I built my own Replit-like web app called Dock'n'Roll powered by Docker to write quick web apps in any language and quickly host them in isolated containers on a subdomain of my domain (*.varunbiniwale.com) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nITIMrND0Z0 Using it, I can quickly build up tiny apps and have them online reliably, eg. I use https://yourip.varunbiniwale.com/ while looking for vulnerabilities. I protected the…
Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
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#622That's not even counting all the firmware I've written for hobby projects: mostly robots, complex art displays, and musical instruments.
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#623Built Pgweb (Postgres GUI) some time ago since I could not find a good minimalistic database explorer. https://github.com/sosedoff/pgweb The app is super simple, made with Go + jQuery and I still use it almost every day, and has brought it to every single company I've been with.
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#624I've created a Mac OS app that shows a progress bar 5 pixels tall and 100% the with of the screen when complete, it's always on top of any window. It's a menu bar app, so you click on the icon and there are a few options. - You can choose how long will take for the bar to complete, 1, 5, 10... ( I have hardcoded all minutes in intervals of 5 minutes up to 1h :D ). - Choose a color. - Choose the sound it will make at…
This sounds interesting too from a calm technology perspective (at least as far as I understand the concept). I often run into the problem of not realizing when I'm close to being out of time and having a less-intrusive way of quickly seeing when I should be getting close to done would help me prioritize how I'm thinking/working. @alfonsodev, do you have a link to a repo or something where someone could download this…
- [1] https://github.com/indiedevai/flowcus.bar
- [2] https://github.com/indiedevai/flowcus.bar/releases/tag/20220...
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#625I created several. The most recent: an Android app that lets you navigate any map, e.g. the one you just make a picture of: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nl.vanderplank... I use this one myself: we like to take walks, and not always are the routes marked that clearly. Still only a handful of users, but usefull I guess for anyone that wished that e.g. Google maps made it possible to upload a picture to…
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.you_are_he...
The author also has an iOS version:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/you-are-here-gps-for-any-map/i...
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#626Earlier quoted context omitted.
I put some generic defaults, but it works well for tasks that happen only on certain days. Taking trash to the curb once a week, packing bags for kids after school activities, etc. We liked checking things off the list, so we put obvious stuff too, but it's easy to forget infrequent tasks.
Got it. Makes sense. Gonna try this although another thing we were planning to solve was balancing the chores between us to fix the paradox where both of us think they do more than the other. So this would be an iPad fixed on a wall or in a very visible position?
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#627Earlier quoted context omitted.
Huge fan of unwind! I have been using it for nearly a year.
Thank you for using Unwind! It’s going to get a major update soon :)
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#628backgammon: https://github.com/nenadalm/backgammon - board game for 2 players, no single player - I use it when I'm out with someone and there's nothing better to do - couldn't find free one on play store without adds and in-app purchases
life-counter: https://github.com/nenadalm/life-counter - life counting app for 2 players, usable with several board games. It has profiles that allow to configure number of hp, count-up/count-down. I use it mainly for StarRealms and Cribbage. - couldn't find one on play store that would allow quickly adding/subtracting specific amount of hp. All I've tried could either add/subtract by 1 (annoying with bigger numbers, like 24) or set specific amount (I have a phone, which is capable of doing the math, so why would I do it?).
bbb-games-list: https://github.com/nenadalm/bbb-game-list - I attend various board gaming places with sometimes crappy list of games on their website (just names, nothing else - like player count...), so I wrote my own site, which download's games from these sites and enriches them with info from bgg (updated via cronjob once a week via PR)
postgresql-log-viewer: https://github.com/nenadalm/postgresql-log-viewer - I needed to see which sql queries were executed by an app, so I wrote an app that can read them real-time from csv logs of postgres and show them formatted with copy-paste option (didn't use it for quite a while, since I don't use postgres lately).
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#629I decided to create an end-to-end solution with a nice user interface, and the result is Local Hero (https://localhero.dev). You can import your strings from Xcode, translate them with GPT-4, and share links for others to edit your translations. For quality control, you can translate the translations back into the source language. When you've finalized your translations, you can easily import them back into Xcode.
The prompts sent to GPT-4 include the comments associated with your strings for context, and you can also provide additional instructions to ensure more accurate translations. For example, you can instruct the language model not to translate your app's brand name.
So far I haven't done much to promote it, and it might just remain mostly for my own use, but if you get a chance to try it out, let me know what you think!