Best Show HN projects from Aug, 2012

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


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#1 Show HN - We just built a site that saves lives

462 points | 183 comments | Aug 23, 2012 | by chaseadam17

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#2 Show HN: A date range picker for Twitter Bootstrap

363 points | 80 comments | Aug 20, 2012 | by dangrossman

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#3 Show HN: Burner, for temporary phone numbers

323 points | 180 comments | Aug 08, 2012 | by gregcohn

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#4 Show HN: Most Wikipedia articles lead to the same loop

295 points | 161 comments | Aug 31, 2012 | by seangransee

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#5 Show HN: Business.txt - Standard Proposal

264 points | 109 comments | Aug 27, 2012 | by fesja

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#6 Show HN: BigVideo.js

244 points | 48 comments | Aug 19, 2012 | by johnpolacek

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#7 Show HN: SideProjects.com - 37 Bootstrapped Profitable Projects

236 points | 118 comments | Aug 22, 2012 | by sideprojectbook

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#8 Show HN: Eligible API for 700+ Health Insurance Companies

218 points | 92 comments | Aug 10, 2012 | by kategleason

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#9 Show HN: We Use That. What startups use to get stuff done

201 points | 43 comments | Aug 08, 2012 | by daniel_levine

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#10 Show HN: See Kickstarter successes and failures

187 points | 63 comments | Aug 10, 2012 | by misener

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#11 Show HN: App creates a meal plan that satisfies your nutrition constraints

185 points | 105 comments | Aug 09, 2012 | by bumbledraven

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#12 Show HN: A fix for the .bash_profile .bashrc .profile madness

173 points | 42 comments | Aug 11, 2012 | by jwecker

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#13 Show HN: I mixed selling t-shirts with a little bit of game theory

171 points | 82 comments | Aug 21, 2012 | by seekely

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#14 Show HN: HackerNews reimagined without tables or center elements.

165 points | 146 comments | Aug 13, 2012 | by sergiotapia

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#15 Show HN: Tweetsheets – Twitter directly from within Google Docs

160 points | 15 comments | Aug 10, 2012 | by andreasklinger

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#16 Show HN: Statwing is statistical analysis, simplified

135 points | 50 comments | Aug 06, 2012 | by glaugh

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#17 Show HN: We built a voice to music AI app in 54 hours at a hackathon

130 points | 58 comments | Aug 31, 2012 | by seertaak

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#18 Show HN: Visual diff for 3D printable models

127 points | 39 comments | Aug 16, 2012 | by iamwil

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#19 Show HN: Ymacs - Emacs in the browser with Dropbox, GDrive, etc

125 points | 45 comments | Aug 13, 2012 | by tagx

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#20 Show HN: YouFM - A new way to listen to music on Youtube

121 points | 81 comments | Aug 19, 2012 | by ashraful

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#21 Show HN: GoScale Cloud Scaling in Milliseconds

118 points | 60 comments | Aug 24, 2012 | by ColinHayhurst

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#22 Show HN: Choose Photo. Make Ascii

116 points | 32 comments | Aug 09, 2012 | by ananddass

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#23 Show HN: A versioned filesystem inspired by Git

115 points | 46 comments | Aug 28, 2012 | by artagnon

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#24 Show HN: My one month side-project, Lucid Tracker: a daily life tracking tool

113 points | 67 comments | Aug 01, 2012 | by matt1

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#25 Show HN: Pup, real-time app metrics with Statsd

107 points | 50 comments | Aug 06, 2012 | by Vvick727

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#26 Show HN: Everyday.me - a mobile app to record your life and store it forever

104 points | 74 comments | Aug 04, 2012 | by yukuan

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#27 Show HN: DailyCred: User Accounts as a Service

101 points | 62 comments | Aug 09, 2012 | by nostromo

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#28 Show HN: Open Sourcing my HTML5 Multiplayer Game Engine

87 points | 27 comments | Aug 16, 2012 | by renownedmedia

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#29 Show HN: Convert online videos to .gif

84 points | 39 comments | Aug 12, 2012 | by sgehlich

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#30 Show HN: A multi-touch document manipulation system

82 points | 29 comments | Aug 18, 2012 | by stevewilhelm

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#31 Show HN: Coding.fm - Raining.fm for coders

81 points | 68 comments | Aug 29, 2012 | by valceder

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#32 Show HN: Haiku Deck - A Simple iPad App for Making Beautiful Presentations

81 points | 31 comments | Aug 16, 2012 | by astartupaday1

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#33 Show HN: Strapdown.js - Instant and elegant Markdown documents

79 points | 14 comments | Aug 13, 2012 | by arturadib

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#34 Show HN: Makr.io, a creative and collaborative way to play with images

