[HN Gopher] Ask HN: What niche task/tool websites have you built?
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Ask HN: What niche task/tool websites have you built?
For example, I made a website which helps to find good cities for
visa-free international meetings by estimating the cost of many
people with different passports traveling from different places. I
will not link to it here suffice to say that it only got 1 HN vote
likely because it is not useful for 99% of people. What niche
task-oriented / decision making websites have you built to
completion? Especially, if you shared it previously but it didn't
do well.
Author : xk3
Score : 14 points
Date : 2023-08-30 20:32 UTC (2 hours ago)
| SubGenius wrote:
| Matrix server that is publicly accessible [0].
|
| [0] - https://shpong.com/shpong
| xk3 wrote:
| ah I saw you on tildes.net
|
| https://tildes.net/~comp/19wc/what_programming_technical_pro...
|
| small world
| SubGenius wrote:
| Yeah thought I'd post on the weekly thread there. :)
| j-rom wrote:
| I build a minimal site that shows the current time in UTC. The
| goal was to create an effect like a "wall of clocks" that you see
| on TV and in movies.
|
| https://currenttimeutc.com/
|
| I also made a site that lets you schedule a Google Calendar
| meeting in 1-click:
|
| https://carvemeetings.com/
| mydriasis wrote:
| Learn Yugoslavian online for free. No cloud, no whammies. All
| client-side!
|
| https://vidovi.ch/assets/flashcards.html#
| mdwalters wrote:
| I was inspired by GitHub Projects' new table layout to make it
| into a really simple to-do list website. I wouldn't say this is
| complete, but it does it's job.
|
| https://tables.pages.dev/
| xk3 wrote:
| not really niche yet but good starting point to branch off to
| niche tools!
|
| You should definitely consider adding save to / load from
| localStorage, IndexedDB, or URL.
|
| Nice thing about URL is you can send pages to other people like
| this:
|
| https://unli.xyz/tabsender/?links=%22open%20a%20bank%20accou...
|
| Or use LZString https://github.com/pieroxy/lz-string like this:
|
| https://unli.xyz/html/edit.html?t=%22DwBwfALghgTgXlAdsA9OYAz...
|
| An accidental page refresh shouldn't eliminate all your TODOs
| :/
| mdwalters wrote:
| True. I was thinking of picking this project back up, and
| this would be a good addition. I think using LZString would
| be a good idea, as it could be able to share tables with
| others.
| andrewfromx wrote:
| Invoice pdfs https://many.pw/sd
| paeselhz wrote:
| Recently I've built a tool to explore Inflation data in Canada (
| https://maplecpi.ca/ ). Certainly not interesting to everyone,
| but still gave me some insights on the current situation of the
| economy.
| xk3 wrote:
| Yes! This is the kind of stuff I'm talking about. I have
| absolutely no use for this (but I'm sure there are a few people
| out in the world who would love this) and I thank you for
| posting
| Syntaf wrote:
| https://wetrockpolice.com/redrock
|
| Rock climbing is really popular here Las Vegas, but due to the
| sandstone being brittle it's both dangerous and "bad ethics" to
| climb after rain and risk breaking popular climbing routes. I
| wrote a tool that checks precipitation information from the rain
| gauge at the park's visitor center and displays it in an easy-to-
| understand manner.
|
| Nowadays the site supports a couple other rain-sensitive areas,
| but Red Rock is primary the reason people visit this site.
| xk3 wrote:
| I love this! Most important information at the top and more
| detailed information when scrolling down. Perfect :)
| a_bored_husky wrote:
| Dealing with the steep costs of internet services in my country
| and being an avid podcast listener myself, me and a couple of
| friends came up with a solution. We developed a website that
| works as a mirror for users' selected podcast feeds and converts
| the episodes into opus format, slashing the mobile data
| consumption that's a real concern for internet access here:
| https://easypodcasts.live
|
| It's FOSS and free as in beer.
| zeagle wrote:
| That's a great design and idea. Thanks for sharing!
| a_bored_husky wrote:
| Thank you.
| mtmail wrote:
| In my industry there's no standard if a position should be
| latitude,longitude or vice versa. Every tool wants them
| different, it's easy to have them mixed.
|
| https://flipcoords.com/
| xk3 wrote:
| I also do a lot of GIS stuff and I might actually use this in
| the future.
|
| I agree it is pretty niche. It might be nice to support non-
| WGS84 coordinates
| mtmail wrote:
| You mean DMS (degrees, minutes, seconds) as input?
| xk3 wrote:
| sure, or meters. These are common projections:
|
| - EPSG:3857 Web Mercator
|
| - EPSG:6933 https://nsidc.org/data/user-resources/help-
| center/guide-ease...
|
| - UTM
|
| You could just support Web Mercator, if normal or swapped
| are not valid coordinates, assume Web Mercator and check if
| they are valid coordinates. If they are swapped it will
| still be in the general area even if the projection is not
| exactly matching
| hbcondo714 wrote:
| https://github.com/hbcondo/revenut-app
|
| I built this web + mobile app (PWA) written in React Native +
| TypeScript that does simple revenue forecasting for a SaaS that
| uses Stripe.
|
| Stripe's mobile app and others kinda do this already but some of
| their numbers can be inaccurate (as detailed in the repo's
| readme) so that made me open-source + solve an issue my own
| SaaS[1] has with Stripe.
|
| As mentioned in the challenge section, getting data from Stripe
| is slow so I've been reluctant to put this app in front of others
| even though it is fully functional.
|
| I actually shared this on a similar HN thread not too long ago[2]
|
| [1] https://Last10K.com
|
| [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37156101
| xk3 wrote:
| Interesting! Great submission.
|
| > I've been reluctant to put this app in front of others even
| though it is fully functional
|
| I have a few projects like that. I've built something that
| works for me but I don't really want to bare the maintenance
| costs so I don't tell anyone about it
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