Show HN: Weigh My Luggage – Just bring a bathroom scale

3 points by lawkwok 2 years ago | 4 comments
  • lawkwok 2 years ago
    App: This tool clearly shows you which bags are overweight and which bags have room. It also shows messages telling you how to rearrange your bags.

    Backstory: I recently needed to move and bring several suitcases. I like the trick of weighing oneself on a bathroom scale and then subtracting body weight to get the luggage weight.

    However, it’s cumbersome to keep track of all the numbers when you have multiple bags and have to constantly rearrange them.

    At the time I made an Excel spreadsheet, but I thought I’d make a tool that was easy for everyone to use with more features.

    It’s been a minute since I’ve done web dev, but it’s been fun getting back into things and catching up on the latest standards. It’s just plain ol’ JS, HTML, and CSS. There is a link to my Github on the page so any feedback would be highly appreciated!

    • quickthrower2 2 years ago
      Nice idea!
      • lawkwok 2 years ago
        Thank you! I haven’t seen anyone make something like this before (I’m guessing it’s because the calculating formula is simple), but I think the extra features and simply having a GUI does provide value.

        I usually don’t know know what to build and struggle with staying motivated on tutorials so it’s been a really fun project to work on :)

    • lawkwok 2 years ago
      For prosperity:

      https://github.com/lawkwok101/weigh-my-luggage-js