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#11
I've launched a Windows app on the Microsoft Store a bit over a month ago. Didn't get any traction here (as windows closed source apps rarely do) but feel free to check it out at https://lumotray.com

I have already got a few downloads from the MS store though. "Advertising" was basically just a post here, a couple of posts on reddit and some links sent to friends.

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#12
This is not nearly as impressive (or useful) as the other posts, but when ChatGPT was released I developed this toy site almost entirely thru prompts.

http://goodvibeai.com/

I told it to gen a bunch of heartwarming messages, make a website to display them, now make it have a color gradient, now make the text fade in and out, now have the site have a button to play an audio file, etc etc etc

Spent more time hosting it via GitHub than making the site, really blew my mind in terms of the creation process.

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#14

I made https://welovefreemovies.com It's a showcase of movies that people made and released for free on YouTube (my original submission has better details). I'm pretty sure it got hit by the auto spam filter due to the name. OG submission if you're interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34288257

What are the criteria for inclusion?

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#15
post #5

https://flipcoords.com/ The web tool will switch the position of latitude and longitude in text. It's a common issue in GIS industry as there's no agreement which order is the correct one (and tools/software want one or the other). The initial Show HN dicussion derailed into which order is the correct one, second-guessing why the tool could be any useful to anybody and it went downhill (well, flagged) from there.

Nicely implemented and simple.

Love the irony of a whole debate when your tool isn't taking an opinion, but instead letting people navigate (pun proudly intended) those two worlds.

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#17
idiomorph:

https://github.com/bigskysoftware/idiomorph

it's an updated take on the DOM morphing algorithm of morphdom, and it uses what i call "ID sets" to allow the morphing algorithm to "see" children in the DOM when making morphing decisions in the parents, which means you don't need to annotate the DOM with as many ids

here is a demo showing how it outperforms morphdom when ids are sparse/deep:

https://github.com/bigskysoftware/idiomorph#demo

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#18
I tried with my web app https://collanon.com and didn't get much traction on HN(maybe bad timing).

It's on its 3rd year of development/improvement and it's about making and sharing easily private discussions and confrontations(1vs1) with temporary/total anonymity in mind without relying on any big tech service or cloud providers to keep the data more private.

I'm on a path to a big upgrade soon too.

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#19
Here is my post from last year which didn’t get much attention on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33507260

It analyzes how much sugar is in the food based on nutrition facts data scraped from Walmart. It also shows relation between amount of sugar and rating.

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post #5

https://flipcoords.com/ The web tool will switch the position of latitude and longitude in text. It's a common issue in GIS industry as there's no agreement which order is the correct one (and tools/software want one or the other). The initial Show HN dicussion derailed into which order is the correct one, second-guessing why the tool could be any useful to anybody and it went downhill (well, flagged) from there.

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