Best Show HN projects from Jan, 2014

Browse the top 100 projects launched on Hacker News Show HN during Jan, 2014.


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#1 Show HN: Kimono – Never write a web scraper again

717 points | 230 comments | Jan 15, 2014 | by pranade

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#2 Show HN: I open-sourced my web app alternative to Illustrator

644 points | 92 comments | Jan 24, 2014 | by artursapek

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#3 Show HN: Product Hunt – Hacker News for Products

360 points | 101 comments | Jan 29, 2014 | by rrhoover

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#4 Show HN: Random Street View

356 points | 166 comments | Jan 27, 2014 | by hanezz

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#5 Show HN: We just open-sourced a Skype replacement with HTML5

303 points | 100 comments | Jan 31, 2014 | by dhfromkorea

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#6 Show HN: Given an API, Generate client libraries in Node, Python, PHP, Ruby

268 points | 73 comments | Jan 03, 2014 | by sunkarapk

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#7 Show HN: Use any text as a domain name

261 points | 141 comments | Jan 01, 2014 | by daenz

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#8 Show HN: Ridiculously cheap bulk geocoding

224 points | 101 comments | Jan 21, 2014 | by thecodemonkey

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#9 Show HN: Linux server monitoring web dashboard

175 points | 68 comments | Jan 26, 2014 | by afaqurk

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#10 Show HN: Funded.io rapid prototype

167 points | 58 comments | Jan 14, 2014 | by bottompair

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#11 Show HN: Our little bootstrapped startup is powering CNN's ticker for NYE

154 points | 43 comments | Jan 01, 2014 | by randall

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#12 Show HN: Free, open-source site for finding beautiful hikes

145 points | 83 comments | Jan 20, 2014 | by zakn

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#13 Show HN: Unbabel API – Human Corrected Machine Translation

143 points | 65 comments | Jan 30, 2014 | by vasco_

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#14 Show HN: Codebox - Open-source cloud and desktop IDE

136 points | 65 comments | Jan 08, 2014 | by SamyPesse

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#15 Show HN: An Open-Source Data Science Curriculum

135 points | 43 comments | Jan 16, 2014 | by coderjack

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#16 Show HN: Unregistered word.tld domain names for your project

128 points | 61 comments | Jan 29, 2014 | by thiele

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#17 Show HN: Sneakers – Fast background processing for Ruby

114 points | 37 comments | Jan 07, 2014 | by jondot

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#18 Show HN: Workflow for front end developers to create desktop applications

101 points | 38 comments | Jan 21, 2014 | by anonyfox

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#19 Show HN: A Clojure game library

93 points | 31 comments | Jan 20, 2014 | by gw

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#20 Show HN: Lychee β€” Self-hosted photo-management done right

92 points | 69 comments | Jan 22, 2014 | by electerious

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#21 Show HN: Relearning to code after 20 years

85 points | 31 comments | Jan 03, 2014 | by rrosen326

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#22 Show HN: LINQ for Go

84 points | 51 comments | Jan 04, 2014 | by aabalkan

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#23 Show HN: Self-hosted, open-source infrastructure monitoring and alerting

82 points | 34 comments | Jan 13, 2014 | by dbuxton

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#24 Show HN: Taplytics – Mobile A/B testing you'll actually use

73 points | 24 comments | Jan 28, 2014 | by aglazer

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#25 Show HN: Akiva – A simple NLP, question-answering artificial intelligence

71 points | 20 comments | Jan 20, 2014 | by christophe971

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#26 Show HN: Fez, a file-based build tool for JavaScript

70 points | 26 comments | Jan 20, 2014 | by isaacb

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#27 Show HN: We made 1 app this year

69 points | 73 comments | Jan 02, 2014 | by vitoc

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#28 Show HN: email - Send emails easily in Go

69 points | 29 comments | Jan 07, 2014 | by jwcrux

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#29 Show HN: Beautify-with-words unminifies JS with unique words for variable names

67 points | 34 comments | Jan 27, 2014 | by zertosh

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#30 Show HN: Reddit-based product recommendations (weekend project)

66 points | 25 comments | Jan 17, 2014 | by nathan_f77

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#31 Show HN: Dynosaur, An autoscaler for Heroku using Google Analytics Live

66 points | 23 comments | Jan 22, 2014 | by dschwartz88

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#32 Show HN: Sense - A New Cloud Platform for Data Science and Big Data Analytics

64 points | 36 comments | Jan 09, 2014 | by tristanz

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#33 Show HN: Houdini – A new way to test web apps

63 points | 23 comments | Jan 15, 2014 | by levlandau

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#34 Show HN: Dogecoin Average - the price of Doge

