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Ask HN: Who are working on young open-source projects? (or know such?)

by pankratiev on 5/14/11, 6:18 PM with 30 comments

I mean projects that just started recently and are not so popular.

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  • by cperciva on 5/14/11, 7:19 PM

    I released kivaloo just recently.

    As far as I'm aware, it currently has zero users (Tarsnap isn't using it yet), which probably qualifies it as "not so popular".

  • by rkalla on 5/14/11, 7:44 PM

    I see a lot of node.js work here... I'll be the super-uncool guy in the group and admit that so far I've only ever released Java libraries under Apache 2.

    I just released a CloudFront log parsing library: http://www.thebuzzmedia.com/software/cloudfront-log-parser/

    and a simple XML parsing library (speed of pull-parsing with the ease of XPath-esque expressions): http://www.thebuzzmedia.com/software/simple-java-xml-parser-...

    and one library that seems to be picking up is an image-scaling library I have made a few releases of: http://www.thebuzzmedia.com/software/imgscalr-java-image-sca...

    There are a handful of other libraries: https://github.com/thebuzzmedia/

    I just haven't finished the project-pages for them.

  • by m0hit on 5/14/11, 6:57 PM

    PGfb is an extremely nascent project (only one day of work), that started at a hack-a-thon at Berkeley.

    Aim is to bring PGP encryption to facebook using browser extensions.

    https://github.com/m0hit/PGfb

  • by JamesChevalier on 5/14/11, 6:52 PM

    This is my first open source project... It's an open source "LaunchRock"-type site: https://github.com/JamesChevalier/Launch-Soon

  • by __david__ on 5/14/11, 8:11 PM

    I wrote a program called daemon-manager to scratch an itch of mine (http://porkrind.org/daemon-manager/). It lets you manage non-root daemons from your user directory without requiring root permissions to start and stop them. I've been dogfooding it for about 6 months and just can't live without it any more. I think other people would be interested in using it but I'm not very good at marketing.

    I also co-wrote and maintain commit-patch (http://porkrind.org/commit-patch/) and it's another that I can't imagine living without. I've been using it for about 8 years and it has slightly more recognition--but not much.

  • by kstenerud on 5/14/11, 8:02 PM

    I created a universal framework template for iPhone/iOS (lets you build static frameworks that work on device and simulator): https://github.com/kstenerud/iOS-Universal-Framework

    Also, a nicer interface to iPhone audio: https://github.com/kstenerud/ObjectAL-for-iPhone

    I also put out my Objective-C programmer's toolbox: https://github.com/kstenerud/Objective-Gems

  • by olalonde on 5/14/11, 7:09 PM

    Just wrote a small native Node.js extension for displaying desktop notifications: https://github.com/olalonde/node-notify

    Tutorial available here: http://syskall.com/how-to-write-your-own-native-nodejs-exten...

    Node.js has a lot of potential but is still pretty young.

  • by metachris on 5/15/11, 12:00 PM

    I've recently started appengine-boilerplate, which makes setting up new appengine projects much quicker and more fun. Includes html5-boilerplate, openid-authentication, memcaching, etc. https://github.com/metachris/appengine-boilerplate

    If anyone wants to help, authentication with OAuth and MailChimp integration would be great places to start :)

  • by excid3 on 5/14/11, 7:13 PM

    While I started it a while ago, Keryx for Ubuntu/Debian is pretty new to the Linux community and not near as popular as it could be. http://keryxproject.org

    It's a GUI tool I built in Python to help offline users update and install new software on Linux.

    I no longer have time to work on it and would love it if someone would like to take over maintaining it for me.

  • by baudehlo on 5/14/11, 7:02 PM

    I recently started creating an SMTP server using Node.js: https://github.com/baudehlo/Haraka

  • by indexzero on 5/14/11, 7:19 PM

    We open-sourced our fullstack application server for node.js at NodeConf last week: haibu. http://github.com/nodejitsu/haibu.

    The project had been internal for a year and as such is pretty mature technically, but has a nascent community. If you're thinking about running node.js in production definitely check it out!

  • by pestaa on 5/14/11, 7:05 PM

    I'd like to point out Hyde (github.com/hyde/hyde), it's a static website generator written in Python, and I find it pretty well executed.

  • by wess on 5/24/11, 12:53 AM

    Friend and I are currently working on an embeddable library for server-side javascript called CoreJS (http://github.com/frenzylabs/CoreJS). It's not to compete with node, as it's meant to be embedded. It's threadsafe, and is, optionally, async.

  • by hsmyers on 5/14/11, 11:33 PM

    For no particular reason that I can think of I write modules relating to Chess on CPAN---probably not what you were thinking of, but it fits the description in that I've recently (last few weeks) updated/revised all of them. As to their popularity, well, this is chess, so what do you think? :)

  • by madhouse on 5/14/11, 6:28 PM

    There's like.. hundreds starting each minute. You might wish to be a tiny bit more specific.

  • by cfinke on 5/14/11, 7:04 PM

    I'm almost always starting new projects. One of my more recent undertakings is a client-side JavaScript implementation of a Hunspell-style spellchecker: http://github.com/cfinke/Typo.js

  • by clark-kent on 5/14/11, 8:01 PM

    Mine is Ragios - Ruby based system monitoring framework: https://github.com/obi-a/Ragios

    A good way to find recently started projects is to follow the keyword 'github' on twitter.

  • by simonsarris on 5/14/11, 6:54 PM

    I am about to start a few small <canvas> game engines for my own use, chiefly a point-and-click adventure/puzzle game engine.

    I probably won't start coding in earnest until July though.

  • by dinesh_oi on 5/15/11, 4:47 AM

    I have created a write though cache for mongodb based on memcached. ( mongoid supported currently. ) http://bit.ly/mfdIN7

  • by Rinum on 5/14/11, 7:26 PM

    Aiming to create a multiplayer sim ant http://github.com/rinum/openant

  • by wrburgess on 5/14/11, 6:59 PM

    Score is a new open source project for fantasy sports gaming. http://scoreos.org

  • by helwr on 5/14/11, 7:12 PM