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Show HN: I just made my profitable online form builder open-sourced
Show HN: I just made my profitable online form builder open-sourced
Show HN: An adventure game in Z80 assembly for CP/M and ZX Spectrum
Show HN: Focumon – Turn your work into a multiplayer adventure
I was on the eternal quest of searching for a <i>properly gamified</i> productivity app that keeps me motivated throughout the day and in the long term.<p>After a few months of a fruitless search, I made up my mind and decided to build it myself! I've since launched FocuMon a little over a month ago. Quite a few early users told me it has helped them stay focused, so I'm excited to share it on HN for ya'll to try it out and let me know how I can make it better!<p>FocuMon is like an idle Pokémon game where you can collect, level up, and evolve cute monsters by being productive! It puts a reward layer on top of your work which helps to give you an initial boost to get into focus; it then gets out of your way once you are in the flow :)<p>I'm actively developing more features & game modes for FocuMon. It is also a multiplayer-first app where you can adventure together with people from all over the world!<p>Cheers and thanks for your time!
Milton
Show HN: Focumon – Turn your work into a multiplayer adventure
I was on the eternal quest of searching for a <i>properly gamified</i> productivity app that keeps me motivated throughout the day and in the long term.<p>After a few months of a fruitless search, I made up my mind and decided to build it myself! I've since launched FocuMon a little over a month ago. Quite a few early users told me it has helped them stay focused, so I'm excited to share it on HN for ya'll to try it out and let me know how I can make it better!<p>FocuMon is like an idle Pokémon game where you can collect, level up, and evolve cute monsters by being productive! It puts a reward layer on top of your work which helps to give you an initial boost to get into focus; it then gets out of your way once you are in the flow :)<p>I'm actively developing more features & game modes for FocuMon. It is also a multiplayer-first app where you can adventure together with people from all over the world!<p>Cheers and thanks for your time!
Milton
Show HN: Ragdoll Studio (fka Arthas.AI) is the FOSS alternative to character.ai
Show HN: Ragdoll Studio (fka Arthas.AI) is the FOSS alternative to character.ai
Show HN: Truncate, a word-based strategy game
Truncate is a chess flavoured word game that blends spatial reasoning and wordplay. In puzzle mode, you beat back your NPC opponent's words and take over their territory.<p>Truncate started as a pen and paper game between a friend and I, evolved into a handmade board game, and finally arrived at an online puzzle game. Like any good word game, there is of course a daily mode, shareable with the tried and true grid of emojis<p>We've been playtesting it with friends and family for a few months, which has helped iron out the tutorials and gameplay, and we're finally happy with an MVP worth sharing!<p>Technical deets: The client and server are written in Rust, with the visuals built using egui (as an experiment in Rust's GUI ecosystem).<p>We'd love any feedback!
Show HN: Truncate, a word-based strategy game
Truncate is a chess flavoured word game that blends spatial reasoning and wordplay. In puzzle mode, you beat back your NPC opponent's words and take over their territory.<p>Truncate started as a pen and paper game between a friend and I, evolved into a handmade board game, and finally arrived at an online puzzle game. Like any good word game, there is of course a daily mode, shareable with the tried and true grid of emojis<p>We've been playtesting it with friends and family for a few months, which has helped iron out the tutorials and gameplay, and we're finally happy with an MVP worth sharing!<p>Technical deets: The client and server are written in Rust, with the visuals built using egui (as an experiment in Rust's GUI ecosystem).<p>We'd love any feedback!
Show HN: Libmui is a macOS Classic widget lib for Linux
Not sure if I would post this for the last day of #marchintosh OR wait for tomorrow the 1st of April. Both apply equally.<p>Anyway, here's a pet project of mine, I made it as a glued on for another pet project of mine, but it developed a life of it's own now and can soar skyward toward success, fame, and glory.
Show HN: Libmui is a macOS Classic widget lib for Linux
Not sure if I would post this for the last day of #marchintosh OR wait for tomorrow the 1st of April. Both apply equally.<p>Anyway, here's a pet project of mine, I made it as a glued on for another pet project of mine, but it developed a life of it's own now and can soar skyward toward success, fame, and glory.
Show HN: Libmui is a macOS Classic widget lib for Linux
Not sure if I would post this for the last day of #marchintosh OR wait for tomorrow the 1st of April. Both apply equally.<p>Anyway, here's a pet project of mine, I made it as a glued on for another pet project of mine, but it developed a life of it's own now and can soar skyward toward success, fame, and glory.
Show HN: Libmui is a macOS Classic widget lib for Linux
Not sure if I would post this for the last day of #marchintosh OR wait for tomorrow the 1st of April. Both apply equally.<p>Anyway, here's a pet project of mine, I made it as a glued on for another pet project of mine, but it developed a life of it's own now and can soar skyward toward success, fame, and glory.
Show HN: TechPeeker – Unveil Any Website's Tech Stack Instantly
Our platform is engineered to provide a comprehensive understanding of the tech stacks powering both emerging and established websites, catering to developers, digital marketers, and technology strategists seeking competitive intelligence and optimization insights.
