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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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Post by derwiki »

melvinroest wrote: post #48

A voice memo app, quite like the actual voice memo app from Apple. The thing is: now I can put my voice memo's on iCloud put Claude Code on it and make my transcripts into structured notes that my app then also displays. So basically a way to just go on an hour long walk with myself, spit everything from the top of my dome stream of consciousness style, and then have Claude structure whatever I said. It's nice to hav…

I love it!

But I have to ask: why not just advanced voice mode in ChatGPT or Claude?

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Post by deadbabe »

thenthenthen wrote: post #251
deadbabe wrote: post #207

Has anyone used AI to manufacture entire physical gadgets of some sort?

Came here looking for some examples, i tried some pcb routing, its horrendous. But you inspired me to maybe just run with it? Like design a alarm clock and see what abomination ‘it’ will come up with and just run with it/produce it anyway? Would be fun!

Yea only a matter of time before it’s really really good at PCB routing

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Post by chunpaiyang »

https://termonmac.com/ A relay terminal that lets you connect back to your Mac from your iOS device. I spent about 2 months building TermOnMac.

I am going to develop the next version TermOnHost, which will let you connect to all kinds of hosts (Mac, Windows, Linux, or any Linux embedded system) And your hosts can connect to each other.

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Post by cdnsteve »

1. Built an agent memory tool since all agents and clis are dumb and don't remember anything. Instead of prepping 300 project files and Md files I just say:

Check sugar memory for the latest thing we were working on.

2. The second thing is when making changes across a large codebase agents are also dumb at figuring this out and also grep 300 things, using tons of tokens. Instead I say

Check RemembrallMCP to analyze the impact of the change.

1. https://github.com/roboticforce/sugar

2. https://github.com/roboticforce/remembrallmcp

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Post by jkubicek »

I started a new job that requires a much more locked-down laptop than I'm used to. No macOS App Store, no random 3rd party apps. I miss a lot of the convince apps I used to use HOWEVER we have unlimited access to Claude CLI. I've been able to mostly one-shot working replacements for Alfred and a meeting reminder app called `In Your Face`.

My own Alfred replacement is actually better for me, it's tailored to exactly how I want to use an app launcher / shortcut tool.

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

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Post by jasondigitized »

jkubicek wrote: post #325

I started a new job that requires a much more locked-down laptop than I'm used to. No macOS App Store, no random 3rd party apps. I miss a lot of the convince apps I used to use HOWEVER we have unlimited access to Claude CLI. I've been able to mostly one-shot working replacements for Alfred and a meeting reminder app called `In Your Face`. My own Alfred replacement is actually better for me, it's tailored to exactly h…

What type of Alfred functionality did you use. I entertained doing the same thing.

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Post by zcfan »

I made a home assistant esp32 device to toggle the light switch for me. Codex done all the software stuffs, I just plug it into mac, let codex "this is a esp32, this is how i connect it with a motor, make it xxx". And it works exactly as I want after 15 minutes.

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Post by alsetmusic »

Balgair wrote: post #198

It's dumb, but.... I made a scraper that searches through all the news and finds anything 'war' related. It then summarizes it and give me that new in the Star Wars crawl with music.

This might be the best thing I've read about in quite a while. I'm extremely impressed with the quality of the concept. Well done.

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Post by lockyc »

A tmux config to handle my project based agent workflow

> agentmux

> Configurable tmux agent launcher. Define AI agents (or any CLI) in TOML; sessions auto-launch the correct agent, tabs are colour-coded per agent, and prefix m cycles through the list.

https://github.com/lockyc/agentmux

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