Ask HN: What simple web apps do you wish existed? Seeking ideas for sample apps

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  • prototypes

    Discontinued v0 or "prototype" versions of apps that the community has suggested (by pycob)

    How does this look? I'm happy to make changes to suit your needs:

    Live App: https://markdown-to-json.pycob.app/

    Source Code: https://github.com/pycob/prototypes/blob/main/markdown-to-js...

  • gutenberg

    A fast static site generator in a single binary with everything built-in. https://www.getzola.org

    This one smells a bit like something I run into at work sometimes, where a non-technical person makes a technical decision and the technical people don't sufficiently challenge it.

    If you're trying to convert markdown documents into webpages, the most likely output format would surely be HTML, or perhaps something custom to the site like MediaWiki markup.

    It's totally possible that a site would allow for new documents to be uploaded in a JSON format, but the format would have to be specified (e.g. which keys are used for the post body and subject) - so "whatever you deem best" is unlikely to work, it would need to be "whatever my webhost expects, which is documented -here-"

    I'm happy to be wrong here, and zainhoda's markdown to JSONified HTML is interesting regardless - but I suspect you really wanted a markdown to HTML converter. ex: https://markdowntohtml.com/ or something more extreme like a static site generator: https://www.getzola.org/

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    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.

  • twitter-reader

    Илон верни стену | Read Twitter threads without clicking "show replies" endlessly

    I have twitter thread reader webapp. Currently it requires to run scripts locally to load the thread, so not quite as convenient.

    https://github.com/python273/twitter-reader

  • favorite-picker

    A tool to sort things in order of preference.

  • dcf-server

    Data Cleaning Framework server

    I am working on something similar to a dataframe explorer called data cleaning framework. Would love to talk to some people about it. The idea is that everytime I start data analysis with pandas, I run through the same adhoc data cleaning commands in many configurations. I'm building a graphical UI that lets you quickly try different commands AND it outputs python code to accomplish the same transforms.

    https://github.com/paddymul/dcf-server

  • sample-apps

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