartapp.com http://pixelartapp.com
mrmekon 14y ago
Clone of the Tempest arcade game in HTML5/ClojureScript: https://github.com/mrmekon/tempest-cljs/ https://github.com/mrmekon/tempest-cljs/
jazzychad 14y ago
I built a Posterous export tool that backs-up all your Posterous data (posts, images, video, audio) after the Twitter acquisition announcement. http://exportmyposts.com/ http://exportmyposts.com/ How I built it: http://blog.jazzychad.net/2012/03/21/launching-exportmyposts-in-four-days.html http://blog.jazzychad.net/2012/03/21/launching-exportmyposts...
- bootload 14y ago
  "... If you are looking for a free solution, you can read the Posterous API documentation to create your own backups. ..." Love this, because the pain point costs way more than the cost of your service.
exratione 14y ago
A full featured email non-delivery report processing module for Drupal, which has a sad lack of such things: http://drupal.org/sandbox/exratione/1484526 http://drupal.org/sandbox/exratione/1484526
jarcoal 14y ago
Finished the second release of my appointment scheduling software: https://www.appointlet.com/ https://www.appointlet.com/
pcd 14y ago
I released an iPhone app called the nap app which allows you to power nap effectively, making sure that falling asleep is taken out of the time that you actually want to sleep for. So you want that 20 minute sleep? The nap app makes sure you get a full 20 minutes, even if it takes you 12 minutes to fall asleep! http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/the-nap-app/id508709758?ls=1&mt=8 http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/the-nap-app/id508709758?ls=1&... I also released updates for my other two apps My Audiobook player: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/my-audiobook-player/id459393040?ls=1&mt=8 http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/my-audiobook-player/id4593930... Specialises in playing audiobooks you download from 'those' sites Daily positive affirmations: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/positive-affirmations-daily/id497578452?ls=1&mt=8 http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/positive-affirmations-daily/i... Positive affirmations sounds silly (my girlfriends idea!) but they are all quotes about success and whatnot. It really does keep me motivated. I look forward to getting my quote!
johnpmayer 14y ago
Nice little WebGL random globe http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~jpmayer/hegemony/demos/backed-geodesic/ http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~jpmayer/hegemony/demos/backed-geo...
msencenb 14y ago
I built http://www.iosuserfeedback.com http://www.iosuserfeedback.com Lets you get feedback on your iTunes landing page vs a competitor
patio11 14y ago
New redesign of BCC, complete with obligatory A/B test. Scroll way to the bottom and click the link if you can't see it. (Might need to click twice.) http://www.bingocardcreator.com http://www.bingocardcreator.com
- bertm 14y ago
  Patrick, have you tried a large thematic change to the BBC site in the past? It is pretty neat to see the changes for optimization to the site over the years. Still, I can't help but think the "loud" colors lead to less optimal performance. Disclaimer --> Not a mom or teacher.
- Raphael 14y ago
  The underlined menu links sure are weird. I suppose they mysteriously bring in more money.
- caw 14y ago
  I'm not entirely sure that BCC's new redesign is rendering correctly. From the computer image it looks like your blue top area should be further down. Then in Firefox the effect is even more extreme. Chrome (latest, Win7): http://tinypic.com/r/2vdpfd1/5 http://tinypic.com/r/2vdpfd1/5 Firefox (latest, Win7): http://tinypic.com/r/1zbs09/5 http://tinypic.com/r/1zbs09/5 I like the design, but I feel as though BCC lost some of its "uniqueness." The design looks like a lot of other designs these days. Then again, your customers probably don't know or care, and it's just us who read about BCC.
ryanmelt 14y ago
I built Narf - http://narf.com http://narf.com - A topic based social network.
tsigo 14y ago
I built HubStar: http://hubstar.me/ http://hubstar.me/ The missing "Star" feature for GitHub repositories.
dclaysmith 14y ago
Launched http://www.thetaboard.com http://www.thetaboard.com . Lots of great feedback from HN.
joefreeman 14y ago
http://trackt.com http://trackt.com - real-time collaboration using sticky notes
- cwisecarver 14y ago
  It's pretty. You should implement hammer.js from the above comment so I can use it on my iPad.
gesman 14y ago
My first android app. Added multithreaded ability to request slow network resource, ability to issue raw SSL connections + very nice looking GUI. Actually that was a good month re: learning new, and cool stuff.
