Not really proud as I just hacked other people's work together to make it, but I use it often when cooking pasta :)
Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
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Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
#412ok, stretching things a little, but Poe (http://getpoe.com) started out as a single-function tool - a distraction free writing app, for the windows store, back in 2012 when there were none. It was basically just notepad with a hidden interface back then.
Now it has word-count goals, writing timers, built in resources and custom theme support. I'm working on a follow up with lots of incremental improvements and new features.
I'm proud because people love it. They give it amazing reviews that I feel like I don't deserve. People are super nice about it.
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#413One weekend, to scratch my own long-time itch, I coded up a simple browser extension to display GitHub repo code in tree view [1]. It now also supports GitLab, works on Chrome/Firefox/Opera/Safari and has almost 90K users. [1]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/octotree/bkhaagjah...
On a similar note, I started making a thumbnail view: http://www.git-browser.com
Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
#414https://github.com/andDevW/getChromium/blob/master/README.md
I made this because I was trying to introduce friends to Chromium for Android and loosing most of them at 'unzip'. It makes installing the official latest build of Chromium reasonably easy.
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#415I wrote a humble static site generator in Scheme that generates not only my blog, but at least 3 other blogs and the websites for 2 GNU projects. It's no Jekyll, but it's the first piece of software I created that is used by more than just me.
GNU project sites:
Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
#416rsync.net. I am very, very proud of the (very simple) platform that we've built there. It's a basic tool that "just works" - and just works exactly like you'd expect it to . If I were a consumer of cloud storage, this is what I would want it to look like. It pleases me so greatly to know that, right now, someone is doing something like this: pg_dump -U postgres db | ssh user@rsync.net "dd of=db_dump" ... while simult…
How does this compare to, say s3?
At 14 Cents Per GB / Month, rsync.net costs me ~$1720 per year for 1TB (14 * 1024 * 12 / 100).
S3 at 3 Cents Per GB / Month clocks in at ~$368 per year for 1TB (3 * 1024 * 12 / 100). Let's say I'm using a lot of transfer, so I'm going to double the price to ~$720 per year.
Still, rsync.net costs me $1000 more per year. Convince me :).
Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
#417does an autohotkey script count?
^':: ;;; (or ^2 for US keybs)
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#418http://github.com/nishanthvijayan/CoderCalendar/
Android app and Chrome and Firefox addons that lists live and upcoming programming competitions on sites like Codeforces, Topcoder, Hackerrank, Hackerearth, Codechef etc
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.corphots.c... https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/coders-calendar /bageaffklfkikjigoclfgengklfnidll https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/coder-calenda...
Has 7k+ users all together :)
Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
#419I've mad a few:
Command line tool for OSX to upload images to imgur: https://github.com/FigBug/imguru
Copy and paste for Windows command line: https://github.com/FigBug/ccopyppaste
Mac App to set Philips Hue bulbs colour temperature to match the sun: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/circadian-hue-for-philips-hu...
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#420https://izuded.com (i.e., "iz u ded?") I made this because I adopted a puppy and realized that, if I got hit by a bus on a Friday, he could be stuck in his crate for days before anyone realized. Morbid, but useful. It texts you every X days and asks, "u ded?" -- if you don't click "naw" before X days pass, it'll notify your contacts. It's a portfolio project to show what I've learned in the realm of "serverless" arch…
"The workaround is to POST directly from the browser to an S3 bucket and then handle that AWS event with a Lambda. " Great article and nice project. Do you upload an "event" to a queue type folder on S3? what triggers the Lambda function after the file upload?
S3 has built-in functionality to trigger a Lambda function when certain events occur (e.g., object creation). For example, see http://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/with-s3-example.....