Best Show HN projects from Feb, 2012

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


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#1 Show HN: Hackershelf. Community curated collection of legally free books

532 points | 121 comments | Feb 14, 2012 | by okal

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#2 Show HN: Github for Designers

409 points | 83 comments | Feb 09, 2012 | by lominming

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#3 Show HN: Bootswatch, free swatches for your Bootstrap site

407 points | 53 comments | Feb 15, 2012 | by parkov

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#4 Show HN: Fed up with WebEx, so we built a way to screen share in under 20 sec.

402 points | 130 comments | Feb 01, 2012 | by ttruong

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#5 Show HN: Themes for Bootstrap

354 points | 93 comments | Feb 11, 2012 | by coderdude

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#6 Show HN: Favicon alert bubbles

271 points | 63 comments | Feb 07, 2012 | by tommoor

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#7 Show HN: My afternoon project - a pleasant viewer for the "who is hiring?" posts

185 points | 35 comments | Feb 01, 2012 | by necubi

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#8 Show HN: Get a better job offer, anonymously - my weekend hack

182 points | 84 comments | Feb 06, 2012 | by ferrofluid

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#9 Show HN: Wireshark as a web app

164 points | 31 comments | Feb 21, 2012 | by digitalsushi

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#10 Show HN: Cron.io - Sharing a by-product. Should this be a full service?

153 points | 70 comments | Feb 07, 2012 | by coenhyde

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#11 Show HN: my weekend project, PageBlox

134 points | 32 comments | Feb 03, 2012 | by ctek

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#12 Show HN: JavaScript Instagram-like Filters

127 points | 27 comments | Feb 05, 2012 | by alexmic

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#13 Show HN: Photo Picker+, New Library Improves Native Photo Picker (iOS+Android)

121 points | 33 comments | Feb 16, 2012 | by ranvir

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#14 Show HN: QR Pixel encodes pixel art in QR codes.

119 points | 25 comments | Feb 20, 2012 | by kbaker

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#15 Show HN: A client-side Bayes classifier for Hacker News

119 points | 10 comments | Feb 21, 2012 | by rogerbraun

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#16 Show HN: Mothereffinanimatedgif

113 points | 27 comments | Feb 17, 2012 | by twakefield

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#17 Show HN: Very low footprint JSON parser in portable ANSI C

111 points | 54 comments | Feb 12, 2012 | by udp

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#18 Show HN: My weekend project Parallax.js

108 points | 35 comments | Feb 06, 2012 | by Skaught

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#19 Show HN: HackerNews News Recommender

97 points | 36 comments | Feb 26, 2012 | by excerionsforte

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#20 Show HN: A distributed Recommendation Engine based on Redis + Ruby (and C)

97 points | 11 comments | Feb 19, 2012 | by paulasmuth

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#21 Show HN: My weekend project to learn Javascript - 'Pinterest for Hacker News'

95 points | 53 comments | Feb 02, 2012 | by davj

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#22 Show HN We just launched forking for your Minecraft worlds

92 points | 20 comments | Feb 03, 2012 | by chrislloyd

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#23 Show HN: StyleBootstrap, create unique Bootstrap design live

88 points | 7 comments | Feb 19, 2012 | by creatom

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#24 Show HN: My startup Curvio - IMDB for Clothes and Accessories on TV

84 points | 50 comments | Feb 01, 2012 | by tansey

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#25 Show HN: The reinvention of the company profile

79 points | 21 comments | Feb 22, 2012 | by acav

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#26 Show HN: A PHP parser written in PHP

77 points | 39 comments | Feb 22, 2012 | by nikic

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#27 Show HN: Our first iPhone app, built entirely in JavaScript

74 points | 51 comments | Feb 14, 2012 | by yosho

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#28 Show HN: devsigh.com - post all your stories of developer sigh

73 points | 33 comments | Feb 19, 2012 | by chargrilled

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#29 Show HN: My MusicHackDay project. A MPC-esque JS drum machine (requires Chrome)

70 points | 28 comments | Feb 05, 2012 | by sjtgraham

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#30 Show HN: I've open sourced Bookmarkly, a bookmarking site written in JavaScript

70 points | 17 comments | Feb 03, 2012 | by dangrossman

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#31 Show HN: Coder Weekly

62 points | 14 comments | Feb 06, 2012 | by motter

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#32 Show HN: HTTP Status code directory

58 points | 22 comments | Feb 23, 2012 | by citricsquid

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#33 Show HN: Coworking Weekly, the first newsletter for the coworking industry

