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Ask HN: How long did your last side project take?

8 pointsalixander16 comments

http://www.TrendsFormer.co took me 3-4 days.

I created the site as a hobby project to show the trend of something over time, starting with restaurants/locations from Google Places and Yelp.

It started as an idea after I had a really bad quality food and service from a restaurant rated 4 out of 5. So with TrendsFormer, I'll be able to see whether the restaurant's quality has gone down over time through a "trend line".

I like this, this is a really nice example of a useful but easy to make project.

Thanks alixander. Appreciate it :)

The first version of my side project (http://www.kopyscreen.com/) took about 8-10 hours, but somehow my interest level went down after showing it to my friends.

I want to add few more features to complete it but for about 6 weeks, I did not do any work on it :-(

Problem with this is there are already apps that do this for you on your computer.

Grab the small bit of screen you want to screenshot, not the whole screen, draw, save local or auto upload to imgur

yes @jordsmi, I agree. This project actually started as a programming exercise to learn a new lang. and not as something to solve my problem - that might be another reason for my low interest level after developing the first version.

I want to continue this, because this helped me learn/develop few new items, which I wouldn't have done in my regular job.

http://teamsite.io - Over 6 months working evenings and weekend and am almost done... It's an existing space so I needed to have all the features of my competitors upon launch.

Looks neat - are you at all worried about legal issues with the name? HP owns a product with the exact same name (http://www.autonomy.com/products/teamsite), and although it's in an utterly unrelated area, it still might end up as a hassle...

Thanks for the heads up. Although it looks like their product name is actually HP TeamSite

6 weeks. very loose working hours and very relaxed coding. if i were working on it during my actual work hours it could have taken 2-3 days.

5-months and still working on it. For about 2 months did not do any work on it. Now i am resuming.

A year and half. And Then it failed. :)

fetchtext.herokuapp.com

Took me about 3 hours, because the library it is based on is wonderful :)

8 years :-|

What is it ?

interactive web maps...

http://geoscore.com/

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