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

• Paperless-ng

  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

• paperless-ngx

  212 16,754 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.

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• lowdefy

  49 2,551 9.6 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.

• devenv

  88 3,410 9.8 Nix

  Fast, Declarative, Reproducible, and Composable Developer Environments

  

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.

• devbox

  47 7,402 9.7 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.

• Duplicate-Image-Finder

  3 390 9.0 Python

  difPy - Python package for finding duplicate or similar images within folders

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.

• dmsrs

  2 33 10.0 CSS

  A Document Management System, written in Rust

  

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• czkawka

  361 17,501 7.7 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

• spec

  48 2,783 7.3

  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/

Suggest a related project