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

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Post by basilm »

nishanth_v wrote: post #418

http://github.com/nishanthvijayan/CoderCalendar/ Android app and Chrome and Firefox addons that lists live and upcoming programming competitions on sites like Codeforces, Topcoder, Hackerrank, Hackerearth, Codechef etc https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.corphots.c... https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/coders-calendar /bageaffklfkikjigoclfgengklfnidll https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addo…

Nice to see a keralite here. I just installed your chrome extension! I shall share these links as much as I can.

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

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Post by basilm »

jaredtking wrote: post #35

https://invoice-generator.com I made this 4 years ago for those times when you just need an invoice. Today 10s of thousands of individuals and businesses use this each day to get paid. It's free to use with no login required. Instead it uses localStorage to remember data.

I personally have been using this since March 2016. I want to thank you for making such a nice application. The main reason I used this is because it was the FIRST result on startpage search engine results. Big thanks to you again! Keep up the good work.

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

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Post by kctess5 »

It's not totally unique, but I made a simple tool I call "watch" that runs terminal commands on file save. You specify a file glob and a command and it runs the command whenever a globed file changes. Also has a few handy flags. I use it ever day to automate my file save->compile->run workflow. It's amazing how much time you save by never having to up-arrow/enter a terminal after every save. Been meaning to update it to use file hooks instead of polling but it works.

https://github.com/kctess5/file_watcher

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

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Post by wkoszek »

cogs wrote: post #27

Crab - SQL for the filesystem. Bash is such a pain because of all the incompatible utilities. Its much nicer just to think about logic than to be searching for command switches and dealing with corner cases like .. file names that contain spaces(!) Free for personal use, $5 / month commercial http://etia.co.uk

How big filesystems have you queried with it?

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

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Post by wkoszek »

brilliantcode wrote: post #155

http://saasful.com Successful. That's what I want for my SaaS developers. Whatever your core product is, it's always going to need - billing integration with Stripe - user authentication (for your customers) - access control (so you can drop in support) You can pull this off (of course!) but do you really want to deal with this portion at all? Wouldn't you rather focus on driving traffic, writing blogs, adding new fe…

I think you've put too much commercial info into this, and it's looks more like an ad. It's interesting what you do. Is it profitable?

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

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Post by cosmolev »

blauditore wrote: post #200
mk4p wrote: post #116

https://izuded.com (i.e., "iz u ded?") I made this because I adopted a puppy and realized that, if I got hit by a bus on a Friday, he could be stuck in his crate for days before anyone realized. Morbid, but useful. It texts you every X days and asks, "u ded?" -- if you don't click "naw" before X days pass, it'll notify your contacts. It's a portfolio project to show what I've learned in the realm of "serverless" arch…

Google has a similar feature to give trusted people access to your data if you've been inactive for a given amount of time (so probably dead): https://www.google.com/settings/account/inactive

Is it safe to put my 1Password's master-password into the message that is sent in case I'm dead?
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