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Show HN: I made a discrete logic network card
Show HN: I made a discrete logic network card
Show HN: I made a discrete logic network card
Show HN: We built PriceLevel to find out what companies pay for SaaS
Hey HN! Christine and Steven here. As a PM and engineer, we’ve both evaluated and purchased a lot of software. One of the biggest frustrations was figuring out how much it would cost us without having to go through the sales process. When we did have a quote, we had no idea if we were getting a good deal or ripped off.<p>We built a site where you can see what other companies are actually paying for SaaS and enterprise software. Buyers contribute prices via quotes, pricing proposals, and other documentation to ensure quality.<p>We unlocked Talkdesk for Show HN users so that you can use the product without needing to sign in or upgrade. Check it out at <a href="https://www.pricelevel.com/showhn" rel="nofollow">https://www.pricelevel.com/showhn</a>. Would love to hear any feedback, thank you!
Show HN: We built PriceLevel to find out what companies pay for SaaS
Hey HN! Christine and Steven here. As a PM and engineer, we’ve both evaluated and purchased a lot of software. One of the biggest frustrations was figuring out how much it would cost us without having to go through the sales process. When we did have a quote, we had no idea if we were getting a good deal or ripped off.<p>We built a site where you can see what other companies are actually paying for SaaS and enterprise software. Buyers contribute prices via quotes, pricing proposals, and other documentation to ensure quality.<p>We unlocked Talkdesk for Show HN users so that you can use the product without needing to sign in or upgrade. Check it out at <a href="https://www.pricelevel.com/showhn" rel="nofollow">https://www.pricelevel.com/showhn</a>. Would love to hear any feedback, thank you!
Show HN: We built PriceLevel to find out what companies pay for SaaS
Hey HN! Christine and Steven here. As a PM and engineer, we’ve both evaluated and purchased a lot of software. One of the biggest frustrations was figuring out how much it would cost us without having to go through the sales process. When we did have a quote, we had no idea if we were getting a good deal or ripped off.<p>We built a site where you can see what other companies are actually paying for SaaS and enterprise software. Buyers contribute prices via quotes, pricing proposals, and other documentation to ensure quality.<p>We unlocked Talkdesk for Show HN users so that you can use the product without needing to sign in or upgrade. Check it out at <a href="https://www.pricelevel.com/showhn" rel="nofollow">https://www.pricelevel.com/showhn</a>. Would love to hear any feedback, thank you!
Show HN: Dimity Jones in Puzzle Castle: An Electronic Escape Novel
_Dimity Jones In Puzzle Castle: An Electronic Escape Novel in Eighty-Nine Ciphertexts_ is a (mostly) fictional story, contained in a single text file, that requires the reader to solve puzzles as they go along, and to use each chapter's solution as a key to decipher the next.<p>Think: escape room in the form of a novel.<p>A computer, and rudimentary coding skills in a language of your choice, will be indispensable for performing the transformations -- and might help with the solving too!<p>My wife, the author, passed away five years ago. This is not the last thing she wrote, but it is the most unusual, unapproachable, and personal of her major works. It is also, as the only novel of hers that I cannot breeze through in an afternoon (and despite my unflattering appearance in it), my favorite.<p>Though _Dimity Jones_ was left unfinished, and perhaps abandoned, at the time of my wife's death, its elements were all there, on her hard disk, awaiting only a final compiling. My contribution to this text has therefore been little more than that of an occasional copyeditor (my wife was a meticulous speller and self-proofreader) and playtester.<p>Before releasing this work more widely, I would love to have it test-driven by better coders and puzzlers than I.<p>Any and all feedback is welcome, from positive to negative, from the sweeping to the picayune. Let me know what confuses or frustrates you -- and especially let me know if (where) you get stuck.<p>Otherwise, there are no special instructions; it's all in the book.<p>While _Dimity Jones_ is still in its debugging/proofreading phase, please refrain from sharing it or putting it any (other) public place. (Christine would have been horrified to see her work thus published before it was letter-perfect; but I have exhausted my pool of friends and colleagues both able and willing to tinker with it. This seems like the ideal community of potential testers.)<p>Thanking you in advance. I hope you enjoy!
