Ask HN: Show me your tiny but useful project
I just built http://wethr.ca - it only took 3 hours and $5 for a domain name. It's extremely basic, but extremely useful to me as-is. That got me inspired, that I could build something so useful so quickly. So please share your smallest, but most useful project - even if it's super buggy and nowhere near finished yet.
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Wrote a simple command-line TODO list manager called "j" in ruby. I use it everyday. if you have rubygems, it can b installed by
gem install j
Neat, my implementation of the command-line TODO list manager is sh-todo (written in POSIX compliant shell for maximum portability):
https://github.com/asb/sh-todo
https://github.com/asb/sh-todo
I threw together http://www.dragdropcomics.com/ to make it easier to create Rage Face comics on Reddit, then I realized that there were already two or three very good and fully fleshed out Rage Face comic web apps, so I kinda left it as is. My idea was that artists could upload their own character sets and people could pick a character set to make a comic out of, but I never really moved beyond the initial version of it.
This one from me http://netreputation.co.uk/extractor/
created it as a way to screen scrape a page easily and generate a rss feed out of it for my other projects.
created it as a way to screen scrape a page easily and generate a rss feed out of it for my other projects.
I made this command line client for arte+7 -- the online archive of the French/German tv station arte:
https://gist.github.com/5723dfec63b24d64bf6a
If you like arte but rather use mplayer than Flash, this might be interesting to you. Note that it supports resuming downloads.
https://gist.github.com/5723dfec63b24d64bf6a
If you like arte but rather use mplayer than Flash, this might be interesting to you. Note that it supports resuming downloads.
This is fantastic. Many thanks for sharing.
http://coloringout.com - I'm not very good with colour schemes - this one let's me take an existing css and transmogrify it to a new colour, keeping the relative "distance" between each colour value. I built it in php and then in python. I use it....don't think anyone else does though :)
http://karmurl.com - give feedback to receive feedback.
The following approximation of Adobe AIR took gluing together and/or modifying about a half-dozen existing open source projects with just about 100 lines of code:
http://code.google.com/p/deskml/
http://code.google.com/p/deskml/
Reddit Notifier for your Mac OS X menu bar: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/reddit-notifier/id468366517
I built http://stackmonthly.com/ to help me discover the better questions asked on StackOverflow, and improve my knowledge.
That's a great one.
http://zrp.tournament.de
A google maps based roundtrip solver using three different optimization algorithms.
A google maps based roundtrip solver using three different optimization algorithms.
I created a compact plaintext Todo list format: http://www.texttodo.org/. I use it everyday.
I wrote a simple timecard program.
https://github.com/kisom/timecard
https://github.com/kisom/timecard
I've created http://mybus.ca to quickly access Calgary bus schedules
http://bouncely.com - Bounce processing for Amazon SES
http://tinfo.linkstore.ru WHOIS for Twitter
Share What You Make - http://swym.me
siri is for your iphone, twitjustice will read twitter feeds for you on your mac - http://twitjustice.org
https://github.com/FreeRPGengine/Free-RPG-Engine-FaceBook-Ga... Free FaceBook RPG game engine
http://www.hilite.me - source code beautifier