Hacker News: sillysideprojshttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=sillysideprojsHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Thu, 23 Apr 2026 13:54:06 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by sillysideprojs in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2026)"]]>Location: USA Remote: Yes (remote-first) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Next.js, Electron, React Native, Expo, Capacitor, Node.js, Express, FastAPI, Python, GraphQL, REST APIs, WebSockets, HTML, CSS, PostgreSQL, Postgres, MongoDB, SQLite, Supabase, SQL, Drizzle, AWS, Amazon Web Services, GCP, Google Cloud Platform, Cloudflare, Docker, CI/CD, Heroku, Vercel, Figma, UI, UX, Design Systems

Resume/CV: https://travisbumgarner.dev (PDF available) Email: travis.bumgarner@gmail.com GitHub: https://github.com/travisbumgarner

Senior / Staff-level product engineer with ~12 years of experience building and shipping production software. Strong frontend focus with deep full-stack experience. I’ve led zero-to-one builds, shipped high-reliability systems, real-time collaborative tools, and large-scale search (1.6M+ searches/month). Comfortable owning architecture, product, UI/UX, and execution end-to-end.

Looking for Senior, Staff, Principal, or Founding Engineer roles at product-driven teams that value team health, self-starters, and high quality work.

]]>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 20:56:11 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47223938sillysideprojshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47223938https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47223938<![CDATA[New comment by sillysideprojs in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2026)"]]>Location: USA Remote: Yes (remote-first) Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Next.js, Electron, React Native, Expo, Capacitor, Node.js, Express, FastAPI, Python, GraphQL, REST APIs, WebSockets, HTML, CSS, PostgreSQL, Postgres, MongoDB, SQLite, Supabase, SQL, Drizzle, AWS, Amazon Web Services, GCP, Google Cloud Platform, Cloudflare, Docker, CI/CD, Heroku, Vercel, Figma, UI, UX, Design Systems

Resume/CV: https://travisbumgarner.dev (PDF available) Email: travis.bumgarner@gmail.com GitHub: https://github.com/travisbumgarner

Senior / Staff-level product engineer with ~12 years of experience building and shipping production software. Strong frontend focus with deep full-stack experience. I’ve led zero-to-one builds, shipped high-reliability systems, real-time collaborative tools, and large-scale search (1.6M+ searches/month). Comfortable owning architecture, product, UI/UX, and execution end-to-end.

Looking for Senior, Staff, Principal, or Founding Engineer roles at product-driven teams that value team health, self-starters, and high quality work.

]]>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 18:33:27 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46875115sillysideprojshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46875115https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46875115<![CDATA[New comment by sillysideprojs in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"]]>This is going to be a great place for inspiration, thank you!

As for me Photography - https://travisbumgarner.photography Engineering - https://travisbumgarner.dev

]]>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 18:46:02 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46650280sillysideprojshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46650280https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46650280<![CDATA[New comment by sillysideprojs in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2026)"]]>Location: United States

Remote: Yes.

Willing/wanting to travel for meetups

Technologies: React, TypeScript, Node, Express, GraphQL, AWS, GCP, Figma, Python

Résumé/CV: http://github.com/TravisBumgarner/ https://travisbumgarner.dev/

Email: Travis.Bumgarner+HN@gmail.com

I have 12 years of experience and have worked on a lot of zero to one greenfield projects.

]]>Tue, 13 Jan 2026 20:42:00 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46607630sillysideprojshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46607630https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46607630<![CDATA[New comment by sillysideprojs in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)"]]>Menu Engineering (https://github.com/TravisBumgarner/menu-engineering) I have a friend who manages their restaurant's menu via an Excel doc. Tabular data does not play well with a menu's tree structure. So I'm building them an app to more easily build and analyze the menu.

Fast Classifieds (https://travisbumgarner.dev/marketing/classifieds) A lot of the jobs I'm looking for are on smaller company job boards only. It takes me about an hour or two each time I want to browse all the sites I have bookmarked. I made a little app that automates the process and reduces the time down to about 5 minutes to look through the new posts.

]]>Tue, 13 Jan 2026 18:38:03 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46605588sillysideprojshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46605588https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46605588<![CDATA[Show HN: I launched a podcast to interview makers]]>For years I’ve wanted to start a podcast to interview curious and passionate makers in the depths of their creative pursuits.

I would love any feedback, a rating, and if you know anyone would would make a great guest, please let me know!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46222110

Points: 12

# Comments: 1

]]>Wed, 10 Dec 2025 19:10:29 +0000https://happymaking.art/sillysideprojshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46222110https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46222110<![CDATA[New comment by sillysideprojs in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)"]]>I'm starting to shift my energies towards building more hardware and less web/mobile apps for side projects.

