I was able to create a CLI (https://github.com/gitsense/gsc-cli) without knowing Go. Like 0% Go knowledge. It is currently over 300 files (266 Go files).
Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
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#12I built a half-baked CRM that has a lot of custom fields and visuals for statistics that are relevant to my potential customers. I'm selling primarily to registered data brokers, so being able to pull up their self-published compliance stats (gleaned from their own privacy pages or public filings) and contextualize them in terms of the rest of the industry ("your deletion request volume has been in the 95th percentile year over year") has been extremely helpful when starting conversations. I also gamified it a bit by giving myself targets for cold outreach and gathering hard numbers on my cadence for outbound calls and emails per lead.
I also built this site for educating potential customers and other privacy professionals about the increasing tempo of CCPA enforcement actions driving compliance: https://ccpa.world/enforcement
I could have probably coded this from scratch quicker considering that it took me two weeks to remove all of the hallucinated imaginary enforcement actions against real companies and also the citations to non-existent California law that the models kept injecting into my enforcement summaries.
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#13I wish I had time, but I would definitely make some Android apps to sideload onto my phone. They would be very bespoke and probably only relevant to me, but they would be streamlined to my life.
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#14Over the past few days I have been making a spell checking TUI app. I used AI (meaning: free Gemini web interface) to discuss various aspects about the apps and debug compiler errors ang suggest useful rust crates for various problems.
Just a more helpful discord chat generally. It also gaslights you too!
Here is the tool: https://git.sr.ht/~asibahi/hoopoe
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#15Oh man a few things
1. A dashboard that tracks my personal metrics (github, strava, todo completion, flossing)
2. A eink display for that dashboard
3. A realtime node graph that shows a codebase (and/or its diffs) in a way that I can visualize what functions call which, and under what conditions
4. A agent that automatically fills out government forms and creates invoices for my friends brewery based on the delivery notes in their google calendar.
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#16I made a tool that creates sandboxes (docker, podman, orbstack, seatbelt, tart, containerd, kata, firecracker) and then sets up an agent (claude, codex, gemini, aider, opencode) inside it with max permissiveness (no prompts to call sed, etc).
It creates its own copy of your workdir for the agent to play in, and then you pull changes out ala git diffs or commits.
It's a MASSIVE time saver, and I use it as my daily driver.
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#17We used AI to build our AI platform and now we are using the AI platform to build the tools that we need for AI. :)
But no honestly, unfortunately most tools I did for myself are not for hobbies but something that I needed for work... like this one (https://github.com/crmkit/crmkit) most recently.
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#18The tool I'm most proud of is "Hex Flex" (https://seidleroni.github.io/Hex-Flex-Web/). It is a tool to view and compare the contents of Intel Hex files. Should be useful to other people who work in the firmware field.
Not exactly a tool, but I also made pelohard.com which ranks the most recent Peloton classes by difficulty. Updated twice daily.
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#19I've vibe coded multiple helpful apps and websites for recording data. But longer term, I'm building with its help an internal research system to organize, search, compare, analyze, and esp reuse all the large amounts of data my firm produces, with the public materials without constantly starting over in separate ChatGPT or Claude conversations.
Similar to you, the things I have truly vibe-coded (having looked at But the point is to get data out of them. The code is a means to an end and not a product in itself. Building a custom dataset builder in just a couple hours of work is really powerful.
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#20Year ago I made for myself a simple jar editor https://jar.tools, now it has 8000 user’s monthly