Best Show HN projects from Oct, 2011

Browse the top 100 projects launched on Hacker News Show HN during Oct, 2011.


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#1 Show HN: A storebuilder contained in a single text area

389 points | 113 comments | Oct 25, 2011 | by matthias

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#2 Show HN: KernType, a typography game made with RaphaΓ«l

268 points | 53 comments | Oct 07, 2011 | by duopixel

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#3 Show HN: my 4-y-o son drew a video game. He drew then we hacked together.

247 points | 64 comments | Oct 11, 2011 | by mneedham

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#4 Show HN: Who's Hiring? (postings mined from Twitter)

220 points | 63 comments | Oct 12, 2011 | by robinwarren

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#5 Show HN: The users behind Hacker News

193 points | 95 comments | Oct 16, 2011 | by DanielRibeiro

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#6 Show HN: Learn iPhone and iPad development in less than an hour

163 points | 91 comments | Oct 15, 2011 | by sidwyn

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#7 Show HN: My network connection monitor for Mac

146 points | 77 comments | Oct 08, 2011 | by aparadja

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#8 Show HN: Create a beautiful timeline with TimeKiwi

145 points | 48 comments | Oct 14, 2011 | by mihar

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#9 Show HN: My table of tools for startups [Google Docs]

139 points | 39 comments | Oct 06, 2011 | by matthiaswh

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#10 Show HN: TouchBase (re-imagining the iPhone calendar)

102 points | 43 comments | Oct 18, 2011 | by webwright

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#11 Show HN: validate.js - lightweight JavaScript form validation library

102 points | 32 comments | Oct 17, 2011 | by rickharrison

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#12 Show HN: Hackerhub.org

101 points | 51 comments | Oct 02, 2011 | by saibotd

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#13 Show HN: Tubalr.com, taking advantage of all the great music content on YouTube.

98 points | 79 comments | Oct 23, 2011 | by cjstewart88

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#14 Show HN: BestSFBooks, Mashup of the Best SF/Fantasy Books

78 points | 25 comments | Oct 05, 2011 | by gurgeous

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#15 Show HN: BackboneScreencasts.com

77 points | 29 comments | Oct 19, 2011 | by joeybeninghove

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#16 Show HN: Markdrop β€” drag and drop Markdown previews

70 points | 13 comments | Oct 09, 2011 | by __init__py

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#17 Show HN: iPad RSS Reader App I spent 7 months on

69 points | 29 comments | Oct 28, 2011 | by mmackh

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#18 Show HN: my one-day project, Trnsfr

64 points | 42 comments | Oct 30, 2011 | by sahillavingia

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#19 Show HN: Getting help with your ideas

61 points | 15 comments | Oct 29, 2011 | by scheff

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#20 Show HN: Bookmarklet to Visualize Hacker News Polls

58 points | 9 comments | Oct 23, 2011 | by 3ds

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#21 Show HN: Startup Tools (and who actually uses them)

54 points | 18 comments | Oct 31, 2011 | by browser411

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#22 Show HN: Think Like (a) Git, a quasi-tutorial

54 points | 8 comments | Oct 26, 2011 | by geeksam

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#23 Show HN: Export your data from Twitter/Facebook/Gowalla/Google+ as JSON

53 points | 12 comments | Oct 03, 2011 | by synack

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#24 Show HN: Kippt.com - Bookmarking made simple

52 points | 30 comments | Oct 25, 2011 | by enra

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#25 Show HN: (first iPhone App) Picsicle - Customized Photo Postcards

52 points | 19 comments | Oct 06, 2011 | by frankdenbow

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#26 Show HN: Easily monitor your Google Analytics metrics with Leftronic

49 points | 15 comments | Oct 18, 2011 | by cdelsolar

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#27 Show HN: SHA1 Checksum Large Files with HTML5 Typed Arrays and Web Workers

47 points | 7 comments | Oct 29, 2011 | by antimatter15

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#28 Show HN: Angry Birds + Your Tweets * Infographic = TweetSheet

46 points | 10 comments | Oct 25, 2011 | by whather

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#29 Show HN: draughtsman, a webserver for front-end devs

45 points | 19 comments | Oct 25, 2011 | by stdbrouw

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#30 Show HN: Backyard.io - We applied to YC (W12) and need some beta users

43 points | 27 comments | Oct 14, 2011 | by traviskuhl

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#31 Show HN: Bookmark events across the web and receive automatic reminders.

