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Re: Ask HN: Is there any software you only made for your own use but nobody else?

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Post by fardinahsan »

Yes. I made two recently.

- TalkToYoutuber[1]: Download the transcripts from a youtube channel and hook it up to gtp4 with RAG to let me "talk" to youtubers. There's a bunch of youtubers who have useful knowledge to share, but no blog or wiki, so semantic searching their video transcripts is the next best thing.

- YoutubeThumbnailSearch[2] - Embded all of a youtube channels thumbnails using CLIP and search them using text. I often need to search through news channels with 10k+ videos, often in foreign languages, so not having to rely on the title or transcript but the video thumbnail helps. This is a much more niche usecase tbf.

I am thinking of making a scaled down version of [1] so I can "talk" to long videos, like conference speeches or university lectures. Should take an hour or two to cook it up since it will reuse most of the code from [1].

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[1] https://github.com/FardinAhsan146/TalkToYoutuber

[2] https://github.com/FardinAhsan146/YoutubeThumbnailSearch

Re: Ask HN: Is there any software you only made for your own use but nobody else?

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Post by guessmyname »

Financial Tracking Application.

I’ve been developing this app for five years. During this time, I’ve integrated it with all my bank accounts to automatically fetch data needed for creating daily graphs and analyzing trends. This allows the app to generate predictions for long-term net worth growth.

Additionally, I’ve integrated the app with Yahoo Finance, Fidelity, and Morgan Stanley to monitor my Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) and Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP). This functionality helps manage tax responsibilities on capital gains and compare growth with other job offers that include RSUs from different companies. For instance, I can answer questions like, “What if I had chosen to work at Facebook instead of Apple?”

The app also extensively utilizes data from credit card transactions. It includes charts listing new restaurants visited in the last month, tables tracking monthly subscriptions, algorithms to detect discrepancies, and numerous other features.

While I’ve considered turning this into a business, my current job keeps me very busy.

Re: Ask HN: Is there any software you only made for your own use but nobody else?

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Post by c-hendricks »

mostelato wrote: post #39

What does it do? I built a bot that runs every 2 weeks, scrapes my local movie theater's currently playing titles, runs them against rotten tomatoes to filter out movies rated below 85%, then looks them up on youtube and posts the trailers to my discord server How did you make it? Python script that runs in google cloud functions, triggered on a bi-weekly schedule How much time you spent making it? An evening How oft…

This isn't a bad idea but 85% seems like it would filter out a lot of good movies. The recent Dune, for instance, is at 83%.

Looks like about half my library would be filtered out.

Re: Ask HN: Is there any software you only made for your own use but nobody else?

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Post by neoecos »

rowofpixels wrote: post #87

I built a hydroponic garden as a covid hobby. I wrote software to maintain the garden, water it on schedule, apply ph changes to the water, turn lights on / off, humidify, as well as monitor statistics (temperature, humidity, water temperature, water ph, water conductivity). Rough guess would be that I spent 50 hours actually working on the software. There's a handful of raspberry pis involved. I wrote everything in…

Did you published this project, sounds interesting just to see the basics of nerves in a real small thing ?

Re: Ask HN: Is there any software you only made for your own use but nobody else?

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Post by SushiHippie »

65 wrote: post #81

Almost all of the software I make in my free time is for my own use. My most used tool I have is a note taking web app that automatically saves markdown files to S3. The most important feature I added was a little button that would automatically make a note for the current day, and put it in the daily notes folder, all sorted and organized. I also have full text search which is very helpful for finding old notes. I a…

> Using the Spotify API you can find random music, [...]

Which API endpoint do you use for this?

Re: Ask HN: Is there any software you only made for your own use but nobody else?

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Post by floydianspiral »

fardinahsan wrote: post #171

Yes. I made two recently. - TalkToYoutuber[1]: Download the transcripts from a youtube channel and hook it up to gtp4 with RAG to let me "talk" to youtubers. There's a bunch of youtubers who have useful knowledge to share, but no blog or wiki, so semantic searching their video transcripts is the next best thing. - YoutubeThumbnailSearch[2] - Embded all of a youtube channels thumbnails using CLIP and search them using…

this is a really cool project, you should send it to people at youtube, get a job there and implement this in their sidebar...

Re: Ask HN: Is there any software you only made for your own use but nobody else?

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Post by fardinahsan »

floydianspiral wrote: post #178
fardinahsan wrote: post #171

Yes. I made two recently. - TalkToYoutuber[1]: Download the transcripts from a youtube channel and hook it up to gtp4 with RAG to let me "talk" to youtubers. There's a bunch of youtubers who have useful knowledge to share, but no blog or wiki, so semantic searching their video transcripts is the next best thing. - YoutubeThumbnailSearch[2] - Embded all of a youtube channels thumbnails using CLIP and search them using…

this is a really cool project, you should send it to people at youtube, get a job there and implement this in their sidebar...

The projects are dead simple. I think if Youtube wanted to, the would have implemented this long back. It's probably a legal landmine and financial tar pit. But thanks nevertheless.

Re: Ask HN: Is there any software you only made for your own use but nobody else?

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Post by stoneman24 »

sloaken wrote: post #164
rowofpixels wrote: post #87

I built a hydroponic garden as a covid hobby. I wrote software to maintain the garden, water it on schedule, apply ph changes to the water, turn lights on / off, humidify, as well as monitor statistics (temperature, humidity, water temperature, water ph, water conductivity). Rough guess would be that I spent 50 hours actually working on the software. There's a handful of raspberry pis involved. I wrote everything in…

That is AWESOME! I would love to see what you did for this. Even more I would love to build the same.

I agree, a blog post or other description would be great and really inspiring for my own projects.
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