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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 Gamemaster1379 »

I wrote a screen reader for an MMO I play that does day trading on the in game market.

It hooks into the games public API to determine items in my price and demand range and does buy orders everyday.

Since it doesn't do any injections, it isn't a violation of the games policies or anti cheats. Been doing it for years.

The items I trade in don't stack in inventory, which makes it tedious for any normal human player. But given the buying and reselling is scripted, it doesn't impact me.

I've generated a few thousand dollars worth of gold over the years doing this.

The games marketplace also is deflationary. 15% buy and sell fees. I imagine I've burned a considerable chunk of gold keeping my operations going.

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

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Post by mimischi »

unsupp0rted wrote: post #130

I was selling an apartment in a developing country. I wanted to know, given the constantly updating property sales tax and rapidly worsening exchange rate, how much I’d end up pocketing in USD, if I sold for X vs X - 5% vs X - 10%, etc That would inform my “I’m willing to go as low as” selling price. So I built myself an app to scrape the current tax from the government’s online calculator and assemble a dozen what-i…

I tend to think about these types of problems this way as well. But then there’s folks that will throw this together in Excel, and I realize I would not know where to start. Anyone got pointers?

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

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Post by eterps »

I created a website that 'proxies' HN. Its main feature is to refresh only every 3 hours; otherwise, it displays the previous snapshot. I blocked access to the real HN on multiple levels (PC, router, DNS provider).

I spent 3 hours developing this tool. It prevents me from checking HN too frequently throughout the day, saving me a significant amount of time.

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

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Post by aspenmayer »

gwbas1c wrote: post #358
aspenmayer wrote: post #352

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> More recently, I wrote a quick-and-dirty utility to restart explorer.exe, because it has some really silly multi-monitor bugs that require restarting the process every once in awhile. I have had some weird issues similar to this, which the following keyboard shortcut was helpful with: > Windows Key + Ctrl + Shift + B - Wake up the device when black or a blank screen. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/keyb…

Not the problem I'm having at all. What happens in my case is that Explorer forgets the "When using multiple displays, show my taskbar apps on..." setting. It just randomly changes the setting in memory: I can either change the setting back and forth, or restart Explorer, and then it works correctly. It's the oddest bug I've seen.

Ah, I see. That is indeed odd. Maybe one of the monitors is dropping out or sleeping? Are they daisy chained? Same connection type or different? Onboard or GPU connected? Maybe the GPU PCIe interface is going into some kind of power saving mode? I do tech support a fair bit so if there’s any commonalities, hypotheses, or coincidences you can think of that might help me figure this out if I come across it, please let me know.

The failure mode for the shortcut I referenced above is that the screen is all black but you do still have a mouse cursor.

Maybe try the shortcut I linked next time you experience this issue just to see if it works for you and/or on other devices which don’t have your particular fix?

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

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Post by denvermullets »

some very cool projects here!

the app i use the most is a simple budget app, no connecting to external accounts. just built w/react and uses localStorage for storing info. i think i spent like a week on it and i definitely am the only one using it. https://simplebudgetcontrol.com/

another app i still use is an app that tracks my magic the gathering collection, ha. rails/react and lots of outdated frontend code that i started to refactor and then realized i'm the only one using it so who cares haha. https://www.99staples.com/collections/denvermullets/9

i just recently started working on my own event server in rails (similar in idea to mixpanel) and have it deployed for my portfolio site.

love starting projects and getting them rolling. i wish i could just work on stuff i cared about all the time honestly

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

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Post by DownrightNifty »

To anyone in the US who said they make their own apps for their own iPhone: do you really pay Apple $99/year for that "privilege", or do you reinstall the app every 7 days (or use workarounds like AltStore non-PAL or jailbreaking) to get around this?

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

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Post by pimlottc »

Leftium wrote: post #158
pimlottc wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You made a marketing page for your one-off shared photo collection app?

No marketing was needed. The app was specifically made just for that single event.

Not being familiar with Slidesome, I thought /that/ was the app you created. Now I see it's just a component you used. Hence my confusion. :P

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

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Post by tpoacher »

I mean, others can use it too if they want, obvs, ... but, yes.

e.g. my misc-updater, I use daily, to check Manually-Installed / Source-Compiled (MISC) packages for updates! [0]. Works like a charm.

I also do all my bugtracking / milestone planning via my bashtickets program too (Ticketing for the terminal using structured textfiles. Implemented in bash. [1]) though technically this is still under development as it still lacks a couple of features "others" might reasonably need. But for me, it's already perfect at doing what I need it to; I've already worked with colleagues on some pretty large academic projects with this, where all we had was access to an ssh server with no gui and no root access! Works great, and is git friendly!

[0] https://git.sr.ht/~tpapastylianou/misc-updater

[1] https://git.sr.ht/~tpapastylianou/bashtickets

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