Tiny Player - a music player for iPhone at http://www.catnapgames.com/tiny-player/ (free). Got tired of using iTunes to "sync" mp3s and watching it fail. Took about 2 months' worth of weekends and evenings, now I use it every day.
Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
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#72https://github.com/alexadam/save-as-ebook - Save a web page/selection as an eBook
Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
#73I'm most proud of React Flip Move (https://github.com/joshwcomeau/react-flip-move), an animation library that does exactly one thing: animate transitions when DOM nodes change positions (eg. list re-ordering).
I wind up using it in almost every project I work on, since just about every app has a list of some kind, and many lists need to support being sorted, having items added, etc.
It's a simple tool, but the internal logic is surprisingly complex. The DOM is a tricky beast!
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#74I made http://serializer.io 18 months ago and I still use it multiple times a day to follow tech news. It's how I found this thread.
looks somehow nice. gonna get on my list
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#75http://cliq.at
it provides the possibility to easily visualize internal informal networks. Especially simple using mobile phones.
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#76Like others have said, I made these for myself, but they have been useful to other people as well.
Search Wikimedia Commons: canweimage.com (300 - 600 searches a day)
Testing flexbox rules: flexbox.help
Googley Eyes Firefox addon: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/googley-eyes/
Can We Image got included in a listicle on Buffer's blog. flexbox.help started getting use after I posted it as a Show HN and it got picked up by HTML Weekly.
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#77I wrote a concurrent, super fast webcrawler for my job with Go (~300 LOC) to get data out of customer sites fast even when they have 1.5 million pages or more. You can basically filter everything to get a .csv file in the end with the links for the given domain, the source for that links, link number, link depth, timestamp, HTTP Request Codes (200, 404 etc) that fits that filter. Filters: Number of concurrent http(s)…
I did something very similar a few years ago, but in c#. I didn't do real rate limiting, just threading configuration and a configurable random sleep; but it got the job done. It was a super fun project to work on. I can't believe that the open source options are so still so few and far between in this area. There are TONS of great tools for building crawlers, and there are tons of great crawlers built for mirroring…
Yep, that's why I've build my own, the existing ones don't give out a list of the links or are super slow. A co-worker made the first one in Python but it was so slow that it took hours (6+ sometimes) to finish a site and I thought "you can do that faster".
Problematic are some sites that don't use tags because that's what my crawler is looking for. C# & Elixier & Rust where the the other options I thought about and I want to build the same crawler on these languages (relative easy to do with ~300 LOC) to compare them for network / server / cli stuff but that has to wait till next year.
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#78Usenet binary grabber: http://www.ensisoft.com (http://github.com/ensisoft/newsflash-plus)
A little history. Back in the day when I started looking into Usenet there were no proper clients for Linux. There was pan but it had huge problems dealing with large volume binary groups. I figured it can't be that hard and started working on my own client which slowly evolved into the current 4th major version. Ten years in the making already :)
The 3x series was the most successful with perhaps around 50-60k installs. In general the field is very competitive and there are several clients for Windows especially.
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#79https://transfer.sh which I built because I needed it myself, now being used by hundred thousands of people a month and http://slackarchive.io used by 500 slack teams.
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#80At the beginning of the year, I started at a large print shop where numerous types of projects came through our doors. There's this one client of ours who's project would take ~13 hours to complete--and that's just in our department which was file prepping.
I did this project by hand one or two times and then asked the manager to let me research the possibility of automating it. After a week or so of fiddling around, I was able to bring it down to 2h10m. Just in the past week, I was able to bring it down to 15m and reduce the number of steps where a human is needed.