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Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?

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Post by haxzie »

I was a hardcodre user of notion, but it was super slow in the intial days. I was mainly using it for note taking, temporary copy pasta and to store code snippets. Felt like notion is a bit of an overkill and built a local first app that runs on the browser. Stores everything in locally in the indexedDB and is super fast to load. Check it out https:///snipp.in. Which is now being used by most of my engineering friends who know me, it's also open source.

Also, while working on maps, felt there weren't any good alternative to GeoJSON editor online so built something by spending hours, it's one of the best GeoJSON Editors out there which is free to use https://krata.app

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Post by ksjskskskkk »

guyrap wrote: post #159

Using https://wwebjs.dev/ to read my whatsapp messages, redis for storage/interop, and a script written for https://github.com/matryer/xbar for a "GUI", instead of running WhatsApp Desktop / WhatsApp Web on my machine (very bad for my attention), I have a status bar icon saying when did I last get a message from my wife, and the text of the last few messages.

you can use matrix and integrate all those (whatsbook, telegram, irc, etc) into a single client. most clients have os integration and custom notification settings

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Post by errozero »

Here's a couple of web audio things I have worked on and not really shared with anyone. They will both work best in Chrome.

https://303-gen-06a668.netlify.app - A tool to generate randomised 303 acid loops (Chrome only)

https://metronic-studio-0d0680.netlify.app - Unfinished web daw project started a few years ago

Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?

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Post by xenodium »

- https://xenodium.com/an-ios-journaling-app-powered-by-org-pl... - Lately, I'm having a go at building a privacy-focused plain-text-based iOS journaling app. I started building it for someone important in my life but now also using it myself.

- https://flathabits.com - After reading Atomic Habits, I wanted a habit tracker but most had more friction than I wanted, required accounts, had distractions, lock-in etc. so I built a privacy-focused app, with little friction and no-lock-in (saves to plain text).

- https://plainorg.com - There are a gazillion markdown apps on the App Store, but hardly any supporting org markup, so I built one.

- https://xenodium.com/scratch-a-minimal-scratch-area - I wanted a surface where I could just dump text with as few taps as possible.

- https://github.com/xenodium/macosrec - I wanted to take either screenshots or videos of macOS apps from the command line, so I could integrate anywhere.

- https://github.com/xenodium/chatgpt-shell - I'm far down the Emacs rabbit hole, so I prefer Emacs-integrated tools. Built a ChatGPT Emacs shell to see what the hype was all about ;) tl;dr it really does help.

- https://github.com/xenodium/dwim-shell-command - A way to manage and easily apply the gazillion one-liners (and more complex scripts) I've come across. I got close to 100 utils check-in now.

- https://github.com/xenodium/ob-swiftui - Play around with SwiftUI layouts from the comfort of my preferd editor.

- https://github.com/xenodium/company-org-block - Org block completion.

- https://xenodium.com - I tend to scratch own itches and post my solutions here.

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Post by ishanjain28 »

https://git.ishanjain.me/ishan/multicaster

This is a mdns repeater for (primarily home) networks. The "recommended" way is to use use PIM/IGMP but you can not control the specific mdns names that'll be repeated over the vlan boundary. There are a few other repeaters but nothing that would've worked for me so I wrote this. It still needs a few improvements around caching responses. mdns enabled devices do known prefix suppression which some times causes problems.

Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?

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Post by bcoughlan »

I made a tool to generate command line clients from OpenAPI definitions out of pure frustration from trying to stitch together incantations of curl commands to work with APIs.

I haven't revisited it in a while, and the docs could probably do with some love, but I use it every day.

[1] https://github.com/bcoughlan/openapi-commander

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