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Ask HN: What 'product' have you done for your own use?

36 points by mezod 9y ago

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Kevin_S 9y ago
Well, not done, but I am working on basically an information hub for myself. Unfortunately I am not a software engineer, so I am slowly learning python to get it set up. Basically it will pull a variety of information and display it on a simple website. Things like notifications for social media, my to do list, sports scores/times, weather, etc. It's a larger task than I realized. I'll probably never finish it tbh haha.
- mezod 9y ago
  just divide it into subprojects and tackle them individually :P it sounds like a dashboard tool with gadgets that you can build with time
tixocloud 9y ago
I've built/building Orchestra (http://orchestrahq.com http://orchestrahq.com) to help me build better professional relationships. It helps me keep track of details of my interactions and also reminds me when I've not spoken to someone for a while.
MortenK 9y ago
I made a little file archiving tool for Windows, because I wanted to be able to archive stuff and find it again quickly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm7wimDNTZ8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm7wimDNTZ8
ry_ry 9y ago
An app that tells me when my favourite burrito van is near the office. Kinda underwhelming, but I have simple tastes :D
- SN76477 9y ago
  This could really be expanded on into something great.
jfoster 9y ago
I wanted to be able to quickly & easily resize images to particular sizes, so I made Bulk Resize Photos (https://bulkresizephotos.com); https://bulkresizephotos.com); image resizing in your web browser without uploading the images, and without downloading/installing anything. Works best in Chrome.
Nicholas_C 9y ago
I used the google directions API and Twilio to text me when my commute would be longer than n minutes.
gmemstr 9y ago
I want to start podcasting so I built myself a podcast CMS/RSS generator https://github.com/gmemstr/whiterabbit https://github.com/gmemstr/whiterabbit it's my first go at Golang so I'm still learning slowly.
jenkstom 9y ago
I made an app that notifies family when a QR code is scanned. It also provides information for ems providers and allows for several levels of interaction between the two. It works well for the few people that use it. https://emsinfo.me https://emsinfo.me.
miloszpp 9y ago
I've made Friendtainer - an app which reminds me to meet with friends often: http://friendtainer.com http://friendtainer.com
asteriske 9y ago
I made a python module / cli utility to collect all the log events that would usually be emailed to me throughout the day, aggregate them, and send digests on schedules based on their importance: https://github.com/asteriske/translogrify https://github.com/asteriske/translogrify
- DeerSpotter 9y ago
  i love the transmuted theology :P
influxed 9y ago
I wanted to better discover nearby architecture when walking around the city (Chicago) on weekends, so I made https://chicagoarchitecturedata.com/ https://chicagoarchitecturedata.com/ Over 13,000 Chicago buildings with architecture style, architect (sometimes), year built, and other data points. Uses GeoDjango and browser location api to show stuff around you when you use on a phone or you computer. Also serves as a guide to learning about architecture styles and neighborhoods.
a1exyz 9y ago
Im building a personal notes classifier, a website where I can write down links, bookmarks, ideas, thoughts, blog posts, projects, articles, etc. and it classifies them based on the text. It also knows whether something should be public or private - so that just I can see it. I want to get it to the point where I use it as part of my daily workflow as a way to organize my thoughts. My hope is that by process of needing/using it, I will understand well what is needed to make it better and the feedback cycle will make it a valuable tool quickly, as opposed to me making something that is intended to be used by someone other than me.
- specializeded 9y ago
  Why a website if you don’t mind me asking?
  - a1exyz 9y ago
    as opposed to what? An app? A website is accessible from the largest number of places - my phone, any computer, etc. Also, 1 intention of this is to streamline my browser use. So that instead of just opening up a new tab and getting distracted with social media/article aggregators, I can organize my time online. I open a new tab to this website and see my todos, things Im interested in, projects Im working on, etc. And thus I have a starting point to go from. Im also considering adding Kanban board type functionality to it so that I can prioritize my personal tasks/notes/todos and then move them to in progress and done. This needs a lot of screen real estate.
- mezod 9y ago
  hey, I am really interested in learning more. I am working on something very similar. I have already developed some apps in this direction but I am going for a new iteration. I am just curious about your approach. The "it classifies" means the app does it automatically? How do you go about that? do you have something online?
  - a1exyz 9y ago