- stepeight 14y ago
  Would love to check it out, if you can provide a market link!
wj 14y ago
I launched Indie Intern (http://www.indieintern.com http://www.indieintern.com) which is a project manager for movie productions. It takes a script and will automatically start the budget, schedule, production board, and call sheet creation process. Saves filmmakers a lot of time and money over competing products which is important for low-budget productions.
billpatrianakos 14y ago
I built Write.app (https://writeapp.me https://writeapp.me), a replacement for the Notes app on my iPhone that works across devices (desktop, tablet, and mobile versions all in one using responsive design). It supports Markdown and will soon save to/read from your Dropbox account. It's also open source if you want to help. I could really use help with UI and Dropbox features (http://github.com/billpatrianakos/Write.app http://github.com/billpatrianakos/Write.app)
Arkeus 14y ago
http://axgl.org/ http://axgl.org/ - Wrote and launched an open source, hardware accelerated 2D flash game library
enra 14y ago
Mostly worked on Kippt: * New landing page design https://kippt.com https://kippt.com * Readability integration * Extensions for Firefox and Opera * Preview feature for public lists https://kippt.com/karrisaarinen/yc-application https://kippt.com/karrisaarinen/yc-application
nfm 14y ago
Backbone based Firefox[1] and Chrome[2] extensions for our time tracking and invoicing app, Paydirt[3]. They prompt you to start a timer when they spot keywords related to your clients on the pages you visit. This is our MVP into intelligent time tracking, seems to work well for people that spend all day in the browser. We'd love some feedback! 1. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/paydirt-time-tracker/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/paydirt-time-... 2. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/clfnlkjacgohceabdeijjkifnllidcmj https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/clfnlkjacgohceabde... 3. https://paydirtapp.com https://paydirtapp.com
- amoore 14y ago
  brilliant! I may "embrace and extend" this idea for my workplace. I'd build a browser extension that notices when I load a new trouble ticket and makes an entry in my timecard for it. If I used paydirt, I'd love the thing you just built.
aorshan 14y ago
I built a crank calling app using twilio and sendgrid at a hackathon this weekend. Its nothing special but its the first thing I've really ever made. http://cranksomeone.webs.com/ http://cranksomeone.webs.com/
- dmor 14y ago
  Yay, congrats and thanks for using Twilio. We'd love to share what you built with the community, can you drop me a note at danielle@twilio.com if interested?
  - aorshan 14y ago
    I'd love to. Sending you an email now.
eLobato 14y ago
I solved security problems and made a enormous test-harness for ThisCausesThat, a research project for UC Irvine. https://github.com/eLobato/wc_master https://github.com/eLobato/wc_master
sunsu 14y ago
A product that lets you Build Your Own Phone System: http://www.buildanumber.com http://www.buildanumber.com Very early alpha release. Lots of UI issues and its in desperate need of a tutorial.
cifder 14y ago
Accomplished a few things: Redesigned the layout for merchant signup at http://giftsmatic.com/new http://giftsmatic.com/new Built with 2 friends at a hack weekend http://eventon.com http://eventon.com A cool mashup of upcoming events and ones that you rsvp'ed for. Currently it's integrated with eventbrite and facebook.
ajtulloch 14y ago
Scratched an itch and built LaTeX2Markdown (http://tullo.ch/projects/LaTeX2Markdown http://tullo.ch/projects/LaTeX2Markdown) - a LaTeX to Markdown converter designed for converting AMS-LaTeX documents to webpages. Offers compatibility with AMS-LaTeX (theorems, lemmas, proofs, etc), and drop-in integration with a Markdown/MathJaX blogging environment. Pandoc can't cope with these environments, so it seemed useful to build something that did. The usage model is effectively: 1) Write your mathematic documents (lecture notes, blog posts, exercise solutions) in LaTeX using the full AMS-LaTeX suite. 2) Convert to PDF, Markdown, or another format. 3) Use Markdown/MathJaX for blog, use PDF for distribution, etc. Full source available at https://github.com/ajtulloch/LaTeX2Markdown https://github.com/ajtulloch/LaTeX2Markdown.
