Best Show HN projects from Jan, 2012

Browse the top 100 projects launched on Hacker News Show HN during Jan, 2012.


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#1 Show HN: We made an addictive way to browse pictures on reddit

401 points | 138 comments | Jan 25, 2012 | by bwm

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#2 Show HN: Scrollorama

395 points | 51 comments | Jan 01, 2012 | by johnpolacek

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#3 Show HN: my database engine for GPU

364 points | 60 comments | Jan 26, 2012 | by antonmks

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#4 Show HN: I'm tired of corrupt US politicians, so I created this

334 points | 144 comments | Jan 24, 2012 | by pmarket

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#5 Show HN: How I built a self-driving (RC) car.

300 points | 21 comments | Jan 02, 2012 | by dps

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#6 Show HN: Craigslist Car Search

236 points | 103 comments | Jan 24, 2012 | by dw5ight

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#7 Show HN: HackPad is the best wiki ever

209 points | 77 comments | Jan 17, 2012 | by orph

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#8 Show HN: SocialFolders, "Dropbox for social"

187 points | 73 comments | Jan 27, 2012 | by martinpannier

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#9 Show HN: A visual explanation of Fisher–Yates shuffle

176 points | 37 comments | Jan 14, 2012 | by mbostock

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#10 Show HN: Collection of CSS Creations

165 points | 36 comments | Jan 16, 2012 | by binarydreams

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#11 Show HN: Instant documentation site for Github projects

157 points | 19 comments | Jan 25, 2012 | by jeromegn

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#12 Show HN: I've created a site about Bone Marrow Donation

120 points | 25 comments | Jan 26, 2012 | by danielna

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#13 Show HN: TrollBlock, It's Okay to Dislike

88 points | 64 comments | Jan 30, 2012 | by bretthardin

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#14 Show HN: I made a site that rings a bell every time you have a new customer

85 points | 50 comments | Jan 27, 2012 | by pud

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#15 Show HN: During the last week, I built a SPDY server.

85 points | 19 comments | Jan 04, 2012 | by sokrates

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#16 Show HN: Startup Threads Monthly - Subscription Swag Service

82 points | 55 comments | Jan 27, 2012 | by frankdenbow

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#17 Show HN: Glider, a better email client

81 points | 53 comments | Jan 27, 2012 | by cj

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#18 Show HN: I built an easier way to browse ThemeForest

78 points | 40 comments | Jan 23, 2012 | by polyfractal

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#19 Show HN: A JavaScript interpreter written in Ruby

75 points | 27 comments | Jan 13, 2012 | by haileys

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#20 Show HN: DirtyShare, Pure JavaScript P2P File Sharing (in Node.js + Socket.io)

75 points | 25 comments | Jan 16, 2012 | by Mizza

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#21 Show HN: I built a faster way to burn your money on Etsy.com

73 points | 51 comments | Jan 12, 2012 | by JonathanBouman

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#22 Show HN: My weekend project, TrickedOutTimeline

70 points | 29 comments | Jan 28, 2012 | by maxjaderberg

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#23 Show HN: My weekend project, DailyPag.es

69 points | 21 comments | Jan 07, 2012 | by haon99

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#24 Show HN: Our 5 month project Airtime for Email

66 points | 33 comments | Jan 30, 2012 | by dshipper

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#25 Show HN: Courtside.me

62 points | 26 comments | Jan 06, 2012 | by googletron

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#26 Show HN: We built a free Stop SOPA/PIPA notification bar for sites

57 points | 6 comments | Jan 17, 2012 | by morganb

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#27 Show HN: Veneer, modal dialogs in 75 lines of JavaScript

56 points | 25 comments | Jan 08, 2012 | by adeelk

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#28 Show HN: Damn Simple Carpooling

53 points | 21 comments | Jan 02, 2012 | by scootklein

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#29 Show HN: AutoGlance is the Hipmunk for Used Car Searches

52 points | 30 comments | Jan 19, 2012 | by kapgoals

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#30 Show HN: Classes for javascript that you'd actually use

52 points | 23 comments | Jan 04, 2012 | by jneen

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#31 Show HN: We made a site to crowd fund lobbying.

50 points | 28 comments | Jan 25, 2012 | by sankho

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#32 Show HN: Scholastica, Academic Journal Publishing Platform & Scholarly Community

50 points | 20 comments | Jan 21, 2012 | by robertwalsh0

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#33 Show HN: Tofu -- (Yet another) C web framework

49 points | 16 comments | Jan 03, 2012 | by al3xbio

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#34 Show HN: 7courses - The easy to use online recipe manager.

