Ask HN: What's your current side project?
...looking for inspiration how to spend a free time during next few months.
An open Ask HN community consultation from 2018 where @selmat convened hundreds of developers and bootstrappers to share real experiences, hard numbers, and tactics.
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HISTORICAL ERA Cloud & Mobile Era (2014–2019)
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While I don't work too much in it due to the current lack of time, I built cryptocoinalerts.net (https://github.com/AlexITC/crypto-coin-alerts) some months ago, decided to be an open source project from the beginning and while it has served its purpose (put real work in a project that potential clients could evaluate), I ended up extracting a library from it (https://github.com/AlexITC/playsonify) which I have being used in other projects.
Writing a book about contemporary occultism.