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Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?

1901 points l2silver | 3 comments | 27 Apr 23 15:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | 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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winsbe01 ◴[30 Apr 23 01:07 UTC] No.35758805[source]▶
My family has historically been very into genealogy research, so we've got lots of family tree info. I've been working with my aunt to put together a webapp to create/edit info, see relationships, show ancestors/descendants of individuals. We've also started adding photos recently, which is really cool.

Favorite feature we've built: "are you my cousin", where you choose 2 people in our database and it calculates how they are related. First time I got to write a search function outside of a classroom!

I'm sure Ancestry does all this and more, but it's nice to have something that we built that's just for our family. We also use it all the time to verify relationships/birthdays!

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1. jtaillon ◴[30 Apr 23 01:39 UTC] No.35758960[source]▶
Do you have/do you plan to open source this anywhere? I'd be really interested in checking it out!
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2. winsbe01 ◴[30 Apr 23 01:46 UTC] No.35758992[source]▶
I've not put a ton of thought into a plan to open source it, but we've got comments from friends who also have a lot of genealogical info that it would be super helpful for their info, so maybe? It's basically just a CRUD Django app at it's core, so I don't know how interesting it would be.
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3. jtaillon ◴[30 Apr 23 04:10 UTC] No.35759627[source]▶
I think a lot of people would be into this. If you're willing to, you should totally do it! You might get some good contributions from the community, too.