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Ask HN: Is there any software you only made for your own use but nobody else?

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Re: Ask HN: Is there any software you only made for your own use but nobody else?

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Post by xnx »

I couldn't find any existing tool or technique to condense periods of low motion frames in long videos so I wrote my own Python/ffmpeg utility with the aid of Google Gemini.

I love the results, though I have a strong hunch that there's probably a different processing approach that would be 10x faster.

Re: Ask HN: Is there any software you only made for your own use but nobody else?

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Post by pridkett »

I’ve got two great examples of this. Both I use to help control DNS on my local network. They’re open source, but I doubt anyone else is using it, and I’m fine with that.

unifi-dns-scraper[0]: a simple tool that logs into my Unifi console to get all the hosts and then creates a hosts file that my local DNS servers can use.

unifi-doh-blocker[1]: as part of my efforts to better control my network, I don’t want random devices ignoring my local DNS by using DoH. This gets various lists of public DNS over HTTPS servers and updates a blocklist on my Unifi Dream Machine Pro. With a few other firewall rules this essentially forces all my DNS through local servers which then do encrypted DNS queries to a third party DNS service.

These tools make me happy and were fun to write.

[0] https://github.com/pridkett/unifi-dns-scraper [1] https://github.com/pridkett/unifi-doh-blocker

Re: Ask HN: Is there any software you only made for your own use but nobody else?

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Post by fwsgonzo »

I made a scripting solution for my game, mainly to keep motivation up. I really like writing an maintaining a high-quality emulator, while game development can be a slog sometimes. I believe this has kept me from losing motivation and perhaps it can be attributed to me one day releasing that game.

Re: Ask HN: Is there any software you only made for your own use but nobody else?

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Post by winchester6788 »

I made https://github.com/notAI-tech/fastDeploy for ease of use of deploying Deep learning models.

Except me and the team at my company nobody uses it.

After I made it lot of solutions came in this space, but IMO this is the easiest one to use still.

Re: Ask HN: Is there any software you only made for your own use but nobody else?

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Post by stefanve »

created a car selection script, that collected data from several platforms, reliability data, occasion adverts, safety data, reviews and specs.

I used it to buy a secondhand car based on several parameters (price, doors, features, reliability etc) and by assigning weight to the parameters

Python in total a day or so of work (including tweaking and adding features) only used it a couple of times to buy a car

Re: Ask HN: Is there any software you only made for your own use but nobody else?

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Post by andruby »

We use planning poker when evaluating our work tickets. I built https://pokershirt.dev as a small app for use to vote and reveal the votes simultaneously.

Created with an early version of Phoenix (and re-created with LiveView)

Here's a link to a room so you see it with multiple users: https://pokershirt.dev/r/hn

Re: Ask HN: Is there any software you only made for your own use but nobody else?

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Post by athorax »

I made a CLI tool that templates out jira tickets so I never have to open the jira web client to create tickets. It took me far longer than it could ever possibly save me in terms of time, but it's the small victories over horrible, bloated, corporate software that give me joy

Re: Ask HN: Is there any software you only made for your own use but nobody else?

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Post by mostelato »

What does it do?

I built a bot that runs every 2 weeks, scrapes my local movie theater's currently playing titles, runs them against rotten tomatoes to filter out movies rated below 85%, then looks them up on youtube and posts the trailers to my discord server

How did you make it?

Python script that runs in google cloud functions, triggered on a bi-weekly schedule

How much time you spent making it?

An evening

How often do you use it?

Every two weeks

Re: Ask HN: Is there any software you only made for your own use but nobody else?

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Post by dathos »

thiagoperes wrote: post #17

I created my own translation app using llama3-80b, I call it "expat translator": I live outside of my home country and always struggled with using translators like Google Translate because they don't tell you if the way you're writing something feels natural in the other language. It gives me some pretty good results and I also instruct it to give me rewrites for informal and professional use, so I don't sound weird…

So this app would not be for regular immigrants or travellers?
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