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

• Paperless-ng

  27 5,320 0.0 Python

  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

  120 7,234 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.

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• lowdefy

  8 2,186 9.8 JavaScript

  An open-source, self-hosted, low-code framework to build internal tools, web apps, admin panels, BI dashboards, workflows, 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

  54 1,764 10.0 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

  37 4,932 10.0 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

  3 247 8.7 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 13 10.0 CSS

  A Document Management System, written in Rust

  

• InfluxDB

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• czkawka

  187 9,803 8.3 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

  22 1,154 9.1

  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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