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

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Post by viraptor »

Ace17 wrote: post #317
vitorbaptistaa wrote: post #158

https://shellshare.net I have migrated my wife's (then girlfriend) computer to Linux and sometimes I had to configure something on her computer (e.g. a printer). This ended up generating lots of back and forth on the phone with me telling her commands to write in the terminal, and she reading the output out loud. I wanted an easy way to see her terminal. So shellshare was born. Shellshare allows you to run a single c…

Can the same effect be achieved via GNU screen (potentially combined with an SSH tunnel)?

http://hamvocke.com/blog/remote-pair-programming-with-tmux/ it describes tmux setup, but screen can do it as well - there are guides online.

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

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Post by kovacs »

I strongly felt the world needed a way for close friends, family, and coworkers to band together in order to anonymously spam someone's phone with giphys on their birthday :-)

http://birthdaymob.com

It's without a doubt the most enjoyable thing I've done and it came from feeling a little loss of humanity with FB coopting birthdays.

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

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Post by shovel »

averageweather wrote: post #82

http://www.averageweather.io/ - tool to make planning for travel much easier. When you are too far out for a forecast, I found myself taking too many clicks to get average weather data. EDIT - Whoa. Getting lots of traffic. This site is like 3 days old and I taught myself python and django to build it. Open to any recommendations at jonathan at averageweather dot io EDIT 2 - Back up... Site crash ... Google apps shut…

Great project. Especially launching from 0.

Have you considered adding a Celcius option for us quirky Europeans?

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

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Post by bengesoff »

On behalf of my friend: https://autono.ml

It is a wrapper over DuckDuckGo which redirects all searches without bangs to Google. It also changes the bang operator (!) to the open square bracket ([) because it is easier to type.

Very simple but effective time saver!

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

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Post by viraptor »

eps wrote: post #569
rsync wrote: post #146

rsync.net. I am very, very proud of the (very simple) platform that we've built there. It's a basic tool that "just works" - and just works exactly like you'd expect it to . If I were a consumer of cloud storage, this is what I would want it to look like. It pleases me so greatly to know that, right now, someone is doing something like this: pg_dump -U postgres db | ssh user@rsync.net "dd of=db_dump" ... while simult…

Am I missing it or is there no Company/About page on your website? There's an obvious difference between rsync'ing to Chinese/Russian and US/European clouds, so knowing where the company is and who's behind it is pretty much a must.

> There's an obvious difference between rsync'ing to Chinese/Russian and US/European clouds

Apart from latency, is there a difference? Would you upload your unencrypted data for long term storage to anyone?

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

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Post by modoc »

Magicstatic wrote: post #575
modoc wrote: post #572

https://10minutemail.com I built it to learn JBoss Seam, and recently re-wrote it using DeltaSpike. I personally use it almost every day!

If you indeed did build 10minutemail.com - I applaud you. May I ask how much you make (roughly) off of the service? It seems to be the go-to for most temporary email services, at least that I know of.

I did indeed build it:) I find myself somewhat reticent to discuss the details of the finances, but let's say it's a five figure amount annually.

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

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Post by nkantar »

amjith wrote: post #87

Two years ago I created a CLI tool called pgcli ( http://pgcli.com ). A postgres client with auto-completion. It became ridiculously successful. I got a few requests to support mysql. So I launched a kickstarter to write mycli ( http://mycli.net ). This also became quite successful. There is a thriving community of core devs and a ton of users. I'm happy with both creations and made a lot of online friends. These pro…

I can't remember who turned me onto pgcli, but I've been telling everyone I can about it for a long time now. It's wonderful.

Thank you!

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

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Post by kleinishere »

pkzip wrote: post #110

One tool I wrote and I wish I would still have time to maintain was "Folders2Flickr" (luckily someone forked it https://github.com/richq/folders2flickr and keeps it alive). It's basically a DropBox for pictures with Flickr being the storage server and viewer. The tool simply synchronizes all of your pictures which can be in a hierarchical folder structure and recreates this folder structure on Flickr (but uses Sets/A…

Used this just a year or so ago to upload ~decade of family photos from a backup-less old computer and into the cloud. Thank you!

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

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Post by rstarback »

jtreminio wrote: post #161

https://puphpet.com I started working with VMs several years ago, manually setting up a Virtualbox image. It would take around 30 minutes, and whenever I'd screw something up I'd have to delete it and redo the whole thing. Sometimes I'd fat-finger a command and have to start the process all over again. Once I got tired of that I started to look into Vagrant, which recommended using a tool like Puppet or Chef. That le…

I use this frequently at work! :D
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