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Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

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html snippet playground - for testing html/react snippets

token speed calculator - for estimating tg/s of ai based on ram speed and model size/params this helps in comparing different hw, estimating likely speeds i will get on hardware

prompt assembler - to create prompt and context once and reuse it in different ai's, picking and choosing context in a prompt, creating agent.md etc.

dashboard builder - for viewing gsc, ga, stripe data in one place

Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

#422
TONS of tools. Most written in Go. Several have API servers in addition to cli or TUI or web interfaces. The API interface to my apps makes LLM-driven development much faster.

https://github.com/michaelteter/docgen : create a single text file of your entire project, with a tree and some other useful bits. This is good for dropping into an LLM or research notebook instead of giving an LLM access to your actual project folder. It also can be put in your pre-commit script so you always have one single doc you can diff from one commit to the next.

md2pdf: markdown to PDF, relying on defaults and optional config files or cli args for formatting choices (such as page margins)

md2gslides: markdown, converted into slides, and using Google Slides API to generate the doc in my Google Drive. This saves me so much effort (I teach, so I make lesson plans/presentations all the time).

get-music: TUI app that lets me search Youtube and easily queue up to download one or more of the search results. Then I take the downloaded content, split out the audio, LLM process the video title, add metadata for music, and then provide an easy command interface for local searches and playback of downloaded content.

bookmarks: TUI for slurping all the URLs from my browser, LLM-tagging each url based on the tag list I provide with the prompt and url, and lots of features for managing priority, show/hide tags, etc. This was to help me stop worrying about having a hundred tabs open. Now I can just sweep them up into my own private, encrypted (sqlite) db.

ESL-Planner: Complete web app for building class plans for teaching English (based on params, such as student age range, skill level, specific teaching language (what we want to teach), etc. It's close to being ready to productize and release as SaaS, but I built it for myself initially.

Numerous other tools plus a guide doc listing all the tools and what they do. These resources are then made available to LLMs when I'm developing, saving me (and the LLM) the time of hand-crafting the same tooling over and over.

Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

#423
After dropping the keyboard for the TV one too many times, the touchpad stopped working.

I looked for a decent remote keyboard app to use on the tablet, and found nothing I liked.

I ended up asking an AI to make something that served a webpage that connected back to itself via websockets. It provided a keyboard and touchpad on the webpage and forwarded events to uinput.

It works well enough on tablet and phone that I haven't got around to replacing the original keyboard.

Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

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An inhouse orchestration tool to run coding agents. It's so useful. I used to use tmux to run my coding agents and have little scripts to help me manage the workflow so this tool lets me encode my workflows and preferences. eg. I prefer to run sessions for the same project serially, working on main, rather than in parallel like how Conductor does with the help of worktrees.

Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

#429
- self-hosted POPSQL alternative - https://github.com/p-raj/collab-sqlc

- CleanMyMac alternative based on opensource tools - https://github.com/p-raj/open-cleanmymac

- Standup meetings to comic generation - https://github.com/p-raj/standup-to-comics

- Configurable Pomodoro - https://github.com/p-raj/open-tomato

A few more closed source ones that aren't any close to be in a working state.

Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

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Not the author, but I had a good vibe coding go at it: https://force.nuts.services Code: https://github.com/kordless/force-news

It wants me to login. 99% of the requests are gonna be for "War", could you just cache it? Wait, it would be easier for me to clone the whole thing and change one feature... What strange times we live in.

Sure, whatever you like. All of it is open source, including the crawler: https://github.com/deepbluedynamics/grubcrawler

Almost everything I build will run locally or on Google Cloud in serverless mode.

The README on the repo for the app is has been updated with instructions for you. You will need Docker.

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