I'm currently working on Dice of Sending - for when you want to roll physical dice but you play DND online. This is mostly just for fun with my DND group.

https://github.com/TravisBumgarner/dice-of-sending

]]>Tue, 11 Nov 2025 06:24:56 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45884629sillysideprojshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45884629https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45884629<![CDATA[Show HN: Dice of Sending – I prefer physical dice but need to roll online]]>This was a goofy little project I worked on. It's fully open source and you can check it out via the Github link.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45880174

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

]]>Mon, 10 Nov 2025 19:56:03 +0000https://github.com/TravisBumgarner/dice-of-sendingsillysideprojshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45880174https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45880174<![CDATA[Photo Palettes – Find color inspiration in the everyday]]>Article URL: https://photopalettes.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45362988

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

]]>Wed, 24 Sep 2025 16:53:31 +0000https://photopalettes.com/sillysideprojshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45362988https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45362988<![CDATA[New comment by sillysideprojs in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2025)"]]>SEEING WORK | Boston, Massachusetts, USA & Mexico City, Mexico | Remote (NA time zones) Full stack Zero to One Software Engineer & Designer - I turn early-stage ideas into working prototypes.

Technologies: TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, CSS3, HTML5, SQL, React, React Native, Electron, Next.js, Express, GraphQL, Node, GCP, AWS, Mongo, PostgreSQL, Docker, Figma

Contact: - https://travisbumgarner.dev/work - https://github.com/travisBumgarner/ - https://www.linkedin.com/in/travisbumgarner/

Latest Projects: - https://photopalettes.com/ - http://ideas.sillysideprojects.com/ - https://fivepixels.pointlessprojects.com/ - https://seis.pointlessprojects.com/

]]>Wed, 03 Sep 2025 20:12:15 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45119917sillysideprojshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45119917https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45119917<![CDATA[New comment by sillysideprojs in "Photo Palettes – Find color inspiration in the everyday"]]>I love photography and I love design. Often, my color palettes are inspired by photos I've taken. I wanted an app that would allow me to create such color palettes and browse creations by others. It's just in alpha and I've got a long list of functionality and improvements to work on but I wanted to share out now.

]]>Sun, 24 Aug 2025 00:42:36 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45000278sillysideprojshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45000278https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45000278<![CDATA[Photo Palettes – Find color inspiration in the everyday]]>Article URL: https://photopalettes.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45000277

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

]]>Sun, 24 Aug 2025 00:42:36 +0000https://photopalettes.com/sillysideprojshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45000277https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45000277<![CDATA[Predictive UX Engineering]]>Article URL: https://travisbumgarner.dev/blog/photography-portfolio-performance

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44728429

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

]]>Tue, 29 Jul 2025 21:25:48 +0000https://travisbumgarner.dev/blog/photography-portfolio-performancesillysideprojshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44728429https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44728429<![CDATA[Show HN: Make color palettes from the world around you]]>There have been moments during my daily commute where I'd see collections of colors worthy of a color palette. This led to the creation of Photo Palettes.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44219095

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

]]>Sun, 08 Jun 2025 19:47:15 +0000https://photopalettes.com/?signup_code=welcome-to-photo-palettessillysideprojshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44219095https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44219095<![CDATA[New comment by sillysideprojs in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2025)"]]>SEEING WORK | Remote, USA | United States

Front-end leaning Senior Full Stack Engineer - TypeScript, React, Node, GraphQL, AWS. Preference for early stage startups building 0 to 1 experiences. Additionally skilled with doing design and product management as well.

Contact - https://travisbumgarner.dev/

Check out three projects I've recently built for fun: https://fivepixels.pointlessprojects.com/ https://seis.pointlessprojects.com/ https://github.com/TravisBumgarner/pixels64

]]>Fri, 04 Apr 2025 18:23:34 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43586047sillysideprojshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43586047https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43586047<![CDATA[New comment by sillysideprojs in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)"]]>I fell in love with Mexico because of the colorful architecture. I've found that many buildings would make for good color palettes. So I made an app to convert 145 photos of mine into color palettes.

https://seis.pointlessprojects.com/

]]>Fri, 04 Apr 2025 18:16:34 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43585964sillysideprojshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43585964https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43585964<![CDATA[Show HN: Color palettes inspired by Mexican architecture]]>Article URL: https://seis.pointlessprojects.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43560916

Points: 67

# Comments: 4

]]>Wed, 02 Apr 2025 20:04:00 +0000https://seis.pointlessprojects.com/sillysideprojshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43560916https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43560916<![CDATA[Show HN: What can you say with five pixels?]]>Article URL: https://fivepixels.pointlessprojects.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43336211

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

]]>Tue, 11 Mar 2025 19:36:47 +0000https://fivepixels.pointlessprojects.com/sillysideprojshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43336211https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43336211<![CDATA[New comment by sillysideprojs in "Ask HN: Recommend resources that helped your game dev journey?"]]>I really like what Pirate Software does. He runs Game Jams (https://itch.io/jam/pirate) which are a great way to build small things as a way to learn. There's also a very active Discord community: https://discord.com/invite/piratesoftware

]]>Fri, 28 Feb 2025 18:56:02 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43209028sillysideprojshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43209028https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43209028<![CDATA[Show HN: Cloning Blurhash, my favorite library, to understand it better]]>Article URL: https://travisbumgarner.dev/blog/somehash

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43038307

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

]]>Thu, 13 Feb 2025 17:07:13 +0000https://travisbumgarner.dev/blog/somehashsillysideprojshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43038307https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43038307