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Ask HN: Show off your coolest weekend hack/product/MVP.

3 pointsby cjbarberalmost 12 years ago

6 comments

brotchiealmost 12 years ago
I made this working &lt; 2 days spread over a few weeks.<p><a href="http://howfastisthenbn.com.au/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;howfastisthenbn.com.au&#x2F;</a><p>It&#x27;s a comparison of the broadband policies of Australia&#x27;s two opposing political parties.<p>I posted it on the &#x2F;r&#x2F;Australia subreddit at ~4pm on a Tuesday and tweeted about it. 1.5 hours later the Minister of Communications and Broadband had retweeted it and then 30 minutes later the Prime Minister retweeted it.<p>Received 64k uniques between 4pm and 12am first day. 73k the next day after it was front-paged on the Sydney Morning Herald and news.com.au websites. Since launch I&#x27;ve had about ~186,989 uniques. Average time on site is 2:17.<p>At the top of the page are social sharing buttons for Facebook, Twitter, G+, and LinkedIn. The explosive growth definitely came from Facebook likes (58k) likes.<p>Lessons learned: NEVER make a website that doesn&#x27;t have prominent social media buttons, and make sure your Twitter button has some worthwhile default tweet content and a #hashtag or two.<p>It was hosted as a Github page with Cloudflare in front.
ukokialmost 12 years ago
Simple spaced repetition software in the browser. Made using Meteor.<p><a href="http://cardflashapp.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cardflashapp.com</a>
lsiebertalmost 12 years ago
<a href="https://github.com/gryftir/gutsy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;gryftir&#x2F;gutsy</a><p>Scrapes HN Who&#x27;s hiring postings for internships. Eventually will allow arbitrary parsing by passing a function.
murtzaalmost 12 years ago
I created a subreddit to share side projects.<p><a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;SideProject&#x2F;</a>
rustychickenalmost 12 years ago
worked on this for my wife&#x2F;newborn son. keeps track of when she fed on which boob last. also has an option if a bottle was used. background changes color depending on which one she should use first for the next feeding. <a href="https://github.com/rustychicken/milkpunch" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rustychicken&#x2F;milkpunch</a>
kissmdalmost 12 years ago
the current one: <a href="http://contupt.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;contupt.com</a>, you can apply now for alpha.<p>&quot;ContUpt is a service, which reminds you regularly to contact your customers, users and friends.&quot;