57 points | 20 comments | Feb 13, 2012 | by alexknowshtml

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#34 Show HN: App for learning how to write Japanese

55 points | 51 comments | Feb 26, 2012 | by olofsj

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#35 Show HN: I wrote a tiny Python-based HN crawler with scrapy

53 points | 28 comments | Feb 24, 2012 | by mvanveen

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#36 Show HN: Our Startup's 404 Page Currently Most Popular On Site (web only)

51 points | 21 comments | Feb 20, 2012 | by husky

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#37 Show HN: SWYM - Share what you make

50 points | 27 comments | Feb 11, 2012 | by revorad

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#38 Show HN: Help us curate the web’s best content for learning programming & design

49 points | 20 comments | Feb 28, 2012 | by hv23

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#39 Show HN: an unofficial API for Google Music

48 points | 9 comments | Feb 29, 2012 | by simon_weber

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#40 Show HN: Seddit.com, a chat site based around Reddit

47 points | 30 comments | Feb 22, 2012 | by bdr

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#41 Show HN: ANSI art renderer in JavaScript/Canvas

47 points | 13 comments | Feb 15, 2012 | by atdt

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#42 Show HN: A Collaborative Code Editor (like EtherPad with Syntax Highlighting)

46 points | 20 comments | Feb 20, 2012 | by werg

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#43 Show HN: Hello Python, my book about learning python, has just been released

46 points | 17 comments | Feb 01, 2012 | by anthonyb

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#44 Show HN: CircuitLab, an in-browser schematic editor and circuit simulator

46 points | 15 comments | Feb 28, 2012 | by compumike

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#45 Show HN: Cheers, our "like" button for the real world

44 points | 15 comments | Feb 13, 2012 | by mmastrac

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#46 Show HN: I just launched a new blogging platform

43 points | 44 comments | Feb 04, 2012 | by awicklander

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#47 Show HN: Facebook response to Lovestagram. Our Valentine's weekend project.

43 points | 27 comments | Feb 14, 2012 | by borski

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#48 Show HN: Completely unofficial (and open source) Path client for OS X

42 points | 5 comments | Feb 27, 2012 | by raingrove

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#49 Show HN: Piqtur, a wep app for enhancing your images with beautiful effects

41 points | 18 comments | Feb 15, 2012 | by eliaskg

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#50 Show HN: GradeSquare.com - Find and Track your Online Courses

40 points | 19 comments | Feb 23, 2012 | by EzGraphs

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#51 Show HN: Github repo recommendation service

39 points | 8 comments | Feb 23, 2012 | by clay

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#52 Show HN: My Project, One month later

37 points | 25 comments | Feb 04, 2012 | by iSloth

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#53 Show HN: A graph of the languages you use on Github

35 points | 31 comments | Feb 20, 2012 | by aaronpk

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#54 Show HN: Review my startup: AtticTV, MusicTV (MTV) for the Youtube Generation

34 points | 29 comments | Feb 15, 2012 | by spicyxtreme

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#55 Show HN: Gmelius, Towards a Better Gmail

34 points | 17 comments | Feb 20, 2012 | by xpressyoo

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#56 Show HN: I made a social network for musicians

33 points | 31 comments | Feb 06, 2012 | by pud

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#57 Show HN: Web analytics with API only approach

33 points | 9 comments | Feb 20, 2012 | by petrohi

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#58 Show HN: Postmates is delivering happiness today in SF

32 points | 13 comments | Feb 14, 2012 | by seanplaice

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#59 Show HN: Add NES & Wii-style control to your Flash game in 15 minutes

32 points | 2 comments | Feb 29, 2012 | by fomojola

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#60 Show HN: Beagle, our app for students

31 points | 28 comments | Feb 29, 2012 | by adeelk

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#61 Show HN: Kickass scrum diagram

28 points | 7 comments | Feb 27, 2012 | by zacharyb

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#62 Show HN: Add screenshots to your Github issues via a handy bookmarklet

28 points | 0 comments | Feb 24, 2012 | by guillaumepotier

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#63 Show HN: 2 guys -- Learned to code in 3 months and built this

27 points | 19 comments | Feb 29, 2012 | by jeffchuber

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#64 Show HN: Social sharing tailored for eCommerce.