    Im still learning/building. I will link you when I have something more substantial to show. For the first iteration, I am making it with d3.js - something like this: https://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/3127661b6f13f9316be745e77fdfb084 https://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/3127661b6f13f9316be745e77fdfb08... where each note will be a point. The placement of the notes on screen will be generated by the classifier model. So all bookmarks should be in one cluster, all hobby aspirations in another cluster. I may even use k-means to cluster them. Then when a classification is incorrect, the user can drag the item to another location so that it is where it should be which will trigger a callback to re-train the classifier model so that it can continually improve. As far as the classification itself goes, check out this recent HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14733562 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14733562 Finally, Id love to hear about your iteration, what were you thinking? (feel free to pm me as well)
rpeden 9y ago
http://stories.rpeden.com http://stories.rpeden.com I used to spend a bunch of time bouncing between HN and Reddit looking at headlines. So I built myself a tiny aggregator with React and socket.io that auto refreshes so I can glance at it throughout the day.
krrishd 9y ago
I've posted it here several times before, but I made this stream-of-consciousness journalling tool for myself: http://write.itskrish.co http://write.itskrish.co The differentiator is that you choose a fixed duration, and if you stop typing within that duration, all your writing is erased. Such a constraint has been effective at getting me to pour out everything on my mind, without hesitation. Built w React and open source @ https://github.com/krrishd/write https://github.com/krrishd/write
- mezod 9y ago
  interesting approach!
bazillion 9y ago
My entire product of doing in-image advertising[1] was created in order to build a new concept website for my uncle's nautical antique store[2]. He has a store built out of an old lighthouse in Old Town San Diego, and it's basically a museum (where you can buy the stuff inside it). When he came to me, he asked me if I could build a website that has the feel of his museum-like store, so I said, "Why don't we just take pictures inside of the store itself, and let your customers browse the pictures by hovering their mouse over the products and getting more info on the products they're interested in!". The punchline: I spent months building a pretty amazing site, to have him say that his audience was probably too old to understand how to use the site I built. So far, that technology has led to two granted patents and my startup![3] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf4pE0xtYTo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf4pE0xtYTo [2] http://westsea.com http://westsea.com [3] http://pleenq.com http://pleenq.com
deedubaya 9y ago
I created https://www.HireLoop.io https://www.HireLoop.io because I wanted something to manage my hiring which _always_ closes the loop with my applicants regardless of them being good or bad.
darndt 9y ago
When searching for an apartment in Switzerland a few years ago I found no good listing aggregator. So I built https://www.immomapper.ch/map https://www.immomapper.ch/map which crawls the largest providers and currently shows over 100'000 listings on a big map with filtering, email alerts etc
shanecleveland 9y ago
Some of these are just hacked-together tools, but I can think of several: Turn on/off Dropcam inside home when security system is armed/disarmed. Quick way to launch baby announcement website from within delivery room, depending on sex/name of my child, plus birth stats – my wife was thrilled ;) My best "personal" product that I have also made available for others is http://footballpickempool.net http://footballpickempool.net. There are now great mobile apps for a pool like this, which are preferable for scoring and season-long rankings, but some still need paper. I was putting these together for our office each week, so I automated it. Many webapps used internally for my job, so not personal, but a few that are hosted on their own domains and see public traffic.
znpy 9y ago
I developed a simple web app that lets you create flashcards. The nice thing is that it lets you create offline web apps that you can actually print on paper (double sided) and cut. It is a simple web app that basically wraps the flashcards latex package, while giving you a nearly-complete preview using mathjax. http://flashcards.dokku.santoro.tk/ http://flashcards.dokku.santoro.tk/
wheresvic1 9y ago
I built https://ewolo.fitness https://ewolo.fitness - a workout logging tool to track my progress :)
theak 9y ago
Having to work a lot across timezones, I created a web app to track time and weather around the world and quickly find a good time to meet across multiple zones: https://www.iwantthetime.com https://www.iwantthetime.com
ioddly 9y ago
https://github.com/ioddly/meditations https://github.com/ioddly/meditations A daily todo that results in long-term stats and habit formation. Using my own 'product' every day has been a good exercise in thinking about UX and maintenance (I've had the same DB for several years now with little breaking changes). It's also a responsible-way to do resume-driven development and use something weird or unconventional just because.
- mezod 9y ago
  haha nice, it's related to my https://everydaycheck.com https://everydaycheck.com :-)
  - ioddly 9y ago
    Aaaah, I thought your username was familiar! I was talking to 'hsribei the other day and opined that I'd never thought of putting it up as a SaaS product because I didn't think anyone would buy it. I'm glad someone is putting it out there because the concept has been very helpful to me. Hope it continues to do well.
