I have discovered, there are lots of sites/tools I like to use but I don't want to have, to download, etc.
I call these simple apps, I think you see these everywhere, want to shrink a pdf? Sure either install some tools locally, figure out syntax, or find a sketchy page and try that (in the meantime uploading your pdf to some website, no idea what they do with it).
In comes.... the AI assistant to the rescue.
I spent the better part of my christmas break making simple apps that I need and don't need to go to a public site to, using chatgpt as my assistant.
For example. I needed to convert a png to svg.... sure there's online options, but I don't want to have to use them. I also don't want to have to recall the command options for each of these. So I made a converter.local site (in my home network) and now I can just go there, upload an image, and it'll return an SVG.
Here's the list of tools/sites I've made that make life just so much easier. And a link to something "simliar" (mine usually don't look as pretty but they just work)
- youtube downloader site (https://yt1d.com/en16/)
- png to svg (https://convertio.co/png-svg/)
- shrink a pdf (https://smallpdf.com/compress-pdf, https://github.com/aklomp/shrinkpdf)
- extract audio from video (https://biteable.com/tools/extract-audio-from-video/)
- podcast host/feed (I don't even know here what is similar)
- Perform K-Means on pixels
- Extract all colors to their own image