Show HN: Dimity Jones in Puzzle Castle: An Electronic Escape Novel
_Dimity Jones In Puzzle Castle: An Electronic Escape Novel in Eighty-Nine Ciphertexts_ is a (mostly) fictional story, contained in a single text file, that requires the reader to solve puzzles as they go along, and to use each chapter's solution as a key to decipher the next.<p>Think: escape room in the form of a novel.<p>A computer, and rudimentary coding skills in a language of your choice, will be indispensable for performing the transformations -- and might help with the solving too!<p>My wife, the author, passed away five years ago. This is not the last thing she wrote, but it is the most unusual, unapproachable, and personal of her major works. It is also, as the only novel of hers that I cannot breeze through in an afternoon (and despite my unflattering appearance in it), my favorite.<p>Though _Dimity Jones_ was left unfinished, and perhaps abandoned, at the time of my wife's death, its elements were all there, on her hard disk, awaiting only a final compiling. My contribution to this text has therefore been little more than that of an occasional copyeditor (my wife was a meticulous speller and self-proofreader) and playtester.<p>Before releasing this work more widely, I would love to have it test-driven by better coders and puzzlers than I.<p>Any and all feedback is welcome, from positive to negative, from the sweeping to the picayune. Let me know what confuses or frustrates you -- and especially let me know if (where) you get stuck.<p>Otherwise, there are no special instructions; it's all in the book.<p>While _Dimity Jones_ is still in its debugging/proofreading phase, please refrain from sharing it or putting it any (other) public place. (Christine would have been horrified to see her work thus published before it was letter-perfect; but I have exhausted my pool of friends and colleagues both able and willing to tinker with it. This seems like the ideal community of potential testers.)<p>Thanking you in advance. I hope you enjoy!
Show HN: Dimity Jones in Puzzle Castle: An Electronic Escape Novel
_Dimity Jones In Puzzle Castle: An Electronic Escape Novel in Eighty-Nine Ciphertexts_ is a (mostly) fictional story, contained in a single text file, that requires the reader to solve puzzles as they go along, and to use each chapter's solution as a key to decipher the next.<p>Think: escape room in the form of a novel.<p>A computer, and rudimentary coding skills in a language of your choice, will be indispensable for performing the transformations -- and might help with the solving too!<p>My wife, the author, passed away five years ago. This is not the last thing she wrote, but it is the most unusual, unapproachable, and personal of her major works. It is also, as the only novel of hers that I cannot breeze through in an afternoon (and despite my unflattering appearance in it), my favorite.<p>Though _Dimity Jones_ was left unfinished, and perhaps abandoned, at the time of my wife's death, its elements were all there, on her hard disk, awaiting only a final compiling. My contribution to this text has therefore been little more than that of an occasional copyeditor (my wife was a meticulous speller and self-proofreader) and playtester.<p>Before releasing this work more widely, I would love to have it test-driven by better coders and puzzlers than I.<p>Any and all feedback is welcome, from positive to negative, from the sweeping to the picayune. Let me know what confuses or frustrates you -- and especially let me know if (where) you get stuck.<p>Otherwise, there are no special instructions; it's all in the book.<p>While _Dimity Jones_ is still in its debugging/proofreading phase, please refrain from sharing it or putting it any (other) public place. (Christine would have been horrified to see her work thus published before it was letter-perfect; but I have exhausted my pool of friends and colleagues both able and willing to tinker with it. This seems like the ideal community of potential testers.)<p>Thanking you in advance. I hope you enjoy!
Show HN: AutoMQ - A Cost-Effective Kafka Distro That Can Autoscale in Seconds
Colab notebook to create Magic cards from image with Claude
Show HN: Shorebird 1.0, Flutter Code Push
Hey HN. Eric Seidel here (former lead of Flutter & Dart at Google, prev. YC S06).<p>I founded Flutter and led the team for almost a decade. One of the constant questions we got was would we support code push like the web/react native: <a href="https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/14330">https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/14330</a> I left Google about a year ago and set out to build a company around Flutter and decided to start with code push.<p>It took us a year to build. We had to build a new toolchain for Dart and a custom interpreter (for store compliance). But it works! Our beta has already been used by thousands of apps. Most (eventually all) of the code is open source on GitHub.<p>I’ll be around all day to answer Flutter and Shorebird questions. We run our company in the public on Discord and are happy to take questions there too. Would love to hear your thoughts.
Show HN: Shorebird 1.0, Flutter Code Push
Hey HN. Eric Seidel here (former lead of Flutter & Dart at Google, prev. YC S06).<p>I founded Flutter and led the team for almost a decade. One of the constant questions we got was would we support code push like the web/react native: <a href="https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/14330">https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/14330</a> I left Google about a year ago and set out to build a company around Flutter and decided to start with code push.<p>It took us a year to build. We had to build a new toolchain for Dart and a custom interpreter (for store compliance). But it works! Our beta has already been used by thousands of apps. Most (eventually all) of the code is open source on GitHub.<p>I’ll be around all day to answer Flutter and Shorebird questions. We run our company in the public on Discord and are happy to take questions there too. Would love to hear your thoughts.
