Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

I wrote a client & server to monitor all of my computers.. ec2 instances, raspberry pis, etc. Similar to Monit & M/Monit

https://github.com/klinquist/machinemon

Non profit catalog of currently sold swiss army knives. Filterable by tools included, with comparisons too. https://www.sakfinder.com/

A desktop markdown editor for design docs in git repos with markdown diff highlighting. Has been a time consuming but super fun experience https://github.com/emrul/md

I built an RSS feed reader for Claude, https://clawfeeds.com/ it does very be little: 1. check the feeds, and 2. Turn the output into easy to parse markdown

- a personal and private webpage for: health: garmin metrics, apple health metrics, blood tests, rx.. - a kind of readitlater and bookmark index - personal finance: wip - in my homelab only available within tailscale.

The final idea is to own all my data, but I’m still on it.

Pretty happy so far

https://runnem.com - something I use to easily get projects running again when I get back to them. It also helps the AI get at the logs of the running processes.

- web scraper for events my wife and I would like for date night

- a stateless dashboard for work that collects from 6 other APIs

- a refactor of a huge function with 8-deep indentation into readable small functions

- a road trip game for my kids where you take photos of things from the car

I've been trying to make a comprehensive trading platform for crypto - with different verticals like DeFi and CEX. Why so? Because there are more libraries like ccxt to get data to analyse - rather than for the Forex and funds

Wispr flow released android version few months back but wasn't supported in my 6 year old phone so made a similar app named Floatspeak. Which motivated me to made a windows version of it and now stopped paying Wispr flow altogether.

https://github.com/clj-android

I can once again write Clojure apps for my phone, which is fun to do by hand, unlike more conventional tools for writing Android apps.

I converted my web app to a SwiftUI macOS app https://hnr.app

It has less features (no OG media or title/story analysis via Bedrock) but it focuses more on the features I like/need from an HN client

I'm building an app that generates lifting mesocycles and tracks every set and rep. Each week, it uses feedback from the previous workouts to adjust training volume and intensity. It's replacing an app I currently pay $25/month for.

I was able to create a CLI (https://github.com/gitsense/gsc-cli) without knowing Go. Like 0% Go knowledge. It is currently over 300 files (266 Go files).

https://github.com/stefanhoelzl/codehydra

Allows me to efficiently work on multiple tasks in multiple repositories concurrently.

I have a bunch of ffmpeg scripts for specific things like compressing to 10MB for discord.

I wrote a terminal based version of Conductor, heavily based on my own preferred workflows: https://github.com/bakedbean/workspacex

I always was frustrated by link shorteners and predatory approaches. So I built https://slsh.me

Fun to build again, host on bare metal and all. Learned a lot!

Not tools but my Quickshell config. Of course AI made a ton of mistakes so I cleaned it up a lot myself. But I was able to go from not having ever written a line of QML nor reading the docs to having a working top bar pretty quickly.

I made an envelope accounting page for my accounts that don't have it. Prior to AI I was just complaining about it, even though I'm a developer.

https://buckets.joelryan.com

Built a app to manage my finances - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.silicn.kas...

Well, I've been pretty active in our rec baseball team for the past few seasons, so: 1) App to help my son and other kids learn baseball IQ, and 2) Streaming app to compete against GameChanger. It's been refreshing to say the least. :)

I'm building a replacement for TablePlus: a TableAI database client, because the latest releases of TablePlus have gone down in terms of user interface quality. You can find it on the Mac App Store(TableAI - AI database client)

I’m a UK teacher. I have built a custom GPT that marks essays for the subject I teach in a repeatable and reliable way. It gives actionable feedback to students.

I use it, and have given my students access to it too - they use it to help their revision.

I made yek for myself because I realized unless I give models the entire relevant code I wasn't getting good results

https://github.com/mohsen1/yek

this thread is crazy.. hackers are clearly hacking, myself included. A lot of what I've built I've already seen here:

1. home automation, access point management, solar/battery health monitors

2. family week management with schedules, todo's, scripture of the week

3. page-to-pod (browse, click one button, TTS to podcast episode on my phone)

4. daily summary of AI news to a new pod episode on my phone

5. easy theme switching from light to dark on my mac

6. and more....

what does this mean about the future of software? looks like consumer software will be "instant and on demand".