dsco 14y ago
I built a tiny (>3 kb) JavaScript date picker. It's been done many times before, but it's my first open source project so I'm pretty stoked even if no one ever uses it. http://sunmer.github.com/tinycal/ http://sunmer.github.com/tinycal/
Hellenion 14y ago
My very first public application, tracks a simple checklist. http://solidusserver.net/ware/spike/ http://solidusserver.net/ware/spike/
gghootch 14y ago
Currently building a little ditty which will send me an email notification every tuesday of all new album releases of my top artists according to Last.FM You can check out an alpha, alpha build @ http://smooth-wind-2063.heroku.com/ http://smooth-wind-2063.heroku.com/
dmvaldman 14y ago
I taught myself exactly what I needed to know about backend development (and no more!) and launched http://www.quipvideo.com http://www.quipvideo.com! Feedback appreciated.
runako 14y ago
I built and launched Geocoda (https://geocoda.com https://geocoda.com), which lets developers location-enable their applications. Initial features include geocoding and a spatial database. Thanks to the first round of feedback we got on HN, and to those who have already checked it out!
ComputerGuru 14y ago
Working literally every waking hour (22 hour+ coding sessions) for two weeks, I've created a replacement for our WinPE-based Windows repair CDs [1] in Linux, in anticipation of Microsoft's non-renewal of all WinPE licensing agreements to 3rd parties, and made them fit on an ISO that (GUI desktop environment, all kinds drivers and binary blobs, web browser, partition editor, custom repair tools, and all) is only 40MiB. CDs will (hopefully, DV) fix any and all boot-related issues, attempt to repair registry, and perform various sanity checks to get your PC booting once more for Windows XP - 7. Now for the testing phase! (anyone interested in trying it out, drop me an email mqudsi@neosmart.net and I'll send you a copy for free) [1]: http://systemdiscs.com/ http://systemdiscs.com/
- mappu 14y ago
  Could you elaborate on the licensing change for Windows PE? Sorry, this is the first i've come across it, and it looks like it's affecting other vendors as well (Paragon?) but i havn't found a useful source or summary.
dmor 14y ago
I completely rebuilt http://refer.ly http://refer.ly and learned just enough about the backend part to configure the entire box myself on EC2 (yay!). 350 people in the beta, and sending out the next batch of invites tonight. Yay!
stuckk 14y ago
added some features to http://classfy.com http://classfy.com
yummyfajitas 14y ago
I built an in-memory NoSQL index (not a database) for answering subset inclusion queries, i.e. "find me all the Items with {Feature1, Feature2, Feature3}". It also supports queries by category, and by color. It's vastly faster than SQL for this purpose. http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2012/introducing_hobo.html http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2012/introducing_hobo.html https://github.com/stucchio/Hobo https://github.com/stucchio/Hobo I say it's not a database because it isn't even a Key-Value store. It's just a key-store - you query it for the keys, and retrieve the values from somewhere else (e.g. postgres).
stuckk 14y ago
added some features to http://classfy.com http://classfy.com
steveplace 14y ago
I launched OptionBounce, a stock options swing trading system.
saryant 14y ago
I finished my undergrad thesis! A method for constructing a semantic graph from a large corpus of text.
minikomi 14y ago
A quick little tool to take the boilerplate work out of using forms in bootstrap : http://bootstrap-forms.heroku.com/ http://bootstrap-forms.heroku.com/
r4pha 14y ago
I built srctree (http://srctree.net/ http://srctree.net/). In short, it aims to be a pastebin + git + canvas mix. An example of usage: http://srctree.net/3Q-1 http://srctree.net/3Q-1 It still needs a lot of work to become usable, but I am already happy I got this far!
iisbum 14y ago
App In Review, trying to get some visibility into the Apple App Store review queue: http://appinreview.com http://appinreview.com
foxhop 14y ago
I wrote an opensource scrabble/boggle solver. Input your letters and we return the best words. http://words.gumyum.com/ http://words.gumyum.com/
jvoorhis 14y ago
Helped build ffi_gen, which uses Clang's parser to transform C header files into Ruby bindings. https://github.com/neelance/ffi_gen https://github.com/neelance/ffi_gen Contributed some additional Homebrew recipes. Gave a talk at CloudFoundry Open Tour. http://speakerdeck.com/u/jvoorhis/p/hacking-cloudfoundry http://speakerdeck.com/u/jvoorhis/p/hacking-cloudfoundry
jfc 14y ago
I've been working on Toour - http://ontoour.com http://ontoour.com - get travel ideas from people who travel like you do. Alpha in 2 weeks!
