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Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?

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Post by flyingpuffin »

smeej wrote: post #282
flyingpuffin wrote: post #193

I created this website ( https://unexploredhq.com/ ) to find unexplored places for travel with my SO. Instead of going to cliched places like Paris in France, I can input an area or region and then select attributes of this place (eg Sunny, Beach, Mountains) .. and see the list of places which satisfy my constraints. In future, I plan to integrate a Flight API so that I can add a constraint of finding places within a…

I might be misunderstanding, but I tried what seemed like a pretty basic search, selecting Eastern Europe region and lake and hiking for attributes, and it didn't come up with anything. Are there more nuances I should be aware of when trying to search?

Thanks for your feedback. Indeed, something is off for Eastern Europe query .. (first time I have discovered this issue). I will inspect the backend. Feel free to try it with a country name or entire 'Europe' in the meanwhile.

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Post by S_Pineapple »

franze wrote: post #124

I mostly code my own games with a target group of 1, my favourites are http://lalo.li/lsd/ https://updownredgreenetc.franzai.com/ https://spinner.franzai.com/ https://dance.franzai.com/ (basically a lava lamp you can interact with) from the app side i like https://qrpwd.franzai.com/ coded to save my 2 factor backup codes qr encoded and encrypted in my photo stream and https://github.com/franzenzenhofer/thisismy a com…

Adding to what other commenters already said, I really enjoyed lalo.li. I found myself playing it for quite a while and enjoying the challenge of moving the ball around with lines.

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Post by netsharc »

alexpovel wrote: post #57

https://github.com/alexpovel/srgn It grew out of a niche, almost historical need: using a QWERTY keyboard, but needing access to German Umlauts (ä, ö, ü, as well as ß). Switching keyboard layouts is possible but exhausting (it's much more pleasant sticking to one); using modifier keys is similarly tedious, and custom setups break and aren't portable. So this tool can do: $ echo 'Gruess Gott, Poeten und Abenteuergruet…

I've been thinking about a tool to format a number where the common display format is abc.defg.hijk.lmn (but I'd be retrieving it from an e.g. database without the periods), the sample AutoHotkey script is a great starting point!

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Post by drgoodvibe »

_kush wrote: post #61

I've built a few apps which started out as tools for my own use and later polished + released for public. - Cone: This started out as a small tool to help me identify the name of the colors of objects around me (i am a red-green colorblind). Now it's a full fledged color picker app with a Pantone license - https://cone.app - CBVision: This is another small tool for colorblind people which shifts the problematic color…

Huge fan of unwind! I have been using it for nearly a year.

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Post by stevage »

bomewish wrote: post #319
midgetjones wrote: post #120

A few years ago, my wife and I decided to adopt a rescue cat from battersea.org.uk. However, it was a frustrating experience as the staff didn't always update the website regularly, and we'd find that any suitable cats would be snapped up before we'd even seen them. I spotted that the website served its data to the frontend via an unsecured internal JSON API, so I built an Elixir app that would poll the API endpoint…

Why not go straight from the json to Twitter?

How would you keep state of which pets have already been posted?

Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?

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Post by plank »

GoToRO wrote: post #92
plank wrote: post #38

I created several. The most recent: an Android app that lets you navigate any map, e.g. the one you just make a picture of: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nl.vanderplank... I use this one myself: we like to take walks, and not always are the routes marked that clearly. Still only a handful of users, but usefull I guess for anyone that wished that e.g. Google maps made it possible to upload a picture to…

First app: not available in your country (Romania). Sounds very useful.

Sorry, only made it available in a few markets (still early work). But if you are OK with the English version, I will add Romania to the list. (Only made localisations to a few languages, beside Dutch and English a few Scandinavian ones.

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Post by stevage »

marginalia_nu wrote: post #354

I was annoyed by Wikipedia's noisy design choices, so I built a very scaled down read-friendly mirror of Wikipedia that presents the text as though it was a book, doing away with inline links. It's desktop-first as I don't really use mobile browsers, my fingers are too big. https://encyclopedia.marginalia.nu/article/Hacker_News

This is great! Would be nice to have some way of accessing inline images though.

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Post by pyrrhotech »

An algorithmic trading platform. I ran it successfully for a couple years with my own capital alone before opening it up to others (https://grizzlybulls.com). It's been quite successful compared to the S&P 500 since launching publicly in Jan 2022. Performance of our various models vs. the benchmark below:

SPX (benchmark): -3.31%

VIX TA Macro MP Extreme: +29.91%

VIX TA Macro Advanced: +23.08%

VIX TA Advanced: +3.42%

VIX Advanced: -0.67%

Vix: -4.18%

TA MR: +10.12%

TA T: +2.3%

Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?

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Post by sgjohnson »

akirk wrote: post #107
alexpovel wrote: post #57

https://github.com/alexpovel/srgn It grew out of a niche, almost historical need: using a QWERTY keyboard, but needing access to German Umlauts (ä, ö, ü, as well as ß). Switching keyboard layouts is possible but exhausting (it's much more pleasant sticking to one); using modifier keys is similarly tedious, and custom setups break and aren't portable. So this tool can do: $ echo 'Gruess Gott, Poeten und Abenteuergruet…

I also use a QWERTY keyboard and I use a custom keyboard layout that maps alt-a to ä, alt-u to ü, alt-o to ö, alt-s to ß (plus the same for uppercase for the first 3). That works well for me without the need to post-process. On macOS it's relatively easy to create using a tool called Ukulele ( https://software.sil.org/ukelele/ ). You can also download my layout here: https://alex.kirk.at/USUmlaut.keylayout

I’ve done the same exact thing but for Latvian diacriticals (āčēģīķļņšūž).

The default behaviour of the Latvian layout in macOS is to make apostrophe a dead key, which really grinds my gears. So I made it alt+whatever letter instead. As a dev I use apostrophe way too much to be okay with typing '+space for it.

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