Ask HN: Show me your tiny but useful project

[dholowiski]

I just built http://wethr.ca - it only took 3 hours and $5 for a domain name. It's extremely basic, but extremely useful to me as-is. That got me inspired, that I could build something so useful so quickly. So please share your smallest, but most useful project - even if it's super buggy and nowhere near finished yet.

[SingAlong]

Wrote a simple command-line TODO list manager called "j" in ruby. I use it everyday. if you have rubygems, it can b installed by

  gem install j

http://github.com/HashNuke/j

[asb]

Neat, my implementation of the command-line TODO list manager is sh-todo (written in POSIX compliant shell for maximum portability):

https://github.com/asb/sh-todo

[megamark16]

I threw together http://www.dragdropcomics.com/ to make it easier to create Rage Face comics on Reddit, then I realized that there were already two or three very good and fully fleshed out Rage Face comic web apps, so I kinda left it as is. My idea was that artists could upload their own character sets and people could pick a character set to make a comic out of, but I never really moved beyond the initial version of it.

[combiclickwise]

This one from me http://netreputation.co.uk/extractor/

created it as a way to screen scrape a page easily and generate a rss feed out of it for my other projects.

[andor]

I made this command line client for arte+7 -- the online archive of the French/German tv station arte:

https://gist.github.com/5723dfec63b24d64bf6a

If you like arte but rather use mplayer than Flash, this might be interesting to you. Note that it supports resuming downloads.

[qxb]

This is fantastic. Many thanks for sharing.

[poissonpie]

http://coloringout.com - I'm not very good with colour schemes - this one let's me take an existing css and transmogrify it to a new colour, keeping the relative "distance" between each colour value. I built it in php and then in python. I use it....don't think anyone else does though :)

[lancashire]

http://karmurl.com - give feedback to receive feedback.

[jemptymethod]

The following approximation of Adobe AIR took gluing together and/or modifying about a half-dozen existing open source projects with just about 100 lines of code:

http://code.google.com/p/deskml/

[pkamb]

Reddit Notifier for your Mac OS X menu bar: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/reddit-notifier/id468366517

[hitezh]

I built http://stackmonthly.com/ to help me discover the better questions asked on StackOverflow, and improve my knowledge.

[ianpurton]

That's a great one.

[qger]

http://zrp.tournament.de

A google maps based roundtrip solver using three different optimization algorithms.

[akeck]

I created a compact plaintext Todo list format: http://www.texttodo.org/. I use it everyday.

[kisom]

I wrote a simple timecard program.

https://github.com/kisom/timecard

[tamersalama]

I've created http://mybus.ca to quickly access Calgary bus schedules

[ttpva]

http://bouncely.com - Bounce processing for Amazon SES

[abava]

http://tinfo.linkstore.ru WHOIS for Twitter

[revorad]

Share What You Make - http://swym.me

[juanipis]

siri is for your iphone, twitjustice will read twitter feeds for you on your mac - http://twitjustice.org

[LUTOPiA]

https://github.com/FreeRPGengine/Free-RPG-Engine-FaceBook-Ga... Free FaceBook RPG game engine