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Explore the hottest developer projects on Show HN for 2024-01-27. Dive into innovative tech, AI applications, and exciting new inventions!
Summary of Today's Content
Today's Product Highlights
- Product Name: Pong Wars
- Highlight: An innovative twist on the classic Pong game that transforms it into a territorial battle, demonstrating creative visualization and engaging gameplay mechanics.
Quick Summary
- Hottest Category: Gaming & Entertainment
- Most Liked Keywords: Web Development, Open Source, User Experience
- Most Popular Product: Pong Wars (490 points, 120 comments)
Technology Trends
- WebGL/Browser Gaming
- No-login Solutions
- Browser Extensions
- Real-time Applications
- Open Source Development
- WebAssembly (WASM)
- Database Integration
- API Development
Project Distribution
- Gaming/Entertainment: 25%
- Developer Tools: 30%
- Productivity Apps: 20%
- Browser Extensions: 15%
- Data Management: 10%
Trend Insights
- Strong emphasis on friction-free user experiences with no-login requirements
- Growing interest in browser-based gaming and interactive experiences
- Increasing focus on developer tooling and productivity enhancements
- Rising demand for data integration and analysis capabilities
- Trend toward simplification of complex workflows
- Emergence of real-time, collaborative features in web applications
- Continued popularity of open-source development and community-driven projects
- Integration of modern web technologies (WebGL, WASM) in everyday applications
The analysis reveals a clear trend toward user-centric design and simplified experiences, with a particular focus on removing unnecessary friction from common tasks. Developer tools and gaming applications continue to dominate the innovation landscape.
Today's Top 10 Trending Products
Top 1. Experience the ultimate showdown in Pong Wars, where classic arcade action meets competitive gameplay. Challenge friends or engage in epic battles against AI opponents in this fast-paced, retro-inspired game. With intuitive controls, dynamic levels, and exciting power-ups, Pong Wars offers endless fun and fierce competition. Perfect for gamers of all ages looking to relive the nostalgia of arcade gaming while enjoying modern twists. Join the Pong Wars revolution today! (Likes: 490, Comments: 120)
Top 2. WAYF is a user-friendly scheduling app designed to simplify the process of planning and organizing your time. Ideal for individuals and teams, it features intuitive interfaces, seamless calendar integration, and customizable notifications to enhance productivity and ensure you never miss an important appointment. Perfect for busy professionals and groups looking to streamline their scheduling efforts. (Likes: 122, Comments: 33)
Top 3. Explore HNRelevant: an integrated sidebar tool that allows you to effortlessly discover related discussions on Hacker News, enhancing your browsing experience. (Likes: 48, Comments: 9)
Top 4. Discover and access a curated collection of free and open-source software with Awsmfoss. Embrace the power of community-driven solutions while enhancing your productivity and creativity. Ideal for developers and tech enthusiasts seeking innovative tools without the cost. (Likes: 27, Comments: 7)
Top 5. Effortlessly import your Strava activities into a PostgreSQL instance with Strava-Postgres, enabling seamless data management and analysis for fitness enthusiasts and developers alike. (Likes: 11, Comments: 1)
Top 6. Introducing the PalWorld Breeding Calculator: an innovative tool designed to streamline the breeding process in the popular game PalWorld. With intuitive features and an easy-to-use interface, players can optimize their breeding strategies for better outcomes. Ideal for both new and experienced players, this calculator simplifies complex genetics, helping you unlock rare and powerful pals with ease. Enhance your gameplay and maximize your breeding potential today! (Likes: 9, Comments: 1)
Top 7. Introducing the ERD Editor: a powerful tool designed for effortless creation and management of Entity Relationship Diagrams. Streamline your database design process with an intuitive interface, real-time collaboration, and customizable templates. Perfect for developers, data analysts, and anyone involved in database architecture. Enhance your workflow and visualize complex data structures with ease! (Likes: 10, Comments: 0)
Top 8. Effortlessly inspect and debug webhooks over SSH with this powerful tool, streamlining your development process and ensuring seamless integration. (Likes: 10, Comments: 0)
Top 9. RSS Feeds for Radio Canada: Stay updated with the latest news and broadcasts from Radio Canada through convenient and customizable RSS feeds, bringing you a seamless experience for accessing timely information directly to your preferred feed reader. (Likes: 9, Comments: 0)
Top 10. Introducing Psc: The ultimate Programmable Synth Controller that empowers musicians and sound designers to create, modify, and control their unique soundscapes with precision. Enjoy customizable settings, intuitive interface, and seamless integration with your favorite synthesizers. Elevate your music production game today! (Likes: 9, Comments: 0)
1. Show HN: Pong Wars
URL: https://pong-wars.koenvangilst.nl/
Author: vnglst
Description:
Popularity: 490 points | 120 comments
2. Show HN: WAYF – A Simple Scheduling App
URL: https://wayf.social
Author: runandrew
Description: A dead-simple web app to find the best time for your next meetup with friends. No logins, no bloat. Schedule with a link.
