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Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
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#162I built a color palette tweaker very specific to my OCD needs:
https://archives.fifthrevision.com/color-generator/index.htm...
I also have a local zsh autocomplete macro that let's me type things like "git rename annotated branch" and ctrl-g and it will get me the actual command. There's also a ctrl-r mode that searches my history using natural language. This is connected to a locally run ollama so my keys don't leak.
Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
#163Android browser wrapper that can download any video, audio, text
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Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
#164https://github.com/Opfour/warfare - A modern HTML5 remake of Warfare 1.0 (1995) by Carric Moor Games. Turn-based hex strategy with city management, unit recruitment, tactical combat, and AI opponents — all running in the browser with zero dependencies. Playable but still building in additional features
https://github.com/Opfour/coeus-ci - Named after Coeus (SEE-us), the 100 eyed Greek Titan of the inquisitive mind — whose name literally means "querying." CI stands for Competitive Intelligence. A business intelligence OSINT tool that builds company profiles from free public data sources. Give it a domain — get back a scored report covering stability, growth, tech maturity, financial health, security posture, and transparency.
https://github.com/Opfour/op4 - Op4 is a terminal-based encrypted messaging application written in Rust. It provides end-to-end encrypted private messaging with post-quantum cryptography, routed entirely through the Tor network so that neither the content of your messages nor your IP address is exposed to anyone — not even the person you are talking to.
Spartan (Private) - Open-source safety app for women. Community-based emergency response.
AATR - (Private) Catering unified platform: events dashboard, pack lists, and staff management
https://github.com/Opfour/thelinuxreport.com - Linux news and information aggregator.
God I love this stuff!
(edit: I also have about 6 more projects I am working on locally not yet uploaded to GitHub)
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#165RainBreak - https://rainbreak.franzai.com/
Blocks the computer for x minutes. Agents keep on working. AI doesn't need a break, but I do. And honestly, at least for me AI has made my desktop as addicting my social media feed.
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#166Code review tool that breaks up diffs and regroups fragments based on runtime execution paths and/or architectural boundaries. I find it useful sometimes to see changes organised that way.
Can you share it? Would love to try it out! github/linkedin: adityamwagh
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#167I’m a UK teacher. I have built a custom GPT that marks essays for the subject I teach in a repeatable and reliable way. It gives actionable feedback to students. I use it, and have given my students access to it too - they use it to help their revision.
Students use AI to write essays and teachers use it to grade. What a wonderful system
Kids making mud cakes, climbing trees, and taking shots at each other with shanghais. Teachers lounging on a beach somewhere. Meanwhile in classrooms, bots.
The Dead Classroom Theory.
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#168I recently posted Show HN for https://www.useorganizer.com/ which helps organize stuff using timelines and stores data in a local folder not the cloud. Open source.
No code or docs was hand written for this one.
Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
#169Too many to mention. Daily drivers: replacements for CapCut, Granola. A remote image viewer to see screenshots in VMs. A simple agent harness to drive spec to verification. A YouTube video summarizer. https://github.com/ozten - some public repos, but the majority are private repos
What does your CapCut thing do?
Somewhat related - I wish there was some local thing I could give my 100 holiday videos and it made something fun with the highlights to a specified duration.
Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
#170So many! I manage a fund that buys small e-comm brands, and at this point the whole thing runs on a combination of AI and tools created with AI. My favorite is one that scrapes my Alibaba/WeChat/WhatsApp/email supplier convos daily and uses that to build a dashboard tracking the status of my orders.
I write a Substack about the whole thing and have a pretty comprehensive list here: https://theautomatedoperator.substack.com/p/15-ways-im-using...