[HN Gopher] Show HN: Kody Tools - I developed 300 tools in 6 months
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       Show HN: Kody Tools - I developed 300 tools in 6 months
        
       This is just a side hustle but I ended developing 300+ tools. Any
       feedback or suggestion is welcome.
        
       Author : KodyBerns99
       Score  : 117 points
       Date   : 2023-01-14 17:15 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.kodytools.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.kodytools.com)
        
       | jonahbenton wrote:
       | Great, thank you, bookmarked
        
         | KodyBerns99 wrote:
         | thanks
        
       | rjzzleep wrote:
       | There used to be a programmers calculator who's proper name I
       | forgot with most of these as a part of it.
       | 
       | I assume this was a programming experiment, so congratulations
       | for pulling through.
       | 
       | I'm generally not a fan of these sensationalist titles though.
        
         | KodyBerns99 wrote:
         | Thanks for appreciating
        
         | willio58 wrote:
         | What's sensationalist about the title? Maybe the title changed
         | but it seems pretty accurate to me
        
         | Kiro wrote:
         | Nothing sensationalist about the title.
        
       | voiper1 wrote:
       | For many of these manipulations, I use
       | https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/ which lets you pipe them
       | together.
        
         | metadat wrote:
         | Discussed 1 year ago:
         | 
         | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29982286 (54 comments)
         | 
         | Full source code is here:
         | 
         | https://github.com/gchq/CyberChef
        
         | KodyBerns99 wrote:
         | great, I did not know about it.
        
       | ethanwillis wrote:
       | Do you have any contact information? I couldn't find any on your
       | site.
        
         | KodyBerns99 wrote:
         | you can contact me on twitter - @kodyberns
         | 
         | I post project updates on daily basis.
        
       | dkatz23238 wrote:
       | A small detail that you can improve UX would be to ensure that
       | the button to execute a task is focused when you hit the tab key.
       | In some of your tools I need to hit the tab key two or three
       | times until I get to the execute/do button. Usually the delete
       | and copy buttons are focused first. I would believe most people
       | want to just enter their payload hit tab and enter and get their
       | result... As mentioned this is a small detail, great work
       | overall!
        
         | KodyBerns99 wrote:
         | Thanks for the feedback, will keep that in mind.
        
       | Trufa wrote:
       | Still very much a WIP, but I created a similar project where you
       | can create your own.
       | 
       | https://texttransform.io/
       | 
       | @kodyberns I'd love to collab!
        
       | emehex wrote:
       | The IRR calculator % formatting is wrong.
       | 
       | Original: [1000], Flows: [100, 200, 900] Shows: 0.07%, should be:
       | 7.11%
        
         | KodyBerns99 wrote:
         | Thanks for the feedback, will definitely update it by tomorrow.
        
       | phailhaus wrote:
       | Excellent work! Simple, searchable, well documented. The tiniest
       | of nits: the options on the right side of the page let you see a
       | category of tools, but there isn't an option to see all tools
       | again
        
         | KodyBerns99 wrote:
         | All tools are listed on front page in alphabetical order.
        
           | leetrout wrote:
           | It might be a bit more intuitive if the tools header took you
           | back to the main page.
        
       | marban wrote:
       | More versatile and polished: https://10015.io
        
         | bostonvaulter2 wrote:
         | That's a bit too "polished" for me. I like how the OP has the
         | tools all listed on the home page instead of buried under a
         | bunch of "glamor" that causes the tools and information to be
         | less dense.
        
       | hefferbub wrote:
       | Great work Kody! Thanks.
       | 
       | One thing I was hoping to see---remove MS Word induced junk like
       | "Smart quotes" and "smart apostrophes" and whatever else tends to
       | blow up web text when importing or displaying.
        
         | KodyBerns99 wrote:
         | Sure, will add it to my todo list.
        
       | AtlasBarfed wrote:
       | ... that is good use of stack overflow
        
       | johnnylambada wrote:
       | Is it all web based or a web interface to command line tools?
        
         | KodyBerns99 wrote:
         | All are web based.
        
       | anthropodie wrote:
       | I imagine OP might create a tonne of tools in coming days now
       | that ChatGPT can help in writing code.
        
         | KodyBerns99 wrote:
         | for Sure, will create a lot of them.
        
         | arcturus17 wrote:
         | How much productivity gains do you think one sees from using
         | ChatGPT in semi-serious coding? Like, how much time do you
         | think one can save out of, say, a six-hour coding session, on
         | average?
        
           | qorrect wrote:
           | I save maybe 10 minutes an hour with Github Copilot.
           | Especially when writing tests, it will auto complete things
           | like 'I expect these two numbers to sum to X' , except those
           | numbers are buried in a list in an object, but somehow it
           | creates the correct sum , that I use for the expected value.
           | The danger is, sometimes it just creates completely wrong
           | code, and you have to diligently be checking its generated
           | output. They should maybe include accuracy ratings with the
           | suggestions.
        
