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Ask HN: Single-person creations that have stood the test of time?
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#12SpinRite - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpinRite
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#13TAOCP by Donald Knuth
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#14Redis
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#15ffmpeg and qemu
Both by Fabrice Bellard, whose website:
is a list of projects where any one item - even the small ones, much less ffmpeg and qemu - would be at the top of anyone else's resume....quite impressive!
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#16As you named a game Stardew Valley was my first idea.
But a lot of essential tech tools, apps and libraries, are mostly one man creation (fitting in https://xkcd.com/2347/).
I think that calibre, keepassx (no longer maintained, but living as keepassxc) and curl are some examples.
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#17The paperclip? That seemed to be multiple 'single person' inventors, however.
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#18emacs, a lot of art including books, film, wheel, fire, some programming languages (C, Perl, Python)
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#19SQLite by D. Richard Hipp
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#20- PuTTY (Simon Tatham)
- Bitcoin (Satoshi Nakamoto, if he's a single person)
- mIRC (Khaled Mardam-Bey)