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

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Post by jim180 »

A couple of them:

Quick access for Fastmail Masked Emails (I use both, iCloud' Hide My Mail and Fastmail's Masked Email, so I needed something for Fastmail as well): https://apps.apple.com/lt/app/secret-inbox/id6462335670

Too Many Records: returns 3 records from my Discogs collections: https://apps.apple.com/lt/app/too-many-records/id6449257927

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

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Post by avtolik »

From the last 2-3 years:

Web site for my sailing adventures. I upload a gps track, images, text. It parses the track, paints it on a map.

Small, android, no frills app for calling http backends, that arranges the calls in tiles. For very basic home automation.

A lot of non-AI, small bots for personal use. For example a bot that notifies in a group chat when a member did a new bike ride. Also collect stats so we can compare :)

Several tools for some games that I play.

I used to write everything in Java, but recent years more and more stuff is JS with Node. And more recently Go in the backend.

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

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Post by tommiegannert »

https://github.com/tommie/webmultimeter - A web interface using WebBluetooth to read from UM25C USB multimeters

https://github.com/tommie/btinhibitor - keeping my laptop unlocked while near a BLE beacon (and a configuration utility for JDY-25M modules: https://github.com/tommie/jdy25m-py)

https://github.com/tommie/prometheus-connectivity-exporter - constantly checking my ISPs connection (running in Docker on all machines) and https://github.com/tommie/chargen2p running on a server to do speed tests

https://github.com/tommie/pygalaxybuds - CLI/library for configuring the Galaxy Buds, without their app

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

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Post by losfair »

I wrote a self-hostable control plane for Nebula (a Tailscale-like overlay networking tool), and have been using it for about a year: https://github.com/losfair/supernova

Built this because existing solutions like ZeroTier and Tailscale are trying to be too "smart" (auto-selecting relays, auto-allocating IPs, etc.) and do not work well for complex network topologies.

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

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Post by allenu »

One of the first things I learned to write for myself when I was a teenager was a diary program, written for DOS. I think I wrote it in QuickBASIC. Then later, I wrote another one using Modula-2. I believe I wrote another one after that using C++. (I'm going to have to dig up a copy to read those entries I wrote years ago!)

Anyway, earlier this year I thought it would be neat to have a journaling app that had the UI of twitter, so built it and finally released it recently: https://minders.ussherpress.com/

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

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Post by buro9 »

My oldest is my home page, I've had the same home page on all browsers and devices since 1998. It was Perl, then PHP, and it uses a text file as the database, and around 2000 was updated to XHTML and to have the ability to pull in RSS locally and incorporate that.

https://dee.kitchen/bookmarks/

Because it made everything I typically access available so easily, I took up resetting my browser each time it started, and then using private/incognito browsing when that became available. My browsing session is essentially ephemeral and I don't keep tabs open, I just reopen whatever I need.

I'm actually unsure how everyone else browses, do you all just start where you left off? You use bookmark toolbars? Just search for things?

I feel that what I do requires very low cognitive load, like it's mentally traveling light, no burdens.

This feels like a good time to rewrite it TBH... it's my only remaining PHP and JS is so capable now that I could just do this 100% client side and make the whole thing cacheable, except for the "fetch RSS" which could be simplified to a cron.

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

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Post by nbar »

Ameo wrote: post #39

Pretty early on in my time writing software, I built a screenshot hosting web app and a tool for deploying static websites on subdomains of my site from the command line. I still use them very regularly, and they were excellent projects for learning full stack web dev. I can run `atu file.png` and have a link to it copied to my clipboard a second later. I added options for creating secret URLs, auto-deleting after ti…

Reminds me of an advanced version of the old Dropbox where you could quickly host static sits from the finder. Was the best thing about Dropbox. Of course they killed it.
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