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 tree_of_item » Tue, Nov 15, 2016, 4:16 PM UTC

id122015 wrote: post #93

StavrosK wrote: post #12

I'm proud of many things :( * I converted a rotary phone into a cellphone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSkdWQswpc8 * I wrote a personal bookmark search engine: http://historio.us/ * A site that talks to spammers so you don't have to: https://spa.mnesty.com/ * A pastebin: http://pastery.net/ * A remote-controlled GSM irrigation controller for farmers: https://gitlab.com/stavros/irrigation-controller * A button tha…

that Dead mans switch type of project is only funny when you want others to use it. That idea alone should make us reflect if we had lived a life being true to ourselves and told everyone what we wanted them to hear. OK, next its my turn: Ill create a dating bot that contacts users on Valentines day, and invites them to restaurant if they will still be single next year. How does it feel ?

I can't tell what point you're trying to make here.

And how exactly does your dating example work? It invites them only if they agree to stay single for a year?

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

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Nov 15, 2016, 4:19 PM UTC

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

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Post by jkaptur » Tue, Nov 15, 2016, 4:20 PM UTC

http://diff.so

It's a simple diff-as-you-type tool. I realized that I often had two strings (test output, code samples, etc.) and wanted to compare them in as few keystrokes as possible, from any computer.

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

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Post by arbuge » Tue, Nov 15, 2016, 4:20 PM UTC

https://addue.com

Online marketing tools - conversion tracking, etc. Rather unique in the way these as are defined as "rules" which can be concatenated.

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

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Post by Retr0spectrum » Tue, Nov 15, 2016, 4:20 PM UTC

StavrosK wrote: post #12

I'm proud of many things :( * I converted a rotary phone into a cellphone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSkdWQswpc8 * I wrote a personal bookmark search engine: http://historio.us/ * A site that talks to spammers so you don't have to: https://spa.mnesty.com/ * A pastebin: http://pastery.net/ * A remote-controlled GSM irrigation controller for farmers: https://gitlab.com/stavros/irrigation-controller * A button tha…

I like expounder, definitely haven't seen something like that before. I'd like it if there was an option to have the expanded text highligted in some way, just so I can keep track of everything mentally.

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

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Post by Kexoth » Tue, Nov 15, 2016, 4:21 PM UTC

Universal Beat [0] - When Apple Watch came out I had an idea for showing day & year progress 0-1000.*

Open for feedback!

* I'm aware that Swatch had this for the day only long time ago, it was called `swatch @beats`.

[0] - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/universal-beat-different-loo...

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

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Post by tomschlick » Tue, Nov 15, 2016, 4:21 PM UTC

https://zonewatcher.com

After having multiple clients change their DNS settings without warning and then email us when shit hits the fan I knew I needed some type of warning system.

This checks every X minutes and saves each version so you can see the revision history for all your DNS zones across many providers.

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

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Post by michaelbuckbee » Tue, Nov 15, 2016, 4:22 PM UTC

I got tired of remembering how to format date/times as strings and made http://www.foragoodstrftime.com/

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

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Post by rockdiesel » Tue, Nov 15, 2016, 4:22 PM UTC

http://statenislandferryschedule.com

Proud of it because it's the first basic thing I've built from, mostly, the ground up. It's just basic HTML and uses Materialize CSS for the styling. I hope to learn enough JavaScript soon to add a dynamic component to it which highlights the next departure times for ease of use, so the visitor doesn't have to scroll through every time.

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

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Post by dmuth » Tue, Nov 15, 2016, 4:23 PM UTC

http://www.SeptaStats.com/

Hits the API for Philadelphia's Regional Rail and displays real-time data on the system as a whole as well as historical data on specific trains and train stations. It's useful to tell, for example, that the evening train I normally want to take home (https://www.septastats.com/train/573) is almost never on time, for example.

There's more I want to do, such as displaying more detailed stats and train data (on-time percentages, for example). And hopefully get some interest from SEPTA so they can use it to determinate the "biggest offenders" and what can be done about them.