Best Show HN projects from May, 2013

Browse the top 100 projects launched on Hacker News Show HN during May, 2013.


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#1 Show HN: My seven minute workout timer evening project

760 points | 155 comments | May 16, 2013 | by lgsilver

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#2 Show HN: Automatic weekly meal planner, also plans your leftovers

747 points | 288 comments | May 01, 2013 | by papa_bear

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#3 Show HN: Remove backgrounds from images online

571 points | 140 comments | May 09, 2013 | by jacobn

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#4 Show HN: I built a self-hosted Basecamp alternative. Try the demo

367 points | 197 comments | May 13, 2013 | by 23andwalnut

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#5 Show HN: Free hi-resolution photos for your website. 10 new photos every 10 days

357 points | 137 comments | May 30, 2013 | by mikaelcho

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#6 Show HN: Learn English with movies and TV Shows

287 points | 158 comments | May 28, 2013 | by duwip

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#7 Show HN: Create Javascript charts with one line of Ruby

272 points | 61 comments | May 13, 2013 | by akane

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#8 Show HN: See what the best startups in the world are using

261 points | 87 comments | May 20, 2013 | by yonasb

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#9 Show HN: Flattest Route - A web app to help you avoid hills in SF

237 points | 75 comments | May 08, 2013 | by jonny_eh

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#10 Show HN: Weekend project - Magnific Popup

196 points | 64 comments | May 02, 2013 | by diiiimaaaa

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#11 Show HN: WideArea – an expandable textarea

192 points | 66 comments | May 22, 2013 | by afshinmeh

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#12 Show HN: I learned to code to launch my new startup

178 points | 140 comments | May 08, 2013 | by spencerfry

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#13 Show HN: Felt – Personal, handwritten cards mailed from your iPad

154 points | 94 comments | May 01, 2013 | by talpert

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#14 Show HN: My friend's project to simulate an entire C. Elegans

147 points | 42 comments | May 08, 2013 | by SlyShy

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#15 Show HN: Launching Hoverboard – beautiful, responsive portfolios

144 points | 72 comments | May 10, 2013 | by illdave

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#16 Show HN: Monitor the Downtime of 170+ Popular Web APIs

143 points | 33 comments | May 06, 2013 | by bryanh

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#17 Show HN: Feedback app

139 points | 72 comments | May 14, 2013 | by mattrobs

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#18 Show HN: CoderPad, an etherpad + REPL for coding interviews

136 points | 41 comments | May 14, 2013 | by edmundhuber

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#19 Show HN: Codementor – instant one-to-one mentor for programming and design

132 points | 73 comments | May 31, 2013 | by weitingliu

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#20 Show HN: Raspberry Pi Laptop

125 points | 39 comments | May 21, 2013 | by potomak

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#21 Show HN: FlatUIKit - Flat UI components for iOS

116 points | 55 comments | May 15, 2013 | by jackflintermann

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#22 Show HN: Lightweight Threads, Channels and Actors for the JVM

116 points | 54 comments | May 02, 2013 | by pron

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#23 Show HN: Like Airbnb but for food

114 points | 107 comments | May 22, 2013 | by negrit

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#24 Show HN: the iPhone version of News/YC, a Hacker News reader

110 points | 73 comments | May 09, 2013 | by bennyg

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#25 Show HN: I've used Go to build a daemon for the Raspberry Pi

105 points | 38 comments | May 26, 2013 | by jondot

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#26 Show HN: It's hard to make friends offline, so we built a solution

104 points | 186 comments | May 28, 2013 | by njoglekar

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#27 Show HN: My new homepage

103 points | 80 comments | May 21, 2013 | by awaxman11

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#28 Show HN: Got my Pebble and built a seven minute workout watchapp today

103 points | 30 comments | May 27, 2013 | by akennberg

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#29 Show HN: Subtask – Organize projects the way your mind works

99 points | 71 comments | May 28, 2013 | by dittes

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#30 Show HN: The Choice – An online programming puzzle RPG

95 points | 111 comments | May 30, 2013 | by nddrylliog

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#31 Show HN: Distraction Free Reader/Writer

85 points | 60 comments | May 29, 2013 | by _kushagra

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#32 Show HN: My latest work for the Google I/O '13 Keynote

78 points | 16 comments | May 17, 2013 | by albiabia

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#33 Show HN: AWS EC2 On-demand vs. Reserved Interactive Price Comparison

76 points | 38 comments | May 29, 2013 | by promptcloud

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#34 Show HN: we like to work from coffee shops, so we made this

