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Ask HN: How much software do you build for yourself these days?
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Re: Ask HN: How much software do you build for yourself these days?
#12I made a tool that extracts text from PDFs and translates it into Japanese with an LLM, mainly to help me study English documents.
A tiny frustration can now be enough motivation to build software, because you can just tell an LLM what you want.
In my case, I was frustrated with repeatedly asking chat AIs to “translate the next part” or “continue” when translating long documents. I also wanted almost word-by-word translation rather than completely smooth Japanese, because my purpose was to understand the original English.
Paid software probably has more features and works better, but using software I made for myself is more fun.
Re: Ask HN: How much software do you build for yourself these days?
#13Last year I built a currency conversion assistant for my company accounting, and this year I built a self-hypnosis app for myself. They were both fun projects, and the hypnosis one was a good lesson in releasing my first Android app as well even if I haven't bothered trying to actually market it.