       | iask wrote:
       | Nice work. How about X12 to XML and X12 to JSON?
        
       | moglito wrote:
       | Nice work! Bookmarked. Any plans to add openssl tools? I keep
       | finding myself needing to convert x509 certs to text, and of
       | course there is the never ending question of how do I generate my
       | own SSL certificates. I guess it would be awesome if many of the
       | most frequent questions on StackOverflow had a "kody tool"
       | answer. I'm saying this because I think many conceivably could.
        
         | accrual wrote:
         | Since creating TLS certificates involves also creating a
         | private key, wouldn't you want to do this on your own hardware
         | and not trust a third-party with your key?
        
           | moglito wrote:
           | That depends on the intended application of those
           | certificates. I was only thinking of local development with
           | self-signed certificates that would never be used in
           | production. But yes, I see your point. Some users may not
           | realize the security risk when using an online tool like this
           | and use it for production certificates as well.
        
           | viraptor wrote:
           | These tools seem to work on the client side with JS as far as
           | I can from the response time. (Check source to be sure)
        
         | KodyBerns99 wrote:
         | sure, I am always open to suggestions. I will keep note of your
         | request.
        
       | darkteflon wrote:
       | This is great. I really like the idea of gathering a bunch of
       | one's own tools together under a single web page like this - for
       | visibility, for convenience, and to give you the freedom to
       | quickly add GUI elements like graphs.
       | 
       | Not a web dev though. Kody, could you talk a bit about what
       | libraries or framework you used for the front end here?
        
       | penjelly wrote:
       | impressive, implementing all this would come with a lot of
       | learning and skill development
        
         | KodyBerns99 wrote:
         | Thanks for appreciating. I really worked on it.
        
         | eole666 wrote:
         | well for most of those tools, it exists npm packages making it
         | quite easy to implement. And even from scratch, it's not that
         | hard. For me this project rather demonstrate the patience and
         | determination of the author, putting in place all those tools
         | in a nice and accessible way.
        
       | ge96 wrote:
       | not sure how to pull it off, but I think left-aligned tool names
       | would help for readability, the search is helpful
       | 
       | also a tabbed/categorized view where the tools are grouped by
       | use/topic (guess that's the bit on the right)
        
         | KodyBerns99 wrote:
         | Thanks for the feedback.
        
       | netr0ute wrote:
       | I love this! I can't believe there hasn't been anything even
       | close to this before. Usually, sites that have even one or two of
       | the converters (such as the base64 ones) are riddled with ads or
       | just low-quality.
        
         | KodyBerns99 wrote:
         | Thank you, it means a lot
        
       | Shalle135 wrote:
       | Are these tools opensourced?
        
       | sourcecodeplz wrote:
       | Congrats and thank you for building this! Awesome project and the
       | site is snappy fast.
        
         | KodyBerns99 wrote:
         | Thanks for appreciation.
        
       | llagerlof wrote:
       | Are you unemployed or millionaire?
        
         | ethanwillis wrote:
         | I think this an insensitive comment. I don't know if you meant
         | it that way, but if so well. You know :)
         | 
         | In either case whether the OP is unemployed or a millionaire
         | this takes dedication and hard work and it's an amazing amount
         | of work so good for them!
        
           | KodyBerns99 wrote:
           | Thanks for the support, I think he meant how someone can
           | spare so much time in creating them.
        
             | llagerlof wrote:
             | Sorry, I don't meant to be insensitive.
        
         | KodyBerns99 wrote:
         | It was a hobby project to have some tools of my own, but once I
         | started... every day a new idea for a tool started popping up
         | and I kept creating one after another
        
           | arcturus17 wrote:
           | It's very cool, but nothing drove you aside of that? Did you
           | think it would bring you prestige, etc.? Did something else
           | than the joy of coding keep you going?
        
             | xigoi wrote:
             | https://justforfunnoreally.dev/
        
           | ggandhi wrote:
           | I know this feeling. I have gone down similar rabbit hole
           | once too; and it was fun, relaxing and act as a stress buster
           | for me. Thanks for sharing these.
        
         | mdp2021 wrote:
         | Some people try and combine the utility of tools, experience
         | and portfolio increases with the ever decreased effort and
         | investment given by focused intent. Science of optimization
         | (wonder where optimization experts may gather?)
        
         | Tempest1981 wrote:
         | Could be a weekend hobby -- 12 per weekend. Still, good
         | dedication!
        
           | KodyBerns99 wrote:
           | Yes, but sometimes I ended up making just one because things
           | sometimes dont go as per plan.
        
       | Waterluvian wrote:
       | This is great!
       | 
       | A tiny, insignificant piece of feedback: if I'm searching and
       | there's only one result, can Return automatically pick that one?
       | Or maybe just the top result.
        
         | KodyBerns99 wrote:
         | Thanks for the feedback, will keep note of it.
        
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