Ask HN: Show me your tiny but useful project

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by dholowiski • 15 years ago

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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.

megamark16• 15 years ago

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.

akeck• 15 years ago

I created a compact plaintext Todo list format: http://www.texttodo.org/. I use it everyday.

tamersalama• 15 years ago

I've created http://mybus.ca to quickly access Calgary bus schedules

combiclickwise• 15 years ago

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.

alexkay• 15 years ago

http://www.hilite.me - source code beautifier

andor• 15 years ago

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.

qxb• 15 years ago

This is fantastic. Many thanks for sharing.

revorad• 15 years ago

Share What You Make - http://swym.me

SingAlong• 15 years ago

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

http://github.com/HashNuke/j

asb• 15 years ago

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

lancashire• 15 years ago

http://karmurl.com - give feedback to receive feedback.

abava• 15 years ago

http://tinfo.linkstore.ru WHOIS for Twitter

ttpva• 15 years ago

http://bouncely.com - Bounce processing for Amazon SES

hitezh• 15 years ago

I built http://stackmonthly.com/ to help me discover the better questions asked on StackOverflow, and improve my knowledge.

ianpurton• 15 years ago

That's a great one.

kisom• 15 years ago

I wrote a simple timecard program.

https://github.com/kisom/timecard

jemptymethod• 15 years ago

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/

LUTOPiA• 15 years ago

https://github.com/FreeRPGengine/Free-RPG-Engine-FaceBook-Ga... Free FaceBook RPG game engine

pkamb• 15 years ago

Reddit Notifier for your Mac OS X menu bar: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/reddit-notifier/id468366517

poissonpie• 15 years ago

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 :)

qger• 15 years ago

http://zrp.tournament.de

A google maps based roundtrip solver using three different optimization algorithms.

juanipis• 15 years ago

siri is for your iphone, twitjustice will read twitter feeds for you on your mac - http://twitjustice.org

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