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

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  1. Paperless-ng

    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

    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.

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  3. paperless-ngx

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    A Document Management System, written in Rust

  9. SaaSHub

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  10. czkawka

    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

    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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