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

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Post by mk4p »

milesokeefe wrote: post #446
mk4p wrote: post #116

https://izuded.com (i.e., "iz u ded?") I made this because I adopted a puppy and realized that, if I got hit by a bus on a Friday, he could be stuck in his crate for days before anyone realized. Morbid, but useful. It texts you every X days and asks, "u ded?" -- if you don't click "naw" before X days pass, it'll notify your contacts. It's a portfolio project to show what I've learned in the realm of "serverless" arch…

After the final one hour warning, it should call you and if you pick up, the alarm cancels. So a final step that's not passive and only requires picking up the phone instead of opening the texting app and clicking a link. Also helps if you're somewhere where you have SMS/calling but no data. Although in that case, being able to reply "I no ded" would be more reliable.

Interesting idea -- thanks for the suggestion

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

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Post by mk4p »

anotheryou wrote: post #373
wubbfindel wrote: post #140

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"im ded :( plz walk doggie" Man, that's not how I would want to find out that a friend or family member has passed away. :-|

well but it's funny enough not to cause much harm on a false alarm, while still triggering research in to the doggie/death situation :)

Also, the message is customizable. I'm kind of surprised at how many commenters didn't assume it would be, so I'll need to think about how to change the presentation.

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

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Post by Tobias42 »

dfex wrote: post #648
Tobias42 wrote: post #566

http://bearbushkas.com I spent most of my free time the last 1.5 years to make this 4-player iPad game together with my brother (developer) and two cousins (graphics). Considering that it was our first Swift and SpriteKit project (my dayjob is programming business applications in Java), I am pretty proud of the outcome. It even got some reviews (one with a 92% rating!). The only problem is, we completely underestimat…

That looks awesome - purchasing now :) For what it's worth, I much prefer the pay once play forever model for good games. It would seem I am in the minority though

I hope you have a lot of fun with it and I'm curiuos of your feedback!

As a customer I very much prefer the pay once model, too, but we really seem to be a minority these days.

We sold about 45 copies of the game so far in almost half a year, but when we made it free for a weekend we immediately got 200 downloads without even advertising.

So let's see what happens with free2play. We are going to make all levels but the first one an in-app purchase and maybe a few characters. There will be no consumable IAPs because I hate them with a passion.

All previous buyers are going to keep the full game btw. Apple makes it surprisingly difficult to implement that, but anything else would just not be right.

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

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Post by 7ero »

https://quantummail.io/

At first I wanted to experiment with building a private email server but then thought I might as well build it for others to use, it doesn't really work in decentralizing much, but I thought it would be a start in moving towards secure and private email.

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

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Post by oliver2213 »

Definitely not as awesome as some of the others I've seen posted here :), but I made https://github.com/oliver2213/showerthoughtMOTD to spice up my message of the day on servers I log into. Usually makes me laugh and occasionally makes me contemplate things I normally wouldn't think about.

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

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Post by jftuga »

A simple, multi-threaded IPv4 TCP port scanner for Python 3.5

https://github.com/jftuga/universe/blob/master/tcpscan.py

https://github.com/jftuga/universe/blob/master/bin/tcpscan.e...

I like this because it is one stand-alone file compared to something like nmap which has to be installed.

I have installed Python 3.5 on most of the systems I use. Otherwise, I built a portable windows binary with PyInstaller. It can scan a LAN at about 600 ports/sec.

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

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Post by mfukar »

Ntrails wrote: post #776
mfukar wrote: post #743

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"- Text me when you arrive" 5 minutes later.. "- I arrived. No assassins encountered."

But mum, look, if anything has happened you'll get a bloody phone call. With this system my not texting just primes you to worry more, despite the far higher likelihood that I forgot than that I'm dead. Literally the best result is that you start worrying I'm not ok a few hours before finding out for certain that I'm not. So let's assume success, and agree that in case of failure you're going to have a very bad day a…

It never works.

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

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Post by Procrastes »

0x1d wrote: post #221

https://instafavicon.com/ I created this favicon generator a few weeks ago to generate minimal favicons for my side projects. I'm not good with design tools so it saves me time when I start a new project and want a simple favicon in ICO format. I'm proud of it because it's server-less. I generate the multi-BMP ICO file in binary using ArrayBuffers and Typed Arrays in JavaScript. I use a element to create the images/d…

Nice. I like that it's all client side and it's perfect when I just need the minimum necessary for an example project or starter template.

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

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Post by garysieling »

tomascot wrote: post #800
garysieling wrote: post #334

I built https://www.findlectures.com , which is categorized list of lectures and speakers, inspired by the faceted search on Newegg and Amazon, which I wish Youtube had. It's been a fun project, because I've had to build tools to come up with a lot of quality measures for the dataset.

Gary, great work! You could add a bot to post links to lectures in social networks, at least Twitter. Like one random lecture each day, or the most "active" during the week.

Thanks! I like the Twitter idea.

I'm working toward custom entity recognition, which would help in that area. For instance, listing all lectures about a particular programming language, lectures on the history of countries that no longer exist, etc.

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

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Post by rsync »

revelation wrote: post #577
rsync wrote: post #146

rsync.net. I am very, very proud of the (very simple) platform that we've built there. It's a basic tool that "just works" - and just works exactly like you'd expect it to . If I were a consumer of cloud storage, this is what I would want it to look like. It pleases me so greatly to know that, right now, someone is doing something like this: pg_dump -U postgres db | ssh user@rsync.net "dd of=db_dump" ... while simult…

Aaah, what happened to your old site? It literally takes 10 seconds minimum from the screwed up JavaScript scrolling to reach the bottom of the site. I'm sure this converts better, but at the same time the site design and stock photos screams newish SaaS service that could disappear on me tomorrow. (I know better, it's just the impression I get)

Yes, we're scrapping this design and going back to a more "bettermotherfuckingwebsite" inspired design ... will happen shortly ...
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