Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use? • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by themoonisachees » Wed, Dec 13, 2023, 2:51 PM UTC

Ilasky wrote: post #487

I'm making Snapress[0] as a way to stay connected with family & friends in my upcoming travels. It instantly prints a picture on my family and friends' printers as soon as I take it. Just need a raspberry pi or spare computer to run it. I like to think about it as a Polaroid where the camera and printer are on opposite ends of the world. [0] https://snapress.com

Love this in concept, as a toy, but to be honest I could never see myself using this ever.

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

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Post by syeopite » Wed, Dec 13, 2023, 2:52 PM UTC

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

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Post by relativeadv » Wed, Dec 13, 2023, 2:52 PM UTC

When i was still playing diablo 4 i made a swiftui app where i would take a picture of two items up for comparison and would use gpt-4 to determine what was the better choice. I found that apple's OCR through Vision kit or whatever its called is really good.

I would front-load the prompt with a dictionary of stats i cared most about in a 1-5 ranking system for that character, this setup via through another screen's ui.

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

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Post by jperiasw » Wed, Dec 13, 2023, 2:54 PM UTC

It was a telegram bot during covid (India), The backend would look for vaccine availability by calling the govt covid api's for vaccine availability. Then it would would connect to a telegram bot and alert subscribers when vaccine became available with hospital addresses, and no. of slots available. It was limited to one state, there were similar bots but it was a good project to do :)

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

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Post by nergal » Wed, Dec 13, 2023, 2:54 PM UTC

I've made two things that I use daily (for several years now):

RSS/Atom reader for CLI: https://github.com/lallassu/gorss

Simple Todo list (replacement for Wunderlist): https://github.com/lallassu/doit

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

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Post by lostmsu » Wed, Dec 13, 2023, 2:56 PM UTC

Tiling WM for Windows with XAML layouts: https://github.com/StackWM

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

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Post by franze » Wed, Dec 13, 2023, 2:57 PM UTC

tomjen3 wrote: post #528

akshayKMR wrote: post #507

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I don't get it. What are the controls? I'm using Firefox on desktop.

Its a mouse based game. You put down walls that the ball hits. Object of the game is to get the ball into the box.

Or tab-based game on mobile. Tab down, draw line, tab up.

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Post by EwanG » Wed, Dec 13, 2023, 2:58 PM UTC

pronopython wrote: post #143

I created adult entertainment apps to organize and have fun with images and videos: - RuGiVi: https://github.com/pronopython/rugivi - Browse your collection of images on an endless screen. Tested with more than 700.000 images at once! - Fapel System: https://github.com/pronopython/fapel-system - Organize your adult images and videos by just using hardlinks and directories. - TopZemen: https://github.com/pronopython/t…

I imagine there are more than a few photographers who would appreciate your first app to make it easier to browse their collections. To the extent you ever think of marketing it.

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Post by kaibee » Wed, Dec 13, 2023, 2:58 PM UTC

mgirkins wrote: post #418

johny115 wrote: post #413

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Looks interesting but with paywalled trial, you might as well say on homepage "we don't want anyone to use this app, go away".

I've been testing it out recently and it's been quite successful but I am about to change that to a soft paywall. I'm thinking 7 days with an occasional nagging paywall and then you get an extra 30 days free if you add credit card details. What do you think?

I'm less likely to commit to using something if I'm going to have to decide to pay for it sooner. I would try offering a month or two free and see how many people commit to using it and over what timeframe. You probably want people to be invested in the app, such that it becomes worth it for them to pay because it would be cogitatively expensive to switch. A week is definitely not enough time to build that kind of habit.

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

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Post by mgirkins » Wed, Dec 13, 2023, 2:59 PM UTC

maximus-decimus wrote: post #466

mgirkins wrote: post #373

Like every programmer before me, I created a to-do list app of course! However, as a programmer, I prefer trees to lists so I made a to-do tree app. I have been using it religiously every day since to manage all aspects of my life in a way that I couldn't previously with tools like Wunderlist (RIP) or didn't have the time to make work in this way like Notion. Shockingly there aren't many other options out there for t…

I'm tempted to do something like that in Go. I don't feel like I need a tree-based to do app for my personal stuff, but I just plain don't understand how people are okay with the feature->story->task list on Azure Devops. This clearly needs to be a task tree/graph! What I feel all those apps are missing though is dependencies. like "I can't do task E until I do C and D and those other trees". Technically Task Warrior…

That would be a fun Go project!

I don’t need it for most personal things like shopping lists etc. but when I do it’s invaluable. I also don’t understand how people work like that!

Dependencies is an interesting idea that i’ve thought about a little bit. From my own experience i’ve found that a tree naturally models this quite well as every task depends on its subtasks, but i can see for more complex workflows that wouldn't work perfectly.