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

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Post by pcthrowaway » Wed, Dec 13, 2023, 10:14 AM UTC

iansinnott wrote: post #146

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 […

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

This is amazing.

But wouldn't this extension end up taking up a massive amount of space? Does it index text which is fetched and hydrated after page load?

Also, does it strip HTML from the text so that text like this can be searched with exact phrase matching?

Is the source code for fttf available? I'm sure you're lovely, but I'm nevertheless reluctant to install an extension which has access to all pages

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

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Post by amenghra » Wed, Dec 13, 2023, 10:14 AM UTC

franze wrote: post #124

I mostly code my own games with a target group of 1, my favourites are http://lalo.li/lsd/ https://updownredgreenetc.franzai.com/ https://spinner.franzai.com/ https://dance.franzai.com/ (basically a lava lamp you can interact with) from the app side i like https://qrpwd.franzai.com/ coded to save my 2 factor backup codes qr encoded and encrypted in my photo stream and https://github.com/franzenzenhofer/thisismy a com…

http://lalo.li/lsd/ is fun! You could add so many twists to it, e.g. a thing that throws multiple balls if one ball arrives in it (think pinball machines).

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

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Post by flyingpuffin » Wed, Dec 13, 2023, 10:14 AM UTC

I created this website (https://unexploredhq.com/) to find unexplored places for travel with my SO. Instead of going to cliched places like Paris in France, I can input an area or region and then select attributes of this place (eg Sunny, Beach, Mountains) .. and see the list of places which satisfy my constraints. In future, I plan to integrate a Flight API so that I can add a constraint of finding places within a budget.

I am a ML researcher/engineer at heart, so building out the attributes by scraping the web was straightforward (have over 26000 locations indexed). But learn React as a hobby (with help from ChatGPT) to build this :)

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

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Post by miyuru » Wed, Dec 13, 2023, 10:14 AM UTC

- Base64 decoding with multiple interactions and on browser. For use to decode links on a forum on high seas. https://www.miyuru.lk/base64decoder

- Dual-stack S3 URLs on browser. Most S3 links available online need to be converted to be used on IPv6 only instances on AWS. https://www.miyuru.lk/ipv6s3

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

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Post by ankitg12 » Wed, Dec 13, 2023, 10:15 AM UTC

errozero wrote: post #164

Here's a couple of web audio things I have worked on and not really shared with anyone. They will both work best in Chrome. https://303-gen-06a668.netlify.app - A tool to generate randomised 303 acid loops (Chrome only) https://metronic-studio-0d0680.netlify.app - Unfinished web daw project started a few years ago

Quite cool !!

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

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Post by druskacik » Wed, Dec 13, 2023, 10:16 AM UTC

I practice yoga almost daily in a yoga center in my city. There's a limited number of slots for all lectures and you have to register in advance. You can unregister more than 2 hours in advance without any penalty - as a result, many people register to lectures days in advance and unregister shortly before the lecture if they decide not to go. Many of the best lectures are almost always fully booked.

At first, I made a simple notification bot that checks the website regularly and sends a Telegram notification once a lecture is free. Recently, I added a script that logs me to the lecture automatically, so I don't have to follow notifications. Simple and useful project.

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

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Post by Jack5500 » Wed, Dec 13, 2023, 10:17 AM UTC

I made https://www.seriescharts.com/ to keep track of new and interesting tv series.

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

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Post by bradrn » Wed, Dec 13, 2023, 10:18 AM UTC

Most of my programs were written for my own use, including:

• A keyboard layout to type numerous non-English letters, punctuation marks and mathematical symbols, originally for Windows but subsequently ported to Linux and Mac [https://github.com/bradrn/Conkey]

• A ‘sound change applier’ for my hobby of language construction, to simulate the process of historical sound change [https://bradrn.com/brassica/]

• A small browser extension to save the full text of all webpages I visit, and a local client to search the database [not open-sourced, apologies!]

The first two have gained a few other users since being released, but I’m pretty sure I’m still the one who uses them the most!

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

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Post by sovok » Wed, Dec 13, 2023, 10:20 AM UTC

https://font2png.com to browse font-icons and export them as PNG, with background/foreground color. Usually you want SVG, but sometimes a PNG is better. I use it mostly to generate quick favicons. It was also fun to make it work completely client side with canvas.

https://github.com/combatwombat/rmdb imports the IMDb database (at least the limited .tsv files they provide) into MySQL so you can query it. List the highest rated horror movies of the 90s, genre distribution by year etc. I made that mostly to c̶h̶e̶a̶t̶ ̶o̶n̶ help with https://www.reddit.com/r/GuessTheMovie, with limited success. Still fun though to SQL-query over all movies ever made.

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

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Post by alekseyrozh » Wed, Dec 13, 2023, 10:21 AM UTC

sc0rpil wrote: post #154

I didn’t like the unwieldiness of existing planning poker apps so I’ve built one for my team over the weekend - https://estim8.pro/ Built on Elixir Phoenix LiveView, was a great little side project.

Have you looked at https://iAmAgile.io ?