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When trying to schedule events with my friends, we often have a long text thread of sporadic dates and the group has to mentally combine all the messages to produce a date that works for all.
There are plenty of apps out there to coordinate scheduling, but I found many of them were bloated with features that didn't matter to us, required user sign ups and app downloads. This friction is enough for us to prefer rudimentary long text threads. I wanted something that I could post in the thread once, my friends can add their availability on their own time (and can edit), and we can continue on our conversation.
WAYF (When are you free?) is a fun side project that solves this issue. Bare-bones scheduling for what days you are free. No user accounts, no downloads, just paste a link and anyone can schedule. It's completely free.
I hope you like it and find it useful, I would love feedback.
Popularity: 122 points | 33 comments
3. Show HN: HNRelevant – Explore Related Discussions on HN in an Integrated Sidebar
URL: https://github.com/imdj/HNRelevant
Author: imadj
Description: Reading submissions here, I often feel intrigued and want to explore more interconnected or similar stories. The process of googling and going back and forth didn't feel natural. So, I made this browser extension that adds a related submissions section for HN's layout. The results are displayed in a sidebar right in the page's layout using HN native style just like other elements.
I enjoy being knee-deep in discussions. Many times you're learning about something new, where the topic is either unfamiliar, thought-provoking, or just could use some context that you don't even know about. If a submission is interesting enough for me to click on, chances are I'd like to dig deeper into this topic and there are more related discussions that offer new context or perspective.
This is an extension that I always have on so I paid special attentions to UX to make it intuitive and seamless and now the extension has become just part of the HN experience for me. Implementation-wise, it integrates https://hn.algolia.com/ API and uses the submission title as its initial query with the ability to change the query and other options interactively.
It's available on: Chrome, Firefox, and as a userscript.
Chrome:https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/hnrelevant/iajhnkei...
Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hnrelevant/
I shared it earlier last year when it was early in development, barely a prototype, at the time it wasn't yet published and could only be used on chrome by "load unpacked": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36102610. I've been using it daily since and I'm happy to share it now for you to give it a try.
Popularity: 48 points | 9 comments
4. Show HN: Find Free and Open Source Software – Awsmfoss
Author: hardwaresofton
Description:
Popularity: 27 points | 7 comments
5. Show HN: Strava-Postgres, load your Strava activities into a PG instance
URL: https://github.com/davidgomes/strava-postgres
Author: munchor
Description:
Popularity: 11 points | 1 comments
6. Show HN: PalWorld Breeding Calculator
URL: https://paldb.net/breeding-calculator
Author: jacklamhoang
Description:
Popularity: 9 points | 1 comments
7. Show HN: ERD Editor
URL: https://github.com/dineug/erd-editor
Author: necoco
Description: Introduction
- Entity-Relationship Diagram Editor
- The top priority of the project is to focus on user editing experience.
Popularity: 10 points | 0 comments
8. Show HN: Inspect and Debug Webhooks over SSH
URL: https://github.com/adelowo/sdump
Author: adelowo
Description:
Popularity: 10 points | 0 comments
9. Show HN: RSS Feeds for Radio Canada
URL: https://github.com/keotl/ohdieux
Author: Sytten
Description: Since the launch of the application RC Ohdio, they shut down the RSS feeds and added so many ads in the application.
This allows generating back those feeds and listen in any podcasting app.
Popularity: 9 points | 0 comments
10. Show HN: Psc: Programmable Synth Controller
URL: https://doug.lon.dev/blog/2024/psc/
Author: wdfx
Description: Write up of an embedded project I made to control my analogue synthesizer.
Happy to answer any questions or provide any further details of this project if wanted.
Popularity: 9 points | 0 comments
11. Show HN: Strava-Postgres, load your Strava activities into a PG instance
URL: https://twitter.com/davidrfgomes/status/1751355081163768057
Author: munchor
Description:
Popularity: 9 points | 0 comments
12. Show HN: Hack your mind with Flowstate Android app- natural sound for relaxation
URL: https://punarjith.in/flowstate
Author: thaherster
Description: Cooked up a productivity sound app in a day to dodge paying for another paid sound app, so that I can listen to it for free while working. Now it's on the Play Store, but get this—it's listed as paid. The irony! Click the link for a discount code specifically for my HN community and snag it for free!
Popularity: 3 points | 5 comments
13. Show HN: Dead Horse, a real time online text adventure
URL: https://deadhorse.eurydice.me/
Author: gpxyz
Description: Hi HN !
