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Re: Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?

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Post by walthamstow »

mariusvaporware wrote: post #413

A software developer and football (soccer) fan who lives in an antipodean time zone, I enjoy watching games on demand the morning after they occur. Apart from watching the games of the team I support, I like to watch one or two of the most entertaining games in any given week, but score spoilers absolutely ruin the experience for me. So, I created https://laterball.com : a web app the algorithmically determines the b…

Wonderful!

I built something similar for NFL, it scrapes NFL stats websites (very few public APIs available afaik) and gives a 'fun index' for each game from the previous week.

I then obtain that game from a dodgy website and am able to watch it without any spoilers, but safe in the knowledge that it will definitely be a good game.

It was my first ever programming project and helped me learn Python, the code is complete shite but it works.

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Post by l2dy »

I have built a Discord bot that greets me every morning and sends me a list of tasks to do on that day because I'm more comfortable with a single friendly message than a pile of calendar notifications.

I still use calendar and reminder apps for one-off and time-sensitive tasks, but for recurring tasks, especially those with complex timing, the crontab syntax integrated into the bot is more powerful and easier to maintain.

Re: Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?

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Post by aryeshalev »

As a developer I hoard many links and also would like to get notifications on different tasks being finished (script/RSS/IoT) so I've built a chat web app for myself where you can create a channel for each specific notification or links to read later.

The web app is a PWA so I can install it on my Android Mac and PC via Chrome browser without app/play store and access from anywhere.

I took it further by adding Webhoom API for the notification and a Chrome extension to share links from my browser to the channels.

People liked it (didn't try to market so much) but they wanted encryption so I have added end to end encryption as well.

I'm currently working on (on my spare time) big files support up to 4GB from any browser including live preview and video streaming for well known file types.

You can check it out here https://www.pushstaq.com

Can read some of the blog posts for more info.

Re: Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?

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Post by Syzygies »

Analog circuit code golfing:

Long ago, a current mirror to charge a 12v battery bank from a "12v" iPod charger, evading the usual regulator voltage drop.

More recently, a circuit to trip a solenoid when a bit of hot dog goes missing from two leads.

I needed two op amps for sensitivity, because over a day or so the hot dog dries up to nearly an open circuit. Still, only a handful of parts, on the smallest breadboard made.

Yes, I'm a walking cliche, a better rat trap. My only excuse is this was during the pandemic. I excelled at an electronics segment of shop class back in 1968 junior high school, and I never asked my parents for a kit to go on from there.

Re: Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?

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Post by nothingreallyma »

spacec0wb0y wrote: post #716

I recently took up the banjo and as a musician who learns by ear, I wanted a way to quickly loop a phrase of music, slow it down and learn by repetition. Speeding it up as i go and moving on to the next phase. So I built https://looptube.xyz It takes a YouTube ID input and allows you manipulate the video to loop and change tempo

This is fantastic. Piano player here. Thank you for making it!

Re: Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?

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Post by PaulHoule »

sriram_malhar wrote: post #149

My MIL is 93, and the only tech she can really deal with is turning on the radio and TV and changing channels. She is fond of music from old classics (from the 60's and earlier), so I hooked up a Raspberry PI with an FM transmitter and created her own private radio station. She tells me what songs she likes and I create different playlists that get broadcast on her station. It preserves the surprise element of radio,…

See also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZCw9bUJ6q8

Re: Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?

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Post by kevinwang »

I just started this:

A collection of tools to pull in personal data from various sources, in the spirit of a "quantified self".

I just got it to a state yesterday where I can do do this: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/VitamintK/data-fetishism/m...

Source code: https://github.com/VitamintK/data-fetishism

Eventually I'd like to get it to the point of something like this: https://beepb00p.xyz/myinfra.html

Re: Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?

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Post by rounakdatta »

I just shipped my hobby project - https://github.com/rounakdatta/my-best-of-reddit/. It is a Telegram bot which would send me all my upvoted posts and comments at EOD everyday.

It's a solution to a personal pain point - discovering and getting reminded of all the hilarious & extraordinary knowledge that I keep discovering on Reddit.

Re: Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?

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Post by shariqm »

mltony wrote: post #714

Blind developer here; I often write tools for myself to perform some task that is not well supported by my screenreader. For example: * I wrote an add-on that allows me to read HN comments in a structured way. A typical screenreader would present page in a linear manner, so you'd have to read all replies in order, which is quite tedious in popular posts. My add-on parses the page and identifies the level of each comm…

Those are pretty cool screen reader add-ons. Do you use JAWS, NVDA, or something else?
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