    - mezod 9y ago
      haha awesome! :-)
      - hsribei 9y ago
        Hi guys! Small world =)
cv0x 9y ago
Deduplicated File Storage CLI with compression and encryption. Still a little buggy, but I needed some way to slim down my data archives while still being able to access them rather quickly.
natch 9y ago
Public transit schedule checker that took into account wait times for connecting links from light rail (Silicon Valley) to CalTrain. So it would tell me stuff like: - leave in 3 minutes for 32 minute wait connecting to bullet train - leave in 3 minutes for 10 minute wait connecting to slow train - leave in 33 minutes for 2 minute wait connecting to bullet train - leave in 10 minutes for 3 minute wait connecting to slow train Then I could see clearly my options in the way I preferred. I cared less about what time I would get home, and more about how much time I would spend waiting and sitting on a train, so this let me optimize for that.
jasonkester 9y ago
Unwaffle (https://unwaffle.com https://unwaffle.com) started as an admin feature of S3stat. I use it on a daily basis, and it has actually added enough revenue that I'm no longer worried that it would have been a waste of time to build it, should it turn out not to be commercially viable. Like I said, it started internal, but it was so apparent after a few days that it could be useful for other businesses that I separated it out with an API and stuck it at a different URL, in case it turned out (which it did) that I wanted to polish it into a product of its own.
jaflo 9y ago
Ctrl-F Video (https://video.loud.red/ https://video.loud.red/) to look for keywords in YouTube videos. Needed it to quickly jump to relevant places in videos. Works well, even with YouTube's auto-generated CC, which surprised me. For some reason it is really popular in China.
rismay 9y ago
I like reading the top stories by points on Hacker News, not necessarily the front page. So I made this app: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/helvetica-neue-native-open/id931789125?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/helvetica-neue-native-open/i...
jbrooksuk 9y ago
I made Cachet (https://cachethq.io https://cachethq.io) as I didn't want to pay for alternatives. In the end, the system I built for this to sit behind didn't get any love. It's not a full time gig yet.
- DeerSpotter 9y ago
  Can we do this to SoundCloud :P
pigpen34 9y ago
CronAlarm - https://www.cronalarm.com https://www.cronalarm.com - a cron job monitoring service. We had a large number of cron jobs at my regular employer that ran across multiple servers and applications. Things started to get a bit unwieldy and insight into any issues was negligible, so I built a cron job monitoring tool for internal use. Eventually I figured that if we found it useful maybe others would too. So I looked around and realized there were a few others already in existence that seemed to be making money. Mine offered some features the others didn't so I figured I'd go for it. It's been a lot of fun.
andriussev 9y ago
I made https://sysplatter.com https://sysplatter.com. I don't know how much other people's use cases it accomplishes but for me, I like a lot of customization of my statistics so it helps with my other stuff. Not really used that much by other people; didn't click at all with anyone on HN, sadly.
dthakur 9y ago
I made a user tagger for HN. Makes it much more fun to navigate the threads as I see familiar users with their interests showing through. Interesting timing for this question, as I just released it _today_[1]. [1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/momento-for-hacker-news/ldamdlljpkkejoiohakbapncdjfolgfh https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/momento-for-hacker...
- mezod 9y ago
  wow, really nice stuff!
busymichael 9y ago
DNDEmail - https://www.dndemail.com https://www.dndemail.com - do not disturb for Gmail. I only check my email 3x a day. But, I had such a hard time maintaining the will power to NOT check email, I had to build a tool to help. The service holds my email outside of my inbox and only delivers it at the three times a day I specify. It has helped me focus on my real to do list, and not on email. I am also working on an AI/ML bot that plays Out of the Park Baseball -- a baseball sim where you play as the team manager. The AI manages the roster and lineups and makes the big in game decisions. It does not handle pitches or batting (that is not part of the game).
assafmo 9y ago
https://github.com/assafmo/SQLiteProxy https://github.com/assafmo/SQLiteProxy - sqlite over http for remote queries https://github.com/assafmo/DownloadMyEpisodes https://github.com/assafmo/DownloadMyEpisodes - Auto-download my shows every day https://github.com/assafmo/nba-espn-stats-and-info-telegram-bot https://github.com/assafmo/nba-espn-stats-and-info-telegram-... - A telegram bot and channel with cool NBA statistics from eapn
sjmulder 9y ago
I write tiny programs in the Unix tradition: (mostly) stream based primitives that fit together with other tools, like format conversion (json-yaml) or command repeater rept(1), which is great together with lam(1). I also enjoy writing the man pages, porting to very old compilers, creating packages, etc. It's a refreshing distraction from working with enterprise CMSes.

