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Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
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#112Built a tool to help design cs/science inspired jewelry in CAD. I wrote a DSL to describe the jewelry, and had an LLM write the interpreter to generate a CAD file using cadquery (note to self: LLM suck at 3d reasoning). I would not have had the time to do this without AI.
Also used AI to design an online store (I'm not a front end dev). It's amazing to see my wife (non-technical background) tweak the web-site using claude code.
End result: an online store where we sell jewelry pieces that actually are lambda-diagrams (Tromp diagrams) that compute Graham's number, or of the Y-combinator (well, technically it's just a fixed point operator, one beta reduction away from the Y-combinator. But Y-combinator was not aesthetically pleasing from a jewelry point of view)
store: Built a tool to help design cs/science inspired jewelry in CAD. I wrote a DSL to describe the jewelry, and had an LLM write the interpreter to generate a CAD file using cadquery (note to self: LLM suck at 3d reasoning). I would not have had the time to do this without AI.
Also used AI to design an online store (I'm not a front end dev). It's amazing to see my wife (non-technical background) tweak the web-site using claude code.
End result: an online store where we sell jewelry pieces that actually are lambda-diagrams (Tromp diagrams) that compute Graham's number, or of the Y-combinator (well, technically it's just a fixed point operator, one beta reduction away from the Y-combinator. But Y-combinator was not aesthetically pleasing from a jewelry point of view)
store: https://studio-galois.com
Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
#113I've been building a tool aimed at better web annotations for teams and AI collaboration at https://viewall.io/ Having worked with web facing teams there are always vastly different methods any individual uses to capture their feedback. If you or anyone you know on Mac that has 100s of screenshots on their desktop, this is aimed at bridging the gap. Clipboards are optimized with context for LLM markdown ingestion and…
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Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
#114- app to help buy/find books for my wife
- app to help manage my climbing wall
- app to help finding good films/series
- app to track weight
- app to manage my board games and find the right ones to play
- app for planning wood builds (e.g. climbing volumes)
- telegram bots for:
- picking restaurants for weekly lunch with friends
- managing our 5-a-side football games, make teams, elo ladder
- fantasy football leagues
Among many others
Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
#115In 2023 I wrote from scratch a iOS native app using SwiftUI. This year I used AI extensively to improve and add many features to it in a span of couple months. The app is free and there are at least 2 users of the app - myself and one complete stranger (not a family or a friend) that is using this app.
Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
#116Some free side-loadable android apps: http://badcheese.com/android * Auto-Birthday - if you have a contact in your android contacts that has both a mobile number and a birthday in their contact info, you can choose to send them an automatic "Happy Birthday" message on their birthday at a specific time. Can do it with hundreds of contacts. Doesn't use hardly any battery or resources. * Wrecker - stupid simple "throw a…
> you can choose to send them an automatic "Happy Birthday" message on their birthday at a specific time. Nothing says “AI enthusiast” more than automating away social interaction.
Nothing says "I don't care about neurodivergence" more than someone complaining when I build tools and processes to help me interact with the world better.
Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
#117Built a tool to help design cs/science inspired jewelry in CAD. I wrote a DSL to describe the jewelry, and had an LLM write the interpreter to generate a CAD file using cadquery (note to self: LLM suck at 3d reasoning). I would not have had the time to do this without AI. Also used AI to design an online store (I'm not a front end dev). It's amazing to see my wife (non-technical background) tweak the web-site using c…
> note to self: LLM suck at 3d reasoning
one trick on 3d reasoning: get it to draw all the different orientations, and you pick which one to use
it save a lot of time vs trying to tell it to rotate around Y and it actually rotates around X
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#118- a personal and private webpage for:
health: garmin metrics, apple health metrics, blood tests, rx..
- a kind of readitlater and bookmark index
- personal finance: wip
- in my homelab only available within tailscale.
The final idea is to own all my data, but I’m still on it.
Pretty happy so far
Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
#119i made a tool thats a combination of 2.5d cad and smart stylus for making things i can print for leather making, with embroidery patterns on top.
ive made some wallets, a incredible pair of ear muffs, and a bunch of key tags.
i keep being asked if im selling anything, and when i get the next piece together of building/buying an embroidery machine that can work on leather, i might
i still dont want to buy a proper fabric cad system, so im trying to figure out a minimal version for making glasses cases for everyone's christmas gifts. its handy being able to draw inputs for claude, but its also nails-on-a-chalkboard
Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
#120Too many to mention. Daily drivers: replacements for CapCut, Granola.
A remote image viewer to see screenshots in VMs.
A simple agent harness to drive spec to verification.
A YouTube video summarizer.
https://github.com/ozten - some public repos, but the majority are private repos