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

#601
I've made a saas app to manage kids custody (mostly for France for now).

Turned out super helpful to keep track of everything in one place (shared expenses, ask / demand unplanned changes in custodies, kids activities (school events, birthday parties, sport competition and so on)

Its helpful even for only one parent.

https://custody.homes

I dropped any plan to make money from this so its free

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Steve prompted humans. Quite similarly. Even babies can learn the technique!

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And only a desperate coder would pretend the tools (and other people) don’t do a lot of the work. Before and after A.I.

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

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Gemini 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…

I similarly used it to finally facilitate a switch to Arch to a couple months ago. Not technically a tool, but it was very convenient to take the Arch wiki, and personalize it by saying "My hardware is X and my use case is Y, can you filter out the 90% of things from here that aren't relevant to me?"

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

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post #601

I've made a saas app to manage kids custody (mostly for France for now). Turned out super helpful to keep track of everything in one place (shared expenses, ask / demand unplanned changes in custodies, kids activities (school events, birthday parties, sport competition and so on) Its helpful even for only one parent. https://custody.homes I dropped any plan to make money from this so its free

Very nice. Can I fork for my private use? Was thinking of building similar.

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

#605
I wrote NerdCalci (https://github.com/vishaltelangre/NerdCalci), a free calculator app for Android.

Besides, I made a lot of automation scripts (mostly using Ruby) that run on my raspberry pi to fetch/parse/crunch things and notify me on my Android phone through a self-hosted https://ntfy.sh server.

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

#606
I vibe-debug 10x more than I vibe-code, but here goes:

- a daemon to properly set the LEDs on my Lincstation N2 NAS (even early Claude was great at reverse-engineering): https://blog.majid.info/lincstation/

- most consequential, Thufir, a task manager to replace Cultured Code's Things as I am leaving massa Tim Apple's plantation: https://github.com/fazalmajid/Thufir Still very janky, but usable enough for my purposes

- most recently, a TRML dashboard for my Seeed Studio reTerminal E1002 smart e-ink display, and I also had to have Claude fix the firmware for full 6-color input: https://blog.majid.info/e-ink/

- a tool using DINOv2 image fingerprinting and usearch vector database to find visual duplicates in a large collection of images

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

#607
I've created lots of small things, but the most interesting is a firefox plugin that detects when some media is playing and send an event with the details to my home assistant. This way I can create some automations that automatically change the lights when I play/pause some media. It's really cool to have your lights automatically dim when you start watching a movie and then for some accent light to turn on when I pause the movie to go to the bathroom.

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

#608

Claudhd It's a user daemon that runs on my machine and exposes a unix socket, and then a bunch of hooks in claude, zsh, vim, etc, that report directory and commands I've run and all that, pipes it to claude Haiku for summary, and then stores context in sqlite. It also exposes that data as MCP so I can use claude to say "hey what was I doing yesterday," or any arbitrary time range. I find that in the age of using AI a…

The "expose it as MCP so AI can query it" pattern is one I keep seeing work really well in practice. We did something similar for business metrics in Databox - the interesting design question was whether to expose raw data or pre-aggregated metrics. We ended up with metrics (with dimension breakdowns) because agents hallucinate less when they don't have to decide how to aggregate themselves. Curious if you ran into anything similar with the sqlite summaries - do you find the AI-generated summaries more useful than raw command history?

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

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Oh man a few things 1. A dashboard that tracks my personal metrics (github, strava, todo completion, flossing) 2. A eink display for that dashboard 3. A realtime node graph that shows a codebase (and/or its diffs) in a way that I can visualize what functions call which, and under what conditions 4. A agent that automatically fills out government forms and creates invoices for my friends brewery based on the delivery…

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

#610
A simple one - a small MacOS status bar widget that shows me if my Ethernet adapter is the default connection or WiFi. It also shows the reported link speed. I have a _very_ flaky USB/Ethernet adapter so seeing "Eth 10" in the bar is enough to prompt me to unplug/replug and get back to "Eth 100" (yes, it isn't gigabit).
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