I'm thinking of tiny projects along the lines of single-function tools like domainr. But also game-changing ebooks, newsletters, courses.
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#2Locateonspot is an simple app to find family and car you can take it up as simple product
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#3There are several.
* cfgen, a config files generator that is fed with config templates and parameters to fill them
* CronBuilder, to pull a repository, run building command, and save the results in another repository
* flowmon, which shows bandwith usage of different streams, each defined by BPF filter (a.k.a. "tcpdump syntax")
* sftponly, a shell for jailing in chroot accounts meant for data transfer only (for scp, sFTP, and rsync)
* xmlrpcd and its spiritual successor HarpCaller, RPC daemons for sysadmins
* logdevourer, log parsing daemon
These are just the public ones, the ones that were generic enough to be open sourced. I have few others that are/were too specific to the environment they were written for.
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#4A simple electron based font/glyph viewer.
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#5https://typed.pw - Simple way to write online.
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#6In 1997, I wrote MailSend, a commercial command-line SMTP emailer for Windows. It is now free to use, open-source software.
http://www.mailsend-online.com/blog/mailsend-is-free.html
There were (and are still) a number of other similar programs with the same name.
It was my first experience in working with users world-wide, conversing with them both electronically and through postal mail.
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#7I'm not sure whether "proud" is the right adjective, but that batch file I wrote when I was 12 or 13 which moves all images from the Desktop into a folder called "images" has been the single most useful thing I've ever written.
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#8I spent way too much time on a tiny menulet that just switches Mac audio from stereo to mono.
http://charlesism.com/monomenulet.html
It's simple, but I think I think I made it nice to use. A couple minor details I added: you can change its keyboard shortcut directly from the menubar, and it flashes the keyboard backlight to get your attention.
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#10A tool to make JS bookmarklets:
I created this years ago because I wanted a quick way to create bookmarklets. Since putting it online I have had good months in terms of visitors (1000+) and worse (50), but I am still very happy that people keep coming to bookmarkify to create helpful bookmarklets for themselves and others.
By now it has been around longer than 4 years, despite what the banner says.