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Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

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After I lost a family member to a cancer that routine screening could have caught early, I started to realized: The screening existed and the guidelines existed, but nothing turned a long medical screening guideline into “here is what you should do.” So I built FixYou for myself and my family. You answer a few questions about age, sex, family history, and lifestyle, and it builds a personalized screening plan from th…

I lost a family member recently as well. Sorry for your loss. I would love to use this, yet my POST request (when answering) is blocked. Is it geo-location based or something? I'm not using an ad-blocker or anything.

I’m very sorry for your loss as well. Have you try it in your browser? There should be no geo block.

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I built a language tutor iOS app for having voice conversations with a patient AI tutor. There’s plenty of services doing the same thing but I didn’t feel comfortable sending my broken Danish speech to a startup. It’s open source, going through App Store review now. https://github.com/challenga-org/openlanguage

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I have a telegram bot, and I used to have it read message in a group chat to detect the language, and if it wasn't English, it would use gpt5 nano to translate.

To save on inference, I had Claude create a lightweight typescript library to handle translations and detection. Now I get the previous functionality for 200mb~ ram versus paid API credits.

I also built a home assistant menu bar in osx, let's me easily monitor activity, toggle devices, view cameras, etc.

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I’m currently building and testing a new architectural framework where business logic runs on the client side.

The core idea is to run TypeScript inside a WASM VM, while minimizing the exposed JavaScript APIs. Backend business logic is encrypted and executed inside WASM, making the attack surface much smaller.

Security is the biggest concern, so this framework is designed to apply as many security layers as possible and dramatically increase the amount of time and effort required to hack it.

It includes E2E encryption by default, tenant policies, an SQL registry, and many other security policies. The framework only becomes truly safe when these policies are properly applied, but the major advantage is that it can be operated at almost zero cost.

Another key benefit is that both the frontend and backend can be deployed together, and when used with Cloudflare, one-click rollback is possible.

The biggest advantage is that you no longer need to worry about infrastructure. It allows MVP projects to be built, deployed, and operated as quickly as possible, with almost no operational cost.

The project is called *dokkebi-cli*.

Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

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Tools I’ve built for myself: - sandvault https://www.codeofhonor.com/projects/sandvault/ runs agents in a separate macOS user account, hardened with sandbox-exec. It also supports headless browsing and iOS Simulator from inside the sandbox for testing web and iOS apps. - clodpod https://www.codeofhonor.com/projects/clodpod/ agents run inside a macOS VM. - git-multi-hook https://www.codeofhonor.com/projects/git-multi-…

I would love to see the push10k on android playstore/fdroid. It looks so inviting and motivating that I searched for equivalent alternatives for android but found none! Would you, maybe, publish it there as well, pleeeease?

Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

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I made a custom golf simulator app. There's a Swift app that talks to my Garmin R10 launch monitor via Bluetooth low energy. When it records a shot, it grabs the data and throws it over to a web app running locally on my laptop, with an SVG simulated shot arc, an attached video of the shot captured from my phone (or my laptop's webcam if I'm lazy), and all of the metrics that came across. I keep all of my sessions with shot data and a little overlay of where each shot went (and which club hit it).

The reason I wanted this is because all of the existing golf simulator software I've looked into is either too expensive, requires too much computing power (E6 requires at least an RTX 3060), or both. And most of their selling points seem to be visual fidelity of playing against real courses. As I'm just looking to improve my game, that's not something I need, and Sonnet 4.6 was able to get me to a great spot (and I'm trialling some new additions like slow motion video capture and pose tracking via Apple's Vision framework using Fable 5 right now).

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