75 points | 81 comments | May 06, 2013 | by _yb

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#35 Show HN: btproof - trusted timestamping on the Bitcoin blockchain

75 points | 29 comments | May 30, 2013 | by nadaviv

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#36 Show HN: Spark Inspector, a run-time debugging tool for iOS apps

73 points | 26 comments | May 13, 2013 | by bengotow

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#37 Show HN: log-shuttle – log delivery over HTTPs written in Go

71 points | 5 comments | May 24, 2013 | by ryandotsmith

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#38 Show HN: Diffs of Word documents, designed for humans

69 points | 57 comments | May 06, 2013 | by bentoner

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#39 Show HN: A site for teaming up designers and developers on short projects

69 points | 39 comments | May 22, 2013 | by zancler

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#40 Show HN: Resumonk – a year after it was launched here

69 points | 34 comments | May 01, 2013 | by bharani_m

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#41 Show HN: Goodbye Old Editor – Reinventing coding with the cloud

68 points | 41 comments | May 28, 2013 | by friendcode

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#42 Show HN: HTerm, The Graphical Terminal for iOS, MacOS and Linux

67 points | 12 comments | May 06, 2013 | by new299

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#43 Show HN: a Node.js personal cloud you can hack, host and delete

65 points | 13 comments | May 30, 2013 | by gelnior

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#44 Show HN: Find the email address of any GitHub user

64 points | 37 comments | May 23, 2013 | by hodgesmr

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#45 Show HN: Whit - Access any kind of data through SMS

63 points | 39 comments | May 19, 2013 | by aaln

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#46 Show HN: Find profitable niche in App Store and Google Play Market

63 points | 20 comments | May 09, 2013 | by wsieroci

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#47 Show HN: gif.js - Fast GIF encoder using web workers

63 points | 15 comments | May 20, 2013 | by rwinn

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#48 Show HN: Funnel Visualization in HTML/CSS/D3.js

60 points | 6 comments | May 13, 2013 | by eekfuh

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#49 Show HN: Chrome Extension for the one thing I miss on HN

59 points | 27 comments | May 16, 2013 | by dalys

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#50 Show HN: The WordPress Query Generator, create WP loops in plain English

58 points | 36 comments | May 20, 2013 | by irunbackwards

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#51 Show HN: mist.io - Cloud management in your pocket

56 points | 25 comments | May 13, 2013 | by unweb

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#52 Show HN: Horcrux, a Mac app to back up or move your IMAP emails

54 points | 20 comments | May 07, 2013 | by suhastech

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#53 Show HN: Dynamic Cards Against Humanity cards based on Facebook data

52 points | 11 comments | May 17, 2013 | by ghempton

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#54 Show HN: The Hacker News Button

52 points | 7 comments | May 28, 2013 | by ianstormtaylor

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#55 Show HN: Codeblock.js - Editable, runnable javascript code blocks

50 points | 15 comments | May 13, 2013 | by brettcvz

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#56 Show HN: Java 7 Features Backported to Android

49 points | 33 comments | May 06, 2013 | by yareally

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#57 Show HN: I just released Sleek, a Ruby gem for doing simple analytics

49 points | 14 comments | May 10, 2013 | by goshakkk

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#58 Show HN: ApplyBin - hiring as easy as email, made with Meteor

48 points | 24 comments | May 14, 2013 | by gfloyd

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#59 Show HN: Nuesbyte v2

46 points | 33 comments | May 22, 2013 | by rbrcurtis

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#60 Show HN: Email files to Google Drive, Skydrive, or Dropbox

46 points | 14 comments | May 18, 2013 | by baudehlo

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#61 Show HN: Sieve - filter webpages and watch changes

44 points | 32 comments | May 20, 2013 | by ajitk

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#62 Show HN: Here is our first app after 6 months working on it. What do you think?

42 points | 47 comments | May 16, 2013 | by kornifex

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#63 Show HN: Zerobox – a small lightbox

42 points | 19 comments | May 28, 2013 | by kolodny

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#64 Show HN: Needed Ideas for things to build, so I built this

41 points | 45 comments | May 08, 2013 | by drum

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#65 Show HN: An Etherpad clone in Node.js and Socket.io

40 points | 20 comments | May 06, 2013 | by JacksonGariety

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#66 Show HN: Embark SF – A new Bay Area transit app

39 points | 45 comments | May 15, 2013 | by davidwhodge

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#67 Show HN: FoundationMade – Marketplace for Foundation Themes

39 points | 19 comments | May 15, 2013 | by scottyd

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#68 Show HN: Laravel 4 - This framework is revolutionizing PHP.

