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Ask HN: Is there an app you use that have no clear successor?
- gemanor 3y agoIf the IP is not the app, yes many. - Regional content (foreign language books) - DJI Fly - Uber in some particular locations - Phone hardware camera (iPhone, Google pixel, etc.)
- mtmail 3y agoCaptio by boonbits. It sends email using the user's own SMTP credentials. It's been way more useful than the $0.99 I paid. https://www.engadget.com/2010-09-30-captio-the-simple-app-that-just-might-change-your-life.html https://www.engadget.com/2010-09-30-captio-the-simple-app-th...
- Jaxkr 3y agoI searched the App Store and found this: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/quick-notes-email-me/id1090744587 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/quick-notes-email-me/id1090744...
- softwaredoug 3y agoDarkSky The Apple weather app is janky, slow, and doesn’t do the one thing Dark Sky did well (is it going to rain in the next hour)
- damascus 3y agoThe iOS Weather app from Apple does tell you if its going to rain in the next hour. Even down to the minute and for how long.
- softwaredoug 3y agoIt does. Mixed in with a million other things. Not to mention the stability and performance issues the app has had.
- pawelduda 3y agoanki + ankidroid maybe? UI feels old but I haven't found anything else that just works for my spaced repetition needs.
- cpach 3y agoEvernote. I’m migrating to Simplenote, but it has much much less features.
- Raed667 3y agoI want an app on Android to record phone conversations as MP3 files in the background. My old OnePlus 3 dialer used to handle this perfectly, not anymore. Unfortunately it seems the Android APIs are getting locked down for this kind of usage.
- juvvel 3y agoThe Timely clock app. It was bought by Google and then never updated so it doesn't work on newer Android versions. Sad.
- mikewarot 3y agoPicassa was the best facial recognition / photo organizer I'd ever used... but the last version before Google killed it has a bug that sometimes swaps face tags, making it useless. 8( DigiKam is a very poor substitute.
- sizz88 3y agoBarrier KVM, I have been on x11 forever because of this app. Wayland is still fumbling around with copy and paste ill be on x11 for the next decade.
- dholm 3y agoCodeNavigator for iOS was a great app for cloning repos and reading the code offline. It had support for bookmarking and making annotations as well as syntax highlighting for many different languages.