I wrote a terminal based version of Conductor, heavily based on my own preferred workflows: https://github.com/bakedbean/workspacex
Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
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#262I shipped a QA harness for Claude Code. Instead of clicking through flows by hand, it reads your code diffs, identifies the affected UI flows, and tests them in real browser
Plus after each run you get screen recordings with console logs, network requests, HARs, and Playwright traces so you can inspect exactly what the agent did :)
https://github.com/wizenheimer/canary
P.S. I attempted to do a Show HN but got flagged for some reason
Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
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#264Several bigger projects, more like startup ideas.
Few tools:
1) a combination of Python scraper and Claude skill to help family members find job by matching jobs to resume, to rank best fits
2) similar to above, but for stock data and financial news to identify movers and why they moved and see if anything is interesting.
3) a couple of attempts to import EPIC medical data from hospital into an offline app. Needs more work, data export from EPIC is crappy and a mix of images, pdfs, text, HTML and .jsonb files. Not useful at the moment
4) an application that downloads stock market data to run 15-20 strategies and back testing to identify stocks that match multiple and then run sentiment analysis on news feeds. Interesting, but semi useful. Needs lot more work.
Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
#265I wrote my own Claude Code agent. It leverages some parts of multiple different agent stacks but using my architecture. It's layered, has long-term memory, agency to expand upon work, access to linear, access to all the models and endpoints you could possibly wish, as well as support for combining multiple providers and models into the layers so that delegation to the workers happen on the cheaper, more cost effectiv…
As the 36 millionth person building something similar, I wish[0] there were better info out there on what works well. I can understand why, but it's still frustrating seeing on the one hand how deeply helpful the flywheel of this type of setup can be, and on the other hand how every blog post stops at some incredibly superficial setup to help them write more blog posts.
[0] Yes this is a plea, if anyone has the good stuff
Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
#266Built a tool to help design cs/science inspired jewelry in CAD. I wrote a DSL to describe the jewelry, and had an LLM write the interpreter to generate a CAD file using cadquery (note to self: LLM suck at 3d reasoning). I would not have had the time to do this without AI. Also used AI to design an online store (I'm not a front end dev). It's amazing to see my wife (non-technical background) tweak the web-site using c…
Jewelry looks beautiful. Have you managed to make any sales?
Thank you.
We have not really started advertising, but my wife is (very) often complimented on the jewelry when she wears it and that has led to a few sales.
Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
#267I made a domain name finder to find domain names for my countless side projects (many of which I've never even started):
https://smartdomainfinder.com/
It uses an LLM to generate domain name alternatives that are relevant to your keywords, then checks whether any of those alternatives (in several TLDs) are available to be registered.
Warning: It's still a bit glitchy as I haven't fixed all the issues yet. It uses LLMs, but it's not a vibe-coded app itself. If it seems to be stuck while finding domain names, just refresh the page.
Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
#268I've made a number of ceramic molds for slumping fused glass into bowls. As well as wooden templates for ceramic mugs. I've devised a few carrying tools to move glass frit paintings from my studio down to my barn where the kilns sit without spilling the glass. Or were you only asking about digital tools? I haven't really made any of those. Making physical tools feels much more satisfying these days.
Can you fire ceramic in a house oven? Or do you need something more industrial?
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#269Ive made some tools after "the advent of AI" But I dont use "AI" to make them I use a code generator I like to use the smallest possible "toolchain", using the least possible resources, to build software tools Ideally I want the tools to compile quickly on underpowered hardware
What code generator?
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Kind of the same way people are proud of their kitchen. Most did not build it themselves.