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Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

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Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

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Post by backend_dev82 »

Also I had a redis clone from before, but with AI i separated the epoll layer from the actual database engine which made it sort of embeddable. And hooked that embeddable database into a JNI interface, and now it can run inside Android applications, sort of like a concurrent hash map, but one that lives off heap and has support for TTLs and mget, msel, mdel, hashes and all that. I use it for some silly android games.

Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

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Post by ElFitz »

netcoyote wrote: post #360

Tools I’ve built for myself: - sandvault https://www.codeofhonor.com/projects/sandvault/ runs agents in a separate macOS user account, hardened with sandbox-exec. It also supports headless browsing and iOS Simulator from inside the sandbox for testing web and iOS apps. - clodpod https://www.codeofhonor.com/projects/clodpod/ agents run inside a macOS VM. - git-multi-hook https://www.codeofhonor.com/projects/git-multi-…

Wait. You worked on Guild Wars, Starcraft, Warcraft, and Diablo?

This place is incredible.

Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

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Post by prawn » 

  - little visual web app cataloguing a small vineyard by vine vigour
  - 5 min web app that helps show my daughter netball zones per position
  - web app to track manual irrigation runs of 30ish taps across our property
  - a calculator to cost-compare types of retaining walls by length
  - a virtual card deck for testing a game idea
  - scripts to help clean up an unruly Gmail inbox

Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

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Post by zacfire »

Here are a few small tools I built:

Tubenote, a free YouTube video summarization extension. Mangata, a walking app that makes it easy to take notes and photos while walking. NotebookLM Clipper, a browser extension for importing content into NotebookLM. Knock, a notification tool that sends me a Telegram alert when Claude or Codex finishes a task.

and more products are also in the works.

Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

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Post by mybbor »

Before agentic coding went mainstream, one of my main use cases was creating sticker designs for concerts and music festivals. Creating the stickers and giving them away was a good way to meet new people.

I used OpenClaw to make a health and wellness coach agent that tracks calories and alcoholic drinks and logs it to a personal dashboard. I send it photos of my meals, and it will estimate the calories and log it. It will also help me make meal decisions and give me words of encouragement.

I used this HAM dashboard git repo to create a bespoke dashboard of different video and weather feeds from my area: https://github.com/VA3HDL/hamdashboard

I also, in the same rabbit hole, created a radio reference guide for the Sonoma County area: https://mybbor.com/petaluma-sonoma-ham-radio.html

I've spun up probably close to a dozen one-off or small websites for various little interests or projects. One of my favorites is a short domain file uploader that I can quickly host Markdown and HTML files to share with family, friends, and colleagues. It's using Caddy and running on a DO-VPS. I open sourced the code here: https://github.com/RobbyMcCullough/honeydrop

Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

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Post by robertwt7 »

I built an offline background remover website that now includes passport photo editor, object remover, image compressor. everything is free and offline (inferred from WebGPU) and I used to have to browse to different website to do all of these. now i can just do it offline on my own site.

https://bgremovefree.com/

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