http://strlen.com/treesheets/
It's a cross between an outliner / spreadsheet / mind-mapper and general note taker.
I've spent significantly more hours using it than I've spent programming it, so that's a win in my book :)
Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
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#282I made to site to teach people how to built the projects that I've built (was on HN two days ago) https://enlight.ml
I plan to add more projects to teach people to code in this type of way. I think the best way to learn is to actually build small apps and then altering them to make them better.
Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
#283Built https://securesha.re/ a few years back, it is:
Secure (browser-encrypted) dumb file storage with self-destruct. By default, it self-destructs on first access. The server can't read your files and it will delete them anyway after a week (or less, if you like).
It's a good way to quickly send a file to someone else and to know if it's been accessed in the interim.
It was really just our own attempt to build something that can do very simple secure file sharing that anyone can use, as an alternative to so many broken practices (such as clearnet emailing sensitive docs).
It's turned into something pretty cool for a few reasons:
1. We get emails all the time from people who love how simple it is
2. It's a great testbed for new web technologies; I rebuilt it once using Polymer and intend to rebuild using Elm when I have the time
3. It's a great testbed for web crypto & webworkers.
Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
#284https://invoice-generator.com I made this 4 years ago for those times when you just need an invoice. Today 10s of thousands of individuals and businesses use this each day to get paid. It's free to use with no login required. Instead it uses localStorage to remember data.
One of the better examples I've seen, while still very simple. What has worked well to attract visitors/users?
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#286I took Carl Jung's Association Method and turned it into a simple psychoanalytical tool using cards. Works like a charm: https://www.thegamecrafter.com/games/critical-stimulus
Downloadable, printable version is here: https://payhip.com/b/TFIi
Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
#287http://ericwood.org/excel2latex/
Back when I was in school I hacked this together as a diversion from lab reports and as a convenient tool for myself. You can drag xlsx files onto it and it converts them to LaTeX tables (all done client-side).
Even though it has some really glaring flaws (no numerical formatting support), it has a loyal following of grad students from around the world who find it useful and occasionally email me to say thanks. Feels great :)
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#288rsync.net. I am very, very proud of the (very simple) platform that we've built there. It's a basic tool that "just works" - and just works exactly like you'd expect it to . If I were a consumer of cloud storage, this is what I would want it to look like. It pleases me so greatly to know that, right now, someone is doing something like this: pg_dump -U postgres db | ssh user@rsync.net "dd of=db_dump" ... while simult…
I've only heard good things about rsync.net (though never had the chance to use it). Thanks.
Is there a blog posting or use case description for using it as a personal photos and videos backup solution? Something along the lines of best practices, approximate cost, any additional desktop tooling, etc.?
Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
#289https://www.quantifiedcode.com
It's a hosted code analysis solution for Python. It tracks code quality issues using our own code analyzer.
We have developed an AST/flow-graph based code analyzer which allows users to write their own code pattern queries using YAML.
BTW I have been working on an OS version for the last four months which I will release soon, if you are interested in helping me please write: andreas@quantifiedcode.com
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#290We're a bunch of web devs out there doing "JavaScript code-golfing", for fun. The goal is to make mini apps, or mini-games, with the smallest possible source code.
Here are some handy apps / cool demos that we've made: (the full list is here: https://gist.github.com/xem/206db44adbdd09bac424)
- https://github.com/xem/miniSpeechSynthesis (73b+ speech synthetizer)
- https://github.com/xem/miniSpeechRecognition (100b+ speech recognition)
- https://github.com/codegolf/period1k (1kb periodic table)
- https://github.com/xem/miniPi (compute Pi in ~256b!)
- https://github.com/xem/MiniRegexTester (170b regex tester)
- https://github.com/xem/miniBookmarklets (tiny bookmarklets)
- http://xem.github.io/MiniShadertoyLite/ (512b shadertoy clone)
- http://xem.github.io/MiniShadertoy/ (1kb shadertoy clone)
- http://xem.github.io/miniBeautifier/ (1kb js beautifier)
- https://github.com/xem/miniUnicode (Unicode slideshows in 64b and up)
- https://github.com/xem/miniKeyCode (JS KeyCode finder in less than 128b)
- http://xem.github.io/miniJSperf/ (a JSperf clone in less than 300b)
- https://github.com/xem/sheet (a spreadsheet app in 221 bytes)
- https://github.com/xem/hex (hexadecimal viewer and editor in 243+ bytes)
- https://github.com/xem/miniURI (file-to-dataURI converter in 99 bytes)
- https://github.com/xem/miniCodeEditor (HTML/CSS/JS editor in 156+ bytes)
- https://github.com/xem/braille-art (drawing with braille on Twitter in less than 1k)
- https://github.com/xem/miniMinifier (HTML/CSS/JS minifiers in 128+ bytes)
- http://js13kgames.com/entries/26-games-in-1 (26 games in 13kb)