Kavan 14y ago
http://www.roomify.tv http://www.roomify.tv - One click video meeting rooms. We have applied to YC S12. Feed back been great so far. Average user time of 6mins and 15% bounce rate. Would love some more feedback, here or @kseggie, kavan@saymama.com.
languagehacker 14y ago
A headline generator for my favorite gossip blog: http://robertelwell.info/mediatakeout-headline-generator/ http://robertelwell.info/mediatakeout-headline-generator/ The look and feel is a total tribute to MediaTakeout.com. You can search for terms in the corpus of generated headlines. It was just an excuse for me to play with NLTK and CSS. Nothing too impressive :)
bjorkstam 14y ago
Experimented with a Pinterest-like column layout (using twitter feed as example) and came up with this: http://bjorkst.am/twcols http://bjorkst.am/twcols (resize browser window and watch transition magic) Also re-designed my personal landing page ( http://bjorkst.am http://bjorkst.am )
nabilt 14y ago
I built http://www.likelist.ca http://www.likelist.ca over a weekend and a few days. (Free App Engine Account) I built it to surface the likes, favorites, +1's, ... that tend to be hidden on most services. Basically about.me + Pinterest for your 'liked' content. [edit]: If it is not clear enter your user name in the textbox [edit]: source: https://github.com/nabilt/Like-List https://github.com/nabilt/Like-List
latitude 14y ago
I rebuilt my own site - http://swapped.cc http://swapped.cc - not exactly "in March" though... it took closer to 9 months :)
- sirrocco 14y ago
  I could barely see the navigation in Chrome, is that how it's supposed to work ? :)
SeckinJohn 14y ago
Drawium.com - Website Tour Builder. Made a lot of improvements on our interactive tour builder and the tour viewers after we hit the front page on HN and got lots of constructive feedback. Build a tour for your website at http://drawium.com http://drawium.com
- deleted 14y ago
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- follower 14y ago
  Do you intentionally ask for registering before trying out Tour creation?
edna_piranha 14y ago
I made a chat app for fun and have had the help of a bunch of awesome contributors :) https://noodletalk.org https://noodletalk.org
Anirak 14y ago
A simple site that waits for mouse movement to rickroll the person. I spent the majority of the time creating a fake headline generator, as well as styling changes that makes the page look different on each page load. The images are pulled from flickr and based on the headline as well. http://ricknews.net/ http://ricknews.net/
Qworg 14y ago
My book, Hacking the Kinect, came out: http://amzn.to/H8slu4 http://amzn.to/H8slu4 At work, we received release to show the world the Hybrid Safety System for robots: http://bit.ly/Hp818r http://bit.ly/Hp818r I also cut a demo for a stealth startup I'm working at. =)
philh 14y ago
I spent the month doing coursework. I had a lot of pdfs open with completely nondescriptive titles, so I wrote a script to set the title of a window. https://github.com/ChickenProp/set-window-title https://github.com/ChickenProp/set-window-title
bevan 14y ago
Launched IndieClean.com- a marketplace for independent housekeeping services in NYC! https://indieclean.com https://indieclean.com
wz3chen 14y ago
I use Youtube as a music player as I enjoy watching the videos along with listening to the music. However, the user interface for Youtube is not designed to be a music player interface so I decided to build one: http://vekii.com/ http://vekii.com/.
mmj48 14y ago
Wrote my first makefile, which was quite an experience. https://github.com/mustafa0x/pafm/blob/master/Makefile https://github.com/mustafa0x/pafm/blob/master/Makefile
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relaunched 14y ago
I just built http://failrecovery.com http://failrecovery.com I was so sick and tired of tweeting companies fails, to let them know what was going on, and just have them ignore me. So, I figured by using social pressure, maybe I can get their attention. I mean, who really wants to be at the top of my "I have bad social customer service" list.
