Best Show HN projects from May, 2011

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


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#1 Show HN: New platform for finding work - $2000 project minimum

195 points | 111 comments | May 12, 2011 | by anto210

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#2 Show HN: IMDb Top 250 available on Netflix Instant

195 points | 67 comments | May 28, 2011 | by ptarjan

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#3 Show HN: Machine learning cheat sheet

166 points | 13 comments | May 04, 2011 | by Emore

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#4 Show HN: I wrote a .NET to JS compiler. Here's an XNA demo compiled to JS.

103 points | 18 comments | May 31, 2011 | by kevingadd

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#5 Show HN: Fitocracy, an RPG for fitness

102 points | 65 comments | May 16, 2011 | by brianmwang

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#6 Show HN: This weird bug is probably present in your Nginx configuration.

100 points | 20 comments | May 16, 2011 | by k33n

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#7 Show HN: My embeddable C/C++ webserver

84 points | 44 comments | May 06, 2011 | by udp

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#8 Show HN: Gitalytics.com - Quicker Way to check someone's github profile

83 points | 28 comments | May 05, 2011 | by salsakran

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#9 Show HN: Minimal Lisp in ~70 lines of Haskell

76 points | 23 comments | May 01, 2011 | by die_sekte

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#10 Show HN: I Made this Y Combinator T-Shirt (Words from PG's Essays)

72 points | 44 comments | May 24, 2011 | by HardyLeung

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#11 Show HN: JavaScript implementation of Spotify client (Chrome only)

68 points | 37 comments | May 17, 2011 | by EmielMols

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#12 Show HN: Watchlater it's Instapaper for Videos

62 points | 24 comments | May 24, 2011 | by 9elements

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#13 Show HN: Chatbox adds missing file comment & collaboration feature to Dropbox

52 points | 10 comments | May 18, 2011 | by edwincheese

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#14 Show HN: Restaurant POS system built completely on iOS

51 points | 62 comments | May 02, 2011 | by refulgentis

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#15 Show HN: YC Interview Demo - What do you want to know about YC interviews?

50 points | 13 comments | May 01, 2011 | by waxman

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#16 Show HN: Requesting feedback on my side-project chatteranalytics.com

49 points | 33 comments | May 18, 2011 | by jrallison

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#17 Show HN: dmangame - a python AI game

48 points | 8 comments | May 22, 2011 | by okayzedd

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#18 Show HN: What if JIRA (Atlassian Bug tracker) had Achievements?

42 points | 24 comments | May 06, 2011 | by madgnome

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#19 Show HN my Hackathon Project: Visual Craigslist w/ HN's algorithm

42 points | 18 comments | May 01, 2011 | by SeoxyS

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#20 Show HN: My new app, Cloak for OSX

41 points | 32 comments | May 12, 2011 | by davepeck

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#21 Show HN: Todos: Backbone.js example + Google App Engine (Python)

38 points | 10 comments | May 30, 2011 | by ccarpenterg

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#22 Show HN: My startup: code4cheap.com, a code marketplace

36 points | 40 comments | May 02, 2011 | by blake8086

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#23 Show HN: BetterYoo - Recurring Reminders In Your Pants

33 points | 13 comments | May 31, 2011 | by RobMcCullough

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#24 Show HN: Shadow Cities - Location Based MMO for iPhone

32 points | 5 comments | May 31, 2011 | by enra

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#25 Show HN: my weekend project Html5Snippets.com

29 points | 7 comments | May 09, 2011 | by rbreve

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#26 Show HN: I emailed video game companies about breaking into the industry

28 points | 1 comments | May 11, 2011 | by keiferski

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#27 Show HN: Later Locker: for content that sucks on your mobile phone

25 points | 16 comments | May 18, 2011 | by bdotdub

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#28 Show HN: Canvas Glue, get the most out of reading and researching on the web.

