Best Show HN projects from Apr, 2014

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


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#1 Show HN: Untrusted, a JavaScript adventure game you play by modifying its source

555 points | 235 comments | Apr 07, 2014 | by alnis

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#2 Show HN: GitBook – Build beautiful programming books using GitHub and Markdown

442 points | 78 comments | Apr 03, 2014 | by AaronO

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#3 Show HN: Super Planet Crash

349 points | 126 comments | Apr 15, 2014 | by CarolineW

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#4 Show HN: Betatype - A freelance site where clients pay $3,500 for prototypes

285 points | 142 comments | Apr 29, 2014 | by _g2lm

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#5 Show HN: InstaMotor – Taking the pain out of selling your car

234 points | 208 comments | Apr 04, 2014 | by ValG

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#6 Show HN: Turn sketches on paper into app prototypes

222 points | 74 comments | Apr 29, 2014 | by muratmutlu

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#7 Show HN: An open-source, Raspberry-Pi-based Siri alternative

191 points | 81 comments | Apr 07, 2014 | by shbhrsaha

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#8 Show HN: Digitizing photos of whiteboards using the command line

186 points | 36 comments | Apr 03, 2014 | by lelandbatey

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#9 Show HN: Isomer – An isometric graphics library for HTML5 Canvas

181 points | 23 comments | Apr 26, 2014 | by prezjordan

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#10 Show HN: Sysdig, a tool for Linux system exploration

171 points | 48 comments | Apr 03, 2014 | by degio

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#11 Show HN: Deaf? My iPhone app wakes you up if it hears an alarm

170 points | 139 comments | Apr 01, 2014 | by alexvr

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#12 Show HN: Trianglify – low poly style background generator with D3.js

170 points | 30 comments | Apr 12, 2014 | by qrohlf

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#13 Show HN: 10% off at Starbucks when you buy with Bitcoin

169 points | 124 comments | Apr 10, 2014 | by mhluongo

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#14 Show HN: Velocity.js – Accelerated JavaScript animation

160 points | 49 comments | Apr 28, 2014 | by purpleturtle

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#15 Show HN: Life Goes On, my side project game that turned into a release on Steam

160 points | 44 comments | Apr 30, 2014 | by erik

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#16 Show HN: I built this notifying device – electronics, code, design, marketing

129 points | 57 comments | Apr 02, 2014 | by clement87

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#17 Show HN: Siri, open the garage

129 points | 44 comments | Apr 06, 2014 | by MIT_Hacker

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#18 Show HN: To-learn list and course reminders

121 points | 36 comments | Apr 21, 2014 | by dannyking

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#19 Show HN: NCurses Terminal Webcam

110 points | 32 comments | Apr 23, 2014 | by CSDude

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#20 Show HN: Snappy Checkout – Stripe Checkout with full-featured dashboard, admin

109 points | 93 comments | Apr 08, 2014 | by singer

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#21 Show HN: Learning SICP with Understudy

109 points | 50 comments | Apr 09, 2014 | by kenferry

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#22 Show HN: A Color Palette Generator I Built For My Senior Thesis

109 points | 44 comments | Apr 09, 2014 | by joshrael

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#23 Show HN: A Customizable SoundCloud Player Built on the Web Audio API and d3

93 points | 62 comments | Apr 15, 2014 | by elsbree

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#24 Show HN: Poor Man's VPN With a Cheap VPS

85 points | 68 comments | Apr 14, 2014 | by tlongren

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#25 Show HN: Tic-tac-toe, with a multiplayer twist

84 points | 45 comments | Apr 17, 2014 | by mayop100

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#26 Show HN: Get clean readable content from any webpage

80 points | 23 comments | Apr 24, 2014 | by bndr

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#27 Show HN: Standing Queries about the World

76 points | 14 comments | Apr 13, 2014 | by tectonic

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#28 Show HN: A socially curated startup job board

74 points | 42 comments | Apr 29, 2014 | by efounders

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#29 Show HN: Simple Dashboards for Internet-Connected Devices

74 points | 38 comments | Apr 23, 2014 | by Bug_Labs

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#30 Show HN: TruckPlease – Moving sucks, so we decided to make it easier

73 points | 70 comments | Apr 10, 2014 | by sasan

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#31 Show HN: My first project – Football voting app built in RubyMotion

73 points | 65 comments | Apr 23, 2014 | by bg23

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#32 Show HN: Try Ion before you buy – uses BluetoothLE, Node.js, websockets, jsmpeg

73 points | 61 comments | Apr 08, 2014 | by billylindeman

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#33 Show HN: A general tree editor component – Vim shortcuts, drag and drop

