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Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

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Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

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Post by gsinclair »

I wrote a TUI to search for words/phrases in a crossword dictionary. I’ve never written a reactive TUI before, and never written Go either. I was very happy with the assistance rendered by ChatGPT.

Of course, it was great to have exactly the features I want, and I enjoyed learning some new things.

Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

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Post by tarrydev13 »

stanboyet wrote: post #580

I always was frustrated by link shorteners and predatory approaches. So I built https://slsh.me Fun to build again, host on bare metal and all. Learned a lot!

I really like the design, are you a designer? Or did you hire someone?

Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

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Post by michaelbuckbee »

The funniest thing I've made is a free utility called "Moniker" that contextually renames files based on their contents.

Uses local AI models and I was able to snag this great domain name.

https://finalfinalreallyfinaluntitleddocumentv3.com/

But hands down the most useful thing I've made is HutchDB, which is a MCP service that you can call from any AI chat or Agent setup to store data for you.

Literally from your AI you just say "save that to Hutch" and then it figures out:

- The schema + fields - Builds nice webviews (Kanban, Timeline, Grid, Calendar) - Lets you share the output with people

So people use it for all kinds of things like time tracking ("every hour save a summary of my activities to Hutch"), for Agent to Human handoff ("Every day check social media for mentions of my company and save them to Hutch").

I use it for things like recording all of our marketing activities and then having my AI compare those to signups for rough attribution, etc.

Dead useful and at https://hutchdb.com

Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

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Post by raffa667 »

g8oz wrote: post #270
slopinthebag wrote: post #183

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Kind of the same way people are proud of their kitchen. Most did not build it themselves.

My interior design wife tells me that exist many kitchen resellers make a living out of it. She uses my tool, that makes me happy.

Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

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Post by 13hunteo »

stanboyet wrote: post #580

I always was frustrated by link shorteners and predatory approaches. So I built https://slsh.me Fun to build again, host on bare metal and all. Learned a lot!

Looks really cool, its nice to have an alternative to the big players.

The only criticism is that, in the UK at least, "slash" can mean urinate, and that's all I can think of when I read through the website. Probably a me issue though!

Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

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Post by lscharen »

I’ve used Claude to help write development utilities to support my retro computing interests.

The most complete tool being this unit testing support library for Apple IIgs assembly language development.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/iigs-unit

Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

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Post by stanboyet »

13hunteo wrote: post #586
stanboyet wrote: post #580

I always was frustrated by link shorteners and predatory approaches. So I built https://slsh.me Fun to build again, host on bare metal and all. Learned a lot!

Looks really cool, its nice to have an alternative to the big players. The only criticism is that, in the UK at least, "slash" can mean urinate, and that's all I can think of when I read through the website. Probably a me issue though!

Aahah very clear oversight on my end :D

Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

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Post by dizhn »

shibel wrote: post #233

I need to finish off that blog post. With Tailscale, you can basically point a domain to the FQDN of a machine you’re sharing with people and the domain will simply work for them (and only them)[1]. But for it to work without them having to know or specify the specific application port, you have to grant them access to 443 (and 80) in your Tailscale ACL for that specific host. So yeah, now immich.familydomain.com wor…

Pangolin would have been a better direct fit than Authentik. It does come with an embedded idP nowadays but can also use Authentik. Another tool to keep an eye on is Netbird which is like a tailscale like mesh but has proxy support for whatever app you want to share with or without authentication.
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