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Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

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Post by 0x1d »

https://instafavicon.com/

I created this favicon generator a few weeks ago to generate minimal favicons for my side projects. I'm not good with design tools so it saves me time when I start a new project and want a simple favicon in ICO format.

I'm proud of it because it's server-less. I generate the multi-BMP ICO file in binary using ArrayBuffers and Typed Arrays in JavaScript. I use a element to create the images/design.

It's not very polished and I'm sure there are bugs, but feedback would be appreciated!

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Post by jaimefjorge »

https://www.codacy.com

I've made this because all the companies that my co-founder and I met had scripts glued together in build tools to get code metrics and static analysis.

We ended up discovering a significant amount of people and companies interested in having a nice product constantly running code analysis and linked to Github.

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Post by augustflanagan »

josho wrote: post #173
augustflanagan wrote: post #113

I built https://cronitor.io after having an important cron job fail silently for several days. When I mentioned this problem to a friend his first response was "we just had a major issue with cron failing silently at my work too". We decided to hack on it together, and we've since grown Cronitor from a tool built for our own needs into a small business with a couple hundred paying customers.

As someone about to write a cron job, what ways do you see Cron fail? My assumption is that cron is robust and reliable, it's the job script itself that may fail silently and need monitoring, yes?

Yeah, I'd say your assumption is correct. However, other common ways that I've seen cron "fail" is for the cron entry to being installed in the wrong user's crontab, the permissions on a script changing such that it can't be executed, temporarily disabling or removing a cron job and forgetting to re-enable it, etc.

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Post by timvdalen »

tsumnia wrote: post #219

Not as fancy as many of those posted by: http://landmark-tool.herokuapp.com/ When I was researching face recognition, I absolutely hated the labeling system that we were given, and couldn't really find anything better (mind you, this was about 6 years ago). So I started building Landmarker. It let you plot points, identify segments, zoom and rotate. It never served any real purpose besides the few times I've wanted t…

How does it work? What does it do?

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Post by accnt »

http://antigen.sharats.me

I'm not the original creator but currently maintaining Antigen: A plugin manager for zsh, inspired by oh-my-zsh and vundle.

Back in the days I made and found quite useful Dumpr: Command line download tool written in bash. https://github.com/desyncr/dumpr

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Post by lucb1e »

nl5887 wrote: post #79

https://transfer.sh which I built because I needed it myself, now being used by hundred thousands of people a month and http://slackarchive.io used by 500 slack teams.

Not sure the code is production ready, but similarly, dro.pm is a small thingy that has a command line option to share files. The links expire automatically so there's no abuse headache and it allows links to be single characters most of the time (eg. dro.pm/v).

You can even edit links afterwards, for example to remove content you know the other person already opened.

Additionally to files, it also dupes as a URL shortener and as pastebin if you paste text.

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Post by Kerrick »

Very niche, but I'm very proud of having made this: http://kerrick.github.io/mtg-tools/#/playtest-cards

It allows people to create playtest cards for a strategy card game, so people can test out decks before purchasing cards to play with in a tournament.

I made it because my wife is a Twitch streamer, and she needed a way for the card name to be visible even though the usual printed size is quite small. It ends up looking like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lCQFI9nthE

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Post by JangoSteve »

vram22 wrote: post #214
JangoSteve wrote: post #97

The simplest one that I also use the most is start.sh: https://github.com/JangoSteve/start I've been using it for 3 years now, but keep forgetting to tell anyone about it. It's a simple bash script that detects what kind of project your current directory is and runs the appropriate command to start the development server. I created it, because I found myself constantly switching between projects of different types, a…

Innovative idea ...

Thanks!
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