Adrien Joly - Products & side projects

I’ve been maintaining various types of projects:

• productivity tools; (e.g. Next Step for Trello and Scribe bot for Telegram)
• education material and tools; (e.g. Startup Tour, gclass-cli, énoncé and a Node.js course)
• and apps for music lovers and musicians. (e.g. Openwhyd, Album Shelf and a chiptune synth.)

Most of them are open source. And I developed many of them while I was experimenting life as a Indie Hacker. If I had more time, I would probably bootstrap dozens of new projects, from my list of ideas.

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Products I’ve been maintaining for a while

• 🎵 Openwhyd (formerly known as Whyd), an open-source and crowdfunded web app for music lovers to discover, collect and play music tracks found on popular streaming platforms: Youtube, Soundcloud, Deezer, Bandcamp…

• ☑️ Next Step for Trello, an extension for Google Chrome that displays pending checklist items of each card, directly on the board view.

• 🚜 pdfreader, a npm module to read text and parse tables from PDF files, with automatic column detection, and rule-based parsing.

Other side projects

• 💯 I’m developing énoncé and classroom-assignments-cli to help me evaluate the understanding and progress of my students, fairly and efficiently.

• 🛰 With a-frame-descent-vr, I’m learning how to create a VR version of “Descent” using the “a-frame” WebXR framework.

• 🤖 Scribe bot, a virtual assistant which allows me to quickly take some notes, save ToDos and/or bookmarks through Telegram.

• 👾 chiptune synth, exploring the use of WebMidi and WebAudio to perform “chiptune” music (inspired by vintage game consoles like Nintendo Entertainment System) live, using MIDI instruments. As explained in “Make Game Boy music in JavaScript” (10-minute video), I’m thinking of using this to give an educational concert about chiptune music. Please contact me if you know any musicians who may like to collaborate!

• 💿 album-shelf, an living web page on which I maintain a collection of my favorite music albums. Made with Jekyll and Github pages.

• 🤖 EVAL / JS-TEST, an open-source suite of software tools (including quizzes and auto-graded code exercises) to help me evaluate my students more efficiently. (see my 6 videos)

• 💯 Classroom submissions to PDF, an open-source script that extracts codepen/jsfiddle/jsbin links from Google Classroom submissions, and converts them to PDF files, for paper-less annotation and grading. (demo video)

• 📂 Comment Editor by AJ, a Trello Power-up that adds WYSIWYG and outliner-like editing to comments, in order to take notes more efficiently.
  Read “Using Trello as a living notebook”, if you want to know how I use it.

• 💁 Contacts for Google Inbox, an extension for Google Chrome that allows to view and edit a sender’s (or recipient’s) contact details by just clicking on it.

• 🔗 Permalinks for Google Inbox, an extension for Google Chrome that gives the permalink/URL of all your emails, in order to refer to them from other pages.

• 🇫🇷 FR Spellchecker, a French spell-checking extension for Visual Studio Code.

• 📹 22 live coding videos that I streamed live on Twitch & Youtube, while I was developing my products.

• 📜 1 side project per week, the newsletter I maintained to share my progress.

• 👐 WIP / Work In Progress, a benevolent community in which creators share progress on their projects to get constructive feedback, help, and praise.

• ✊ Startup Tour (🇫🇷), a MOOC with ~3 hours of video content to help people turn their idea into a real Lean Startup.

• ✍️ 12 months to become an Indie Hacker and What I learned while working as an indie developer for 2 years, retrospectives of my entrepreneurial experience (and experiments).

• 1poll (2015-2016): I built a Doodle-like service for creating simple polls very quicly. This started as a side-project, for learning how to use React.js, Material Design, Parse and Firebase.

• tCup (2015): Crafted during Intel IoT Roadshow, TCup is a Intel Edison server (in Node.js) + iPhone app that helps you improve the quality of your tea consumption, by adapting the infusion process accordingly to the type of tea, and by notifying you when your cup of tea has arrived to your favorite drinking temperature.

• Proximate (2005): Proximate is a communication framework for ad-hoc wifi networks. Designed for mobile devices, it empowers applications sharing common network and user identification layers.

• Dr. Mario for TI-92+ (2002): A port of the famous Nintendo game for the TI-92+ calculator, developed in C, featuring smooth grayscale animations. Also check out my first TI-92 game, Frogger

Last update was December 5th, 2020. History

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