38 points | 30 comments | May 28, 2013 | by two

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#69 Show HN: Real time updating gif countdown with automatic time zone detection.

38 points | 16 comments | May 26, 2013 | by mape

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#70 Show HN: Example implementation of Mozilla's persona and Go server

38 points | 6 comments | May 23, 2013 | by sauerbraten

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#71 Show HN: Moscow banned Gay Pride for 100 years, so we invite them here instead

37 points | 27 comments | May 14, 2013 | by gori

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#72 Show HN: Built a FeedBurner replacement in a week

37 points | 26 comments | May 09, 2013 | by ComputerGuru

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#73 Show HN: I wrote an eBook on building iOS apps. First chapter is free.

37 points | 11 comments | May 28, 2013 | by AshFurrow

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#74 Show HN: Quick and anonymous salary "surveys" at lunch

36 points | 44 comments | May 09, 2013 | by narcissus

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#75 Show HN: An Open Source Number Game

36 points | 32 comments | May 23, 2013 | by zsch

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#76 Show HN: Pagoda, a Zen-mode Jekyll blog editor

36 points | 26 comments | May 24, 2013 | by alagu

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#77 Show HN: My side project that grew - cheap SSL certificates

36 points | 22 comments | May 29, 2013 | by glazskunrukitis

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#78 Show HN: WhitePad - iPhone-sized whiteboard - our first physical product

35 points | 23 comments | May 18, 2013 | by dusker

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#79 Show HN: gamedevwebtools

35 points | 8 comments | May 16, 2013 | by webbedhands

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#80 Show HN: My first Rails app helps you motivate yourself to get things done

34 points | 16 comments | May 10, 2013 | by jasonshen

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#81 Show HN: Create a WebRTC service in less time than it takes to install Skype

34 points | 12 comments | May 03, 2013 | by bstrong

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#82 Show HN: A UIKit Game Engine

33 points | 30 comments | May 05, 2013 | by moshberm

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#83 Show HN: My first iOS app - Soundtribe - 45 second sound clips with filters

33 points | 27 comments | May 29, 2013 | by drum

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#84 Show HN: Debuggify – Advanced error analytics for modern Javascript applications

33 points | 23 comments | May 14, 2013 | by devilankur18

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#85 Show HN: Stackifier for Scala – Make sense of your Scala stack trace

33 points | 13 comments | May 31, 2013 | by LeanOx

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#86 Show HN: The best thing I made nobody uses

31 points | 47 comments | May 09, 2013 | by StavrosK

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#87 Show HN: Fast DOM manipulation with jQuery-like syntax

31 points | 16 comments | May 26, 2013 | by bndr

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#88 Show HN: Find the cheapest Amazon for your books

30 points | 26 comments | May 05, 2013 | by k33l0r

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#89 Show HN: A set of handy tools to work with sequences and collections in Python

29 points | 10 comments | May 12, 2013 | by Suor

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#90 Show HN: Git(lab), Jenkins, Redmine and IRC on our wall

28 points | 7 comments | May 27, 2013 | by teon

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#91 Show HN: HTMLify - Turn code snippets into HTML, for tech bloggers

27 points | 21 comments | May 18, 2013 | by Nurdok

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#92 Show HN: We're helping kids access capital

27 points | 10 comments | May 07, 2013 | by keenahn

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#93 Show HN: Errordite, a new approach to exception management

26 points | 28 comments | May 15, 2013 | by thackerhacker

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#94 Show HN: Sleep Debt Calculator

26 points | 19 comments | May 30, 2013 | by imkevinxu

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#95 Show HN: Let your website visitors view images in fullscreen/lightbox

26 points | 12 comments | May 13, 2013 | by pocha

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#96 Show HN: Infraprint - print API for developers

26 points | 8 comments | May 29, 2013 | by harryzhang

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#97 Show HN: Rapid prototyping and development tool for web and mobile apps

25 points | 15 comments | May 27, 2013 | by sorich87

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#98 Show HN: I made this simple YouTube playlist maker. What do you think?

23 points | 44 comments | May 06, 2013 | by vishaldpatel

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#99 Show HN: Skycraft, a creative voxel adventure game in WebGL

23 points | 18 comments | May 20, 2013 | by haeric

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#100 Show HN: I'm 36 years old and this iPhone app took me forever

22 points | 39 comments | May 13, 2013 | by wushupork

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