Best Show HN projects from Oct, 2012

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


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#1 Show HN: I spent two years working on an HTML5 game. I finally released it

515 points | 145 comments | Oct 22, 2012 | by fiblye

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#2 Show HN: We open sourced Lockitron's crowdfunding app

463 points | 74 comments | Oct 11, 2012 | by ccamrobertson

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#3 Show HN: Meet your cardboard buddy.

240 points | 107 comments | Oct 02, 2012 | by hakkasan

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#4 Show HN: I built a stock market game based on the top 50,000 websites

184 points | 85 comments | Oct 02, 2012 | by thehodge

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#5 Show HN: UrbanDesk - Combination Full Size Bed and Desk

171 points | 76 comments | Oct 10, 2012 | by gphakos

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#6 Show HN: Circular, an open source clone of Buffer

160 points | 104 comments | Oct 31, 2012 | by julien_c

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#7 Show HN: Powderkeg, a realtime, synchronous, multiplayer HTML5 action game

153 points | 71 comments | Oct 04, 2012 | by statico

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#8 Show HN: Introducting C+

148 points | 47 comments | Oct 31, 2012 | by orangeduck

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#9 Show HN: my weekend project, Quotably

142 points | 75 comments | Oct 22, 2012 | by jordanmessina

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#10 Show HN: Python Tools for Visual Studio

139 points | 54 comments | Oct 31, 2012 | by smortaz

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#11 Show HN: A place to buy and sell services directly from each other

135 points | 82 comments | Oct 08, 2012 | by sushimako

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#12 Show HN: A simple lightweight CSS grid, not a bloated framework

134 points | 61 comments | Oct 18, 2012 | by thisisdallas

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#13 Show HN: Summaries of interesting content, written by people

131 points | 103 comments | Oct 02, 2012 | by louischatriot

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#14 Show HN: Mantaphrase, an app that lets you converse in a foreign language

127 points | 48 comments | Oct 09, 2012 | by wlue

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#15 Show HN: Propeller - Create native mobile apps, just drag and drop

126 points | 37 comments | Oct 29, 2012 | by 10char

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#16 Show HN: we open sourced our Django drip email app

126 points | 33 comments | Oct 29, 2012 | by bryanh

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#17 Show HN: create, share, explore database patterns

125 points | 29 comments | Oct 15, 2012 | by fatiherikli

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#18 Show HN: Instant CMS as a Service on any element (with contenteditable)

113 points | 58 comments | Oct 19, 2012 | by mhurwi

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#19 Show HN: Sift through recently dropped .com's in order of pronounceability, etc.

111 points | 35 comments | Oct 18, 2012 | by lolkittens

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#20 Show HN: What would Paul Graham do?

109 points | 59 comments | Oct 15, 2012 | by aakil

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#21 Show HN: Instrumenting and visualizing JavaScript with d3.js

105 points | 22 comments | Oct 27, 2012 | by philip_roberts

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#22 Show HN: LearnStreet - The Best Place to Learn How to Code

101 points | 61 comments | Oct 11, 2012 | by teamls

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#23 Show HN: Userfox (YC S11) — Better Welcome Emails

100 points | 52 comments | Oct 29, 2012 | by pclark

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#24 Show HN: One OAuth API for Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Email

93 points | 41 comments | Oct 18, 2012 | by heynk

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#25 Show HN: In memory of Bob Ross, a simple painting generator, Gogh

90 points | 28 comments | Oct 30, 2012 | by ngokevin

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#26 Show HN: Taurus.io - Create a product tour for your web app in 15 minutes

87 points | 55 comments | Oct 24, 2012 | by ebzlo

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#27 Show HN: The Five Year Itch

86 points | 28 comments | Oct 16, 2012 | by josh_fyi

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#28 Show HN: StatMilk - Football Stats Visualized

85 points | 47 comments | Oct 19, 2012 | by digitalmarks

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#29 Show HN: Freelance Hacker Network

83 points | 39 comments | Oct 31, 2012 | by mekarpeles

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#30 Show HN: Built my resume as an interactive website, version-controlled on Github

82 points | 84 comments | Oct 19, 2012 | by philip1209

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#31 Show HN: idea for the future of document editing

81 points | 50 comments | Oct 14, 2012 | by sonier

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#32 Show HN: Weekend project, D3.js Globe of Recent Earthquakes

79 points | 29 comments | Oct 24, 2012 | by sakai

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#33 Show HN: Crowdsourced Object Recognition

77 points | 32 comments | Oct 08, 2012 | by argumentum

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#34 Show HN: An interactive graph of film ratings built with D3 and AngularJS

