Best Show HN projects from Dec, 2012

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


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#1 Show HN: Analytics.js – The analytics API you've always wanted

326 points | 67 comments | Dec 12, 2012 | by ianstormtaylor

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#2 Show HN: Scratchpad.io - a real-time HTML and CSS editor

298 points | 82 comments | Dec 17, 2012 | by brycecolquitt

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#3 Show HN: Interactive SICP

280 points | 51 comments | Dec 02, 2012 | by zodiac

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#4 Show HN: CSS3 animation

271 points | 95 comments | Dec 28, 2012 | by podrivo

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#5 Show HN: How I turned an old book into a (barely) profitable website

242 points | 104 comments | Dec 27, 2012 | by AlexMuir

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#6 Show HN: Clojure DSL for pattern-matching, parsing and generic programming

204 points | 16 comments | Dec 10, 2012 | by jamii

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#7 Show HN: Ember Table by Addepar

199 points | 49 comments | Dec 20, 2012 | by ldvldv

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#8 Show HN: roots - a toolkit for advanced front-end dev

195 points | 114 comments | Dec 13, 2012 | by jenius

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#9 Show HN: box2d-jquery - physics-engine for your DOM

167 points | 39 comments | Dec 11, 2012 | by franze

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#10 Show HN: Survey Builder with Drag/Drop Logic Branching

165 points | 64 comments | Dec 05, 2012 | by martinaglv

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#11 Show HN: The home automation system with an API

149 points | 89 comments | Dec 28, 2012 | by schappim

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#12 Show HN: Hacking a Raspberry Pi into a wireless airplay speaker

144 points | 73 comments | Dec 28, 2012 | by jordn

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#13 Show HN: Advanced Mathematics Library for Node.js and JavaScript

123 points | 48 comments | Dec 11, 2012 | by sjkaliski

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#14 Show HN: 2u.fm is a social music discovery site, my side project for over a year

121 points | 85 comments | Dec 03, 2012 | by nwienert

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#15 Show HN: I send out a weekly CS topic overview and code interview question

117 points | 46 comments | Dec 13, 2012 | by bcjordan

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#16 Show HN: UXArchive - How the best iPhone apps handle userflows

116 points | 35 comments | Dec 07, 2012 | by LeonW

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#17 Show HN: DataFart - easy command line graphing

114 points | 63 comments | Dec 22, 2012 | by paulrosenzweig

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#18 Show HN: ppl - The Command Line Address Book

106 points | 54 comments | Dec 20, 2012 | by h2s

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#19 Show HN: Designing Web Applications

105 points | 110 comments | Dec 12, 2012 | by nathanbarry

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#20 Show HN: Harmogram, Web Audio API + Canvas (Paper.js) FFT/Harmonograph

105 points | 33 comments | Dec 28, 2012 | by adrianleb

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#21 Show HN: Wifis.org - making WiFi networks 'social'

103 points | 57 comments | Dec 17, 2012 | by Major_Grooves

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#22 Show HN: Servus for Mac and Dropbox

95 points | 38 comments | Dec 21, 2012 | by czottmann

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#23 Show HN: A Smart Name Brainstorming And Domain Search Engine

94 points | 62 comments | Dec 21, 2012 | by mohit_agg

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#24 Show HN: Crowdtilt announces the first Crowdfunding API

90 points | 20 comments | Dec 12, 2012 | by knighthacker

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#25 Show HN: Nasdaq Dubstep

88 points | 22 comments | Dec 28, 2012 | by svtiger

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#26 Show HN: Teelaunch Prints & Ships Your Kickstarter & Indiegogo T-Shirt Rewards

83 points | 19 comments | Dec 17, 2012 | by niftylettuce

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#27 Show HN: A web-based Excel/Database hybrid

82 points | 41 comments | Dec 10, 2012 | by longneckdeer

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#28 Show HN: WhenEpisode.com (Simple weekend project)

81 points | 65 comments | Dec 29, 2012 | by vojant

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#29 Show HN: Firefeed - A Twitter clone built with Firebase

81 points | 44 comments | Dec 19, 2012 | by jamest

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#30 Show HN: a distraction-free Markdown editor

74 points | 46 comments | Dec 08, 2012 | by chaosprophet

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#31 Show HN: the app that powers our order fulfillment warehouse

73 points | 22 comments | Dec 11, 2012 | by plusbryan

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#32 Show HN: Amuzor, a new content curator we've been building

70 points | 48 comments | Dec 31, 2012 | by sebastianmck

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#33 Show HN: I built a Raspberry Pi/Android driven toy car

64 points | 22 comments | Dec 09, 2012 | by doctoboggan

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#34 Show HN: SQL to Mongo Query Translator

