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

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Post by calebpeterson »

Calcula - https://calcula.cubicle6.com/ - simple spreedsheet and JavaScript REPL mashup.

FFuzion CAD - https://ffuzion-cad.cubicle6.com/ - small CSG (constructive solid geometry) CAD app that uses a Lisp variant for defining geometries. Can export to STL for 3D printing.

StationKeeper - https://station-keeper.cubicle6.com/ - a space station construction toy inspired by Townscaper.

Send - https://send.cubicle6.com/ - a rough-around-the-edges web-based alternative to AirDrop for getting files from a Windows machine to my iPhone.

Studium - https://studium.cubicle6.com/luke/1 - a minimal web-based Bible reader that uses GPT to extract place from the current chapter and render them on a map. Just started working on this one, so it lacks polish.

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Post by andreasscherman »

Many of them!

I've blocked reddit and now rely on getting the top updates from the niche communities I care about: https://redditletter.com

There were no "declarative" sourdough bread recipe calculator, so I built one: https://breadfriend.com. All other recipe generators are based on entering the amount of flour and water -- but what you're (usually) caring about is the ratio % and total dough size.

I was curious when I could get Vitamin D from the sun where I live, and started fiddling with sun angles and created: https://whencanigetvitamind.com.

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Post by ernestum »

I am a freelance software engineer and have to track my time to write invoices. I got annoyed that I had to pick between something nice but closed-source and cloud-bound-for-no-apparent-reason and nerdy command line tools. I wanted something in-between: A low-key GUI that lets me see the tracking state in the task-bar and start/stop from there. At the end of the month I need to aggregate the worked times by client/project to copy-paste them to my invoice template. Here it is: https://github.com/ernestum/Wage-Labor-Record/

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Post by NiloCK »

tuido: https://github.com/NiloCK/tuido - a tui that scrapes various text format files for things to do, with some nice value adds.

skuilder: https://github.com/NiloCK/vue-skuilder - a flexible SRS environment, which I currently use myself for harmony / ear training piano stuff, but also with my daughters who are learning to read.

Lately I've also made a couple of webextensions that layer some power tools on top of chatGPT (search past chats, faster keyboard based nav beween chats, faster keyboard based copying of gpt produced snippets). Also a cli utility to bundle the current directory into a zip file in the clipboard so that I can quickly share small projects with chatGPT.

(It feels a little weird to me that OpenAI's default offering doesn't offer more power-user friendly functionality off the shelf).

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Post by mckirk »

I wrote a little parser-DSL the last few days, mainly to parse the input of Advent of Code problems (because the manual '.split(...)' approach always looks so ugly and unsatisfying).

https://github.com/mckirk/aocparser

Granted, at this point the syntax has become convoluted enough that I'm not sure anymore whether it would actually be faster to type, which was also part of the motivation, but I think it at least looks cool :D

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Post by _jcrossley »

Shipped two iOS apps so far:

1. I built https://pixelist.app as an extremely minimalist habit tracker, incorporating ideas from Atomic Habits and other similar books. ~3 years ago there weren’t many great habit trackers (as opposed to todo-lists), but now there’s been an explosion of them; IMO it’s still better than others in its simplicity, ability to quickly update your checklist for the prior week, and ability to self-rate “intensity” of completions. Still using it many years after the initial prototype.

2. I’m building https://mujo.app to replace my paper journal as a classical guitarist; think “Fitbit for musicians”. Knowing several pro musicians, the industry largely prefers paper or Google Docs/Sheets, due to existing apps being too complex. The UX is inspired by a simple digital metronome, adding modular widgets to record practice time, take notes, count repetitions, save tempo for exercises, etc. It’s niche, but I use it every day and love it.

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Post by fortydegrees »

midgetjones wrote: post #120

A few years ago, my wife and I decided to adopt a rescue cat from battersea.org.uk. However, it was a frustrating experience as the staff didn't always update the website regularly, and we'd find that any suitable cats would be snapped up before we'd even seen them. I spotted that the website served its data to the frontend via an unsecured internal JSON API, so I built an Elixir app that would poll the API endpoint…

I have a similar story of accessing an internal JSON API for my own benefit.

I left my airpods in a car I rented using zipcar. I spoke to support etc but nothing had been handed in. I checked to see if the car was still where I left it so that I could re-hire and claim them, but it had been moved.

The app tells you the 'name' of the car you rented which is used as an identifier. It also shows a map of where all available cars are. I sniffed the requests the app made to display this map, and was able to filter it by the car name. From this I was able to locate where the car I left my airpods in was. Was able to head there, unlock the car, and to my amazement the airpods were still there!

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Post by brusselssprouts »

https://www.mikebwilliams.com/chords/

Tool for teaching myself piano / real book chord symbols, scale degrees, chord progressions, etc.

Works best with a MIDI keyboard attached. Be warned... I've only tested it on my own computer, since it is truly for my own use.

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Post by tusharmath »

advancingu wrote: post #397

I created an open source library that turns structured text data (YAML) in a Git repository on the fly into a GraphQL API with CRUD queries / mutations. All that is needed in the repository is a plain text GraphQL schema file that defines what the data structures look like. The Git repository itself can be located on GitHub, GitLab, or in the local filesystem. https://github.com/commitspark/graphql-api

Have you considered using https://tailcall.run It can automatically create a high performance graphql API.

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Post by globalnode »

A combat log parser for swtor (in Python), just using as much of the built in stuff as possible, organizing things into dictionaries. was CLI obv but it had a menu system that let me dive further into details then back up to top level view. It was very useful to see what works and what doesnt (in the game) from a raw data perspective. it allowed me to git gud as they say ;)

edit: another that springs to mind was a distance tracker for my phone using gps coords so i could see how far id jogged each session. it was educational buy my gosh phone apps are painful to make, it was the first and last one ill do.

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