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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

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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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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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@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

7:19 AM · Aug 22, 2022Twitter Web App

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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."