36 points by mezod 9y ago

deleted 9y ago

[deleted]

Well, not done, but I am working on basically an information hub for myself. Unfortunately I am not a software engineer, so I am slowly learning python to get it set up. Basically it will pull a variety of information and display it on a simple website. Things like notifications for social media, my to do list, sports scores/times, weather, etc. It's a larger task than I realized. I'll probably never finish it tbh haha.

mezod 9y ago
just divide it into subprojects and tackle them individually :P it sounds like a dashboard tool with gadgets that you can build with time

tixocloud 9y ago

I've built/building Orchestra (http://orchestrahq.com http://orchestrahq.com) to help me build better professional relationships. It helps me keep track of details of my interactions and also reminds me when I've not spoken to someone for a while.

MortenK 9y ago

I made a little file archiving tool for Windows, because I wanted to be able to archive stuff and find it again quickly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm7wimDNTZ8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm7wimDNTZ8

ry_ry 9y ago

An app that tells me when my favourite burrito van is near the office. Kinda underwhelming, but I have simple tastes :D

SN76477 9y ago
This could really be expanded on into something great.

jfoster 9y ago

I wanted to be able to quickly & easily resize images to particular sizes, so I made Bulk Resize Photos (https://bulkresizephotos.com); https://bulkresizephotos.com); image resizing in your web browser without uploading the images, and without downloading/installing anything. Works best in Chrome.

