Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI? • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by nikkierendler » Tue, Jun 09, 2026, 5:59 PM UTC

bohdanstefaniuk wrote: post #625

Not too much, speaking of public one which you can try: - https://habitpocket.io/ - habit tracker which allow to track not only habits (done, not done) but also numbers and time of the day on one grid. Also I built an iOS app but it's in Apple Review right now so it should be ready in the week. - https://taskpocket.io/ - todo list, my own interpretation of proper todo list. Right now it's completely free. I would lik…

I've seem frontend being covered by AI more and more, especially in simple display scenarios

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

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Post by gauravvij137 » Tue, Jun 09, 2026, 6:01 PM UTC

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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 ptrmc » Tue, Jun 09, 2026, 6:04 PM UTC

macOS app that auto joins my Zoom meetings. Few hours later I found out I made a mini version of https://meetingbar.app/

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

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Post by Serenacula » Tue, Jun 09, 2026, 6:18 PM UTC

I have a script that takes a prompt for an input, and then builds a new script based on that prompt. Then it'll run a skill to progressively check for and remove bugs.

I used it to make a different script lists all my custom scripts. That keeps track of it. I also have a tool that loads local scripts, so I can scope my CLI commands to a particular folder environment.

All together, I just build whatever I want for anything I think I could automate.

I was gonna make a blogpost about it at some point. It's really highlighted to me that the world has changed in a way I theorised about but didn't true "get" until recently. Personalised software.

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

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Post by aryamaan » Tue, Jun 09, 2026, 6:25 PM UTC

suncemoje wrote: post #614

I lost a camera recently and set up a Claude Cowork daily scheduled task to check if it finds my camera on a few marketplaces - Claude also goes through all the images and checks if it can see the serial number, which is engraved in the body. No luck so far, but we keep trying! It was incredibly easy to set up and uses my Chrome browser so it's logged into most platforms already.

would be a crazy story, if it works out. sorry for your loss

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

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Post by farseek1 » Tue, Jun 09, 2026, 6:34 PM UTC

I built a little web app that just collects job descriptions - currently up to 3m+ live / 15m dead descriptions - I mostly just use it to search to find stuff out - I should probably make they the main feature rather than the matching service idea.

https://farseek.io/

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

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Post by eternityforest » Tue, Jun 09, 2026, 6:38 PM UTC

This inventory tracker app that runs entirely in the browser with yjs, and syncs over peer.js, that I have not been very good about using lately

https://eternityforest.github.io/Stuffer/

Not an app, but a productivity system, partially refined by telling AI every time I forgot anything and asking for research references on human error that are relevant to that specific mistake:

https://github.com/EternityForest/THUNDERWARS

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

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Post by shane-jacobeen » Tue, Jun 09, 2026, 6:41 PM UTC

I built a 3D database schema visualization tool after YEARS of struggling to explain relational DB-related topics to non-technical audiences.

https://schema3d.com/

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

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Post by hackernudes » Tue, Jun 09, 2026, 6:55 PM UTC

rockmeamedee wrote: post #735

https://github.com/amedeedaboville/mish A mosh clone that uses QUIC as the transport layer so it can do both “unreliable datagrams” like UDP and also a TCP-like reliable stream, so it has scrollback buffer. Also QUIC means the crypto is handled for me, no need to trust the LLM to hand roll its own crypto. Cool Rust libraries enable this like alacritty for the terminal, and being able to have russh (rust implementatio…

I have been thinking of this for a few years! Nice, I will check it out.

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

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Post by cmacleod4 » Tue, Jun 09, 2026, 7:06 PM UTC

As another post pointed out, AI as a field of research started about the time I was born (LLMs are another matter of course). So everything I've created has been since that time. Some of my software tools are listed at https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Colin+Macleod - no form of AI was involved in any of them.