Could we please stop putting price tags on 15-commit repos?
It's just crazy that every idea, created with ai, now costs 10$ or more per month, despite it costs 5$ to create.
Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
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#102magpie - extracts book recommendations from reddit threads. I had a bunch of saved threads from 'books' and 'suggestmeabook' and 'printsf' etc., and I realized I could pull them down and do a semantic search.
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#103I built a tmux clone in Rust:
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#104- parametric 2d vector based CAD with CAM https://rapidcam.mycnc.app - gcode sender and generator https://mycnc.app - CNC simulator https://sim.mycnc.app - Cabinet design with door/drawer designer https://cabinet.mycnc.app
nice - i wanted a gcode creator for pen plotter. so easy to draw labels now on tape.
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#105replaced some paid apps with local - google reader rss replacement and send web to kindle. most ambitious was browser extension to automate booking reservations since captcha and timing were critical. swamp/evaporative cooler controller that monitors rate of change of relative humidity and sends RF signal to cooler to turn water on for x seconds to keep humidity lower than just leaving set to cool all the time. Does…
I’d be curious about that web to kindle one you built. Mind sharing?
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#106I made a Safari extension with Swift that automatically suggests using Fastmail masked email addresses on login forms. Never published it, instead just using an xcode dev build on my phone. Works flawlessly.
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#107I've been building a tool aimed at better web annotations for teams and AI collaboration at https://viewall.io/
Having worked with web facing teams there are always vastly different methods any individual uses to capture their feedback. If you or anyone you know on Mac that has 100s of screenshots on their desktop, this is aimed at bridging the gap.
Clipboards are optimized with context for LLM markdown ingestion and for use in work suites like Jira/Confluence.
Still fairly early, but I've been using the tool to help build the app itself which has been an enlightening experience.
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#108* Wikimedia Commons upload: https://daniel.lawrence.lu/blog/2026-03-25-uploading-to-wiki...
* Image viewer that can handle really big photos + run scripts via custom keybindings + CLIP search: https://daniel.lawrence.lu/blog/2025-10-22-sriv-simple-rust-...
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#109A few things: Reminder.dev - Quran app and API that includes RAG search to provide a more authenticated source of summarisation. The first thing I dabbled in with AI. Micro.mu - Rebuilt my entire product idea from 10 years ago as a super app for daily digital habits. Something I use everyday for myself. Aslam.org - An islamic knowledge base that uses sources of data as a way to ground AI chat and make notes. Very use…
Micro.mu looks interesting, your description of daily digital habits made me think it was a productivity app, when it really is more of a dashboard for different channels of content on the internet (social, video, chat, etc.) what was your original vision? I am curios. Also I really like the design, its so clean, Ive never seen anything quite like it and yet it seems like such a good aesthetic that should have been obvious. kuddos.
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#110- Otzel, an OT library for elixir that is in some common cases 50x faster than the most widely deployed elixir OT library:
https://github.com/ityonemo/otzel
- Spector, a bare-bones CQRS library for elixir that composes extremely well with Otzel:
https://spector.hexdocs.pm/Spector.html
- nanodrop, an elixir library that interfaces with nanodrop spectrophotometers:
https://nanodrop.hexdocs.pm/Nanodrop.html
- opengenepool, a web-based dna editing tool (technically I started this one 11 years ago):
https://opengenepool.vidalalabs.com/ https://github.com/vidala-labs/opengenepool
- a proprietary camera library that communicates with industrial-grade digital cameras.
- a full on self-hosted lab management system (journal articles, obsidian-like notes, lab notebook, kanban, embedded dna editor, LIMS), obviously this builds on all of the above items