78 points | 32 comments | Aug 02, 2012 | by mbs348

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#35 Show HN: Deadman.io - a digital dead man's switch

76 points | 51 comments | Aug 14, 2012 | by m3ntat

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#36 Show HN: SendRail - Easy P2P File Transfer From The Desktop

76 points | 50 comments | Aug 11, 2012 | by ritikm

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#37 Show HN: Olympics Ranking Adjusted by Population (Evening Project)

74 points | 73 comments | Aug 09, 2012 | by pykello

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#38 Show HN: pry-rescue — workflow-optimized debugging for ruby

69 points | 30 comments | Aug 27, 2012 | by cirwin

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#39 Show HN: Voice feedback widget to hear from your users

68 points | 20 comments | Aug 18, 2012 | by abless

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#40 Show HN: I'm building a webapp for serious cyclists

66 points | 78 comments | Aug 30, 2012 | by davidjohnstone

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#41 Show HN: Pasteboard - HTML5 Web App for Quick & Easy Image Sharing (Open Source)

64 points | 42 comments | Aug 18, 2012 | by JoelBesada

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#42 Show HN: ASCII Animals in Your Terminal

62 points | 31 comments | Aug 24, 2012 | by ivolo

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#43 Show HN: HubChilla - Asynchronously Chat With Similar People Using SMS

61 points | 77 comments | Aug 03, 2012 | by ritikm

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#44 Show HN - Github competitor with free private repo

61 points | 58 comments | Aug 24, 2012 | by sytse

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#45 Show HN: CloudPlay - A music player for YouTube, SoundCloud, and more

54 points | 30 comments | Aug 09, 2012 | by ammmir

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#46 Show HN: Hide Messages in Images with Steganography

54 points | 15 comments | Aug 15, 2012 | by tagx

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#47 Show HN: Indoor Location you can try yourself

52 points | 46 comments | Aug 16, 2012 | by navpatel

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#48 Show HN: Prune Unwanted Stories from HN Front Page

49 points | 24 comments | Aug 12, 2012 | by latitude

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#49 Show HN: Painless, productive views on iOS with Formotion for RubyMotion

49 points | 13 comments | Aug 12, 2012 | by 10char

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#50 Show HN: Simplest chat for platforms and marketplaces

47 points | 25 comments | Aug 30, 2012 | by bevenky

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#51 Show HN: Redirect stdout to EtherPad

47 points | 11 comments | Aug 11, 2012 | by simonmaddox

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#52 Show HN: 10-minute programming challenge. Let's do more of these.

45 points | 33 comments | Aug 08, 2012 | by pud

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#53 Show HN: Chartulo.us - Chart anything from the command line

45 points | 21 comments | Aug 09, 2012 | by dcraw

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#54 Show HN: Spreadsheets in the browser with Box, Dropbox support

45 points | 13 comments | Aug 01, 2012 | by brettcvz

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#55 Show HN: burn.fm - A new way to listen to music on Youtube

44 points | 43 comments | Aug 19, 2012 | by lunarlia

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#56 Show HN: Mountain Growl - Growl plugin for Mountain Lions Notification Center

44 points | 16 comments | Aug 11, 2012 | by stigi

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#57 Show HN: my friday night project - F Junk Mail

42 points | 32 comments | Aug 18, 2012 | by scottmotte

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#58 Show HN: my weekend project, PageBlox (pageblox.com)

42 points | 10 comments | Aug 06, 2012 | by ctek

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#59 Show HN: Simple SaaS Metrics Dashboard for Stripe

42 points | 7 comments | Aug 27, 2012 | by bryanh

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#60 Show HN: SendRail - The easiest way to send files from the desktop

41 points | 22 comments | Aug 14, 2012 | by ritikm

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#61 Show HN: CSS Buttons Generator for your pleasure

40 points | 15 comments | Aug 19, 2012 | by ondrejzabojnik

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#62 Show HN: A better way to keep track of the books you've read?

39 points | 34 comments | Aug 25, 2012 | by iamphilsharp

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#63 Show HN: My Twitter brand monitoring side project

39 points | 27 comments | Aug 25, 2012 | by illdave

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#64 Show HN: My first webapp. Build with rails, backbonejs and lots of love.

36 points | 35 comments | Aug 08, 2012 | by muellerwolfram

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#65 Show HN: Mapsaurus, the visual map of the Android Store

34 points | 10 comments | Aug 11, 2012 | by c0da

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#66 Show HN: Sell your stuff for more money with less hassle

33 points | 56 comments | Aug 09, 2012 | by bunkat

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#67 Show HN: Hasher - Developer's toolbox for Chrome

33 points | 9 comments | Aug 03, 2012 | by snov

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#68 Show HN: Get an email when press, investors, or competitors use your app

32 points | 19 comments | Aug 22, 2012 | by heynk

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#69 Show HN: I'm bootstrapping my company and this is my first product. Thoughts?

