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

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Post by cromo »

instakill wrote: post #447
cromo wrote: post #94

The simple tool I wrote that I get the most bang for my buck out of is synesthesia[1]. I spend a lot of my time tracing things down across multiple log files, and having to pick out the important lines visually or trying to isolate them with custom grep incantations was wearing on me. Synesthesia allows you to specify regexes, and it will color matches based on the value of the match itself, meaning that it's statele…

Sorry, but please make a short screencast of what synesthesia looks like?

No need to be sorry - I've been meaning to do that for a while and just haven't gotten around to it. Synesthesia is really something you have to see to understand how useful it is. I'll see about getting a recording up after work today.

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

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Post by BHSPitMonkey »

https://getprelude.net

A simple, server less, offline-capable web app for practicing reading music. I've always been slow at sight reading, and this lets me plug in a MIDI piano and do drills.

It was also a good catalyst project for getting to play with: React, Webpack, Service Workers, Web MIDI, Web Audio, and the Progressive Web Application paradigm.

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

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Post by hackforfun »

Obvious throwaway account but 4 years ago went to odesk.com as I had a super simple idea to make an app. I believe spent less than 2 hours paying a developer $50 an hour making the app. Had it up in less than a day.

Couple years later the app has made close to a million dollars with me pocketing about 60% of that and the other 40% to the ad company.

It's one of my favorite projects because it was so simple and literally took less than 2 hours but I was able to pretty much make a 1000x on it which to this day is better than anything I have ever done.

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

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Post by grzm »

hackforfun wrote: post #513

Obvious throwaway account but 4 years ago went to odesk.com as I had a super simple idea to make an app. I believe spent less than 2 hours paying a developer $50 an hour making the app. Had it up in less than a day. Couple years later the app has made close to a million dollars with me pocketing about 60% of that and the other 40% to the ad company. It's one of my favorite projects because it was so simple and litera…

"Obvious throwaway account"

Why use a throwaway account in this instance?

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

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Post by rsync »

jayfk wrote: post #416
rsync wrote: post #146

rsync.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…

How does this compare to, say s3? At 14 Cents Per GB / Month, rsync.net costs me ~$1720 per year for 1TB (14 * 1024 * 12 / 100). S3 at 3 Cents Per GB / Month clocks in at ~$368 per year for 1TB (3 * 1024 * 12 / 100). Let's say I'm using a lot of transfer, so I'm going to double the price to ~$720 per year. Still, rsync.net costs me $1000 more per year. Convince me :).

As always, email[1] us to ask about the HN readers' discount, which is significant.

[1] info@rsync.net

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Post by tsumnia »

timvdalen wrote: post #225
tsumnia wrote: post #219

Not as fancy as many of those posted by: http://landmark-tool.herokuapp.com/ When I was researching face recognition, I absolutely hated the labeling system that we were given, and couldn't really find anything better (mind you, this was about 6 years ago). So I started building Landmarker. It let you plot points, identify segments, zoom and rotate. It never served any real purpose besides the few times I've wanted t…

How does it work? What does it do?

The premise is to build a json file to represent "parts" of the face.

For example say I wanted to landmark a feature like the image's left eye. Here is a GIF walking through the labeling process. http://i.imgur.com/63UXkUg.gifv

I would select "+New Shape" and enter in the name of the shape, in my example "left-eye". This will add the shape to model and enable cross hairs as you drag across the screen. As you click, a landmark point will get added at the XY coordinate you click. I can add as many points to a shape and can add any number of shapes to the model.

Once done, you can select the menu item and select "Export Points" to produce something like this: { "url": "http://landmark-tool.herokuapp.com/img/nic_cage.jpg", "lefteye": { "0": { "x": 119, "y": 274 }, "1": { "x": 163, "y": 251 }, "2": { "x": 202, "y": 274 }, "3": { "x": 161, "y": 289 } } }

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Post by mind_heist »

sovok wrote: post #342

https://wootboard.com Draw something and share it. Like jsFiddle for drawings. In need of a rewrite and mobile support, but pretty useful if you just want to scribble something down and share it. And I like the borderless canvas :)

Ah ! This is really cool :) Do you mind if I ask what this is built on ?

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

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Post by halisaurus »

I built the Chrome extension [0] for Pesticide[1]. It toggles the Pesticide CSS in the current tab making it easier to visualize the placement of elements in the DOM. Useful for front end debugging.

The extensions first implementation was basically just a ternary operator! Now it's got a little more to it, but it's still super simple.

[0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pesticide-for-chro...

[1] https://github.com/mrmrs/pesticide

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