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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: 0.428s | 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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mariusvaporware ◴[28 Apr 23 12:41 UTC] No.35740571[source]▶
A software developer and football (soccer) fan who lives in an antipodean time zone, I enjoy watching games on demand the morning after they occur. Apart from watching the games of the team I support, I like to watch one or two of the most entertaining games in any given week, but score spoilers absolutely ruin the experience for me.

So, I created https://laterball.com: a web app the algorithmically determines the best games of the past 7 days without score spoilers, to let me (and you) know which games are worth spending time watching. There was also an associated twitter bot at https://twitter.com/laterball which occasionally tweets when there's been a high-quality game until the recent Twitter API changes.

Technical stuff: the back end is a Ktor server hosted on a linode instance which pulls statistics data from an API to determine the ratings. Factors used to determine ratings include goals (number, timing, swings in score, comebacks), xG, wins or draws against the odds, cards, and a few others.

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1. runeb ◴[28 Apr 23 19:55 UTC] No.35746298[source]▶
Very nice project, thank you! As a european transplanted to the U.S I feel this challenge with score spoilers as well. Streaming services that do not offer hiding scores, or who even insist on leading with scores in their UI are now brands I actively avoid. Such a small simple UX detail leading to absolute shunning of a whole media company.
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2. grogenaut ◴[30 Apr 23 02:37 UTC] No.35759251[source]▶
I stopped with the nfl because their streaming app would put up the newest video from any given team as soon as it was published... guess what comes right after the game video? the post game interview. So you load up the app and some reporter is asking a sad player a question, spoiled with spoilers mode on.