Work · alternatives · 2026

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. My Weekend Project, Random Last Statements by Executed Offenders launched in 2014; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1CC
   CourtDateReminder.com - weekend project▲8

   2012 · courtdatereminder.com · its alternatives →

2. 2IM
   Instasaver- My latest weekend project▲7

   2011 · crgwbr.com · its alternatives →

3. 3MW
   My weekend hacking project, Mugshot Wars▲7

   Let me know if you have any suggestions!

   2011 · mugshotwars.com · its alternatives →

4. 4MW
   My "weekend" project, an ML dialect and compiler▲68

   2012 · texodus.github.com · its alternatives →

5. 5MW
   My weekend project, HN Archive▲7

   2011 · hnarchive.in · its alternatives →

6. 6
   Reply All - 64: On The Inside▲61

   Writing a blog from inside a maximum security prison

   2016 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →

7. 7MB
   My brother wrote this program from jail▲48

   Hi HN!, My brother got a 5 years jail sentence but is coming out soon, a few months ago he decided to learn to code with no prior experience. I find the way he is studying very inspirational so decided to post his (simple) program. But first, here is what he needs to go through to learn: - We the family send him javascript and html books - He studies them and writes programs in pen and paper - He calls me so I input what he wrote on my computer and we debug it live via a phone call, he has to imagine the program in his head. The crazy part is up until a few days ago he didn't have access to…

   2020 · its alternatives →

8. 8CN
   Crush notifier, a weekend project▲9

   2011 · iheartyou.net · its alternatives →

9. 9OW
   Our weekend project – isexdb▲9

   2014 · isexdb.com · its alternatives →

10. 10MF
    My Friday evening hack - Frustimonials▲7

    2011 · frustimonials.com · its alternatives →

11. 11PE
    Programmer Excuses, random excuses from a programmer▲5

    2014 · play.google.com · its alternatives →

12. 12MW
    my weekend project, Marginalia. Markdown-powered notes with a full API▲5

    2012 · marginalia.io · its alternatives →

13. 13CO
    Check out my (sort of) weekend project...▲8

    Check out my (sort-of) weekend project . . . And by weekend project, I mean something that I thought sounded like a small idea that I could throw together over one or two weekends, but ended up taking over six months. This is a bit of a long submission, but after lurking on HN for the last few years, I thought this might be a chance to contribute something back. I’m just going to briefly discuss why my “weekend project” took so long, and how I got where I am. The url is http://dudmail.com - it's a disposable email site. Similar in intention/scope to the many existing ones out there, but…

    2011 · dudmail.com · its alternatives →

14. 14MW
    my weekend project, Gumb.io - a Gumroad Marketplace▲7

    2012 · gumb.io · its alternatives →

15. 15MW
    My weekend project, a face-detecting censor blackout bar▲8

    2012 · censorme.org · its alternatives →

16. 16MW
    My weekend Django project (Pick the violent felon)▲12

    2011 · violentornot.com · its alternatives →

17. 17MP
    My programming language, building in public for 1 year▲7

    My weekly(ish) video logs tracking my progress of building a completely sound statically typed language and structural editor. The motivation is to make lots of invalid programs unrepresentable.

    2022 · petersaxton.uk · its alternatives →

18. 18MW
    My weekend project, Realtime Stock News (with sentiment analysis)▲8

    2012 · livelystocks.com · its alternatives →

19. 19MW
    My Weekend Project, leftright.me▲8

    From inception Thursday night to near-feature-complete on Sunday morning, I consider it one of my better weekend hacking projects. http://leftright.me/ I built it with node and Redis which was particularly fun. Redis truly is the AK-47 of databases. This project has deeply engrained my longtime hate of Internet Explorer. Everything should be kosher in Chrome and FF but I had to make some compromises for IE. I sent the link to a few friends and the userbase grew from there. It's not much but it's definitely something for having it live for a day. I'm really looking forward to any constructive…

    2011 · leftright.me · its alternatives →

20. 20
    Portfolio with 40+ Interesting Projects▲8

    I thought I might share some of the projects I've worked on through my journey as a high school programmer, lmk what you think!

    2023 · cole.ws · its alternatives →

21. 21WP
    weekend project to capture user tests from friends▲7

    I've been working some software to make capturing feedback cheap and easy. I think it can be much less expensive if we put our friends and family to use.

    2012 · moustach.io · its alternatives →

22. 22IM
    I made a fun quiz that reviews last week's top posts on r/programming▲8

    2025 · lastweekon.xyz · its alternatives →

23. 23MF
    My first blog post – Finite Automata with a bit of Rust▲6

    2016 · apanatshka.github.io · its alternatives →

24. 24TW
    Tiny weekend project from scraped Wikipedia data: whodiedhere.com▲6

    2012 · whodiedhere.com · its alternatives →

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