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Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
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#222I created an internal tool to convert images to pdf (using wasm) so I don't have to install any programs. Then a friend wanted to use it too, so I got a url ( https://privateconvert.com ) and then got carried a little bit away adding more conversions.
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#223A few years ago, my wife and I decided to adopt a rescue cat from battersea.org.uk. However, it was a frustrating experience as the staff didn't always update the website regularly, and we'd find that any suitable cats would be snapped up before we'd even seen them. I spotted that the website served its data to the frontend via an unsecured internal JSON API, so I built an Elixir app that would poll the API endpoint…
Great example of a pet project :)
haha
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#224These are the things I've created, some mostly for my own use, and others just for fun:
1. https://gptgames.io - A gaming platform using OpenAI. It came from a silly idea for another project I have, and I ended up putting it together in 1 month.
2. https://creepyface.io - I wanted to animate my face on my resume, and I decided to allow everyone else to do the same.
3. https://react-guitar.com - I wanted to learn guitar theory and tell me a better way to do it than coding a react component :D
4. https://github.com/4lejandrito/fetchbook - I wanted to organize my http requests at work without depending on postman or anything else.
5. https://github.com/4lejandrito/next-plausible - Since I started using Plausible analytics on all my sites, I found the need of reusing some code.
I hope you find any of these interesting!
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#225snippy: https://github.com/barbUk/snippy
To manage snippets with rofi or fzf on linux.
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#226I wanted a program to fill out a lottery ticket (the kind where you have to select 6 random check-boxes in a matrix of 37 cells). In my vision the lottery ticket had to have at least _all_ the numbers from 1 to 37, scattered randomly among 8 matrices. I have a nice little C program to generate those tickets.
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#227https://font2png.com to browse font-icons and export them as PNG, with background/foreground color. Usually you want SVG, but sometimes a PNG is better. I use it mostly to generate quick favicons. It was also fun to make it work completely client side with canvas. https://github.com/combatwombat/rmdb imports the IMDb database (at least the limited .tsv files they provide) into MySQL so you can query it. List the high…
Ooh, I have a use for the IMDB one, I hadn't realised they had data export. Thanks.
Nice. I gather one could generate a lot of listicles with that. "The 10 most * movies of *", "5 early but great movies by famous actors", ...
Too bad IMDb doesn't provide more data in the export. Budget, box office or country of origin would be nice.
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#228never ever finished anything useful. but i made a lot of utilities that are specific and single use for my one perpetual never ending project :')... i like making tools but i never know what for, so i make them for my OS prpject. currently making a system in rust which builds a bootloader and 2 disk images from a config file to save editing scripts. once thats finished its another totally useless tool to add to my list :D.
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#229I'm pretty sure that to this day, I am its only user, but it's fascinating how a relatively simple bash-based continuous delivery script can power the build & deploy pipelines of some quite complex and large-ish projects of mine: https://github.com/manuelkiessling/simplecd/
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#230I mostly code my own games with a target group of 1, my favourites are http://lalo.li/lsd/ https://updownredgreenetc.franzai.com/ https://spinner.franzai.com/ https://dance.franzai.com/ (basically a lava lamp you can interact with) from the app side i like https://qrpwd.franzai.com/ coded to save my 2 factor backup codes qr encoded and encrypted in my photo stream and https://github.com/franzenzenhofer/thisismy a com…
The QR thing is really cool. Love it. I have often wondered how much "hard" data could be stored as images without loss in various environments such as iCloud, whatever Google has and so on.
I think this article from last year on storing files as Youtube videos might be interesting for you . The creator stores pictures in youtube videos that represent compressed data.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31495049