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

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Post by mijustin »

Haydos585x2 wrote: post #697
mijustin wrote: post #177

Last year, I launched https://devmarketing.xyz I'm really proud of it for a few reasons: 1. It was a response to an observed need. I was getting daily emails from devs asking me about product marketing. I believed that devs who learned marketing could be unstoppable when it comes to launching products. 2. I created it on the side, while working full-time. 3. In its first 3 months it did $28,433 in revenue. This allow…

Hey Justin, I enjoy reading your emails. Sometimes they're a bit too AppSumo-y but overall (Y). I wrote out a reply to one of your questions the other day but didn't end up sending it. I have a ton of projects that I never really take through to completion for whatever reason. One of the reasons is marketing. I bought a book or two of yours on sale a while ago but haven't gotten to it yet, I'm sure it will be good th…

Thanks! I'll work at making my emails less AppSumo-y. ;)

You should definitely send that email. I try to reply to every one I get.

(BTW - one of the things I include with M4Devs is a secret podcast RSS feed where I read the chapters for you. Perfect if you're having a hard time getting started)

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

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Post by StavrosK »

joe563323 wrote: post #842
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 ?

I'm 33. I don't think there's much of a secret in productivity, I just like these things so much that I prioritize them over other things.

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

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Post by averageweather »

edpichler wrote: post #104
averageweather wrote: post #82

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 shut…

I would use it if it was in Celsius.

I wanted to let you know that I've added a button for Celsius.

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

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Post by averageweather »

franciscop wrote: post #91
averageweather wrote: post #82

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 shut…

This is really cool, would it be possible you add a toggle somewhere for Celsius degrees?

Wanted to let you know that I have added a Celsius button.

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Post by averageweather »

brak1 wrote: post #95
averageweather wrote: post #82

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 shut…

looks nice - would be handy if it was in celcius too (and if it showed avg rain %)

Just added Celsius.

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Post by xcubic »

hackathonguy wrote: post #544

I built Eggshell , a BASH script manager for the Mac menu bar. I built it because I really wanted a tool to manage the scripts that start up our dev environment. Got tired of copy pasting them. I'm not a dev, so it took a few days to figure out how to build. Built with Swift. http://eggshell.pw

What resources did you use to learn swift?

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Post by Curiositry »

mstipetic wrote: post #879
Curiositry wrote: post #650

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Very, very cool! I’m teaching myself Spanish, and I’ve been looking for something like this for ages. I’d be curious to know more about how it’s built, and where you found the source texts. It it open-source?

Hey, thanks! I made the prototype using publicly available matched books and and got a friend included who built a matching engine for adding new books. The frontend is react, everything is hosted on s3. If you have any questions lemme know!

Any plans to do short stories as well?

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Post by Immortalin »

i336_ wrote: post #866
Immortalin wrote: post #865

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It brings you back to the newsletter page. I have a bunch of projects that are still WIP and not quite ready for their own landing pages which is why Lua Digest uses a subdomain and also why immortalin.com does not redirect to a home page. I have been trying to get HTTPS working on the site but CloudFlare's requirement to transfer over DNS control is messing up a lot of site configs so it's currently non-https for no…

Ah, cool. Very nice. Does CloudFlare not interoperate with Let's Encrypt et al? That's not great... (Also, did you get my email?)

Yup!
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