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Re: Ask HN: Have you created programs for only your personal use?

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Post by sbehere »

I have created a personal finance tool that Works-For-Me and requires no sharing of login credentials with third parties.

Something that scrapes financial transactions from bank and credit-card accounts in a fully automated way where possible, and semi-automated way where necessary, dumps those transactions into a database, automatically categorizes them, and creates dashboards for commonly used views and analyses.

I've blogged a bit about it here: https://sagar.se/blog/where-is-the-money/

Re: Ask HN: Have you created programs for only your personal use?

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Post by soren1 »

I've been liberally trading cryptocurrencies for the past several years and ended up with a bit of tax nightmare, with thousands of trades across many exchanges. I found my self with little choice but to write my own capital gains calculator. At the time I needed it, I couldn't find a suitable open source solution, and I have privacy concerns about paid services. It's no longer just for "personal use", as I've recently published it on GH https://github.com/dleber/capitalg

Re: Ask HN: Have you created programs for only your personal use?

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Post by weakty »

I'm always excited at the prospect of building new or better tools that help me learn the way I want to learn. It's the best low-stakes way for me to learn - especially if I'm not being challenge by work or am just curious about how a programming language works or other set of tools.

My latest is a language learning application to help practice reading comprehension and vocabulary development. [1]

[1] https://github.com/theiceshelf/trunk

Re: Ask HN: Have you created programs for only your personal use?

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Post by parentheses »

So many, I've lost count. Many are private or work-related, but these are the public ones:

https://github.com/bigH/git-fuzzy

https://github.com/bigH/auto-sized-fzf

https://github.com/bigH/interactively

https://github.com/bigH/dotfiles/tree/master/bin

https://github.com/bigH/dotfiles/blob/master/aliases/git.sh

https://github.com/bigH/dotfiles/blob/master/aliases/kubectl...

https://github.com/bigH/dotfiles/blob/master/functions/fzf.s...

https://github.com/bigH/dotfiles/blob/master/functions/core....

So much shell scripting and use of `fzf`. I make things I enjoy and will be happy using and since I spend a lot of time in the terminal, it makes sense to make things like this for me.

Re: Ask HN: Have you created programs for only your personal use?

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Post by sangupta »

asdff wrote: post #52
sangupta wrote: post #9

A simple server to send notifications to my phone, and an app to view/receive. Now setting up alerts anywhere is super easy.

How did you go about rolling your own? I've used discord webhooks for this.

A simple HTML app packaged via Phonegap for mobile. Server uses Google sign-in and rejects any sign-in apart from mine. Has a URL to generate an OTP token that allows connecting a mobile second in next 60 seconds. Once connected saves the device token in a free-mLabs DB (encrypted). Similarly, generate a webhooks URL for each service and wire. Hosted for free on Heroku!

Re: Ask HN: Have you created programs for only your personal use?

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Post by miketery »

ashilfarahmand wrote: post #85

Market Alerter - I created an app that alerts\emails you if your chosen stock meets some condition. There are many other sites that already do this. However, I wanted it to be able to expressions of one or more stocks. For example, if you want to monitor West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude price or Brent crude price, you can do it easily. If you want to monitor the crack spread (WTI - Brent), existing solutions are l…

That's neat! Did you use paid APIs or free yahoo ones? Are you sharing code?

Re: Ask HN: Have you created programs for only your personal use?

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Post by parentheses »

LeoPanthera wrote: post #87

Hundreds! Doesn't everyone? Most of them are just bash scripts, many of which have now reached a complexity so high that I wish I'd started writing them in a different language but it's too late now. The majority of the rest are Python. Off the top of my head, the most used ones are: * A replacement front-end for "tar" and various compressors * A script to synchronize my music library to a compressed version for play…

Links, please.

Re: Ask HN: Have you created programs for only your personal use?

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Post by edpenz »

LeoPanthera wrote: post #87

Hundreds! Doesn't everyone? Most of them are just bash scripts, many of which have now reached a complexity so high that I wish I'd started writing them in a different language but it's too late now. The majority of the rest are Python. Off the top of my head, the most used ones are: * A replacement front-end for "tar" and various compressors * A script to synchronize my music library to a compressed version for play…

> A secure-but-readable password generator

I love pronounceable passwords, but there's research indicating that such generators typically produce lower than expected entropy. Do you mind sharing what algorithm you use?

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