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📣 Request for examples 📣 Mini apps and bits of software you’ve built just for yourself and/or friends and family. Things that don’t scale, aren’t meant for others to use, & valuable just for your specific, snowflake use case. Ideally custom built, but could be jerry-rigged
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I'd really love a thread of more people who build these kinds of apps, it's always such an amazing source of inspiration
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Maggie 🔜 visting SFO 🇺🇸
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And by “jerry-rigged” I mean primarily duct taping together existing systems in ways they weren’t necessarily designed to be used. Scrapyard scavenging existing functionality in SaaS apps in lieu of using a “real” programming language
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Maggie 🔜 visting SFO 🇺🇸
@Mappletons
The outpouring of replies here has been abundant & beautiful. The moral of this story is EUP is alive and well among devs. And ✨everyone else✨ also needs access to tools that allow them to build personal, private, snowflakey software. The slow march towards personal computing
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Maggie 🔜 visting SFO 🇺🇸
@Mappletons
EUP = End-user programming Regular people with serious use cases and needs that self-made, personalised software could help solve. But who have no interest in becoming professional programmers. Extracts from Bonnie Nardi's book "A Small Matter of Programming" (1993)
Screenshot of written text: "It is helpful to understand that a key difference between professional programmers and end users is that programmers like computers because they get to program, and end users like computers because they get to get their work done."
Screenshot of written text: "no matter how much designers and programmers try to anticipate and provide for what users will need, the effort always falls short because it is impossible to know in advance what may be needed."
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Daniel Pipkin 🦥
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Interactive transcript toy I made recently
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HTML is great. Inspired by @tobyshooter I recently put together a "home-cooked" application to explore navigating audio with a timestamped transcript. It's just an HTML file pointing to an .mp3 and .srt on my computer. twitter.com/tobyshooters/s…
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Phil Scott
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My wife works at 12 different hospitals and gets her schedule in iCal format. Description is just "HB" which is an abbreviation of the hospital. I wrapped it in a service that expands the name, and adds an address so that her map app can give her drive time and traffic.
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mnl
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Having focused on work in the last decade, building such tools for my colleagues, I have no personal examples rn. I think a lot of excel/google sheets fall in this category. I am reading Ivan Illich's Tools for Conviviality and there are a lot of parallels.
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