62 points | 33 comments | Dec 12, 2012 | by robertjmoore

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#35 Show HN: An e-course creator for hobbyists my wife and I built

62 points | 26 comments | Dec 19, 2012 | by thenduks

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#36 Show HN: I made a CLI to retrieve info from the IMDB

61 points | 37 comments | Dec 24, 2012 | by izac

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#37 Show HN: My Experimental "Dev Blog" For A Pet Project

61 points | 20 comments | Dec 16, 2012 | by latitude

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#38 Show HN: Introducing KA Lite, an offline version of Khan Academy

61 points | 3 comments | Dec 14, 2012 | by jamalex

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#39 Show HN: Miyagi - A Journal of Application Development

59 points | 28 comments | Dec 08, 2012 | by ryandaigle

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#40 Show HN: Etherpad meets Markdown for a minimal company wiki

56 points | 63 comments | Dec 17, 2012 | by akrymski

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#41 Show HN: My Sort-of-DIY, Dual 30", Sit-Stand Treadmill Desk Setup

54 points | 64 comments | Dec 02, 2012 | by peterarmstrong

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#42 Show HN: Pvsh - A reverse Kickstarter (make feature requests for any product)

54 points | 47 comments | Dec 03, 2012 | by hollandale

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#43 Show HN: An app for middle school students, made by a middle school student.

54 points | 25 comments | Dec 12, 2012 | by gtmtg

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#44 Show HN: Wrote a Book – C# 5 First Look

52 points | 25 comments | Dec 13, 2012 | by CodeCube

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#45 Show HN: A DNS server that removes the top million domains

48 points | 36 comments | Dec 21, 2012 | by taxonomyman

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#46 Show HN: TED video downloader to MKV with subtitles embedded

48 points | 11 comments | Dec 25, 2012 | by oxplot

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#47 Show HN: Solving a very old problem β€” passwords

45 points | 82 comments | Dec 26, 2012 | by brennenHN

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#48 Show HN: full system backups via Sneakernet

45 points | 45 comments | Dec 02, 2012 | by jacquesc

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#49 Show HN: New Python Job Board

45 points | 18 comments | Dec 20, 2012 | by cmalpeli

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#50 Show HN: Giraffe - dashboard for graphite

45 points | 15 comments | Dec 18, 2012 | by gingerlime

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#51 Show HN: Wavo.me - A social network for music to take on Spotify and iTunes.

44 points | 48 comments | Dec 19, 2012 | by glesperance

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#52 Show HN: Soundkeep (Github for music)

44 points | 29 comments | Dec 19, 2012 | by joshontheweb

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#53 Show HN: Beeswithmachineguns, lets you use EC2 to DDOS yourself

44 points | 7 comments | Dec 30, 2012 | by jayzalowitz

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#54 Show HN: Introducing the Pack Store. The App Store for hardware.

39 points | 21 comments | Dec 03, 2012 | by thomasmarriott

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#55 Show HN: Create and collect forms directly from email

38 points | 27 comments | Dec 14, 2012 | by wim

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#56 Show HN: Clean your app permissions before 2013

38 points | 9 comments | Dec 27, 2012 | by benjlang

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#57 Show HN: FilmBreak is launching a fully integrated virtual film studio

37 points | 19 comments | Dec 01, 2012 | by corwinstephen

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#58 Show HN: Get Creative, a website within a chrome extension

37 points | 17 comments | Dec 12, 2012 | by dmauro

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#59 Show HN: PinPigeon for Pinterest - Send pins as postcards

37 points | 7 comments | Dec 03, 2012 | by niftylettuce

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#60 Show HN: Turn Your Blog Into a Downloadable Ebook

36 points | 39 comments | Dec 25, 2012 | by shantanubala

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#61 Show HN: ShotBlocker - iOS screenshot detector a la Snapchat/Poke

35 points | 30 comments | Dec 27, 2012 | by 10char

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#62 Show HN: Kodable - Programming Fundamentals for Five Year Olds

34 points | 11 comments | Dec 05, 2012 | by grechen

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#63 Show HN: A Url Permanence Service

32 points | 30 comments | Dec 02, 2012 | by dRocking

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#64 Show HN: Easy way to print Facebook photos

32 points | 29 comments | Dec 20, 2012 | by zferland

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#65 Show HN: Server Check.in - inexpensive website uptime monitoring

32 points | 21 comments | Dec 10, 2012 | by geerlingguy

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#66 Show HN: Sandbox.js - Run user code in a sandboxed environment

31 points | 13 comments | Dec 01, 2012 | by nicklovescode

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#67 Show HN: IRCRelay - Hosted IRC Bouncer Service