JaggedJax 14y ago
I started working on a pandemic simulator app for Android with a guy I met on Reddit (He started it but needed backend help). You infect other users with the app based on your physical location. The early beta has been well received. April will be spent re-writing it from scratch to support more stats and other cool features. Patient Zero: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.egondev.android.patientzero https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.egondev.an...
sghill 14y ago
I used Python for the first time to copy the information from one of my required timesheets into another required timesheet. It uses BeautifulSoup, mechanize, and selenium.
zackham 14y ago
Built a way to stage virtual bike races with GPS data. Check off a couple of rows and click "Compare Efforts" to see: http://ridewithgps.com/segments/McBeth-Hillclimb http://ridewithgps.com/segments/McBeth-Hillclimb
mtoddh 14y ago
I launched my job search engine Neekanee this month: http://www.neekanee.com http://www.neekanee.com
adj 14y ago
I released my first solo app to help me capture and remind myself of my ideas. It’s called “Noted! and is available for iPhone - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/noted!/id504164257?ls=1&mt=8 http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/noted!/id504164257?ls=1&m... You can read about my success (or lack thereof!) here - http://atomyard.com/blog/How-not-to-market-an-iPhone-app/ http://atomyard.com/blog/How-not-to-market-an-iPhone-app/
- pcd 14y ago
  Very cool. Just what I've been looking for
cormacrelf 14y ago
I made an in-browser JavaScript runner for the programming class I teach, which is held in a room full of PCs with IE8 installed. Syntax highlighting, logging and JSHint. http://jsrun.heroku.com/ http://jsrun.heroku.com/
GBKS 14y ago
Finally released the paid subscription offer for my web app and got the first customers. http://www.wookmark.com/about/plus http://www.wookmark.com/about/plus
- gala8y 14y ago
  You might want to look into your permalinks (/about/about,...).
  - GBKS 14y ago
    Where do you see a problem? The repeat of "about" in this specific URL? Thanks.
    - gala8y 14y ago
      Everything starts with /about/: wookmark.com/about/contact, .. Did you intend this? On the main page you've hidden all the stuff like contact, help, about, etc. behind 'About' link. I understand this. I think you dont have to follow with this pattern and 'hide' all pages 'behind' /about/ in link structure. Made me unnecessary thinking about it.
karanmg 14y ago
I developed http://theindianlist.com http://theindianlist.com using Bootstrap and Rails. Check it out to get ur curry fix.
ask995 14y ago
I learned objective-C and XCode in my spare time and finally released my first iOS app http://pinboardapp.in http://pinboardapp.in Not very pretty, but I am happy to get off the ground. Now building something more complicated. Hope to see it in "What you built in April thread" :)
typpo 14y ago
I built http://keepdream.me http://keepdream.me in 24 hour period based on a whim one day when I woke up. I fully expect to be the only long term user, but it was nice to learn about setting up node/receiving email on Heroku.
mnilsson 14y ago
Got tired of all overcomplicated tree plugins for jquery and built my own really simple one: https://github.com/mnilsson/treeish https://github.com/mnilsson/treeish
AngryParsley 14y ago
I took the month off work and traveled around Japan, Chile, and Argentina. During my travels, I managed to do quite a bit of work on The Silver Searcher: https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher . It's a clone of ack[1], but written in C instead of Perl. I've done a decent amount of profiling[2] to find slow parts and improve the speed. For literal searches it uses a version of Boyer-Moore-Horspool strstr[3]. For regex searches it uses the new JIT compiler in PCRE[4]. Depending on the search, it can be 3-5x faster than ack. And thanks to some contributors this past month, it's now in homebrew and Gentoo portage. Well, back to the grind tomorrow. 1: http://betterthangrep.com/ http://betterthangrep.com/ 2: Using gprof, valgrind, and Instruments.app. See http://geoff.greer.fm/2012/01/23/making-programs-faster-profiling/ http://geoff.greer.fm/2012/01/23/making-programs-faster-prof... 3: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyer%E2%80%93Moore_string_search_algorithm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyer%E2%80%93Moore_string_sear... 4: http://sljit.sourceforge.net/pcre.html http://sljit.sourceforge.net/pcre.html
- piranha 14y ago
  Add ability to replace and I'm your fan. :) Until then I'm using my own http://github.com/piranha/goreplace http://github.com/piranha/goreplace (built in March a year ago :)).
jasonlotito 14y ago
AutisticTouch.com for the Lehigh Valley Hackathon (hack.lehighvalleytech.org) where my team and I took 1st place overall and tied for crowd favorite.