Nicholas_C 9y ago

I used the google directions API and Twilio to text me when my commute would be longer than n minutes.

gmemstr 9y ago

I want to start podcasting so I built myself a podcast CMS/RSS generator https://github.com/gmemstr/whiterabbit https://github.com/gmemstr/whiterabbit it's my first go at Golang so I'm still learning slowly.

jenkstom 9y ago

I made an app that notifies family when a QR code is scanned. It also provides information for ems providers and allows for several levels of interaction between the two. It works well for the few people that use it. https://emsinfo.me https://emsinfo.me.

miloszpp 9y ago

I've made Friendtainer - an app which reminds me to meet with friends often: http://friendtainer.com http://friendtainer.com

asteriske 9y ago

I made a python module / cli utility to collect all the log events that would usually be emailed to me throughout the day, aggregate them, and send digests on schedules based on their importance: https://github.com/asteriske/translogrify https://github.com/asteriske/translogrify

DeerSpotter 9y ago
i love the transmuted theology :P

influxed 9y ago

I wanted to better discover nearby architecture when walking around the city (Chicago) on weekends, so I made https://chicagoarchitecturedata.com/ https://chicagoarchitecturedata.com/ Over 13,000 Chicago buildings with architecture style, architect (sometimes), year built, and other data points. Uses GeoDjango and browser location api to show stuff around you when you use on a phone or you computer. Also serves as a guide to learning about architecture styles and neighborhoods.

a1exyz 9y ago

Im building a personal notes classifier, a website where I can write down links, bookmarks, ideas, thoughts, blog posts, projects, articles, etc. and it classifies them based on the text. It also knows whether something should be public or private - so that just I can see it. I want to get it to the point where I use it as part of my daily workflow as a way to organize my thoughts. My hope is that by process of needing/using it, I will understand well what is needed to make it better and the feedback cycle will make it a valuable tool quickly, as opposed to me making something that is intended to be used by someone other than me.

specializeded 9y ago
Why a website if you don’t mind me asking?
- a1exyz 9y ago
  as opposed to what? An app? A website is accessible from the largest number of places - my phone, any computer, etc. Also, 1 intention of this is to streamline my browser use. So that instead of just opening up a new tab and getting distracted with social media/article aggregators, I can organize my time online. I open a new tab to this website and see my todos, things Im interested in, projects Im working on, etc. And thus I have a starting point to go from. Im also considering adding Kanban board type functionality to it so that I can prioritize my personal tasks/notes/todos and then move them to in progress and done. This needs a lot of screen real estate.
mezod 9y ago
hey, I am really interested in learning more. I am working on something very similar. I have already developed some apps in this direction but I am going for a new iteration. I am just curious about your approach. The "it classifies" means the app does it automatically? How do you go about that? do you have something online?
- a1exyz 9y ago
  Im still learning/building. I will link you when I have something more substantial to show. For the first iteration, I am making it with d3.js - something like this: https://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/3127661b6f13f9316be745e77fdfb084 https://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/3127661b6f13f9316be745e77fdfb08... where each note will be a point. The placement of the notes on screen will be generated by the classifier model. So all bookmarks should be in one cluster, all hobby aspirations in another cluster. I may even use k-means to cluster them. Then when a classification is incorrect, the user can drag the item to another location so that it is where it should be which will trigger a callback to re-train the classifier model so that it can continually improve. As far as the classification itself goes, check out this recent HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14733562 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14733562 Finally, Id love to hear about your iteration, what were you thinking? (feel free to pm me as well)

rpeden 9y ago

http://stories.rpeden.com http://stories.rpeden.com I used to spend a bunch of time bouncing between HN and Reddit looking at headlines. So I built myself a tiny aggregator with React and socket.io that auto refreshes so I can glance at it throughout the day.

krrishd 9y ago

I've posted it here several times before, but I made this stream-of-consciousness journalling tool for myself: http://write.itskrish.co http://write.itskrish.co The differentiator is that you choose a fixed duration, and if you stop typing within that duration, all your writing is erased. Such a constraint has been effective at getting me to pour out everything on my mind, without hesitation. Built w React and open source @ https://github.com/krrishd/write https://github.com/krrishd/write

mezod 9y ago
interesting approach!

