Asterank
Crawl, visualize, and compute on all known asteroids
AdDetector
Flags articles with corporate sponsors
Textbelt
Free outgoing SMS API. Over 3M texts sent
Space Balloons
Sending cameras and other things to near-space
Ancient Earth
What did Earth look like 600 million years ago?
QuickChart
Generate chart images from a URL
Harvest
Aerial infrared crop monitoring. Disrupt hackathon winner ($5k in prizes)
Asteroid Viewer
Accurate 3D models of asteroids from radar and inverted light curves
Dinosaur Pictures
The official dinosaur picture database
RapChat
The future of communication
The Space Potato
Successful kickstarter for a potato-powered mission to near-space
Galaxies
2 billion cubic light-years, based on one of the largest n-body simulations ever
Watchtower
Competitive monitoring platform, LAUNCH hackathon winner
Interview Club
Taking the pain out of hiring. LAUNCH hackathon winner ($13k in prizes)
Asterank Discover
Crowdsourced asteroid discovery. Over a quarter million images reviewed
Space Reference
Data and simulations for nearly a million celestial objects
SpaceKit
Easy visualization for 3D space visualizations
Verified Facts
A viral conspiracy theory generator
HonestMemo
Internal company discussion forum and feedback tool
Luna
3D interactive moon
Candid Candidates
Where do politicians get their money? Seattle hackathon winner
Six Degrees of Bowie
A graph of musical influencers
Pluto
Pluto in 3D
KeepDream
Dream recording and text analysis
World of Loot
Pinterest-style MMO wishlists
Chatalyst
Taking the pain out of video chat
Exoplanets
Exoplanets in 3D
Call Congress
Single phone line that calls your representatives
Inflation Calculator
Historical inflation data and predictions
Gilded Age
Visualizations and NLP for Gilded-age newspapers
TalkThen
Convenient conference and telephony app
CodeNav
Easily navigate code on Github. Keyword highlight, code search, etc
ListeningPost
Contextual annotations for spoken conversation, YC Hacks winner
Meteor Showers
Accurate models of major meteor showers
Typpo's Software
MMORPG automation used millions of times by 30k people (2006-2011)
Ceres
Ceres in 3D
Mars
Mars in 3D - work in progress
Speak Louder
Tools for activists & organizers
Vote Banner
Easy way to add a voter registration CTA to your website
Wololo
Conversion-boosting widgets for ecommerce. Reached 1M views/mo
Facebook Exporter
Download your Facebook images in full resolution with EXIF data
Neutral Gas
Micro carbon offsets for gas fill-ups
Bunkmates
AirBnB for hotels!
Textbelt v2
Simple, reliable SMS API
School Scout
Federal public school data and rankings
Gifthorse
A gift suggestion engine
Gaia
Visualize 2.5M stars from ESA GAIA observations
Astrokit
Web-based tools for performing asteroid lightcurve photometry
Alioth
Space data and visualization consulting
Planetary Resources
Asteroid mining spacecraft and mission control software
NASA
Co-Investigator on research grant from NASA's Science Mission Directorate
Room 77
Better hotel search, acquired by Google
Improving travel and local search ranking
Zenysis
Macro-level data analysis for governments
More projects
- AIM was better - Replaces Google hangouts pings with AIM pings
- Tensorflow Calculator - A normal calculator...written in Tensorflow
- nunjucks-phone-filter - Phone # filter for nunjucks templating engine
- mixpanel-export-cli - Command line tool for mixpanel data export
- Pagerank Checker - npm module for pagerank
- autoreload.js - Faster frontend development
- Github participation graph - Better contrast
- Webworkers Fallback - HTML5 polyfill
- Dartmouth Last Chances - Over 400 "connections" during senior week, used by a majority of the class
- Facebook Defriend Notifications - What it sounds like
- Wowzer - Arbitrage in a digital goods economy
- VoiceBox - Simple voice memo-to-DropBox Android app
- lok - Curses-based encrypted journal/notes in C
Posts
- This Year In Side Projects (2015)
- Sending a potato to near-space
- This Year In Side Projects (2014)
- Better Code Navigation on Github
- My Year in Side Projects (2013)
- Asterank Discover, Crowdsourced Asteroid Discovery, Reviews Its 100,000th Image
- What I Learned From Getting My Side Project Acquired
- How to Generate a Conspiracy Theory
- Optimizing Three.js Performance: Simulating Tens of Thousands of Independent Moving Objects
- Introduction to Custom Shaders in Three.js