62 points | 85 comments | Jan 22, 2014 | by Two9A

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#35 Show HN: My Internet life

62 points | 53 comments | Jan 11, 2014 | by davidhariri

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#36 Show HN: Taplytics, A/B testing on iOS without App Store updates

61 points | 23 comments | Jan 10, 2014 | by cdrux

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#37 Show HN: I quit my job to help communities fund energy efficiency upgrades

59 points | 37 comments | Jan 20, 2014 | by npatten

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#38 Show HN: Website 181 Took Way Longer Than a Day – YumHacker

57 points | 59 comments | Jan 27, 2014 | by jenniferDewalt

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#39 Show HN: HIPAA compliant file storage

52 points | 36 comments | Jan 09, 2014 | by jason_wang

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#40 Show HN: Meet Dockship

52 points | 14 comments | Jan 24, 2014 | by cedel2k1

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#41 Show HN: Releasing my first real open source project – Captionss

51 points | 35 comments | Jan 17, 2014 | by jbranchaud

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#42 Show HN: LLVM Weekly – Developments in the world of LLVM and Clang

49 points | 9 comments | Jan 13, 2014 | by asb

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#43 Show HN: Have a pug sent to your Snapchat every day

47 points | 19 comments | Jan 01, 2014 | by timrogers

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#44 Show HN: A website aiming to fix homelessness in SF

45 points | 68 comments | Jan 04, 2014 | by SeckinJohn

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#45 Show HN: Buy stuff through your terminal

45 points | 16 comments | Jan 25, 2014 | by mkx

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#46 Show HN: Hubble Ultra Deep Field Viewer

43 points | 16 comments | Jan 18, 2014 | by parksy

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#47 Show HN: Build iOS and Android games in Objective-C with SpriteBuilder

42 points | 8 comments | Jan 21, 2014 | by collinjackson

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#48 Show HN: Ken, Curation of best programming news on the Internet

40 points | 31 comments | Jan 18, 2014 | by mlakkadshaw

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#49 Show HN: Hound – Elixir web driver library for integration tests

38 points | 0 comments | Jan 14, 2014 | by SingAlong

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#50 Show HN: Pinegrow Web Designer, multipage editor with Bootstrap & Less

36 points | 19 comments | Jan 08, 2014 | by mattront

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#51 Show HN: I'm open sourcing Creditly.js, an intuitive credit card form

34 points | 31 comments | Jan 26, 2014 | by johnjwang

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#52 Show HN: Somewhere – Instagram hack motivates you to travel more

28 points | 18 comments | Jan 15, 2014 | by BenjaminN

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#53 Show HN: The easiest 2-factor auth

27 points | 29 comments | Jan 17, 2014 | by markkum

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#54 Show HN: Take Off 2014 non-profit tech conference in Europe

27 points | 12 comments | Jan 18, 2014 | by madflo

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#55 Show HN: Remote control your digital life from Twitter

26 points | 31 comments | Jan 15, 2014 | by shaharsol

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#56 Show HN: SupportKit embeds Zendesk into your iOS apps, with one line of code

24 points | 6 comments | Jan 28, 2014 | by gozmike

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#57 Show HN: Conductance - next gen webapp server built on StratifiedJS

24 points | 2 comments | Jan 13, 2014 | by gfxmonk

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#58 Show HN: Nudge – Klout for healthy living

23 points | 38 comments | Jan 21, 2014 | by macgambill

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#59 Show HN: Handshake - a Haptic Effects Library for HTML5

23 points | 8 comments | Jan 20, 2014 | by edent

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#60 Show HN: Dakuto - service for beautifully annotating and sharing code

23 points | 6 comments | Jan 14, 2014 | by agrippanux

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#61 Show HN: An IRC channel to help people find jobs

23 points | 3 comments | Jan 04, 2014 | by jessehorne

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#62 Show HN: Easily send encrypted email from your existing email

22 points | 26 comments | Jan 21, 2014 | by conorgil145

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#63 Show HN: GrowthHack as a Service – mturk + Google news api automation

22 points | 21 comments | Jan 24, 2014 | by makerops

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#64 Show HN: I just open-sourced the Rails toolkit I use to quickly launch sites

22 points | 8 comments | Jan 08, 2014 | by derwiki

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#65 Show HN: Visualizing the iOS App Store via D3.js

21 points | 0 comments | Jan 07, 2014 | by diziet

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#66 Show HN: Rewrote Basecamp, Gmail, Dropbox in 3 years with a team of 3

20 points | 29 comments | Jan 22, 2014 | by vibrant

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#67 Show HN: Gugodoc, my static web generator (for what it's worth )

