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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 gbro3n »

A music theory learning tool. I'm building bits as I learn new areas - https://www.asmusictheory.com

I also built a kanban board with agent integration and context management, with a vs code extension to go with it (also helps with git worktrees too): https://www.agentkanban.io

There is AS Notes - an Obsidian / Logseq / Roam alternative for use a s a VS code extension (is designed for use behind corporate firewalls, git friendly): https://www.asnotes.io

Also NumeroMoney: https://www.numeromoney.com - For personal finance spending analysis and budgeting.

AI has been a great 'exoskeleton' for me. I fortunately had some good infrastructure and solid application base templates from before AI 'got gud' and so building on these has been the best of both worlds - a solid base and improved speed of development.

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Post by mauricem7 »

I've made text editor engine for .NET 10 built in C# with no UI dependencies. Includes a piece-table buffer, multi cursor editing, syntax highlighting, code folding, snippets, TextMate grammars, diff engine, undo/redo, C# REPL, plugin system. Its essentially a deterministic execution runtime for structured, auditable text mutations thats built for AI systems, automation pipelines, and tooling that needs to manipulate text documents. https://github.com/marinusmaurice/TextApi

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

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Post by jb_briant »

A "plans for agents" interface because I'm tired of reading huge markdown plans to iterate on the real work. Is supports infinite 2d space like miro, but has one thread per card, a cli for the agent to treat open notes. It support voice prompting too.

It feels like you have parallel conversation with an agent, except it understands all the surface. And it's granular, surgical and precise.

Usage: I'm writing a game design document of 70 pages with it, working surgically without having to worry about what page number the edit was.

It really solved my main bottleneck which is telling the AI what to do in a complete and comprehensive context.

Readme is trash but your agent will understand what to do

https://github.com/WiseDragonAI/TheBlueprintTool

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

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Post by kukkeliskuu »

Many, recently:

- I coded myself a portfolio manager to manage all the projects that I have

- secrets management tool to avoid accidental leaks of tokens by AIs

- tool for automatic creation of training/product presentation videos for web apps

- sales training app

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

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Post by kmike84 »

* plugin for Logic Pro to A/B mix with reference tracks, with ai-based stem splitter (e.g. isolate vocals in ref track, and compare with your vocal track)

* plugin for Logic Pro to simulate how a mix will sound on my macbook and phone (I captured real impulse responses for that, sounds very close)

* an app for spaced repetition for guitar video lessons / their parts (no idea why platforms like truefire don’t have this feature)

* workout planning/tracking app

* an app to create impulse responses for acoustic guitar, to make it sound good live

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

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Post by jascination »

derwiki wrote: post #321
melvinroest wrote: post #48

A voice memo app, quite like the actual voice memo app from Apple. The thing is: now I can put my voice memo's on iCloud put Claude Code on it and make my transcripts into structured notes that my app then also displays. So basically a way to just go on an hour long walk with myself, spit everything from the top of my dome stream of consciousness style, and then have Claude structure whatever I said. It's nice to hav…

I love it! But I have to ask: why not just advanced voice mode in ChatGPT or Claude?

FWIW - In the Claude app (on android) when in transcript mode, it has a hard limit of 10 minutes. If you transcribe longer than that, it crashes and you lose everything you've said.

To make matters worse, they've recently gotten rid of the timer, so you have NFI how long you've been speaking for.

I use it for therapy-based stream-of-consciousnesses + venting and then have my project set up to understand the schema therapy work I've done with my psychologist and give me insights / draw threads between things from my past and now, and losing 10 whole minutes of talking and processing is SO FRUSTRATING!

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