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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: 0.493s | 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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simonsarris ◴[27 Apr 23 17:46 UTC] No.35731879[source]▶
I built carefulwords.com simply because I wanted to type a word into the address bar and get a large list of synonyms and some historical quotes using the word quickly. For example:

https://carefulwords.com/solitude

https://carefulwords.com/think

etc. Also unlike thesaurus.com, the search bar actually focuses so you can just start typing!

It's not perfect, I need to do a lot of editing, but nonetheless I use it almost every time I write, now.

The site is a little over 30,000 static HTML pages built with a number of TypeScript scripts that compile some sources for synonyms, parts of speech, and the quotes.

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1. greenpeas ◴[28 Apr 23 11:33 UTC] No.35740003[source]▶
This is really cool! Could you please add a keyboard shortcut for focusing the input field? (perhaps a forward slash '/' like on Youtube or Github)
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2. simonsarris ◴[28 Apr 23 12:36 UTC] No.35740546[source]▶
Sure thing, I'll add that tonight.