Best Show HN projects from May, 2017

Browse the top 100 projects launched on Hacker News Show HN during May, 2017.


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#1 Show HN: My first native iOS app โ€“ Cone, a real time color picker

418 points | 151 comments | May 03, 2017 | by _kush

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#2 Show HN: ORY Editor โ€“ A rich editor for the browser, built with React and Redux

369 points | 98 comments | May 25, 2017 | by jswizzard

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#3 Show HN: FSQL โ€“ Search through your file system with SQL-esque queries

341 points | 126 comments | May 15, 2017 | by kshvmdn

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#4 Show HN: Kryptonite โ€“ a new home for your SSH private key

338 points | 219 comments | May 01, 2017 | by 4kevinking

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#5 Show HN: 100M Books โ€“ Open a new tab, discover a new book

289 points | 100 comments | May 07, 2017 | by m52go

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#6 Show HN: Early-stage Yahoo Pipes spiritual successor

280 points | 126 comments | May 29, 2017 | by onli

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#7 Show HN: Real-time notes app built with Vue.js, inspired by Notational Velocity

257 points | 141 comments | May 24, 2017 | by meagher

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#8 Show HN: A WebAssembly game demo

251 points | 108 comments | May 24, 2017 | by rossisred

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#9 Show HN: Legion, an as-simple-as-possible blockchain server written in Haskell

239 points | 71 comments | May 29, 2017 | by aviaviavi

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#10 Show HN: VPS Comparison โ€“ Automated tests to compare VPS by yourself

228 points | 146 comments | May 02, 2017 | by joedicastro

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#11 Show HN: 15-question programming quiz with answers

227 points | 228 comments | May 23, 2017 | by ammon

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#12 Show HN: 100K sentences mined from Wikipedia to help non-native English learners

225 points | 88 comments | May 30, 2017 | by abhas9

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#13 Show HN: Insomnia REST Client now open-source

218 points | 53 comments | May 10, 2017 | by gschier

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#14 Show HN: Pocket Stream Archive โ€“ A personal Way-Back Machine

217 points | 68 comments | May 05, 2017 | by nikisweeting

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#15 Show HN: Howmanypeoplearearound โ€“ Use wifi to calculate number of people around

199 points | 47 comments | May 13, 2017 | by qrv3w

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#16 Show HN: Stretch โ€“ Free limousine rides

168 points | 42 comments | May 28, 2017 | by drpancake

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#17 Show HN: SQueaLy โ€“ Fast track analytics for business

163 points | 41 comments | May 11, 2017 | by swapnil95

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#18 Show HN: MStream โ€“ A personal music streaming server

162 points | 64 comments | May 02, 2017 | by mStreamTeam

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#19 Show HN: 3DC.io โ€“ A dead simple cross-platform 3D design tool

161 points | 71 comments | May 17, 2017 | by eerikkivistik

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#20 Show HN: Nginx Sysguard โ€“ throttle requests by load, average request time, etc.

161 points | 17 comments | May 15, 2017 | by vozlt

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#21 Show HN: Interface Lovers โ€“ Interviews with designers

155 points | 41 comments | May 04, 2017 | by viiralvx

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#22 Show HN: Gitorials โ€“ Tutorials as Git Repos

147 points | 25 comments | May 13, 2017 | by gw

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#23 Show HN: Cross Platform .NET Desktop Application Framework

129 points | 49 comments | May 24, 2017 | by AlikhanPeleg

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#24 Show HN: Flow Dashboard โ€“ open-source habit tracker and personal analytics app

128 points | 42 comments | May 06, 2017 | by onejgordon

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#25 Show HN: Verb Master โ€“ A site for practising Spanish verbs

124 points | 60 comments | May 12, 2017 | by andycloke

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#26 Show HN: Ora.pm โ€“ New task management service

122 points | 66 comments | May 10, 2017 | by uffo

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#27 Show HN: Choosing font combinations with deep learning

121 points | 18 comments | May 24, 2017 | by Jack000

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#28 Show HN: ยตTT โ€“ A new faster MQTT broker

115 points | 37 comments | May 25, 2017 | by alexhultman

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#29 Show HN: Wireworld written in Nim

115 points | 24 comments | May 22, 2017 | by JHonaker

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#30 Show HN: I wrote a book about Design Ethics called Tragic Design

113 points | 30 comments | May 10, 2017 | by jonshariat

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#31 Show HN: Programming with Escher

110 points | 17 comments | May 30, 2017 | by mapio

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#32 Show HN: Keypad Layout Window Manager for Mac

109 points | 36 comments | May 20, 2017 | by janten

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#33 Show HN: Interactively explore different map projections

