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What weekend side projects are you working on?

I'm working on a mobile HTML5 social game that backends into Parse.

My stale side project (haven't worked on it for a bit), a fun way to chat anonymously with other random Facebook users -- http://www.letschattr.com. If you want to try it, you'll need a friend to use it at the same time as well (or use two windows).

Pro-tip for those without any: keep an ideas.txt file. Keep it on GitHub, too, so others can use it.

Right now, a chrome extension for Steam, adds a bit of functionality to the store. Some extra links, prices from all regions, probably some other crap too.

Currently the goals for it are to implement and use redis in a production site, learn to make a chrome extension, and just to get another thing launched. Possibly also to install/config a server from scratch (on Linode).

Currently working on a Dota2 fansite with my brother. I'm really groking the usage of Mercurial for source control. It's really amazing.

Right now I'm working on a command-line utility for ripping albums off Youtube. It uses some music database APIs to lookup tracks for a specified album, and then finds individual youtube videos to rip for each track. Once a video is downloaded, it will be converted to m4a and metadata will be added to it as is available.

Sounds like fun, but won't the quality be fairly bad?

My friend Joseph (http://josephcurley.me) and I created ExploreMore as a fast and fun way to find interesting local events and happenings. We used Flask and the Eventful API. Feedback appreciated! http://bit.ly/O5b2jU

Looks promising, but the event list was cut off at the bottom, with no way to scroll. It was not intuitive at first, but then I clicked the "See a list of events?" link and it was all pulled up - but then the search field was on top of the last event.

What browser and OS are you using?

I'm working on what is, for now, a demonstration single sign on provider. http://prototype.projectmaelstrom.com/

Test application: http://nodetest.projectmaelstrom.com/

More of a side project than a weekend project: http://localbeer.me - helps you discover locally brewed beer. I just added Facebook open graph actions last weekend

How do I add breweries? I'm in Boston and there are none on the map, but we have tons of breweries.

I add them manually, state by state. I'm about 1/4 of the way thought (there are thousands). Regular users can add them too, but in practice nobody does.

I like the idea, but I got to say the UI is a bit confusing... I really wanted to add a couple of places, but just couldn't figure out how.

pretty cool, I had an idea that is kind of close that but very different : http://www.gullibear.com/projects/96002/iphone-app-to-find-c...

it's not quality beer home brewed around me but cheap bar beer around me...

i like your moto a lot^^

More of a side project than a weekend project but I'm working on http://twitcherhq.com - a social media analytics and monitoring tool.

http://pouchdb.com/

in browser version of couchdb, mostly its a database that works offline and syncs online.

We should exchange notes, I'm trying the same thing with BrowserDB - http://srirangan.github.com/browserdb - 'cept the API is inspired by MongoDB.

I'm learning Xbox 360 (Xbox Live) Indie game development

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http://www.sofreakinannoying.com - needed this to vent

BrowserDB - http://srirangan.github.com/browserdb

I am making a language learning HTML5 game using the Kinect through the Zigfu API.

a photo processing tool on ipad.

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