Ask HN: What are your “scratch own itch” projects?

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Wishy.gift

#Holidays #Wishlists #Personalized Gifting 4 social mentions

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Mochi

A few years ago I discovered Anki (a spaced repetition app) for helping me learn Japanese. I immediately recognized the power of spaced repetition, but really did not like using Anki (it's pretty clunky and requires a lot of configuration to work right). I started building my own alternative, Mochi [0], which I wanted to kind of be a cross between Anki and Notion. I'm pretty happy with where it's at now and I've been using it almost daily ever since. [0] https://mochi.cards/.

#Studying #Education #Flash Cards 48 social mentions

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Trilium Notes

It's a boring story. I tried to organize my notes/data/knowledge using existing apps, but none of them fit my needs, so I built an app which does fit my needs: https://github.com/zadam/trilium/.

#Note Taking #Notes #Personal Notes 113 social mentions

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LeadDyno

You asked for it: https://htmx.org https://hyperscript.org I hated angular when it first came out and couldn't believe what insanity people were willing to come up with, so long as it came from google. (e.g. GWT) I created https://intercoolerjs.org out of frustration with that, and the lack of progress in HTML/hypermedia in general, so I could build a web application I was working on (https://leaddyno.com, since sold). When covid hit I took a look back at intercooler and decided that it was really two things: HTML++ and a scripting language, so I split it up into htmx, focused just on the hypermedia angle, and hyperscript, the scripting language I wanted for the web (derived from HyperTalk, and old scripting language from HyperCard on the mac). I know use them both professionally (email me if you want to use them too.).

#Affiliate Marketing #Advertising #Marketing Platform 1 social mentions

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intercooler.js

You asked for it: https://htmx.org https://hyperscript.org I hated angular when it first came out and couldn't believe what insanity people were willing to come up with, so long as it came from google. (e.g. GWT) I created https://intercoolerjs.org out of frustration with that, and the lack of progress in HTML/hypermedia in general, so I could build a web application I was working on (https://leaddyno.com, since sold). When covid hit I took a look back at intercooler and decided that it was really two things: HTML++ and a scripting language, so I split it up into htmx, focused just on the hypermedia angle, and hyperscript, the scripting language I wanted for the web (derived from HyperTalk, and old scripting language from HyperCard on the mac). I know use them both professionally (email me if you want to use them too.).

#Javascript UI Libraries #JS Library #Task Management 8 social mentions

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Choose My Smoothie

This is on a <i>significantly</i> smaller scale than most of the comments here, but I was exhausted of having to go through endless essays on smoothies before actually arriving at the recipe/ingredients - so when the lockdown first hit, I spent a few days working on https://choosemysmoothie.com. I don't (and didn't at the time) know how to web scrape, so I manually scoured tons of websites to manually write down ingredients and recipes. It was fun to do, specially since it's been on the back of my mind for a long long time.

#Groceries #Business & Commerce #Grocery Delivery 1 social mentions

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Gifmemes

Https://gifmemes.io Started as a side project to help me make gif memes, turned it into a bachelor's thesis project and made over 2.5k USD in watermark removal purchases.

#App #Meme #Tool 30 social mentions

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PDF24 - Online PDF Tools

I've been using https://tools.pdf24.org/en/ for a while now, pretty good offering there.

#PDF Tools #PDF Creator #PDF Editor 4 social mentions

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40 Hadiths

I build a quick and dirty blazor app to help me doing RSI prevention exercises https://rsistretching.netlify.app/ than I published it also as an android app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.mauriziopz.rsistretching.app.

#Mobile Apps #Religion #Web Search 1192 social mentions

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Pushover

My latest version uses a Telegram bot but a better solution would probably be to use Pushover or the newly released Ntfy.sh https://pushover.net/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33517944.

#Push Notifications #Web Push Notifications #API 96 social mentions