hackernews-top-show-hn-100.md

Top 100 "Show HN" Projects: 2006–2015

A dagger (†) after the name means the project is dead. See README for details.

Rank	Title	Comments	Score
1	This up votes itself †	82	3536
2	Meteor, a realtime JavaScript framework	322	1386
3	Show HN	166	1302
4	Spot the Drowning Child	378	1215
5	Make a programmable mirror	136	1172
6	Markov chains explained visually	92	1070
7	OneBody Church Directory software I've been hacking on for 7 years	304	1020
8	I got hacked, felt paranoid, made an app – GlassWire	331	1013
9	XKCD-inspired StackSort	198	948
10	6 months ago I quit my job to pursue indie dev. Here is our first game	329	858
11	My SSH server knows who you are	245	836
12	This page exists only if someone is looking at it	165	803
13	Codecademy.com, the easiest way to learn to code	232	787
14	Pangoly – Build your shiny new PC	213	778
15	My x86 emulator written in JavaScript	190	765
16	A tool that transforms your whole list with just one example	144	764
17	My seven minute workout timer evening project	155	760
18	Automatic weekly meal planner, also plans your leftovers	288	747
19	Ditch Black Text to Read Faster, Easier	262	739
20	Kimono – Never write a web scraper again †	230	717
21	Weekend project, Intro.js	154	716
22	Probabilistically Generating HN Post Titles †	260	683
23	I spent a year making an electro-mechanical prototype of a liquid clock	103	681
24	Twenty	167	666
25	Bocker – Docker implemented in 100 lines of bash	87	662
26	I open-sourced my web app alternative to Illustrator	92	644
27	NomadList – The best cities to live and work remotely in	298	639
28	I Created the Inverse of Angry Birds	123	625
29	Wavepot – Digital audio workstation of the web	132	625
30	%%30%30: A Game	89	608
31	A random startup generator †	189	607
32	Free, anonymous coding interview practice	215	604
33	a web-based xkcd-style comix editor	108	586
34	Visa Explorer – Salaries, lawyers, companies of all H-1B in the USA	247	582
35	Put “GIF” in front of any YouTube URL and hit enter	181	577
36	Hacker News Simulator	162	572
37	Remove backgrounds from images online	140	571
38	Like Button for Hacker News	65	568
39	Untrusted, a JavaScript adventure game you play by modifying its source	235	555
40	Imagine a search engine that removed top million sites from its index	195	552
41	movies.io — torrent search like it should be	487	550
42	“Who is hiring?” Map	136	546
43	Hackershelf. Community curated collection of legally free books	121	532
44	Firebase, a scalable real-time backend	137	526
45	Free Company Logo API	152	525
46	We got tired of asking 'What browser are you using?' and created this	175	521
47	I spent two years working on an HTML5 game. I finally released it	145	515
48	Big List of Naughty Strings for testing user-input data	79	514
49	Wayback HN, a cross between the Wayback Machine and Hacker News	76	503
50	Webflow - Design responsive websites visually	132	503
51	Universal Pause Button	169	501
52	Where is “Who is hiring?” hiring?	117	493
53	Soundslice – YouTube + synced guitar tabs + HTML5	124	492
54	Exposé – a static site generator for photos and videos	60	491
55	fontBomb - Stylishly destroy the web	85	489
56	I mapped US medical prices. Save thousands by driving a few miles †	222	488
57	thedaywefightback.js	135	472
58	We open sourced Lockitron's crowdfunding app	74	463
59	Our new $149 hackable Bluetooth wristwatch	143	460
60	Stressed and burned out, so I created my first app – Remember Win	97	455
61	Image Processing for Everybody	167	451
62	Sysadmin Casts – simple bite-sized sysadmin screencasts	80	443
63	GitBook – Build beautiful programming books using GitHub and Markdown	78	442
64	Non-Confusing, Visually Correct Slider Toggle UI	79	441
65	Front-end framework optimized for internal apps	93	438
66	my Mac app just got fireballed	156	436
67	Open-Source, Free, Agile Project Management Tool	134	436
68	My Isometric Voxel Engine 6 Months Later	132	435
69	Entire concerts algorithmically "reconstructed" from YouTube videos †	129	435
70	I'm a 14 year-old dev who has programmed an artificial intelligence bot	297	430
71	Nightmare – Simple browser automation	70	429
72	Meet me, I'll buy you coffee	199	427
73	Incorporate your startup online with YC's forms (built by two lawyers)	179	424
74	Projects from “Stupid Shit No One Needs and Terrible Ideas” Hackathon	96	424
75	I hacked my microwave with a Raspberry Pi	110	423
76	I made an HN for the financial industry †	156	422
77	A Unixy approach to WebSockets	140	421
78	CoreOS, a Linux distro for containers	97	417
79	Instant Google Street View	101	412
80	Github for Designers	83	409
81	Bootswatch, free swatches for your Bootstrap site	53	407
82	Breach – A modular browser built on Chromium and Node.js †	169	405
83	Textures.js, SVG Patterns for Data Visualization	61	404
84	Fed up with WebEx, so we built a way to screen share in under 20 sec.	130	402
85	We made an addictive way to browse pictures on reddit †	138	401
86	An IDE for poets	113	398
87	my weekend project, Gumroad	202	396
88	Scrollorama	51	395
89	A storebuilder contained in a single text area	113	389
90	UI Concept – Focus Transition	72	388
91	Hosted Docker-as-a-Service on SSDs for $5 †	132	387
92	I'm working on an open-source Gmail replacement	180	387
93	Cancel your Comcast in 5 minutes †	257	386
94	I'm 14, I learned Objective-C, and this is my first iPhone game	175	386
95	Hacker News Redesign	198	380
96	We put an iPhone on the front wheel of a car	108	380
97	Card – An interactive CSS3 credit card form	112	376
98	Floobits – Remote pair programming done right	135	375
99	A Simple terminal-based video chat – renders in ASCII and has audio	44	375
100	JAWS – A JavaScript and AWS Stack	124	375