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Re: Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?

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I made (admittedly, the 200th) uptime monitoring service - https://onlineornot.com I've been running the business for almost two years now (and it's now more of a status page that also monitors uptime), and it's still steadily growing!

You do post it in every one of these threads :). I respect your persistence!!

Re: Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?

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The only FOSS thing I've done that I think is really worth telling people about is KaithemAutomation, a home automation server in pure Python with a bit easier setup than Home Assistant, and some features aimed at commercial installs like room escape control, and some pretty decent network video recorder features.

https://github.com/EternityForest/KaithemAutomation

I put 6 years or so into it, and have used it on plenty of contract projects, but so far I don't think anyone else is interested.

Possibly because it's largely UI and CRUD over existing functionality, and there's not much particularly exciting to the hacker community, few interesting algorithms, it's not minimalist at all, etc.

Plus it has a lot of dependencies that might or might not exist outside of Debian, I've never looked into how it would run on the more DIY distros since I've never used them.

Re: Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?

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https://crowdview.ai - search engine for forums and discussion sites Like many of you, I find Google results to be full of SEO spam and have resorted to adding "site:reddit.com" or "site:news.ycombinator.com" to all my queries (since 2015!). Otherwise, it's really hard to figure out "what does a genuine, real life human think about this thing?". But limiting my results to just Reddit isn't ideal because so much great…

This is genuinely great. Unlike others spamming my search results with StackOverFlow crawlers I can find actual people's posts here.

Re: Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?

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canSnippet (cansnippet.com), an advanced snippet/clipboard manager. I sold a dozen copies of the app without any marketing and then moved away from it. It's a tool I still use every day and feel it's a pity that I couldn't put more effort on it as I believe it has a huge potential!

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Oh I played this! I bought it to play with a friend over Discord and we had a real fun time, it was sort of the perfect niche (for us) Personally I wish there were more of these. Having the one was nice but it's hard to play with another person when you already know the solution. And it's just fun to play more puzzles with the same friend. Thanks for making it :3!

Thank you for this, you made my day. I have recently made a new room for /dev/esc - my idea was that in the run-up to Christmas, plenty of dev teams would be looking for activities to do together. Full disclosure: it didn't work - I didn't get a bump of new customers. If you can look past the festive theming, IMHO there are some good, totally original new puzzles in "Santa's Tech Disaster". (choose from drop-down whe…

Tbh, Christmas was a heads down, stressful time for me. I'm wondering if the opposite might actually be true of dev teams around Christmas?

But thanks! I'll have to get my friend to play again. Looking forward to it

Re: Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?

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https://crowdview.ai - search engine for forums and discussion sites Like many of you, I find Google results to be full of SEO spam and have resorted to adding "site:reddit.com" or "site:news.ycombinator.com" to all my queries (since 2015!). Otherwise, it's really hard to figure out "what does a genuine, real life human think about this thing?". But limiting my results to just Reddit isn't ideal because so much great…

Wow great work! I quickly got the information I was struggling to find via DDG (and then Google).

I've added this search engine by adding "https://crowdview.ai/search?q=%s" in Firefox's search settings. I'll be trying this again.

Re: Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?

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post #85

A instant tech job search engine powered by Algolia, https://jsniffer.com/ It's been an on/off side project last 2 years. Expected people to come with strong criticism on it, since it is far from done and the way that I capture metadata is not great yet. Instead I received no comments, which I think it was worse haha.

It actually looks pretty good to me, I'm on the hunt so I'll give it a shot lol.
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