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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?

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Post by marak830 »

I bashed out a dashboard for myself the other month, monitors firewall alerts/warnings/shows connected devices, process monitors on a few pc's that I keep an eye on, a to-do list/calendar combination that let's me track some internal tasks I need to do weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, etc, oh and it pings cloudflare to keep me up to date on the website stats. And an Amidakuji game to help me and another staff member pick who's doing X task that day :P

Nothing major, and only works with my infra, but it saves me a few minutes a few times a day to just be able to check the tab, and if there's an alert load up the full stats page.

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Post by pred_ »

wizenheimer wrote: post #262

I 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…

> got flagged for some reason

From a quick look at your profile, the majority of your submissions have been Show HNs. HN only allows some fraction of your submissions to be Show HNs (imagine if the front page was nothing but), so eventually they will just be auto-flagged.

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

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Post by sensecall »

Amongst lots of little tools, fed up of scribbling down my son’s football (soccer) scores in the Notes app, I cobbled together a little web app instead:

https://football.sensecall.co.uk/

Other parents on the team love it. The live sharing is pretty handy when some aren’t able to watch the game.

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Post by naorsabag »

fasouto wrote: post #121

I'm building a source code analyzer with AI. It's a TUI that you poin at a local codebase and it generates Mermaid diagrams. While I was doing it I needed to render those diagrams as ASCII and I was surprised there's no Python library for Mermaid to ASCII. So I wrote one: https://github.com/fasouto/termaid ( https://termaid.com/ )

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Post by naorsabag »

azriel91 wrote: post #179

A graphviz substitute in rust: https://azriel.im/disposition/ The text editor has an LSP built in to guide you to what can be entered, but see the examples. I wanted a way to have visual documentation that can show/hide detail, and be pure svg so that it can be pasted into sites without becoming pixelated. Also supports animations to show interactions between hosts, which always gets messy when drawing a static diagr…

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Post by naorsabag »

bnchrch wrote: post #15

Oh man a few things 1. A dashboard that tracks my personal metrics (github, strava, todo completion, flossing) 2. A eink display for that dashboard 3. A realtime node graph that shows a codebase (and/or its diffs) in a way that I can visualize what functions call which, and under what conditions 4. A agent that automatically fills out government forms and creates invoices for my friends brewery based on the delivery…

That sounds useful. I went a smaller/specific route with OpenHop: not a full graph of everything, just agent-authored flow walkthroughs you can step through locally.

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Post by noufalibrahim »

I needed something to help me stay off the computer (sites and applications) at certain times of the day with enforcement and in a way that's hard to remove. I had some ideas but was able to systematize all that into a proper program that I use daily. It's been very effective and it's much better (for me) than any of the commercial solutions that I've found for Linux. About 40% of the program was done using Aider (before I picked up Claude Code). The rest is using CC.

https://github.com/nibrahim/glocker

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Post by DrSiemer »

CodeMerger: https://codemerger.nl I've never liked the lack of control I feel using agents or tools like Cursor or Antigravity. I found myself having much better results simply pasting full source code in free chat, so I built a tool around that philosophy and I've been exclusively developing with it for a year now. It includes a Project Starter and code architecture analysis tool.

Presentable: a photo library sorter with Ai powered organization assistance, a compare canvas with various viewing modes and customizable folder sorting shortcut templates (wip).

AlwaysWhisper: a tool that let's me attach STT to my entire OS, with custom wrappers for different programs, adding theoretical voice control to any software (wip).

ScreenLoader: an Electron based tool that can load any web source as a kiosk app, full of useful features like keep-alive, covering multiple screens and tracking output logs.

Inputboard: a unified all-inputs hardware board, that transfers input data to any prototype I want to work on using an optocoupler, so I won't have to fiddle around with setting up clean and reliable inputs from cheap Chinese components every time I just want to test something.

Squire: an agentic board game helper, that can ingest a manual and will hopefully help decrease the time spent on endless discussions about seemingly conflicting rules. It should also be able to help me play a game when I don't fully understand the rules myself yet (wip).

NodeRunner: an agent that plays the WikiGame, focusing on speed, efficiency and token usage (the result of a fun competition with a colleague).

Sonic Bloom: more of an experiment than a tool. It's a wireless piece of custom hardware, that listens to conversations, sends data to an LLM through fast STT and returns a color choice that matches the topic being discussed to the hardware, which then controls an LED ring. It also has a small display that explains the logic behind the color choice.

Image-to-story: a VLM tool that kickstarts a written story using an image and has some rudimentary tools to expand on it based on user instructions (wip).

At-work-or-not: and Android app/website where colleagues can check if I'm working from home, if I'll be at the office or if I'm not working at all. Also doubles as a private record for tracking transport expenses.

SharedMaps: a Maps based website where groups of people can share custom categories of geo locations and drop comments on them.

VMG: an image format that includes audio with images and offers TTS input to easily add narration.

Who wants Coffee: a small Android app to help me remember who wants to drink what when I go for a round at the office.

And a pile of Python scripts for smaller useful tasks.

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

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Post by pkhamre »

This is my daily driver, a security-hardened Docker-image with OpenCode to run the coding agent in an isolated environment.

https://github.com/pkhamre/opencode-docker

Also made this minimalist carousel generator after seeing a carousel I really liked at LinkedIn.

Project: https://its.pkhamre.com/p/carouselify/

Source: https://github.com/pkhamre/carouselify

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