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

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Post by mateuszbuda » Wed, Dec 13, 2023, 9:28 AM UTC

I've created a mobile proxy pool for a personal project of web scraping real estate data: https://scrapingfish.com/blog/byo-mobile-proxy-for-web-scrap...

Then, I expanded the infrastructure and built a web scraping API on top of it: https://scrapingfish.com

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

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Post by vinc » Wed, Dec 13, 2023, 9:30 AM UTC

More than I can count, but here are the big ones:

http://moros.cc - A hobby operating system, with a shell, an editor, a lisp interpreter, and many other little things

https://geodate.org - A lunisolar calendar with decimal time (centidays and dimidays)

https://github.com/vinc/geodate - An implementation of the calendar + time

https://github.com/vinc/geocal - A tool to visualize the calendar + time

https://github.com/vinc/littlewing - A chess engine written in Rust (and another one before that in C++)

https://vinc.cc/software/ - A more complete list, on my personal website

I'm good at scratching my own itches but less good at finding projects that could be useful to other people.

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

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Post by pronopython » Wed, Dec 13, 2023, 9:31 AM UTC

I created adult entertainment apps to organize and have fun with images and videos:

- RuGiVi: https://github.com/pronopython/rugivi - Browse your collection of images on an endless screen. Tested with more than 700.000 images at once!

- Fapel System: https://github.com/pronopython/fapel-system - Organize your adult images and videos by just using hardlinks and directories.

- TopZemen: https://github.com/pronopython/topzemen - Let the images float on your screen or rain down next to your browser window.

- Fplyr: https://github.com/pronopython/fplyr - An audio player to play moaning sounds in the background.

Everything for Ubuntu Linux and in parts also for Windows!

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

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Post by keyle » Wed, Dec 13, 2023, 9:31 AM UTC

Pretty much most of the app I create is for my own dogfooding.

There is no better way to finish something that write a replacement for something that sucks.

They can be found here https://noben.org

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

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Post by k__ » Wed, Dec 13, 2023, 9:32 AM UTC

Not directly for myself, but a friend who has a small event business.

I created a web based mobile ticket scanner.

They said the ticket companies would take huge subscription fees for their scanners and they didn't need all the features they offered.

So, I bought a 30€ Bluetooth scanner, wrote a small UI that allowed them to create events and check that each ticket is only scanned once.

Of all my software, this is probably the most regularly used one, lol.

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

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Post by iansinnott » Wed, Dec 13, 2023, 9:33 AM UTC

I have something of an obsession with being able to search my digital history. To this end I've created a few projects which I still use almost daily:

- full text tabs forever [1]: chrome extension to provide full text search over web pages I've visited

- browser-gopher [2] (formerly browser parrot): collect browsing history from all browsers

- prompta [3]: a ChatGPT UI with full text search and some other niceties

[1]: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/full-text-tabs-fore...

[2]: https://github.com/iansinnott/browser-gopher

[3]: https://github.com/iansinnott/prompta

edit: formatting

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

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Post by thom » Wed, Dec 13, 2023, 9:35 AM UTC

For our first child in 2011, we were struggling to agree on a name, so I created a baby names app that tried to learn the kinds of names you liked, based on sounds, meanings, origins etc. It was my first real attempt at any sort of machine learning, and while we eventually reverted to the much simpler algorithm of my wife putting her foot down, I decided to package it up and launch it on the Mac app store. It was briefly the number one lifestyle app in the UK, and could more or less pay for its own Google Ads, but I killed it off when sandboxing started to make NSDocument based apps break. Some screenshots survive:

https://lemonwatcher.com/baby-names-1.png

https://lemonwatcher.com/baby-names-2.png

https://lemonwatcher.com/baby-names-3.png

https://lemonwatcher.com/baby-names-4.png

https://lemonwatcher.com/baby-names-5.png

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

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Post by fredwu » Wed, Dec 13, 2023, 9:37 AM UTC

I built https://persumi.com to uplift my own blogs, and to turn text into audio (you can subscribe in your podcast app).

Then, once I realised there's no good tools to promote it, I built https://rizz.farm so I can promote Persumi.

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

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Post by kristianp » Wed, Dec 13, 2023, 9:37 AM UTC

A very simple Android app that submits a page to hacker news, or looks up a link on archive.today.

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

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Post by ollifi » Wed, Dec 13, 2023, 9:38 AM UTC

I got an idea for game mechanic I wanted to test and ended up learning bit of Godot to try it out.

https://flopblock.com/