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

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Post by Morloc »

Recently I restarted to seed and download Torrents and I was frustrated with the various search engines, all the dodgy adds and banners, the clunkiness and the difficulty of sending the torrents to my home server.

So I created Torrent Hound https://federicocappelli.com/torrenthound.html a macOS app for searching torrents in 3 major search engines and with more advanced download options like multiple download and send to server.

After a bit my girlfriend and some friend started using it and gave me interesting feedbacks, so I made the app easier to use and with some features for helping less tech-savvy users.

The app is free and I'm happy to implement new features and add search engines if requested, any request or feedback can be done here: https://github.com/federicocappelli/TorrentHound/issues

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

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Post by nanoamp »

billylo wrote: post #748

I live on the flight path of a busy airport (Toronto) and have always wondered what type of aircrafts they are as they fly above me. So, I made a "Plane Above Me" app that listens to airplane sound. Once detected, it polls data from flight APIs and read out the flight info and aircraft data. In other words, it's my little "Flight Announcer". https://evergreen-labs.com/PlaneAboveMe.html

Ah neat. I'd forgotten I did something like this a few years back using an ADSB receiver on my roof, and integrated it into a Pi-powered digital clock. https://www.behance.net/gallery/42580099/Pi-Clock

It's abandonware now, because it was a PITA to get the flight data from behind a clunky paywall, and an Echo Show could do voice-driven stuff more easily. Maybe I could revisit it now and put it into an e-ink display instead, and use Flightaware or FR24 API...

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

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Post by heliostatic »

patrickwiseman wrote: post #914

I built a proxy number for my sister who has to deal with her abusive ex-husband. She has court ordered visitations via phone for their kids. He would give her number to any multitude of people that would send harassing messages on his behalf. The proxy allows any calls or texts from her number to send out with the proxy number. Any calls or texts from his number connect to her phone. All other communications are giv…

This is a fantastic service, and could definitely be commercialized for divorce attorneys. And made freely available to DV survivors.

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

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Post by archer2298 »

In 9th grade I would text my crush from my mom's phone and would later delete the entire conversation since I didn't want others to read them.

I just wanted a way to save these messages in a way others couldn't read them.

We had just started to learn Java. I used the basics I picked from school to write a cipher program which would take some plain text, a pass key and generate encrypted text. Although, I didn't know at the time (but realized couple years later) that I actually coded a little extension of our age old favorite Caesar cipher.

This brought back so many memories!

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

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Post by joisig »

I wrote a CMS / personal website hosting system that lets me publish straight from the Bear App note taking app that I use every single day.

Write or edit any post as a note in Bear, give it a tag so it gets published as a blog post or a new page, run one command and my site is updated.

The software is available as AGPL licensed open source.

I blogged about it, if you'd like more details: https://joisig.com/bearly-a-cms

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

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Post by davidtaubmann »

In my house we where constantly searching for satellite weather images to understand the weather for the next days (because here in Mexico forecasts don't seem really accurate). So I built a small website that included 2 of our most visited local satellite weather images, and made it adaptable to the screen visiting (this was on 2006, way before responsiveness).

After making some experiments in positioning the website, it managed to the second place in some searches. Nowadays it has had no crucial updates for almost a decade (really old and ugly), nevertheless still has many daily visitors. https://txopi.com/clima

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

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Post by toddyamakawa »

parentheses wrote: post #577

I'm slightly embarrassed that in terms of building personally relevant things, my proudest (digital) work is always shell scripts I use daily. Most of my personal projects are non-technical meat-space things like building with wood and the like. Here's some that I've open-sourced: - A git interface using fzf that works pretty nicely and is very composable. https://github.com/bigH/git-fuzzy - An interactive evaluator,…

What kind of work do you do? Does your day job involve writing shell scripts? Or is that something you do on the side?
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