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

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Built a tool to help design cs/science inspired jewelry in CAD. I wrote a DSL to describe the jewelry, and had an LLM write the interpreter to generate a CAD file using cadquery (note to self: LLM suck at 3d reasoning). I would not have had the time to do this without AI. Also used AI to design an online store (I'm not a front end dev). It's amazing to see my wife (non-technical background) tweak the web-site using c…

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

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I built a unique word search game with hidden message https://wordbulb.com/puzzle-games/word-search/create

I added prebuilt puzzles https://wordbulb.com/puzzle-games/word-search/

Then I added a massive library of Bible Verses https://wordbulb.com/puzzle-games/word-search/tag/bible

Then I added a massive 700+ Bhagavad Gita verses https://wordbulb.com/puzzle-games/word-search/tag/gita

I see parents and teachers using this almost daily. I am very happy that I made something useful.

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

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I shred guitar in the evenings to focus on technique, but a hectic day job means I get almost no time to twiddle knobs on my amp sim chasing the right tone. So I built a tool where I just prompt "Brian May Solo Bohemian Rhapsody" — the LLM fills a small JSON contract and feeds to a script that generates the XML, and I load it straight into the plugin. Two minutes and I feel like I'm tearing it up at Wembley '85 :)...almost.

The pattern generalized is LLM finds the presets,i can even upload a file to make it zone in, the code validates and loads into the plugin. Also using this contract/adapter approach for Terraform, game engine presets, CI pipelines, etc.

Wrote about it here: https://vishsubramanian.me/lm-guitar-tone-generator-polychro...

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

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Not really a tool but converted a hobby swift app to a webUI animated showing mexico city and london when there's rain https://tlaloc.cloud/

The one tool i noticed could be helpful given the volume of screenshots i share with the agents is screenshotter: just a simple script that watches my screenshot folder and compresses the images so i can save some bandwidth and hopefully some tokens https://github.com/mgranados/screenshotter

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

#679

- self-hosted POPSQL alternative - https://github.com/p-raj/collab-sqlc - CleanMyMac alternative based on opensource tools - https://github.com/p-raj/open-cleanmymac - Standup meetings to comic generation - https://github.com/p-raj/standup-to-comics - Configurable Pomodoro - https://github.com/p-raj/open-tomato A few more closed source ones that aren't any close to be in a working state.

Do you have any examples that you've generated from standup-to-comics? I didn't see anything in the repo, and would like to see some examples before spending the time to set up myself :)

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

#680
https://docdiagram.com - A tool for creating technical diagrams. Basically an upgrade from mermaid. Load it into your MCP, prompt it, you'll get a clean diagram binary file in svg/png/etc.

https://anomalyarmor.ai/ - A tool for managing data observability and data anomalies.

Used daily by customers but also for my own work. These tools fill a gap that helps me get sh*t done.

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