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Show HN: Shepherd 3.0 – Like wandering the aisles of your favorite bookstore
Hi all, creator here :) - I launched Shepherd.com (<a href="https://shepherd.com/" rel="nofollow">https://shepherd.com/</a>) 3 years ago on Hacker News and have added a ton since then! Here is the original Show HN (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26871660">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26871660</a>).<p>I’ve interviewed 10,000+ authors & experts to get their 5 favorite reads around different topics, themes, and moods. And I’ve connected those so that you follow your curiosity around topics, authors, books, and more.<p>Try Art Kleiner’s favorite reads on understanding AI and its effect on people:
<a href="https://shepherd.com/best-books/understanding-ai-and-its-effect-on-people" rel="nofollow">https://shepherd.com/best-books/understanding-ai-and-its-eff...</a><p>Under each book, you can click “What is this book about?” to explore different topics and genres that interest you. I am working on adding themes and other fun connections.<p>Or you can explore things like...<p>Places to explore if you like the book Sapiens:
<a href="https://shepherd.com/search/book/1504" rel="nofollow">https://shepherd.com/search/book/1504</a><p>S. B. Divya on her favorite realistic near-future science fiction:
<a href="https://shepherd.com/best-books/realistic-near-future-science-fiction" rel="nofollow">https://shepherd.com/best-books/realistic-near-future-scienc...</a><p>Places to explore if you like hard sci-fi:
<a href="https://shepherd.com/search/shelf/12622" rel="nofollow">https://shepherd.com/search/shelf/12622</a><p>Places to explore if you like Stephen King:
<a href="https://shepherd.com/search/author/4826" rel="nofollow">https://shepherd.com/search/author/4826</a><p>Azby Brown’s favorite books on Japanese carpentry and construction:
<a href="https://shepherd.com/best-books/japanese-carpentry-and-construction" rel="nofollow">https://shepherd.com/best-books/japanese-carpentry-and-const...</a><p>Malayna Evan’s favorite reads on badass women who left a mark on the ancient world:
<a href="https://shepherd.com/best-books/badass-women-who-left-a-mark-on-the-ancient-world" rel="nofollow">https://shepherd.com/best-books/badass-women-who-left-a-mark...</a><p>Shepherd is bootstrapped, and I’ve got many reader features coming soon! I have a newsletter about building the project and early access to new features here:
<a href="https://forauthors.shepherd.com/newsletter-for-readers" rel="nofollow">https://forauthors.shepherd.com/newsletter-for-readers</a><p>What do we use to build this? Python, Django, Heroku, Postgre, Cloudflare, NLP/ML for Wikipedia topic IDs via Wikifier (<a href="https://wikifier.org" rel="nofollow">https://wikifier.org</a>), Nielsen’s book API database (publisher data + Library of Congress data), and Cloudinary.<p>My email is ben@shepherd.com if you want to share ideas or suggestions :)<p>Thanks, Ben
Show HN: Shepherd 3.0 – Like wandering the aisles of your favorite bookstore
Hi all, creator here :) - I launched Shepherd.com (<a href="https://shepherd.com/" rel="nofollow">https://shepherd.com/</a>) 3 years ago on Hacker News and have added a ton since then! Here is the original Show HN (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26871660">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26871660</a>).<p>I’ve interviewed 10,000+ authors & experts to get their 5 favorite reads around different topics, themes, and moods. And I’ve connected those so that you follow your curiosity around topics, authors, books, and more.<p>Try Art Kleiner’s favorite reads on understanding AI and its effect on people:
<a href="https://shepherd.com/best-books/understanding-ai-and-its-effect-on-people" rel="nofollow">https://shepherd.com/best-books/understanding-ai-and-its-eff...</a><p>Under each book, you can click “What is this book about?” to explore different topics and genres that interest you. I am working on adding themes and other fun connections.<p>Or you can explore things like...<p>Places to explore if you like the book Sapiens:
<a href="https://shepherd.com/search/book/1504" rel="nofollow">https://shepherd.com/search/book/1504</a><p>S. B. Divya on her favorite realistic near-future science fiction:
<a href="https://shepherd.com/best-books/realistic-near-future-science-fiction" rel="nofollow">https://shepherd.com/best-books/realistic-near-future-scienc...</a><p>Places to explore if you like hard sci-fi:
<a href="https://shepherd.com/search/shelf/12622" rel="nofollow">https://shepherd.com/search/shelf/12622</a><p>Places to explore if you like Stephen King:
