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

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

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Post by joe563323 »

lewiscollard wrote: post #299
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…

I have used rsync.net at work in the past, and the service and support is the best I have experienced in any commercial service, period. Good job. On the other hand, we need a word about that scrolljacking on your homepage...

Scrolling is very annoying.

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

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Post by joe563323 »

StavrosK wrote: post #12

I'm proud of many things :( * I converted a rotary phone into a cellphone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSkdWQswpc8 * I wrote a personal bookmark search engine: http://historio.us/ * A site that talks to spammers so you don't have to: https://spa.mnesty.com/ * A pastebin: http://pastery.net/ * A remote-controlled GSM irrigation controller for farmers: https://gitlab.com/stavros/irrigation-controller * A button tha…

Wow. so many things. Please consider taking time to write about how you are able to be so much productive. Just Curious, how old are you ?

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

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Post by sweetjesus »

mk4p wrote: post #817
wglb wrote: post #777

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You should do a Show HN for this.

Thanks! I'll try to get something together next week.

next week: looks like mk4p hasn't showed up... time for somebody to break in and feed his puppy?

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

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Post by Ntrails »

mfukar wrote: post #827
Ntrails wrote: post #776

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Oh, I know. I know. I'll be damned if it's going to stop me trying though...

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

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Post by alantrum »

https://supermood.io

I wanted to make a quick way to motivate me when I don't feel to work. Pretty simple idea !

But what I'm the most proud is the generating of quotes. So I passed a csv and then, the quotes are generating almost automatically (regarding the author and keyword). Make it really simple to generate 100 quotes+.

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

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Post by contras1970 »

Eun wrote: post #349

https://ifcfg.me I know there are a bunch of similar sites outside however I wanted something simple with no ads but all information.

this one's really cool, works flawlessly without javascript in my browser, and the various CLIs are awesome!

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

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Post by GoToRO »

On one map the road was straight, on another it was curved. That's why I made http://comparemaps.drona.ro/ to easily compare online maps.

It turns out that the curved road went around the hill, while the straight road was a newer one, over the top of the hill...

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