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Ask HN: Who are working on young open-source projects? (or know such?)

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I mean projects that just started recently and are not so popular.

I am working on a flexible discussion platform for open-source projects. If you are interested, could you please drop me a few lines at vladimir@tagmask.com

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I released kivaloo just recently.

As far as I'm aware, it currently has zero users (Tarsnap isn't using it yet), which probably qualifies it as "not so popular".

I see a lot of node.js work here... I'll be the super-uncool guy in the group and admit that so far I've only ever released Java libraries under Apache 2.

I just released a CloudFront log parsing library: http://www.thebuzzmedia.com/software/cloudfront-log-parser/

and a simple XML parsing library (speed of pull-parsing with the ease of XPath-esque expressions): http://www.thebuzzmedia.com/software/simple-java-xml-parser-...

and one library that seems to be picking up is an image-scaling library I have made a few releases of: http://www.thebuzzmedia.com/software/imgscalr-java-image-sca...

There are a handful of other libraries: https://github.com/thebuzzmedia/

I just haven't finished the project-pages for them.

Do you have any interest in a flexible discussion platform for your projects?

PGfb is an extremely nascent project (only one day of work), that started at a hack-a-thon at Berkeley.

Aim is to bring PGP encryption to facebook using browser extensions.

https://github.com/m0hit/PGfb

Looks very promising. Can I contact you?

This is my first open source project... It's an open source "LaunchRock"-type site: https://github.com/JamesChevalier/Launch-Soon

I wrote a program called daemon-manager to scratch an itch of mine (http://porkrind.org/daemon-manager/). It lets you manage non-root daemons from your user directory without requiring root permissions to start and stop them. I've been dogfooding it for about 6 months and just can't live without it any more. I think other people would be interested in using it but I'm not very good at marketing.

I also co-wrote and maintain commit-patch (http://porkrind.org/commit-patch/) and it's another that I can't imagine living without. I've been using it for about 8 years and it has slightly more recognition--but not much.

I created a universal framework template for iPhone/iOS (lets you build static frameworks that work on device and simulator): https://github.com/kstenerud/iOS-Universal-Framework

Also, a nicer interface to iPhone audio: https://github.com/kstenerud/ObjectAL-for-iPhone

I also put out my Objective-C programmer's toolbox: https://github.com/kstenerud/Objective-Gems

Just wrote a small native Node.js extension for displaying desktop notifications: https://github.com/olalonde/node-notify

Tutorial available here: http://syskall.com/how-to-write-your-own-native-nodejs-exten...

Node.js has a lot of potential but is still pretty young.

I've recently started appengine-boilerplate, which makes setting up new appengine projects much quicker and more fun. Includes html5-boilerplate, openid-authentication, memcaching, etc. https://github.com/metachris/appengine-boilerplate

If anyone wants to help, authentication with OAuth and MailChimp integration would be great places to start :)

While I started it a while ago, Keryx for Ubuntu/Debian is pretty new to the Linux community and not near as popular as it could be. http://keryxproject.org

It's a GUI tool I built in Python to help offline users update and install new software on Linux.

I no longer have time to work on it and would love it if someone would like to take over maintaining it for me.

I recently started creating an SMTP server using Node.js: https://github.com/baudehlo/Haraka

I saw it. It's very interesting. I am working on flexible discussion platform for open-source projects. If you are interested, how can I contact you?

We open-sourced our fullstack application server for node.js at NodeConf last week: haibu. http://github.com/nodejitsu/haibu.

The project had been internal for a year and as such is pretty mature technically, but has a nascent community. If you're thinking about running node.js in production definitely check it out!

I'd like to point out Hyde (github.com/hyde/hyde), it's a static website generator written in Python, and I find it pretty well executed.

It's very interesting! Thank you very much.

Friend and I are currently working on an embeddable library for server-side javascript called CoreJS (http://github.com/frenzylabs/CoreJS). It's not to compete with node, as it's meant to be embedded. It's threadsafe, and is, optionally, async.

For no particular reason that I can think of I write modules relating to Chess on CPAN---probably not what you were thinking of, but it fits the description in that I've recently (last few weeks) updated/revised all of them. As to their popularity, well, this is chess, so what do you think? :)

There's like.. hundreds starting each minute. You might wish to be a tiny bit more specific.

I think there are not so much people who will write a comment here about their project. However, I am interested in any project.

I'm almost always starting new projects. One of my more recent undertakings is a client-side JavaScript implementation of a Hunspell-style spellchecker: http://github.com/cfinke/Typo.js

Mine is Ragios - Ruby based system monitoring framework: https://github.com/obi-a/Ragios

A good way to find recently started projects is to follow the keyword 'github' on twitter.

I am about to start a few small <canvas> game engines for my own use, chiefly a point-and-click adventure/puzzle game engine.

I probably won't start coding in earnest until July though.

Do you have any plans to share it on github?

Yeah, lemme make the repo for it right now. You can watch it if you're interested.

https://github.com/simonsarris/canvas-adventure

I have created a write though cache for mongodb based on memcached. ( mongoid supported currently. ) http://bit.ly/mfdIN7

Aiming to create a multiplayer sim ant http://github.com/rinum/openant

Interesting! Is there any way to contact you?

Score is a new open source project for fantasy sports gaming. http://scoreos.org

http://thechangelog.com/

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