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Ask HN - Any interesting side projects you can share?

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There was one project yesterday - google map showing a random place - interesting. Any other interesting project like that? (not the usual to-do list apps, something different)

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Hm, side projects, I have a few...

http://localbeer.me (find locally brewed beer)

http://la-weather.com (what's the weather like in LA - still in _very_ early development)

http://imgonly.info (just the images from the Reddit RSS feed)

http://uberqr.com (QR Code generator/link shortener, _very_ basic)

That's all I can think of right now...

localbeer.me looks awesome! ...I always try to get something local, especially when I'm in a new place.

Currently I'm working on C++ container, because I hate the standard containers.

That sounds fun - what kind of things are you going for, and what approach are you thinking of taking?

Well first I wrote stack, queue and vector templates, but realized I can as easily write all of the functions as one template. Did that. Now I can use my container anyway I want and it can be safely iterated while deleting nodes. Though only problem I tried to overload operator= when character pointer is given to check how many characters in the data is and push them to the container automatically like you can do with std::string, but for some reason it gives me some ugly memory leaks, even though pushing normally works fine.

Wrote the world's fastest Objective-C JSON parser last week: https://github.com/kstenerud/KSJSON

Other, older things:

ObjectAL, an audio library for iOS: https://github.com/kstenerud/ObjectAL-for-iPhone

Universal static framework template for iOS: https://github.com/kstenerud/iOS-Universal-Framework

http://wheelspotting.com (my project to polish my Rails/iOS integration skills)

http://editdrop.com (this we have customers ready to buy)

http://eat05.com (not live) making a happy hour guide/app for local area. I always am wanting to know who has what food/drink specials

A simple Reddit OS X menubar app: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/reddit-notifier/id468366517?m...

An exercise in getting an app into the App Store as quickly as possible.

http://dudmail.com - a disposable email/mail forwarding site.

I mentioned it on HN a few months back: http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=3026892

I wrote a tiling window manager for X11 in Node.js a while back: https://github.com/mixu/nwm

and a free book about Node.js: http://book.mixu.net/

http://www.newsfeedy.com : news stories, links, and pictures for topics that are trending on twitter or google. It's a quick way to catch up on breaking news. I just added filtering this week.

very cool!

Just announced http://bumb.ly in another post today – think of it as a more elegant, fast quickmeme - powered by HTML5, Canvas, and FileReader to do some cool photo editing on the client-side.

http://www.myfivesevenfive.com/

A community for people to write Haiku poetry

Rather unloved at the moment. My schedule has been crazy ever since I launched it :(

A gift cards marketplace @ http://www.GiftcardZilla.com

Trying to finish the BUY section and soon need to add the SELL giftcard section.

I do https://entrydns.net (free DNS service) with a sysadmin friend. I's a side project we're evolving on afternoons and weekends.

I started working on a k/v cache, primarily to learn erlang: https://github.com/capotej/nolimit

The one I'm working on now is http://5kracer.com makes finding local 5k races easy

Mathalon - http://mathalon.in/ Mathematics Problem Site.

Security Hardened VM's for EC2

I Want!

How do you plan on countering the lack of trust (for anyobody making an AMI)? Will they be audited by a third party?

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