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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: 0s | 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.
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elmerfud ◴[27 Apr 23 15:36 UTC] No.35729695[source]▶
Way back in the day before space was a non-issue I bought a used pioneer 720 disk DVD changer. Wrote a frontend to control it and mount the DVDs over iscsi for my media center.

Also many years back when I was traveling all the time I created a thing based off the what 3 words data where I could geo drop messages at a location. My friends and I used it for a while but then just forgot about it.

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l2silver ◴[27 Apr 23 16:39 UTC] No.35730733[source]▶
That geolocation messaging sounds brilliant. I guess Pokemon Go stole your idea.
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elmerfud ◴[27 Apr 23 20:27 UTC] No.35734060[source]▶
It was neat but I never thought it would go anywhere. The idea was kind of like being able to leave virtual graffiti. So anyone could leave their "Kilroy was here" but without actually defacing anything.
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1. Tepix ◴[28 Apr 23 08:33 UTC] No.35738916{3}[source]▶
That seems like a cool idea, a bit like web annotations (which never took off) but for real world locations.

Ideally you can subscribe to different databases unlike say Google Maps reviews.