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Scrappy – Make little apps for you and your friends

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463 points 8organicbits | 6 comments | 18 Jun 25 05:16 UTC | HN request time: 1.137s | source | bottom
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hiAndrewQuinn ◴[18 Jun 25 08:50 UTC] No.44307978[source]▶
You can make an awful lot of useful little tools with an LLM, vanilla JavaScript, GitHub Pages, and the user's own localStorage as a semi-persistence layer. Two 9s and cross-platform to boot.

Recently I made a diet checklist [1] that I've been following more or less to the letter 5 days out of the week. I have a little Android button that just opens right up to the web page. I click, click, click, then move on with my day. If I feel I need to change something I can copy a plain text screenshot of what's on there currently and chat with Gemini about it.

I'm really liking this new wave of technology.

[1]: https://hiandrewquinn.github.io/diet-checklist/

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zigman1 ◴[18 Jun 25 08:53 UTC] No.44307996[source]▶
+1 over this. As someone without a deep technical background, LLMs enabled me to improve my life unimaginably, being able to quickly sketch and develop small features that remove every day annoyance.
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1. fuzztester ◴[18 Jun 25 09:48 UTC] No.44308279[source]▶
examples?
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2. zigman1 ◴[18 Jun 25 11:35 UTC] No.44308954[source]▶
My very first thing was automation of placing my journal entry to appropriate Google Drive folder. I write my brain dump/journal everyday in Google Docs, and if I just click "New document, it places it in the root GDrive folder, and I had to move it manually which I am to lazy to do it.

LLM helped me write a python script that searches the root folder, finds the right document (name is always the date of the day), and searches for the right folder in assigned Google Drive repository (and creates a yearly or monthly folder if a new month starts).

It also helped me create a yaml script for Github actions to trigger this once every day.

I felt like a magician. Since then I created second brain databases, internal index of valuable youtube videos, where I call the api to get transcripts and send it to llm, other note taking automations etc etc

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3. fuzztester ◴[18 Jun 25 16:38 UTC] No.44311353[source]▶
sounds like some cool automations, thanks.

by api you mean youtube api?

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4. zigman1 ◴[19 Jun 25 07:29 UTC] No.44316350{3}[source]▶
In this particular case I call a commercial api by supdata

And I use youtube api to extract metadata of the video(s)

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5. fuzztester ◴[25 Jun 25 02:05 UTC] No.44373043{4}[source]▶
thankee kindly, meinherr :)
6. fuzztester ◴[25 Jun 25 02:07 UTC] No.44373052[source]▶
you felt like a magician?

i am one.

;)