<a href="https://shepherd.com/search/author/4826" rel="nofollow">https://shepherd.com/search/author/4826</a><p>Azby Brown’s favorite books on Japanese carpentry and construction:
<a href="https://shepherd.com/best-books/japanese-carpentry-and-construction" rel="nofollow">https://shepherd.com/best-books/japanese-carpentry-and-const...</a><p>Malayna Evan’s favorite reads on badass women who left a mark on the ancient world:
<a href="https://shepherd.com/best-books/badass-women-who-left-a-mark-on-the-ancient-world" rel="nofollow">https://shepherd.com/best-books/badass-women-who-left-a-mark...</a><p>Shepherd is bootstrapped, and I’ve got many reader features coming soon! I have a newsletter about building the project and early access to new features here:
<a href="https://forauthors.shepherd.com/newsletter-for-readers" rel="nofollow">https://forauthors.shepherd.com/newsletter-for-readers</a><p>What do we use to build this? Python, Django, Heroku, Postgre, Cloudflare, NLP/ML for Wikipedia topic IDs via Wikifier (<a href="https://wikifier.org" rel="nofollow">https://wikifier.org</a>), Nielsen’s book API database (publisher data + Library of Congress data), and Cloudinary.<p>My email is ben@shepherd.com if you want to share ideas or suggestions :)<p>Thanks, Ben
Show HN: Shepherd 3.0 – Like wandering the aisles of your favorite bookstore
Hi all, creator here :) - I launched Shepherd.com (<a href="https://shepherd.com/" rel="nofollow">https://shepherd.com/</a>) 3 years ago on Hacker News and have added a ton since then! Here is the original Show HN (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26871660">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26871660</a>).<p>I’ve interviewed 10,000+ authors & experts to get their 5 favorite reads around different topics, themes, and moods. And I’ve connected those so that you follow your curiosity around topics, authors, books, and more.<p>Try Art Kleiner’s favorite reads on understanding AI and its effect on people:
<a href="https://shepherd.com/best-books/understanding-ai-and-its-effect-on-people" rel="nofollow">https://shepherd.com/best-books/understanding-ai-and-its-eff...</a><p>Under each book, you can click “What is this book about?” to explore different topics and genres that interest you. I am working on adding themes and other fun connections.<p>Or you can explore things like...<p>Places to explore if you like the book Sapiens:
<a href="https://shepherd.com/search/book/1504" rel="nofollow">https://shepherd.com/search/book/1504</a><p>S. B. Divya on her favorite realistic near-future science fiction:
<a href="https://shepherd.com/best-books/realistic-near-future-science-fiction" rel="nofollow">https://shepherd.com/best-books/realistic-near-future-scienc...</a><p>Places to explore if you like hard sci-fi:
<a href="https://shepherd.com/search/shelf/12622" rel="nofollow">https://shepherd.com/search/shelf/12622</a><p>Places to explore if you like Stephen King:
<a href="https://shepherd.com/search/author/4826" rel="nofollow">https://shepherd.com/search/author/4826</a><p>Azby Brown’s favorite books on Japanese carpentry and construction:
<a href="https://shepherd.com/best-books/japanese-carpentry-and-construction" rel="nofollow">https://shepherd.com/best-books/japanese-carpentry-and-const...</a><p>Malayna Evan’s favorite reads on badass women who left a mark on the ancient world:
<a href="https://shepherd.com/best-books/badass-women-who-left-a-mark-on-the-ancient-world" rel="nofollow">https://shepherd.com/best-books/badass-women-who-left-a-mark...</a><p>Shepherd is bootstrapped, and I’ve got many reader features coming soon! I have a newsletter about building the project and early access to new features here:
<a href="https://forauthors.shepherd.com/newsletter-for-readers" rel="nofollow">https://forauthors.shepherd.com/newsletter-for-readers</a><p>What do we use to build this? Python, Django, Heroku, Postgre, Cloudflare, NLP/ML for Wikipedia topic IDs via Wikifier (<a href="https://wikifier.org" rel="nofollow">https://wikifier.org</a>), Nielsen’s book API database (publisher data + Library of Congress data), and Cloudinary.<p>My email is ben@shepherd.com if you want to share ideas or suggestions :)<p>Thanks, Ben
Show HN: Composable (as in iGoogle, but modern) privacy-friendly new tab
