Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?

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Pinggy.io

#Localhost Tools #Testing #Webhooks 68 social mentions

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OnlineOrNot

I originally built OnlineOrNot (https://onlineornot.com) to have a convenient way to convince my contracting clients that their hosting sucks. They'd be like "Oh but I pay $5/mo for this wordpress host, it's fine?" and I'd send them a report saying they were offline for say 10 hours that week, and to calculate how much being offline for 10 hours would cost them. Eventually a client asked to be setup with their own account, so I took the time to go full-SaaS.

#Uptime Monitoring #Website Monitoring #Monitoring Tools 55 social mentions

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Plain Org

- A ChatGPT shell that integrates well into my editor of choice https://xenodium.com/chatgpt-shell-available-on-melpa - A scriptable screenshot/video capture utility https://xenodium.com/recordscreenshot-windows-the-lazy-way - An iOS habit tracker that's neither cloud-based, nor needs an account, social, wants my attention, data, etc. https://flathabits.com - An iOS scratch pad that removes further friction than typical note apps https://xenodium.com/scratch-a-minimal-scratch-area - An iOS org mode app 'cause there are lots of Markdown ones but almost no org mode ones https://plainorg.com - A way to easily record more complex commands (ie. ffmpeg) and make them reusable for the future https://xenodium.com/seamless-command-line-utils.

#Task Management #Note Taking #Project Management 37 social mentions

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Flat Habits

- A ChatGPT shell that integrates well into my editor of choice https://xenodium.com/chatgpt-shell-available-on-melpa - A scriptable screenshot/video capture utility https://xenodium.com/recordscreenshot-windows-the-lazy-way - An iOS habit tracker that's neither cloud-based, nor needs an account, social, wants my attention, data, etc. https://flathabits.com - An iOS scratch pad that removes further friction than typical note apps https://xenodium.com/scratch-a-minimal-scratch-area - An iOS org mode app 'cause there are lots of Markdown ones but almost no org mode ones https://plainorg.com - A way to easily record more complex commands (ie. ffmpeg) and make them reusable for the future https://xenodium.com/seamless-command-line-utils.

#Habit Tracker #Mobile #Privacy 40 social mentions

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tsuru

Reminds me of https://tsuru.io/ :).

#Cloud Computing #Cloud Hosting #PaaS 2 social mentions

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MathB

Https://mathb.in/ I wrote this 11 years ago for my friends and myself who were going through a phase in our lives where we used to challenge each other with mathematical puzzles. The use of this tool spread from my friends to their friends and colleagues, then schools and universities, and then to IRC channels. Now it is the oldest mathematics pastebin that is still online and serving its community of users. Visit <a href="https://github.com/susam/mathb">https://github.com/susam/mathb</a> for the source code of this tool.

#Design Playground #Text Editors #Productivity 4 social mentions

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webtoapp.design

To be fair, I'm trying to turn it into a public product since I think the use-case isn't very niche. I've recently started building https://responsebrain.com where I can add all my blog articles and automatically let ChatGPT generate responses to questions about my other product https://webtoapp.design It's a pretty basic setup with a knowledge base you can feed anything you want (your blog articles, help center etc.). That gets put into a vector database and then I pass the related knowledge pieces to GPT along with the question. I know there's lots of similar products out there, but none of them seem to allow manual editing of your knowledge base and they all seem to be focused on creating chatbots. I've adjusted the prompts to work best for e-mails.

#Web App #Mobile Apps #Mac 16 social mentions

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Observable

Not too fancy, but I built a math model & interactive visualization of my parking spot to understand how to efficiently park there without bumping into anything: https://observablehq.com/@mourner/kinematics-of-reverse-angle-parking Discussed on HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21891919.

#Data Visualization #Data Dashboard #Data Science Notebooks 284 social mentions

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Bookee

I built a Chrome Extension called Bookee (https://onassar.github.io/extensions/bookee/) (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bookee-instant-bookmark-m/akoaofleglimjejcdodgocaicfjbmhkc) Not used by many people, but accomplished what I set out to: an extension that is accessible easily via keyboard shortcut at all times, that allows me to visually (open graph images, screenshots, thumbnails) search any bookmarks saved to Chrome. The search is super-quick, and it has a bunch of other keyboard-shortcuts to quickly navigate my bookmarks.

#Chrome Extrensions #Productivity #Tech 2 social mentions

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Productivity Power Tools

I have built VS Utils [1] mostly for myself since I work with WordPress and they use serialize(), unserialize() functions a lot, and sometimes I need to convert base64, timestamps value without leaving the editor. I find it's easier to write an extension for daily use functions and publish to VS Code so I can download it easier, sync across devices. Hope it helpful for others too. [1] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=tanftw.vsutils.

#Regular Expressions #Programming Tools #Development 356 social mentions

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Video Hub App

#Video #File Manager #Video & Movies 21 social mentions

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ratehouse

I built https://littlerbooks.com/ to have all my book summaries in one place, https://newsasfacts.com/ to read the news more efficently, and https://rate.house/ to organize my media consumption.

#Movie Reviews #Movie Ratings #Movies 11 social mentions

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Littler Books

I built https://littlerbooks.com/ to have all my book summaries in one place, https://newsasfacts.com/ to read the news more efficently, and https://rate.house/ to organize my media consumption.

#Education #LMS #Reading 14 social mentions

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40 Hadiths

I built this app for my self and based on my own needs and requirements <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.co.darkruby.quotes_client">https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.co.darkruby...</a> It's got hidden developer mode, where even more interesting stuff available.

#Mobile Apps #Religion #Web Search 1162 social mentions

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Lenns.io

I built an opinionated RSS/website reader - https://lenns.io. Everyone can register and use it, but it's built based on my requirements and vision only. Yet, I believe it could be useful to others, and that's why I made it open for everyone to use.

#Feed Reader #RSS Reader #RSS Client 10 social mentions

It's worth noting the best thesaurus I've found is onelook. Compare to the solitude results https://onelook.com/thesaurus/?s=solitude.

#Games #Language Learning #Audio & Music 12 social mentions

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Leaflet

- integrations, optimization, caching [1]http://cr2southstation.com/ [2]http://cr2southstation.com/test [3]https://leafletjs.com/.

#Maps #Interactive Maps #Development Tools 123 social mentions