47 points | 47 comments | Jan 30, 2012 | by templaedhel

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#35 Show HN: Bored last night. 3 hour project: Your Most Followed Followers

46 points | 27 comments | Jan 12, 2012 | by mittermayr

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#36 Show HN: Radi v0.8 - my HTML5 animation app now has brushes, shape poses, etc.

45 points | 10 comments | Jan 20, 2012 | by pavlov

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#37 Show HN: a color game playable by color blind players too

45 points | 9 comments | Jan 24, 2012 | by duopixel

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#38 Show HN: Skimling - A Platform to Help Kids Improve Their Writing

44 points | 44 comments | Jan 20, 2012 | by jjets718

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#39 Show HN: A free HN iPhone/iPad app I launched a few months ago

40 points | 29 comments | Jan 23, 2012 | by marketer

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#40 Show HN: My (late) holiday hack: SOPAOpera.org

40 points | 22 comments | Jan 05, 2012 | by danso

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#41 Show HN: Vesper, a plug and play Ruby web framework (Sinatra + Rack + Plugins)

40 points | 16 comments | Jan 16, 2012 | by jarrodtaylor

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#42 Show HN: Charts for Hacker News Polls

40 points | 15 comments | Jan 20, 2012 | by sbashyal

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#43 Show HN: Guide to upcoming HN meetups worldwide. Have we missed any?

39 points | 11 comments | Jan 11, 2012 | by simonw

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#44 Show HN: Bitcoin voting on CoinSmack news site.

34 points | 25 comments | Jan 24, 2012 | by RobertKohr

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#45 Show HN: Don't Be Evil, A Chrome extension based on the Focus on the User script

31 points | 16 comments | Jan 24, 2012 | by andrewguenther

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#46 Show HN: iPad game to help toddlers with Autism

29 points | 6 comments | Jan 11, 2012 | by kateho

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#47 Show HN: How eventual is eventual consistency?

29 points | 2 comments | Jan 04, 2012 | by pbailis

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#48 Show HN: a better visual admin for redis

28 points | 18 comments | Jan 04, 2012 | by jimfleming

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#49 Show HN: A GitHub + AngelList API mashup that ranks startups

28 points | 7 comments | Jan 19, 2012 | by markerdmann

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#50 Show HN: Notification Control my weekend project - Email notification setup

27 points | 12 comments | Jan 16, 2012 | by benjlang

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#51 Show HN: Side project for organized bookmarking: Saaave

26 points | 19 comments | Jan 12, 2012 | by cj

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#52 Show HN - A tweetmeme of its own for every city

25 points | 20 comments | Jan 19, 2012 | by gayakwad

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#53 Show HN: Symfony2 : Store your custom forms as Doctrine entities

25 points | 6 comments | Jan 26, 2012 | by cobalt2760

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#54 Show HN: small lisp interpreter in Haskell

25 points | 4 comments | Jan 13, 2012 | by thedigitalengel

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#55 Show HN: Semantic programmatic search for computable data

24 points | 16 comments | Jan 24, 2012 | by kemvi

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#56 Show HN: githero.es - Nominate and Vote for your personal GitHub heroes

24 points | 9 comments | Jan 02, 2012 | by iamclovin

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#57 Show HN: Send an email to [email protected] or [email protected]

24 points | 4 comments | Jan 09, 2012 | by Loic

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#58 Show HN: Check for web application security issues.

23 points | 25 comments | Jan 08, 2012 | by mcorrientes

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#59 Show HN: Framous - Your Photos. Your Personality.

23 points | 25 comments | Jan 06, 2012 | by swiil

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#60 Show HN: Combining AJAX, pushState & CSS3 transitions

23 points | 8 comments | Jan 19, 2012 | by paynedigital

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#61 Show HN: 2 Player Space Invaders

22 points | 11 comments | Jan 03, 2012 | by phamilton

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#62 Show HN: Pitchdeck Inspired Resume

21 points | 28 comments | Jan 11, 2012 | by timsegraves

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#63 Show HN: IndexTank's search API will live on at Searchify

21 points | 7 comments | Jan 16, 2012 | by mthreat

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#64 Show HN: GuideKit - Build Awesome Documentation with Ease

21 points | 1 comments | Jan 30, 2012 | by derrickreimer

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#65 Show HN: A smarter alarm clock.

19 points | 25 comments | Jan 28, 2012 | by alarmclock

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#66 Show HN:What does your name look like?