I spent quite a lot of time working on this one over the last 1.5 years. It started as a small project for my personal use because I wanted to keep all my self-hosted services visible so I wouldn't forget they existed lol. Using a web page wasn't ideal because of the white flicker every time I opened a new tab, so I decided to make this into a browser extension. From that time on, it became a lot bigger and got some traction (which I'm very happy about).<p>It's made with React, but I tried to squeeze maximum performance (limited by my skills and desire to keep it somewhat readable, though) out of it. UI/UX was a big priority for me in this project, so I also tried to streamline it as much as possible and make Anori a joy to use. If you decide to try it, let me know how good I did!<p>Oh, and it's open source [1] and the process of adding new widgets is documented [2], so you can make your own!<p>[1]: <a href="https://github.com/OlegWock/anori">https://github.com/OlegWock/anori</a><p>[2]: <a href="https://github.com/OlegWock/anori/blob/master/DEVELOPMENT_AND_EXTENDING.md">https://github.com/OlegWock/anori/blob/master/DEVELOPMENT_AN...</a>
Show HN: Composable (as in iGoogle, but modern) privacy-friendly new tab
I spent quite a lot of time working on this one over the last 1.5 years. It started as a small project for my personal use because I wanted to keep all my self-hosted services visible so I wouldn't forget they existed lol. Using a web page wasn't ideal because of the white flicker every time I opened a new tab, so I decided to make this into a browser extension. From that time on, it became a lot bigger and got some traction (which I'm very happy about).<p>It's made with React, but I tried to squeeze maximum performance (limited by my skills and desire to keep it somewhat readable, though) out of it. UI/UX was a big priority for me in this project, so I also tried to streamline it as much as possible and make Anori a joy to use. If you decide to try it, let me know how good I did!<p>Oh, and it's open source [1] and the process of adding new widgets is documented [2], so you can make your own!<p>[1]: <a href="https://github.com/OlegWock/anori">https://github.com/OlegWock/anori</a><p>[2]: <a href="https://github.com/OlegWock/anori/blob/master/DEVELOPMENT_AND_EXTENDING.md">https://github.com/OlegWock/anori/blob/master/DEVELOPMENT_AN...</a>
Show HN: Composable (as in iGoogle, but modern) privacy-friendly new tab
I spent quite a lot of time working on this one over the last 1.5 years. It started as a small project for my personal use because I wanted to keep all my self-hosted services visible so I wouldn't forget they existed lol. Using a web page wasn't ideal because of the white flicker every time I opened a new tab, so I decided to make this into a browser extension. From that time on, it became a lot bigger and got some traction (which I'm very happy about).<p>It's made with React, but I tried to squeeze maximum performance (limited by my skills and desire to keep it somewhat readable, though) out of it. UI/UX was a big priority for me in this project, so I also tried to streamline it as much as possible and make Anori a joy to use. If you decide to try it, let me know how good I did!<p>Oh, and it's open source [1] and the process of adding new widgets is documented [2], so you can make your own!<p>[1]: <a href="https://github.com/OlegWock/anori">https://github.com/OlegWock/anori</a><p>[2]: <a href="https://github.com/OlegWock/anori/blob/master/DEVELOPMENT_AND_EXTENDING.md">https://github.com/OlegWock/anori/blob/master/DEVELOPMENT_AN...</a>
Show HN: Talk to Me Human – my game about social persuasion
Hey all,<p>I recently graduated from a good PhD program studying NLP. Unlike any sane person who would go become a professor or make a gazillion dollars in industry, I decided to try bootstrapping my own software business. This is my first product.<p>The inspiration was from my research on computers understanding social norms. When ChatGPT came out, I was amazed how well it could understand social etiquette. I thought it'd be fun to make a game where you have to talk your way out of sticky situations - like you miss your friend's birthday party, or your boss catches you trying to leave work at 2pm.<p>I made a prototype in a couple days, and it was super fun to play with. I thought I'd spend a "couple months" making a game for others to play online. Now, only 10 months and 923.3 hours of work later, it's playable in early access.<p>In the game, you talk out loud (ASR), and the NPCs (LLM + TTS) talk back at you. It is fun to play with a friend! And because it's just talking, non-gamers do great, often better than gamers.<p>I really want to have a free demo, but no time yet to implement. For now, it's purchase only ($4.99). If anyone decides to try it, I'd really love to get more feedback. It was an enormous learning experience, especially targeting the web - so many partially supported web APIs and browser inconsistencies! Still feels like 2008 in some ways.<p>Also happy to answer questions of course. Thanks, and enjoy the weekend!
