Best Show HN projects from Aug, 2011

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


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#1 Show HN: Codecademy.com, the easiest way to learn to code

787 points | 232 comments | Aug 18, 2011 | by zds

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#2 Show HN: Like Button for Hacker News

568 points | 65 comments | Aug 28, 2011 | by sbashyal

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#3 Show HN: We made a spam-free lyric search engine

291 points | 141 comments | Aug 28, 2011 | by songrabbit

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#4 Show HN: a free multi-user whiteboard with unlimited, zoomable surface

215 points | 72 comments | Aug 18, 2011 | by florianguenther

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#5 Show HN: My weekend project - preview TV sizes on your wall

179 points | 51 comments | Aug 04, 2011 | by weirdcat

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#6 Show HN: I shipped my first product

163 points | 65 comments | Aug 10, 2011 | by chriseidhof

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#7 Show HN: New way to search for used cars (my weekend project)

160 points | 66 comments | Aug 15, 2011 | by oleg_kikin

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#8 Show HN: An intuitive, offline capable HTML5 mind mapping application

112 points | 39 comments | Aug 01, 2011 | by drichard

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#9 Show HN: Crash into Python

107 points | 14 comments | Aug 14, 2011 | by grncdr

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#10 Show HN: CodeMatch: IDE autocomplete on overdrive

102 points | 63 comments | Aug 19, 2011 | by moondistance

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#11 Show HN: my collaborative drawing webapp

100 points | 35 comments | Aug 15, 2011 | by senko

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#12 Show HN: My First Commercial Game Is Now Online

97 points | 52 comments | Aug 11, 2011 | by ido

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#13 Show HN: Our photo print & ship library for iOS

96 points | 19 comments | Aug 17, 2011 | by brezina

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#14 Show HN: My personal project, animated and narrated children's storybooks

95 points | 34 comments | Aug 28, 2011 | by ardit33

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#15 Show HN: Our new ridesharing site, BurningManRides.com. Feedback?

93 points | 32 comments | Aug 12, 2011 | by jasonshen

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#16 Show HN: A Chrome extension that adds moustaches to every face on the web

90 points | 31 comments | Aug 12, 2011 | by andrewnez

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#17 Show HN: Proxino - optimize and monitor your javascript

87 points | 25 comments | Aug 10, 2011 | by zaveri

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#18 Show HN: My user-friendly outbound firewall for Mac

77 points | 81 comments | Aug 15, 2011 | by aparadja

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#19 Show HN: We built Callroulette, a chatroulette for phones

76 points | 29 comments | Aug 12, 2011 | by shaddi

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#20 Show HN: My WWDC-inspired project. A Markdown editor for Lion

75 points | 27 comments | Aug 08, 2011 | by SeoxyS

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#21 Show HN: Rasta.js, anonymous domainless key-value store for frontend JavaScript

73 points | 39 comments | Aug 21, 2011 | by pitra

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#22 Show HN: My first Windows Phone 7 app: Colorify

73 points | 10 comments | Aug 27, 2011 | by ahmetalpbalkan

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#23 Show HN: business plan forecasting (our new app)

71 points | 30 comments | Aug 25, 2011 | by gsiener

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#24 Show HN: nyan-mode.el - Nyan Cat for Emacs (my first real Emacs minor mode)

71 points | 8 comments | Aug 20, 2011 | by TeMPOraL

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#25 Show HN: I am building a next-gen browser

68 points | 55 comments | Aug 20, 2011 | by ashraful

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#26 Show HN: Our weekend project - HN Showcase, browse "Show HN" posts

63 points | 18 comments | Aug 03, 2011 | by ssong

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#27 Show HN: LazyMeter is the only to-do list you'll finish every day

61 points | 53 comments | Aug 11, 2011 | by aaronf

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#28 Show HN: Test Post/Get endpoints easily from your browser

57 points | 25 comments | Aug 16, 2011 | by reso

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#29 Show HN: Simple version control for designers

55 points | 28 comments | Aug 30, 2011 | by allang

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#30 Show HN: My weekend project - Chessboard picture recognition

51 points | 54 comments | Aug 05, 2011 | by matthiasb

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#31 Show HN: Easily compare legal documents with DocCompare

51 points | 24 comments | Aug 18, 2011 | by ckrumb

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#32 Show HN: Chorus - It tells you what your customers think and feel

48 points | 20 comments | Aug 23, 2011 | by Trindaz

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#33 Show HN: `Nide` - open source IDE built in 48 hours for Node.JS Knockout

47 points | 12 comments | Aug 29, 2011 | by TheCoreh

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#34 Show HN: Sublime Text 2 Package Manager

47 points | 6 comments | Aug 15, 2011 | by wbond

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#35 Show HN: PHP does Meta Programming too

45 points | 24 comments | Aug 31, 2011 | by yuri41

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#36 Show HN: Save reading time with the TL;DR PLZ bookmarklet

44 points | 13 comments | Aug 21, 2011 | by zerostar07

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#37 Show HN: type to me, old-school unix talk for the web

43 points | 18 comments | Aug 23, 2011 | by dmd

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#38 Show HN: Cilantro ("About.me for restaurants"). Feedback wanted.

