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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: 0.42s | 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. davidfstr ◴[28 Apr 23 14:24 UTC] No.35741619[source]▶
I created a smart spreadsheet app for tracking any books, movies, or TV series I'm interested in watching which can automatically run web searches for sources to stream/rent/buy any item on the list (ex: Netflix, Amazon Prime, my local library, my local bookstore).

This way I can focus on what I want to watch and not worry about how I will watch it.

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2. ornornor ◴[06 May 23 19:38 UTC] No.35844696[source]▶
If you don’t already know it servarr (radarr, sonarr, etc) will also download it for you and sync your tv media player (Kodi etc). It also handles failures, redownloads, quality upgrades. Downloads from torrents and/or newsgroup. There is also one for books but I forget the name.