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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 stopped paying for Wyze subscription after replacing the camera backend service. Saving me about $30/m and a much finer tuned OpenCV to Claude API vision model.

What were you getting for $30/month from Wyze? We have a package that is a flat $99 per year for a dozen cameras (plus however many more we want to add for no additional cost), unlimited recording, etc.

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

#85
I am building my self-hosting llm-wiki system (https://gist.github.com/karpathy/442a6bf555914893e9891c11519...). My approach is to start with a theory of how such systems could work. Then since llms can interpret theory - this theory becomes an executable llm-wiki system itself.

It's called Commonplace: https://zby.github.io/commonplace/

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

#86
Starting making hyprwhspr because no other stt library was quite there for performance and model availability.

After that I started writing opub.dev because even minimal success in recent oss showed me just how much has changed, and I’m worried about how expensive everything will get for maintainers.

So, now I’m trying to GIVE people compute so they can start building a helpful filter layer above their projects.

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

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Dictation tool which works better than the built-in Apple functionality, for my use cases.

Bc my version uses simple copy/paste rather than deeper OS integration, it works more reliably in the Claude Code terminal (has to do with active windows or cursors or something). And bc it uses local Whisper, I also find it transcribes technical words such as “git” more accurately.

Nothing technically challenging but practical for me.

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

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A few things:

Reminder.dev - Quran app and API that includes RAG search to provide a more authenticated source of summarisation. The first thing I dabbled in with AI.

Micro.mu - Rebuilt my entire product idea from 10 years ago as a super app for daily digital habits. Something I use everyday for myself.

Aslam.org - An islamic knowledge base that uses sources of data as a way to ground AI chat and make notes. Very useful tool that I'm using on a daily basis.

Go-micro.dev - Totally revamped the open source project, docs, etc with Claude.

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