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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: 0.227s | 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. madisp ◴[28 Apr 23 05:19 UTC] No.35737693[source]▶
not sure how interesting but definitely useful :D I like to listen to Albums and I missed the "Give me a random album from my collection" functionality in Spotify so built a tiny webapp to do exactly that - https://shuffle.ninja.

It uses the Spotify web APIs to fetch your album collection and gives back a random album from it. I use it daily.

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2. GeorgeHahn ◴[28 Apr 23 07:13 UTC] No.35738424[source]▶
I love this idea! Thanks for sharing, I'm looking forward to trying this out day to day.
3. barnabee ◴[28 Apr 23 08:06 UTC] No.35738740[source]▶
This is great!

I’ve always wished for a replacement Spotify UI that’s entirely album focused.