Best Show HN projects from May, 2014

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


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#1 Show HN: Hipster Domain Finder

237 points | 123 comments | May 06, 2014 | by coffeecodecouch

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#2 Show HN: Where Adblock+ injects 20K CSS rules, HTTPSB injects one

221 points | 178 comments | May 19, 2014 | by gorhill

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#3 Show HN: Turn an email to a web page

197 points | 74 comments | May 06, 2014 | by mailpin

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#4 Show HN: The static, static site generator

187 points | 96 comments | May 19, 2014 | by Xeoncross

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#5 Show HN: Mighty Spring – Passive job search

159 points | 54 comments | May 30, 2014 | by ultimatedelman

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#6 Show HN: Wesnoth – Free, turn-based strategy game

146 points | 60 comments | May 14, 2014 | by freeslugs

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#7 Show HN: Take It Apart

146 points | 59 comments | May 15, 2014 | by tomkinstinch

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#8 Show HN: OpenRA – RTS project that recreates Command and Conquer games

131 points | 40 comments | May 12, 2014 | by ZakWheaton

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#9 Show HN: Font Awesome to PNG

128 points | 48 comments | May 27, 2014 | by commanderj

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#10 Show HN: Richard Dawkins’ Biomorphs Implemented in JavaScript

117 points | 18 comments | May 30, 2014 | by matt1

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#11 Show HN: Updn – HN/Reddit-style site where stories, votes, tips use Bitcoin

97 points | 36 comments | May 15, 2014 | by aaron-lebo

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#12 Show HN: WriterKata – a site for writers to practice their craft

93 points | 47 comments | May 04, 2014 | by willstepp

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#13 Show HN: Fast and Extensible Parser for Markdown in PHP

88 points | 37 comments | May 22, 2014 | by erusev

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#14 Show HN: Screen recording with JavaScript

87 points | 29 comments | May 22, 2014 | by own3r

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#15 Show HN: We brought iOS dictation to Windows

82 points | 17 comments | May 24, 2014 | by shanselman

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#16 Show HN: PressureNet – The Weather's Future

81 points | 24 comments | May 21, 2014 | by cryptoz

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#17 Show HN: HTML5 Game of Life in 24-bit RGB

79 points | 31 comments | May 02, 2014 | by audiodude

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#18 Show HN: FiveStar.io – The best Amazon products, by budget

75 points | 46 comments | May 31, 2014 | by Shrugs

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#19 Show HN: Paperstencil – cross between word processor and web form

72 points | 17 comments | May 15, 2014 | by selvan

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#20 Show HN: My first Ludum Dare entry, online multiplayer game Hide-n-Stab

71 points | 54 comments | May 03, 2014 | by bendmorris

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#21 Show HN: Stash, an evernote for command line

70 points | 46 comments | May 02, 2014 | by nyddle

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#22 Show HN: C++11 inline object definitions

70 points | 34 comments | May 07, 2014 | by matt42

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#23 Show HN: Quaderno.io – Invoicing for Stripe

69 points | 41 comments | May 14, 2014 | by polimorfico

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#24 Show HN: Flight Times Sliced, Diced and Visualized (side project)

69 points | 37 comments | May 07, 2014 | by nikhizzle

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#25 Show HN: Manage servers easily online with Commando.io

68 points | 44 comments | May 19, 2014 | by nodesocket

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#26 Show HN: DeveloperAgents – a newsletter to promote remote developers

68 points | 21 comments | May 28, 2014 | by andreasklinger

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#27 Show HN: A Grunt workflow for designing and testing HTML emails

66 points | 11 comments | May 19, 2014 | by fonziguy

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#28 Show HN: Ratatouille is an app to share your extra food

64 points | 55 comments | May 06, 2014 | by giorgia

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#29 Show HN: Crowsnest – API for the Real World

61 points | 38 comments | May 13, 2014 | by ianawilson

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#30 Show HN: My wife developed an Android app but she's too shy to post it on HN

61 points | 14 comments | May 25, 2014 | by zeeone

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#31 Show HN: Ampache – Web-based audio/video streaming and file manager

60 points | 19 comments | May 15, 2014 | by qqwpkao6

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#32 Show HN: Cold Call Manager

57 points | 46 comments | May 19, 2014 | by soneca

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#33 Show HN: Simple refined types implementation that can prevent Heartbleed

56 points | 13 comments | May 31, 2014 | by tomp

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#34 Show HN: PyEQS – query Elasticsearch like a Django Queryset

