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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 xigoi »

wewewedxfgdf wrote: post #77
xigoi wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> you can choose to send them an automatic "Happy Birthday" message on their birthday at a specific time. Nothing says “AI enthusiast” more than automating away social interaction.

Haha yes. It probably should message YOU rather than the person who's birthday it is, so you can send something personal. Also coming up, automated wedding/funeral attendance by your personal humanoid robot designed to look and sound like you.

> It probably should message YOU rather than the person who's birthday it is, so you can send something personal.

We already have that. It’s called a calendar app.

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

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Post by keithnz »

I wrote a tui sql client to replace DataGrip (which is really slow). https://github.com/keithn/sql It's quite customized to what I wanted, I haven't really checked it works with other things.... only thing is, I don't really use it much anymore, I just get claude to do all my querying.

Most of the tools I write now are bridges to various SaaS products that have APIs but no CLIs.

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

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Post by codingdave »

I've made a number of ceramic molds for slumping fused glass into bowls. As well as wooden templates for ceramic mugs. I've devised a few carrying tools to move glass frit paintings from my studio down to my barn where the kilns sit without spilling the glass.

Or were you only asking about digital tools? I haven't really made any of those. Making physical tools feels much more satisfying these days.

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

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Post by farbklang »

It evolved out of some weird interaction someone was smartassing me that the moon wasn't full when I was pointing to how pretty the full moon was. After that, between a friend and myself, it became a bit of a running gag how full (or not full) the moon actually was. This was my first real project I kind of "vibe coded": https://moon.masca.teide.cloud/ - showing you how full the moon is to the 10th decimal

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

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Post by Modecir »

Started making Agentikus as a way to manage my -back in the day- multiple OpenClaws. Soon enough realized that many will have the same problem soon. And started adding features that I was missing on Codex and C. Code. It’s a fun ride.

Side note: before coding agents I would not get passed the branding and login page.

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

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Post by pedrogpimenta »

Leftium wrote: post #66

- app logo/favicon generator: https://logo.leftium.com/logo - classless CSS library: https://leftium.github.io/nimble.css - HN client: https://hn.leftium.com - local realtime streaming transcription prototype: https://rift-transcription.vercel.app --- These projects were started without AI, but heavily augmented with coding agents: - https://weather-sense.leftium.com - console.log replacement: https://github.com/Left…

Hey, I like weather sense! Mind if I use it? :)

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

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Post by digitaltrees »

www.propelcode.app - cursor on my phone. www.propelagent.app - voice agent for my home health care agency, but it also tells bed time stories to me and my daughter a few times a month.

I also built a new web framework we use internally which is amazing. We might open source it soon. It has a postman clone that has a bunch of features I wanted. It really is the case that we can just build tools any time we want.

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Post by sevennull »

replaced some paid apps with local - google reader rss replacement and send web to kindle.

most ambitious was browser extension to automate booking reservations since captcha and timing were critical.

swamp/evaporative cooler controller that monitors rate of change of relative humidity and sends RF signal to cooler to turn water on for x seconds to keep humidity lower than just leaving set to cool all the time. Does a great job but need to work on edge cases and ultimately replacing remote with my controller.

financial models for retirement planning

pen plotter gcode creator for old 3d printer to make labels.

food monitor to track what i ate with AI analysis based on symptoms recorded as well as interactive follow up questions

inventory app for electronic parts that now is inventory for all kinds of stuff like tools/plumbing etc that uses photo/ai to fill in data.

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

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Post by d0ublespeak »

Heaps, most recent is just a little applet that stops my Mac from going to sleep with the lid closed: https://transitivedev.gumroad.com/l/doppio-app

Bunch of security tools: Some are at https://diffsec.dev others:

https://github.com/diffsec/quokka

https://github.com/ihavespoons/hooksy

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