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Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?

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Post by akoboldfrying »

alexpovel wrote: post #57

https://github.com/alexpovel/srgn It grew out of a niche, almost historical need: using a QWERTY keyboard, but needing access to German Umlauts (ä, ö, ü, as well as ß). Switching keyboard layouts is possible but exhausting (it's much more pleasant sticking to one); using modifier keys is similarly tedious, and custom setups break and aren't portable. So this tool can do: $ echo 'Gruess Gott, Poeten und Abenteuergruet…

I had this need!

Did you opt to blacklist words with vowel combinations that should not be transformed, or whitelist those that should? Or something else entirely?

Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?

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Post by rpastuszak »

Quite a few!

Some examples:

- Enso: https://enso.sonnet.io — a stream-of-consciousness writing I use for my daily notes and a bunch of other things. Here's how I use it every day: https://untested.sonnet.io/Stream+of+Consciousness+Morning+N...

- Sit.: https://sit.sonnet.io – I meditate with it daily

Why I built Sit: https://sonnet.io/posts/sit/

Projects and apps I built for my own well-being: https://untested.sonnet.io/Projects+and+apps+I+built+for+my+...

A Wishlist of things I want to build or see made: https://untested.sonnet.io/Things+to+support+my+own+well-bei...

Currently working on Midnight: https://midnight.sonnet.io

Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?

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Post by m5r »

https://github.com/m5r/shellphone.app

I was halfway across the world when I needed to make a lot of phone calls to my bank back home. So I pulled up Twilio's docs and built this app to make phone calls and send SMS from anywhere.

I tried monetizing it by selling it to digital nomads but this kind of problem is not recurring enough or painful enough to justify them paying for it So I ended up open sourcing it

Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?

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Post by adrianmsmith »

Due to tax payments being weird and uneven where I live (Austria) and having a number of other upcoming expenses, and considering moving flats, I wanted to understand what I'd be able to afford (in terms of cashflow) so I created https://whenwillirunoutofmoney.com/ mainly for my own use.

Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?

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Post by kiru_io »

I started to learn to swim and one of my main issue is breathing.

Well it is easy for everyone who learned it as a kid, but for me that was the hardest part.

So I wrote an app to practice breathing daily. Actually, it is not finished, but still WIP. I write a daily log about it: [0]

If you want to try it out or are in the same boat: [1]

[0] https://kiru.io/blog/posts/2023/advent-of-app/ [1] https://testflight.apple.com/join/p4YTTKZY

Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?

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Post by akirk »

alexpovel wrote: post #57

https://github.com/alexpovel/srgn It grew out of a niche, almost historical need: using a QWERTY keyboard, but needing access to German Umlauts (ä, ö, ü, as well as ß). Switching keyboard layouts is possible but exhausting (it's much more pleasant sticking to one); using modifier keys is similarly tedious, and custom setups break and aren't portable. So this tool can do: $ echo 'Gruess Gott, Poeten und Abenteuergruet…

I also use a QWERTY keyboard and I use a custom keyboard layout that maps alt-a to ä, alt-u to ü, alt-o to ö, alt-s to ß (plus the same for uppercase for the first 3). That works well for me without the need to post-process.

On macOS it's relatively easy to create using a tool called Ukulele (https://software.sil.org/ukelele/). You can also download my layout here: https://alex.kirk.at/USUmlaut.keylayout

Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?

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Post by embik »

I (recently) created kubeconfig-bikeshed, a small CLI application to manage the high number of kubeconfigs (configuration/credential files to access Kubernetes clusters) that I have to deal with on a daily basis. It was also a nice learning experience with Rust, and I have to say I was much more productive with it than I was expecting to.

https://github.com/embik/kubeconfig-bikeshed

Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?

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Post by donskif »

sethx wrote: post #15

I was annoyed at how parasitic recruiters started contacting me about jobs in crypto, so i spent the last year building a fully automated job board that ingests all job data automatically and structures it using openai, while also enriching it with relevant company financials to combat information asymmetry. I’m now using it to find my next job :) Check it out at: https://jobstash.xyz

nice, very solid! I've just started picking away at my own version of this (mainly to procrastinate from job searching), although not focused on crypto.

From a quick glance at the TG group, are you using just Github to scrape for jobs?

Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?

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Post by jesterson »

m5r wrote: post #103

https://github.com/m5r/shellphone.app I was halfway across the world when I needed to make a lot of phone calls to my bank back home. So I pulled up Twilio's docs and built this app to make phone calls and send SMS from anywhere. I tried monetizing it by selling it to digital nomads but this kind of problem is not recurring enough or painful enough to justify them paying for it So I ended up open sourcing it

I sue Skype for that. Setting/switching multiple CID helps to avoid stupid questions from bank staff like, hmmm, I see your are not calling from registered number...
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