55 points | 24 comments | May 19, 2014 | by andrewgross

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#35 Show HN: Hive – A fast, easy and safe way to use your Bitcoins

55 points | 23 comments | May 13, 2014 | by freeslugs

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#36 Show HN: Brix for Bootstrap

53 points | 53 comments | May 30, 2014 | by ko_hol

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#37 Show HN: Comment on on-demand TV as if everyone is watching at the same time

53 points | 44 comments | May 07, 2014 | by stefanwild

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#38 Show HN: Boxes

52 points | 28 comments | May 22, 2014 | by sidbatra

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#39 Show HN: I open-sourced my iPhone app side project

52 points | 19 comments | May 05, 2014 | by dvingo

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#40 Show HN: SoundCloud Wall

51 points | 31 comments | May 02, 2014 | by karangoeluw

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#41 Show HN: SEO for JavaScript, HTML5 and Single Page Applications

50 points | 56 comments | May 19, 2014 | by CMCDragonkai

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

50 points | 41 comments | May 08, 2014 | by tomd3v

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#43 Show HN: bitcoin-akka – a btcwallet client, written in Scala and built on akka

49 points | 11 comments | May 09, 2014 | by goldmar

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#44 Show HN: Teleport – see what the web looks like from elsewhere in the world

48 points | 56 comments | May 20, 2014 | by austerity

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#45 Show HN: Postman – A command-line utility for batch-sending email

48 points | 32 comments | May 01, 2014 | by zachlatta

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#46 Show HN: Add-ons that work anywhere

46 points | 18 comments | May 02, 2014 | by ubi

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#47 Show HN: End-to-end encrypted email, based in Switzerland

45 points | 69 comments | May 16, 2014 | by stockmania

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#48 Show HN: Retichess

45 points | 20 comments | May 16, 2014 | by stepanbujnak

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#49 Show HN: Screen recording with real-time upload

45 points | 8 comments | May 28, 2014 | by atjonasnielsen

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#50 Show HN: Career Finder – A quiz that gives you career recommendations

43 points | 36 comments | May 11, 2014 | by harvestmoon

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#51 Show HN: Compare book prices across Amazon, Wordery, and the Book Depository

42 points | 36 comments | May 04, 2014 | by k33l0r

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#52 Show HN: A minimalist event-driven (epoll) framework

42 points | 25 comments | May 07, 2014 | by hal9000xp

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#53 Show HN: Everyone Panic – Almost-free downtime phone alerts using Twilio

42 points | 21 comments | May 29, 2014 | by erjiang

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#54 Show HN: WordPass – password generator giving over 90 bits of entropy

41 points | 51 comments | May 24, 2014 | by miga

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#55 Show HN: Survival Thriller Game that uses Echolocation

41 points | 14 comments | May 11, 2014 | by szhongmin

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#56 Show HN: Convert a GitHub repository into a CMS

41 points | 13 comments | May 28, 2014 | by artellectual

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#57 Show HN: Generate a git repo to show a banner on your Github profile

40 points | 17 comments | May 16, 2014 | by mappum

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#58 Show HN: Pikock, a website builder made with AngularJS, Bootstrap

40 points | 8 comments | May 30, 2014 | by tsifei

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#59 Show HN: Kickflip – Open Source Live Mobile Video Streaming SDKs

39 points | 49 comments | May 14, 2014 | by Mizza

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#60 Show HN: FreshPost.io – Automated Social Media Marketing

39 points | 33 comments | May 27, 2014 | by holoiii

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#61 Show HN: Contentify – A real-time, collaborative content manager over GitHub

38 points | 9 comments | May 07, 2014 | by mehdim

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#62 Show HN: Vhoto – Find photos in your videos

36 points | 26 comments | May 01, 2014 | by cookingrobot

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#63 Show HN: CodeReview – An iPad app for reviewing, editing, merging pull requests

36 points | 24 comments | May 08, 2014 | by jacksonh

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#64 Show HN: Tool to turn your HTML into a collapsible tree

36 points | 22 comments | May 16, 2014 | by peterbe

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#65 Show HN: Music for Squirrels – new iOS app

35 points | 11 comments | May 05, 2014 | by akumpf

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#66 Show HN: Eight-Bit Color Picker

35 points | 5 comments | May 07, 2014 | by bilalq

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#67 Show HN: Codebrag – No More Late Friday Fixes

