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What are you building over the holidays?

34 points| lowglow | 12 years ago

The holidays are here, and it's the perfect time to dive into a project. So spill it. What are you building?

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[+] CJefferson|12 years ago|reply
Up until today, Christmas dinner for 9. Now I'm planning on working on some Turkey sandwiches.
[+] RossM|12 years ago|reply
I'm attempting to write shoddy, lazy code that creates a working prototype. I have a stack of ideas that are really quite small applications, however I keep trying to build them 'properly', as an API-first client-side application, which ends up with these projects never getting finished.

Just finished the first prototype - a don't-break-the-chain app in a single PHP file (embedded HTML, the horror). It's liberating!

[+] babby|12 years ago|reply
NodeJS article/blog module. Think Ghost.js but more in the form of a module (not only a "package/platform"). I'm really just building it for somewhat selfish reasons; be a portfolio piece, run a portfolio, to speed up a high-traffic blog and to experiment with ways of creating content more efficiently for users (Such as built in infrastructure for adding article templating + web scraping + markdown for text bodies and comments etc.).

Ideally I'd love for there to be a way to explicitly modify database structure, easily and predictably, and have it all just work in several SQL dialects, so that you could meld the engine and the admin interface etc. to any project whether it's a blog or not. I feel like most of these bloggy engines make database structure either invisible or too difficult to understand and minipulate.

Definitely want to open source it proper, build it to be extendable etc. Don't care about competing with anything else, just want to be another option out there. Nothing all that special but maybe my use-cases will create something that fills a niche.

[+] pepicon|12 years ago|reply
I just switched to Android from iOs and missed a lot PlainText. It lets you edit any txt sitting in your dropbox (tasks.txt?), with a very smooth sync - you don't have to touch anything to save your edits or to get the latest version from the cloud. Simple and fast, my kind of tool.

I searched a lot and gave Google Keep a chance, but it has no API so I can't write on it through Alfred or Terminal. Also the sync is crazy as sometimes takes MINUTES to an updated file appear on my mobile. The dropbox app is not good for my needs too because it requires too many steps to see the updated file - when I start it and the file is already open I need to go back to the files list and get back to the file so it can refresh.

So I decided to build it.

My surprise was that dropbox supplies the entire code for an app with its API (Notes Example) that's very, very, very similar to PlainText! Two days using and nothing seems to be missing or not functioning well. So no coding, just compiling ;-)

[+] CisSovereign|12 years ago|reply
Using the extra time to finish up an initial version of http://www.flatdoc.com/.

Other than that, working on an a bitcoin price comparison site for bitcoin to track your different coin balances and at which prices you bought and sold (pure for fun)

[+] lowglow|12 years ago|reply
I just signed up for flatdoc! Interested in the arbitrage opportunities your bitcoin site might be able to provide. :)
[+] madsushi|12 years ago|reply
I'm taking it easy and just rebuilding by Linode with 64-bit Ubuntu (instead of the 32-bit Ubuntu I picked years ago) so I can try out HHVM. HHVM seems interesting, but there's no 32-bit build, so I need to document and migrate to a new server instance.
[+] 3stripe|12 years ago|reply
Love bikes? You might like this...

I'm planning to extend my MVP at http://my.cyclelove.net/ to include physical products, printed with a customised graphic of your bike.

Eg http://my.cyclelove.net/deluxe/ but with your bike logo printed to order on a tshirt, iPhone cover, stickers etc.

Currently researching possible suppliers including the likes of https://www.shirts.io and http://www.stickermule.com/ (no API?)

[+] 3stripe|12 years ago|reply
PS. If you're US-based and would like to be a beta tester email me via http://www.cyclelove.net/contact/

(1) Send me a photo of your bike (2) I will immortalise it as a myCycleLove logo (3) Your myCycleLove will then be printed to a t-shirt of your choosing and mailed to you

[+] ttty|12 years ago|reply
Anti-gravity tower 2D defense game (3 days) for browser (Javascript):

- Build hanging towers (where you want, really);

- Enemies can destroy your towers;

- You can move object freely in the world by dragging it;

- You can upgrade your towers (interface built with backbone + bootstrap)

- The damage is calculated with the force of impact of the bullet (in next version you can change the bullet type: slowing action, mines/explosions...).

- You can build crates (will be named crap in next version)

Play now here in browser (no download, ~600KB): https://webdesignporto.com/

[+] koenbok|12 years ago|reply
Framer 3 with cleaner code and rewritten animation backend so we can play around with more physics effects in ui prototypes.

http://www.framerjs.com

[+] jfi|12 years ago|reply
Working on two chrome extensions! I've been putting some polish on one that enables you to mute people on Twitter (https://github.com/jeffreyiacono/penalty-blox). The other is not yet published (soon though) and lets you send tabs from your comp to your friend's comp. It's been pretty neat to be browsing around and have a new tab pop up that was sent from my friend who is using the extension too.
[+] NicoJuicy|12 years ago|reply
A club management web application... Not a dance club, but more like a sport club. It can also be used for events and logging revenue, guests, ... and generate some reports (graphs or PDF) arround it. The good thing will be the checkin process, i thought hard on minimizing the input form... Creating it was less of a hassle :P

First release will be in dutch (had some prospects before i build it), but everything is ready for localisation :)

[+] aaronbrethorst|12 years ago|reply
Building a proper github issues app for iOS that'll allow me to filter and sort open bugs in my projects.

I'm planning on releasing the source under some sort of OSS license and eventually releasing the app for free on the App Store. Follow me on twitter if you want to learn when it's released in either capacity.

[+] zebra|12 years ago|reply
Project crystallizer in the form of nested tree todo with drag-n-drop and other bells and whistles.

Its goal is to help you when you project grows and you can't contain it in your head anymore. The ordinary todos didn't worked for me when the projects became brain suckers if you know what I mean.

(edit: added description)

[+] japhyr|12 years ago|reply
I'm continuing to work on http://introtopython.org, an open resource for people interested in teaching and learning Python.

I unwrapped my first good set of headphones in years this morning, so spending some time coding is even more enjoyable.

[+] lowglow|12 years ago|reply
can I link to this on techendo? We're going to start building out our learning services and links.
[+] stelabouras|12 years ago|reply
We have been building Horizon, a universal iOS app that brings an end to vertical videos, allowing users to always shoot horizontally. It is set to be released in the following days!

http://evilwindowdog.com/horizon

[+] zebra|12 years ago|reply
But this will bring the resolution down, right?