- relaunched 14y ago
  Hi Jason, You should setup a rewrite rule for the autistictouch.com
  - jasonlotito 14y ago
    Oh, there are so many things that need finishing (not to mentions starting). That starts today. I guess technically we launched this yesterday, as yesterday was demo day, but we built most of it in March.
sreitshamer 14y ago
I built Filosync, which is a distributed version control system for non-programmers with a very simple UI, because I love the DVCS concept and I think everyone should use it! http://www.filosync.com http://www.filosync.com
tayl0r 14y ago
The last day of the month I built my own screencast.com server for use with the Jing screenshot software. This enables you to take and upload screenshots with Jing, but it bypasses the real screencast.com server and uploads them to your own server instead (by redirecting screencast.com through dns or hosts file trickery). This is useful for businesses who don't want their screenshots to go up on the web. They can keep all their screenshots on their intranet while still using the great Jing client for taking & sharing the images. It needs polishing but it's a good 1st step into making something that is ready for production use. https://github.com/tayl0r/JingServer https://github.com/tayl0r/JingServer
xiaomei 14y ago
I built BuyMyFile (http://bmf.cm http://bmf.cm). BMF is a file marketplace that rewards buyers with discounts for referring sales. Please let me know if you find this service useful so I can keep working on it. Thanks patio11 for feedback on this.
- roam 14y ago
  I haven't tried it out just yet, but you should certainly keep working on it. Great idea!
  - xiaomei 14y ago
    The site is still raw but I decided to put it up to get feedback. It's a file marketplace mixed with a referral system. I think people should be rewarded for sharing.
simon_weber 14y ago
I built an api for Google Music: https://github.com/simon-weber/Unofficial-Google-Music-API https://github.com/simon-weber/Unofficial-Google-Music-API.
superfamicom 14y ago
http://superfamicom.org/text-to-8-bit http://superfamicom.org/text-to-8-bit I built a toy: Text to 8-Bit Create 8-bit game screenshots using your own text in Fami-liar games. About 12 hours of work, most of that is in graphics work (chop chop chop). Javascript with Canvas, not terribly fancy but very fun.
SiliconAlley 14y ago
http://tinypag.es http://tinypag.es It's ultra-minimalist hosting. A bare HTML document and a short url. Built it to scratch my own itch. Bought the domain and opened the repo on March 5th. Launched 2 days later.
seung 14y ago
Worked on my site which is based on Tumblr: http://seung.io http://seung.io Used Backbone and Bootstrap.
jacobwg 14y ago
I launched two movie/tv related websites: http://checkafilm.com http://checkafilm.com - search for a film by title and see an aggregate review summary about the movie and any content advisories it might have. http://tmfdb.org http://tmfdb.org - a bookmarklet for automatically muting profanity in Hulu videos for a more "family-friendly" experience. Both are open-source - https://github.com/jacobwg/checkafilm https://github.com/jacobwg/checkafilm and https://github.com/jacobwg/tmfdb.org/tree/master/script https://github.com/jacobwg/tmfdb.org/tree/master/script
sicksand 14y ago
updating my android app. gold price malaysia. http://codedb.net/goldprice/ http://codedb.net/goldprice/ . crawl every bank in malaysia that offer a gold purchase. it can be download here : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.goldpricemalaysia.sicksand https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.goldpricem...
follower 14y ago
I've been working on adding access over WiFi to "Handbag for Android" an app that helps you create Arduino-based accessories for Android devices without writing Android code. (http://handbagdevices.com/ http://handbagdevices.com/) Up until now Handbag has only used the Android Open Accessory Protocol/ADK but one of the requests I've had has been to make it work over WiFi as well. Taking the opportunity to also re-architect the app a bit. My project log for March is available at http://www.labradoc.com/i/follower/p/android-arduino-handbag#20120304 http://www.labradoc.com/i/follower/p/android-arduino-handbag... for more details. (Did I mention you can also start a project log for your project at Labradoc? http://www.labradoc.com/ http://www.labradoc.com/ :) )
arion 14y ago
http://www.dietmanager.com http://www.dietmanager.com
theITGuy 14y ago
I learned Objective-C and XCode in my spare time and built nd iOS Client for Pinboard http://pinboardapp.in http://pinboardapp.in Not very pretty, but I am happy that it helped me get off the ground. Now working on something more complex.