70 points | 14 comments | Apr 10, 2014 | by jaredly

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#34 Show HN: Grasswire – A collaborative newsroom for the Internet

69 points | 25 comments | Apr 11, 2014 | by austenallred

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#35 Show HN: One-click citations for your essays

65 points | 73 comments | Apr 30, 2014 | by michaelq

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#36 Show HN: Try Scala in your browser

61 points | 22 comments | Apr 19, 2014 | by eranation

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#37 Show HN: JustReachOut – Forget PR Firms, a tool to pitch reporters yourself

58 points | 70 comments | Apr 16, 2014 | by dmitrydragilev

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#38 Show HN: Rollcall – An easy way to build a status board for your team

57 points | 25 comments | Apr 15, 2014 | by sujal

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#39 Show HN: My first WP8 game – Made with Unity

52 points | 14 comments | Apr 26, 2014 | by zerobudgetdev

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#40 Show HN: A different approach against online censorship

51 points | 17 comments | Apr 10, 2014 | by DonPellegrino

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#41 Show HN: Pintask, the hackable task tracker

50 points | 42 comments | Apr 15, 2014 | by DenGorbachev

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#42 Show HN: Usetrace – Virtual users doing your repetitive web testing

43 points | 27 comments | Apr 25, 2014 | by dhpe

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#43 Show HN: Our weekend project – PaperSync, notebook scanning as a service

42 points | 30 comments | Apr 21, 2014 | by bdm

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#44 Show HN: Kiwichat – group chat of people who are within 1 mile

41 points | 42 comments | Apr 03, 2014 | by tomd3v

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#45 Show HN: Ditto – Markdown documentation system

41 points | 25 comments | Apr 19, 2014 | by chutsu

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#46 Show HN: Hash your work and store it in a bank transfer for priority statement

39 points | 43 comments | Apr 03, 2014 | by steren

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#47 Show HN: MeTA: A Modern C++ Data Sciences Toolkit

39 points | 2 comments | Apr 25, 2014 | by skystrife

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#48 Show HN: Freelancy – an easy way to track your time and earned money

38 points | 46 comments | Apr 21, 2014 | by nDmitry

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#49 Show HN: API Happiness is not a 'nice-to-have'

38 points | 38 comments | Apr 02, 2014 | by _mikz

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#50 Show HN: HeapSort – Jobs for Full Stack Software Engineers

38 points | 33 comments | Apr 18, 2014 | by ckinsey

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#51 Show HN: My first iOS app – Permeate, the Twitter digest

38 points | 14 comments | Apr 26, 2014 | by benhowdle

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#52 Show HN: Gandalf – $1 private Docker registries

37 points | 45 comments | Apr 24, 2014 | by lexaude

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#53 Show HN: New project for on-demand chat rooms

37 points | 33 comments | Apr 24, 2014 | by tdondich

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#54 Show HN: SoundCloud Instant

37 points | 33 comments | Apr 17, 2014 | by karangoeluw

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#55 Show HN: We created a Mac app that creates presentations from Markdown

35 points | 29 comments | Apr 07, 2014 | by chriseidhof

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#56 Show HN: Spotsy – iPhone app to discover the world through Instagram

34 points | 39 comments | Apr 25, 2014 | by wlindner

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#57 Show HN: HelloBlock – Focus on building Bitcoin apps, not infrastructure

34 points | 27 comments | Apr 01, 2014 | by sida

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#58 Show HN – Command line method for digitizing photos of whiteboards

34 points | 4 comments | Apr 02, 2014 | by lelandbatey

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#59 Show HN: Handcrafted standing desks from reclaimed materials

32 points | 46 comments | Apr 16, 2014 | by fitztrev

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#60 Show HN: Phoenix – an ultra-fast SQL layer on top of Hbase

32 points | 14 comments | Apr 25, 2014 | by bra-ket

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#61 Show HN: minicron – a system to manage and monitor cron jobs

31 points | 21 comments | Apr 16, 2014 | by jamesrwhite

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#62 Show HN: Wipes – pipe stdin to your browser over websockets

31 points | 11 comments | Apr 30, 2014 | by apgwoz

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#63 Show HN: SCSS live editing with Sublime Text

31 points | 10 comments | Apr 01, 2014 | by bwm

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#64 Show HN: Ulaxi calculates whether UberX, Lyft, or Taxi is best for your trip

30 points | 36 comments | Apr 14, 2014 | by xivzgrev

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#65 Show HN: Easy photo sharing – no sign-up required – weekend project

29 points | 26 comments | Apr 20, 2014 | by koski

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#66 Show HN: Capsule – Simple Packaging and Deployment for JVM Apps

29 points | 5 comments | Apr 22, 2014 | by pron

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#67 Show HN: Artiklur, a new kind of speed reader

