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Introducing Caligator: A Simple Yet Powerful Open-Source Calculator & Convertor

Sarthak Sharma on September 29, 2019

Hey friends! How's it going? I'm doing great, and I'm here to talk about the latest open-source product by Team XenoX 🔥. Yep, it's that time aga...
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Andrew (he/him)

Maybe you can draw some inspiration from the Wolfram|Alpha web-based calculator for your app. It's my go-to for basically any calculation when I'm at a desktop computer. You can type things like:

distance to moon / thickness of nickel

...and it parses the text to give you the result!

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Utkarsh Talwar

Yes! I'm actually a fan of Wolfram Alpha! I discovered it around 2014/15 on Quora when it suddenly got a lot of popularity! Our end goal is to actually implement that level of input interpretation! Lots of work to be done.

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Vinay Hegde

I believe Numi is also something that can be used to make Caligator even better in forthcoming releases

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Andrew (he/him)

That's slick

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Justin Warkentin

I'm not at a computer right now so I can't test it. Can it do base conversions? It's super useful to be able to work in different bases at the same time. I'm particularly interested in being able to do something like "37/13 from base 10 to 3" or "21120/1 from base 3 to 2".

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Krishna Damaraju

Hi Justin,
Base conversions are not yet implemented. But thanks for the suggestion - we have added it to our TODO list. And if you are interested you are welcome to take it up as well.

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Olimpio

This is amazing. I would like to contribute on new themes. So I would like to know the stack behind this amazing app to know if I can help... 🔥🔥🔥

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Krishna Damaraju

Thats great to know Olimpio. Now we have 3 modes for themes - auto(imports from OS theme), dark and light. For the stack - it is built on electron JS. Find the code below to jump in
github.com/sarthology/caligator

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Olimpio

I'll check it out. Thanks...

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Fernando

I second this!

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Jake Varness

You're hosting it on now so I like it even more 😁

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Miguel Acero

Would be pretty cool if there was an Alfred extension that used a lot of the features here!

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Victor Darkes

Very nice! What are some of the other products you said you've worked on over the year? You mentioned this was number 10.

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Utkarsh Talwar • Edited

Thanks Victor! Check out this collection.

Edit: fixed link

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jsrios

Your collection link returns 404 on Product Hunt btw

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Utkarsh Talwar

Weird. Does it work now?

producthunt.com/@talwarutkarsh/col...

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jsrios

Yupp much better

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Samuele Zanca

It's so sleek and sexy, I love it. Looks electron-based, If so, I'm a big fan.

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Supremus

This is such an awesome tool. Can you also add timezone converter in future? For example, 10am EST to IST.

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Krishna Damaraju

Hey Supremus, That actually cool !! We will add it to the upcoming versions..

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Shaurya

nice, seems interesting

is also a good project for hacktoberfest

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Krishna Damaraju

Yes you are welcome -
Fork it and start on it. github.com/sarthology/caligator

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Olimpio

This🔥

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notaduck

It would be nice to see this in the AUR ( arch user repository )