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Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

#41
Compute for Humanity

https://www.computeforhumanity.org

It hasn't really taken off like I had hoped, but I still stand by the idea, and I think I really nailed the UX. For something fairly complex there's no account to create, no configuration, no installer, just open it once and you're done. Anything my 95-year-old grandma can use without help is a success in my book.

Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

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http://node-ping.herokuapp.com (Repo: https://github.com/qawemlilo/node-ping) - This is a very simple tool that monitors the availability of some of my websites and sends me an email if one is down. Hosted on heroku on the free tier, running for 3 years without much maintenance :)

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Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

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I'm proud of many things :( * I converted a rotary phone into a cellphone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSkdWQswpc8 * I wrote a personal bookmark search engine: http://historio.us/ * A site that talks to spammers so you don't have to: https://spa.mnesty.com/ * A pastebin: http://pastery.net/ * A remote-controlled GSM irrigation controller for farmers: https://gitlab.com/stavros/irrigation-controller * A button tha…

> Dead man's switch, a website to email people after you die: Whats your thoughts and learnings on this one... it seems dark to me.. but i might be completely wrong..

It's pretty dark, but what can you do? You won't avoid death by avoiding thinking about it.

Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

#46

Automation to look for secret API tokens in APKs - https://android.fallible.co Its pretty basic, it reverse engineers code and scans strings.xml and AndroidManifest.xml to look for random strings and print it on the UI.

might I ask how you were able to get the APKs from the play store?

I've used this Python library https://github.com/egirault/googleplay-api but I'm not sure if it still works

Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

#47

Compute for Humanity https://www.computeforhumanity.org It hasn't really taken off like I had hoped, but I still stand by the idea, and I think I really nailed the UX. For something fairly complex there's no account to create, no configuration, no installer, just open it once and you're done. Anything my 95-year-old grandma can use without help is a success in my book.

For an even easier setup and even smaller output, why not implement it in Javascript on the page? ;)

Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

#48

I'm proud of many things :( * I converted a rotary phone into a cellphone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSkdWQswpc8 * I wrote a personal bookmark search engine: http://historio.us/ * A site that talks to spammers so you don't have to: https://spa.mnesty.com/ * A pastebin: http://pastery.net/ * A remote-controlled GSM irrigation controller for farmers: https://gitlab.com/stavros/irrigation-controller * A button tha…

That's a great body of work!

Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

#50
http://chriswarbo.net/git/warbo-utilities/branches/master/sy... just runs a given command in a given directory, e.g. `inDir ~/Pictures convert MyPhoto.jpg MyPhoto.png`

Really simple, yet I use it a lot, e.g. for remote mounts where Emacs can slow down if I "cd" into it, or in loops `for DIR in submodules/*; do inDir "$DIR" git pull --all; done`

When I used to do Web development, I found http://chriswarbo.net/projects/repos/chrome-duplicate-tab-de... to be super useful. When opening a URL in Chrome, it switches to an existing tab with that URL if there is one.

I also made a simple Chrome extension which let me navigate Drupal test output using the left/right arrow keys. Can't find it now though :(

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