donohoe 14y ago
I created a simple search for The New York Times crossword puzzle. http://donohoe.io/projects/crossword/ http://donohoe.io/projects/crossword/ It ranges form Dec 31st 2011 back to Oct 1996. Its nothing special (I don't actually love or do crosswords) but when you search for some terms (mostly as Answers) it provides fascinating Questions. FACEBOOK : Alternative to Friendster or MySpace NYTIMES : Popular news site, with ".com" HACKER : Cyber-nuisance BACON : Strips for breakfast Example: http://donohoe.io/projects/crossword/#/bacon http://donohoe.io/projects/crossword/#/bacon
- dsrguru 14y ago
  That's really cool! UNIX was an answer eight times, but Linux didn't come up at all.
jacobroufa 14y ago
I and a friend of mine launched http://www.brandonacademy.com http://www.brandonacademy.com We'll be releasing frequent UX and content updates over the course of the next couple months as we develop new features and add more tutorials. Please feel free to make suggestions; all are welcome! :)
jandy 14y ago
Took a month off in March to relax and do some traveling. Two weeks in and I can't take any more doing nothing, this popped out: http://www.getonthegame.com.au http://www.getonthegame.com.au It's a price comparison website for Australian video games. Still early days yet, but it's been a fun distraction and an opportunity to learn some new tech/tools in the process.
hkuo 14y ago
http://justthefirstframe.com http://justthefirstframe.com A new way to discover web comics. But also recently http://iphoneception.com http://iphoneception.com
klaut 14y ago
Nothing special, just a little twitter scheduling app where one schedules tweets by sending an email with a list of tweets to it. http://buffero.me http://buffero.me
BigMazungo 14y ago
I developed a pace calculator for runners ( http://pacecalculator.elsasslabs.com/ http://pacecalculator.elsasslabs.com/ ). Mostly for my own needs, but hopefully someone else will find it useful !
MatthewPhillips 14y ago
Gazel, a library for IndexedDB that uses Redis commands. http://gazeljs.org/ http://gazeljs.org/
seele 14y ago
Worked on workspaces and collaboration features for LStack - https://lstack.com/ https://lstack.com/
dpritchett 14y ago
Built a Ruby-based web app skeleton for Heroku [1] and then built another for Python [2]. Followed that up by making a ticket sales web app using the SeatGeek affiliate API and my Python app skeleton [3]. I also demoed [2] and [3] to the Memphis Python user group [4]. I apologize for the javascript failure on Tickets of Memphis, it seems the SeatGeek API has stopped accepting my jQuery JSONP requests so I have a ticket in. [1] https://github.com/dpritchett/wwebsite https://github.com/dpritchett/wwebsite [2] https://github.com/dpritchett/wwebsite-python https://github.com/dpritchett/wwebsite-python [3] http://ticketsofmemphis.com http://ticketsofmemphis.com [4] http://www.slideshare.net/dpritchett/quick-and-dirty-heroku-mempy http://www.slideshare.net/dpritchett/quick-and-dirty-heroku-...
coreyhaines 14y ago
We launched our iphone application Should I Break up With My Boyfriend. It is a 2-week challenge to see if your partner is the right one for you. http://www.http://shouldibreakupwithmyboyfriend.com/ http://www.http://shouldibreakupwithmyboyfriend.com/
mapster 14y ago
I launched a web store: http://mapsalesdirect.com http://mapsalesdirect.com It's not saas but it is fulfilling a 2012 goal of "make and launch something"
kaolinite 14y ago
I launched portnotifier.com (not actually working currently) and mailtoolkit.com :-)
teeray 14y ago
A small status board for the dining locations at my school: http://www.isbirchopen.com http://www.isbirchopen.com