A password manager for teams of people that isn't dumb.
It's surprisingly hard to find. I contributed to one open source that a co-worker started, and I made my own in my own time. So I've almost made it twice.
Ask HN: What have you built more than twice and wish someone had built for you?
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#12making makefiles work correctly - happened every place i've worked
Re: Ask HN: What have you built more than twice and wish someone had built for you?
#13A password manager for teams of people that isn't dumb. It's surprisingly hard to find. I contributed to one open source that a co-worker started, and I made my own in my own time. So I've almost made it twice.
What's wrong with 1Password or Bitwarden?
Re: Ask HN: What have you built more than twice and wish someone had built for you?
#14A SaaS for managing personal documents. The closest I have right now (not SaaS) is paperless-ng[0], but I have to self-host it, unless I missed a really compelling solution. I have a sea of documents, both physical and electronic, and it's always a struggle to scan/organize/find them. I'd pay good money for a software/service that manages my documents, from scanning to archiving. [0] https://github.com/jonaswinkler/p…
For anybody interested in paperless-ng, this is line 1 of their repo's readme:
This project is not dead! Rather, this project is now maintained as a community effort at https://github.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx, a direct continuation of this project and drop-in replacement. Please see their project page and the documentation at https://docs.paperless-ngx.com/ for details.
I really like Paperless NGX, have been using it for some months now, mostly for scanned paper mail, I use [0]
[0]: https://apps.apple.com/in/app/scan4paperless/id1629964055
Re: Ask HN: What have you built more than twice and wish someone had built for you?
#15A local dev environment that works. Doing this again, and again, and again.... ...truly sucks. After not working on a codebase for a year, or two, I usually need to set up everything again -- and often run into very stupid/pointless issues that waste an hour, and often much more, just to get to the point where I can start the actual coding process. This is pretty much why I've stopped coding. I don't have the time to…
I think containers (docker/vagrant/etc) are probably what you are looking for.
Re: Ask HN: What have you built more than twice and wish someone had built for you?
#16A SaaS for managing personal documents. The closest I have right now (not SaaS) is paperless-ng[0], but I have to self-host it, unless I missed a really compelling solution. I have a sea of documents, both physical and electronic, and it's always a struggle to scan/organize/find them. I'd pay good money for a software/service that manages my documents, from scanning to archiving. [0] https://github.com/jonaswinkler/p…
Are you saying you would pay a service to host it all for you? or are you saying you want to just send all they physical documents to someone to scan and upload for you?
Re: Ask HN: What have you built more than twice and wish someone had built for you?
#17An open source lib where I can type up some text configuration, hook it up to a sql database, and get a nice looking generated form (for internal surveys in my case).
Airtable is the closest to what you are saying because it has data relationships. However, what did you find insufficient about Google Forms or similar?
Re: Ask HN: What have you built more than twice and wish someone had built for you?
#18A password manager for teams of people that isn't dumb. It's surprisingly hard to find. I contributed to one open source that a co-worker started, and I made my own in my own time. So I've almost made it twice.
What's wrong with 1Password or Bitwarden?
Not sure how easy self-hosting those are, but any paid-for and/or online offering by a third party is useless. This should have been clear long ago, but the LastPass breach should have made it obvious.
Re: Ask HN: What have you built more than twice and wish someone had built for you?
#19A licensing system. That's actually why I ended up building my current business 7 years ago. So you've found a problem -- now build a solution. :)
Could you elaborate? are you talking about something like MIT license? or something like 90s software where you get a key for an app?
Re: Ask HN: What have you built more than twice and wish someone had built for you?
#20A local dev environment that works. Doing this again, and again, and again.... ...truly sucks. After not working on a codebase for a year, or two, I usually need to set up everything again -- and often run into very stupid/pointless issues that waste an hour, and often much more, just to get to the point where I can start the actual coding process. This is pretty much why I've stopped coding. I don't have the time to…
Did this happen when you have more than 5 microservices each one with its own database?