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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?

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Post by jtreminio »

https://puphpet.com

I started working with VMs several years ago, manually setting up a Virtualbox image. It would take around 30 minutes, and whenever I'd screw something up I'd have to delete it and redo the whole thing. Sometimes I'd fat-finger a command and have to start the process all over again.

Once I got tired of that I started to look into Vagrant, which recommended using a tool like Puppet or Chef. That led me down the rabbit hole of learning Puppet, which made me want to have a GUI to be able to easily change some choices around without having to mess with the code itself.

So I created a simple HTML form with drop downs and buttons and released it thinking that maybe 10 people or so would find it useful.

Almost 4,000,000 servers created later, and I'm quite happy with how it's been received!

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

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Post by rileyt »

lawrencewu wrote: post #126
rileyt wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

True, but one could probably come up with codewords for any really personal reminders.

I'm not looking for insane privacy, just some reassurance that the engineers are at considering privacy.

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

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Post by stpe »

Believe it or not, but back in 2000-2001 WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) was "the future" of mobile internet.

I worked at a startup doing mobile games but often business people needed very basic landing pages - so I did the point-and-click Wap Prototype Maker! Screenshot still available here: http://www.stefan-pettersson.nu/site/wpm/

I remember I was happy drawing the toolbar icons, because it reminded me of working in Deluxe Paint.

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

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Post by tymm »

https://simplepush.io Easiest way to send notifications to Android from the command line.

No registration, unlimited notifications, send messages via curl.

I made it because I like simplicity and all other tools were overly complicated (require registration and so on).

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

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Post by rileyt »

jimminy wrote: post #143
rileyt wrote: post #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.

I was looking for a Discover Weekly saver for a while, but resorted to using just screencapping the list, and saving the good tracks internally. One issue with saving a Discover Weekly list to Spotify is that Discover Weekly is generated based on the content in the user's playlists. If you add a bunch of Discover Weekly lists that are 28/30 duds you're going to start reinforcing the system to generate crappy lists. I…

I have heard talk of this before, it would be great to get an answer from someone who works at Spotify. I wonder if saving the tracks in the playlist and not creating the backup until the next week would get around that? There is no way they are track all plays, saves, playlists, skips for every user over all of time.
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