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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: 0.526s | 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. kristopolous ◴[29 Apr 23 08:41 UTC] No.35751217[source]▶
It's worth noting the best thesaurus I've found is onelook. Compare to the solitude results

https://onelook.com/thesaurus/?s=solitude

This is by datamuse who also does rhymezone (https://datamuse.com/)

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2. simplify ◴[30 Apr 23 03:18 UTC] No.35759409[source]▶
Onelook is incredible. Indispensable for any art of writing.