Ask HN: What have you built more than twice and wish someone had built for you?

1. Paperless-ng

   1 141 5,320 0.0 Python

   Discontinued A supercharged version of paperless: scan, index and archive all your physical documents

   A SaaS for managing personal documents. The closest I have right now (not SaaS) is paperless-ng[0], but I have to self-host it, unless I missed a really compelling solution.

   I have a sea of documents, both physical and electronic, and it's always a struggle to scan/organize/find them. I'd pay good money for a software/service that manages my documents, from scanning to archiving.

   [0] https://github.com/jonaswinkler/paperless-ng

2. InfluxDB

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   InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.

   

3. paperless-ngx

   2 214 27,518 9.9 Python

   A community-supported supercharged version of paperless: scan, index and archive all your physical documents

   

   For anybody interested in paperless-ng, this is line one of their repo:

   This project is not dead! Rather, this project is now maintained as a community effort at https://github.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx, a direct continuation of this project and drop-in replacement. Please see their project page and the documentation at https://docs.paperless-ngx.com/ for details.

   I really like Paperless NGX.

4. lowdefy

   3 53 2,802 7.1 JavaScript

   The config web stack for business apps - build internal tools, client portals, web apps, admin panels, dashboards, web sites, and CRUD apps with YAML or JSON.

   

   Check out https://lowdefy.com/ they even have a sample survey app as one of their examples.

5. devenv

   4 103 5,148 9.9 Nix

   Fast, Declarative, Reproducible, and Composable Developer Environments using Nix

   

   I think local reproducible dev environments is a great and less-intense way to get into Nix (the package manager)! https://devenv.sh/ is built on top of Nix as well to make it more approachable and user friendly for exactly your use case.

6. devbox

   5 66 9,817 9.2 Go

   Instant, easy, and predictable development environments

   

   Tools like Devbox: https://github.com/jetpack-io/devbox are making this way easier. Devbox is powered by nix, but it hides all of the complexity and makes it easier to use.

7. Duplicate-Image-Finder

   6 3 497 9.4 Python

   difPy - Python package for finding duplicate and similar images

   

   I found this library worked extremely well for finding and removing similar images https://github.com/elisemercury/Duplicate-Image-Finder Maybe this doesn't fulfill your main and temp folder requirements but worth a try.

8. dmsrs

   7 2 33 10.0 CSS

   A Document Management System, written in Rust

   

9. SaaSHub

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   SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

   

10. czkawka

    8 365 23,579 7.4 Rust

    Multi functional app to find duplicates, empty folders, similar images etc.

    

    I think this one[0] can do most of that.

    [0] https://github.com/qarmin/czkawka

11. spec

    9 61 4,244 4.8

    Development Containers: Use a container as a full-featured development environment. (by devcontainers)

    

    Isn't this what Microsoft is trying to solve with dev containers? https://containers.dev/

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