MeFi Projects

A web app that lets you search for British place names that match certain queries (eg. starts with 'great', ends with 'burgh', contains 'sea') and show them on an interactive map. Fascinating patterns start to emerge, and you can even share links to your favourite configurations.
posted by robintw on Apr 3, 2024 - 8 comments

Pantograph is a web application that streamlines playing the card game Netrunner with a remote opponent using physical cards. Each player needs paper cards and a camera positioned over their play area. Once you start a video call using the app you can click on your opponent's cards to see higher resolution images. [more inside]
posted by okonomichiyaki on Aug 18, 2023 - 0 comments

I think we can all agree that web pages today are too colorful, which is why I have created a web component that crushes your images down to crisp, pixel-perfect dithered black and white. This blog post features an interactive demo - dither your own images and party like it is 1985!
posted by AndrewStephens on Jan 19, 2023 - 14 comments

It feels like there's a Wordle clone for everybody nowadays. But I decided to go in a slightly different direction when I made DNDle, a game in which you try to guess the Dungeons & Dragons "monster of the day" by assigning values to its attributes and being told where you've got them right. [more inside]
posted by avapoet on Feb 16, 2022 - 2 comments

I enjoy doodling, and my doodles always end up being somewhat symmetrical. So I made a little symmetry-based doodling toy! [more inside]
posted by Salvor Hardin on Nov 30, 2020 - 5 comments

Eclipse Phase is a cool (if crunchy) tabletop RPG that mashes up post-singularity science fiction, survival horror, and enthusiastic transhumanism. The folks at Posthuman Studios have released it under a generous Creative Commons license that allows the community to expand, remix, and experiment with even the "canon" materials in the books. To that end, I've built a giant online compendium of every skill, power, character trait, creature, piece of gear, weapon, location, faction, NPC, and pregen character in all of Eclipse Phase's published books. Nerrrrrrrrrrrd.
posted by verb on Feb 14, 2017 - 2 comments

Generate an image and slap the No Symbol on top! [more inside]
posted by wintrymix on Jan 21, 2015 - 7 comments

A user on Quora asked "Are there any free or cheap tools that would enable me to monitor a keyword and be notified whenever somebody over a certain follower threshold (say, 100,000) used it in a tweet?" I thought it was a great idea, so I built it. Specify Twitter keywords, set a minimum follower count, and receive an email when a suitably popular account tweets about it. You can also exclude retweets and filter out chosen accounts.
posted by quarantine on Dec 24, 2014 - 5 comments

posted by xchmp on Sep 6, 2014 - 0 comments

SliderBuilder is an interactive web-based WYSIWYG editor for creating slideshows, content sliders, and carousels for a website or blog. You manipulate slides, layers, images, and text through a web interface, then either generate HTML code to paste into your site or publish your slider at sliderbuilder.com. [more inside]
posted by quarantine on May 16, 2014 - 1 comment

Secret Metafilter highlights discussions that are still active on older Metafilter posts. The idea comes from Metafilter user painquale, who wished there was a way to easily find older, active threads, and called the body of such threads "Secret Metafilter." [more inside]
posted by jjwiseman on May 2, 2013 - 4 comments

blindsketch is a little drawing game for desktop and iOS devices (Android users proceed with caution) where you draw without looking. Use your mind's eye to render a complex and beautiful masterpiece, or just sketch a little doodle, but either way, you can only see your drawing when you are finished. Choose free draw or take the daily drawing challenge if you're feeling competitive. Today's challenge is a video challenge. (note that the images in the gallery section are not censored in any way, and that yesterday's drawing challenge was "NSFW", just so all the jokers can get the inevitable phallus drawing out of their system.)
posted by chriscollins on Jan 23, 2013 - 0 comments

This site generates random Basic (Moldvay/Mentzer), Holmes, or Original D&D characters. It's a little web application written and designed by me in Python. You can add "text" to the end of any URL to get a plaintext character sheet.
posted by chunking express on Oct 16, 2012 - 13 comments

mst3k.me shows you random Mystery Science Theater 3000 episodes on YouTube. /random gets you a random episode, /joel gets you a random Joel episode, and /mike gets you a random Mike episode. [more inside]
posted by scottjacksonx on Sep 19, 2012 - 5 comments

I built a train arrival time web app for Chicago Transit Authority 'L' trains. It uses geolocation to find the station closest to you.
posted by borkencode on Jan 12, 2012 - 0 comments

Random configurations of Unicode characters, stacked or scattered off-kilter
posted by rottytooth on Dec 26, 2011 - 8 comments

An ad-hoc, location-specific messageboard. Grabs your location and creates a messageboard based on messages sent by the people around you; the more messages there are near you, the more geographically-focused your messageboard is. Hopefully useful as a backchannel for conference talks, protest demonstrations and more. Photos, files, OpenID, ActivityStreams and APIs to come.
posted by bwerdmuller on Mar 27, 2011 - 5 comments

With Emberlight, you can publish and share visual notes within your team and with the Web. Examples: Euclid's Elements, Literary Feuds, Honourable Gentlemen, and a map of the UK Alternative Voting Debate, imported from Wrangl. Requires Tinderbox. [more inside]
posted by honest knave on Mar 19, 2011 - 0 comments

I got tired of firing up Google Website Optimizer whenever I wanted to do a quick image test, so I built this. It uses OpenID so you can login with your Google/Yahoo/Wordpress/Blogger account. The tracking is completely redirect-based so you can use it in places where javascript is not allowed (e.g. blogspot). Use it to optimize product photos, screenshots, banner ads, etc. Comments/questions welcome. Check out this blog post for a more in-depth look and an example use case.
posted by primer_dimer on Jan 25, 2011 - 0 comments

Sociability Factor is a simple Social Network Analysis tool. We have taken the best things from the traditional analysis and thrown the rest in the trash. [more inside]
posted by sveskemus on Sep 11, 2010 - 1 comment