43 points | 7 comments | Oct 04, 2011 | by sixbit

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#32 Show HN: Hellepoll is a blazingly-fast async HTTP server written in C++

35 points | 28 comments | Oct 27, 2011 | by willvarfar

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#33 Show HN: Watch talks from hacker conferences like a TV channel

32 points | 12 comments | Oct 06, 2011 | by synack

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#34 Show HN: DJS - Media Distribution with no server-side code

31 points | 7 comments | Oct 15, 2011 | by khwang

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#35 Show HN: Thotly - An Anonymized Layer On Your Local Reality

30 points | 24 comments | Oct 26, 2011 | by kposehn

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#36 Show HN: Tag Along (my first iPhone app 37 days later)

30 points | 23 comments | Oct 14, 2011 | by tsalfie

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#37 Show HN: My minimalist Dropbox+iPhone note-taking app

29 points | 15 comments | Oct 25, 2011 | by thedaniel

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#38 Show HN: Minefold, cloud Minecraft hosting

26 points | 4 comments | Oct 05, 2011 | by chrislloyd

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#39 Show HN: my first product - a simple cost sharing tool

24 points | 49 comments | Oct 05, 2011 | by nclrhombre

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#40 Show HN: my weekend project, a "framework" for IRC apps/bots

24 points | 10 comments | Oct 12, 2011 | by llambda

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#41 Show HN: Mouin, a sane way to create native mobile apps

24 points | 6 comments | Oct 10, 2011 | by jng

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#42 Show HN: anti-procrastination community for startup founders

23 points | 10 comments | Oct 28, 2011 | by vanni

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#43 Show HN: My iOS5 app using CoreImage and Twitter integration

23 points | 10 comments | Oct 16, 2011 | by progolferyo

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#44 Show HN: WebEngage - feedback and short survey widget. Need your inputs

22 points | 18 comments | Oct 05, 2011 | by manishkashyap09

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#45 Show HN: First project and lessons learned

22 points | 16 comments | Oct 31, 2011 | by Inc82

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#46 Show HN: What movie to see in theaters, powered by Hunch

22 points | 6 comments | Oct 21, 2011 | by handler

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#47 Show HN: Thread.ly - a news reading and sharing app (feedback appreciated)

20 points | 7 comments | Oct 03, 2011 | by eekfuh

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#48 Show HN: Track your Git commit statistics

18 points | 8 comments | Oct 25, 2011 | by stravid

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#49 Show HN: ParseResource, a Ruby gem that makes Parse feel like ActiveRecord

18 points | 0 comments | Oct 01, 2011 | by adelevie

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#50 Show HN: Launching my product in Japan

17 points | 8 comments | Oct 20, 2011 | by aculver

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#51 Show HN: PicLyf - Photo blogging life, things & interests

17 points | 0 comments | Oct 13, 2011 | by twidlit

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#52 Show HN: SupportBee - A Help Desk that is a joy to use

16 points | 12 comments | Oct 12, 2011 | by prateekdayal

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#53 Show HN: MailSlayer - An App Platform for Gmail that makes email awesome again

16 points | 9 comments | Oct 04, 2011 | by lem72

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#54 Show HN: Look what a friend did this weekend

16 points | 6 comments | Oct 29, 2011 | by waxy

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#55 Show HN: Spaculator - Bitcoin Options for Dummies (wannabe)

16 points | 4 comments | Oct 03, 2011 | by realmojo

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#56 Show HN: Passive notifications of nearby deals based on your current location

16 points | 0 comments | Oct 06, 2011 | by dealups

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#57 Show HN: My weekend project, Costume Database

15 points | 11 comments | Oct 31, 2011 | by KennyCason

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#58 Show HN: Mood Contest - My weekend project

15 points | 10 comments | Oct 01, 2011 | by MartinMoi

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#59 Show HN: Send cool postcards - weekend project

15 points | 9 comments | Oct 11, 2011 | by Swizec

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#60 Show HN: We made a self-categorizing image board

14 points | 23 comments | Oct 09, 2011 | by songrabbit

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#61 Show HN: I launched my first solo side project

14 points | 15 comments | Oct 31, 2011 | by sdotsen

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#62 Show HN: My new personal website

14 points | 15 comments | Oct 15, 2011 | by tectonic

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#63 Show HN: Our project, free DNS service EntryDNS.net

13 points | 8 comments | Oct 24, 2011 | by clyfe

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#64 Show HN: Pushing HTML5/CSS to the max for a museum touchscreen interactive

12 points | 1 comments | Oct 07, 2011 | by makenosound

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#65 Show HN: Erlywarn, Clever Uptime Monitoring. Any thoughts?

11 points | 20 comments | Oct 03, 2011 | by chrisfarms

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#66 Show HN: Website Screenshots Made Easy

11 points | 12 comments | Oct 23, 2011 | by rezaman

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#67 Show HN: My Google-Music-for-books webapp - CodexCloud

11 points | 10 comments | Oct 22, 2011 | by bieh

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#68 Show HN: Walkbase, room-level context for your apps.

