Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making? • Hacker News Board

jmbmxer wrote: post #363

https://unshorten.link I work in security and have a paranoia of shortened links (bit.ly, t.co). I got frustrated with the options out there that forced me to right click every shortened link or paste it into a site so I made this Chrome extension / web app. It is pretty simple and keeps a list of 300+ shortened link services to check against. If your browser ever visits one it redirects you to the site to expand the…

Relevant PSA to file away:

http://goo.gl/zxcvb2+ (toy link, doesn't work)

Note the + at the end: it gives you a detailed statistics page that also tells you what the URL points to.

(NB, the stats come from JSON that seems easy to fetch; ratelimiting/"that's not a browser"-checking untested.)

Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

#765

Post by thasaleni » Wed, Nov 16, 2016, 2:01 PM UTC

jaredtking wrote: post #35

https://invoice-generator.com I made this 4 years ago for those times when you just need an invoice. Today 10s of thousands of individuals and businesses use this each day to get paid. It's free to use with no login required. Instead it uses localStorage to remember data.

Would be nice to support other currencies

Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

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Post by el_isma » Wed, Nov 16, 2016, 2:06 PM UTC

icebraining wrote: post #732

alexdowad wrote: post #301

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Spamnesty is really amusing! It would be even better if your bot had a wider variety of responses. I foresee that sooner or later, your bot will get stuck in an endless conversation with a spambot which keeps replying, leading to another round of replies and then another...

https://spa.mnesty.com/conversations/zvtbgexy/

"Greetings from the International Journal of Swarm Intelligence and Evolutionary Computation"

Well, that's fitting...

Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

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Post by chinchang » Wed, Nov 16, 2016, 2:06 PM UTC

Hint.css - https://kushagragour.in/lab/hint It started as a side project but now is the most used CSS tooltip library on the planet :)

Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

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Post by i336_ » Wed, Nov 16, 2016, 2:10 PM UTC

Immortalin wrote: post #763

Lua Newsletter(still WIP): http://luadigest.immortalin.com Merlot (Rapid website builder, WIP): https://github.com/Immortalin/Merlot Kloudtrader (Trading platform): http://kloudtrader.com

The signup workflow sends me to luadigest.github at the end, which doesn't work.

Insta-subscribed though, Lua's on my todo list.

(PS. I tried to reply to your previous comment but found you'd deleted it, thankfully found this comment via your account)

Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

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Post by Thomas_9 » Wed, Nov 16, 2016, 2:15 PM UTC

lawrencewu wrote: post #114

http://hellojarvis.io/ is a Messenger bot that reminds you to do stuff. You can phrase time in many ways, which was quite tricky to do: "in 3 hours", "on the 25th", "tomorrow night", "next wednesday" all work. We currently have almost 25k users and I'm proud of the fact that people really do find it useful. A friend recently mentioned to me that he used Jarvis to remind him about his dentist appointment.

Is this project open source? I would love to see the code...

Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

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Post by yumaikas » Wed, Nov 16, 2016, 2:27 PM UTC

I'm not sure where it would fall, but I've been very satisfied with my blog, https://junglecoder.com. For a side project, once I got the kinks out, it's been surprisingly low maintenance, and it holds up to load pretty well. It's not perfect by any means, but it's been pretty handy.