Show HN: A better alternative to Google Saved Places
Here's the testflight link if you're put off by the $2 cost: <a href="https://testflight.apple.com/join/9tOXoMnf" rel="nofollow">https://testflight.apple.com/join/9tOXoMnf</a>
Embedded TypeScript: Hosting a Front End on a ESP32 with Rust
Show HN: AI for researching personal health issues
I have some chronic medical conditions, and spend a lot of time asking about different drugs and supplements. Wanted to create a resource that others might get value from. It's trained to always provide citations, and to urge people to see their doctor before making major decisions. Open for feedback.
Show HN: Pagecord – Effortless blogging from your inbox
Hey HN<p>I’ve been at a loose end for the past few days so I decided to build a thing. I’m largely devoid of original ideas so I built a (micro-) blogging app with a slight twist: you run it using email.<p>All you need is an email account. No new tools to wrangle. No password to forget.<p>Compose in your favourite email editor and send to a secret address. Pagecord does the rest.<p>It's great for bloggy long-form writing, but it’s maybe even more fun for micro-blogging your thoughts as you would a Twitter feed (you can subscribe to people/blogs using RSS).<p>I figured nobody would pay so it's entirely free (I do accept donations ).<p>I put together a short video for the home page which shows it in action. There’s an FAQ at <a href="https://pagecord.com/faq" rel="nofollow">https://pagecord.com/faq</a> and you can see my actual feed at <a href="https://pagecord.com/pagecord" rel="nofollow">https://pagecord.com/pagecord</a>.<p>That’s it. Just a bit of fun, but maybe some people will enjoy it. Let me know what you think and have a lovely day!<p>-- Olly
Show HN: Fix – An open source cloud asset inventory for cloud security engineers
Hi, we’re Lukas, Lars and Matthias, and we're building “Fix” (<a href="https://fix.security" rel="nofollow">https://fix.security</a>). Fix is an open source cloud asset inventory for developers to track their infrastructure’s security posture aka “cloud security posture management” (CSPM).<p>How Fix works:<p>Fix takes a snapshot of your inventory on an hourly basis by calling the cloud APIs, runs policy and compliance checks such as the CIS benchmark against that inventory, and provides the findings in a dashboard, via .csv export or API so that developers can use the raw data and build workflows. We’re also working on data sync to S3 and RDBMS like Postgres, MySQL and Snowflake.<p>One of Fix’s unique feature is our graph-based inventory, highlighting the connections between resources. Unlike traditional cloud security tools that just list assets, Fix also displays their interconnections. We maintain a large graph, where nodes are indexed JSON documents representing your cloud resources, and different edges signify various dependencies. This allows flexible searches and policy creation using our search syntax.<p>For example:<p>Find large EC2 instances:<p>search is(aws_ec2_instance) and instance_cores > 8<p>Find unused EBS volumes with last reading IOPS more than 30d ago:<p>search is(aws_ec2_volume) and volume_status = available and last_access > 30d<p>Find IAM policies that are attached to users instead of groups or roles:<p>search is(aws_iam_user) {attached_policy: --> is(aws_iam_policy)} user_policies!=[] or attached_policy!=null<p>Find SNS topics that are not encrypted at rest using KMS CMKs:<p>search is(aws_sns_topic) with(empty, --> is(aws_kms_key))<p>We also have a CLI tool (<a href="https://github.com/someengineering/fixctl">https://github.com/someengineering/fixctl</a>) where you can use the raw json or yaml formatted results from the searches as an input into your pipelines. We also support full text search. For example, some developers like to tag their resources with their name:<p>search “lukas”<p>will produce a list of all resources that contain the string “lukas”.<p>Full text search comes in handy when you want find a particular string (e.g. an IP address) across all your cloud accounts to figure out which account and region a resource is located in.<p>There are existing security tools that use a graph, e.g. Wiz or Cisco with Lightspin (now Panoptica). Those enterprise tools have a few characteristics that we think make them less attractive for developers:<p>- They require talking to a sales rep<p>- They run you through a procurement process<p>- They try to lock you into their platform<p>Fix on the other hand is:<p>- self-service sign-up with a free tier<p>- available through the AWS Marketplace (coming soon)<p>- open source<p>We price Fix based on # of cloud accounts you collect data from, with a fair-usage limit of 200,000 (two hundred thousand) resources per account. Our lowest paid tier starts at $90 / month with three cloud accounts included.<p>Fix Security is built with our open source project “Fix Inventory”:<p><a href="https://github.com/someengineering/fixinventory">https://github.com/someengineering/fixinventory</a><p>The open source has richer functionality than our SaaS app. It's multi-cloud and supports AWS, GCP, Azure, DigitalOcean, VMWare and Kubernetes. Over time, our plan is to support all these platforms in our SaaS app as well.<p>Fix Inventory can update resources, including tags, and clean resources up based on age, usage, or policy non-compliance. Currently, this "mutating" function is not in the SaaS version. Fix Inventory is read-write, Fix Security is read-only.<p>Fix Inventory was born in D2iQ (now Nutanix). It was Lukas' solution to managing and securing a growing cloud infrastructure.<p>I would love your feedback on our solution. We’re here to help write your first queries. Just ping us on Discord (<a href="https://discord.gg/fixsecurity" rel="nofollow">https://discord.gg/fixsecurity</a>) and let us know you’re coming from HN. Also, I would love to hear what security tooling you use today and what you like / dislike about it.<p>Cheers
Show HN: I made a set of devtools for small projects