I'm an elementary school teacher and sometimes build tools for myself. I made https://10f.io, a tool to create images for math teaching. I'm working on a tool to create hi-res number line images too.
Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
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#66220+ years ago I created a pretty famous news aggregator called Popurls with the intention to simply clean up my RSS reader. Fast forward I'm still doing with, now with Mark Cuban as investor ( https://biztoc.com )
I just want to let you know that I used Popurls a lot (multiple times everyday) back in mid to late 2000's
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#663I built a tool to generate fake data in various formats to help with testing pipelines at previous gig, nowadays I use it when trying out ideas. It was originally CLI only, but I added a Web interface running at: https://zefaker.labs.zikani.me/
I also created a library to help me fill in (random, again!) data on web forms: https://github.com/zikani03/ika
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#664My new project has slow tests and I write deep stacks of patches. So I wrote a parallel git bisector:
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#665I tend to forget absolutely everything, so I wrote a self hosted Telegram bot for setting up quick reminders. You just describe them in natural language (e.g "Every month on the 1st pay bill") and it reminds you at the given time.
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#666https://www.coveapp.info/
cove is a self-hosted torrent browser that bundles a BitTorrent client, DHT indexer, and a web UI on your device. It provides additional functionality like automatic transcoding of resources for browsers and Chromecast. cove requires no external servers. The search capabilities, streaming, transcoding and other features are operated entirely on your device.
I made this by cannibalizing various torrent components I had built for various separate projects. Some components are open source some are not, but the big ones you can find on my GitHub profile https://github.com/anacrolix
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#667I made a simple web site to easy share photos and videos with my elderly parents (early 90's).
They are not tech savy, and we live in different countries so it is rare when i can show them in person new snap of the family...
They don t use facebook and get confused easily if i share photos throught whatsapp.
It is a simple interface, read-only (so they don t delete photos/videos from their devices as they have done already) and also private.
My extended family ia using it as well.
I might turn it up as a saas product but needs to find the time...
Https://m.emori.es
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That third one sounds really great!
I actually don’t use it all that often, but it certainly is great to have when needed! I have considered putting the code online once or twice, but the setup is convoluted enough that documenting it probably would be a pain. (It consists of one Firefox extension which can’t be installed on a normal browser, one SQLite database to store the text, one Haskell server to interact with the database, and one Qt frontend to…
Hah! Ok wow yeah I can see that documenting it would be a total pain to the benefit of exactly no one. Cool little project though.
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Why not go straight from the json to Twitter?
Good question! The primary reason was to learn Elixir, so this was just a well-timed excuse to explore the language (and Phoenix, the web framework). The secondary reason was that my wife was the main client, and she doesn't respond well to raw JSON. Each tweet would be just the cat's name, photo, and a link to the website. I also did some filtering as certain cats have safety requirements we couldn't meet, e.g. no n…
lol it actually did and now I’m gonna read more about upserts!
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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…
Thanks for the comment! there you go, repository[1] and build [2], I'd really appreciate your feedback, and feel free to open issues on the repo in case you have any problem / suggestions. - [1] https://github.com/indiedevai/flowcus.bar - [2] https://github.com/indiedevai/flowcus.bar/releases/tag/20220...
This is neat. I like how unobtrusive it is compared to most things like pomodoro timers that have big numbers changing every second.
Is there a way to get the full progress bar to hide (without quitting the app) once I'm done with a timer, but am not yet ready to start another?