bazillion 9y ago

My entire product of doing in-image advertising[1] was created in order to build a new concept website for my uncle's nautical antique store[2]. He has a store built out of an old lighthouse in Old Town San Diego, and it's basically a museum (where you can buy the stuff inside it). When he came to me, he asked me if I could build a website that has the feel of his museum-like store, so I said, "Why don't we just take pictures inside of the store itself, and let your customers browse the pictures by hovering their mouse over the products and getting more info on the products they're interested in!". The punchline: I spent months building a pretty amazing site, to have him say that his audience was probably too old to understand how to use the site I built. So far, that technology has led to two granted patents and my startup![3] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf4pE0xtYTo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf4pE0xtYTo [2] http://westsea.com http://westsea.com [3] http://pleenq.com http://pleenq.com

deedubaya 9y ago

I created https://www.HireLoop.io https://www.HireLoop.io because I wanted something to manage my hiring which _always_ closes the loop with my applicants regardless of them being good or bad.

darndt 9y ago

When searching for an apartment in Switzerland a few years ago I found no good listing aggregator. So I built https://www.immomapper.ch/map https://www.immomapper.ch/map which crawls the largest providers and currently shows over 100'000 listings on a big map with filtering, email alerts etc

shanecleveland 9y ago

Some of these are just hacked-together tools, but I can think of several: Turn on/off Dropcam inside home when security system is armed/disarmed. Quick way to launch baby announcement website from within delivery room, depending on sex/name of my child, plus birth stats – my wife was thrilled ;) My best "personal" product that I have also made available for others is http://footballpickempool.net http://footballpickempool.net. There are now great mobile apps for a pool like this, which are preferable for scoring and season-long rankings, but some still need paper. I was putting these together for our office each week, so I automated it. Many webapps used internally for my job, so not personal, but a few that are hosted on their own domains and see public traffic.

znpy 9y ago

I developed a simple web app that lets you create flashcards. The nice thing is that it lets you create offline web apps that you can actually print on paper (double sided) and cut. It is a simple web app that basically wraps the flashcards latex package, while giving you a nearly-complete preview using mathjax. http://flashcards.dokku.santoro.tk/ http://flashcards.dokku.santoro.tk/

wheresvic1 9y ago

I built https://ewolo.fitness https://ewolo.fitness - a workout logging tool to track my progress :)

theak 9y ago

Having to work a lot across timezones, I created a web app to track time and weather around the world and quickly find a good time to meet across multiple zones: https://www.iwantthetime.com https://www.iwantthetime.com

ioddly 9y ago

https://github.com/ioddly/meditations https://github.com/ioddly/meditations A daily todo that results in long-term stats and habit formation. Using my own 'product' every day has been a good exercise in thinking about UX and maintenance (I've had the same DB for several years now with little breaking changes). It's also a responsible-way to do resume-driven development and use something weird or unconventional just because.

mezod 9y ago
haha nice, it's related to my https://everydaycheck.com https://everydaycheck.com :-)
- ioddly 9y ago
  Aaaah, I thought your username was familiar! I was talking to 'hsribei the other day and opined that I'd never thought of putting it up as a SaaS product because I didn't think anyone would buy it. I'm glad someone is putting it out there because the concept has been very helpful to me. Hope it continues to do well.
  - mezod 9y ago
    haha awesome! :-)
    - hsribei 9y ago
      Hi guys! Small world =)

cv0x 9y ago

Deduplicated File Storage CLI with compression and encryption. Still a little buggy, but I needed some way to slim down my data archives while still being able to access them rather quickly.

natch 9y ago

Public transit schedule checker that took into account wait times for connecting links from light rail (Silicon Valley) to CalTrain. So it would tell me stuff like: - leave in 3 minutes for 32 minute wait connecting to bullet train - leave in 3 minutes for 10 minute wait connecting to slow train - leave in 33 minutes for 2 minute wait connecting to bullet train - leave in 10 minutes for 3 minute wait connecting to slow train Then I could see clearly my options in the way I preferred. I cared less about what time I would get home, and more about how much time I would spend waiting and sitting on a train, so this let me optimize for that.

