Ask HN: Have you created programs for only your personal use?

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Hasura

#GraphQL #Realtime Backend / API #API Tools 117 social mentions

Yes. Typely [1]. Made it to aid in writing better articles for myself and some employees at the time. Decided to put it up there after a while and is now being used in many schools around the world. [1] https://typely.com.

#Proofreading #Writing Tools #Markdown Editor 2 social mentions

3

Nitter

#Social Network #Social Networks #Decentralized Social Network 300 social mentions

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Lazy Day

Yes I created http://lazyday.tv to help me find and track things to watch. Ive been making use of it for several years now and it’s available to the general public for free. No sign ups required. No ads displayed.

#Video & Movies #Entertainment #Watch Movies Online 1 social mentions

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Tiny Tiny RSS

Tons and tons of them over the years. I wish I'd kept better track of them because I've caught myself reinventing the wheel now and again. - When I was a kid using a DOS PC I'd write them in Microsoft QuickBASIC or Turbo Pascal and compile them to EXEs. (I used to drag a few particularly useful ones around with me until a few years ago when the prevalence of 64-bit Windows made running them on a stock Windows machine impossible.) I had stuff there like a random password generator, dumping files to VGA mode 13h (to visually look for patterns in data), drop the DTR on a serial port (to hang up a modem from the command line), search/replace on INI files, and lots of others I've forgotten. - I wrote a proto-Markdown text processor back in high school when I was taking notes on a vTech Laser PC4[0]. It took files from the vTech and rendered output files with Epson printer formatting codes, centered text, made headings, etc. - I regularly use a script I wrote to import my phone backups' SMS logs and dump them into my IMAP mailbox. I love being able to search all my email and SMS communication in the same interface. - I have a podcatcher I wrote bolted onto my (heavily forked) tt-rss[1] installation to download podcasts to a local webserver for archiving and playing. - My father persists in using a DOS accounting package for his business. A small program I wrote ingests check printing output from the DOS app (meant for dot matrix tractor-fed checks) and reformats it for sheet-fed checks in a laser printer. - Front-end scripts for lots of command line utilities so that I don't have to remember obscure options for common tasks. [0] https://oldcomputermuseum.com/laser_pc4.html [1] https://tt-rss.org/.

#RSS Reader #RSS #Insight Management 42 social mentions

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Juice

Several, but not many that I actually used daily/weekly for an extended period of time. I am not a huge fan of podcasts but I do listen to a select few. I am also weird and only listen to them on my main machine at home while doing something else. I was a huge fan of Juice[0] but it hadn't been updated in ages and at some point its TLS parts were too old and I gave up updating it to Python 3 after a quick try. So I wrote my own Podcast library thing in C++/Qt which talks to a backend, where the data is stored. [0]: http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/ And I wrote a soup.io clone in Clojure that I use mostly for song bookmarking via youtube (but so I can play them). Then I stripped nearly all of the soup features and now it's just a tumblelog I guess. Then after many years I rewrote it and didn't open source the rewrite. And as you mentioned, the odd metrics/scraping/whatever job that's being run every night and where I actually look at the output several times per week, in one case it's an actual program, yeah.

#Business Directory #Productivity #Online Reviews 2 social mentions

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40 Hadiths

I have created custom programs but not the kind to regulate household energy consumption. I once made a software in form of a digital book in Java it was more like personal motivational book on how I would start my business. I later converted the software into an app and edited the content to fit an audience, surprisingly the software was a success https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=business_ideas.entrepreneur_mindset.business_plans.business.ideas.BusinessStartup I later created a few games with Unity and Godot which I shared with friends. They were pretty interesting 2d platformer games. I never uploaded these games but some of my friends still play the color shooter game I made with Godot. As my programming got better, I started creating slightly advanced software like this music player that I had been using for a while as my default music player. I decided to upload the software on 6th April 2022 for public use https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=media.mp3player.music.mp3.musicplayer.

#Mobile Apps #Religion #Web Search 1175 social mentions