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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 forrestzhong »

After I lost a family member to a cancer that routine screening could have caught early, I started to realized: The screening existed and the guidelines existed, but nothing turned a long medical screening guideline into “here is what you should do.” So I built FixYou for myself and my family. You answer a few questions about age, sex, family history, and lifestyle, and it builds a personalized screening plan from the USPSTF and ACS guidelines using LLM in about 3 minutes.

For anyone that’s interested, please free to try it here https://www.fixyou.app/

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

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Post by kingkongjaffa »

DonaldFisk wrote: post #697

The Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence was in 1956, before I was born. AI itself is even older than that (e.g. William Grey Walter's robots, Elmer and Elsie in 1948), but it was called cybernetics back then. I've been doing symbolic AI, on and off, since the 1980s. I assume, though, you mean LLMs. I haven't used them first hand, but I have fairly recently implemented a multi-layer artificial…

> I haven't used them first hand

Why not? Given your background surely you would be curious.

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

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Post by spaceships »

jasondigitized wrote: post #356
spaceships wrote: post #53

Too many to enumerate but a couple highlights (and many of these I've turned into apps): - https://blunders.ai : Chess improvement app - https://fretwork.ai : Freelancer management app (CRM/Billing/etc) - https://validity.ai : Provide agents the ability to check the UI code it made (w/out needing to run through your full app) - Save money on groceries + meal planning. This has probably saved hundreds if not $1k+ for…

Tell me more about the grocery app. Sounds awesome!

https://gist.github.com/ryanlanciaux/895ce19d94db765be4ebf53...

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Post by busymichael »

I built an iOS app for my sons who play club basketball. It’s designed to bridge the gap between practicing solo on the court and the pressure of playing in a game.

It uses mechanics and body movement, via visual detection through the cameras, to identify when you’re about to take a shot or make a pass.

It then pumps distracting noises (honks, cheers, jeers, etc.) into the headphones to try to distract you. It also runs a continuous 24-second clock so you build a natural sense of how much time is left before you need to get a shot off.

I'm looking for more people to join the test flight: https://clutchshot.app/

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Post by willks »

I built a language tutor iOS app for having voice conversations with a patient AI tutor. There’s plenty of services doing the same thing but I didn’t feel comfortable sending my broken Danish speech to a startup. It’s open source, going through App Store review now. https://github.com/challenga-org/openlanguage

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Post by bkovacev »

forrestzhong wrote: post #721

After I lost a family member to a cancer that routine screening could have caught early, I started to realized: The screening existed and the guidelines existed, but nothing turned a long medical screening guideline into “here is what you should do.” So I built FixYou for myself and my family. You answer a few questions about age, sex, family history, and lifestyle, and it builds a personalized screening plan from th…

I lost a family member recently as well. Sorry for your loss. I would love to use this, yet my POST request (when answering) is blocked. Is it geo-location based or something? I'm not using an ad-blocker or anything.

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Post by duckerduck »

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…

Nice I am designing/building a pen plotter myself at the moment and was surprised by the lack of good software. Will give this a try!
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