I've built Caloree an iOS/Mac app that allows you to track your daily calorie intake, go on a calorie deficit diet and track your weight which has worked wonders for me. It's freemium, but most features are available for free. It can be found at https://caloree.app.
Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
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Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
#272I've created a mobile proxy pool for a personal project of web scraping real estate data: https://scrapingfish.com/blog/byo-mobile-proxy-for-web-scrap... Then, I expanded the infrastructure and built a web scraping API on top of it: https://scrapingfish.com
This is fascinating. So does this mean that if I'm using internet via my mobile network, I can generate multiple IPs that I can use, and use them all simultaneously, or alternately?
Is there a concern of violating mobile network policies in doing so?
Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
#273I have a reactive dog. She used to be a street dog so she doesn't take kindly to other dogs -- but get this -- only when on the street; in the park she's perfectly fine.
We have been doing months and months of training and she has improved a lot but occasionally regresses. If I could record the data I could potentially see some trends.
I've been recording each dog interaction in a spreadsheet but that quickly got cumbersome and required me to remember each interaction first and then remember to log it at a later point. This lead(s) to a lot of missed data.
So I'm putting together a simple app that will allow me to log the entry on my phone with a couple of taps and eventually generate charts, etc.
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#274I was actively trading cryptocurrencies a few years ago. All the fun died at tax time. Thousands of transactions across several exchanges and currencies, manual calculation of capital gains was out of the question.
At the time, I recall finding one or two tools on GH, none of which seemed suitable. There was also a 3rd party service for calculating tax which integrated with exchanges, but it didn't sit well with me for privacy reasons.
Eventually I felt I had no choice but to build a tool to calculate capital gains from an input CSV of transactions. I wanted to keep it simple, so it puts the burden on the user to download transactions from exchanges and get them in the correct format, which it then processes.
I finally submitted some very late tax returns, and the tax office was kind enough to withdraw the late interest penalty after I explained the effort involved.
Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
#275I've developed some of small tools and websites(primarily using Go and templating techniques)
- Pasty: A pastebin alternative that I regularly use. (https://github.com/abcdlsj/pasty)
- Golink: A straightforward URL shortener that uses 'go/' as its domain.(https://github.com/abcdlsj/share/tree/master/go/golink)
- Readability: This tool strips down websites to their clean, readable content. For more information, visit my blog post at https://abcdlsj.github.io/posts/write-a-readability-tool.htm...> or view the code at https://github.com/abcdlsj/share/tree/master/go/readability.
- Gnar: My personal alternative to tools like Ngrok or FRP, crafted for my own use. (https://github.com/abcdlsj/gnar)
I'm excited to share these with the community!
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#276I created an app with share a file and watch it with someone https://github.com/LucCADORET/comeover .
It works with WebTorrent (torrent for the web over WebRTC), has a wasm ffmpeg embedded for manipulatin the video file.
I used it with my girlfriend a lot. I honestly couldn't tell you why I didn't use Discord directly though, as this is mostly obsolete now (unless for the quality of the video).
Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
#277I like using my E-Reader to read things, and often "things" will be articles on the web. But I also like making annotations and like the reading app I use (KOReader) quite a lot, so firing up a browser would hurt the experience. So I made a script that turns websites into cleaned-up epub files that get synced over to my E-Reader: https://github.com/solarkraft/webpub It's deliberately engineered just far enough to be…
I love KOReader and also strongly prefer reading on my ereader (really an eInk Android tablet), but I've never found a great way to get the annotations and highlights out of KOReader and into my PKM, Logseq, where I could actually make good use of them. Logseq works with markdown files, so it doesn't have to be anything very sophisticated in terms of export format.
I recently reached out to the team behind Omnivore, which is a read-it-later app that does export well to Logseq, to see if they could add a pagination function to the app so I could use their app that way instead of scrolling, but being able to save websites in epub format, read them in KOReader, and export the notes would be a great alternative!
What are you using to access these notes over time?
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#278I built BeHabit! for me and my family. It's a simple 7x7 habit-tracking board.
For my little girls I built https://www.howdoyousayit.rodeo to practice English vocabulary.
In the past, I built Pegao.co, a bookmark to share public lists of links, but I've shut it down.
Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
#27920+ years ago I created a pretty famous news aggregator called Popurls with the intention to simply clean up my RSS reader. Fast forward I'm still doing with, now with Mark Cuban as investor (https://biztoc.com)
Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
#280Over the years I had used a number of reddit clients for Android, all of which had some features I loved and some which annoyed me, so last year I started building my own.
I released an alpha build early this year (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ai.morrissey.m...) but abandoned it because I stopped using reddit altogether, and didn't love the idea of potentially having to pay reddit for an app I was giving away for free.
Was certainly fun building it though, no regrets.