19 points | 20 comments | Jan 28, 2012 | by LogicLrd

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#67 Show HN: UI Design made easy with UI Blueprints

19 points | 7 comments | Jan 25, 2012 | by harrisreynolds

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#68 Show HN: We ALSO made an addictive way to browse pictures on reddit

19 points | 2 comments | Jan 25, 2012 | by goo

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#69 Show HN: A simple, work-in-progress API proxy

18 points | 8 comments | Jan 03, 2012 | by philjackson

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#70 Show HN: 6 months of blood, sweat, tears and bootstrapping. Meet Mistash

17 points | 14 comments | Jan 16, 2012 | by mbarlow

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#71 Show HN: My open source form builder

17 points | 6 comments | Jan 09, 2012 | by hb

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#72 Show HN: Self-driving Lego Robot using Python, Neural Networks

17 points | 0 comments | Jan 23, 2012 | by iqster

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#73 Show HN: Using Social Network Analysis to predict your event's guest list

16 points | 11 comments | Jan 25, 2012 | by friggeri

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#74 Show HN: Showkr - minimal embeddable Flickr viewer

16 points | 1 comments | Jan 11, 2012 | by piranha

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#75 Show HN : Nepali Baghchal game in Node.js

15 points | 14 comments | Jan 07, 2012 | by semicolondev

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#76 Show HN: Bopgig - Connect with artists and venues to see the shows you want

15 points | 9 comments | Jan 25, 2012 | by adrianwaj

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#77 Show HN: local independent band discovery service

14 points | 11 comments | Jan 24, 2012 | by dreadsword

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#78 Show HN: A django-inspired JavaScript templating system

14 points | 7 comments | Jan 13, 2012 | by deoxxa

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#79 Show HN: VMXRay - Explore VMDKs in the browser (JSLinux + sleuthkit + HTML5)

14 points | 3 comments | Jan 17, 2012 | by Omie6541

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#80 Show HN: Not sure what to read next? Here's a list of most mentioned books on HN

14 points | 2 comments | Jan 24, 2012 | by recurrence

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#81 Show HN: Embed your AngelList Profile anywhere

14 points | 1 comments | Jan 20, 2012 | by railsjedi

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#82 Show HN: My New Year's project, ICanHasNoise - Noisy backgrounds with just a URL

13 points | 3 comments | Jan 02, 2012 | by dli

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#83 Show HN: Private group and event based sharing platform

13 points | 1 comments | Jan 20, 2012 | by mikebannister

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#84 Show HN: Learn Chinese - fun, fast and effective

12 points | 12 comments | Jan 24, 2012 | by inspiredworlds

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#85 Show HN: Weekend Project - Finding Random Imgur Links with JavaScript

12 points | 12 comments | Jan 14, 2012 | by symkat

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#86 Show HN: Web Timer, a Chrome extension to keep track of how you use the Web

12 points | 9 comments | Jan 28, 2012 | by namuorg

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#87 Show HN: www.sopajs.org - simple SOPA banner for your website

12 points | 5 comments | Jan 08, 2012 | by CoffeeDregs

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#88 Show HN: osod.im (one sentence, one day - a one sentence journal)

11 points | 6 comments | Jan 26, 2012 | by jeremymcanally

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#89 Show HN:WebEngage - a better KissInsights with advanced targeting and reporting

11 points | 6 comments | Jan 16, 2012 | by avlesh-singh

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#90 Show HN: Typkov - Generate typing lessons from your own writing (Clojure/Noir)

11 points | 5 comments | Jan 23, 2012 | by stevelosh

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#91 Show HN: "Command Line" for the Social Web

11 points | 2 comments | Jan 13, 2012 | by peterzakin

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#92 Show HN: Checked - An auto-checkin client for Android

11 points | 0 comments | Jan 29, 2012 | by njern

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#93 Show HN: WebEngage - online surveys with targeting

10 points | 9 comments | Jan 14, 2012 | by avlesh-singh

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#94 Show HN: 27 developer job sites

10 points | 4 comments | Jan 18, 2012 | by whichdan

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#95 Show HN: Minimalistic web server & framework implemented in C

10 points | 0 comments | Jan 19, 2012 | by igor_a

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#96 Show HN: Trace/Sketch over your CAD Models on your comp screen from your iPad

10 points | 0 comments | Jan 08, 2012 | by okstr

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#97 Show HN your embarrassing (old) code

9 points | 5 comments | Jan 20, 2012 | by samlev

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#98 Show HN: land that gig by making a great first impression. Feedback appreciated.

8 points | 8 comments | Jan 27, 2012 | by bullrico

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#99 Show HN: My weekend project, Realtime Stock News (with sentiment analysis)

8 points | 7 comments | Jan 23, 2012 | by marketmonkey

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#100 Show HN: Your dedicated server provider is ripping you off. Here's how

8 points | 7 comments | Jan 16, 2012 | by lnguyen

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