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Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

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ffind https://github.com/jaimebuelta/ffind

A very simple search tool for the command line, aiming to replace very common cases. It's pretty minimal, but I use it every single day and love it... it unsurprisingly 9i developed it) fits very well my daily flow (90% of the times based in vim, at and ffind)

Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

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post #316

FAQr - An ASCII GameFaqs reader for Android - 2k + 5 star reviews - 1k + DAU https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.faqr&hl=en Great for retro gaming! *EDIT - Free with no ads

This is something I never knew I needed!

Awesome! Hopefully you find it useful!

Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

So uh... general curiosity here. How often do people bring up 'the devil went down to georgia' to you?

Only every other week, much less often than they talk about that proxy app of which I shall not name.

Oh wow. I wasn't aware of it... this is cool.

Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

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post #116

https://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…

Google has a similar feature to give trusted people access to your data if you've been inactive for a given amount of time (so probably dead): https://www.google.com/settings/account/inactive

Wow, what a frighteningly effective deadman switch. Normally I'd be worried about forgetting to reset it but in this case it's hard /not/ to use a Google product in a normal day.

Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

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https://instafavicon.com/ I created this favicon generator a few weeks ago to generate minimal favicons for my side projects. I'm not good with design tools so it saves me time when I start a new project and want a simple favicon in ICO format. I'm proud of it because it's server-less. I generate the multi-BMP ICO file in binary using ArrayBuffers and Typed Arrays in JavaScript. I use a element to create the images/d…

Just tried it out and the file size is huge (350KB).

Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

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My projects:

- Sensorama for iOS: it's meant to be an open-source data science platform for obtaining data from your iPhone's sensors. And you get the JSON file with data e-mailed to you (and I get a copy too!).

Install:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sensorama/id1159788831?mt=8

Read code:

https://github.com/wkoszek/sensorama-ios (main repo)

https://github.com/wkoszek/sensorama-artwork (artwork, scripted: generates all JPEGs from cmd line)

I did everything myself: coding and design for it.

- LastPass for SSH: https://github.com/wkoszek/lastpass-ssh You keep your SSH keys protected with a cryptic pass-phrases and you store them in LastPass.

- Asset toolbox: https://github.com/wkoszek/asset-toolbox My attempt to improve the workflow with asset on iOS. I've used that multiple times to get all the resolutions/sizes during random moments of weakness.

- Finite Automata Simulator written in QT/Graphviz: https://github.com/wkoszek/flviz

- Network Simulator written in C, with visualisation in Graphviz: https://github.com/wkoszek/kmnsim

- Other stuff from my junkyard: https://github.com/wkoszek (feel free to let me know what's the most interesting, or fiddle with GitHub stars)

My next target would be to get some paid online projects done and delivered to users, so that I could pay my phone bill with software.

Great thread. Thanks for making it.

Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

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https://invoice-generator.com I made this 4 years ago for those times when you just need an invoice. Today 10s of thousands of individuals and businesses use this each day to get paid. It's free to use with no login required. Instead it uses localStorage to remember data.

Homepage says lite is free and unlimited, pricing page says it's limited to 10 invoices per month?

Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

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https://shellshare.net I have migrated my wife's (then girlfriend) computer to Linux and sometimes I had to configure something on her computer (e.g. a printer). This ended up generating lots of back and forth on the phone with me telling her commands to write in the terminal, and she reading the output out loud. I wanted an easy way to see her terminal. So shellshare was born. Shellshare allows you to run a single c…

wget -qO shellshare http://get.shellshare.net && python shellshare

Please don't tell people to do this. This is an idiom called "curl pipe sh"; you're asking people to run whatever code someone on their network decides to send them.

As an absolute minimum, you should change that http to https, so that they're merely running whatever code YOU decide to send them; but even that doesn't quite fit with the "share your terminal (read-only)" philosophy...

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