Show HN: Talk to Me Human – my game about social persuasion
Hey all,<p>I recently graduated from a good PhD program studying NLP. Unlike any sane person who would go become a professor or make a gazillion dollars in industry, I decided to try bootstrapping my own software business. This is my first product.<p>The inspiration was from my research on computers understanding social norms. When ChatGPT came out, I was amazed how well it could understand social etiquette. I thought it'd be fun to make a game where you have to talk your way out of sticky situations - like you miss your friend's birthday party, or your boss catches you trying to leave work at 2pm.<p>I made a prototype in a couple days, and it was super fun to play with. I thought I'd spend a "couple months" making a game for others to play online. Now, only 10 months and 923.3 hours of work later, it's playable in early access.<p>In the game, you talk out loud (ASR), and the NPCs (LLM + TTS) talk back at you. It is fun to play with a friend! And because it's just talking, non-gamers do great, often better than gamers.<p>I really want to have a free demo, but no time yet to implement. For now, it's purchase only ($4.99). If anyone decides to try it, I'd really love to get more feedback. It was an enormous learning experience, especially targeting the web - so many partially supported web APIs and browser inconsistencies! Still feels like 2008 in some ways.<p>Also happy to answer questions of course. Thanks, and enjoy the weekend!
Show HN: Talk to Me Human – my game about social persuasion
Hey all,<p>I recently graduated from a good PhD program studying NLP. Unlike any sane person who would go become a professor or make a gazillion dollars in industry, I decided to try bootstrapping my own software business. This is my first product.<p>The inspiration was from my research on computers understanding social norms. When ChatGPT came out, I was amazed how well it could understand social etiquette. I thought it'd be fun to make a game where you have to talk your way out of sticky situations - like you miss your friend's birthday party, or your boss catches you trying to leave work at 2pm.<p>I made a prototype in a couple days, and it was super fun to play with. I thought I'd spend a "couple months" making a game for others to play online. Now, only 10 months and 923.3 hours of work later, it's playable in early access.<p>In the game, you talk out loud (ASR), and the NPCs (LLM + TTS) talk back at you. It is fun to play with a friend! And because it's just talking, non-gamers do great, often better than gamers.<p>I really want to have a free demo, but no time yet to implement. For now, it's purchase only ($4.99). If anyone decides to try it, I'd really love to get more feedback. It was an enormous learning experience, especially targeting the web - so many partially supported web APIs and browser inconsistencies! Still feels like 2008 in some ways.<p>Also happy to answer questions of course. Thanks, and enjoy the weekend!
Show HN: Ayin – An open-source photo editing software
Hello HN, I'm Fares A. Bakhit a junior CS student at Cairo University and I'm happy to announce my latest project,<p>"Ayin" is an open-source photo editing software available on Windows, Linux, and MacOS (Only a Windows build is available now on GitHub but you can compile it yourself to other platforms) with an interactive real-time graphical user interface.<p>Feel free to use and study the source code of Ayin, it's available on GitHub under the GPLv3 open-source license.<p>I've made this project in part of the Winged Dragon Competition at the Faculty of Computers and Artificial Intelligence (FCAI-CU) Cairo University.<p>I've used ImGui, SDL2, and OpenGL (for image rendering, not processing)<p>A showcase video in Arabic is available, showing the functionalities of Ayin: <a href="https://youtu.be/ogkteQkJb0I" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/ogkteQkJb0I</a><p>Any feedback is much appreciated, thank you!
Show HN: Desbordante 2.0 – A high-performance data profiler
Hi! We are excited to announce the second release of Desbordante — an open-source, high-performance data profiler that is capable of discovering and validating many different patterns in data using various algorithms.<p>Unlike existing data profilers, Desbordante focuses on discovering complex patterns in data, which are notoriously hard to extract. Since its inception in 2019, it has become the fastest open-source tool for these tasks. It also offers an array of patterns which have no alternative implementations. With this release, Desbordante now supports 17 types of patterns, such as: various types of functional dependencies, inclusion and order dependencies, fuzzy algebraic constraints and many others.<p>Some ways in which Desbordante can be helpful are:
1) Hypothesis generation for scientists that work with large volumes of data.
