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Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

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Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

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Post by lucb1e »

JangoSteve wrote: post #97

The simplest one that I also use the most is start.sh: https://github.com/JangoSteve/start I've been using it for 3 years now, but keep forgetting to tell anyone about it. It's a simple bash script that detects what kind of project your current directory is and runs the appropriate command to start the development server. I created it, because I found myself constantly switching between projects of different types, a…

This sounds like one of those things that might, with some luck and maintenance, become a universal thing. My first reaction was "why would I need this, surely I can type the appropriate build/run command for the environment I'm developing in?" but I might just end up going "okay this is extremely practical", especially after running some open source projects from a git clone.

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Post by mschenk »

http://opensharecount.com

Restores the little counter next to Twitter's "tweet this" button that shows you how often your article has been tweeted. Also available as drop-in replacement for Twitter's old undocumented API endpoint that provided this info.

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Post by mosselman »

rileyt wrote: post #133
mosselman wrote: post #10

A tool to make JS bookmarklets: https://bookmarkify.it/ I created this years ago because I wanted a quick way to create bookmarklets. Since putting it online I have had good months in terms of visitors (1000+) and worse (50), but I am still very happy that people keep coming to bookmarkify to create helpful bookmarklets for themselves and others. By now it has been around longer than 4 years, despite what the banner…

This is great. I've never had the time to learn how bookmarklets work, but your tool just let me make a simple one in under a minute.

Thanks a lot for the compliment! It is really great to hear from users. I just created it for myself and it is humbling every time I find out that people simply like it.

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Post by hawkice »

Of all the things I've made ( here https://gen517.com) there are a couple that stand out in hindsight:

https://zip.gen517.com

Which is a tool so people who don't know anything about programming or fancy excel usage can still do SQL join type things.

And this version of the classic game mastermind, which I use in conversation to make the point that "machine learning" can be tremendously approachable -- the computer here just picks a random potentially correct guess and does very well.

https://countermind.gen517.com

And this, which is massively pointless but has gotten more comments than anything else:

https://gen517.com/lindsey-grahams-get-away-with-ted-cruzs-m...

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Post by tylerjwilk00 »

http://easydecisionmaker.com/

Simple single function tool decision maker. I made this because my co-workers and I always had trouble deciding where to go for lunch. It was kind of a joke but then the traffic kept growing and I now consider it a huge success as a side project.

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