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Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?

1901 points l2silver | 3 comments | 27 Apr 23 15:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.522s | source

Maybe you've created your own AR program for wearables that shows the definition of a word when you highlight it IRL, or you've built a personal calendar app for your family to display on a monitor in the kitchen. Whatever it is, I'd love to hear it.
1. gdulli ◴[27 Apr 23 16:24 UTC] No.35730499[source]▶
I'm a big SNL nerd and have favorite sketches/memories going back over 30 years. I find it very rewatchable, but streaming services don't have full episodes, and even downloading full episodes wouldn't make it easy to find individual sketches. So I built a Plex library of over 500 individual sketches using some automation.

I used yt-dlp to download the metadata for over 6,000 videos on the SNL Youtube channel. I put it into a database, parsing out season/episode into fields where possible. Then I wrote a small Flask app to search or browse seasons/episodes, from which I could flag for download the sketches I wanted.

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2. l2silver ◴[27 Apr 23 18:51 UTC] No.35732861[source]▶
Awesome! I hope you make this public one day.
3. therealplato ◴[30 Apr 23 00:48 UTC] No.35758719[source]▶
in lieu of making it public, publish a table of timestamped youtube links