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babydots
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Ask HN: Have you created programs for only your personal use?
I write Android apps for my baby-now-toddler.
At a few months old I created BabyDots [0] as she loved this YouTube video of dancing dots [1] which really settled her when she was upset as a young baby.
At over a year old I added BabyPhone [2] to let her talk to family and have them “talk back” to her even when they were not available. I missed the timing on this and she didn’t enjoy it at all until literally this week when she started talking back to the little baby on the other end of the phone.
At 18 months old I made a book-building app [3] that takes titles of pages on Simple English Wikipedia, and creates pages for a book that can then be exported as a PDF and printed (or viewed on the phone). It also has a website [4] on a free heroku dyno which definitely won’t take much traffic. This was because when she gets interested in, e.g. planets, I don’t want to have to order a book on planets, I want to print one out 5 minutes later to keep her interested.
One of my proudest moments was at my new job where a team member said during our first standup “I have your baby dots app installed and although we don’t do screen time, the music really sooths our kid during nap time!”.
[0] - https://github.com/babydots/babydots
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⟳ 5 apps added, 44 updated at f-droid.org
Baby Dots v. 1.5.1: Soothe and calm young babies
fdroidclient
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F-Droid: Android FOSS app store
This is the discussion on implementing a popcon-style feature in F-Droid if you want to read through where the project got to: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidclient/-/issues/396
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First fully commercial, paid app requiring a key to function at all in main F-Droid repo! (Or is a free ad for the app?)
Meanwhile, the Latest tab "highlights good descriptions" (meaning in other words that it "hides" apps not meeting certain metadata criteria, even if they're completely free - as in speech and in beer - apps), which was not free of some irony, and was discussed at length with apparent consensus to change it but then every time it was back to square one. Because "Latest" apparently doesn't mean "Latest" and people don't get the nuances of English. Not kidding. Read the issue.
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# of app downloads
Basically, not at present, I think. It's happened for some time, and for a longer time in the past, it's been discussed multiple times, but I don't think right now there's any effort in this direction.
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⟳ 0 apps added, 1 updated at f-droid.org
F-Droid (version 1.16.3): The app store that respects freedom and privacy
- Receiving message when attempting to update repository
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All my Open Source App Alternatives
Play Store → Aurora Store, Fdroid, Neo Store
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is this normal when installing Fdroid?
Yep, that is the hard part: - https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidclient/-/issues/1440 - https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidclient/-/issues/2037 - https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidclient/-/issues/2145
- New F-Droid repository format for faster and smaller updates
- f-droid seems to have stopped working on grapheneos
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Android 14 adds new features to make third-party app stores work even better
With the speed they're pursuing targetSDK updates? https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidclient/-/issues/1440
What are some alternatives?
Feeder
Neo-Store - An F-Droid client with modern UI and an arsenal of extra features.
tailscale - The easiest, most secure way to use WireGuard and 2FA.
jellyfin-android - Android Client for Jellyfin
helio-sequencer - One music sequencer for all major platforms, desktop and mobile
droidVNC-NG - VNC server app for Android that does not require root privileges.
AccA - Acc app allows to edit acc config file and add a tile to start and stop acc deamon
Aurora - Non-official Library Genesis (Libgen) Android mobile client.
blokada - The official repo for Blokada apps.
client - F-Droid client with Material UI.
Jellyfin - The Free Software Media System
andOTP - [Unmaintained] Open source two-factor authentication for Android