11 points | 9 comments | Oct 19, 2011 | by njern

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#69 Show HN: Please Return Me - Recover your Lost Stuff

10 points | 11 comments | Oct 04, 2011 | by BadiPod

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#70 Show HN: OSX port of the Light, Efficient Network Simulator (LENS)

10 points | 5 comments | Oct 07, 2011 | by hbrouwer

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#71 Show HN: Happy Halloween

10 points | 0 comments | Oct 31, 2011 | by richpalmer2

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#72 Show HN: I took your feedback and improved my Android app

10 points | 0 comments | Oct 30, 2011 | by chuinard

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#73 Show HN: BillingSavvy: Compare Pricing of Chargify, Recurly (Stripe Soon)

10 points | 0 comments | Oct 03, 2011 | by schapman623

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#74 Show HN: Online dating for people who don't do online dating

9 points | 7 comments | Oct 19, 2011 | by HeyImAlex

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#75 Show HN: DrawWith.Me - Free Drawing and Sharing with WebGL

9 points | 4 comments | Oct 18, 2011 | by dtwwtd

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#76 Show HN: spaceuncharted.com

9 points | 4 comments | Oct 03, 2011 | by wizzo

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#77 Show HN: Hacker News Android App Open-Sourced

9 points | 3 comments | Oct 28, 2011 | by glebche

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#78 Show HN: Folderus Demo - Dropbox, Google Docs and local folder collaboration

9 points | 3 comments | Oct 03, 2011 | by dugmartin

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#79 Show HN: Explore Open Source Code Online (early prototype)

9 points | 2 comments | Oct 11, 2011 | by vineet

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#80 Show HN: A LESS compiler for all platforms

9 points | 0 comments | Oct 24, 2011 | by chris_engel

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#81 Show HN: An HTML5 Bingo card for Apple's event. Works on iOS, saves locally.

9 points | 0 comments | Oct 03, 2011 | by stevestreza

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#82 Show HN: a social network conducted entirely through email

8 points | 35 comments | Oct 04, 2011 | by tci22

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#83 Show HN Remindlyo helps you remember to make important phone calls

8 points | 13 comments | Oct 09, 2011 | by zrail

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#84 Show HN: UserMetrix -- Spend time fixing bugs not reproducing them

8 points | 7 comments | Oct 20, 2011 | by clinton

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#85 Show HN: AngelList Army

8 points | 5 comments | Oct 29, 2011 | by Gabriel_Martin

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#86 Show HN: My ~10 hours project - Rock, Paper Scissors and Bombs

8 points | 4 comments | Oct 24, 2011 | by Veera

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#87 Show HN: Let's bring the power of Reddit's ranking algo to Spotify

8 points | 4 comments | Oct 18, 2011 | by mol2103

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#88 Show HN: match your Netflix queue with your friends' queues

8 points | 1 comments | Oct 28, 2011 | by nickbaum

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#89 Show HN: I made CommitSearch, a GitHub commit message search tool

8 points | 1 comments | Oct 18, 2011 | by mshafrir

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#90 Show HN: My first attempt at redoing Dante's Inferno in English

7 points | 6 comments | Oct 10, 2011 | by chunky1994

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#91 Show HN: The inverse of Twitter, Plumpl.com

7 points | 3 comments | Oct 23, 2011 | by gabriellorin

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#92 Show HN: Skills.io, publish your work and archievements

7 points | 3 comments | Oct 07, 2011 | by mcorrientes

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#93 Show HN: My Chrome extension, Better History, recently hit 1.0

7 points | 2 comments | Oct 28, 2011 | by roykolak

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#94 Show HN: The world's most advanced echo server.

7 points | 1 comments | Oct 25, 2011 | by techosaurus

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#95 Show HN: You don't have to get #fat to learn #lean

7 points | 1 comments | Oct 16, 2011 | by devillej

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#96 Show HN: Rate my project browshot.com

6 points | 11 comments | Oct 22, 2011 | by jusob

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#97 Show HN: Occupy Everything; a weekend project

6 points | 11 comments | Oct 16, 2011 | by irunbackwards

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#98 Show HN: Create Games and Simulations on iPad

6 points | 7 comments | Oct 25, 2011 | by TwoLivesLeft

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#99 Show HN: Feedback on my resume website written in Nodejs

6 points | 7 comments | Oct 17, 2011 | by miles_matthias

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#100 Show HN: Goal achievement just got easy with Dittit.com (feedback wanted)

6 points | 7 comments | Oct 10, 2011 | by esalazar

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