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Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
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#212I've just made this interactive periodic table of elements.
It's a periodic table that you can interact with like Google maps or similar. Zooming in progressively reveals more information about each chemical weekend element including images, video and Wikipedia content
Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
#213https://izuded.com (i.e., "iz u ded?") I made this because I adopted a puppy and realized that, if I got hit by a bus on a Friday, he could be stuck in his crate for days before anyone realized. Morbid, but useful. It texts you every X days and asks, "u ded?" -- if you don't click "naw" before X days pass, it'll notify your contacts. It's a portfolio project to show what I've learned in the realm of "serverless" arch…
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#214The simplest one that I also use the most is start.sh: https://github.com/JangoSteve/start I've been using it for 3 years now, but keep forgetting to tell anyone about it. It's a simple bash script that detects what kind of project your current directory is and runs the appropriate command to start the development server. I created it, because I found myself constantly switching between projects of different types, a…
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Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
#215https://shellshare.net I have migrated my wife's (then girlfriend) computer to Linux and sometimes I had to configure something on her computer (e.g. a printer). This ended up generating lots of back and forth on the phone with me telling her commands to write in the terminal, and she reading the output out loud. I wanted an easy way to see her terminal. So shellshare was born. Shellshare allows you to run a single c…
this is brilliant, and very useful. Well done!
Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
#216https://shellshare.net I have migrated my wife's (then girlfriend) computer to Linux and sometimes I had to configure something on her computer (e.g. a printer). This ended up generating lots of back and forth on the phone with me telling her commands to write in the terminal, and she reading the output out loud. I wanted an easy way to see her terminal. So shellshare was born. Shellshare allows you to run a single c…
this is cooool. :)
Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
#217Universal 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...
Interesting concept of measuring/showing the time. Love the UI. Good job @Kexoth
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#218http://www.ghostnoteapp.com
I made it because I couldn't find a developer to do a larger project I wanted to do based on the same principle.
So I paid a developer to do this and now he is my partner and we are building the project I wanted to do to begin with. It's quite profitable for a small tool.
It's based on the idea of contextual note taking which basically allow you to attach notes to all sorts of things like website, folders, files etc.
The contextual engine is part of my new project.
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#219Not as fancy as many of those posted by: http://landmark-tool.herokuapp.com/
When I was researching face recognition, I absolutely hated the labeling system that we were given, and couldn't really find anything better (mind you, this was about 6 years ago). So I started building Landmarker. It let you plot points, identify segments, zoom and rotate.
It never served any real purpose besides the few times I've wanted to make vector art.
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#220https://followww.co/
It shows you all HTTP redirects that a certain URL leads to, with all cookies that are set at each of the steps.
I built it to help my online marketeer colleagues get insights in what is hiding behind short URLs. Before building this tool, they routinely came to me with URLs asking me to trace them. The back-end is a websocket API that returns each step as it discovers it and the front-end is an Angular (1.x) application. I also built a small Chrome extension[1] that adds a followww. context menu item to all links on the web.
[1]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/followww/dmpapbgln...