https://Timerdoro.com - A productivity timer where you can build your own timers to work for Pomodoro, eye strain, GTD, meetings, whatever. Averages about 50 visits/day, with half being repeat users.
Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
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#272PPD courses
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#273http://servpaid.com
I wanted a simple frontend for Stripe to charge whatever amount. As a web designer and developer this is what I use to get paid, work as a charm.
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#274The things I have made that I am most proud of are: * https://standardresume.co/ - Started because I couldn't find a resume that I liked. * https://amplitudeapp.com/ - A more advanced artist radio style playlist maker. * http://rediscover.rile.yt/ - Automatically save Spotify discover weekly playlists.
I've been using an IFTTT recipe for saving the weekly playlists. Works like a charm.
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#275The things I have made that I am most proud of are: * https://standardresume.co/ - Started because I couldn't find a resume that I liked. * https://amplitudeapp.com/ - A more advanced artist radio style playlist maker. * http://rediscover.rile.yt/ - Automatically save Spotify discover weekly playlists.
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#276http://direnv.net/ is a language-agnostic shell environment switcher.
I built it years ago because I thought RVM was doing it wrong. It replaces all the ${lang}env switchers on my machine that I still use every day. The best thing is to see users adopting it without me doing much PR and contributing back with useful features.
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#277Probably my largest is https://github.com/chad-autry/rototone Android app for ringtone nad notification tone play lists.
Other than that, I've gotten alot of use out of my dockerized minecraft project https://github.com/chad-autry/minecraft-server-container
And more recently, in line with what the OP is looking for https://github.com/chad-autry/markdown-code-extractor is a quick project to extract code from a markdown file(GH READ.md) and create files. I use it to create the yaml files which I otherwise develop/comment straight in the READ.md of https://github.com/chad-autry/wac-bp
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#278https://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…
Wow, that's pretty cool. I've thought about moving my parents to Linux; my mom only uses the internet, and while my dad needs his computer for work, the software he uses supports Linux. I'm afraid I'm not going to be able to support Windows for them for much longer. I use Linux full time, and Windows is slowly changing. I can still talk them through most problems over the phone, but little changes here and there have made walking them through an issue really time consuming, which is frustrating for all of us.
My chief concern with installing Linux was having to teach them how to communicate what is happening over the phone all over again. Outside of that, I'm pretty confident Linux is a good choice for my parents. My dad actually worked for Digital Electronics for years, and he's been interested in Linux for as long as I've been using it, but I think Linux would actually be better for my mom, because she literally doesn't care about her computer as long as it works. Her computer issues are generally the "the computer keeps telling me something and I want it to go away" type. Fixing those problems on the phone with Windows is a mess, but are basically trivial in Linux. My dad's issues are generally "I broke the internet," so this wouldn't be as helpful for him.
I'm really excited about this. I might honestly go buy an SSD to install Linux on my Mom's computer today. That way I could just drop it in her computer next time I'm at her house. My hope is that the boost in speed from Windows---> Linux, and the boost in speed from a 5400 rpm drive --> SSD would keep her happy long enough to get used to Linux. She's been complaining a lot about speed recently, and last time I was there I discovered she managed to her default user folder from the internal drive to an external USB backup drive. I have no idea how she did this, but it means she keeps running out of space because the backup process now backs up the backup drive recursively.
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#279I'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.
Having it reversible would be nice, too. Knowing the click is irreversible gives an uneasy feeling.
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#280https://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.
Might be better to go in the reverse direction - get them to store their DNS records under revision control and then when changes are committed/pushed they are deployed. I wrote something like that for Amazon's rout53, https://dns-api.com/ but it wouldn't be hard to wire up a git hook with APIs from DNSMadeSimple, Dyne, or similar I'm sure. (Of course if you don't host your clients DNS then it might be a fight to get…
I thought about that, but some of our clients use 3rd party contractors / internal IT to manage their DNS as well so getting those entities to use it would be hard. Eventually that would lead to mismatched records.
The current way, I can actually monitor DNS changes to clients without them having to change anything they are doing.
I have thought about a syncing type of feature where you'd be able to schedule a one-time or recurring sync for a particular zone or group of zones.