Ask HN: What are some free apps you wish existed?

3 points by ceramicfoot ↗ HN
e.g. Free versions of existing paid apps or apps you just wish existed, but not enough to pay for them.

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Some to measure my golf swing and track my balls.
Don't know about the golf swing, but that other requirement is taken care of by way of marriage.
Hmm. The first that comes to mind is a TradingView Premium that only costs money if the user connects a broker...

Other than that I've been looking for something like an interval-chain timer looping app. Where you can chain intervals together, like connect 45-5-10-5 minute timers, with maybe a different alarm or message when each interval timer is done. Then the app would keep looping over that sequence until I'm done. And allow me to save and retrieve different timer sequences.

I built a mockup of this in bash that works OK, but it needs more attention than I can give, and a phone version would be more convenient in some ways.

Just some ideas!

Have you spent much time searching for an app with interval chaining? I'd be surprised if that doesn't already exist.
I did some time ago. However by that time my bash version was better, and most of the interval timers were fitness based. I'll have to take another look.