It's been a while since the last thread, and I am a curious bee.
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#2A hand written LAMP webapp to replace an MS Access application at work. Only needs to run locally.
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#3https://www.useorganizer.com/ helps you organize stuff primarily but can also double as photo album and private log. Open source and local storage. Not so much working on. It is complete and does what I wanted it to.
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#4https://prismstudio.dev. A GitHub and GitLab PR inbox and review UI. Built it to help me tame GitHub notification fatigue and see which PRs really need my attention.
Next I’m working on making reviewing large AI-generated PRs easier, but haven’t gotten there yet.
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#5https://motionparty.net/ - motion controlled web games, by analyzing the Webcam feed locally. In the vein of eye toys for ps2. Works quite well I think, but some elements need improvement. Want to add more games as well.
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#6https://grugnotes.com same thing for almost 4 years, a dead simple notes app and ai multitool
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#7https://motionparty.net/ - motion controlled web games, by analyzing the Webcam feed locally. In the vein of eye toys for ps2. Works quite well I think, but some elements need improvement. Want to add more games as well.
I think this could have great success. I would easily pay for something like this to play with my kid without Nintendo Whatever.
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#8A rental managment system for university workshops that rent out equipment. Since I have been doing this for 5 years I know all the realworld edge cases and what I have is already better than most competitors.
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#9I’ve been working on a bottom-to-top rewrite of an app that’s been shipping for the last couple of years. The initial version took over two years to write.
It’s coming along great. I’ve only been working on it since February, and it’s very complete, functionally. I’ve been using an LLM, extensively.
The original server took over seven months to write, but with the LLM, I had it done in about a month. The PHP code is great quality.
It’s not all bunnies and flowers, though. I’m spending the next few days, rewriting a Swift viewcontroller that the LLM wrote. It works, but the code is awful. It looks like it was written by a jargon-addled high schooler on Adderall. I just can’t bear to have that level of junk in my app. I asked it to refactor the code to improve the quality, and reduce the size, and it removed all the documentation and logging; leaving the thread- and delay-riddled garbage behind.
If someone that worked for me had done that, I would have evicted them, with a trebuchet.
I realized that I can't count on the LLM to help me maintain its mess, so I'd better just suck it up, and do it myself.
The good news is, is that I’m so far ahead of schedule (a position that I’ve never been in, in forty years of development), that I can afford to do this.
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#10https://merrilin.ai, the best damned reading app for every platform with an AI chat that's spoiler safe by design. BYOB - bring your own books.