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Re: Ask HN: Is there any software you only made for your own use but nobody else?

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Post by satvikpendem »

roughly wrote: post #269
fardinahsan wrote: post #179

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The projects are dead simple. I think if Youtube wanted to, the would have implemented this long back. It's probably a legal landmine and financial tar pit. But thanks nevertheless.

You’d be shocked at how hard it is to fund, start, and ship even a basic project at a company the size of YT or anything else in the Google/Alphabetaverse. It’s probably also a legal landmine and all that, but organizational friction’s more than sufficient to explain simple useful features failing to ship.

Don't forget how Google incentivizes projects, one gets promoted for shipping the project, not for maintaining it. If indeed this were shipped at YouTube, I wouldn't be surprised if it gets slowly deprecated or outright shuttered in a few years. It's better to keep it open source for everyone.

Re: Ask HN: Is there any software you only made for your own use but nobody else?

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Post by IIsi50MHz »

Leftium wrote: post #73

I made an app for my brother's wedding so all invitees could easily upload and view photos in a shared slideshow (displayed in real-time on a big TV at the event). Dismantled as soon as the event was over. It took less than a day to create with SvelteKit, Dropbox, and https://slidesome.com Some more: - https://weather-sense.leftium.com : weather app with the trendcast just the way I like it. WIP, but already using it…

> - https://weather-sense.leftium.com: weather app with the trendcast just the way I like it. WIP, but already using it on daily basis.

The multiple lines per graph kinda reminds me of the meteograms that yr.no used to have on their site and in their app. I really like their presentation. Concise, and much faster to digest than a table of data. Sadly, they eventually split them out to multiple graphs, with no UI option to put them back on one graph.

Re: Ask HN: Is there any software you only made for your own use but nobody else?

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Post by Leftium »

IIsi50MHz wrote: post #472
Leftium wrote: post #73

I made an app for my brother's wedding so all invitees could easily upload and view photos in a shared slideshow (displayed in real-time on a big TV at the event). Dismantled as soon as the event was over. It took less than a day to create with SvelteKit, Dropbox, and https://slidesome.com Some more: - https://weather-sense.leftium.com : weather app with the trendcast just the way I like it. WIP, but already using it…

> - https://weather-sense.leftium.com : weather app with the trendcast just the way I like it. WIP, but already using it on daily basis. The multiple lines per graph kinda reminds me of the meteograms that yr.no used to have on their site and in their app. I really like their presentation. Concise, and much faster to digest than a table of data. Sadly, they eventually split them out to multiple graphs, with no UI opt…

Yes, I think this is one of the cases where multiple scales on a single plot works[1]. To avoid confusion, I did a few things:

- Different units have differing plots (mm represented as bars, percentages as area graphs, and temperatures as lines.)

- The y-axis is not labeled. For exact measurements, you can hover over the graph and read the exact values at the top.

- The legend at the top actually uses checkboxes. Eventually, you'll be able to toggle individual metrics on and off.

[1]: https://hw.leftium.com/#/item/40391614

Re: Ask HN: Is there any software you only made for your own use but nobody else?

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Post by Yhippa »

When I was looking for cars recently, I was frustrated by the inventory search on the websites. Subaru made it difficult to search a wide area for it's vehicles for example. I wrote a full stack application where I reverse-engineered the public APIs and did the inventory search for myself. I also made a web app to go with it to display the vehicles in a card format that gave me the important info I needed in an eye-pleasing format. I stopped development once I found my car.

I didn't spend a ton of time making it. It was honestly a lot of fun and I got to work out my development skills again. I really doing this kind of work too be honest.

I did use ChatGPT a bit to help rationalize some things as I was doing development.

Re: Ask HN: Is there any software you only made for your own use but nobody else?

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Post by maggick »

I build https://maggick.fr/Spotify_RAS/ specifically for my need.

The tool select albums on my Spotify collection and add them to my playing queue. I am using the tool daily (I put 6-7 albums in the morning and I am setup for the day with a few hours of music).

It is just some Spotify API manipulation in Typescript and it was not that long to code (except some UI editing and tweaking, I am not good with front end :D). I am trying to open the application to everyone but the Spotify process is quit long.

Re: Ask HN: Is there any software you only made for your own use but nobody else?

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Post by galdosdi »

satvikpendem wrote: post #470
galdosdi wrote: post #382

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, while we obviously were both upset and sad about the situation, she was very understanding, for which I am thankful. We were in it together. It helped that she managed to find a slightly better job pretty shortly thereafter. Nevertheless I felt really guilty about it and as a result the obvious relevant professional programming lesson was instantly and indelibly burned into my brain: you can fix bugs, but you m…

I've favorited your top-level comment. This is an incredibly important lesson to learn, one that I wish I learned earlier in life, but your favorited comment will be a reminder for me in the future.

I'm deeply gratified. Thank you.

Re: Ask HN: Is there any software you only made for your own use but nobody else?

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Post by [deleted] »

blululu wrote: post #244

Absolutely. Of late I have an iOS app to measure the grade of hills. Initially this was to avoid parking tickets in San Francisco which requires curbing your tires for a 3% grade. The reality is that this is basically no grade and you should just curb no matter what in SF. Still fun to know how steep the hills are when walking. The other one is to set the exif data on photos to be taken in Pyongyang 100m underground…

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Re: Ask HN: Is there any software you only made for your own use but nobody else?

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Post by liamYC »

BoppreH wrote: post #255
liamYC wrote: post #230

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cool projects, I’d definitely like my server to be able to do all these things. What have you used to deploy it?

- Oracle Cloud Free Tier[1] for a Ubuntu VPS (4 ARM cores, 24 GB RAM). Surprisingly pleasant and reliable, given who's offering and for how much ($0). It used to be on DigitalOcean, until they kept screwing up their FreeBSD support and bricked my machine twice. - Caddy[2] web server with Let's Encrypt certificates, working as reverse proxy. The rest is a very lazy 2010's solution: - A Go server for HTTP (static files…

Thanks a lot for this, I’ll check it out
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