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