I made a SaaS platform that automatically generates a customer support and lead gen bot using clients' website!
Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
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#192A pile of various tools: A self hosted web archiving tool with support for extendible processing pipelines (eg. extract article -> translate -> summarize -> generate tags, download video -> split audio track -> transcribe -> summarize), which led me to make a managed chromium browser with extensions and warc support for archiving, and a RSS feed synthesizer (take random article listing page that doesn't have RSS and…
Several of these sound interesting to me, gonna check them out tonight!
Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
#193I’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.
UC Berkeley just banned the use of AI for conceptualising, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing student work.
How about critiquing? Like, the moral equivalent of an editor pointing out issues and/or suggesting alterations? I think it would still be the student doing all the things you pointed out, but I suspect there's a fair amount of leeway in the interpretation of each of those.
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#194A tool to manage Claude Code conversations based on my typical workflow which integrates with my desktop OS and terminal app.
Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
#195I have made a TUI tool for organizing and authoring sermons written by myself. It also has a third mode for reading one or two bible versions in parallel. I love the interface and keep adding features to make it easy to navigate in and something that actually helps me to organize and write sermons. Some features are to have notes at specific places in the bible, summaries, notes, exports to html/pdf, metadata for eac…
"Hi everyone, today we're going to read the book of Acts."
opens terminal
(made me smile)
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#197retro-inspired fully custom, swiss army knife style notepad --
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#198It's dumb, but....
I made a scraper that searches through all the news and finds anything 'war' related. It then summarizes it and give me that new in the Star Wars crawl with music.
Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
#199Many, really, but there are few I'm especially proud of: - https://github.com/exlee/pikchr_pl - DiagramIDE (diagram amiga-style workbench where you can script Pikchr diagrams using TCL, Prolog, Pikchr or - recently mruby). Note: you need to navigate to actual crate for description. There are binaries built in case someone wants to try it. - https://svg.axk.sh - semi manual SVG fitter so that I can easier vectorize AI…
These are really cool - I've been meaning to return to my pikchr-in-wasm IDE experiment. I only ever built a PoC, and that was before AI coding. I should pick it back up and polish it a bit, but after seeing your DiagramIDE, I might just use that.
This whole thread is turning HN into my favorite app store. Good stuff.
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#200Attie: it shows recently played football/basketball/baseball/etc games but with the scores hidden by default. That way, you can who played without ruining the result. Then watch highlights in peace! https://www.attie.app
Cool. Big fan of dtmts.com myself.