I built Ada - https://github.com/BenderV/ada - a BI tool to leverage AI for data analysis.
I use it every day now :)
Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
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#382https://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…
> custom setups break and aren't portable
But this is a custom setup that's not portable?
And how is it less tedious to have to select previously typed text all the time? Is it mainly better because then you don't need to do anything on individual chars, but do it in a batch?
Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
#383I made a CLI tool called Promptr that allows you to make changes to a codebase via plain English instructions:
https://github.com/ferrislucas/promptr
There’s a templating system (liquidjs) included which is useful if you have a library of prompts that you want to reference often.
You can think of it as a junior engineer that needs explicit instructions.
Here are a few example PR’s implemented by Promptr - see the commits for the prompt that was used to produce the code:
Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
#384I'm currently building a music composition tool / MIDI sequencer that is very chord and music theory driven. You write melodies in terms of the degrees of the scale, which are relative to each bar's chord. So instead of writing an "F" it might be a "3" for the third degree of a D minor chord.
It's been a couple of weeks of work, but it's at the point where it's actually fun and pretty quick to blast out a little tune and experiment with different chord progressions.
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#385I have a litany of scripts and programs but those that reached moderate complexity are:
1. A script to canonicalize the name of PDF statements from financial institutions and sort them into a directory structure
2. A CLI (not TUI, actual CLI with custom command syntax and read line integration) for a 3rd party todo service with 2 way sync that gets synchronized with the app on ny iPhone.
3. A web app that I self host that allows me to estimate availability of bicycles at the bike share stations near where I live or where I am and availability of docks in the places that I want to go or I typically go, because I could not deal with a crowded slow loading map in the app.
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#386Slightly ashamed to admit that I built an online exam cheating tool using pytesseract/tkinter/ChatGPT and ShareX.
I won't go into complete detail but it works like this.
-> Define area to be screenshotted using ShareX
-> Set ShareX auto-capture feature to screenshot defined area every 30sec (in my case, the area where the question and answer choices will be)
-> Using pytesseract, parse the image and retrieve the parsed text.
-> Make API call to ChatGPT using the parsed text with the temperature param set as low as possible along with instructions for it to return the correct answer as a series of dot(s)
A = .
B = ..
C = ...
D = ....
This is done in order for it to appear as inconspicuous as possible and not draw any attention from the exam proctor.
This is also done along with setting the tool ui and text to be almost exactly the same color as the exam progress bar so that I can hide the response within the bar. (the tool window is absolutely tiny)
There's more that goes into it but I'm only using this tool since I'm busy trying to get a degree to better my chances of getting another software job with all these insane layoffs and only 2 YoE (got laid off months ago)
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#387Created www.coachpoints.ai for team coaching because I felt the workflows were disorganized and broken for a very important aspect of growing as a professional
Check it and out and let me know if you'd use it.
Link to app - app.coachpoints.ai
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#388When it became clear many major email providers were going to require OAuth for IMAP/POP/SMTP access, I was pretty frustrated that I’d have to stop using clients/scripts that didn’t support this method. Rather than spending lots of effort on migration, or switching clients entirely, I made a local proxy so that any IMAP (or POP/SMTP) client can be used with a “modern” email provider, regardless of whether it supports…
Thank you, I'll be bookmarking this. OAuth is a plague for client-side automation.
Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
#389I always loved Todoist but wanted a Kanban board to organise my day and week. So I created https://kanban.ist as an alternative client that lets me do this. It’s stateless and talks to the Todoist API directly, meaning tasks stay secret. Todoist released their “Boards” feature a few years after this but they only allow you to create a Kanban board for a single project, which didn’t work for me.
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#390Earlier quoted context omitted.
It doesn't take up too much space. Currently about 70mb on my system. It will grow over time of course. It used a distilled version of the web page, i.e. "reader mode" and indexes that rather than the full HTML. So yes it indexes plain text only and, in theory, ignores headers footers and other non-interesting parts of web pages. Anecdotally I find it invaluable for finding a web page I know i've seen but can't remem…
> It doesn't take up too much space. Currently about 70mb on my system. It will grow over time of course. If the publication date (Nov 30) is an indication of how long you've been using it, it's not exactly lightweight :P > It's not open source as of this comment, but the plan is to open source it Might be really useful with some configuration around which domains to archive; I may contribute (or fork if you're not a…
Cheers! would be happy to have contribution.
I've been using it for longer than the publish date. A few months at this point. It's also roughly twice the size it needs to be I think, as the FTS index could be optimized. So there's room for improvement.