I built a text adventure as a way of learning Flask / app development. It runs in browser (hosted on a cheap DO droplet). I've been wanting more games like Animal Crossing that take place in real time, so this game has a real time clock and moon phase system.
I've never shared something like this on here before so I hope this is OK. Happy to answer any questions about it!
Popularity: 5 points | 2 comments
14. Show HN: Upload a photo, and it will throw a banana into your hand:)
URL: https://holdmybeer.vercel.app/
Author: tamnv
Description:
Popularity: 1 points | 4 comments
15. Show HN: Zen, a seeker-first job searching tool
Author: mrkaye97
Description: Hey everyone!
I've been building Zen since I was on the job hunt and realized it was harder than it should've been to just get notifications when a company I was interested in posted a job that was relevant to me.
It's come a long way since then, but the core mission is still the same: It's a seeker-first job searching tool, with no promoted content, no ads, no recruiter spam, and so on.
Popularity: 4 points | 1 comments
16. Show HN: Dsu (daily stand-up) Ruby gem
URL: https://github.com/gangelo/dsu/wiki
Author: gangelo
Description:
Popularity: 2 points | 2 comments
17. Show HN: Running WebGL in browser using TinyGo
URL: https://github.com/semanser/tinygo-wasm-webgl-demo
Author: semanser
Description:
Popularity: 3 points | 0 comments
18. Show HN: Srgn, AST-aware text manipulation
URL: https://github.com/alexpovel/srgn
Author: alexpovel
Description: srgn is a niche source code (or just text) manipulation tool. It's written in Rust, with performance in mind. I used it to learn the language a while back, in order to work towards something resembling "useful in the real world".
Think of srgn as a blend of rip-grep, tree-sitter and GNU tr/sed. At its core, it most closely resembles tr, but expands on it in two important ways.
First, srgn provides scoping, used to specify what part of an input to work on. This can be literal text, regular expressions, or tree-sitter queries. The latter is the most interesting one. As tree-sitter queries can be tough to construct (although the tool is excellent, with an online playground for testing and more), srgn has pre-defined queries and makes an effort to unify these across languages. For example, across TypeScript, C#, Go, Rust and Python, you can specify to scope all "comments", and it (hopefully) just works as expected, despite these languages having different ideas of how comments work and look like (C# has multi-line and inline, for example, while Python only has a single type, all of which is also reflected in what tree-sitter calls those corresponding nodes).
Secondly, there's actions, which simply perform text manipulation on whatever is in scope from the previous step. One could delete certain parts of all comments, for example, or rewrite all import statements across an entire code base (https://github.com/alexpovel/srgn#mass-import-module-renamin...).
I had looked around a bunch for similar tools (https://github.com/alexpovel/srgn#similar-tools), but couldn't find any that quite did what srgn does.
The CLI is a rather thin wrapper around the Rust library, which is usable in the usual way.
By the way, the name srgn stands for surgeon, in the sense of a code surgeon: precise manipulation of text. Regular expressions and tree-sitter queries can be combined, which turns out to be much more powerful than either of these by itself, and also fills a different niche than LSP-powered Rename all-like features. It can also be used in CI, as a simple custom linter ("fail if you find any 'TODO' strings in comments").
A lot of the use cases can be covered by just regex, and then fixing mistakes manually; srgn mainly inches the precision of these operations closer to 100%, for when it's needed (like large refactors, where srgn offers full parallelization as well).
Popularity: 2 points | 1 comments
19. Show HN: A chess playing app where you get awarded for taunting your opponents
Author: creature_x
Description: Hi! Do you enjoy taunting your opponents during a chess game ? I built an app where you score points for it! Oh, and it also has a novel tactics training protocol based on spaced repetition. Any feedback, love ((or taunts)) would be greatly appreciated!
Popularity: 2 points | 0 comments
20. Show HN: Python 3 port of Umbra, an unfinished free Lovecraftian CRPG from 2001
URL: https://github.com/dbohdan/umbra
Author: networked
Description:
Popularity: 2 points | 0 comments
21. Show HN: Offline Notes Chrome Extension
URL: https://github.com/julienreszka/offline-notes-chrome-extension
Author: julienreszka
Description:
Popularity: 1 points | 0 comments
22. Show HN: Cloudftp.ai for transferring data using FTP
URL: https://cloudftp.ai
Author: ingend88
Description: We are building cloudftp.ai to reduce friction of moving data using FTP.
Popularity: 1 points | 0 comments
23. Show HN: Use Custom GPTs on your website with this open-source project
URL: https://github.com/SamurAIGPT/Open-Custom-GPT
Author: Anil1331
Description:
Popularity: 1 points | 0 comments
Conclusion
Today's Show HN roundup showcases a diverse range of innovative projects. From AI-powered tools to creative coding solutions, these projects reflect the dynamic nature of our tech community. Which project caught your attention the most? Let us know in the comments!
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