Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making? • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by DelTaco » Tue, Nov 15, 2016, 4:12 PM UTC

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.TimMendez....

I made a simple endless swing game for Android with Unity 5. It was my first experience with Unity or C#. I needed units for college, and I was able to have a professor oversee the project for 4 units. I'm so glad he did because I had a ton of fun making it!

Took a quatter to make and I'm pretty proud of it even though the only users nowadays are friends and family members who keep it installed and accidentally open it, and a couple of Russians :)

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

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Post by 0xCMP » Tue, Nov 15, 2016, 4:12 PM UTC

munchor wrote: post #29

TeMPOraL wrote: post #13

Nyan Mode. https://github.com/TeMPOraL/nyan-mode I made it as a simple joke, but for some reason it rapidly gained popularity among Emacs users, and now I sometimes find it or hear about it in unexpected places. (Also I fear that on my deathbed I'll look back and realize that the most used thing I've ever made in my life was an animated cat for a text editor... sigh )

I have been using this for years and all my work colleagues always ask me "what is that nyan cat on your text editor? that must be super annoying!" and I always have to tell them I just really like it. Thank you for building this, it's awesome!

Same! But sadly when I switched to Spacemacs I haven't set it up again.

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

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Post by josho » Tue, Nov 15, 2016, 4:14 PM UTC

augustflanagan wrote: post #113

I built https://cronitor.io after having an important cron job fail silently for several days. When I mentioned this problem to a friend his first response was "we just had a major issue with cron failing silently at my work too". We decided to hack on it together, and we've since grown Cronitor from a tool built for our own needs into a small business with a couple hundred paying customers.

As someone about to write a cron job, what ways do you see Cron fail?

My assumption is that cron is robust and reliable, it's the job script itself that may fail silently and need monitoring, yes?

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

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Post by w_t_payne » Tue, Nov 15, 2016, 4:14 PM UTC

Buetol wrote: post #18

An archive of chrome extensions versions: https://crx.dam.io (I should upload it to archive.org) Also, this small templating library for python: https://github.com/mdamien/lys Also, a chrome extension that display images like firefox do, people seems to like it: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/center-images/dama...

I really like lys. (I've started to use it for some small bits and pieces and will possibly/probably continue).

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

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Post by bvrlt » Tue, Nov 15, 2016, 4:14 PM UTC

Genius Scan (http://dl.tglapp.com/genius-scan) because it helps millions of people save some time every month.

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

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Post by deedubaya » Tue, Nov 15, 2016, 4:15 PM UTC

https://www.hireloop.io - Put an end to job appliant overload, with clearer 2-way communication between you (the hiring manager) and your applicants. No more ghosting.

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

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Post by mijustin » Tue, Nov 15, 2016, 4:15 PM UTC

Last year, I launched https://devmarketing.xyz

I'm really proud of it for a few reasons:

1. It was a response to an observed need. I was getting daily emails from devs asking me about product marketing. I believed that devs who learned marketing could be unstoppable when it comes to launching products.

2. I created it on the side, while working full-time.

3. In its first 3 months it did $28,433 in revenue. This allowed me to go full-time on my own projects this January.

If you build an audience, and earn a good reputation, selling your expertise is a good option.

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

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Post by alando46 » Tue, Nov 15, 2016, 4:15 PM UTC

http://worlddev.io

Sms Lists is an sms craigslist for refugee camps. I made it after visiting a couple of refugee camps and realizing that it was really hard for business owners who made https://github.com/alando46/smslists

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

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Post by jtsai1 » Tue, Nov 15, 2016, 4:16 PM UTC

http://www.ogjobboard.com/

After getting chew out by my last boss regarding scrapping job post off of oil and gas industry. I created this site to practices what I have learn so far on web scraping with c# by using selenium, phantomjs and htmlagilitypack. Its a site where I scraped job posting from major oil companies.

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

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Post by jtsai1 » Tue, Nov 15, 2016, 4:16 PM UTC

http://www.ogjobboard.com/

After getting chew out by my last boss regarding scrapping job posts off of oil companies. I created this site to practices what I have learn so far on web scraping with c# by using selenium, phantomjs and htmlagilitypack. Its a site where I scraped job posting from major oil companies.