I have some sideprojects around the internet, but so far the most useful thing I made has been
A tool that helps you learn languages by reading public domain books. I should continue working on that...
Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
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#12I'm proud of many things :(
* I converted a rotary phone into a cellphone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSkdWQswpc8
* I wrote a personal bookmark search engine: http://historio.us/
* A site that talks to spammers so you don't have to: https://spa.mnesty.com/
* A pastebin: http://pastery.net/
* A remote-controlled GSM irrigation controller for farmers: https://gitlab.com/stavros/irrigation-controller
* A button that orders food when pressed: https://www.stavros.io/posts/emergency-food-button/
* A python library and cli utility for controlling YeeLight RGB LED bulbs (a cheaper and nicer version of Hue bulbs) that I wrote this weekend: https://yeelight.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
* A secure communications library for IoT devices: http://stringphone.readthedocs.org/
* I took some non-terrible photos and made a site for them: http://portfolio.stavros.io/
* A hardware library for the A6 GSM modem: https://github.com/skorokithakis/A6lib
* Expounder, a better way to explain things in text: http://skorokithakis.github.io/expounder
* Dead man's switch, a website to email people after you die: https://www.deadmansswitch.net/
* I can't even remember the rest.
Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
#13Nyan Mode.
https://github.com/TeMPOraL/nyan-mode
I made it as a simple joke, but for some reason it rapidly gained popularity among Emacs users, and now I sometimes find it or hear about it in unexpected places.
(Also I fear that on my deathbed I'll look back and realize that the most used thing I've ever made in my life was an animated cat for a text editor... sigh)
Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
#14https://simplesharingbuttons.com/
Despite the site being free and open source, people still send me a few bucks each month, and very nice thank-you emails. And there are at least 2-3 sites out there that I'm personally a fan of that used it.
Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
#15https://www.hiroapp.com - Note-taking reduced to the core that just works™. Offline first, no signup needed, easily sharable (url, sms, email) and (web)realtime sync between all devices and collaborators.
My co-founder and I moved on to a new project a year ago, but this thing is still buzzing along on a cheap DO box and works like a charm with basically zero maintenance. Frontend is vanilla JS, backend in Go and the protocol is our slight modification of differential sync[0] to (re-)synchronize all text and metadata.
Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
#16My top 2 are:
1) Sherlock, a JavaScript natural language parser for entering events that I hacked the bulk of in a particularly productive all-nighter many years ago. https://github.com/neilgupta/Sherlock
2) Exceptionally, a super simple Rails API exception handling library that is tiny but has proven very useful on every project I've worked on. https://github.com/neilgupta/exceptionally
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#17st - simple statistics from the command line
Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
#18An archive of chrome extensions versions: https://crx.dam.io (I should upload it to archive.org)
Also, this small templating library for python: https://github.com/mdamien/lys
Also, a chrome extension that display images like firefox do, people seems to like it: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/center-images/dama...
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#19Observideo, annotating videos tool for social sciences students. The norm is either excel or very costly software, this simple tool saves hours of manual tagging. https://observideo.com
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#20I wrote obmenu[1] some time ago, a menu editor for the Openbox window manager.
I'm pretty proud of this simple tool because it eventually made its way to the repositories of all mayor distributions: Debian[2], RedHat, Arch, you name it.
I've received many emails from users, questions, suggestions, bug reports, people offering to translate it in their language... I'm super thankful to all of them (unfortunately I could not answer all of them!).
It's been unmaintained for a while, but it's on my To-Do list to refactor it, clean it up and add some missing features. It's been 10 years so I'm hopefully a better programmer now.
[1] http://obmenu.sourceforge.net/ [2] https://packages.debian.org/de/jessie/obmenu