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

1901 points l2silver | 2 comments | 27 Apr 23 15:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.642s | 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. flyingpuffin ◴[28 Apr 23 09:07 UTC] No.35739069[source]▶
I built this simple website https://unexploredhq.com to find interesting (less known) places to travel with my SO and family. Instead of searching for new places by name, one can search for new places in a region with simple attributes.

I have built the database by scraping some data online, and have a database of 60,000+ locations. The attributes are built with some basic ML and text processing, nothing fancy. But this is sufficient for me to do this search: find places in Europe where I can do surfing and hiking with a temperature of less than 25 degrees.

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2. CredibleSulk ◴[29 Apr 23 19:38 UTC] No.35756344[source]▶
Hey - this is actually pretty useful. Tried for my family trip and got some decent suggestions.