Show HN: Beyond text splitting – improved file parsing for LLMs
Show HN: Beyond text splitting – improved file parsing for LLMs
Show HN: I built a Raspberry Pi temperature monitor
Show HN: Suno AI Download – Download Suno AI Music Song MP3
Suno AI Download - Free Download Suno AI Music Song MP3 with a click in seconds.
Show HN: Flash Notes – Flashcards for Your Notes, LLM, iOS/macOS Sync
The app started as my wishful thinking that flashcards should really be derived from notes. I've been constantly writing things down and wishing to remember them. However, I never could convince myself to populate a flashcard app with them. I really tried (Anki, Supermemo), but I guess regular form filling is not for me.<p>So I've started experimenting with flashcards derived from structured notes. Writing the 1st MVP was fast, but productionising it was way harder. Content synchronisation when the user can work from tube/plane and use multiple devices and content is text is… not trivial. So I had to learn about OT (Operational Transformation) and CRDT (Conflict-Free Replicated Data Type), and even implemented a few iterations of CRDT in Swift. This was intellectually rewarding, but the app was not progressing. Also, when you have both app data model and CRDT in your head, you start to over-optimize - you are leaking abstractions. Thankfully, the CRDT market nowadays is pretty mature; Automerge is production-ready, and automerge-swift comes with a nice abstraction. I strongly believe offline-first apps are the future/now.<p>ChatGPT happened, and it felt like a perfect match for the app, as it's already text-focused. First, it was just to provide prompts for the cards, but when you turn the problem around, you realise that LLM is great for predicting other flashcards in the context of your note. So instead of downloading a premade flashcard deck, you start a new note, give it a title, and click generate. I still find it weird to watch but also mesmerising.<p>Other features that I think are valuable:
App data sits within your iCloud account until you use Generative AI (LLM). Hopefully, we will get an API from Apple soon.<p>The Spaced Repetition that I've implemented is not really spaced. I wanted the app to adapt to the user. So it's focusing on sorting the card deck based on your recall and lets you practise as much as you want. I found this approach to work way better for me.<p>Oh, it's multilingual with text-to-speech.<p>Here we are; the 1st production-ready "MVP" is live. I'd love to hear your feedback.
Show HN: Flash Notes – Flashcards for Your Notes, LLM, iOS/macOS Sync
The app started as my wishful thinking that flashcards should really be derived from notes. I've been constantly writing things down and wishing to remember them. However, I never could convince myself to populate a flashcard app with them. I really tried (Anki, Supermemo), but I guess regular form filling is not for me.<p>So I've started experimenting with flashcards derived from structured notes. Writing the 1st MVP was fast, but productionising it was way harder. Content synchronisation when the user can work from tube/plane and use multiple devices and content is text is… not trivial. So I had to learn about OT (Operational Transformation) and CRDT (Conflict-Free Replicated Data Type), and even implemented a few iterations of CRDT in Swift. This was intellectually rewarding, but the app was not progressing. Also, when you have both app data model and CRDT in your head, you start to over-optimize - you are leaking abstractions. Thankfully, the CRDT market nowadays is pretty mature; Automerge is production-ready, and automerge-swift comes with a nice abstraction. I strongly believe offline-first apps are the future/now.<p>ChatGPT happened, and it felt like a perfect match for the app, as it's already text-focused. First, it was just to provide prompts for the cards, but when you turn the problem around, you realise that LLM is great for predicting other flashcards in the context of your note. So instead of downloading a premade flashcard deck, you start a new note, give it a title, and click generate. I still find it weird to watch but also mesmerising.<p>Other features that I think are valuable:
App data sits within your iCloud account until you use Generative AI (LLM). Hopefully, we will get an API from Apple soon.<p>The Spaced Repetition that I've implemented is not really spaced. I wanted the app to adapt to the user. So it's focusing on sorting the card deck based on your recall and lets you practise as much as you want. I found this approach to work way better for me.<p>Oh, it's multilingual with text-to-speech.<p>Here we are; the 1st production-ready "MVP" is live. I'd love to hear your feedback.
Show HN: Bonk, a command-line tool for X11 window management