Ask HN: What are some excellent pieces of software written by a single person? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What are some excellent pieces of software written by a single person?

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Post by ilyt » Tue, Nov 08, 2022, 1:47 PM UTC

spacechild1 wrote: post #42

Reaper ( http://reaper.fm/ )

Not single person

> Cockos currently has two programmers.[5] Justin Frankel, the company founder, probably best known for his work on the Winamp media player application, and John Schwartz, who joined Cockos in 2008 and is the author of many audio plug-ins, notably a virtual analogue synthesizer called Olga. Christophe Thibault, an old colleague of Frankel's from his Nullsoft days, was a Cockos employee between 2005-2014.

But I honestly expected like 5

Re: Ask HN: What are some excellent pieces of software written by a single person?

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Post by nvln » Tue, Nov 08, 2022, 1:49 PM UTC

YJS - https://github.com/yjs.

Re: Ask HN: What are some excellent pieces of software written by a single person?

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Post by encabulator » Tue, Nov 08, 2022, 1:58 PM UTC

I last used it more than a decade ago, but Pegasus Mail by David Harris was my MUA for more than a decade before that: https://www.pmail.com. Surprisingly it seems to be still alive even today.

Re: Ask HN: What are some excellent pieces of software written by a single person?

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Post by wdewind » Tue, Nov 08, 2022, 1:59 PM UTC

Sidekiq by Mike Perham is amazing. I’ve scaled multiple businesses on it’s back.

Re: Ask HN: What are some excellent pieces of software written by a single person?

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Post by Ragnarork » Tue, Nov 08, 2022, 2:09 PM UTC

I'm not sure if it truly fits this category, but HarfBuzz[0], maintained primarily by Behdad Esfahbod, comes to mind.

[0] https://harfbuzz.github.io/

Re: Ask HN: What are some excellent pieces of software written by a single person?

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Post by mayankkaizen » Tue, Nov 08, 2022, 2:25 PM UTC

sixhobbits wrote: post #48

I'm not sure about "a single person" but I believe Flask and Requests (both Python libraries) are/were at least strongly connected to a single 'creator' (Armin Ronacher and Kenneth Reitz respectively) that come to mind for me, though both have larger communities of contributors these days.