39 points | 47 comments | Aug 26, 2011 | by callmeed

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#39 Show HN: Our Django Dash project: Proposalmatic

38 points | 10 comments | Aug 01, 2011 | by stevelosh

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#40 Show HN: Chat in a virtual world - Node Knockout entry

36 points | 22 comments | Aug 30, 2011 | by newy

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#41 Show HN: My first chrome extension based on an HN thread.

34 points | 4 comments | Aug 12, 2011 | by mayanksinghal

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#42 Show HN: Automatically add beards, mustaches, monocles, and more to any face

31 points | 17 comments | Aug 18, 2011 | by bieh

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#43 Show HN: We turned the Google Shopping API into a game

30 points | 15 comments | Aug 12, 2011 | by nate

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#44 Show HN: Perspective for Men

29 points | 44 comments | Aug 11, 2011 | by paul_cryer

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#45 Show HN: MobSquid, an SDK that makes it easier to interpret phone sensors

28 points | 5 comments | Aug 16, 2011 | by sradu

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#46 Show HN: Multiplayer Tetris built in 48hrs

27 points | 13 comments | Aug 29, 2011 | by andrewnez

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#47 Show HN: Messagify - a private Disqus for web apps. Feedback?

26 points | 4 comments | Aug 24, 2011 | by alabut

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#48 Show HN: Build custom designed CMS sites in the browser without any coding

25 points | 21 comments | Aug 26, 2011 | by mattront

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#49 Show HN: Our two hour project AbsurdNDA

24 points | 5 comments | Aug 24, 2011 | by dshipper

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#50 Show HN: TwoSides.co, because there's at least two sides to every story

23 points | 9 comments | Aug 22, 2011 | by polymath21

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#51 Show HN: I won the Yahoo Open Hack Day. And this is what I have build

23 points | 3 comments | Aug 08, 2011 | by crosstagme

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#52 Show HN: Loopon is a multi-user beat maker in the browser

21 points | 23 comments | Aug 30, 2011 | by chapel

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#53 Show HN: I've created a third place. (for getting to know HNers)

20 points | 33 comments | Aug 14, 2011 | by jsmoov

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#54 Show HN: Just Launched, subscription to candies from the world. TheHoneyDay.com

20 points | 15 comments | Aug 12, 2011 | by mudiarto

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#55 Show HN: Pay Rent to Yourself and Deduct it Twice like Walmart (Save 33.5 Mil)

18 points | 6 comments | Aug 03, 2011 | by camz

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#56 Show HN: iGeek.at, Our Yahoo HackDay India App

17 points | 8 comments | Aug 31, 2011 | by prateekdayal

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#57 Show HN: CloudSwag.com - prepaid Amazon EC2 Gift Certificates

17 points | 6 comments | Aug 05, 2011 | by cm

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#58 Show HN: First "Move your Body" game on iOS (face recognition)

16 points | 1 comments | Aug 20, 2011 | by myprasanna

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#59 Show HN: my weekend project - music discovery for karmawhores

15 points | 21 comments | Aug 31, 2011 | by jiffypop

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#60 Show HN: SleepOnIt.me - Make your decision tomorrow

15 points | 8 comments | Aug 01, 2011 | by gerbera

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#61 Show HN: Barebones, a minimal wireframe app for iPad, built in 24 hours.

14 points | 12 comments | Aug 08, 2011 | by JonAtkinson

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#62 Show HN: Where Will It Close?

14 points | 3 comments | Aug 10, 2011 | by MrMike

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#63 Show HN: Callroulette, a chatroulette-like service for phones

14 points | 2 comments | Aug 09, 2011 | by shaddi

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#64 Show HN: One-Stop inbox for customer communication.

13 points | 6 comments | Aug 01, 2011 | by sebastianhoitz

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#65 Show HN: Our new project - The world's best-kept secrets, one shop at a time.

