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

1901 points l2silver | 1 comments | 27 Apr 23 15:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.23s | 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. donatj ◴[28 Apr 23 05:54 UTC] No.35737913[source]▶
I have been working on a note taking app with a fully open API since 2008 on and off. I intended to open it to the public around 2010 but SimpleNote popped up and drank my milkshake. I even switched over myself.

Since then however they've closed their formerly open API. This inspired me to pick it back up.

I've got a mobile friendly webapp, an official SDK, a basic cli for scripting. Basically everything I wanted.

The UI of the webapp is pretty spartan as I prefer, so I'm scared it doesn't have mass appeal. It's super fast however.

I have hundreds of notes in it, use it for all my note keeping. I am it's only user. My friends have access, but they don't use regularly.

I want to open up to the public eventually, but these days I'd really want to get e2e encryption working before doing so and just have not found the time.