Ask HN: What software feels exceptionally polished?

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dlcarrier•36 minutes ago

The CAS software on HP calculators is amazingly useful, especially considering the limitations of the hardware it's running on.

lordkrandel•about 1 hour ago

Dwm and dmenu. Top notch polish, true minimalism

dlcarrier•40 minutes ago

I've used the Surf browser with dmenu integration quite a bit, and the software is written well, but default the key bindings are all over the place. I have to look it up, whenver I'm trying to do something as simple as copy and paste.

Considering that a build environment is needed to customize it, I feel like they'd get more users sticking around if it defaulted to more conventional controls.

pants2•about 2 hours ago

Robinhood is probably the best software I regularly use. It's extremely smooth and intuitive for how powerful it is now. The way they present and explain options and allow you to enter complex multi-leg option trades on mobile is super impressive. On top of that it just works really well (these days).

nan60•about 5 hours ago

I don't know if its polished in the traditional sense, but yt-dlp feels so perfect for what it was designed to do.

dlcarrier•38 minutes ago

It is a well simplified wrapper around the hot mess that is needed to convince YouTube that you're actually using using a web browser.

jsxyzb9•about 2 hours ago

I don’t think there is any particularly perfect software

paytonjjones•about 5 hours ago

Monarch Money is incredibly smooth and functional considering the complexity. Maybe it benefits from the comparison with the mess that was Mint though, haha.

variety8675•about 5 hours ago

Ghostty is exceptionally good at what it was made for

Adam-Hincu•about 5 hours ago

For me, i think it’s notion, it’s well thought.

Tomte•about 5 hours ago

BBEdit.

__patchbit__•about 5 hours ago

NetBSD on plain console.

smt88•about 4 hours ago

I find 1Password to be very smooth and intuitive to use (ignoring its sometimes unfortunate iOS integration, which is Apple’s fault).

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