I created gpxif [1] to update time and location data on image files from my camera.
With this tool I can keep the camera in UTC and use gpx data from Garmin or OwnTracks to tag photos with the correct location and offset time.
Ask HN: What are your “scratch own itch” projects?
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Re: Ask HN: What are your “scratch own itch” projects?
#132As someone who struggled with their weight their entire life, and who found that all the existing apps triggered black and white thinking, I made a calorie tracking app called Clean Slate. It is designed to be as simple as possible, to treat every day as a new day, to encourage self-compassion, and so on. It was really fun to make and I still use it! https://cleanslate.sh/
really nice. Looks like you learned a lot while making this?
Re: Ask HN: What are your “scratch own itch” projects?
#133I've had a few side projects that all served the purpose of letting me work on something interesting that I wished existed.
1. Making a SaaS out of open-source text search for searching source code because github text search was/is so bad. I went further with this any anything else, but even when I had payments and automatic processing of account activation and self-serve config, I didn't feel like putting any more effort into marketing/sales.
2. https://hackerer.news view (in Vue) for HN that doesn't mix new items with yesterday's popular items, and separates popular topics (e.g. twittter) from interesting niche ones.
3. Java library for bottom-up SQL query composition with type safety rather than left-to-right like Rails'.
4. And related to that a Collections like library that uniformly handles multi-, async-, error-, values. The pair of these was to make all queries handle the many case by default so there's never any N+1 inefficient queries written.
There was another few attempts at indexing old and new movies and shows to help discover things I'd like to watch. It used IMDB + OMDB data as well as other sources for newly available title listings. [Netflix used to work when they used star ratings and had a deeper catalog or recommending titles that weren't just popular even if I'd already watched them.] I was planning on connecting the listing to legal ways of watching them on various streaming sites as the fragmentation is the most frustrating thing. It was (at the time) not at all easy to find how to deep link to many of these and I stopped developing it.
Re: Ask HN: What are your “scratch own itch” projects?
#134A few years ago I discovered Anki (a spaced repetition app) for helping me learn Japanese. I immediately recognized the power of spaced repetition, but really did not like using Anki (it's pretty clunky and requires a lot of configuration to work right). I started building my own alternative, Mochi [0], which I wanted to kind of be a cross between Anki and Notion. I'm pretty happy with where it's at now and I've been…
I'm a paid subscriber. Thanks so much for making this!
I've used Anki extensively in the past but had the same issues with it's clunkiness with edits and tagging, etc.
Mochi is a serious killer app for me, since I use it daily to remember everything that's important to me.
Re: Ask HN: What are your “scratch own itch” projects?
#135My washing machine stopped beeping when it was finished. I realised I could program an ESP32 with an accelerometer which detects when the washing machine was on, then wait a bit before waking up and sending a notification to my phone. I wrote up my process here but since then I've made some improvements so that logic for the trigger for detecting when the machine is on actually happens on the accelerometer itself. I…
the blynk api push notification link is broken, did you install some app in your phone?
Re: Ask HN: What are your “scratch own itch” projects?
#136As someone who struggled with their weight their entire life, and who found that all the existing apps triggered black and white thinking, I made a calorie tracking app called Clean Slate. It is designed to be as simple as possible, to treat every day as a new day, to encourage self-compassion, and so on. It was really fun to make and I still use it! https://cleanslate.sh/
really nice. Looks like you learned a lot while making this?
Yup! I consider it my journeyman project, so to speak. Definitely elevated my front end game for sure :)
Re: Ask HN: What are your “scratch own itch” projects?
#137My email forwarding[1] is the one I most proud of. As every engineer, I had a bunch of side projects with many domains, anytime it comes up I have to do the dance of setting up email. I tried use some existing email forwarding service but always something come up. I decided to roll my own and eventually start a SaaS. The second ons is my newsletter[2], it runs on my custom static site generator. It use mailchimp to s…
This is great - just signed up :)
Re: Ask HN: What are your “scratch own itch” projects?
#138You asked for it: https://htmx.org https://hyperscript.org I hated angular when it first came out and couldn't believe what insanity people were willing to put up with, so long as it came from google. (e.g. GWT) I created https://intercoolerjs.org out of frustration with that, and the lack of progress in HTML/hypermedia in general, so I could build a web application I was working on ( https://leaddyno.com , since sol…
Enjoyed your grug brain site immensely the other day!
Re: Ask HN: What are your “scratch own itch” projects?
#139A few years ago I discovered Anki (a spaced repetition app) for helping me learn Japanese. I immediately recognized the power of spaced repetition, but really did not like using Anki (it's pretty clunky and requires a lot of configuration to work right). I started building my own alternative, Mochi [0], which I wanted to kind of be a cross between Anki and Notion. I'm pretty happy with where it's at now and I've been…
How does it save the data locally? Sqlite?
Re: Ask HN: What are your “scratch own itch” projects?
#140You asked for it: https://htmx.org https://hyperscript.org I hated angular when it first came out and couldn't believe what insanity people were willing to put up with, so long as it came from google. (e.g. GWT) I created https://intercoolerjs.org out of frustration with that, and the lack of progress in HTML/hypermedia in general, so I could build a web application I was working on ( https://leaddyno.com , since sol…
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