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

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I downloaded the database of traditional Irish tunes from thesession.org and now I have a tool that lets me search with fuzzy search and instantly pull up full screen renderings of every setting for each tune. I can also add tags and set my preferred setting.

It's really removed all the pain points from my practice hours, especially when internet access is shaky.

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

#532
I built a little Gmail cleaner because my inbox had a bunch of "newsletters I unsubscribed from in my head but never actually did." Headers only, never message bodies, because privacy should still matter, I think. It worked very well and the amount of spam I get dropped dramatically, which was the point.

Everything was built with AI as part of a 12-in-12 challenge I'm doing, where I'm building 12 products in 12 months. https://twelve.zamith.pt/

Quietbox (https://quietbox.zamith.pt/) - Clear spammy emails from your inbox

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

#533
- FileTranscriber, for getting Whisper transcriptions of media files from the context menu on macOS: https://github.com/duggan/filetranscriber

- usagi, for tracking Claude usage in the macOS taskbar. Lots of these around, but I wanted one that wasn't buggy and constantly adding features: https://github.com/duggan/usagi

- RockstarNinja, for sharing Claude plans and sessions. Since it's a bit of a data hog signups are limited, but me and my cofounder use it all the time: https://rockstar.ninja

- TweetEmbed, for browsing an offline Twitter archive and getting self-contained HTML copy/paste-able cards: https://duggan.github.io/tweetembed/

- bewitch, a terminal based metrics collector and data visualization system: https://bewitch.dev/

Each one of these has been a great way to really push on automating build processes, see what Claude can do for automatic documentation (screen captures, etc), and trying to give a distinct visual identity. In my next project, I'm trying to de-LLMify the prose it generates by using my own blog posts and aggressively pruning and integrating into the prompt.

The biggest change has just been unlearning "cost". Stuff I've subconsciously shied away from since intuition built up over a career has given me a sense of how long things take that just isn't true anymore. Still learning!

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

#534
- A few Tmux plugins to automate workflow tasks (jump to pane, resize panes) - lots of TUIs for displaying relevant information from services (github, jira, obsidian), that are tiled on a "home" tmux window, gives me a live dashboard of work that I can refer to over the day. - TUI games, started with a simple dope wars clone … for when I need a quick break.

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

#535

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can... Can I have this as well?

How soon until we can just share a prompt://make-me-a-react-app-showing-a-summary-of-war-news-as-a-star-wars-crawl ? :-D

You can already share Claude artifacts this way.

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

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post #532

I built a little Gmail cleaner because my inbox had a bunch of "newsletters I unsubscribed from in my head but never actually did." Headers only, never message bodies, because privacy should still matter, I think. It worked very well and the amount of spam I get dropped dramatically, which was the point. Everything was built with AI as part of a 12-in-12 challenge I'm doing, where I'm building 12 products in 12 month…

Did something similar for myself, but CLI-only: https://github.com/facundofarias/gmail-cleaner. Good one!

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

#538

- 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.

I was... not prepared for your standup to comic README. Besides just being a cool idea, you gave me some things to think about and several new rabbit holes to explore.

There’s another one I’m planning to start - subtitles for your conference calls. It would generate netflix like expressive subtitles such as - “uncomfortable silence ensues”, “looks at a distance”, “playful music in the background” etc.

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

#539
ReverseCam - A camera app to show the non-mirror preview while taking selfies.

https://www.reversecam.com/

The front camera apps always show the mirror preview. Most of us hate photos others take of us, but love our selfies. It's because we groom ourselves and find our perfect angles using the mirror preview. So it's jarring when we see the photos of us taken by others. I always wanted a camera app that showed the non-mirror preview. Surprisingly most camera apps don't have this option. So I created this app to scratch my own itch:)

Note: Photos and videos are only stored in the browser. No data is sent to any servers. You can also install this as an app from your browser since it's a progressive web app.

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