Ask HN: What are some back end heavy side projects?

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A lot of web developer side projects I see are either open source libraries, or very front end heavy things that focus mostly on visual design and interaction.

What are some side projects that you've built, where the element that made it special was on the back end?

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I work on geocoding. There is a frontend component both HTML and JSON/XML/GeoJSON but the bulk of the project is either in the database design, query logic or import pipelines. It's also non-trivial to install because with medium grade hardware (let's say a laptop) the data crunching will put all cores of the CPU to 100% for a week.

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