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

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

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I'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…

"bringing the gap" -> bridging, right?

Yes, typing on mobile - ty!

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

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I wrote a pen-plotter GUI and gcode sender in Rust. By hand. Like an animal.

I am the only user. Sometimes it's the process that matters, and exercising your brain is important too. I get that there is a lot of existential dread around AI taking our jerbs, and excluding humans from the process of creative work, but... you can still just write code, just for the personal satisfaction.

https://github.com/armyofevilrobots/bap-egui

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

#154
post #107

I'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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This sounds interesting I haven't heard of that until now - thanks for the suggestion!

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

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HN Chrome Extension for dark mode and a few other styling tweaks I wanted.

Jira Chrome Extension to add some notes and links to dashboard pages that I wanted for ease of use.

Small application which takes a CSV and turns it into a Registered Server List for SSMS in order to keep my list of servers updated for queries across all our databases.

Honestly one of the good use cases for AI. Small low complexity scripts and tools for assistance is a great use case. I'm amazed at the folks that are doing huge monolith rewrites with Agents and such, but I've never had good results for that. Small time saving scripts gets me a much more direct return on investment.

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

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I’m a UK teacher. I have built a custom GPT that marks essays for the subject I teach in a repeatable and reliable way. It gives actionable feedback to students. I use it, and have given my students access to it too - they use it to help their revision.

Students use AI to write essays and teachers use it to grade. What a wonderful system
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