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

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Post by robbiemitchell »

Workflow automations at continually chip away at friction and speed up everyone's work in three main ways:

- Bringing notifications into Slack that aren't possible out of the box. This includes some services that only send updates via email, and others that enable webhook subscriptions, which can be parsed, filtered, augmented, and formatted.

- Creating Slack slash commands that let you do simple things in Slack instead of opening another browser tab.

- Connecting one service to another behind the scenes, assisting with data centralization for all sorts of downstream benefits.

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

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Post by averageweather »

http://www.averageweather.io/ - tool to make planning for travel much easier. When you are too far out for a forecast, I found myself taking too many clicks to get average weather data.

EDIT - Whoa. Getting lots of traffic. This site is like 3 days old and I taught myself python and django to build it. Open to any recommendations at jonathan at averageweather dot io

EDIT 2 - Back up... Site crash ... Google apps shutdown smtmp connections which crashed my entire site.

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

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Post by severine »

sushimako wrote: post #64
severine wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey, your first link is giving me a 502 Bad Gateway error.

Thanks for noticing, should be fixed. (there goes my "zero maintenance"-claim :) )

:) It works now, and looks great! I just tried to share a test note via SMS (with a spanish mobile), still waiting though...

Congrats, and keep up the good work!

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

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Post by eptcyka »

joshwcomeau wrote: post #73

I'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 inte…

Is that a purely JS thing ? Surely such things would be best done by CSS? I am speaking as a person with 0 experience apping production level web apps.

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

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Post by _eht »

Dealing with old archives with hundreds of thousands of user uploaded images I needed a quick way to test for and take action on image integrity.

I wrote a PHP CLI script to test directories of images for image integrity and log or take action on found issues. https://github.com/e-ht/literate-happiness

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

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Post by amjith »

Two years ago I created a CLI tool called pgcli (http://pgcli.com). A postgres client with auto-completion. It became ridiculously successful. I got a few requests to support mysql. So I launched a kickstarter to write mycli (http://mycli.net). This also became quite successful.

There is a thriving community of core devs and a ton of users. I'm happy with both creations and made a lot of online friends.

These projects also led me to create a standalone python library for doing fuzzy matching. I'm quite proud of this one since the resulting code ended up being ridiculously small but produced really good results. https://github.com/amjith/fuzzyfinder/

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

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Post by stevenkovar »

My co-founder and I built a desktop app called Woot Agent when we were younger which would tell you when woot.com had a "Woot-Off" [1] sale.

It would sound an alarm every time a new item came up for sale, with a special sound for their highly sought after "Bag of Crap" [2].

It had over 25,000 downloads after its first Woot-Off. Sounds so bizarre in hindsight, but a partner at Polaris Venture Partners asked to meet—he wouldn't say how he found me, but I'm sure Woot Agent was how.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woot#Special_events [2] http://www.woot.com/offers/bag-of-crap

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

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Post by timmaxw »

I made a printed circuit board to make it easy to connect things to a 1000 watt computer power supply I had lying around. Similar adapters are available commercially, but I couldn't find one that could manage 1000 watts.

http://timmaxwell.org/pages/atx-breakout/index.html

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