Claudette: A Sublime Text package that adds a Claude AI chat interface to the editor.

https://packagecontrol.io/packages/Claudette

Ive made some tools after "the advent of AI"

But I dont use "AI" to make them

I use a code generator

I like to use the smallest possible "toolchain", using the least possible resources, to build software tools

Ideally I want the tools to compile quickly on underpowered hardware

Many, recently:

- I coded myself a portfolio manager to manage all the projects that I have

- secrets management tool to avoid accidental leaks of tokens by AIs

- tool for automatic creation of training/product presentation videos for web apps

- sales training app

I made a sandbox to productively work with agents while restricting files they can read and write: https://github.com/wrr/drop

i made a tool thats a combination of 2.5d cad and smart stylus for making things i can print for leather making, with embroidery patterns on top.

ive made some wallets, a incredible pair of ear muffs, and a bunch of key tags.

i keep being asked if im selling anything, and when i get the next piece together of building/buying an embroidery machine that can work on leather, i might

i still dont want to buy a proper fabric cad system, so im trying to figure out a minimal version for making glasses cases for everyone's christmas gifts. its handy being able to draw inputs for claude, but its also nails-on-a-chalkboard

Credit card break even calculator (US based) https://platmath.com

It updates itself in a day or 2 when card benefits change

I’m building an agent-native deployment PaaS. I’ve done a lot of DevOps work and I keep starting side projects, and deploying with AI agents has been one of the most painful parts.

A ninteneon3ds game explorer where i can look at games and bookmark them with comfortable screenshot preview so i can check what i would like (i never knew what game i should play on it and there are hundreds)

A local-first, obsidian-inspired Grimoire that writes its own md files https://grimnotes.lovable.app/

I made a calculator for DIY endurance gels. I think it’s pretty sweet. https://www.theinstant.cc/gel

a tool that helps me work in hallucination-sensitive contexts

https://github.com/dvelton/eyeball

I made a minimal news aggregator for dev sites I regularly visit this weekend: https://n3ws.dev

I made https://slowso.io/ : a tool for myself (and anyone) to consume social media asynchronously.

created https://github.com/frontman-ai/frontman, not exclusivly for myself but something i'm passionate about(might turn into a paid product).

basically trying to see what a vertically integrated agent looks like, where the agent has deep access inside a framework and it operates from within a framework, so like, instead of reading files, opening processes etc - it gets a bunch of framework specific runtime tools(logs are the easiest example)

An attempt at an artificial unconscious. Turns out it’s pretty hard to inspire an LLM to be creative.

https://sisuonspeaks.com/

Code review tool that breaks up diffs and regroups fragments based on runtime execution paths and/or architectural boundaries. I find it useful sometimes to see changes organised that way.

https://charleswiltgen.github.io/Axiom/ – Suite of skills, agents, and tools that make general SOTA models actually good at building and/or auditing iOS/macOS apps. Built for myself initially, I FOSS'd it once I determined how generally helpful it was. It's helped me learn a lot about doing sophisicated things with LLMs in a token-efficient way.

https://charleswiltgen.github.io/TagLib-Wasm/ – Also built for myself initially, I FOSS'd it because there was nothing like Mutagen for TypeScript/JavaScript runtimes. (I don't dislike Python, but think it's a bit of a mess.) This was my first serious project to leverage LLMs for coding.

https://pwascore.com/ – Built because I wanted to quantify how bad Safari was at PWAs. Learned that, objectively, Safari is as bad as PWAs as Firefox (which is to say, not terrible, and not to blame for why PWAs continue to be mostly-irrelevant).

I built a tiny tool to help decide the seating chart for my small wedding. It was a cute GUI on top of a simple constraint solver.

It wasn't perfect, but it helped me feel confident in the final result.

Mods! I've written mods for a couple of games that I've always wanted to but never had the time to learn the SDK for. Most recently for Project Zomboid.

I wish I had time, but I would definitely make some Android apps to sideload onto my phone. They would be very bespoke and probably only relevant to me, but they would be streamlined to my life.

I've created about 20 Obsidian plugins, little tools, websites, a new storefront, etc

https://tools.dsebastien.net/

Always curious about which llms perform best in specific scenarios, so I built a local desktop app to benchmark and evaluate prompts and llms side by side.

Tabular Eye. Aligns code without modifying it.

https://github.com/ericfortis/tabular-eye