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

#111
Right now, https://fromscratch.rocks a smart and simple autosaving note taking application. It's a rectangle you can type into, and if you use it like that, that's all it is.

But if you want more, you can use note-folding, a whole bunch of text manipulation changes and best of all, it's automatically written to disk (no saving needed ever) in a real text file, so syncing and backup is really simple.

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

#112
I made myself a program that downloaded & organized torrent music files; it was customizable so that %a/%y - %d meant store underneath / - . It was one of first projects I ever coded, and eventually got to point where main thread would lock up cause I was doing so much processing on it. As anyone who does this kinda work knows, main thread processes graphics, so when it would freeze up for 10-20 seconds I really had no idea what was going on and started doing all this crazy stuff before figuring out how to handle threads.

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

#113
I built https://cronitor.io after having an important cron job fail silently for several days. When I mentioned this problem to a friend his first response was "we just had a major issue with cron failing silently at my work too".

We decided to hack on it together, and we've since grown Cronitor from a tool built for our own needs into a small business with a couple hundred paying customers.

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

#114
http://hellojarvis.io/ is a Messenger bot that reminds you to do stuff. You can phrase time in many ways, which was quite tricky to do: "in 3 hours", "on the 25th", "tomorrow night", "next wednesday" all work.

We currently have almost 25k users and I'm proud of the fact that people really do find it useful. A friend recently mentioned to me that he used Jarvis to remind him about his dentist appointment.

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

#116
https://izuded.com

(i.e., "iz u ded?")

I made this because I adopted a puppy and realized that, if I got hit by a bus on a Friday, he could be stuck in his crate for days before anyone realized. Morbid, but useful.

It texts you every X days and asks, "u ded?" -- if you don't click "naw" before X days pass, it'll notify your contacts.

It's a portfolio project to show what I've learned in the realm of "serverless" architecture. Details about its construction here: https://medium.com/@marclar/iz-u-ded-713594fd80e9

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

#117
post #84

I'm most proud of React Flip Move ( https://github.com/joshwcomeau/react-flip-move ), an animation library that does exactly one thing: animate transitions when DOM nodes change positions (eg. list re-ordering). I wind up using it in almost every project I work on, since just about every app has a list of some kind, and many lists need to support being sorted, having items added, etc. It's a simple tool, but the inte…

Is that a purely JS thing ? Surely such things would be best done by CSS? I am speaking as a person with 0 experience apping production level web apps.

So, the issue is that CSS transitions only handle CSS attribute changes. For example, if I apply a CSS attribute like `transform: translateY(100px);`, I can easily animate that using CSS.

When an item's DOM position changes, there's no CSS change to animate. You can throw a `transition: 1s` on it, and nothing'll happen. This is the distinction between moving an item around on-screen, and removing/appending a DOM node from one position in the tree to another.

For Flip Move: I actually do use CSS transitions to accomplish it, but through trickery known as the FLIP technique. You can read all the nitty-gritty details, if it interests you, in a blog post I wrote: https://medium.com/developers-writing/animating-the-unanimat...

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

#118
The things I have made that I am most proud of are:

* https://standardresume.co/ - Started because I couldn't find a resume that I liked.

* https://amplitudeapp.com/ - A more advanced artist radio style playlist maker.

* http://rediscover.rile.yt/ - Automatically save Spotify discover weekly playlists.

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

#119

http://hellojarvis.io/ is a Messenger bot that reminds you to do stuff. You can phrase time in many ways, which was quite tricky to do: "in 3 hours", "on the 25th", "tomorrow night", "next wednesday" all work. We currently have almost 25k users and I'm proud of the fact that people really do find it useful. A friend recently mentioned to me that he used Jarvis to remind him about his dentist appointment.

this is really cool! the lack of explanation and any privacy statements makes me somewhat nervous though. reminders can be somewhat personal.
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