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Ask HN: What software feels exceptionally polished?
- Tomte 4mo agoBBEdit.
- mac3n 4mo agobeen using this since System 7. Still doesn't suck.
- __patchbit__ 4mo agoNetBSD on plain console.
- Adam-Hincu 4mo agoFor me, i think it’s notion, it’s well thought.
- KomoD 4mo agoI don't really agree. I tried using it, but I just can't because the keyboard shortcuts don't work with my non-US keyboard layout, and I couldn't change them... I have seen other people complain about the same thing.
- Adam-Hincu 4mo agoOh, I didn’t have this problem, it seemed pretty polished to me, although i stopped using it recently
- nan60 4mo agoI don't know if its polished in the traditional sense, but yt-dlp feels so perfect for what it was designed to do.
- dlcarrier 4mo agoIt is a well simplified wrapper around the hot mess that is needed to convince YouTube that you're actually using using a web browser.
- paytonjjones 4mo agoMonarch Money is incredibly smooth and functional considering the complexity. Maybe it benefits from the comparison with the mess that was Mint though, haha.
- variety8675 4mo agoGhostty is exceptionally good at what it was made for
- smt88 4mo agoI find 1Password to be very smooth and intuitive to use (ignoring its sometimes unfortunate iOS integration, which is Apple’s fault).
- pants2 4mo agoRobinhood is probably the best software I regularly use. It's extremely smooth and intuitive for how powerful it is now. The way they present and explain options and allow you to enter complex multi-leg option trades on mobile is super impressive. On top of that it just works really well (these days).
- jsxyzb9 4mo agoI don’t think there is any particularly perfect software
- lordkrandel 4mo agoDwm and dmenu. Top notch polish, true minimalism
- dlcarrier 4mo agoI've used the Surf browser with dmenu integration quite a bit, and the software is written well, but default the key bindings are all over the place. I have to look it up, whenver I'm trying to do something as simple as copy and paste. Considering that a build environment is needed to customize it, I feel like they'd get more users sticking around if it defaulted to more conventional controls.
- lordkrandel 4mo agoFor build environment, doesn't `tcc` suffice? "More conventional" is often an opinion, it just means it's not popular enough.
- dlcarrier 4mo agoThe CAS software on HP calculators is amazingly useful, especially considering the limitations of the hardware it's running on.
- bohdanstefaniuk 4mo ago- Thing 3 - 180db player - 1Password
- throwaw12 4mo ago1password not anymore
- indemnity 4mo ago1Password? The last year with it has been so bad I canceled our $80 Family subscription and switched to the native Apple one despite its feature gap, because 1Password just couldn’t do its basic job reliably (fill passwords without requiring 20 taps, constant unlocking disregarding lock timer settings or some other arcane dance like force killing Safari to reload the plugin).
- cosmicgadget 4mo agoThe Persona game series.
- mikewarot 4mo agoWindows 2000 Server, Service pack 4 Everything just worked as expected, and it was pretty stable. Also Microsoft Office 2000 Professional with all the service packs and the 2007 file format extensions. Sure, it was a hot mess internally, but have you ever used the outline mode of Word, or the relational table builder of Access? They're almost magical.
- sama004 4mo agotailscale