Could be anything - dev tools, blogging platforms, SaaS...
Mine would be some (hypothetical) way of making it so I could see what accounts I had with any given service (Trello, GitHub, etc), what signin methods they used (password, social, etc), and could merge/rename/delete accounts and signin methods without going through tedious confirmation processes or support tickets. Something about having a fragile web of interconnected user/password combos and email accounts makes me anxious whenever I think about it or create a new account somewhere. Almost every service I've used seems to make big assumptions behind the scenes about what to do when someone invites you to a team using email, for example, and you already have an account using GitHub signin - so you end up having either two different accounts or merged accounts when you don't want to.
Ask HN: What tool would you buy to make your life easier?
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#2- a solid LSP implementation for a programming language
- zig (missing semamtic analysis)
- D (missing semantic analysis)
none of that exist in the market, people focus on new useless text editors (there are already plenty)
Re: Ask HN: What tool would you buy to make your life easier?
#3An online service to deliver Costco goods to home bi-weekly. Basically any service that can take out the manual chore for me.
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Re: Ask HN: What tool would you buy to make your life easier?
#5- a solid LSP implementation for a programming language - zig (missing semamtic analysis) - D (missing semantic analysis) - a cross platform debugger (GUI) none of that exist in the market, people focus on new useless text editors (there are already plenty)
It looks like zls[1] does everything you want for zig. In particular, [2] seems to be the zig code that does the analysis.
1 - https://github.com/zigtools/zls
2 - https://github.com/zigtools/zls/blob/master/src/analysis.zig
Re: Ask HN: What tool would you buy to make your life easier?
#6- a solid LSP implementation for a programming language - zig (missing semamtic analysis) - D (missing semantic analysis) - a cross platform debugger (GUI) none of that exist in the market, people focus on new useless text editors (there are already plenty)
It looks like zls[1] does everything you want for zig. In particular, [2] seems to be the zig code that does the analysis. 1 - https://github.com/zigtools/zls 2 - https://github.com/zigtools/zls/blob/master/src/analysis.zig
Ohh it has improved a lot since last time i checked, that's nice to hear
Re: Ask HN: What tool would you buy to make your life easier?
#7Linqpad
Bootstrap Studio
Re: Ask HN: What tool would you buy to make your life easier?
#8Github copilot everywhwre. I love the way how it completes the code and even helps write documentation.
But I think it could do equally well for say when you're at the bash terminal, or even writing this comment, the app should just get the context and start auto-completing everywhere I can type, intelligently like copilot. That would be amazing!
Re: Ask HN: What tool would you buy to make your life easier?
#9An online service to deliver Costco goods to home bi-weekly. Basically any service that can take out the manual chore for me.
Costco delivery is available via Instacart. They also have a rebranded version of the Instacart website here which might avoid some fees:
Maybe this isn’t available in your area…
Re: Ask HN: What tool would you buy to make your life easier?
#10Github copilot everywhwre. I love the way how it completes the code and even helps write documentation. But I think it could do equally well for say when you're at the bash terminal, or even writing this comment, the app should just get the context and start auto-completing everywhere I can type, intelligently like copilot. That would be amazing!
Sidenote: McFly does something in that ballpark (for bash)