Utility Mill - Make Your Own Utilities - Call to Action
Have you ever needed to write a quick program or calculator? Have you ever had a problem that would be trivial to write a program for, but you still didn’t do it because you didn’t want the overhead of planning the interface, setting up version control, creating a GUI, distributing it to different systems, and figuring out how to share the code?
Utility Mill will handle all of that overhead for you, you just provide the core Python code to transform input to output.
(A storm is coming … a utilty storm)
I have the first prototype up and running at www.utilitymill.com
Please try it out. I really need alpha testers, and if anyone wants to work with me on this project (think Utility Mill co-founder!), please drop me a line. And of course, if nothing else, feel free to post ideas for utilities to make in the comments here.
If you need some ideas for utilities you could try making:
- Alpha Phrase To Phone Number Calculator a la this
- mysqldump simple GUI (to generate a command to paste into your console)
- ls simple GUI
- rsync simple GUI
- .htaccess generator
- Do something interesting using Python sets
- Given 2 lists, list all duplicate entries
- Convert number to binary, vice versa
Stay tuned, I’ve got lots of exciting features planned soon: web services to access utilities, chain utilities together, download a utility as a desktop app, and more.
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