24 points | 8 comments | May 29, 2011 | by mparke

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#29 Show HN: Shoplove - A women's high street store aggregator

22 points | 21 comments | May 22, 2011 | by Jim_Neath

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#30 Show HN: My side project that searches the web for technologies

22 points | 16 comments | May 05, 2011 | by tectonic

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#31 Show HN: QEDServer: A standalone playground for JS and AJAX

22 points | 3 comments | May 04, 2011 | by bphogan

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#32 Show HN: DeviceReady: Test Your Android App Across 25+ Devices

21 points | 9 comments | May 07, 2011 | by yarone

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#33 Show HN: my checkin scheduler

20 points | 5 comments | May 20, 2011 | by lolizbak

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#34 Show HN: user generated TL;DRs with a smart scorer

19 points | 22 comments | May 12, 2011 | by quan

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#35 Show HN: Summarizing popular HN articles

19 points | 19 comments | May 19, 2011 | by MichaelApproved

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#36 Show HN: Gabriel, a zero-configuration watchdog process

19 points | 6 comments | May 07, 2011 | by udoprog

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#37 Show HN: Search Ninja, Power Search on the iPhone

19 points | 3 comments | May 03, 2011 | by _ankit_

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#38 Show HN: Fast, free online meetings - use code "hackernews" to play

18 points | 31 comments | May 11, 2011 | by aresant

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#39 Show HN: Hacker News Reader for the iPad

17 points | 11 comments | May 22, 2011 | by arikfr

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#40 Show HN: invoiceto.me (Make a free invoice PDF online)

17 points | 8 comments | May 02, 2011 | by 1as

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#41 Show HN: StoryFunded.com - Crowdfunding for Authors

16 points | 8 comments | May 01, 2011 | by rosstamicah

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#42 Show HN: JoystiCC Turns Friends into Game Pieces

16 points | 5 comments | May 22, 2011 | by jonmarkgo

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#43 Show HN: Tap2Tab - Instantly Sends A Webpage From Computer to iPhone/Tablet

15 points | 26 comments | May 29, 2011 | by RobMcCullough

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#44 Show HN: Freebie finding site using interesting algorithm

15 points | 5 comments | May 17, 2011 | by tectonic

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#45 Show HN: My game, "Venture Crapital"

15 points | 3 comments | May 24, 2011 | by wylie

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#46 Show HN: Less Work, More Golf

14 points | 16 comments | May 21, 2011 | by mdoerneman

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#47 Show HN: my first app turns Twitter into a news aggregator

14 points | 15 comments | May 15, 2011 | by achompas

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#48 Show HN Weekend Project: Hacker News Points

14 points | 5 comments | May 18, 2011 | by HNPoints

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#49 Show HN: Byword for Mac, a simple text editor with Markdown support

14 points | 2 comments | May 25, 2011 | by jpedroso

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#50 Show HN: Briquette, a Mac OS X client for 37signal's Campfire app

13 points | 14 comments | May 23, 2011 | by brettbender

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#51 Show HN: lightweight Blog / Tumblelog engine "embr"

13 points | 13 comments | May 18, 2011 | by ldawson

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#52 Show HN: Business/Idea guy who built something to learn how to do it

13 points | 6 comments | May 25, 2011 | by Eyalush

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#53 Show HN: Interactive Paper Time Tracker

13 points | 2 comments | May 15, 2011 | by adib

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#54 Show HN: Social Minecraft clone with shooting

12 points | 13 comments | May 09, 2011 | by julius

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#55 Show HN: tweetvaultHQ, my Twitter archiving and stats app

12 points | 10 comments | May 04, 2011 | by BigglesZX

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#56 Show HN: Hubski: part blog, part news-aggregator, part social-feed.

12 points | 9 comments | May 06, 2011 | by markkat

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#57 Show HN: FPGA build environment generator

12 points | 7 comments | May 09, 2011 | by saard

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#58 Show HN: Keep unwanted photos off any site with javascript one-liner

12 points | 6 comments | May 25, 2011 | by chrisconley

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#59 Show HN: Archivist, stream live concerts to your iPhone

12 points | 1 comments | May 13, 2011 | by phil

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#60 Show HN: TripLingo- language learning for travelers.

11 points | 9 comments | May 06, 2011 | by onwardly

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#61 Show HN: Leafsnap - An electronic field guide with automatic identification

11 points | 4 comments | May 03, 2011 | by apu

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#62 Show HN: my weekend project – location-based SMS chat rooms

11 points | 1 comments | May 29, 2011 | by anulman

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#63 Show HN: Easily manage over 10k Google contacts with Sharepad

10 points | 9 comments | May 03, 2011 | by fjabre

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#64 Show HN: Introducing Sendcat: I'm working on a side-project, what do you think?

10 points | 4 comments | May 04, 2011 | by wlll

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#65 Show HN:Review my App - Elapsed - The Timer App for Hackers(Multi-Taskers)

10 points | 1 comments | May 20, 2011 | by appsuler

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#66 Show HN: Crush notifier, a weekend project

9 points | 9 comments | May 01, 2011 | by latch

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#67 Show HN: Logo tip - I used unicode characters for our logo.

