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1901 points l2silver | 1 comments | | HN request time: 0.41s | 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. KomoD ◴[] No.35758214[source]
Nothing crazy but, an app that tracks products in grocery stores.

Just open the app and scan a barcode and it'll give product info such as name, description, nutritional info, pricing across stores and price change past 30 days.

Built with React Native, InfluxDB, and go for the backend and scraper, products get scraped from all the stores every day and gets stored in InfluxDB.

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Also built a desktop app for toggling ANC on my bluetooth headphones, the only ways to toggle ANC were a mobile app (which requires pairing to phone, thereby dropping connection to PC), or holding a physical button (which was next to the button to enter pairing mode so I kept accidentally pressing it), so I learned how to snoop on bluetooth LE and reverse engineered it with Android and Wireshark, it was a fun project and incredibly useful to me.