https://github.com/jurgelenas/pdfify-server
https://github.com/jurgelenas/node-pdfify-client
My little open source app which converts HTML to PDF.
Useful when generating PDF invoices, legal documents. I am using it in my own projects.
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?
#422simple tool: a handy json comparison tool
https://github.com/ChannelIQ/jsoncompare
Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
#423I have a script that gets a bunch of data and emails it to me and some co-workers every day at 7AM.
Stuff includes: high temperature/probability of precipitation for the day, bitcoin price, iTunes/Google play sales/rating values, number of "diff" lines in web pages, number of followers on Facebook/Twitter/Google+. The latter isn't entirely a vanity thing... some co-workers manage multiple social media accounts and it's nice to know if readership is going up or down.
Part of the point was a) to aggregate everything in one report to reduce the temptation of looking at something multiple times per day, b) to avoid visiting multiple pages in order to find all the information, and c) to find changes in things that I may have forgotten about since they rarely change.
I've thought about making it available for others, but it'd take a bunch of work, and I'm not sure what the demand would be like.
Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
#424I have some sideprojects around the internet, but so far the most useful thing I made has been http://paralleltext.io A tool that helps you learn languages by reading public domain books. I should continue working on that...
Excellent work!
Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
#425https://hexlist.com/ which my brother and i use to make lists of links.
Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
#426https://github.com/k2xl/downtime_monitor - Simple HTTP monitoring that sends a slack message when site is down. Configured all from a yaml
http://recap.work - Chrome extension that shows salary info of people when browsing linkedin profiles
http://facepalm.bogost.com/ - Silly little app that shows a facepalm picture of Georgia Tech professor Ian Bogost and his latest cynical tweets
http://yofigame.com - Mobile word game for iOS and Android
http://www.k2xl.com/games/boomshine/ - Flash game I made called Boomshine (also on mobile)
http://www.leanbelts.com - Six sigma certification for really cheap
http://k2xl.com/games/obechi/ - Flash game I made called Obechi (also on mobile)
http://soundcloud.com/k2xl - Some EDM music i wrote
http://k2xl.com/games/psychopath/ - Flash puzzle game I made called Psychopath
http://k2xl.com - Personal site with a bunch of flash games I made a long time ago
Multiple others I can't remember off top of my head
Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
#427I have a scripts repository on github served as a collection of years of scratching my own itch: https://github.com/fishy/scripts
They are mostly python and shell scripts (with one PHP), and most of them are still useful today :)
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#428I have two small kids (2 and 5) and I am travaling a lot with my family around the world. I found out that it can be hard to find a good place to spend some time with kids. So I build a simple tool that helps me to find such places. https://www.gowithkid.com/ This tool already helped me a lot.
I really like this, thank you. I have a nearly 3 year old boy, and we have a fairly standard set of places we take him around the small European city where we live. Your site actually showed me a couple of new places we haven't been before (only been in this city for about 3 years). I also really liked that almost all the suggestions were outdoor activities or locations.
Having said that, there are also a few places on our standard list of destinations which aren't shown on the map. How can I contribute them?
I will certainly bookmark the site for ideas when we travel too.
Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
#429rsync.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…
I have used rsync.net at work in the past, and the service and support is the best I have experienced in any commercial service, period. Good job. On the other hand, we need a word about that scrolljacking on your homepage...
+1 for scrolljacking. It would randomly pick a direction independent of my actual scroll direction.
Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
#430I still use http://seductiveequations.com/2015/11/09/water-meter.html rather often to casually see how much water I've been using.
Helped me to discover when a new water timer I installed outside got stuck open. Similarly, I've been able to see through actual data how much water my new low-flow showerhead just saved me right after I step out of the shower.
Wish I had more time to improve it, but despite that, it's still remained quite useful.