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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?
#342I've created a Mac OS app that shows a progress bar 5 pixels tall and 100% the with of the screen when complete, it's always on top of any window.
It's a menu bar app, so you click on the icon and there are a few options.
- You can choose how long will take for the bar to complete, 1, 5, 10... ( I have hardcoded all minutes in intervals of 5 minutes up to 1h :D ).
- Choose a color. - Choose the sound it will make at the end, the options are the standard mac sounds.
Additionally:
- Choose screen to video capture your work.
The idea is to have a pomodoro app that helps with time blindness and time perception, having a constant reminder, it's a bit video game like if you can image.
The video capture feature it's a kind of self accountability and documentation. It's also useful to resume work where you left.
Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
#343I wanted a specific pair of Vivobarefoot trainers in a specific size that was our of stock, but at the time the site didn't have an "Email me when this size becomes available" option.
I wrote a tiny Bash script called by cron that pinged the URL every hour, parsed the HTML and sent me an email when the text "Size 45 - Out of stock" wasn't there.
Not rocket science, but I enjoyed the fact that it was so simple.
Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
#344As it is important to me to reach financial independence, I realized most investors are tracking their portfolios in spreadsheets. As I was focused on dividend growth investing, dividends are high maintenance to track in a spreadsheet, especially for bigger portfolios. So thanks to dogfooding, I've been developing a website to track dividend income for the past 8 years. If I wouldn't be using it, I'd probably have abandoned the project a long time ago.
https://www.digrin.com/
Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
#345Around 2018 or so, I wanted to transition to linux. However, at the time, I was also 1password user and they didn't have support for linux. So, I saw they vault format was open, and therefore I developed a GUI (in JavaFX) to read your password and OTP tokens - https://github.com/ingon/opvaultfx
Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
#346Annoyed with iTunes and Apple Music, I made two mp3 players. One for iOS, one for macOS, both are free and quite minimal but work fine for me and a few fans.
https://www.catnapgames.com/tiny-player/ https://www.catnapgames.com/tiny-player-for-mac/
I use the projects to improve my development skills - both started as Objective-C programs, later rewritten to Swift and the iOS one now uses SwiftUI 100%. Fun!
Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
#347Mussel Wind. Shows me if the Mussel Rock paragliding site near San Francisco is flyable. My first iOS app, written not long after the SDK became available.
Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
#348https://stockevents.app I created it originally for myself. By now it has a few hundred thousand users.
I love stockevents, it's what got me started into building a semi dividend based portfolio.
Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
#349I created a small template manager that really simplified my work in 1st/2nd line IT support. I originally intended it to be much more and planned to add API integrations for the variables, but I changed jobs pretty soon after deploying the current version and didn't find much use for it. https://github.com/tcalik/temper https://temperhelper.surge.sh/
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Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
#350A simple CMS. I became frustrated at actually being able to install Drupal - where a framework must be installed to install a framework to actually install... the framework, and Wordpress's new incarnation where a blog post ends up as a header and the footer ends up in the contact form didn't impress me.
It was easier to DIY my own thing over a year than deal with these 'tools' that once did what they said on the tin.
And I get to have joined the annoying HTMX crowd!