Ask HN: Tools you have made for yourself?

I am building a remote job listing aggregator and have been working on it this entire year so far. I want one central place where I can view all listings by a certain company across all aggregators, or disable certain aggregators, etc.

I found it annoying to be browsing like 10 different top remote sites, but having no real way to filter out duplicates, keep track of the listing, save listings and progress them to custom stages a la kanban etc. I've put wayyyyy too much time into this but I'm excited to launch soon. Manually using excel is a PITA too.

I'm focusing really hard on accessibility, mobile UX, and in general usability. The backend is pretty beefy in that it essentially runs itself without any manual work on my part.

Some screenshots:

[0] https://i.imgur.com/PZMtTkq.png

[1] https://i.imgur.com/qfKAaZG.png

[2] https://i.imgur.com/ZDwEzS8.png

[3] https://i.imgur.com/NSreYUN.png

[4] https://i.imgur.com/XbFMQC0.png

[5] https://i.imgur.com/hcVSFSz.png

[6] https://i.imgur.com/tEoDukn.png

Another app I'm working on after this is one to introduce the git branching model to other types of work. Instead of commits/pr's+issues/branches, its tasks/conversations/topics. The idea is to get a birds eye view of what your team is working on and an easy way to publish your events to your team. Opening a PR, or an issue, or anything really takes many clicks and interactions and greatly disrupts my process so I built a native tool like spotlight where you can log a task, conversation, or start a new topic, in only two interactions.

Even as a developer there are many side things I'm doing in a given day that are not accurately reflected by git, and using slack/discord to publish "yesterday / today / tomorrow" is something that can definitely be easily automated.

I'm focusing on productivity tools that solve pains I've had at various points in my career.

Was going to post something of the same type as you =)

Also made a wooden tool to check bicycle wheel dish that is used when lacing my own wheels by hand.

I don't have photos of mine right now, but it is inspired on this template:

https://www.wheelpro.co.uk/support/dishing-tool.php

I made https://kontxt.io to highlight, share, organize, and discover the best parts of the World Wide Web.

People I share articles with now know the exact parts that are relevant and they can quickly skip between the highlights and we can discuss inline to maintain context. It lets me and other people publicly share what we highlight in an easily searchable way so you can find quality content from trusted sources. Want to see what resources other people like you, in this case programmers, found useful and shared. Boom! Now you can. Starting to look into something new that you’re unfamiliar with, say investing, wouldn’t it be great to see what resources other investors previously found useful? Boom! Now you can. Now imagine having this tool at work with all your super smart go-workers? Boom! Now you can. It works for PDFs, too. It’s just a wonderful research and planning tool to save, share, organize, and discuss digital information, which is a huge time saver and productivity booster. Step 1: Google, Step 2: Kontxt, Step 3: Success. :)

It’s really a multi-purpose overlay for the entire World Wide Web with unlimited use-cases. And I’ve recently gained access To OpenAI and have some cool AI stuff coming for preemptive highlights and auto generated reading lists based on interests and past reading history.

I built this tool for myself. I’m an avid reader always looking to grow my skills. If this is you, too, sign up and let’s learn and grow together.

I built a Reddit desktop client called `rdddeck`. It is compact like Tweetdecks, and supports multi-accounts. It gives me an overview of all my subs at a glance.

It also works on mobile device, and looks amazing on an iPad.

- https://rdddeck.com

Motivation: I dislike Reddit's modern UX. It is difficult to navigate, large negative spaces (wasteful), pop-up like behavior when opening a discussion, etc.

That will definitely be useful for students, especially some of my classmates.

Is this open source? If so i may contribute where possible Also, a feature request (if your taking them) is a vocabulary learner and a way to test yourself and mark your progress.