Ask HN: Single-person creations that have stood the test of time? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Single-person creations that have stood the test of time?

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Post by Datagenerator » Mon, Feb 28, 2022, 5:35 PM UTC

sprucevoid wrote: post #175

Everything[0], instant NTFS file search on Windows. The thing keeping me from using Linux on my main home PC. [0] https://www.voidtools.com/

Seen the locate command in Linux?

Re: Ask HN: Single-person creations that have stood the test of time?

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Post by zaphar » Mon, Feb 28, 2022, 5:37 PM UTC

xigoi wrote: post #141

zaphar wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The core of Git isn't that complicated. A merkle tree backed by a content-addressable store. That's very much in the realm of possible within a week. It wasn't very easy to use in it's first iteration. All of the porcelain that has been built around it is where 90% of the development has gone.

Wait, it used to be even harder to use?

You have no idea.

Re: Ask HN: Single-person creations that have stood the test of time?

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Post by unforeseen9991 » Mon, Feb 28, 2022, 5:37 PM UTC

pieterhg wrote: post #189

My sites https://nomadlist.com and https://remoteok.com are single person creations. And exist about 8 and 7 years now! :)

I remember you posting years back (5+) about Nomadlist :) Still use it to this day.

Re: Ask HN: Single-person creations that have stood the test of time?

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Post by zaphar » Mon, Feb 28, 2022, 5:39 PM UTC

brundolf wrote: post #110

zaphar wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The core of Git isn't that complicated. A merkle tree backed by a content-addressable store. That's very much in the realm of possible within a week. It wasn't very easy to use in it's first iteration. All of the porcelain that has been built around it is where 90% of the development has gone.

Where by "porcelain" I assume you mean "easy to mishandle and break" ;)

I'm certainly one of those people who think git makes stupid mistakes a little too easy to do, so I'm on board with that definition.

Re: Ask HN: Single-person creations that have stood the test of time?

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Post by rozab » Mon, Feb 28, 2022, 5:41 PM UTC

Archelaos wrote: post #60

cableshaft wrote: post #45

List of video games supposedly developed by just one person: https://www.gamespot.com/gallery/the-14-best-games-developed... I say supposedly because I know Jonathan Blow paid someone to do all the art for Braid, and licensed all the music (I even saw him demo Braid before release with his programmer art at GDC back in 2008, it did not look anywhere near as pretty, so he made the right choice). But the artwork was so…

> say supposedly because ... ... because they did not write the compiler for their game.

I guess this is a joke because he is writing the compiler (and language, Jai) for his new game. I think he has a team now though.

Re: Ask HN: Single-person creations that have stood the test of time?

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Post by RistrettoMike » Mon, Feb 28, 2022, 5:46 PM UTC

Pinboard - https://pinboard.in/ is a one-man developed bookmarking/tagging/archival service that's been a consistent featureset and price for many years now without any delusions of selling out or exponential growth.

I love it and use it religiously, I just tracked down an article I remembered reading in 2015 the other day just by searching a keyword.