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Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?

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Post by aditya_rs »

Was just working on https://github.com/adityarsuryavamshi/Sniper which is a Manifest V3 extension which does dynamic user action execution without needing `userScripts` permissions.

I was mostly interested in solving a very specific problem for myself (basically poll a website behind auth + 2fa and react/notify to changes) and since I also had recently gotten into frontend decided to also try out building extensions.

I knew about Tampermonkey and such but had never used them, and I also wasn't sure if they would be long term viable with MV3 coming in. Moreover I also wanted to explore some way to keep options open in case chrome ended up being very heavy handed with extensions, in the process I discovered there are still a lot of things you can do if you really really wanted to bypass the current limitations.

In the end though I personally decided to use Violentmonkey instead of this, but this could be an alternative direction for others who don't/can't use dev mode for extensions.

Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?

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Post by qup »

fsniper wrote: post #434
midgetjones wrote: post #120

A few years ago, my wife and I decided to adopt a rescue cat from battersea.org.uk. However, it was a frustrating experience as the staff didn't always update the website regularly, and we'd find that any suitable cats would be snapped up before we'd even seen them. I spotted that the website served its data to the frontend via an unsecured internal JSON API, so I built an Elixir app that would poll the API endpoint…

Kinda similar story for me. I was trying to find a used motorcycle. So I created an in-browser javascript app that could go over the listings in a country local second hand site, and score the listings to my liking. Like decrease for long mileage, increase for young age. That worked pretty well and found me a great one. Good times.

I'm going to do this to find a Toyota truck.

I did a similar thing like twenty years ago to nab free stuff on the local Craigslist.

Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?

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Post by flohofwoe »

A cmake wrapper / cmd runner / package manager thingy called fips. Hard to pitch it in a sentence but I've been using it for nearly a decade now each day for most of my C/C++ projects.

https://floooh.github.io/fips/

...I still hesitate to recommend it to other people over a pure cmake-based workflow though because it's very opinionated and violates some cmake "best practices".

Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?

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Post by freemh »

I created https://boxshadows.xyz as an interactive tool to simplify the use of CSS box shadows. Similarly, I developed https://selectors.info as a learning tool to classify selectors and combinators by type. We also made/use https://alwane.io to reorder color lists by palette, and it assists me in extracting colors from websites to study their color implementation. Additionally, we developed http://divize.io as a platform to practice HTML/CSS through a series of challenges. Lastly, http://front.tips is a directory I maintain for organizing interresting frontend-related tips I've discovered.

Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?

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Post by _kush »

drgoodvibe wrote: post #365
_kush wrote: post #61

I've built a few apps which started out as tools for my own use and later polished + released for public. - Cone: This started out as a small tool to help me identify the name of the colors of objects around me (i am a red-green colorblind). Now it's a full fledged color picker app with a Pantone license - https://cone.app - CBVision: This is another small tool for colorblind people which shifts the problematic color…

Huge fan of unwind! I have been using it for nearly a year.

Thank you for using Unwind! It’s going to get a major update soon :)

Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?

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Post by _kush »

supertron wrote: post #77
_kush wrote: post #61

I've built a few apps which started out as tools for my own use and later polished + released for public. - Cone: This started out as a small tool to help me identify the name of the colors of objects around me (i am a red-green colorblind). Now it's a full fledged color picker app with a Pantone license - https://cone.app - CBVision: This is another small tool for colorblind people which shifts the problematic color…

> and later polished You weren't kidding. Your apps are stunning!

Thank you for the kind words!

Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?

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Post by tomp »

Just this week

https://tz.primozic.org

useful and quick GUI to see the time across the world.

on phone:

touch & swipe to pan the map / highlight timezone (upper clock)

tap to select a timezone (lower clocks)

swipe left/right the line below the clock above to change the time

Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?

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Post by _kush »

bbsimonbb wrote: post #185
_kush wrote: post #61

I've built a few apps which started out as tools for my own use and later polished + released for public. - Cone: This started out as a small tool to help me identify the name of the colors of objects around me (i am a red-green colorblind). Now it's a full fledged color picker app with a Pantone license - https://cone.app - CBVision: This is another small tool for colorblind people which shifts the problematic color…

Cone looks fantastic. You're going to make me buy an IPhone.

Thank you!
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