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

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https://www.hiroapp.com - Note-taking reduced to the core that just works™. Offline first, no signup needed, easily sharable (url, sms, email) and (web)realtime sync between all devices and collaborators. My co-founder and I moved on to a new project a year ago, but this thing is still buzzing along on a cheap DO box and works like a charm with basically zero maintenance. Frontend is vanilla JS, backend in Go and the…

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

#52
Recently, this profiler for multi-threaded Unity apps. It's almost the simplest thing that could work, but it's surprisingly effective. I've used it almost exclusively to optimize the hell out of the multi-threaded game I'm working on.

https://github.com/andy-wood/multi-threaded-profiler-unity/b...

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

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The projects I am the most proud of:

http://rationalfiction.io - a collection of amazing science fiction stories.

http://lumiverse.io - discovery platform for educational videos.

http://digitalverse.io/rigs/ - several rigs that I have made, for practicing 3D animation in SideFX Houdini.

Single scripts:

https://github.com/raymestalez/rssdigest - sends me a daily email digest of my rss feeds.

https://github.com/raymestalez/reddit-scripts - scrapes /r/WritingPrompts, and compiles a list of the top writers and their best stories(http://fictionhub.io/story/top-100-writingprompts-authors)

http://blog.digitalmind.io/post/ai-writes-hpmor - ANN that generates Harry Potter fanfiction.

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

#54
For me it is Splitons!

Splitons is a simple Offline web application to split costs between friends (www.splitons.com).

It has been a mobile first development using AngularJs, Bootstrap and font-awesome.

Splitons takes advantage of AppCache, websockets and local storage to provide the best user experience possible. There is a clear separation between the Ui and the service thanks to a simple reusable Api.

At this moment, the application takes care of about 150 projects, users are regularly providing feedbacks and thanks email. They really enjoyed not having to install another application and how easy it is to share a project.

Because it is an open source project (https://github.com/Paraintom/Splitons), one user sent me a pull request that I accepted to improve the Ui some months ago.

Please try and give me a feedback!

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

#55

I'm not sure whether "proud" is the right adjective, but that batch file I wrote when I was 12 or 13 which moves all images from the Desktop into a folder called "images" has been the single most useful thing I've ever written.

This is actually one of the few types of examples that I think fit here. Most of the other people are just posting their side projects. When I clicked this I was expecting some quick bash/batch/python/etc. scripts that do useful things.

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

#56

For me it is Splitons! Splitons is a simple Offline web application to split costs between friends (www.splitons.com). It has been a mobile first development using AngularJs, Bootstrap and font-awesome. Splitons takes advantage of AppCache, websockets and local storage to provide the best user experience possible. There is a clear separation between the Ui and the service thanks to a simple reusable Api. At this mome…

The website : www.splitons.com

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

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The "Can I Use?" CLI is probably the highest attention per unit of effort project I've done: https://github.com/sgentle/caniuse-cmd

I also made a firefox extension about 10 years ago that let you restart an animated gif (there's a config option to make them only play once). I was surprised to learn people were still using in FF 3.6.

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

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A personal knowledge organizer at http://onemodel.org/ (AGPL). Highly efficient at managing lists; like an org-mode that uses postgres and is more efficient and flexible in some ways. I use it heavily, daily, to manage checklists/tasks and notes on many subjects. No mobile or mouse support currently, but about everything one needs to know is on the screen at any given time. It's something like really fast mind maps but (currently) keyboard-driven and handles very large amounts of interlinked data. Data can be somewhat structured, as there is a feature that lets you clone then modify template entities.

I see it as the beginning of a platform to change how individuals (or mankind) manage knowledge overall. I'm now working on exploiting the internals for collaboration (linking instances, sharing data, subscribing to each others' data, mobile, etc).

For current org-mode or evernote users: The app has export (& finicky import) features to convert anything to (or from) an indented plain-text outline. The FAQs have links to a discussion of a more detailed comparison with org-mode that seemed somewhat well-received at the time (the link is on this page which also discusses evernote: http://onemodel.org/1/e-9223372036854614741.html ).

Feedback or participation are appreciated. If one has any interest at all, I suggest signing up for the (~monthly?) announcements list at least. More details are at the web site, including some FAQs.

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

#59
A few tiny projects that I feel have provided real value to people. All resulted from scratching my own itch:

* dotenv-safe: https://github.com/rolodato/dotenv-safe

* gitlab-letsencrypt: https://github.com/rolodato/gitlab-letsencrypt

* Editor for Volca Keys synthesizers: https://volcaeditor.com (work in progress)

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

#60
I'm most proud of making Open Exchange Rates (https://openexchangerates.org), which grew out of a hobby project (and a desire to create a really simple API for something that had previously been annoyingly complex.)

The basic JSON API request and response formats are unchanged since day 0, although we've added a few new features in response to customers' demands over the years.

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