13 points | 5 comments | Aug 16, 2011 | by akashs

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#66 Show HN:Last year I asked HN to do it, now I am doing it myself-JournalClub iPad

13 points | 5 comments | Aug 15, 2011 | by alimoeeny

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#67 Show HN: Realtime collaborative heatmap hack for you to click

13 points | 4 comments | Aug 23, 2011 | by ericz

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#68 Show HN: Colorstache releases Evernote API calls using Node.js

13 points | 2 comments | Aug 16, 2011 | by yodasan

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#69 Show HN: Snapline - social recommendations for online retailers via FB Connect

13 points | 1 comments | Aug 18, 2011 | by tmcneal

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#70 Show HN: We'll save your ass one day

12 points | 26 comments | Aug 01, 2011 | by hagyma

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#71 Show HN: My project is a top comment in Reddit's top story

12 points | 4 comments | Aug 01, 2011 | by jaredsohn

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#72 Show HN: I finally relased my first product

11 points | 11 comments | Aug 11, 2011 | by vColin

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#73 Show HN: New App For Music, Movie, and App Discovery

11 points | 7 comments | Aug 02, 2011 | by kumph

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#74 Show HN: Turf, a geo-social warfare app, my NKO submission

11 points | 6 comments | Aug 29, 2011 | by iambot

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#75 Show HN: It took me 6 months to write my iOS word game app..am I still a hacker?

11 points | 4 comments | Aug 22, 2011 | by beeeph

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#76 Show HN: Social beat machine built on Node.js #NKO

11 points | 2 comments | Aug 29, 2011 | by joshontheweb

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#77 Show HN: behold, jsonifier

10 points | 11 comments | Aug 08, 2011 | by Skywing

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#78 Show HN: SaaSaholics.com, a forum for SaaS builders

10 points | 8 comments | Aug 26, 2011 | by dchuk

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#79 Show HN: Five.Seven.Five. - A Haiku (Poetry) Community

10 points | 4 comments | Aug 30, 2011 | by hellotoby

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#80 Show HN: HN clone for science

10 points | 2 comments | Aug 31, 2011 | by nurik

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#81 Show HN: GitHub Inbox, a Chrome extension that shows your unread GitHub messages

10 points | 2 comments | Aug 18, 2011 | by pedromenezes

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#82 Show HN: A weekend project to help improve your startup's communication

10 points | 1 comments | Aug 29, 2011 | by rickharrison

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#83 Show HN: DailyScreenshot - track the visual evolution of any website

9 points | 8 comments | Aug 24, 2011 | by lamby

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#84 Show HN: 1-click opt-out from websites selling your personal information

9 points | 6 comments | Aug 11, 2011 | by useflyer

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#85 Show HN: A simple, customizable, lightweight (3.5KB) date picker for jQuery

9 points | 6 comments | Aug 01, 2011 | by gautaml

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#86 Show HN: Liberate – Painlessly add user editable content to static HTML webpages

9 points | 6 comments | Aug 01, 2011 | by freshlog

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#87 Show HN: The Heads-Up Grid

9 points | 4 comments | Aug 02, 2011 | by simanek

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#88 Show HN: DaisyWorks - Arduino derivative w/FOTA, App Store, Android compatible

9 points | 1 comments | Aug 10, 2011 | by zenocon

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#89 Show HN: How to become a geek athlete in your social graph..

9 points | 0 comments | Aug 22, 2011 | by musHo_sk

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#90 Show HN: Semi-index - Speed up JSON parsing in MapReduce-like tasks

9 points | 0 comments | Aug 08, 2011 | by ot

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#91 Show HN: DNSWhore.com Domain Suggestions

8 points | 15 comments | Aug 15, 2011 | by reason

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#92 Show HN: groups.io

8 points | 5 comments | Aug 30, 2011 | by kqueue

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#93 Show HN: BugHerd 3 months later

8 points | 4 comments | Aug 02, 2011 | by toast76

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#94 Show HN: Hacker News Threshold

8 points | 2 comments | Aug 18, 2011 | by giu

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#95 Show HN: FreelyWheely (A better Freecycle).

7 points | 9 comments | Aug 26, 2011 | by jsvaughan

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#96 Show HN: make phone calls when you can't talk. I would love feedback on this

7 points | 7 comments | Aug 15, 2011 | by Timothee

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#97 Show HN: subscription flowers (to keep the significant other happy)

7 points | 6 comments | Aug 26, 2011 | by paulsingh

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#98 Show HN: authors, here's a new idea for promoting your book

7 points | 3 comments | Aug 31, 2011 | by dpapathanasiou

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#99 Show HN: Tools for iOS developers to sell more apps

7 points | 1 comments | Aug 12, 2011 | by taxonomyman

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#100 Show HN: mongauth - Easy, Secure User Authentication with MongoDB

7 points | 0 comments | Aug 29, 2011 | by nnythm

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