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

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Post by replwoacause »

mgirkins wrote: post #373

Like 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…

Looks very nice! I’m building a to-do app now but will give yours a try since it looks so well done.

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

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Post by xmodem »

runjake wrote: post #655
rahimnathwani wrote: post #617

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some interview podcasts start with a 3-4 second clip from the interview. Does this cause false positives for you?

The OP said elsewhere they are using this[1] library, which allows you to specify minimum seconds to match, so you'd presumably set it to match 20 seconds or whatever minimum length podcast commercials usually are. Most other audio fingerprinting libraries I've seen allow you to specify min/max time, as well. HTH. 1. https://github.com/AddictedCS/soundfingerprinting

Exactly- 20 seconds is the number I arrived at after a bit of trial and error.

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

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Post by sunnybeetroot »

iansinnott wrote: post #146

I have something of an obsession with being able to search my digital history. To this end I've created a few projects which I still use almost daily: - full text tabs forever [1]: chrome extension to provide full text search over web pages I've visited - browser-gopher [2] (formerly browser parrot): collect browsing history from all browsers - prompta [3]: a ChatGPT UI with full text search and some other niceties […

Full text tabs looks great! Would the code work on Firefox?

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

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Post by Capricorn2481 »

midgetjones wrote: post #120

A few years ago, my wife and I decided to adopt a rescue cat from battersea.org.uk. However, it was a frustrating experience as the staff didn't always update the website regularly, and we'd find that any suitable cats would be snapped up before we'd even seen them. I spotted that the website served its data to the frontend via an unsecured internal JSON API, so I built an Elixir app that would poll the API endpoint…

I'm confused, why was the site out of date if the API it was pulling from was not? Was it not just rendering what was coming from the API?

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Post by nmm »

I was always terrible at getting out of bed. I tried some alarm clock apps that gave you challenges (solve a math problem, scan a barcode, etc). That worked until I realized I could just kill the app and stay in bed.

I realized I needed something outside of the app to push me. So I ended up building Nuj. https://nuj.app

It’s an alarm clock app that charges me $10 if I don’t get up and scan my toothpaste barcode within a 5 mins of my 7am alarm.

The alarms are stored in the cloud so if I kill the app or try to cheat, I still get charged the penalty. Also, alarms “lock” 1 hour before going off so I can’t turn off the alarm and stay in bed if I wake up before it goes off.

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

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Post by captn3m0 »

rft wrote: post #495
captn3m0 wrote: post #242

GUI: Long ago, wrote a HN app for linux users that lived in the system tray ( https://github.com/captn3m0/hackertray ) because I thought that might be faster. WEB: I wrote a news app (plain-text website) that provides byte-sized news and optimizes for skimmability ( https://news.tatooine.club/ ). API: I needed to import indian mutual fund data into beancount, so I wrote up an API ( https://mf.captnemo.in/ ) and wrote…

> CLI: I wanted to download songs from youtube, but they were often stitched as complete albums - so I wrote a youtube-cue generator that generates cuesheets that can then be used to split and tag the yt-dlp downloaded audio file. ( https://github.com/captn3m0/youtube-cue ) Thanks for this! I need to do some testing, this might automate the last manual step of my own script for converting YT mixes into distinct track…

My personal setup (bash snippet in README) is throwing the split files (with track names via timestamps) to beet and let it import those.

I want to make youtube an optional dependencies so you could run this via stdin as well.

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Post by senko »

A daily digest email for HN, and ArsTechnica (two separate projects, same idea).

It gathers top 50 stories from HN (and all articles in case of Ars) for the previous day and sends me an email with the links (along the number of points/comments for HN and the blurb for Ars).

Each morning I have an overview of the tech news from the two sites I read the most, and have completely removed my compulsion to check them every now and them.

(I've just found this Ask HN thread by clicking on the link in the digest email for yesterday which is why I'm 20ish hours late to the party :)

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

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Post by monroewalker »

alfonsodev wrote: post #624
AlexSneedMiller wrote: post #602

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

The idea sounds really cool! You should add some screenshots to the repo to give a sense of what it looks like in action :)
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