Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

#101

Post by beachstartup » Tue, Nov 15, 2016, 3:20 PM UTC

averageweather wrote: post #82

http://www.averageweather.io/ - tool to make planning for travel much easier. When you are too far out for a forecast, I found myself taking too many clicks to get average weather data. EDIT - Whoa. Getting lots of traffic. This site is like 3 days old and I taught myself python and django to build it. Open to any recommendations at jonathan at averageweather dot io EDIT 2 - Back up... Site crash ... Google apps shut…

this is really cool.

feature suggestions:

* range of dates

* zip code support cleanup

thanks!

Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

#102

Post by jimmies » Tue, Nov 15, 2016, 3:20 PM UTC

My hakko soldering station doesn't automatically turn off if I leave it on. One time I was leaving town and had to worry about my house fire for the whole weekend. So I made an Arduino/msp430 from spare parts to do just that.

https://gist.github.com/htruong/bed170c71983dfcc7c0968174aae...

Other than that, I also made a Apple ADB to USB converter so I can use my old Apple Extended keyboard II with my new computer. Hard to believe newer keyboards are worse compared to that one.

Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

#103

Post by makmanalp » Tue, Nov 15, 2016, 3:20 PM UTC

nferraz wrote: post #17

st - simple statistics from the command line https://github.com/nferraz/st

Hey! This is great. Another thing that would be awesome would be to have a small histogram (could be oriented in rows rather than columns)!

Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

#104

Post by edpichler » Tue, Nov 15, 2016, 3:21 PM UTC

averageweather wrote: post #82

http://www.averageweather.io/ - tool to make planning for travel much easier. When you are too far out for a forecast, I found myself taking too many clicks to get average weather data. EDIT - Whoa. Getting lots of traffic. This site is like 3 days old and I taught myself python and django to build it. Open to any recommendations at jonathan at averageweather dot io EDIT 2 - Back up... Site crash ... Google apps shut…

I would use it if it was in Celsius.

Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

#105

Post by franciscop » Tue, Nov 15, 2016, 3:22 PM UTC

averageweather wrote: post #96

franciscop wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is really cool, would it be possible you add a toggle somewhere for Celsius degrees?

Thanks! I definitely will. Hopefully today. Very common, understandable request. I only launched it a few days ago. Definitely has things I want to improve.

Also I've used Google's Places Autocomplete before for something similar to the city selection, it gives you a dropdown with possible locations.

Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

#106

Post by averageweather » Tue, Nov 15, 2016, 3:22 PM UTC

beachstartup wrote: post #101

averageweather wrote: post #82

http://www.averageweather.io/ - tool to make planning for travel much easier. When you are too far out for a forecast, I found myself taking too many clicks to get average weather data. EDIT - Whoa. Getting lots of traffic. This site is like 3 days old and I taught myself python and django to build it. Open to any recommendations at jonathan at averageweather dot io EDIT 2 - Back up... Site crash ... Google apps shut…

this is really cool. feature suggestions: * range of dates * zip code support cleanup thanks!

Thanks! Range is something I am trying to figure best how to do. I know how, but it is "expensive" in terms of API calls etc. Like would someone pay for this feature?

Zipcode - Django has a great library so that is a next step for me.

Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

#107

Post by averageweather » Tue, Nov 15, 2016, 3:23 PM UTC

edpichler wrote: post #104

averageweather wrote: post #82

http://www.averageweather.io/ - tool to make planning for travel much easier. When you are too far out for a forecast, I found myself taking too many clicks to get average weather data. EDIT - Whoa. Getting lots of traffic. This site is like 3 days old and I taught myself python and django to build it. Open to any recommendations at jonathan at averageweather dot io EDIT 2 - Back up... Site crash ... Google apps shut…

I would use it if it was in Celsius.

Noted! Will work on that asap.

Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

#108

Post by senko » Tue, Nov 15, 2016, 3:24 PM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

#109

Post by wyldfire » Tue, Nov 15, 2016, 3:24 PM UTC

* libfaultinj: a fault injection library for testing. [1]

* fuzzpy: a fuzzer for the Python interpreter itself (specifically CPython) [2]

[1] https://github.com/androm3da/libfaultinj

[2] https://bitbucket.org/ebadf/fuzzpy

Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

#110

Post by pkzip » Tue, Nov 15, 2016, 3:26 PM UTC

One tool I wrote and I wish I would still have time to maintain was "Folders2Flickr" (luckily someone forked it https://github.com/richq/folders2flickr and keeps it alive). It's basically a DropBox for pictures with Flickr being the storage server and viewer. The tool simply synchronizes all of your pictures which can be in a hierarchical folder structure and recreates this folder structure on Flickr (but uses Sets/Albums instead of folders). I dont see the stats now but for years it supplied Flickr with multiple pictures every single second 24/7 from many users.