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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 stanboyet »

tarrydev13 wrote: post #582
stanboyet wrote: post #580

I always was frustrated by link shorteners and predatory approaches. So I built https://slsh.me Fun to build again, host on bare metal and all. Learned a lot!

I really like the design, are you a designer? Or did you hire someone?

I spent days iterating with Claude Code cli tool.

Spent a lot of time initially with asking it to generate me radically different approaches. Then I cherry pick what I like, iterate over and over again.

It's still something I ask of it regularly.

Thank you for the kind words. I've always struggled with UI as I have a backend engineer background, now more on the CTO sides of things. I've always lacked the creativity IMO, and this gave me a very good opportunity to practice and try to build something ""unique"".

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Post by CrzyLngPwd »

I used copilot to make a basic MCP server for a large DB, so it could write better queries.

I also got it to write a mysql DB importer I could use instead of "mysql", since I often import large DBs locally. I wanted progress, estimated completion time, and I wanted it to prevent my machine from going to sleep during the import.

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Post by archermarks »

I made a nice little CLI tool for testing the subjunctive in Italian. Claude code spun off a bunch of Claude API calls to generate example sentences with fill-in-the-blank spots for the correctly conjugated verb. Having an AI generate a prompt for and call out to other AIs was a bit surreal!

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Post by mulhoon »

I recently built a physics-driven auto-panner based on PONG, so I can also play PONG inside my DAW. https://portwaydsp.com

I also built https://plugins.audio - a Dribbble-esque showcase of audio plugins.

It's been a dream to be able to work in the audio software space. I've been a musician, designer, coder all my life, and had a few moonlights with building audio plugins over the years. But now with AI at hand, I can use it to fill that missing technical requirement while still retaining my domain expertise (music/design).

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

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Post by nha1 »

Rantenki wrote: post #152

I wrote a pen-plotter GUI and gcode sender in Rust. By hand. Like an animal. I am the only user. Sometimes it's the process that matters, and exercising your brain is important too. I get that there is a lot of existential dread around AI taking our jerbs, and excluding humans from the process of creative work, but... you can still just write code, just for the personal satisfaction. https://github.com/armyofevilrobo…

I was going to ask what is a pen plotter. Apparently this is like a printer but it uses a real pen to draw. Neat.

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Post by nha1 »

hakunin wrote: post #334

A SQLite based sweeper of all the scans, notes, PDFs and images I have on my filesystem, that stores their paths and allows searching their OCR’ed descriptions and text, as provided by Mistral OCR. I can ask things like “when does my car need maintenance” or “find me that picture my kid drew for Mother’s Day”. I use pi-based bash executable to launch a doc chat like that. https://github.com/maxim/ringbinder

Nice! I did something similar for myself but fully offline. It started because I had to do a tax return and collecting information was a pain point.

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Post by pythonbase »

mpeg wrote: post #570
pythonbase wrote: post #569

- An outreach planner composed in a single html file. Data can be exported to, and imported from, a JSON that can be passed to the LLM for enrichment. https://kashifaziz.me/outreach-planner/ - An analysis pipeline that takes data from D1 (storing user searches), Posthog and Clicky (analytics) to periodically generate user journey reports. - halalcodecheck.com - a database of emulsifier codes and food ingredients. Bui…

Random but... please do not use this template on real emails "Hi [FirstName], I came across [Company] and was impressed by the work you're doing — especially [specific detail]." It's a terrible cold email, I get so many of these every week... There's better ways to get someone's attention

Thanks for taking out the time to look into the template and sharing your feedback. Appreciated.

Having said this, that's just a demo template and users can tweak and configure the template as they deem fit.

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

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Post by mzl »

Skills for creating good and repeatable benchmarking scripts.

A knowledge base for my research area, with tools for paper ingestion and search.

An md file to html presentation tool, there are several but this one helps me.

A review tool that splits a PR or branch intelligently into modules, and does per module reviews and global reviews for different aspects, and then summarizing that into a report. Can be used with multiple different harnesses. Written as a Python project, but build-time assembled into a single-file Python script with uv run --script shbang line.

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