109 points | 12 comments | May 19, 2017 | by mjmdavis

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#34 Show HN: An expense manager built using Google Sheets

107 points | 28 comments | May 06, 2017 | by mitul_45

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#35 Show HN: Goka โ€“ distributed stream processing library for Kafka written in Go

105 points | 10 comments | May 17, 2017 | by flosch

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#36 Show HN: Using city permits to map Sonic.net fiber

103 points | 48 comments | May 26, 2017 | by ThatDan

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#37 Show HN: Build live location sharing in your app with HyperTrack

103 points | 40 comments | May 20, 2017 | by arjun27

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#38 Show HN: K6 โ€“ developer-centric load testing using Go and JavaScript

101 points | 25 comments | May 06, 2017 | by rlonn

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#39 Show HN: Electrino, a featherweight API-compatible alternative to Electron

99 points | 29 comments | May 03, 2017 | by pavlov

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#40 Show HN: C to Go Assembly

98 points | 11 comments | May 24, 2017 | by krishnasrinivas

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#41 Show HN: R8 Processor

96 points | 37 comments | May 02, 2017 | by ruchira66

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#42 Show HN: Spotter โ€“ Search for copies of videos on the internet

90 points | 85 comments | May 10, 2017 | by joaodmj

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#43 Show HN: Retro Patents โ€“ Tech patents turned into art

86 points | 46 comments | May 26, 2017 | by Mikhus

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#44 Show HN: Quantum Game with Photons

86 points | 34 comments | May 27, 2017 | by stared

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#45 Show HN: Pinecone โ€“ Build your own genetically-encoded tools

81 points | 27 comments | May 30, 2017 | by jfarlow

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#46 Show HN: BOOLR, a digital logic simulator

78 points | 11 comments | May 14, 2017 | by GGBRW

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#47 Show HN: Biboumi โ€“ An XMPP-to-IRC gateway

76 points | 27 comments | May 24, 2017 | by louiz

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#48 Show HN: Genetic Hello World

76 points | 16 comments | May 16, 2017 | by sacert

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#49 Show HN: Cuckoo Filter in Ruby

74 points | 11 comments | May 15, 2017 | by pkd

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#50 Show HN: Compressed directories on Linux

70 points | 38 comments | May 07, 2017 | by jamesbowman

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#51 Show HN: Tux.io โ€“ a (now working) Linux desktop in your browser

64 points | 16 comments | May 02, 2017 | by christux

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#52 Show HN: Sakura - a minimal classless css theme. Just drop it in and done.

62 points | 22 comments | May 03, 2017 | by oxalorg

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#53 Show HN: See if a movie is happy or sad with sentiment analysis

58 points | 32 comments | May 05, 2017 | by eljs

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#54 Show HN: Dazzle โ€“ Mobile web browser designed from first principles

57 points | 34 comments | May 07, 2017 | by spolu

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#55 Show HN: Shortern URIs using Huffman Coding, not a database

56 points | 86 comments | May 02, 2017 | by 19eightyfour

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#56 Show HN: Pingy CLI โ€“ The Simple Front End Build Tool

55 points | 9 comments | May 09, 2017 | by davej

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#57 Show HN: Rxdb โ€“ A fast, reactive, client-side database

52 points | 10 comments | May 16, 2017 | by dsun176

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#58 Show HN: Nsynjs โ€“ JS engine with stoppable threads and without callback hell

51 points | 57 comments | May 24, 2017 | by kidstrack

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#59 Show HN: Javalin, a Java/Kotlin REST API Framework

50 points | 21 comments | May 28, 2017 | by javalin

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#60 Show HN: Jolt Alarm โ€“ Wake up to a new song every day

49 points | 84 comments | May 02, 2017 | by kuczmama

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#61 Show HN: F.I.S.H. โ€“ Mashup of data sources to help explore state of Washington

49 points | 10 comments | May 05, 2017 | by joewils

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#62 Show HN: EuroKeks, a stock exchange parody for memes (35.000 orders processed)

48 points | 16 comments | May 09, 2017 | by logicien

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#63 Show HN: Invoicing directly from WordPress

47 points | 34 comments | May 10, 2017 | by peacemaker

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#64 Show HN: FreshTube โ€“ show latest videos from YouTube channels

47 points | 23 comments | May 24, 2017 | by porjo

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#65 Show HN: Emoji Homepage: Find your Emoji โ€“ fast and simple

46 points | 27 comments | May 11, 2017 | by stanislavb

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#66 Show HN: Caspy โ€“ AI Assistant for Emails

45 points | 42 comments | May 03, 2017 | by sarim

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#67 Show HN: Whaller โ€“ create private social networks for your org and community

