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• Artworks in Motion

  

  True beauty is hard to find on the internet and especially on YouTube. Sometimes it just seems like an endless parade of cat accidents, vlogs, and music videos. But every once in a while you are struck by a truly mindboggling and heartwarming work of art. Artworks in Motion tries to find those videos and catalog them. On the Artworks in Motion website you can watch and discuss all of them. And please, if you know of any stunning video-art, submit it so we can add it to our collection!

• Connect Forever

  

  Traditional marriage is still popular but — let's be honest — a bit outdated. Why not revive it with the cool new technologies that we now have? Connect Forever is a pair of Android apps that can seal the bond of matrimony just like a traditional wedding ring. When two people (polygamous marriage not yet supported) install and activate the app, they both see an arrow that will forever point towards their loved one ♥

• Quality Quiz Questions

  

  Quality Quiz Questions is a specialized internet forum whose members have the common goal of developing high-quality quiz questions. The website facilitates this goal with a special interface for submitting, reviewing, and revising questions. The end result for visitors of the site is an ever-growing database of quality quiz questions that are freely available under the terms of a Creative Commons license.

• Dyad

  

  Dyad enables two Android devices to establish a direct, peer-to-peer communication channel. It forms the core of Connect Forever, which uses Dyad to share location data between two partners. We are building Dyad with the goal to become a generic Android library for connection establishment, so that other Android developers can use it to build their own apps.

• Playit.js

  

  Playit.js is a Javascript library that enables webdevelopers to easily combine videos from various sources. It will form the basis of Artworks in Motion, which will use Playit.js to show an episode of mind-boggling art videos.

• HTML Explicator

  

  HTML Explicator is a Javascript library that converts implicitly sectioned HTML documents to use explicit <section> elements, as recommended by the new HTML5 standard.

Work in Progress

These are not released... yet

• Paragraph

  

  Paragraph is an outlining text editor for writing well-structured articles and books. Conceptually, it sits between an outliner and a structured editor. Paragraph is implemented as a webapp with server-side storage, but all documents will always be easily exportable. It is aimed at professional writers such as novelists and researchers but also suitable for note-taking and todo-lists.

• Letsy

  

  Letsy is a LETSystem for the Netherlands where members can trade goods and services with credits called Letsies. Letsy differs from traditional LETSystems by its openness. All members publicly advertise their goods and services on their profile page. We hope to provide the existing LETS community with a solid trading platform as well as introduce a new generation to the concept of alternative economies.

• Nopassword

  

  Nopassword shows how simple logging in to websites can (and should!) be. On websites that use Nopassword, users can log in by entering only their email address. It's also very easy for webdevelopers to add Nopassword to their site.

• Thyself

  

  Thyself will be a tool you can use to scientifically gather data about your own behavior. It will ask your predefined questions at predefined times. What you ask yourself is up to you, but you can always get inspiration and ready-to-use questionnaires from our community repository. You can compute statistics and plot graphs about your behavior on our website, or download it in various formats for further analysis.

• Scribblefont

  

  How cool would it be to have a font of your own handwriting? With Scribblefont you can! Simply write down the alphabet on a piece of paper, scan or photograph it, and upload it to our webapp. The webinterface will allow you to adjust some font metrics (such as baseline and kerning) and Scribblefont will then generate a TrueType font file. Place this file in your "Fonts" folder and you can use your own handwriting as a digital typeface!

• PDF Planner

  

  Dead-tree planners (‘agenda's’) are still in widespread use today. When you buy one in a brick-and-mortar store, it is mostly empty except for some pre-filled (usually Christian) holidays. We produce an agenda that is completely filled with every type of holiday, observance, statistic, and anniversary that you desire! Simply specify the date range and types of information you want in it, and the webapp will generate a PDF file that you can print and bind at your local copyshop.

Project ideas

They only exist in our heads.

Do you have any ideas that could change the world? Please share them!

• TweetPlayer

  

  A browser add-on that allows internet-watchers of television programs to view the Tweets as they occurred when the program aired.

• Eloquentia

  

  A community voting site where people submit and upvote beautiful words.

• Cook Up

  

  A virtual cooking tutor, which guides you step by step through recipees in the order of increasing difficulty. Also knows what to make with the leftover ingredients.

• What's the Norm?

  

  A crowdsourced database of test results that anyone can use to determine their percentile rank.

• Sand Art

  

  A smartphone app in which you can create stunning Sand Art using your device as the sand table.

• File Museum

  

  A file exposition service. Upload your old files (MS Paint artworks, custom ringtones, poems, etc.) and exhibit them to your friends and family in a fully customizable environment.

• Niche Campings

  

  The camping industry really has a wonderful long tail of niche campings. With your help, we hope to find them all!

• Indie Shop

  

  The future of media consumption is in micropayments directly to creators. We'll make a marketplace for digital goods, where all kinds of digital stuff is for sale on low prices.

• Wrab It

  

  An online editor to easily create Escher-style repeating patterns. Features one-click ordering of giftwrap paper with your custom design.

• FridgeMan

  

  A barcode-scanning smartphone app to manage the food-supply in your refrigerator. All it needs is an open-source database of supermarket products...

• iPlantify

  

  A specialized internet forum for plant owners. Possible sections are “Help identify this plant” and “Show off your time-lapses”.

• Visicheck

  

  A smartphone app that measures your visual accuracy. Approved by (and sold to) real opticians, of course.

• What's Next?

  

  Children don't know any better than that their childhood will never end. For all those children we want to make a calendar app that features infinite repetition of events.