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

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Post by thesurlydev »

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

I've also started down the road of rolling my own personalized job board. I'm also curious about where you're sourcing data from. I resorted to scraping sites like Crunchbase, layoffs.fyi, etc.

Related to this I put together a script to use ChatGPT to generate cover letters. Given the name of a company and the job title, it generates a fancy cover letter using Latex.

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

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Post by spammusubi »

Recently I've been realizing that decision fatigue has been a big hurdle in trying to cross things off my personal to-do list, especially as the list seems to grow faster than I can finish things. I created an iOS app that will automatically select/prioritize a select few things to do each day so I don’t have to manually prioritize or schedule items each day. So far it’s been working well for me as a way to eliminate the decision paralysis and feeling of overwhelm that often prevent me from starting at all.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/onetoday-automatic-to-do-list/...

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

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Post by _emacsomancer_ »

sir wrote: post #298

When it became clear many major email providers were going to require OAuth for IMAP/POP/SMTP access, I was pretty frustrated that I’d have to stop using clients/scripts that didn’t support this method. Rather than spending lots of effort on migration, or switching clients entirely, I made a local proxy so that any IMAP (or POP/SMTP) client can be used with a “modern” email provider, regardless of whether it supports…

This looks quite interesting. A few years back I needed (quickly) to find something like this, and at the time there seemed to be only Davmail (which I see your notes mention). I will be curious to see if this is an easier solution than Davmail (since I really just need the email imap/smtp part of oauth for Outlook).

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

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Post by heuermh »

Since moving from GCP BigQuery to AWS Athena, I missed having something for Athena similar in functionality to the BigQuery bq command line tool.

Made this quickly, and then a python version based on awswrangler for work (not open source, unfortunately).

https://github.com/heuermh/sea-eagle

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

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Post by hekec »

I built an app called Readstack to manage the pile-up of articles and webpages I had saved for later reading. The app shuffles your reading list randomly and requires you to delete the current article before moving to the next.

This one-by-one approach forces a decision: read now or discard, which significantly helped me clear my backlog. It has no users except me, but I'm glad I created something that effectively solved my problem

https://apps.apple.com/nl/app/readstack-read-later/id1558413...

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

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Post by looshch »

i find it pretty annoying to create fake variable usages for unused variables in go. I made a cli [1] tool for toggling ‘declared and not used’ errors in go on and off, so when you’re messing around with code and end up with a few unused variables here and there, you can run code through the tool and it will create fake usages for you. Running the code again will return the same code but with fake usages removed. I thought it might be useful for someone and i posted it on reddit and the mailing list, no one found it useful. I also made a vs code [2] extension as an example of integrating the tool with an ide thinking this might help others build a simple wrapper for their editor

[1] https://github.com/looshch/gouse [2] https://github.com/looshch/gouse-vsc

edit: last word was missing

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

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Post by mynegation »

nbbaier wrote: post #675
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!

1 is not much more than a conglomeration of regular expression and PDF scrapers full of my partial and full account numbers. 2 is a CLI in top of Toodledo API, I considered open sourcing it but it is too niche.

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

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Post by mynegation »

lloydatkinson wrote: post #425
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…

How does 3 work?

I reverse engineered unofficial API used by bike share website web pages to display maps and I just retrieve few JSONs and display sections for stations relevant to me and my location in a color coded form. I also do some regular trips so I hardcoded the rules to pick up destination right into an app.
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