77 points | 16 comments | Oct 31, 2012 | by geelen

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#35 Show HN: GBA.js, a Game Boy Advance emulator written in JavaScript

76 points | 25 comments | Oct 13, 2012 | by jpfau

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#36 Show HN: Host your 3D printable projects with version control

74 points | 17 comments | Oct 26, 2012 | by iamwil

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#37 Show HN: We just launched the redesigned Quantified Mind

70 points | 21 comments | Oct 26, 2012 | by sinak

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#38 Show HN: From an idea to the Valley in less than a month

64 points | 66 comments | Oct 09, 2012 | by emreas

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#39 Show HN: NoobNinja - get and give help for specific coding or design tasks

64 points | 35 comments | Oct 18, 2012 | by neon

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#40 Show HN: Fun, simple feature tours for your website or app

64 points | 25 comments | Oct 29, 2012 | by tommoor

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#41 Show HN: Responsivator - View/Share Responsive Sites

61 points | 18 comments | Oct 15, 2012 | by johnpolacek

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#42 Show HN: Docverter: convert plaintext to PDF, Docx, or ePub. Now in open beta.

58 points | 42 comments | Oct 12, 2012 | by zrail

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#43 Show HN: flipgrid.js, an experimental minimalist photo gallery

55 points | 20 comments | Oct 13, 2012 | by t3hprogrammer

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#44 Show HN: Easily publish an email conversation to the web

52 points | 33 comments | Oct 10, 2012 | by trevoro

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#45 Show HN: WebcamSwiper - a JS library that watches for hand swipes in the air

47 points | 35 comments | Oct 02, 2012 | by iambrandonn

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#46 Show HN: Parson, lighweight json parser in C

46 points | 35 comments | Oct 28, 2012 | by kgabis

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#47 Show HN: Tracking voter discussion of the Presidential debates

44 points | 29 comments | Oct 04, 2012 | by jdunck

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#48 Show HN: All films for rental on iTunes (in 61 stores) by price/popularity/genre

44 points | 27 comments | Oct 15, 2012 | by johnb

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#49 Show HN: Use landing pages to test your product

43 points | 37 comments | Oct 13, 2012 | by emoray13

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#50 Show HN: Fact check last night's Presidential debate with Quip

43 points | 13 comments | Oct 23, 2012 | by dmvaldman

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#51 Show HN: Get notified when new presidential polls are released

42 points | 36 comments | Oct 25, 2012 | by railsjedi

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#52 Show HN: Dashing - A DIY Dashboard framework from Shopify

41 points | 5 comments | Oct 30, 2012 | by nciagra

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#53 Show HN: Nextprev.it: Share PDFs & control what page the viewer sees in realtime

40 points | 23 comments | Oct 26, 2012 | by cooop

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#54 Show HN: We built a Chrome extension to use J/K to navigate popular sites

40 points | 23 comments | Oct 17, 2012 | by flavio87

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#55 Show HN: Hacker News IRC channel

40 points | 18 comments | Oct 13, 2012 | by robbiet480

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#56 Show HN: Share, rediscover and keep track of all the gems you find on HN

39 points | 20 comments | Oct 15, 2012 | by patrickaljord

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#57 Show HN: Responsa - Dynamic FAQs for your website

39 points | 12 comments | Oct 09, 2012 | by matteodepalo

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#58 Show HN: Steerway - Share Tips and Libraries for Android Development

39 points | 11 comments | Oct 19, 2012 | by dannyr

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#59 Show HN: I travelled cross-country to Startup School only using YC apps

38 points | 8 comments | Oct 20, 2012 | by zmitri

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#60 Show HN: Husky Chat, a Chrome extension that overlays a chatroom on any website

37 points | 23 comments | Oct 08, 2012 | by helloericho

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#61 Show HN: Get Maid - Uber for Maid Service in NYC

35 points | 37 comments | Oct 04, 2012 | by sgutentag

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#62 Show HN: Our new property search website for London - Locatable

35 points | 35 comments | Oct 23, 2012 | by vsubramanian

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#63 Show HN: LESS mixins to create golden ratio grids with Bootstrap

34 points | 8 comments | Oct 21, 2012 | by phildionne

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#64 Show HN: Storylane - People sharing things that matter

33 points | 42 comments | Oct 04, 2012 | by jongs

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#65 Show HN: Chrome extension to unsubscribe from newsletters on Gmail

33 points | 11 comments | Oct 15, 2012 | by miquelcamps

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#66 Show HN: SportsChimp: If Zynga and Bet365 had a love child.

