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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 Adrig »

- A HTML prototyping skill and a simple upload web app to share it privately with my team

- A Chrome extension to make design comments and ASCII wireframes right on the page you're working on and feed it to your AI coding tool as a prompt https://getdesignjam.com/

- An iRacing overlay to compare the telemetry of a reference lap against your live data https://flylapsim.com/

It's been a ton of fun to be able to dabble in software thanks to AI. Especially for small personal tools like these it's so powerful

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

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Post by wizenheimer »

pred_ wrote: post #453
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.

Ahh, got it. I didn't realize HN did that. Thanks for letting me know! That probably explains it :)

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

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Post by janpmz »

I've been building a PDF -> MP3 tool (web, iphone, android): https://listendock.com/

Then a little calorie-radar-alert app that motivates you to stay on diet before going into a shop: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/stay-lean-calorie-navigation/i...

And to test the hypothesis if the motivation actually works with "fast flashing images" I built this experiment: https://fitfatflix.fit/

When openClaw came out I build a game like map around it to orchestrate tasks: https://memefields.com/

And not published, I build a little recommender app of activities I can do only today or only this time of the year where I currently am, so I don't miss good things.

And some other stuff I'm working on right now :)

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

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Post by fluder_tw »

I made mobile friendly agentic driven IDE (as a PWA), where I can start "agent" processes on my different laptops (company, personal) or on the dedicated server and manage them from any browser / mobile device enywhere. Now I spent most of my time do programming in my head walking somewhere and talk to agents / review code directly from mobile. I also added support of n.eko like remote browsing streaming for emulating desktop browser while I'm on mobile and simplified deployment tool to manage kubernetes / docker deployments.

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

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Post by hannofcart »

Hi HN, I built (yet another) webapp (PWA) for looking up guitar scales and a bunch of other tools.

https://guitar-tools.eejalab.xyz/

There are plenty of other tools already that do this but hopefully this one adds some quality of life niceties such as dark mode and a mobile responsive design that seems nicer to use than the others out there.

Hope the colours look ok. I'm a colour blind person (deuteranomaly) and I've optimised it for what looks good to me. Am open to adding a mode in line with what regular vision people might prefer.

No frameworks used, vanilla JS. No sign ups. Data/state persistence is purely local storage.

Absolutely no commercial interest here. Built this purely for the love of it. Will forever be free.

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

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Post by keybored »

netcoyote wrote: post #360

Tools I’ve built for myself: - sandvault https://www.codeofhonor.com/projects/sandvault/ runs agents in a separate macOS user account, hardened with sandbox-exec. It also supports headless browsing and iOS Simulator from inside the sandbox for testing web and iOS apps. - clodpod https://www.codeofhonor.com/projects/clodpod/ agents run inside a macOS VM. - git-multi-hook https://www.codeofhonor.com/projects/git-multi-…

> - git-multi-hook https://www.codeofhonor.com/projects/git-multi-hook/ git only allows one script per hook event; this is a dispatcher that discovers and runs every script in a hooks dir, in parallel, for both global and repo hooks.

Newest Git supports hook events.

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