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Re: Ask HN: What have you built more than twice and wish someone had built for you?

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Post by pwinnski »

slingnow wrote: post #40
dmak wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To each it's own, but 1Password security design looks pretty solid. Here is their white paper: https://1passwordstatic.com/files/security/1password-white-p...

You're right. I'm sure their security design is 100% bulletproof and none of my sensitive data will ever be leaked. And even if it were somehow possible for it to be leaked, I'm also sure the company would be completely forthcoming as quickly as possible.

A system which literally never sends my password information to any computers controlled by 1Password seems better than the LastPass nonsense, and more to the point, seems at least as secure as anything I would create. While LastPass was breached many times over the last few years, 1Password has never been breached.

Your sarcasm isn't helpful, and serves only to falsely conflate the insecure design and horrible history of LastPass with the best-in-class 1Password. Nothing is ever 100%, but 1Password is closer than anything else I know about, including most one-off systems used by people who don't use password managers.

Re: Ask HN: What have you built more than twice and wish someone had built for you?

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Post by cmcconomy »

dmak wrote: post #13
INTPenis wrote: post #11

A password manager for teams of people that isn't dumb. It's surprisingly hard to find. I contributed to one open source that a co-worker started, and I made my own in my own time. So I've almost made it twice.

What's wrong with 1Password or Bitwarden?

I need bitwarden to let me log into my personal and work accounts simultaneously.

Re: Ask HN: What have you built more than twice and wish someone had built for you?

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Post by jjk166 »

Every couple of months I wind up making a quick s3 static site which isn't too difficult but doing it manually there are several steps spread out across many pages and it's easy to forget one if it's been a while. Every time I do it I wish I had written a script to automate it the last time.

Re: Ask HN: What have you built more than twice and wish someone had built for you?

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Post by denysvitali »

khaledh wrote: post #8

A SaaS for managing personal documents. The closest I have right now (not SaaS) is paperless-ng[0], but I have to self-host it, unless I missed a really compelling solution. I have a sea of documents, both physical and electronic, and it's always a struggle to scan/organize/find them. I'd pay good money for a software/service that manages my documents, from scanning to archiving. [0] https://github.com/jonaswinkler/p…

My attempt a couple of years ago and never completed (Rust): https://github.com/DMSrs/dmsrs

Re: Ask HN: What have you built more than twice and wish someone had built for you?

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Post by esquire_900 »

asim wrote: post #28

The programmable web. A singular gateway to a programmatic way in which you not only consume data but also services. It doesn't exist. We have a very fragmented ecosystem of http based services mixed with html, APIs and everything requires an account or credit card. I'd kill for one way to access everything in a programmatic way through one gateway. Tried to approach this in numerous ways and continually failed. Edit…

You are quite right, it's something I've been considering for a long time as well. The cold start problem however is so large, that it has to be an open protocol supported by many of the biggest companies for it to have even a slim chance of succeeding. I admire your attempt, though I'd imagine it to be a very steep and long climb.

Re: Ask HN: What have you built more than twice and wish someone had built for you?

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Post by PaulDavisThe1st »

_huayra_ wrote: post #21

A sane build system + package management solution for C++. I have to cobble it together via CMake + Conan every time and I'm praying I get put on a new Rust project someday, but my position and sizeable comp are mainly for being a "legacy janitor".

It can't be done for C++ unless you massively constrain the problem.

Trivial example: libfftw3 has --enable-threads and --enable-float configure/compile time options. Your project may need/want both, one or neither of these options (it may, in fact, want two different versions of the library).

Rust "proposes" to deal with this by essentially compiling its libraries as a part of building your project (ie. "vendoring" every 3rd party library dependency).

Most C++ developers don't consider vendoring in this way to be particularly sane, even though many of us do it anyway.

Re: Ask HN: What have you built more than twice and wish someone had built for you?

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Post by Diris »

alanbernstein wrote: post #35

A photo deduplication tool. For some reason I always resort to writing small, scenario-specific python scripts. A couple of reasons I can recall: - 3 or more input directories which have specific roles like "main archive, prioritize", "temp folder, remove from here first" - multiple levels of equivalence test, including file name, exif tags, checksum, perhaps perceptual hash (e.g. for flagging downscaled images to be…

I think this one[0] can do most of that.

[0] https://github.com/qarmin/czkawka

Re: Ask HN: What have you built more than twice and wish someone had built for you?

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Post by sofixa »

seanw444 wrote: post #46
kinggencha wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not sure how easy self-hosting those are, but any paid-for and/or online offering by a third party is useless. This should have been clear long ago, but the LastPass breach should have made it obvious.

Self-hosting Bitwarden with the open source Rust re-implementation of the server (vaultwarden) seems like a good option. I've been looking into setting it up for my company.

Or the official open source server, which has the potential to get support from Bitwarden if it gets to it. It's much heavier though, with SQL Server and similar, but vastly more enterprisey.

Re: Ask HN: What have you built more than twice and wish someone had built for you?

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Post by xakdog »

Traubenfuchs wrote: post #44

Deployment pipelines, CI/CD, (dev)ops. It's my biggest pet peeve ever that every company I have ever been to has written highly customised CI/CD/(dev)ops tooling that I had to fight with or adapt at some point. I don not understand why anything beyond heroku/dokku complexity is ever needed. The needs for teams to manage infrastructure is lunacy in this day and age.

Yes! And some startups even set up k8s, manage db themselves, and spin up microservices. Even before having their first user!

So much hassle to support it when that shit breaks.

Also, to add to you list - Railway and Vercel are also super great

Re: Ask HN: What have you built more than twice and wish someone had built for you?

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Post by asim »

esquire_900 wrote: post #55
asim wrote: post #28

The programmable web. A singular gateway to a programmatic way in which you not only consume data but also services. It doesn't exist. We have a very fragmented ecosystem of http based services mixed with html, APIs and everything requires an account or credit card. I'd kill for one way to access everything in a programmatic way through one gateway. Tried to approach this in numerous ways and continually failed. Edit…

You are quite right, it's something I've been considering for a long time as well. The cold start problem however is so large, that it has to be an open protocol supported by many of the biggest companies for it to have even a slim chance of succeeding. I admire your attempt, though I'd imagine it to be a very steep and long climb.

I've come to the same conclusion. It only took me 8 years...but I'd hope it didn't rely on big tech to endorse it to work. I just don't know of another approach. Maybe publish a spec and see where it goes?
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