32 points | 50 comments | Oct 11, 2012 | by nav

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#67 Show HN: JustBeamIt v2.0 - file transfer made easier

32 points | 26 comments | Oct 17, 2012 | by UnsungHero97

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#68 Show HN: Working With TCP Sockets book

32 points | 9 comments | Oct 24, 2012 | by jstorimer

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#69 Show HN: My 48 hour project for offering and searching one-time jobs

31 points | 31 comments | Oct 21, 2012 | by volpav

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#70 Show HN: Soragora Helps You Build Real-Time, Multiplayer Mobile Games

31 points | 5 comments | Oct 12, 2012 | by darrelsumi

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#71 Show HN: What I built 6 months into learning to code

29 points | 55 comments | Oct 21, 2012 | by paulbrowneng

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#72 Show HN: Fork recipes on the "Github for food"

28 points | 23 comments | Oct 18, 2012 | by Cherian

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#73 Show HN: kenHub - anatomy learning platform

28 points | 22 comments | Oct 23, 2012 | by gingerlime

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#74 Show HN: Add 3D gestures to your applications

28 points | 15 comments | Oct 03, 2012 | by rywang

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#75 Show HN: PRLibs, madlibs to create press releases for startups

28 points | 10 comments | Oct 01, 2012 | by mikeknoop

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#76 Show HN: JavaScript-less iOS Folder Animation

28 points | 8 comments | Oct 29, 2012 | by EtienneLem

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#77 Show HN: Weekend project for Halloween in WebGL

28 points | 5 comments | Oct 29, 2012 | by daredevildave

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#78 Show HN: NimbusBase, a HTML5 application data storage powered by Dropbox

28 points | 5 comments | Oct 25, 2012 | by taskstrike

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#79 Show HN: Piki, a fresh take on the wiki

27 points | 39 comments | Oct 12, 2012 | by Skoofoo

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#80 Show HN: Command-line Version of the SeatGeek Web App (with Venue Maps)

25 points | 7 comments | Oct 22, 2012 | by mdirolf

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#81 Show HN: I made Unmentionables, a free Taboo game for iPhone

23 points | 21 comments | Oct 12, 2012 | by mergesort

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#82 Show HN: Django Model Parsing with Python's AST module

23 points | 13 comments | Oct 13, 2012 | by fatiherikli

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#83 Show HN: Redesigned Openera.com - your automated email assistant.

22 points | 19 comments | Oct 09, 2012 | by KThornton

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#84 Show HN: findthin.gs - Find where to watch tv series & movies (RailsRumble)

22 points | 18 comments | Oct 16, 2012 | by suttol

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#85 Show HN: Shoeboxify is your shoebox for Facebook

22 points | 9 comments | Oct 03, 2012 | by gdonelli

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#86 Show HN: Hush, an "incognito mode for Facebook"

21 points | 36 comments | Oct 31, 2012 | by darora

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#87 Show HN: Intelligent leads for hackers and startups

20 points | 14 comments | Oct 03, 2012 | by mrkmcknz

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#88 Show HN: The Whicher: A/B test the Real World

20 points | 12 comments | Oct 10, 2012 | by jiaaro

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#89 Show HN: Method Draw, an SVG drawing application

20 points | 4 comments | Oct 26, 2012 | by duopixel

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#90 Show HN: P2P Marketplace for renting stuff

17 points | 15 comments | Oct 21, 2012 | by elbuo8

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#91 Show HN: I'm 13 and This is My First App

16 points | 8 comments | Oct 20, 2012 | by abbyapps

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#92 Show HN: A habit tracking app for Android

16 points | 8 comments | Oct 13, 2012 | by napoleoncomplex

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#93 Show HN: Oak - dynamic C# and ASP.NET MVC (Rails Inspired)

16 points | 5 comments | Oct 06, 2012 | by amirrajan

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#94 Show HN: Postmaster - an easy API for shipping on the web

16 points | 4 comments | Oct 01, 2012 | by m3ntat

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#95 Show HN: Dial-O-Spresso – a phone controlled coffee machine

16 points | 3 comments | Oct 25, 2012 | by thatguydan

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#96 Show HN: Send secure, self destructing messages

15 points | 36 comments | Oct 04, 2012 | by dirktheman

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#97 Show HN: SoloWizard - Configurable Chef Script to Bootstrap your OS-X

15 points | 7 comments | Oct 27, 2012 | by tomhallett

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#98 Show HN: Archive and backup your files directly from your Dropbox

15 points | 5 comments | Oct 08, 2012 | by almost

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#99 Show HN: my music player

15 points | 3 comments | Oct 25, 2012 | by albertzeyer

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#100 Show HN: inuit.css—lightweight, Sass-based, OOCSS framework

14 points | 15 comments | Oct 01, 2012 | by csswizardry

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