34 points | 45 comments | May 20, 2014 | by wozmirek

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#68 Show HN: Google Privacy Enhancer – "smoke bombs" your search history

33 points | 26 comments | May 12, 2014 | by RelaxTheresTime

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#69 Show HN: Scaling PhantomJS With Ghost Town

32 points | 11 comments | May 29, 2014 | by tkazec

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#70 Show HN: YubiKey HMAC-SHA1 support for KeePassX

32 points | 10 comments | May 26, 2014 | by 2bluesc

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#71 Show HN: Chromium Updater

32 points | 10 comments | May 09, 2014 | by benbristow

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#72 Show HN: iOS Motion Library – detect a backtap, knock and wave in your app

31 points | 12 comments | May 06, 2014 | by kiwiwearables

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#73 Show HN: Silicon Feelings

30 points | 7 comments | May 15, 2014 | by bradleygriffith

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#74 Show HN: OverLook.io – Get your non-technical friends involved in QA and Testing

29 points | 31 comments | May 21, 2014 | by MrMike

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#75 Show HN: Manage your gif collection, search and drag/drop from a desktop app

29 points | 23 comments | May 29, 2014 | by ZaneClaes

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#76 Show HN: Spotify International Pricing Index

29 points | 15 comments | May 07, 2014 | by mts_

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#77 Show HN: SecurityOverboard, a job board for information security positions

29 points | 9 comments | May 21, 2014 | by icanhasfay

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#78 Show HN: Honeybadger Chrome Extension

27 points | 53 comments | May 21, 2014 | by jaequery

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#79 Show HN: Helix I/O – Ultrafast genomic search

27 points | 24 comments | May 12, 2014 | by nkrumm

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#80 Show HN: NowVia – Save, organize, and discuss the things you find interesting

27 points | 7 comments | May 30, 2014 | by ramykhuffash

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#81 Show HN: Eventhandler, a game where you play by triggering browser events (2012)

26 points | 10 comments | May 12, 2014 | by sigvef

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#82 Show HN: CourseNest – Online Weekly Discussion for MOOCs

26 points | 9 comments | May 12, 2014 | by neilsharma

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#83 Show HN: My new running app, Vima

25 points | 27 comments | May 21, 2014 | by clarky07

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#84 Show HN: Textter, Live letter-by-letter messaging for iOS

24 points | 48 comments | May 07, 2014 | by jfaat

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#85 Show HN: Amazon Instant, weekend project

24 points | 29 comments | May 11, 2014 | by fjw

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#86 Show HN: Bandit Algorithm for iOS, Android and Unity

24 points | 10 comments | May 27, 2014 | by splitforce

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#87 Show HN: HelpStack.io – open-source support SDK for iOS

24 points | 5 comments | May 14, 2014 | by sjain

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#88 Show HN: Learn English with Popcorn Time

24 points | 4 comments | May 23, 2014 | by duwip

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#89 Show HN: SVYFT – Team collaboration built around group chat

23 points | 13 comments | May 20, 2014 | by yeleti

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#90 Show HN: StartupJob.me – Get Your Resume Out

23 points | 6 comments | May 13, 2014 | by frankdenbow

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#91 Show HN: Fight for Net Neutrality with slowlane.js

23 points | 4 comments | May 07, 2014 | by yodaiken

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#92 Show HN: Product Hit – Industry pros tell you about best features for your app

23 points | 4 comments | May 07, 2014 | by wassago

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#93 Show HN: Agora – A Chrome Extension To Enhance Your Online Shopping

22 points | 27 comments | May 29, 2014 | by finkin1

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#94 Show HN: Vimusical – make music while using Vim [video]

22 points | 13 comments | May 15, 2014 | by ppymou

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#95 Show HN: Original Rap about Databases

22 points | 4 comments | May 12, 2014 | by freeslugs

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#96 Show HN: I'm writing a book to teach beginner Django web app programming

21 points | 13 comments | May 05, 2014 | by limedaring

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#97 Show HN: Barcoded – A dynamic barcode generation web service

21 points | 12 comments | May 25, 2014 | by doomspork

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#98 Show HN: BThread – Blockchain thread messaging and blog posting

21 points | 5 comments | May 15, 2014 | by indutny

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#99 Show HN: Inky Mail – smart simple email client now on iOS

20 points | 16 comments | May 31, 2014 | by abgoldberg

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#100 Show HN: Compete Hub – discover, share and manage your triathlon race schedule

20 points | 13 comments | May 14, 2014 | by mbesto

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