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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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@m1guelpf

· Aug 21

Replying to @Mappletons

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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Josh W. Comeau

@JoshWComeau

Aug 21

omg I have so many. Although I typically do release them for others to use as well. Beatmapper, a Beat Saber level editor, because I didn't like the existing ones: beatmapper.app Tello, a TV-tracking app because I was sick of missing TV shows: tello.tv

Josh W. Comeau

@JoshWComeau

Aug 21

A few months back, my partner needed a way to convert to/from Munsell colors, a color mode from 100 years ago used for soil colors. There was an NPM package, and so I built a mini UI around it in 10 minutes:

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GitHub - joshwcomeau/munsell-colors

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My fave examples are when people build tiny helpers for their partners or family. Makes so obvious that non-computery-people want & need programming to solve problems in their lives. Think about all the folks who don't have a dev nerd around to hand-craft software for them 😢

3:34 PM · Aug 21, 2022Twitter Web App

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