https://pdfcv.com - a tool for creating a CV/resume online. It has been running for 5 years, without adding any new features and people still find it useful.
Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
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#62Hotcold Typing: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hotcold-typing/gik...
Learning Touch Typing with instant visual feedbacks.
I initially made it for Mozilla Dev Derby, and now released as an Chrome App.
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#63https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ccfeljbgeogamkgilf...
A simple google chrome extension for UFC fans.
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#64https://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…
Hey, your first link is giving me a 502 Bad Gateway error.
Thanks for noticing, should be fixed. (there goes my "zero maintenance"-claim :) )
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#65I built https://fancyjson.com in a day about 5 months ago. I've used it pretty often since. Its a fancy JSON beautifier.
It tries to compact simple objects and spaces all delimiters. It also attempts to align array children. The idea was to produce the most compact, yet still easily readable form of a JSON document.
I was creeped out when trying to find something like this online, because there are many which send your JSON document to the backend instead of doing it on the client.
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#66I'm not sure whether "proud" is the right adjective, but that batch file I wrote when I was 12 or 13 which moves all images from the Desktop into a folder called "images" has been the single most useful thing I've ever written.
This is actually one of the few types of examples that I think fit here. Most of the other people are just posting their side projects. When I clicked this I was expecting some quick bash/batch/python/etc. scripts that do useful things.
One less useful thing for you: https://onli.github.io/izulu/. It is a bash script that changes the background of your desktop according to the weather at your locations, and can show the temperature and forecast.
Doesn't have much functional value, but it was easy to write (though over the years it needed some care, mostly thanks to closing weather APIs) and it is a small simple thing I use almost every day, as it is in my autostart.
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#67I wrote a concurrent, super fast webcrawler for my job with Go (~300 LOC) to get data out of customer sites fast even when they have 1.5 million pages or more.
You can basically filter everything to get a .csv file in the end with the links for the given domain, the source for that links, link number, link depth, timestamp, HTTP Request Codes (200, 404 etc) that fits that filter.
Filters: Number of concurrent http(s) requests, max link number, max link depth, must include path, must include word(s), must exclude word(s), local or global search (for links with path, local means you only search for fitting links on that site and the found sites instead of crawling the whole homepage) etc.
It was my first Go project and I always wanted to do multithreading and Go made it so easy. Can't opensource the code because it's company property.
But damn is it fast if you let it run, one homepage didn't throttle me and I got up to 96 Mb/s (on my 100 Mb/s connection) with set to 2000 connections per second.
DDosed our office wifi a few times before I implemented a token bucket for rate limiting (and sometimes just for fun after that :>).
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#68JsFormat and CaseConversion. I wrote them at a time when a lot of stuff we were building at work wasn't really being used by a ton of people, so it was really nice to produce something that actually got used by tens of thousands of people.
https://github.com/jdc0589/JsFormat https://github.com/jdc0589/CaseConversion
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#69I wrote a concurrent, super fast webcrawler for my job with Go (~300 LOC) to get data out of customer sites fast even when they have 1.5 million pages or more. You can basically filter everything to get a .csv file in the end with the links for the given domain, the source for that links, link number, link depth, timestamp, HTTP Request Codes (200, 404 etc) that fits that filter. Filters: Number of concurrent http(s)…
I did something very similar a few years ago, but in c#. I didn't do real rate limiting, just threading configuration and a configurable random sleep; but it got the job done. It was a super fun project to work on.
I can't believe that the open source options are so still so few and far between in this area. There are TONS of great tools for building crawlers, and there are tons of great crawlers built for mirroring a copy of websites. But, there are very few polished crawlers built for simply extracting metadata from pages and getting information about a site.
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#70I built http://pixelsview.com
I run a media website and people are always asking me, what will X or Y look like? How do I know what size I want? I send them there.