What side projects are you up to?

I've got two hobby projects on the go.

I'm building a steam power plant simulator for students and trainees that won't cost upwards of $100K for a site license. It also has a plant builder interface, which lets anyone place and connect equipment, piping, instrumentation, and controls. Then, they can run the plant like a real operator would from a control room.

When I was at school for power/stationary engineering, we all wished we could use something like the school's simulator at home. So, maybe I'll get to fill that niche. (And, nothing out there has a do-it-yourself plant builder!)

I have mostly-complete prototypes done for the builder interface and numerical simulator. I like that it keeps the theory that I learned at school nice and fresh.

Also, I bought a gas turbine engine on eBay, and I'm working with a friend to get it running. We got an oil system hooked up yesterday, and we spun it up with the starter motor and a car battery. Lots of fun!

I built a football betting algorithm and constantly play with that to improve the accuracy..

Generates a very healthy income!

betalyst.com

I'm working on a search engine, https://wbsrch.com. Most fun I've ever had. Not so great yet, but getting better every day.

I work a lot on Cachet (https://github.com/CachetHQ/Cachet) it's an open source alternative to StatusPage.io and has garnered a lot of popularity among household names, universities and startups. It's cool!

Aside from Cachet, I work on StyleCI (https://styleci.io) which is self-sufficient. StyleCI is a PHP Coding Standards CI that currently works with GitHub. We're working on BitBucket support.

And finally I'm working on a couple of SaaS projects that have yet to launch.

Writing a novel - a bit of a change from writing code ;-)

Slowly (and ineptly) teaching myself how to develop in Hacklang and Vagrant by building a Hacker News like forum[0]. Also, four months into my first Game A Month project[1], a Berzerk clone that's not going to wind up being Berzerk at all.

[0]https://bitbucket.org/kennethrapp/based-hack

[1]https://bitbucket.org/kennethrapp/berzerk

>Please discuss why are you satisfied about it?

I really like Hack, although I am learning some of the assumptions I had about the way types work seem not to be correct, and I'm debugging through nano which is annoying. I don't like that it doesn't support ArrayAccess, but things like shapes and immutable types more than make up for it.

Teaching myself game programming at the low-but-not-bare-metal level of C++ and SDL is satisfying because of the problem solving challenges involved. I kind of know in the back of my mind that I'll probably never come up with a game anyone wants to play, though.

I'm working on a browser based snail simulation. I've been wanting to make this thing for over 10 years now and I am satisfied about it because there are so many aspects to work on. If I get bored of one part of the project I can move on to something else. If I get bored of working on snail brain infrastructure I can work on the breeding system. Or if I get bored of coding I can work on the front-end design or item illustrations. There is always something to hold my interest.

I'm working on an immutable Twitter especially for politicians or predictors. No images but all other features are there. Hoping for a better no bs society :)

HTTP://Writedown.co

Making an instagram stat tracker, very similar to socialblade.

Socialblade's instagram tracking has went down hill in the past few months and also want to avoid the 5 account limit. Nothing crazy complicated, but just something that will make my life much easier.

I have been working on https://bestfoodnearme.com a little at a time. I used it to learn how to program in Go. The site works, but I am revamping the look.

I am happy with it, I learned quite a bit about Go and I was really able to focus on some interesting aspects of web app development that I would normally not get to work on at my day job.

One other big plus was that I have started using Go at my day job, and it has been a huge help with certain classes of problems.

Working on my torrent tracker in Go (https://github.com/GrappigPanda/notorious), but I'm probably going to switch gears and work on a distributed cache in Erlang that supports easy key timeouts because my workaround in Redis for reaping expired peers is pretty ugly.

Between working and freelancing, I am building an app alongside myself learning a new language. I found that lots of the current apps for this specific language are total crap. So I figured I should build a high quality one.

Also I don't really "enjoy" learning the language so doing something I really enjoy makes it quite nice.

Building a marketing automation platform for small businesses (http://orchestrahq.com). Not really satisfied with it at the moment as I would love to incorporate machine learning capabilities into the system. However, it's been a great learning experience.

I'm working on a windows app to pull tabular data straight from a PDF into excel. http://www.3xfour.com Currently working on adding a web hosted version to pull the data as a csv, but have way to go. Would welcome any feedback Thanks

Just launched a first version of FOIA Mapper, a tool for searching offline government records.

https://foiamapper.com

FOIA is a niche topic, which is not a bad thing for a side project - fewer eyeballs, more opportunity to really make an impact.

A BDD testing framework for Go. I didn't really like any of the existing packages and am really just doing this as an exercise for learning Go. https://github.com/claassen/gotest

I'm trying to build a threat intel platform to gather data on threats delivered via spam.

working on a wordpress plugin to create presentations/slides using revealjs. Work in progress. I work a lot with wordpress lately and surprised that there are no good presentation plugins available yet. I like revealjs so decided to use it.

I'm working on a consumer social messaging app in the UK based on sharing just one thing a day...... need to find quality dev support to join the movement.