I made an envelope accounting page for my accounts that don't have it. Prior to AI I was just complaining about it, even though I'm a developer.
Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
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Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
#72It's not just for myself, but I'm primarily creating it for myself - it's a browser for designers. I work in code but I often want a figma-type interface to explore different ideas without having to branch or litter my codebase with a bunch of demo components/files.
Normal browsers have built-in dev tools - this has built-in design tools. so I can visit my app, open up a surrounding canvas, pull fragments into the canvas, do some design-ish stuff, and merge it back into code. All in the same UI. It was cool enough that I'm going to release it, but for now it's very useful for myself.
Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
#73I stopped paying for Wyze subscription after replacing the camera backend service. Saving me about $30/m and a much finer tuned OpenCV to Claude API vision model.
Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
#74I built a complete clone if fly.io infrastructure: VMs, networks, etc. so I have my Vercel on bare metal machines to maintain full-stack apps on https://playcode.io.
It took more than a year. Why? Cloud infrastructure is too expensive.
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#75https://probplanner.com/ - I never had the time to dedicate to building a Monte Carlo simulator for project estimates. It was always something I just couldn't justify given my short commute. I used this project to teach myself how to use Claude Code and Codex over last summer.
I've done a lot of little things in Emacs since. Just minor things to improve my workflows or build up Chief of Staff type information flows.
Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
#76llm-consortium: prompts multiple models in parallel, loops until confidence_threshold, and iteratively refines a response. This was inspired by a karpathy tweet [0] and the prototype created using another tool of mine: The LLM Plugin Generator plugin (essentially a curated collection of plugins for simonws llm cli as a few-shot prompt) The llm-model-gateway companion plugin lets you serve models from the LLM cli as a…
I'm quite curious about this.
I think this is similar. Unfinished. https://github.com/mattjoyce/roundtable-consensus
Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
#77Some free side-loadable android apps: http://badcheese.com/android * Auto-Birthday - if you have a contact in your android contacts that has both a mobile number and a birthday in their contact info, you can choose to send them an automatic "Happy Birthday" message on their birthday at a specific time. Can do it with hundreds of contacts. Doesn't use hardly any battery or resources. * Wrecker - stupid simple "throw a…
> you can choose to send them an automatic "Happy Birthday" message on their birthday at a specific time. Nothing says “AI enthusiast” more than automating away social interaction.
Haha yes.
It probably should message YOU rather than the person who's birthday it is, so you can send something personal.
Also coming up, automated wedding/funeral attendance by your personal humanoid robot designed to look and sound like you.
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#78LockIn - Beautiful scriptable terminal countdown timer that can block time waster apps. Enjoy fun visualizations and improved productivity that your agent can trigger to start a focus session. Install today with brew.
Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
#79Many, really, but there are few I'm especially proud of:
- https://github.com/exlee/pikchr_pl - DiagramIDE (diagram amiga-style workbench where you can script Pikchr diagrams using TCL, Prolog, Pikchr or - recently mruby). Note: you need to navigate to actual crate for description. There are binaries built in case someone wants to try it.
- https://svg.axk.sh - semi manual SVG fitter so that I can easier vectorize AI-generated pseudovector images (who doesn't like 30kb SVG versus 1.8mb PNG?!)
- https://github.com/exlee/rik - this one makes me laugh every time I use it - it's an AI harness with text editor as an UI (i.e. it reacts to comment strings) - I gave it personality so it makes wacky comments but other than that it's very constrained agent (limited edition ;))
These are not vibe coded but AI made it much easier to slide through major friction points (e.g. for SVG fitter I really didn't want to reinvent fitting algorithms)
Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
#80I have made a TUI tool for organizing and authoring sermons written by myself. It also has a third mode for reading one or two bible versions in parallel. I love the interface and keep adding features to make it easy to navigate in and something that actually helps me to organize and write sermons. Some features are to have notes at specific places in the bible, summaries, notes, exports to html/pdf, metadata for each sermon and autofocus on widgets when changing between the three modes. Happy to work in the terminal this way. :-)