41 points | 20 comments | May 29, 2017 | by amokrane_t

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#68 Show HN: Rearchitecting Airbnbโ€™s Front end

39 points | 1 comments | May 16, 2017 | by adamrneary

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#69 Show HN: Listen to HN on the go in a radio format

38 points | 9 comments | May 19, 2017 | by saucow

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#70 Show HN: MXNet implementation of Pix2Pix

37 points | 0 comments | May 30, 2017 | by Ldpe2G

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#71 Show HN: Learn to Code with Interactive Challenges

36 points | 24 comments | May 16, 2017 | by edabit

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#72 Show HN: Data manipulation for GraphQL queries with Lodash syntax

36 points | 5 comments | May 02, 2017 | by romanhotsiy

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#73 Show HN: Color Merge Sort

35 points | 8 comments | May 17, 2017 | by sacert

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#74 Show HN: Quadcopter Simulator

34 points | 8 comments | May 26, 2017 | by ulam2

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#75 Show HN: VMPower โ€“ Shutdown/Startup/Backup/Resize VMs with a Calendar

34 points | 8 comments | May 03, 2017 | by sedouard

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#76 Show HN: ObjectCropBot โ€“ Interactively Crop Objects from Photos with AI

33 points | 7 comments | May 28, 2017 | by andreyk

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#77 Show HN: Hacker Search โ€“ real time search for Hacker News

32 points | 11 comments | May 13, 2017 | by darth_mastah

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#78 Show HN: Muuri โ€“ Responsive, sortable, filterable and draggable grid layouts

32 points | 5 comments | May 23, 2017 | by ramonator

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#79 Show HN: Your own Google Photos in all of your new tabs

31 points | 22 comments | May 31, 2017 | by czue

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#80 Show HN: Search JavaScript libraries

31 points | 17 comments | May 29, 2017 | by cztomsik

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#81 Show HN: Moon โ€“ a tiny 6kb Javascript library inspired by Vue.js

31 points | 13 comments | May 20, 2017 | by kbr

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#82 Show HN: /r/place backed by the Bitcoin blockchain

30 points | 27 comments | May 01, 2017 | by mess110

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#83 Show HN: Cqrs-react-router โ€“ A Redux alternative

30 points | 4 comments | May 13, 2017 | by michjedi

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#84 Show HN: Convert HTML to markdown with python

29 points | 14 comments | May 27, 2017 | by gaojiuli

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#85 Show HN: Crowdtalk, AMAs in video, gather questions and answer with video-chats

29 points | 5 comments | May 10, 2017 | by somdoron

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#86 Show HN: latexresu.me โ€“ A LaTeX Resume Generator

28 points | 11 comments | May 31, 2017 | by saadq

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#87 Show HN: A weekly curated list of links from around the web

28 points | 3 comments | May 08, 2017 | by awhittam

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#88 Show HN: Finch.io โ€“ Fix web design bugs in real-time

28 points | 2 comments | May 03, 2017 | by degif

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#89 Show HN: Sentry issues get video of what happens in the browser, by SessionStack

27 points | 0 comments | May 04, 2017 | by zlatkov

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#90 Show HN: The New CloudRail Portal โ€“ Find the Right API and Connect Faster

26 points | 8 comments | May 20, 2017 | by gitli

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#91 Show HN: Melondream: Neural Network Erotica Stream

25 points | 27 comments | May 04, 2017 | by driftwheeler

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#92 Show HN: Stack News โ€“ Feedly for your tech stack

25 points | 5 comments | May 25, 2017 | by sergiotapia

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#93 Show HN: Checkbox-radio

24 points | 6 comments | May 20, 2017 | by tuds

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#94 Show HN: Snapcraft โ€“ Free builds and hosted binaries of every GitHub commit

24 points | 2 comments | May 30, 2017 | by evand

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#95 Show HN: Memory Journey โ€“ My first game

22 points | 20 comments | May 05, 2017 | by AleksaDj

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#96 Show HN: The Way of Life

22 points | 4 comments | May 21, 2017 | by blaze33

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#97 Show HN: T-scroll

21 points | 1 comments | May 19, 2017 | by tuds

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#98 Show HN: TouristGopher Combines Bayesian Rankings from Google Yelp and FourSquare

21 points | 0 comments | May 16, 2017 | by octohedron

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#99 Show HN: Mapping and Analysing Subreddits

21 points | 0 comments | May 04, 2017 | by lmcinnes

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#100 Show HN: Light Flip โ€“ A cell inversion puzzle game

20 points | 15 comments | May 10, 2017 | by rmal30

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