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Kabue Charles
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What is your personal project?

Do you have a personal project that you are working on during your free times and hope to one day make a living out of it?

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Toni Engelhardt

I'm currently working on journalisticapp.com. Not sure if it will ever make any money but I used it to learn Vue/Nuxt from scratch, so it is a win already.

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Sam Thorogood

I work on Emojityper, which started as a silly colab between friends and now has a reasonable number of users, many of whom seem to be my IRL friends and colleagues. It's quite encouraging to get personal feedback.

But it's also grown into a place to showcase interesting web technologies, which is my job, so that's been a great feeling—that I can learn even when I'm doing something purely for fun/personal motivations.

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Garrett

I don't have one! I wish I did. ADHD, working, and life in general always got in the way of past projects. :(

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kaaai3

I just started a few weeks ago on a project which is a marketplace for game mod/plugin makers. Developers can ask a small fee for the mod or just put it up for free whatever they prefer.

Writing the front-end in angular 5 and the back-end in .NET

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Bogdan Popa

I currently maintain Dramatiq and molten. Dramatiq started out dual-licensed under a commercial license and the AGPL but I subsequently changed it to LGPL due to time constraints and because I wanted it to have a higher adoption rate than it did and the AGPL impeded that.

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Kabue Charles

python is quickly being adopted both as a learning programming language and commercial language... depending on how it simplifies things, these libraries could find their way into the core of some projects like Django... Keep up the great work work...

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Colin Morgan • Edited

Just launched ObviousJobs.com. Got tired of job posts not including important info like salary.

The plan is to work employers to start writing more transparent job post and stop wasting time on both sides.

If you've got any ideas or info you'd like to see on job posts more often, get in touch!

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Kabue Charles

Fully descriptive job posts are awesome...

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Rohit Awate

I am currently working on Everest, a REST client written in JavaFX.

Everest

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Kabue Charles

Great project...

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Philip Karlsson

I listen to a lot of podcasts, and a while ago I thought of a few features I'd like to have, that my current player (Pocketcasts) doesn't have. So, I started building my own. But, it will probably not get to a point where I'd want to use it full-time, or make any money of of it. But it's a fun project, and I've learnt a lot.

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Kabue Charles

If it is fun, then it is worth your time... And you learn at the same time...

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Kirill Shirinkin

Working on a platform where people can hire programming mentor and learn everything needeed to achieve individual goal (become junior, become senior, just get basic skills, may be get deep dive into particular topic etc).

Doing it since some years, currently 2 people work on it fulltime (co-founder and support agent), I am doing it on free time, combining with my primary freelance projects.

Idea is that we do not put students into artificial interactive browser-based far-from-real-life sandbox and we do not produce more learning content - there is already plenty out there, so we carefully re-used existing one.

mkdev.me/en

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Kabue Charles

WOW, this is very genius... i can bet that this will be a worth while project! The website is also elegant, especially the home page...

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Kirill Shirinkin

Thanks! After Russia's government blocked us during the holy war against Telegram we are trying to focus on english-speaking market more and your feedback is very valuable :)

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Domingo Martín 🛠

I just have too many and cannot concentrate properly.

Analog audio processing on the cloud, 300 users.
watape.com

Email collection forms for developers, 50 users:
tuemilio.com

NLP for Spanish in JavaScript, 33 stars:
github.com/dmarman/lorca

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Kabue Charles • Edited

This is great... there is a site called indiehackers.com that you can learn from other Solopreneurs on how they do it...