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

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Post by nikitoci »

franze wrote: post #124

I mostly code my own games with a target group of 1, my favourites are http://lalo.li/lsd/ https://updownredgreenetc.franzai.com/ https://spinner.franzai.com/ https://dance.franzai.com/ (basically a lava lamp you can interact with) from the app side i like https://qrpwd.franzai.com/ coded to save my 2 factor backup codes qr encoded and encrypted in my photo stream and https://github.com/franzenzenhofer/thisismy a com…

Is there a bug in the lsd game? If you draw a line exactly in the middle of the ball falling, it gets stuck on that line wiggling like a pearl on a string.

Great game!!

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

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Post by web007 »

rahimnathwani wrote: post #578

My son's school has a spelling bee (spelling competition) next month. I made a simple web app to make it easy to practice spelling the 450 words on the 'study list': Version with all 450 words: https://simplespell.netlify.app/ Version with the easy words removed: https://dev2--simplespell.netlify.app/

I need to update the word list for this year, but same: https://007.github.io/tnetennba/

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

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Post by smcameron »

1. https://github.com/smcameron/space-nerds-in-space Space Nerds in Space, a multiplayer starship bridge simulator for linux

2. Gneutronica, a MIDI drum machine program https://github.com/smcameron/gneutronica

3. gaseous-giganticus a program to generate textures for gas giant planets https://github.com/smcameron/gaseous-giganticus

4. explodomatica, a program to generate "explosion noises" by filtering white noise https://github.com/smcameron/explodomatica

5. note-driller a simple program to drill guitar fretboard notes and chord shapes https://github.com/smcameron/note-driller

6. wordwarvi a side-scrolling shoot-em-up similar to Defender, Stargate, and Scramble https://github.com/smcameron/wordwarvi

7. cosmic-space-boxinator a program (in the Processing language) to create sky-boxes for my space game, Space nerds in space https://github.com/smcameron/cosmic-space-boxinator

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

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Post by ry8806 »

just a small webapp - https://uplowder.com/

I need to transfer photos of receipts/invoices (taken with my phone) to accounting software on my laptop. Google Pictures/Drive is too cumbersome

1. open url on laptop

2. scan QR code with phone

3. choose files/take a picture of receipt on phone

4. appears on laptop

Files are E2E encrypted, as I used it as an excuse to play around with the JavaScript "SubtleCrypto" API

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

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Post by rahimnathwani »

web007 wrote: post #582
rahimnathwani wrote: post #578

My son's school has a spelling bee (spelling competition) next month. I made a simple web app to make it easy to practice spelling the 450 words on the 'study list': Version with all 450 words: https://simplespell.netlify.app/ Version with the easy words removed: https://dev2--simplespell.netlify.app/

I need to update the word list for this year, but same: https://007.github.io/tnetennba/

Oh! I love it!

I like the way yours says each word with two different voices, and that you provide your own voices.

Mine is a quick hack, and uses the browser's TTS voices, which vary in quality.

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

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Post by web007 »

baccredited wrote: post #569

"pw" a simple perl script that prints a random password. default length is 16 chars but if I do "pw 8" it will return an 8 char password I use it all the time, at least a few times a week. I wrote it because the secure passwords generated by iOS and various password managers are overkill for most purposes and extremely hard to type out by hand to an airgapped destination

Heh... I have several variants on this. My most-recent version is basically the diametric opposite of yours, make the least-readable passwords possible.

https://github.com/007/dotfiles/blob/439ba7ff1d1f6dc01c4b792...

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

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Post by eviks »

alexpovel wrote: post #565
eviks wrote: post #382

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> custom setups break and aren't portable But this is a custom setup that's not portable? And how is it less tedious to have to select previously typed text all the time? Is it mainly better because then you don't need to do anything on individual chars, but do it in a batch?

> But this is a custom setup that's not portable? Caught me. > And how is it less tedious to have to select previously typed text all the time? This is tedious, but I have that automated (AutoHotKey). So a single, AHK-managed hotkey does the equivalent of: CTRL + SHIFT + HOME CTRL + C feed into tool, paste back CTRL + V So once done writing, I press that single button and it's done (CTRL+SHIFT+HOME select all text fr…

Oh, I didn't see the "CTRL + SHIFT + HOME" part in the linked AHK script, only the later steps, that's definitely less tedious, though also more dangerous (wouldn't work in rich text apps with tables and pictures etc.? though maybe your tool is smart enough to deal with rich text in the clipboard) and also pollutes the undo buffer.

Agree re. the potential to break flow part of the compose keys in general (all these grammar things should be automated away), though maybe in case of needing just a single diacritic the least fiddly alternative could be something like a hotstring in AHK ",u" to "ü" (comma + a letter without spaces, which doesn't happen in regular typing or a deadkey in keyboard layout with a similar effect)

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

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Post by dinnison »

I enjoy looking for houses in my neighborhood and imagining what I would do if I were to buy it and fix it up.

So I built a quick little app that can reimagine a house from a single photo.

https://dream-house.clarkdinnison.com/

It uses Replicate API to send your photo to an AI model that is specifically good at detecting straight lines/edges (perfect for architecture applications) - then layers on a remodeling prompt I iterated on for a few weeks.

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

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Post by franze »

nikitoci wrote: post #581
franze wrote: post #124

I mostly code my own games with a target group of 1, my favourites are http://lalo.li/lsd/ https://updownredgreenetc.franzai.com/ https://spinner.franzai.com/ https://dance.franzai.com/ (basically a lava lamp you can interact with) from the app side i like https://qrpwd.franzai.com/ coded to save my 2 factor backup codes qr encoded and encrypted in my photo stream and https://github.com/franzenzenhofer/thisismy a com…

Is there a bug in the lsd game? If you draw a line exactly in the middle of the ball falling, it gets stuck on that line wiggling like a pearl on a string. Great game!!

yeah, but that glitching is also something that makes the game more fun, cause if the ball gets enclosed into an area, you can try to glitch yourself out of it.

the very ugly MIT-like licensed code can be found here, and it is from a time when I thought it was fun to code my own little physics engine

https://github.com/franzenzenhofer/lsd/blob/gh-pages/main-20...

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