Ask HN: What side projects are you building in 2021?
What are some side projects you guys are building this year
1. I have a handful of old ISDN video terminals that use the H.320 standard for video conferencing. Working on getting these up along with a server that will let me use them with more modern tech.
2. I started briefly on a few prototypes for an X.25 implementation. I haven't worked on this in a while. X.25 is still mildly confusing to me.
3. I have a CMTS and a decent SDR to eventually maybe build my own DOCSIS modem prototype. I'll probably use the SDR for a handful of other things in the future.
4. Provided I get any of the prior done, I might try to build a token ring stack.
5. Even further out, there are a number of technologies I want to play with, notably visible light communication. Perhaps when 802.11bb is released I’ll take a look.
The cool thing is I have all these old network protocol analyzers from the 80s-90s that will actually get used for a "practical" reason. Funny enough it's significantly cheaper to buy these than to get the cards to implement T1/E1, V.35, RS449, etc. interfaces for a modern PC.
Eventually, I want to build a custom piece of furniture to house and rack a lot of my equipment for my retro network, complete with modular panels on the side for access to serial / network ports along with servers and my dummy terminal. I don't think I'll have the space, skills or environment for this any time soon, though.
My goal with this project is to get a job. Whether it's freelance, part-time, full-time, or contract. That's why they're free. I need others to help me to spread the word faster.
I'm going to launch an online course to teach people automation using a number of free tools.
It definitely needs to be polished up in terms of both the UX and the tech as I took a lot of shortcuts as it originally started as a 4-hour project just to see if I could build something with canvas and websockets, which eventually turned into a game format rather than a freeform whiteboard after a number of evenings spent on it.
Given that I'm now more comfortable with websockets, I also want to try my hand at a few different style casual games and hopefully be able to get to a point where people can jump from game to game on the site as a group.
Highest priority is growing https://portabella.io, we're on the brink of MRR and 2020 was about getting the base features out the door. Content marketing, tutorials, guides will be the goal for me here.
https://block-hooks.com is my other focus, I think it has real potential to take off given the growing ecosystem.
minimal universal syntax
on top of that building notations for data (like JSON), markup (like XML/HTML), and source code (like S-expressions)
to me it's beautiful and feels like a holy grail of simplicity; it's pretty fun
I want to push it far as possible from the point of being a little curiosity towards the point of being a universal optimization that improves the software world
This is the year when I will find out if selling an analytics platform as a digital product (instead of a SaaS or open-source) can really work or not.
2. Soccer Score Picker / Fan Community
3. Cycling a Century tracker: https://zerotocentury.com/
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