https://leaderboardhq.com. My family needed a simple scorekeeper that included the ability to score individual rounds within a set and track set winners.
Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
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Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
#632https://gorby.app - Just a word counting/text analyzing app. It started as a potential porfolio project and at some point I decided to turn it into something others could use too. I don't think it has any features that can't be found elsewhere, but I'd say it turned out pretty decent. I'm aware that it could look a bit better on mobile, so I plan to improve that. If anyone would like to try "pro" features, please fee…
About the tech stack, the linked landing page is built with Astro and Tailwind CSS. The app itself [1] was made with React, Tailwind CSS, Vite, Jotai for state management & Pocketbase. Text processing is built on top of retext, unified.js, and compromise libraries. Using Jotai turned out pretty nice and I really like the atomic approach to state. Basically, I've split the state into few different stores, one for text stats, one for settings and one for auth. `atomWithStorage` is great and makes storing and reading data from localStorage a breeze.
Pocketbase was also easy to get started with and to deploy it. I'd say if you don't need things like cloud/edge functions and also want to self host it, it's easier than Supabase or Appwrite.
Currently everything is deployed on Hetzner arm VPS behind Traefik.
Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
#633Like every programmer before me, I created a to-do list app of course! However, as a programmer, I prefer trees to lists so I made a to-do tree app. I have been using it religiously every day since to manage all aspects of my life in a way that I couldn't previously with tools like Wunderlist (RIP) or didn't have the time to make work in this way like Notion. Shockingly there aren't many other options out there for t…
> Like every programmer before me, I created a to-do list app of course!
Not every programmer -- I've never made a to-do list app.
Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
#634During lockdown 1.0 in the UK I wanted to get tv news from NL so as to get a second view. I’m from the UK but speak Dutch as a second language.
Anyway, I wrote a C++ (boost) command line tool to brute force MAC addresses to a popular illegal IPTV service out of Russia. The server had > 9000 channels available though I was only interested in the Dutch ones.
I’d feed the MAC address into Kodi’s Stalker Client.
Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
#635Started a small business selling products online only using opencart. Later opened physical shop and used multi-store feature in opencart as a point of sale, while still running the online side as well. As business grew, needed warehouse and second physical shop.
The biggest issue we faced was stock management/stockout issues. Available ones like dynnamics/topshelf/sap were very expensive for us, so I developed a web based inventory management tool in php/aurelia. It could do multi-warehouse/shelf level inventory. Shelfs are barcode labelled and its all paper free. Also added point-of-sale for shop use, catalog management, multi-pricelist/multi-currency (retail/wholesale) etc. It still runs the business as of today.
Now writing new version from scratch using nestjs/svelte with multi-tenantancy (so that others can sell on it).
Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
#636Nothing public, but I’ve moved from tech into driving trucks, and I wrote a small website I use daily to track my working hours, rest, payslips, mileage and weight - so far it’s been about 3 months since I’ve had to make any code changes
What is your observations on being in a field where sleep is a critical factor and high incentive to undercut the amount of sleep you get?
What is the 21st century solution to piss bottles?
Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
#637A compass
https://compass.nad27.net/
I just wanted an app to tell me which direction I'm driving and how fast. It works best while moving lol. I'm looking at how to expose other sensor APIs to make it more compass-like.
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#638Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
#639Tool for easily transferring files between my devices. https://filepush.kevincox.ca/ . Blog post about the implementation: https://kevincox.ca/2022/11/02/decentralized-via-webpush/ RSS-to-Email service https://feedmail.org/ Tool for identifying grids in D&D map images https://gridfinder.kevincox.ca/ A solver for the Ricochet Robots board game https://ricochetrobots.kevincox.ca/ A tool for quickly picking a first play…
PlayerOne is really creative. I love it!