Just last week, I was in a slump and thought of looking for side-project inspiration by searching for all the ShowHN posts. This just works great because when you start bombarding your brain with lots of new ideas, you'd be surprised what you come up with :)
I understand it'd be a little more work, but how about manually curating and featuring projects ?
It uses the search API (http://www.hnsearch.com/api) and does a little bit of sanitizing to remove "Show HN" from the title and find the URL in the post.
It seems like the site isn't returning any new results right now, and I'll investigate when I get a chance. Usually things are up there realtime.
There isn't a way right now, but I may add it in the next update. Having a perma link to a project is tricky as the projects shift back when new projects get posted.
Thanks for posting this :) I wrote HN Showcase as a weekend project last summer. Glad to see this being used. I'm going to try to push an update in the near future.
Thanks for the feedback! When I wrote this, I only tested it on Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. For the next version, I'm planning to use twitter bootstrap, so hopefully the compatibility will be better.
I understand it'd be a little more work, but how about manually curating and featuring projects ?