20 points | 29 comments | Jan 22, 2014 | by MeyerDumont

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#68 Show HN: KillSwitch - Uptime Monitoring With Google AdWords Integration

20 points | 12 comments | Jan 07, 2014 | by enigmabomb

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#69 Show HN: Contastic - Staying in Touch Made Easy

20 points | 11 comments | Jan 23, 2014 | by cykho

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#70 Show HN: https://www.markdownmail.io – Bulk newsletter sender using Amazon SES

18 points | 15 comments | Jan 29, 2014 | by antonydenyer

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#71 Show HN: Having a hard time waking up? Check out Wake Alarm

18 points | 15 comments | Jan 02, 2014 | by robjama

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#72 Show HN: QuickChat - An Open-Source Snapchat clone built in 5 days

17 points | 7 comments | Jan 07, 2014 | by tagabek

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#73 Show HN: Search Grader. Check out Amazon, Craigslist & others' scores

17 points | 5 comments | Jan 16, 2014 | by jlemoine

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#74 Show HN: Sell anything through instagram

16 points | 14 comments | Jan 07, 2014 | by khamoud

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#75 Show HN: Spark School – Codecademy for hardware

16 points | 3 comments | Jan 26, 2014 | by sburkhart

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#76 Show HN: Simple Race Registration (Haskell, PostgreSQL, JS)

15 points | 19 comments | Jan 04, 2014 | by LukeHoersten

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#77 Show HN: usefulscience.org – one sentence summaries of journal articles

15 points | 13 comments | Jan 29, 2014 | by jaan

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#78 Show HN: Turn sketches into vector diagrams

15 points | 3 comments | Jan 27, 2014 | by CalumJEadie

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#79 Show HN: BeardedSpice: Mac Media Keys for the Masses

15 points | 2 comments | Jan 15, 2014 | by trhodes

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#80 Show HN: Fig -Β Fast, isolated development environments using Docker

15 points | 1 comments | Jan 02, 2014 | by bfirsh

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#81 Show HN: Open Source Node.js Interpreter for iOS

15 points | 0 comments | Jan 13, 2014 | by srijs

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#82 Show HN: Django SQL Explorer

14 points | 17 comments | Jan 10, 2014 | by numlocked

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#83 Show HN: Redditpoll.com – A simple polling application I made for Reddit

14 points | 5 comments | Jan 22, 2014 | by hiby007

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#84 Show HN: Zendesk for apps: add an FAQ to your app + sync with Desk/Zendesk

14 points | 1 comments | Jan 29, 2014 | by kunle

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#85 Show HN: Coinwell - the easiest way to mine litecoins

13 points | 31 comments | Jan 14, 2014 | by theanirudh

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#86 Show HN: An Open-Source Intro to WebApps Curriculum

12 points | 1 comments | Jan 26, 2014 | by Upwad0n

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#87 Show HN: Lama – Open-Source Python Droplr Alternative

12 points | 1 comments | Jan 14, 2014 | by fka

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#88 Show HN: nss_http - Dynamic User Management on Linux

12 points | 1 comments | Jan 03, 2014 | by gmjosack

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#89 Show HN: You Write. We Quantify – thoughtly.co

11 points | 16 comments | Jan 27, 2014 | by mercurialshark

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#90 Show HN: Finally a legit way to search for broadband providers by zip.

11 points | 15 comments | Jan 17, 2014 | by nickreese

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#91 Show HN: Fast English Editing - Editing for Non-native Speakers

11 points | 8 comments | Jan 09, 2014 | by paulrosenzweig

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#92 Show HN: Maintenr, a platform for auto enthusiasts

11 points | 6 comments | Jan 16, 2014 | by korzun

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#93 Show HN: Proposal for Internet-wide Unsubscribe and Privacy Settings

11 points | 5 comments | Jan 13, 2014 | by lowglow

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#94 Show HN: Easily implement a social referral program in your app

11 points | 4 comments | Jan 10, 2014 | by bdunmire

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#95 Show HN: Open-source Piet Mondrian-inspired Pong

11 points | 2 comments | Jan 18, 2014 | by speeder

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#96 Show HN: Quick "Unfollow Everybody" script for Twitter

11 points | 2 comments | Jan 07, 2014 | by jasonkester

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#97 Show HN: I made a tool that adds two-step verification to websites or apps

10 points | 12 comments | Jan 02, 2014 | by yansuck

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#98 Show HN: I built this website in 10 hours

10 points | 7 comments | Jan 31, 2014 | by lukezli

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#99 Show HN: My 5-year mocap Machinima project with Hollywood stars

10 points | 7 comments | Jan 21, 2014 | by thenomad

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#100 Show HN: Feeling-based movie search

10 points | 6 comments | Jan 05, 2014 | by _august

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