28 points | 29 comments | Apr 30, 2014 | by hudbuddy

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#68 Show HN: Open-Source Rails Point of Sale

27 points | 25 comments | Apr 11, 2014 | by websitescenes

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#69 Show HN: Hummingbird - Preview Mockups on Devices in Realtime

26 points | 13 comments | Apr 19, 2014 | by vpanyam

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#70 Show HN: Ekho, a simple way to add voice interactivity to your site

25 points | 5 comments | Apr 21, 2014 | by ppymou

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#71 Show HN: Respondly – Team Inbox for Email and Twitter. Our new MeteorJS App

23 points | 7 comments | Apr 15, 2014 | by timhaines

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#72 Show HN: Bid with Bitcoin to write whatever you want on my web page

23 points | 7 comments | Apr 08, 2014 | by jbaudanza

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#73 Show HN: Transparency report for Makerland conference

22 points | 9 comments | Apr 16, 2014 | by kubindurion

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#74 Show HN: IntercoolerJs – A Declarative Ajax Framework

22 points | 4 comments | Apr 07, 2014 | by carsongross

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#75 Show HN: An HN-Style Site for Integrated Circuits Folks

21 points | 11 comments | Apr 15, 2014 | by kumarski

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#76 Show HN: Pixel Art Editor built with ClojureScript/Om

21 points | 7 comments | Apr 17, 2014 | by jackschaedler

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#77 Show HN: Find the fastest route via a place

19 points | 17 comments | Apr 13, 2014 | by FriedPickles

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#78 Show HN: Deckset for Mac – Turn markdown into beautiful presentations

19 points | 6 comments | Apr 09, 2014 | by floriankugler

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#79 Show HN: Momentum – Automated marketing for solo founders

18 points | 10 comments | Apr 14, 2014 | by revorad

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#80 Show HN: Teach Yourself To Code

18 points | 4 comments | Apr 16, 2014 | by kateray

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#81 Show HN: Jollyshot – ephemeral image hosting

17 points | 13 comments | Apr 21, 2014 | by therealarmen

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#82 Show HN: What you are supporting when you spend?

17 points | 8 comments | Apr 30, 2014 | by soggypopsicle

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#83 Show HN: My first serious Android game

16 points | 10 comments | Apr 22, 2014 | by zerobudgetdev

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#84 Show HN: Mowbly – Open source enterprise mobile SDK

16 points | 5 comments | Apr 29, 2014 | by aravind_b

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#85 Show HN: Idea Sunday App

16 points | 4 comments | Apr 20, 2014 | by bnchrch

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#86 Show HN: The World's Fastest Workout

16 points | 1 comments | Apr 10, 2014 | by qoshibotu

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#87 Show HN: Leadngin.com finally launched my startup after 18months of stealth.

15 points | 17 comments | Apr 26, 2014 | by mrkmcknz

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#88 Show HN: Bowery sets up your dev environment in less than 30 seconds

15 points | 13 comments | Apr 09, 2014 | by zvanness

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#89 Show HN: My HTML5 multiplayer fast action game experiment

15 points | 11 comments | Apr 22, 2014 | by fworm

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#90 Show HN: A little todo app with local storage

15 points | 6 comments | Apr 16, 2014 | by stangeek

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#91 Show HN: Volley

14 points | 22 comments | Apr 09, 2014 | by mimurchison

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#92 Show HN: Simple typing speed test with Knockoutjs and Nodejs

14 points | 6 comments | Apr 27, 2014 | by broody

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#93 Show HN: SaaS for MySQL Performance Management

14 points | 4 comments | Apr 03, 2014 | by kylered

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#94 Show HN: Free continuous integration for Bitbucket and GitHub

13 points | 11 comments | Apr 18, 2014 | by manishas

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#95 Show HN: OptKit – Enterprise Level Conversion Rate Optimization Kit

13 points | 10 comments | Apr 24, 2014 | by acoyfellow

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#96 Show HN: Leading Snowflakes – my self-published eBook for devs who want to lead

13 points | 7 comments | Apr 04, 2014 | by oellenbogen

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#97 Show HN: Sentiment Search Engine

12 points | 15 comments | Apr 25, 2014 | by pdhanda

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#98 Show HN: Delaunay triangulation wallpaper creator with PNG/SVG export.

12 points | 0 comments | Apr 28, 2014 | by msurguy

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#99 Show HN: First Draft (beta) – distraction-free writing for first drafts

11 points | 14 comments | Apr 23, 2014 | by wildermuthn

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#100 Show HN: EasyFridge – Subscription Grocery Delivery. No Thinking Required.

11 points | 5 comments | Apr 23, 2014 | by MediaSquirrel

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