31 points | 44 comments | Aug 28, 2012 | by ktusznio

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#70 Show HN: Klaviyo - a new kind of CRM (not just for sales)

31 points | 10 comments | Aug 28, 2012 | by edhallen

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#71 Show HN: TaskUp.com - the only task list you'll ever need

28 points | 50 comments | Aug 20, 2012 | by aioprisan

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#72 Show HN: Easily Customizable Toggle Buttons - jQuery Plugin

28 points | 17 comments | Aug 20, 2012 | by simontabor

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#73 Show HN: Impressionist with Filepicker.io, a presentation tool

28 points | 4 comments | Aug 10, 2012 | by tagx

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#74 Show HN: Pinchable image viewer using HTML5, CSS3 & JS

27 points | 6 comments | Aug 01, 2012 | by cedel2k1

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#75 Show HN: Making Tumblr Work vs. Medium & Svbtle

25 points | 23 comments | Aug 18, 2012 | by jfornear

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#76 Show HN: Fowndr.com Launched - A community of startup founders

25 points | 13 comments | Aug 23, 2012 | by stulogy

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#77 Show HN: Send postcards with Node.js & Sincerely

25 points | 5 comments | Aug 08, 2012 | by niftylettuce

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#78 Show HN: Wordsmith - jquery plugin that adds on-demand word definitions

23 points | 16 comments | Aug 14, 2012 | by richhollis

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#79 Show HN: Marauders Map (Circle Hackathon)

23 points | 12 comments | Aug 31, 2012 | by myprasanna

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#80 Show HN: JamPad

23 points | 11 comments | Aug 30, 2012 | by akumpf

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#81 Show HN: Millionshort, 3 months later

22 points | 9 comments | Aug 02, 2012 | by taxonomyman

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#82 Show HN: Pick'em Zone (hackers can enjoy football too)

21 points | 7 comments | Aug 21, 2012 | by scootklein

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#83 Show HN: Archive your starred GitHub repos and gists for search with Kippt

21 points | 3 comments | Aug 15, 2012 | by jorde

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#84 Show HN: A comprehensive (and growing) list of Retina Mac Apps

21 points | 2 comments | Aug 07, 2012 | by wells-riley

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#85 Show HN: Automated writing analysis of Twitter and Reddit feeds

20 points | 19 comments | Aug 08, 2012 | by ddod

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#86 Show HN: Droidmeter.com - I want to help you study the Android App Store

20 points | 10 comments | Aug 17, 2012 | by winnie

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#87 Show HN: iPhone App to help you stick to the Paleo Diet

18 points | 15 comments | Aug 24, 2012 | by loumf

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#88 Show HN: Shade. A Free Mac App to hide your messy desktop.

16 points | 14 comments | Aug 17, 2012 | by pagliara

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#89 Show HN - Calculator that estimates your cloud costs

16 points | 13 comments | Aug 24, 2012 | by BDangIT

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#90 Show HN: PHP Best Practices, a short guide for common and confusing PHP tasks

16 points | 12 comments | Aug 21, 2012 | by acabal

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#91 Show HN: cisimple - CI for mobile (iOS and Android)

16 points | 7 comments | Aug 15, 2012 | by krohling

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#92 Show HN: Attach.io, a new way to simply share files

15 points | 19 comments | Aug 29, 2012 | by dutchbrit

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#93 Show HN: OverflowMonthly

15 points | 12 comments | Aug 24, 2012 | by gt5050

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#94 Show HN: A Javascript quiz that explores how javascript scopes its variables

15 points | 10 comments | Aug 22, 2012 | by Serplat

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#95 Show HN: Annotary - Highlight Web Pages, Share Your Notes

15 points | 7 comments | Aug 13, 2012 | by TravisLS

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#96 Show HN: Chapter 1 of a Sci-Fi Novel I am writing

15 points | 6 comments | Aug 18, 2012 | by zitterbewegung

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#97 Show HN: NeedNumbers.me, import contacts from "New Phone, Need #s" FB groups

14 points | 9 comments | Aug 19, 2012 | by stephenou

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#98 Show HN: remote access to your Android phone with Shynk

14 points | 8 comments | Aug 11, 2012 | by samkline

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#99 Show HN: My first screencast. 2 hours spent for every minute of video

14 points | 2 comments | Aug 02, 2012 | by sudonim

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#100 Show HN: Loading Indicator Innovation

14 points | 0 comments | Aug 20, 2012 | by ianstormtaylor

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