9 points | 2 comments | May 23, 2011 | by ayusaf

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#68 Show HN: Realtime Website Traffic Heatmap

9 points | 0 comments | May 02, 2011 | by pa7

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#69 Show HN: How HN helped us pay for our wedding.

8 points | 12 comments | May 17, 2011 | by todd3834

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#70 Show HN: Confered - Mobile app landing pages made easy

8 points | 3 comments | May 31, 2011 | by freddy

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#71 Show HN: Read your Instapaper bookmarks more efficiently

8 points | 2 comments | May 28, 2011 | by YuriNiyazov

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#72 Show HN: iPhone/iPod App to Find Domains

7 points | 11 comments | May 17, 2011 | by Jasber

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#73 Show HN: Republics.us - Integrate your Internet

7 points | 7 comments | May 29, 2011 | by johnwestawski

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#74 Show HN: Rate our startup, Distala

7 points | 5 comments | May 02, 2011 | by ritonlajoie

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#75 Show HN: phaxio; Solving fax for developers.

7 points | 4 comments | May 06, 2011 | by rabidonrails

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#76 Show HN: Nodeler - An app that pairs Web/Mobile Apps. Ex: Remote Control Rdio

7 points | 3 comments | May 03, 2011 | by cdeutsch

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#77 Show HN: a bookmarking service that lets you monitor for content changes

7 points | 1 comments | May 25, 2011 | by retube

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#78 Show HN: Four Questions for Developers

7 points | 1 comments | May 08, 2011 | by traviskuhl

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#79 Show HN: MetaGamify - Game Mechanics Q&A

7 points | 0 comments | May 09, 2011 | by jrbedard

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#80 Show HN: Work for Pie - A portfolio for Developers

6 points | 5 comments | May 31, 2011 | by bkmontgomery

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#81 Show HN: Carousel: The best way to experience Instagram on your Mac

6 points | 2 comments | May 12, 2011 | by jasonemerick

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#82 Show HN: Jekyll + indextank = static websites with fulltext search

6 points | 2 comments | May 11, 2011 | by PascalW

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#83 Show HN: Mashup using the Twitter and Official.fm APIs on sinatra.rb

6 points | 1 comments | May 24, 2011 | by nddrylliog

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#84 Show HN: Show and/or highlight new and edited comments

6 points | 1 comments | May 02, 2011 | by tkahn6

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#85 Show HN: Hierarchical Tagging with Rails 3 and Closure Trees

6 points | 0 comments | May 29, 2011 | by mceachen

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#86 Show HN: GroupsFinder - Find All of the Tech Groups Near You

6 points | 0 comments | May 24, 2011 | by coolgeek

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#87 Show HN: Converse of "If you build it, they will come"

6 points | 0 comments | May 01, 2011 | by netmau5

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#88 Show HN: MadeForHackers.com - Kick ass landing pages, for kick ass hackers.

5 points | 15 comments | May 17, 2011 | by niico

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#89 Show HN: Quotica - A beautiful way to collect quotes.

5 points | 8 comments | May 06, 2011 | by kenips

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#90 Show HN: Namethrive has brandable domains for startups

5 points | 7 comments | May 21, 2011 | by pbj

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#91 Show HN: my 1-week project - Moodlogger

5 points | 6 comments | May 29, 2011 | by rheide

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#92 Show HN: Apps Only, a Twitter account for great apps and nothing else

5 points | 4 comments | May 30, 2011 | by mariuskempe

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#93 Show HN: My new link sharing site

5 points | 4 comments | May 25, 2011 | by tialys

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#94 Show HN: My GitHub iPhone app

5 points | 4 comments | May 20, 2011 | by Aqua_Geek

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#95 Show HN: TOTransit.ca - Toronto Streetcars Live On a Map (Weekend Project)

5 points | 3 comments | May 21, 2011 | by nomatteus

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#96 Show HN: SpotiMy ~ A menu bar controller for Spotify

5 points | 3 comments | May 14, 2011 | by pclark

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#97 Show HN: Social Shopping

5 points | 3 comments | May 12, 2011 | by herval

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#98 Show HN: samefeather: LinkedIn for your interests

5 points | 2 comments | May 29, 2011 | by geekinme

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#99 Show HN: Google Chrome extension monitors your Rails/Node apps

5 points | 2 comments | May 26, 2011 | by jm3

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#100 Show HN: AppHorde - LinkExchange for Mobile Apps

5 points | 1 comments | May 02, 2011 | by Soupy

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