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

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Post by Magicstatic »

modoc wrote: post #586
Magicstatic wrote: post #575

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you indeed did build 10minutemail.com - I applaud you. May I ask how much you make (roughly) off of the service? It seems to be the go-to for most temporary email services, at least that I know of.

I did indeed build it:) I find myself somewhat reticent to discuss the details of the finances, but let's say it's a five figure amount annually.

This is incredibly impressive and I just wanted to say I have used your service 100+ times. You have saved me many spam emails, my hat is off to you.

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

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Post by rhizome »

milesokeefe wrote: post #446
mk4p wrote: post #116

https://izuded.com (i.e., "iz u ded?") I made this because I adopted a puppy and realized that, if I got hit by a bus on a Friday, he could be stuck in his crate for days before anyone realized. Morbid, but useful. It texts you every X days and asks, "u ded?" -- if you don't click "naw" before X days pass, it'll notify your contacts. It's a portfolio project to show what I've learned in the realm of "serverless" arch…

After the final one hour warning, it should call you and if you pick up, the alarm cancels. So a final step that's not passive and only requires picking up the phone instead of opening the texting app and clicking a link. Also helps if you're somewhere where you have SMS/calling but no data. Although in that case, being able to reply "I no ded" would be more reliable.

In which case your murderer answers the call.

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

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Post by amjith »

nkantar wrote: post #587
amjith wrote: post #87

Two years ago I created a CLI tool called pgcli ( http://pgcli.com ). A postgres client with auto-completion. It became ridiculously successful. I got a few requests to support mysql. So I launched a kickstarter to write mycli ( http://mycli.net ). This also became quite successful. There is a thriving community of core devs and a ton of users. I'm happy with both creations and made a lot of online friends. These pro…

I can't remember who turned me onto pgcli, but I've been telling everyone I can about it for a long time now. It's wonderful. Thank you!

Thank you for spreading the love. :)

The initial surge of users came from HN when I originally posted it at launch, but since then most of the users were through word of mouth.

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

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Post by dflock »

timpark wrote: post #423

I have a script that gets a bunch of data and emails it to me and some co-workers every day at 7AM. Stuff includes: high temperature/probability of precipitation for the day, bitcoin price, iTunes/Google play sales/rating values, number of "diff" lines in web pages, number of followers on Facebook/Twitter/Google+. The latter isn't entirely a vanity thing... some co-workers manage multiple social media accounts and it…

Neat! IFTTT also does this - you can create whatever events and add and output to a daily/weekly digest email, which is sent at a configurable time, if it has any content.

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

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Post by coherentpony »

ksrm wrote: post #563
cperciva wrote: post #470

Earlier quoted context omitted.

wget -qO shellshare http://get.shellshare.net && python shellshare Please don't tell people to do this. This is an idiom called "curl pipe sh"; you're asking people to run whatever code someone on their network decides to send them. As an absolute minimum, you should change that http to https , so that they're merely running whatever code YOU decide to send them; but even that doesn't quite fit with the "share your t…

What's a better alternative?

Download it, audit the code, and then do python shellshare

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

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Post by sean2 »

wubbfindel wrote: post #140
mk4p wrote: post #116

https://izuded.com (i.e., "iz u ded?") I made this because I adopted a puppy and realized that, if I got hit by a bus on a Friday, he could be stuck in his crate for days before anyone realized. Morbid, but useful. It texts you every X days and asks, "u ded?" -- if you don't click "naw" before X days pass, it'll notify your contacts. It's a portfolio project to show what I've learned in the realm of "serverless" arch…

"im ded :( plz walk doggie" Man, that's not how I would want to find out that a friend or family member has passed away. :-|

I don't know, getting that as a final joke from the right friend or younger family member might be my favorite way to be informed, and then I'd go walk their dog. I'd still be sad, of course, but there's really no good way to be informed of this. In all likely hood, I'd already be informed, and then I'd get this half-assed reminder and be all "oh my god, it's so like them!"

Actually when considering likelihood, they're probably on vacation and forgot to pause the program. A better message might be along the lines of: "Hi this is Sean's personal assistant script: I can't confirm that his puppy has been getting walked would you check into that for me? Spare key is..."

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

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Post by sushimako »

severine wrote: post #83
sushimako wrote: post #64

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Thanks for noticing, should be fixed. (there goes my "zero maintenance"-claim :) )

:) It works now, and looks great! I just tried to share a test note via SMS (with a spanish mobile), still waiting though... Congrats, and keep up the good work!

Thank you! Fixed the sms quirk as well (twilio api key was missing). If you re-invite your phone-# now, the sms should come thru.

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

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Post by jacksonsabey »

I've recently released a beta platform and API for tools for working with links: https://0ut.ca/

There's currently a Link Shortener, UTM Campaign Builder, Parser and Validators for 15+ RFC implementations for different URI components.

I have a lot of continuing work to do, such as better analytics, a user system, and more tools.

I haven't got any feedback yet, I would love to hear just about anything, it would be encouraging. Feedback about my implementations would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

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

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Post by dflock »

ThomasRooney wrote: post #65

I built https://fancyjson.com in a day about 5 months ago. I've used it pretty often since. Its a fancy JSON beautifier. It tries to compact simple objects and spaces all delimiters. It also attempts to align array children. The idea was to produce the most compact, yet still easily readable form of a JSON document. I was creeped out when trying to find something like this online, because there are many which send yo…

Neat! just tried it with this json and it didn't do a great job:

  {
    "name": "vuejs-guide-test-1",
    "version": "0.0.1",
    "description": "My app",
    "author": "Duncan Lock ",
    "private": true,
    "dependencies": {
      "vue": "^2.0.5"
    },
    "devDependencies": {
      "babel-core": "^6.1.2",
      "babel-loader": "^6.1.0",
      "babel-plugin-transform-runtime": "^6.1.2",
      "babel-preset-es2015": "^6.1.2",
      "babel-preset-stage-0": "^6.1.2",
      "babel-runtime": "^6.0.0",
      "webpack": "^1.12.2",
      "webpack-dev-server": "^1.16.2"
    }
  }
this was the result:

  {
  "name": "vuejs-guide-test-1",
   "version": "0.0.1",
   "description": "My app",
   "author": "Duncan Lock ",
   "private": true,
   "dependencies": { "vue": "^2.0.5" },
   "devDependencies": 
   {
   "babel-core": "^6.1.2",
     "babel-loader": "^6.1.0",
     "babel-plugin-transform-runtime": "^6.1.2",
     "babel-preset-es2015": "^6.1.2",
     "babel-preset-stage-0": "^6.1.2",
     "babel-runtime": "^6.0.0",
     "webpack": "^1.12.2",
     "webpack-dev-server": "^1.16.2"
   }
  }
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