<story><title>Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?</title><text>Many times you just want to plug something in. PostgreSQL, Node.JS Express, Java Spring, numpy, Three.js. There&amp;#x27;s many examples where the already existing solution fits well.&lt;p&gt;Sometimes that&amp;#x27;s not good enough tho. What are some tools, libraries or services you built, are they open-source and why weren&amp;#x27;t you satisfied using what already existed?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>wenbin</author><text>Early 2017, I built Listen Notes [1] , so I can search podcast episodes by keywords and listen to individual podcast episodes without subscribing to the entire podcast. A few years ago, most podcast apps assume you wanted to subscribe to podcasts first then listen. Maybe I’m not a typical podcast listener. I don’t like subscribing to podcasts. I just want to listen to individual episodes then move on. Similar to consuming web contents, I don’t bookmark entire websites. I just search on google, read the web page, then move on :)&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.listennotes.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.listennotes.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[edit] This is my Show HN of Listen Notes in early 2017: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=13310834&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=13310834&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mr_o47</author><text>I love listen notes,
It has made it easier to search for specific podcast which I had to discover myself. now I just use Listen Notes to search with few keywords and I’m able to find the podcast for my taste.&lt;p&gt;Anyways love your product and I definitely enjoyed reading your article on medium where you talked about how you ran the entire company as a solo dev and that’s how I discovered ListenNotes back then</text></comment>
<story><title>Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?</title><text>Many times you just want to plug something in. PostgreSQL, Node.JS Express, Java Spring, numpy, Three.js. There&amp;#x27;s many examples where the already existing solution fits well.&lt;p&gt;Sometimes that&amp;#x27;s not good enough tho. What are some tools, libraries or services you built, are they open-source and why weren&amp;#x27;t you satisfied using what already existed?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>wenbin</author><text>Early 2017, I built Listen Notes [1] , so I can search podcast episodes by keywords and listen to individual podcast episodes without subscribing to the entire podcast. A few years ago, most podcast apps assume you wanted to subscribe to podcasts first then listen. Maybe I’m not a typical podcast listener. I don’t like subscribing to podcasts. I just want to listen to individual episodes then move on. Similar to consuming web contents, I don’t bookmark entire websites. I just search on google, read the web page, then move on :)&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.listennotes.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.listennotes.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[edit] This is my Show HN of Listen Notes in early 2017: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=13310834&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=13310834&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zigzaggy</author><text>Whoa! I&amp;#x27;m glad I found this. I think it&amp;#x27;ll fit into my writing workflow. Thanks!</text></comment>