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Products that do what UChicago admissions asked me to find Waldo. I did. does

1. 1
   Where’s Waldo?▲256

   Find him in Google Maps

   2018

2. 2
   This American Life - How I got into college▲85

   One funny & one amazing story on college admissions

   2015

3. 3MN
   My new project - ask.io▲206

   2013 · ask.io

4. 4WM
   We made Craigslist for the university that I will be attending.▲13

   2014 · penngems.com

5. 5GA
   getimgs - a search project I built in university▲5

   2011 · getimgs.appspot.com

6. 6IM
   I Made this Y Combinator T-Shirt (Words from PG's Essays)▲72

   2011 · tagxedo.com

7. 7SW
   Student wanted better way to discover clothes online▲81

   2013 · windowshopper.me

8. 8IV
   I've always wanted a Y Combinator shirt, so I made one.▲80

   2011 · fold.sigusr2.net

9. 9IJ
   I jumped on a meme - SheenMe.me▲16

   2011 · sheenme.me

10. 10MW
    my weekend project, understanding the Silk Road anonymous marketplace▲40

    This was more of a sandbox to play with Raphael and Flot than anything else but I think there are some interesting statistics in there. It'd be awesome to do this over time but I really don't have the spare time required.

    2011 · burntbrunch.github.com

11. 11IW
    I wrote an Enigma machine emulator for the Web▲83

    2019 · enigma.lh.mk

12. 12AL
    A little knowledge portal I've been building▲72

    2016 · tuvalie.com

13. 13AN
    A new take on academic search▲37

    2013 · scholr.ly

14. 14IW
    I wrote an explorer for the Singapore Olympiad problem▲11

    2015 · mark.github.io

15. 15IV
    I've created a third place. (for getting to know HNers)▲20

    2011 · athirdplace.com

16. 16IW
    I wrote a Haskell program that does my intro logic homework▲9

    2016 · github.com

17. 17DT
    Design that says yea I went to college, but Ill stab u if u fn cross me▲7

    2016 · horriblenoise.ca

18. 18SI
    Site I Made to Learn Elm▲12

    2017 · pace.ninja

19. 19IB
    I built a browser based interactive React course▲24

    2020 · react-tutorial.app

20. 20UR
    Udacity really did teach me to build a search engine▲6

    2012 · davedavefind.appspot.com

21. 21IM
    I made a Perplexity-like research agent▲5

    2024 · search.sciphi.ai

22. 22SA
    Sophomore at UMich, built an app with my dad▲9

    Over the past three months, I’ve been working with my dad on this app as a way to learn Cursor, shadcn/ui, and Next.js. I’m currently studying UX design at the University of Michigan, and I’ve been really impressed by how much vibe-coding tools have advanced over the last six months. This work journal includes private AI-generated insights with scheduled summaries that can be shared with your team or manager. You can also choose to make a summary public—like I’ve done here for my work on this web app: https://www.workjourney.ai/summary/mkblt2zt-hn2kdbus If anyone has…

    Jan 2026 · workjourney.ai

23. 23WM
    Wise Man’s Haskell▲17

    2018 · anchpop.github.io

24. 24IM
    I made a human powered travel search engine▲15

    2011 · toorld.com

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