I once made a bot to reserve a place at NoMa (a restaurant). Someone I knew wanted to go there and told me if I was able to make a reservation then he'd invite me with him.
It was a wonderful time. It was also a fun one-off to make.
Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
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#762I created a personal CRM web app for systematically keeping in touch with people. I am kinda bad at maintaining important relationships. So, this allowed me to keep in touch with lots of people.
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#763A bit childish, but I've coded a sound button website for myself, where you can grab a sound from reels or tiktok (or YouTube), trim it and add to your own collection. It is stupid, but I enjoy poking my friends, colleagues and kids with those buttons. Male, 39y. It took me about 2 weeks to build, zero regrets, absolutely worth the time spe t. https://4j.ee
Sounds like a thing Reddit would know what to do with ;-)
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#764I built a sort of meta webapp for online collaboration. Began as a side project to mess around with WebRTC and browser apis. Now, I’ve got something like Zoom but with tools like terminal sharing, a whiteboard, and even GPT inside (everything e2ee). Now it's my playground for new technologies and ideas. https://oorja.io
Reminds me a bit of what I once made: doodledocs. It's offline, but the idea was to built a collaborative space for styluses that were pressure sensitive. I was also using the idea of the web as "remixable" and more as a document. Annotating the web with a stylus :)
It was a show HN at one point but it never really got traction.
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#765Recently I made a script that allows to save the recent history of my Apple Notes. The reason I wanted this is because I wanted a "back button" in Apple Notes and it wasn't there. I figured, if I'd have my 25 most recent Apple Notes in a history somewhere stored in a file, then I can just look the note up. I also created a Sublime Text extension that when I click on the generated URL, it opens Safari which opens Apple Notes on the right note.
I'm scrambling to make a Github repo out of this as some others might want to adapt this for their own needs. Creating a public facing project out of it, even as small as this is taking some time. Anyway, the project will be up here in an hour or two :) [1]
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#766I 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?
Not currently, but it was initially built with that in mind. Namely, i used web extension polyfills to unify the extension API of Chrome and FF. However, while trying to achieve MV3 compatibility I used chrome-only APIs because the polyfills made debugging more difficult.
It will take a bit of work to support FF, but not too much work
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#767I mostly code my own games with a target group of 1, my favourites are http://lalo.li/lsd/ https://updownredgreenetc.franzai.com/ https://spinner.franzai.com/ https://dance.franzai.com/ (basically a lava lamp you can interact with) from the app side i like https://qrpwd.franzai.com/ coded to save my 2 factor backup codes qr encoded and encrypted in my photo stream and https://github.com/franzenzenhofer/thisismy a com…
I love them!
Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
#768I created a personal CRM web app for systematically keeping in touch with people. I am kinda bad at maintaining important relationships. So, this allowed me to keep in touch with lots of people.
Any details on this ? I try building this in the past, without success.
I'm interested about what features worked for you.
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#770I just finished up building a working version of a personal-use tool a few days ago which I'm planning on releasing publicly soon in case it's useful to anyone else (however, the primary motivation was my own use-case) -
I often hear something in a podcast that I want to write down, but don't want to peck out notes on my phone, so I built a GPT Vision-powered tool to help.
Workflow:
- hear something interesting → just screenshot lock screen
- use screenshot to auto-identify podcast, episode, and timestamp
- summarized bullet points at that timestamp via GPT, logged to a virtual notebook
[0] some screenshots - https://twitter.com/samarthrawal/status/1735133820008141170
[1] demo vid - https://twitter.com/samarthrawal/status/1735852196493971593