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Hey HN, Today I&#x27;ve open sourced aPulse, a very simple server-status monitoring tool that runs through a single watcher.js file (zero dependencies).<p>It measures latency, runs checks on the page to ensure no errors are found and provides the information in a minimalist dashboard.<p>It also supp...

I&#x27;ve created a status page with some of the most popular AI platforms.<p>It&#x27;s a way to show some of <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;IsDown.app" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;IsDown.app</a> capabilities and to test it as a possible marketing channel. This could be replicated for other vertica...

Ran into enough issues that I wanted to switch from youtube music to spotify. So I made a small tool to keep my liked music and playlists.<p>It will match exact and fuzzy match tracks and will give you a nice output to show progress.<p>If you also want to make the move, try it out! Let me know if yo...

I built Potty, a modular command-line tool in Python that lets you download music from Spotify by leveraging yt-dlp. It features interactive menus for downloads and management, system resource checks to optimize performance, playlist imports, metadata embedding, retrying failed downloads, and more —...

I built TestiWall, a simple tool to collect and display testimonials (or “Walls of Love”) on your website.<p>I made it because I needed an easy, no-code way to show real feedback from users on my own projects, but all the existing tools were either too complex or expensive.<p>With TestiWall, you can...

Hello HN,<p>I built and open-sourced Spotify-Live-Banner, a project designed to embed a dynamic, real-time image of the user&#x27;s currently playing Spotify song into their online profiles (primarily GitHub READMEs).<p>*Technical Details:* * Built as a minimalist web service using *Python (Flask)*....

I hacked this together last night after trying a number of time-tracking/Pomodoro apps and realizing I disliked all of them and could just make one that fits my style. The goals for the tool are: _simplicity_, a _command-line interface_, and an optional plaint-text logging format that lends itself s...

So I've been working on a Lobsters iPhone app over the past day or so and I think I'm going to turn it into a full blown app. I've been working with jcs to get a basic JSON API going that I can build this on top of and we've already got a basic version working that lets you browse links on the front...

Check out my side project [https://domainregret.com/]. This is a marketplace for when you have domains you've been sitting on for a while that totally sounded like a good idea at 2am and you were a tad bit drunk but now you're not so certain. I'm trying to work out the kinks and get some feedback!

I was [asked to link](https://lobste.rs/s/pu55v6/ask_lobsters_what_are_you_working_on/comments/s4457f) when I finished my book project; printing took a couple weeks longer than expected. I'll write up a more technical blog post and leave a link as a comment here in a few days, but the high-level ver...

After seeing the sublime plugin (https://github.com/jisaacks/GitGutter) and getting a little jealous I decided to write my own version for vim. Still in beta status, and sadly not async - but that's on the roadmap to being fixed.

Worked on this at $dayjob, and we open sourced it yesterday. Initial driving requirements were: * Use as part of proof-of-concept testing with a 3rd party memcache proxy that speaks only the binary protocol * Work well with darner/kestral queues and nosql datastores (via proxies like couchbas...

So, I made this. It's a readable feed reader that promotes interesting content based on articles you vote for. This is not a finished product, I'm trying this "release early" thing hoping to get some opinions. The timing seems right with Google Reader disappearing. Readable.cc is open-source (...

Still very alpha... developed during a Startup Weekend event.

I built this in order to satisfy a personal need, i.e. to find the cheapest place where to buy books from. There are quite a few competitors out there already, but none of them quite lived up to what I wanted.