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

#541

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 used your tool to get paid in the past. Thanks for making it.

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

#542

https://www.hiroapp.com - Note-taking reduced to the core that just works™. Offline first, no signup needed, easily sharable (url, sms, email) and (web)realtime sync between all devices and collaborators. My co-founder and I moved on to a new project a year ago, but this thing is still buzzing along on a cheap DO box and works like a charm with basically zero maintenance. Frontend is vanilla JS, backend in Go and the…

Your product look reminds me Fog Creek Software website. What the style/fonts were inspired by?

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

#543
Jumper (https://github.com/mpwoz/jumper)

It's a simple chrome extension to jump between top-level comments on hacker news using the arrow keys.

I've been meaning to publish it to the extension store, but that process looks like it'll take longer than actually writing it did :)

The reason it's my proudest "achievement" is just because it's so useful to me (solves an actual problem)

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

#544
I built Eggshell , a BASH script manager for the Mac menu bar. I built it because I really wanted a tool to manage the scripts that start up our dev environment. Got tired of copy pasting them. I'm not a dev, so it took a few days to figure out how to build. Built with Swift.

http://eggshell.pw

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

#546
A component like jQuery plugin called Freud for jQuery.

https://github.com/abuisman/jquery-freud

I use it so much I nearly forgot I made it myself. With Freud you can apply 'behaviours' to DOM-elements. What this does is that it enables you to work with your DOM-elements in a more object oriented way.

What I use it most for is applying pieces of javascript on the page only when the DOM-elements that I apply freud to are on the page. This way all you get a lot less code in one big js file.

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

#547

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So taking your project as an example, and having Carbon Ads, how much $$$ do you get out of them?

I don't pay attention to it and I can't for the life of me figure out how much it earns monthly but there is over $800 in my account. My hunch is $10-$15 a month or so. I just moved it to a cheaper hosting plan so it's actually turning a minuscule profit now.

Nice. I thought the Carbon Ads and Deck Ads require some minimum # of traffic, so I guess you're hitting a lot of visitors on it?

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

#548
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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

My security-mindset-sense is tingling..

Could be an attack vector when you know someone's google usage will be sparse.

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