I didn’t like the unwieldiness of existing planning poker apps so I’ve built one for my team over the weekend - https://estim8.pro/ Built on Elixir Phoenix LiveView, was a great little side project.
These both look nice.
Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
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Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
#712Six years ago I made this chrome extension[1] to see random photos from my Google Photos account in my new browser tabs. I had all these old photos but never an occasion to look at them, and it brought back a lot of surprising and fun memories. I recently ported it to Firefox for myself and it's bringing me joy again!
[1] https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/photos-new-tab/fplj...
Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
#713I made WebRelay as an alternative to Ngrok. It supports TCP, HTTPs tunnels and allows the user to create a lightweight overlay network to access remote services using local ports. https://docs.webrelay.dev/
This looks cool.
FYI, the "Setup" link under "Zero Config" on the home page is broken.
"Start Here" on the docs doesn't really show you how to get it installed/setup (which is what I was expecting). Same for "Get Started" on the home page.
Also, I couldn't find a link from the docs to the home page so I eventually just edited the URL.
Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
#714The Logfile Navigator ( https://lnav.org ) - A logfile viewer for the terminal. Have used it just about every work day for the past decade and a half.
Nice. I've used this before.
Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
#715A 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…
Kind of similar, in the early days of COVID, I accidentally discovered that my state's website would have test results available several hours before they sent out the "view your results" email. So I made a script that would check the site every five or ten minutes and then ping me as soon as the result changed to something besides PENDING. In the course of that I stumbled on https://ntfy.sh/ which solved the notific…
That looks great! I'm not sure it was available in 2018 when I looked. I tried a few options, but posting to twitter & subbing to the account was the quickest hack that worked reliably.
Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
#716What is an app? You can make shortcut to any script inside Termux. So I have dozens. Handiest one is an "app" that repeats my phone number aloud, because when needed I never remember it.
while true; do
termux-tts-speak -l fi "5 5 5 1 2 3 4"
sleep 1
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#717I created Alas - the most powerful tool to plan your life and work - with a single text file - https://www.hackberry.dev/alas/.
Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
#718I've built a wrapper for docker to simplify containerized development and interactive usage. It's similar to Microsoft DevContainers, but with different accents, and doesn't require you to use vscode.
It allows to easily spin up the SSH server inside container for Pycharm or VScode remote development, automatically sets a UID\GID inside container to the same as outside to help with permissions problem when files created in container are created as root.
Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
#719I made a couple of things for myself recently. I’d been unwillingly paying for LA fitness for around 6 months but the only way to cancel was to send certified mail so I released bye bye fitness last week to do it from home and was my own first customer https://byebyefitness.com Last year I made stream switcher because I use Apple Music and my girlfriend uses Spotify. We send songs back and forth a lot and she couldn’…
Haha wow, byebyefitness is such a darn good idea. Kudos for thinking of that! Maybe one day you could get acquired by PaperKarma or a similar mission-aligned business.
Thank you!
Wow! Never heard of PaperKarma but I could definitely use it. I’m extremely interested in honest, pro-consumer software but the revenue doesn’t seem to be there.
I actually took down my blog where I was writing about alternative monetization strategies and creating pro consumer/privacy friendly software because I felt that it could give the wrong impression to potential employers who don’t share my values :/
StreamSwitcher, for example doesn’t use any tracking or keep any data from the user. There’s an anonymous session that’s created to get a user generated mapping of Apple Music links to Spotify links if the user completes a “transaction“. Costs me nearly nothing to run.
Same story with ByeByeFitness — no user data is tracked or passed on to Google, Facebook, etc.
Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
#720Slightly ashamed to admit that I built an online exam cheating tool using pytesseract/tkinter/ChatGPT and ShareX. I won't go into complete detail but it works like this. -> Define area to be screenshotted using ShareX -> Set ShareX auto-capture feature to screenshot defined area every 30sec (in my case, the area where the question and answer choices will be) -> Using pytesseract, parse the image and retrieve the pars…
Would love to see the source code! Please consider uploading this to GitHub (even after you're done with exams if needed to be safer).