StreetPlan.net

What it does

Free street cross-section tool. Easily create anything from alleyways, to walkable boulevards to freeways in just minutes. Helps urban planners and civil engineers depict ugly or outdated streets and "Stroads," vs alternatives for making them better.

StreetPlan.net, Right-Sizing, and other free tools for urban planners and civil engineers.

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  Driveway2022 · ▲276

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  A directory of single-page sites and useful apps2012 · thetoolbox.cc · ▲164

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  StreetMix2019 · streetmix.net · ▲6

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  Visualization tools for bicycle wheelbuilding2022 · islandix.com · ▲124

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  Transform Your City2022 · transformyour.city · ▲77

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  Life & fun · 1d ago · permit.petercai.com

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  Life & fun · 14d ago · bigwords.page

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  Life & fun · 8d ago · guitoro.com

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  See *almost* any carriers phone settings▲432

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  Life & fun · 12d ago · carrierexplode.com

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  Life & fun · 22d ago · space.bl2.net

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  Locofy.ai▲720

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  Dev tools · 2022 · locofy.ai

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  Dev tools · 2022 · github.com

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  ruttl▲552

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  Dev tools · 2022 · ruttl.com

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  Pipes puzzle (a.k.a. Net) on a hexagonal grid▲537

  Hello, HN - I wanted to share this puzzle game I made during my vacation. I'm rather fond of the pipes puzzle where your goal is to restore a scrambled network of connections by rotating tiles. It's usually played on a grid of squares and this all started when I decided to make a programmatic solver for that kind of puzzle. Then I realized that with some minor changes the solver could generate new puzzle instances. I thought about what kind of puzzle to make and someone suggested a hexagonal grid. Adapting the generator wasn't too hard but then I had to create a way to play this variant. So…

  Life & fun · 2022 · hexapipes.vercel.app

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  Parsnip – Duolingo for Cooking▲536

  We're building Parsnip to create a "tech tree" of cooking skills that allows anyone to level up on the building blocks of cooking knowledge while tracking their progress over time. It took us a few iterations to figure out the right product; here's the story of our latest pivot: [https://parsnip.substack.com/p/a-new-hope] The goal is to create a personalized way to learn any recipe on the Internet, then use this as a springboard to help home cooks of all levels solve the problem of repeated meal planning in a 10x better way:…

  Work · 2022 · parsnip.ai