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Ask HN: Show me your tiny but useful project

18 points by dholowiski ↗ HN
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.

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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.
[dead] freedw
I created http://brands.tk to get some marketing gigs. I wanted to do something interesting with my time .
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.
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

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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 :)