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

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

#131

I built http://pixelsview.com I run a media website and people are always asking me, what will X or Y look like? How do I know what size I want? I send them there.

You should have links to specific views. So someone could just share a url to a specific size.

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

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A tool to make JS bookmarklets: https://bookmarkify.it/ I created this years ago because I wanted a quick way to create bookmarklets. Since putting it online I have had good months in terms of visitors (1000+) and worse (50), but I am still very happy that people keep coming to bookmarkify to create helpful bookmarklets for themselves and others. By now it has been around longer than 4 years, despite what the banner…

This is great. I've never had the time to learn how bookmarklets work, but your tool just let me make a simple one in under a minute.

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

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I'm most proud of making Open Exchange Rates ( https://openexchangerates.org ), which grew out of a hobby project (and a desire to create a really simple API for something that had previously been annoyingly complex.) The basic JSON API request and response formats are unchanged since day 0, although we've added a few new features in response to customers' demands over the years.

I've been using this for years. Really really nice both practically (the data is useful) and conceptually (I always use this or OpenWeatherMap to explain to students what an API is)

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

#136
I've built https://www.defollow.com

It tracks your Twitch unfollowers. I would never recommend anybody to care about unfollowers, but I was just always so curious to find out who unfollowed me (and hunt him until he refollows).

I also plan to add YouTube support soon. :)

Edit: It's still a little bit in development.

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

#137
I built a simple habit tracker for groups of friends to hold each other accountable. Although it has no growth, it's been an amazing tool for my friends and I. The app lead a big change in our lives and I am proud of that.

link: https://itunes.apple.com/ro/app/tribes-build-habits-friends/...

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

#138
http://upush.xyz/ (No longer functioning)

I did a web scrapper which auto login to my university portal to detect any changes on news board (like lecturer post a class cancel notice), if change detected it will send a push notification to a mobile app.

Did this app in few weeks because I got pissed by lecturer suddenly canceling class and post the news at last minute. I shared it to my classmates and it jumped to 2200 active users before got shut down.

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

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post #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" arch…

"im ded :( plz walk doggie"

Man, that's not how I would want to find out that a friend or family member has passed away.

:-|

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