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

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

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Post by znq »

http://bugfender.com/ - A remote debugger for iOS and Android apps.

This is one of the internal tools that we built at Mobile Jazz as we always had the problem of being a remote team and therefore physically detached from our clients. Many times they had problems that we couldn't reproduce on our devices. With Bugfender we now can get access to their device's app logs and figure out what's wrong.

From being initially just a clunky internal tool, Bugfender is now a whole platform with a nice admin interface and many filtering and search options. The result is great and we're having quite some success with as not only we, but also the whole mobile developer community really loves it. And that is what makes us proud! :-)

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

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Post by wkoszek »

tomasandrle wrote: post #71

Tiny Player - a music player for iPhone at http://www.catnapgames.com/tiny-player/ (free). Got tired of using iTunes to "sync" mp3s and watching it fail. Took about 2 months' worth of weekends and evenings, now I use it every day.

Really tired of iTunes too. It's tagline should be: "Making simple complex". I'm using OPlayer Lite right now, but may try your app too.

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

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Post by MrOwen »

grzm wrote: post #514
hackforfun wrote: post #513

Obvious throwaway account but 4 years ago went to odesk.com as I had a super simple idea to make an app. I believe spent less than 2 hours paying a developer $50 an hour making the app. Had it up in less than a day. Couple years later the app has made close to a million dollars with me pocketing about 60% of that and the other 40% to the ad company. It's one of my favorite projects because it was so simple and litera…

"Obvious throwaway account" Why use a throwaway account in this instance?

I suspect because of this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12773282

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

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Post by wkoszek »

ThePhysicist wrote: post #289

https://www.quantifiedcode.com It's a hosted code analysis solution for Python. It tracks code quality issues using our own code analyzer. We have developed an AST/flow-graph based code analyzer which allows users to write their own code pattern queries using YAML. BTW I have been working on an OS version for the last four months which I will release soon, if you are interested in helping me please write: andreas@qua…

Are you making any money on it?

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

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Post by nymeria »

Good question-- I'd say Nymeria (https://www.nymeria.io) at the moment, mostly because it's something I took from start to finish (nothing is ever finished), but you probably get the point.

It's easy to be proud of things you take all the way. Congrats to everyone!

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

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Post by hackforfun »

grzm wrote: post #514
hackforfun wrote: post #513

Obvious throwaway account but 4 years ago went to odesk.com as I had a super simple idea to make an app. I believe spent less than 2 hours paying a developer $50 an hour making the app. Had it up in less than a day. Couple years later the app has made close to a million dollars with me pocketing about 60% of that and the other 40% to the ad company. It's one of my favorite projects because it was so simple and litera…

"Obvious throwaway account" Why use a throwaway account in this instance?

Mostly because the app still brings in money. Anybody with a basic understanding of mobile coding could easily duplicate the app in 30 minutes thus streamlining a bunch of competitors I would rather not have.

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

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Post by weaksauce »

lanius wrote: post #488
weaksauce wrote: post #432

Not sure if this warrants inclusion in this list, but I'll share it anyway. I made a simple firefox/chrome extension for people that horde tabs as temp bookmarks. You might find it useful to find tabs and quickly navigate to them by clicking on the link in the list. It's free and open source. The github page has a gif showing usage. You can also type cmd-shift-e or ctrl-shift-e to switch to it. Chrome Extension: http…

Very useful. The only other feature I'd want is the option to display URLs along with the titles.

That could be something I could add. Thanks for the feedback!

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

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Post by fooza »

nodja wrote: post #455

Made a python command line tool that decrypts and dumps assets from an indie video game called awesomenauts. I started knowing next to zero in assembly, reverse engineering and crypto. Took me about two months -spread accross 2 years- of work and learning to do it. The game uses a modified AES crypto, just the key expansion was modified, probably so it can be different enough to not look like AES, but still benefit f…

Can you eloborate on this? Why did you have to use assembly and how did you decrypt it? Hiw did you find the key?
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