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Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?

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Post by vlod »

sethx wrote: post #15

I was annoyed at how parasitic recruiters started contacting me about jobs in crypto, so i spent the last year building a fully automated job board that ingests all job data automatically and structures it using openai, while also enriching it with relevant company financials to combat information asymmetry. I’m now using it to find my next job :) Check it out at: https://jobstash.xyz

Thought about doing this as I'm fed up with Linkedin and the other crap out there. Would also love to know how this is done (where to get the job data).

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Post by nbbaier »

ibestvina wrote: post #642

I always send myself messages as bookmarks, notrs, and general "here's an idea I might want to come back to later". It's an awful system when it comes to discoverability (I do it in Messenger so search is... bad), but I still do it as it's the most convinient option at the moment when I need to store that something somewhere. So I built a simple Telegram bot which automatically stores anything I send as a text embedd…

Absolutely interested in this!

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Post by czottmann »

I'm currently building Browser Actions for macOS (https://actions.work/browser-actions), because I like Shortcuts a lot for automation, and because I think that it's insane that Chrome/ Chromium/ Brave/ Edge/ Vivaldi have no Shortcuts support, and that Safari's could be much better.

It's an actual itch I'm having. (If anyone's interested, there's a TestFlight going on, see the website.)

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Post by divbzero »

_kush wrote: post #61

I've built a few apps which started out as tools for my own use and later polished + released for public. - Cone: This started out as a small tool to help me identify the name of the colors of objects around me (i am a red-green colorblind). Now it's a full fledged color picker app with a Pantone license - https://cone.app - CBVision: This is another small tool for colorblind people which shifts the problematic color…

Cone and CBVision look amazing. I know several people who could really benefit.

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Post by nbbaier »

mynegation wrote: post #385

I have a litany of scripts and programs but those that reached moderate complexity are: 1. A script to canonicalize the name of PDF statements from financial institutions and sort them into a directory structure 2. A CLI (not TUI, actual CLI with custom command syntax and read line integration) for a 3rd party todo service with 2 way sync that gets synchronized with the app on ny iPhone. 3. A web app that I self host…

I'd really like to see 1 and 2!

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Post by schemescape »

forgotmypw17 wrote: post #16

I created a note-taking app which works in every* browser, with and without JS and CSS, has bookmarklets for clipping, PKI-backed user accounts, completely portable data format, threaded conversations, completely auditable data structure, labeling, queryable with SQLite, web of trust for the user identities, and support for adding and running code. * Mosaic has issues, and I have not tested on many pre-Mosaic browser…

Wow! I thought I was familiar with the history of the web, but I didn’t realize there were pre-Mosaic browsers!

Just to confirm: you are referring to this link in your profile, correct?

https://github.com/gulkily/pollyanna

Edit: glad to see w3m in the supported browser list!

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Post by amanzi »

akoboldfrying wrote: post #87
amanzi wrote: post #80

I created an app for tracking buses in Wellington NZ - I use it every day and I love it. I always meant to publicise it widely, but to be honest it works perfectly for me and I can't be bothered dealing with issues specific to other people.

#!/bin/sh echo "Bus $1 has been cancelled :("

Ah - you're also from Wellington... :-)

To be fair, things are better now. But it was the original Metlink changes that led me to create this.

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Post by klakierr »

I've built a cli tool to insert translations into an ebook file, converting a standard ebook into a bilingual ebook. I wanted to learn Spanish, and all other learning methods were too boring.

I've made a lot of progress with my Spanish this way (it's fun), so I started to build a language learning app based on the idea, but then decided I do not want to build language learning app, so instead I just added a web UI layer over the tool:

https://bilingualebooks.net

I've just finished it. If you want to use it, note that only DRM-free epub ebooks are supported. Since it's tough to find DRM-free ebooks, especially in foreign languages, I've included a section in the FAQ on where to find them.

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