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Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
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#542I had a portal/app with messages exam results, calenders for
.) kindergarten for my youngest child (who will now go to elementary school)
.) elementary school for my middle child
.) daycare for my middle child
.) high school for eldest child
All spamming with messages and news - so I made python scripts that use the apps API to get the messages (exams and changes etc) and puts it into our family telegram group chat if relevant
I just can't sit here every morning 20 minutes on my phone logging in checking everything just to find out the food plan has changed ...
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#544A local search indexer that indexes every page I visit (with tools for obvious exceptions) and lets me full text search them.
Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
#545a TUI that runs all my daily Linux updates from one place.
Updating my machine used to be a dozen scattered commands: apt, fwupd, and a pile of dev tools I want kept current (node/npm, go, claude, opencode, plus binaries like kitty and lazydocker) that each update their own weird way. Now it's one Bubble Tea dashboard that checks each tool's installed version against upstream and only downloads what's actually behind, so I can see at a glance what's current and what's not. Adding a new tool is easy enough that I just toss new ones in as I start using them.
It also has a cleanup mode that hunts down all the pesky cache files that quietly eat your disk and reclaims the space in one pass, which has saved me from the "laptop full again" scramble more than once.
Currently, testing it privately and tweaking to make it awesome.
Another tool I made for myself is automated video editor (takes folder of raw photos images, and generates edited video that can be shared online). Used it among other things to edit all my GoPro raw footage laying around (hundreds of files).
Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
#546A dashboard to see what my local commercial free radio station (89.3 The Current) in Minnesota is playing. It shows how often tracks are played, track and artist play history as well as some other fun lookups and visualizations. https://theundercurrent.fm
Very interesting! How does it work?
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#548I made a modal editor, like Vim and Helix, in Rust that has some prose features I wanted, and with a keybinding system I find more logical and consistent.
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#549Gemini has been indispensable for helping me move from Windows to Linux. I'm reasonably proficient, but moving to a brand-new OS brought so many random questions and weird edge cases that I never would have had the confidence, patience, or time to tackle it alone, even with pretty strong Google fu. It's been so nice to have instant access to answers for my specific problems, without judgment or having to wait on a re…
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#550I built a little Gmail cleaner because my inbox had a bunch of "newsletters I unsubscribed from in my head but never actually did." Headers only, never message bodies, because privacy should still matter, I think. It worked very well and the amount of spam I get dropped dramatically, which was the point. Everything was built with AI as part of a 12-in-12 challenge I'm doing, where I'm building 12 products in 12 month…
is:unread -is:starred <-- go through your inbox and star what you want to keep, this filter will help you delete everything else unread. Add something like older_than:1y to also prune your Gmail from time to time.