30 points | 44 comments | Dec 05, 2012 | by mitchellh

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#68 Show HN: Realtime multiuser, multitouch block toy

30 points | 31 comments | Dec 18, 2012 | by BigFatGangsta

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#69 Show HN: North Carolina's interactive social media archive

30 points | 25 comments | Dec 05, 2012 | by anilchawla

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#70 Show HN: Cocktail search written in Python using scrapy and sphinx

29 points | 21 comments | Dec 22, 2012 | by wallunit

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#71 Show HN: Social Bar - A branded bar that follows links you share on social media

29 points | 20 comments | Dec 23, 2012 | by ozkatz

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#72 Show HN: Using D3.js to visually explore your GitHub connections

29 points | 7 comments | Dec 03, 2012 | by kgosser

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#73 Show HN: Badger-Rails

28 points | 21 comments | Dec 18, 2012 | by mattvv

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#74 Show HN: Worqshop: GitHub client for iPad and iPhone

28 points | 17 comments | Dec 09, 2012 | by donny

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#75 Show HN: Our attempt at solving the wishlist problem..

27 points | 48 comments | Dec 03, 2012 | by jbbarnes

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#76 Show HN: Glance - Dashboard for Monitoring Personalized Data

26 points | 15 comments | Dec 12, 2012 | by neilsharma

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#77 Show HN: Bookmarks.io - Full text search for your bookmarks (free trial)

25 points | 31 comments | Dec 05, 2012 | by shutton

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#78 Show HN: Mashing up Facebook, Pinterest and Amazon for Christmas

25 points | 15 comments | Dec 14, 2012 | by reso

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#79 Show HN: See what Apps your friends are using on iPhone in real-time

25 points | 12 comments | Dec 04, 2012 | by benguild

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#80 Show HN: Procrstn8 - A Reddit client app for Windows 8 PCs and Tablets

25 points | 9 comments | Dec 27, 2012 | by puneetsmail

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#81 Show HN (redesign) - Startup Threads Monthly: Startup Tshirt Subscription

24 points | 7 comments | Dec 18, 2012 | by frankdenbow

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#82 Show HN: HTML5 Flash Warning Fix for YouTube

23 points | 37 comments | Dec 05, 2012 | by niftylettuce

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#83 Show HN: A Different Kind of Scoreboard

23 points | 31 comments | Dec 16, 2012 | by dpearson

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#84 Show HN: 5000 best movies

23 points | 28 comments | Dec 19, 2012 | by arekp

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#85 Show HN: simple web utility for converting html to image

22 points | 16 comments | Dec 04, 2012 | by kimura

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#86 Show HN: Boldfaced, a portfolio designed for showing off writing

22 points | 13 comments | Dec 08, 2012 | by kylebragger

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#87 Show HN: Weekend project – StumbleUpon For Wikipedia

21 points | 19 comments | Dec 17, 2012 | by negamax

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#88 Show HN: A candle animation, a volume renderer, and a bundle of LEDs

21 points | 17 comments | Dec 18, 2012 | by TheZenPsycho

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#89 Show HN: Online SMS, My Weekend Project

21 points | 14 comments | Dec 10, 2012 | by spicavigo

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#90 Show HN: Holiday Songs - Send Holiday Songs To Friends

21 points | 3 comments | Dec 17, 2012 | by frankdenbow

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#91 Show HN: A virtual guitar teacher (after 18 months of dev)

20 points | 17 comments | Dec 12, 2012 | by b1ake

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#92 Show HN: Mince pie tracker

20 points | 11 comments | Dec 10, 2012 | by stuartk

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#93 Show HN: Review my startup - Posterhaste - Custom art prints and posters

19 points | 16 comments | Dec 17, 2012 | by samwillis

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#94 Show HN: The Obvious Architecture

19 points | 13 comments | Dec 31, 2012 | by programminggeek

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#95 Show HN: Facebook Photo Messaging that doesn't suck

18 points | 7 comments | Dec 23, 2012 | by libovness

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#96 Show HN: I invented, built, and released a 360ΒΊ Video Camera.

18 points | 4 comments | Dec 14, 2012 | by nakedrobot2

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#97 Show HN: synchronize saved HN stories with Pinboard

18 points | 4 comments | Dec 02, 2012 | by koevet

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#98 Show HN: Cloudsnap, an integration platform for developers

18 points | 3 comments | Dec 07, 2012 | by colinloretz

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#99 Show HN: New iOS App - Watch your videos from Anywhere

17 points | 25 comments | Dec 02, 2012 | by tteam

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#100 Show HN: I built myself a friend.

17 points | 19 comments | Dec 01, 2012 | by orangethirty

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