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Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?

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Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?

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Post by asicsp »

https://github.com/learnbyexample/command_help to extract description for command options (inspired by http://explainshell.com/)

For example:

    $ ch rg -Mt
           rg - recursively search the current directory for lines matching a pattern

           -M NUM, --max-columns=NUM
               When given, ripgrep will omit lines longer than this limit  in  bytes.
               Instead  of  printing  long  lines, only the number of matches in that
               line is printed.

           -t TYPE, --type=TYPE
               This  flag  limits  ripgrep to searching files matching TYPE. Multiple
               -t/--type flags may be provided.
---

See also: "Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35729232

Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?

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Post by mertbio »

I couldn't find an app that has clean UI and also doesn't collect any data for FIRE calculation, therefore I developed my own app and also put it into the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/firecalc-early-retirement-age/...

Also, developed another app to reduce my Twitter usage. The reason why I created this one is that even though there a lot of Safari Extensions out there, they can access to your Safari history but the app that I've developed can't because it is just a content blocker: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/not-for-me/id6451205605

Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?

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Post by hbcondo714 »

https://github.com/hbcondo/revenut-app

I built this web + mobile app (PWA) written in React Native + TypeScript that does simple revenue forecasting for a SaaS that uses Stripe.

Stripe's mobile app and others kinda do this already but some of their numbers can be inaccurate (as detailed in the repo's readme) so that made me open-source + solve an issue my own SaaS[1] has with Stripe.

[1] https://Last10K.com

Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?

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Post by chillydawg »

A tracker thing for my son's in their first year. tracks sleep, food, awake, poos. easy hand off between me and their mum so we know when it's time for a nap or feed etc. got a cool radial data Viz where easy ring is 24h and the rings stack up. let's you see sleep patterns really easily. sorry no demo or screens as the data is all private and there's no security on there!

Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?

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Post by rozenmd »

I needed a weekly report for my contracting clients to prove their web host sucked to the point where it was costing them significant money.

They were paying for cheapest tier WordPress hosting at the time, and didn't believe me when I said random 5 min blocks of downtime throughout the day were adding up.

I built a dirt-simple form that takes a URL and sends a notification when the site goes down/up, with a weekly summary email.

Then, I kept adding features every day, 2 hours at a time, even after I stopped being a contractor.

That app was OnlineOrNot (https://onlineornot.com).

Since then I also added status pages, like https://hackernews.onlineornot.com/

As well as cron job monitoring, to ensure database backups and whatnot run when I expect.

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