jasonkester 9y ago

Unwaffle (https://unwaffle.com https://unwaffle.com) started as an admin feature of S3stat. I use it on a daily basis, and it has actually added enough revenue that I'm no longer worried that it would have been a waste of time to build it, should it turn out not to be commercially viable. Like I said, it started internal, but it was so apparent after a few days that it could be useful for other businesses that I separated it out with an API and stuck it at a different URL, in case it turned out (which it did) that I wanted to polish it into a product of its own.

jaflo 9y ago

Ctrl-F Video (https://video.loud.red/ https://video.loud.red/) to look for keywords in YouTube videos. Needed it to quickly jump to relevant places in videos. Works well, even with YouTube's auto-generated CC, which surprised me. For some reason it is really popular in China.

rismay 9y ago

I like reading the top stories by points on Hacker News, not necessarily the front page. So I made this app: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/helvetica-neue-native-open/id931789125?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/helvetica-neue-native-open/i...

jbrooksuk 9y ago

I made Cachet (https://cachethq.io https://cachethq.io) as I didn't want to pay for alternatives. In the end, the system I built for this to sit behind didn't get any love. It's not a full time gig yet.

DeerSpotter 9y ago
Can we do this to SoundCloud :P

pigpen34 9y ago

CronAlarm - https://www.cronalarm.com https://www.cronalarm.com - a cron job monitoring service. We had a large number of cron jobs at my regular employer that ran across multiple servers and applications. Things started to get a bit unwieldy and insight into any issues was negligible, so I built a cron job monitoring tool for internal use. Eventually I figured that if we found it useful maybe others would too. So I looked around and realized there were a few others already in existence that seemed to be making money. Mine offered some features the others didn't so I figured I'd go for it. It's been a lot of fun.

andriussev 9y ago

I made https://sysplatter.com https://sysplatter.com. I don't know how much other people's use cases it accomplishes but for me, I like a lot of customization of my statistics so it helps with my other stuff. Not really used that much by other people; didn't click at all with anyone on HN, sadly.

dthakur 9y ago

I made a user tagger for HN. Makes it much more fun to navigate the threads as I see familiar users with their interests showing through. Interesting timing for this question, as I just released it _today_[1]. [1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/momento-for-hacker-news/ldamdlljpkkejoiohakbapncdjfolgfh https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/momento-for-hacker...

mezod 9y ago
wow, really nice stuff!

busymichael 9y ago

DNDEmail - https://www.dndemail.com https://www.dndemail.com - do not disturb for Gmail. I only check my email 3x a day. But, I had such a hard time maintaining the will power to NOT check email, I had to build a tool to help. The service holds my email outside of my inbox and only delivers it at the three times a day I specify. It has helped me focus on my real to do list, and not on email. I am also working on an AI/ML bot that plays Out of the Park Baseball -- a baseball sim where you play as the team manager. The AI manages the roster and lineups and makes the big in game decisions. It does not handle pitches or batting (that is not part of the game).

assafmo 9y ago

https://github.com/assafmo/SQLiteProxy https://github.com/assafmo/SQLiteProxy - sqlite over http for remote queries https://github.com/assafmo/DownloadMyEpisodes https://github.com/assafmo/DownloadMyEpisodes - Auto-download my shows every day https://github.com/assafmo/nba-espn-stats-and-info-telegram-bot https://github.com/assafmo/nba-espn-stats-and-info-telegram-... - A telegram bot and channel with cool NBA statistics from eapn

sjmulder 9y ago

I write tiny programs in the Unix tradition: (mostly) stream based primitives that fit together with other tools, like format conversion (json-yaml) or command repeater rept(1), which is great together with lam(1). I also enjoy writing the man pages, porting to very old compilers, creating packages, etc. It's a refreshing distraction from working with enterprise CMSes.