27 points | 19 comments | Feb 07, 2012 | by west

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#65 Show HN: a bash based data store written in python

27 points | 6 comments | Feb 03, 2012 | by alonsebastian

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#66 Show HN: Selling a web app, Auto Swatch

26 points | 29 comments | Feb 03, 2012 | by nicksergeant

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#67 Show HN: Like Yahoo Pipes, but works

26 points | 19 comments | Feb 23, 2012 | by benblair

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#68 Show HN: Help beta test our new app

26 points | 17 comments | Feb 08, 2012 | by csallen

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#69 Show HN: documentation generator based on markdown files in node.js

26 points | 12 comments | Feb 15, 2012 | by emixam

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#70 Show HN: We're the fastest-growing barometer network in the world [probably]

26 points | 11 comments | Feb 14, 2012 | by cryptoz

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#71 Show HN: we open sourced our startup's help desk as django-knowledge.

26 points | 5 comments | Feb 22, 2012 | by bryanh

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#72 Show HN: An Open-Source Solution to Expensive Textbooks

24 points | 5 comments | Feb 14, 2012 | by bsgreenb

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#73 Show HN: HTML for Mail

23 points | 20 comments | Feb 14, 2012 | by dshipper

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#74 Show HN: Ping times between major cities (where we have a server)

23 points | 3 comments | Feb 06, 2012 | by preinheimer

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#75 Show HN: Move photos b/w Flickr, Facebook and G+ by drag n drop

22 points | 17 comments | Feb 10, 2012 | by vigneshv_psg

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#76 Show HN: My side project for splitting restaurant bills

22 points | 7 comments | Feb 23, 2012 | by spoletto

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#77 Show HN: A simple full page website snapshot service

21 points | 44 comments | Feb 17, 2012 | by hashbo

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#78 Show HN: YC like button

21 points | 2 comments | Feb 24, 2012 | by zupa

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#79 Show HN: My weekend hack project, Appload.io, get your app's first 1k users

20 points | 20 comments | Feb 06, 2012 | by niklas_a

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#80 Show HN: Native Analytics (work in progress)

19 points | 29 comments | Feb 19, 2012 | by latitude

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#81 Show HN: Our fight against terrible restaurant websites

19 points | 10 comments | Feb 23, 2012 | by noeltock

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#82 Show HN: Share what you make (the 2-day app I launched at an HN meetup)

19 points | 3 comments | Feb 10, 2012 | by revorad

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#83 Show HN: Pinterest for Hacker News

18 points | 16 comments | Feb 05, 2012 | by nyrb

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#84 Show HN: Rate All The Things

18 points | 8 comments | Feb 12, 2012 | by liquid_x

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#85 Show HN: newsola - top news stories at a glance

17 points | 24 comments | Feb 25, 2012 | by kirchhoff

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#86 Show HN: Introducing Spaceship

16 points | 15 comments | Feb 11, 2012 | by mntmn

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#87 Show HN: A free HackerNews reader App for iOS

16 points | 9 comments | Feb 23, 2012 | by feilaoda

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#88 Show HN: Docary (Weekend project)

16 points | 3 comments | Feb 19, 2012 | by Nemmie

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#89 Show HN: Curate video playlists with your friends

16 points | 3 comments | Feb 14, 2012 | by playhard

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#90 Show HN: my weekend project, Vidless. "CloudApp" for video chat.

16 points | 3 comments | Feb 11, 2012 | by jordanf

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#91 Show HN: A Non-trivial Open Source iPad App

16 points | 2 comments | Feb 21, 2012 | by ssutch

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#92 Show HN: Review my Startup: (mobile) Programming w/o Coding for everyday people

15 points | 20 comments | Feb 16, 2012 | by marcomueller

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#93 Show HN: hacking our set-top box

15 points | 15 comments | Feb 05, 2012 | by juliennakache

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#94 Show HN: My week project - FundingList.us - find out any startup's funding.

15 points | 6 comments | Feb 19, 2012 | by Jarred

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#95 Show HN: Real-Time Web Collaborative Code Editing

15 points | 1 comments | Feb 23, 2012 | by alcacoop

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#96 Show HN: Cat.js, an Animated HTML5 Cat Toy

15 points | 0 comments | Feb 29, 2012 | by teddyknox

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#97 Show HN: breakupwithyour.tv

14 points | 9 comments | Feb 14, 2012 | by iamclovin

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#98 Show HN: We made posters with Mark Zuckerberg's quotes

14 points | 5 comments | Feb 02, 2012 | by jpadilla_

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#99 Show HN: iPhone prank web app in jQuery

14 points | 3 comments | Feb 25, 2012 | by hkuo

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#100 Show HN : HackerNode - An iOS Universal App for reading Hacker News (iOS 4.0+)

13 points | 5 comments | Feb 22, 2012 | by nodemaker

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