2) Business data owners and business analysts can benefit from hypothesis generation as well as data quality improvement: cleaning databases from errors, finding and removing inexact duplicates, and so on.
3) Found primitives can help data scientists in feature engineering and choosing the right direction for ablation studies.<p>Desbordante solves two types of tasks: Discovery and Validation. The Discovery task is designed to identify all instances of a specified pattern type of a given dataset. The Validation task is different: it is designed to check whether a specified pattern instance is present in a given dataset. This task not only returns True or False, but it also explains why the instance does not hold (e.g. it can list table rows with conflicting values).<p>Desbordante offers a CLI, a web application, and a Python library. The latter makes it possible to construct ad-hoc data analysis pipelines — essentially, your own applications for various data quality tasks: data cleaning, data deduplication, anomaly detection, data schema recovery and many others. You can check out example implementations here: <a href="https://github.com/Desbordante/desbordante-core/tree/main/examples">https://github.com/Desbordante/desbordante-core/tree/main/ex...</a>.<p>Check out some of our articles for more details:<p><a href="https://medium.com/@chernishev/exploratory-data-analysis-with-desbordante-4b97299cce07" rel="nofollow">https://medium.com/@chernishev/exploratory-data-analysis-wit...</a><p><a href="https://itnext.io/building-a-simple-data-cleaning-application-with-desbordante-e4897dcd4c5d" rel="nofollow">https://itnext.io/building-a-simple-data-cleaning-applicatio...</a><p><a href="https://levelup.gitconnected.com/checking-mining-and-exploring-functional-dependencies-in-python-903bb0e26d5d" rel="nofollow">https://levelup.gitconnected.com/checking-mining-and-explori...</a><p>This major release brings a lot of improvements: support for several novel patterns, support for novel data type — graphs, added python bindings for existing patterns, better guides and examples and more. The detailed changelog can be seen here (<a href="https://github.com/Desbordante/desbordante-core/releases/tag/v2.0.0">https://github.com/Desbordante/desbordante-core/releases/tag...</a>).
Show HN: Desbordante 2.0 – A high-performance data profiler
Hi! We are excited to announce the second release of Desbordante — an open-source, high-performance data profiler that is capable of discovering and validating many different patterns in data using various algorithms.<p>Unlike existing data profilers, Desbordante focuses on discovering complex patterns in data, which are notoriously hard to extract. Since its inception in 2019, it has become the fastest open-source tool for these tasks. It also offers an array of patterns which have no alternative implementations. With this release, Desbordante now supports 17 types of patterns, such as: various types of functional dependencies, inclusion and order dependencies, fuzzy algebraic constraints and many others.<p>Some ways in which Desbordante can be helpful are:
1) Hypothesis generation for scientists that work with large volumes of data.
2) Business data owners and business analysts can benefit from hypothesis generation as well as data quality improvement: cleaning databases from errors, finding and removing inexact duplicates, and so on.
3) Found primitives can help data scientists in feature engineering and choosing the right direction for ablation studies.<p>Desbordante solves two types of tasks: Discovery and Validation. The Discovery task is designed to identify all instances of a specified pattern type of a given dataset. The Validation task is different: it is designed to check whether a specified pattern instance is present in a given dataset. This task not only returns True or False, but it also explains why the instance does not hold (e.g. it can list table rows with conflicting values).<p>Desbordante offers a CLI, a web application, and a Python library. The latter makes it possible to construct ad-hoc data analysis pipelines — essentially, your own applications for various data quality tasks: data cleaning, data deduplication, anomaly detection, data schema recovery and many others. You can check out example implementations here: <a href="https://github.com/Desbordante/desbordante-core/tree/main/examples">https://github.com/Desbordante/desbordante-core/tree/main/ex...</a>.<p>Check out some of our articles for more details:<p><a href="https://medium.com/@chernishev/exploratory-data-analysis-with-desbordante-4b97299cce07" rel="nofollow">https://medium.com/@chernishev/exploratory-data-analysis-wit...</a><p><a href="https://itnext.io/building-a-simple-data-cleaning-application-with-desbordante-e4897dcd4c5d" rel="nofollow">https://itnext.io/building-a-simple-data-cleaning-applicatio...</a><p><a href="https://levelup.gitconnected.com/checking-mining-and-exploring-functional-dependencies-in-python-903bb0e26d5d" rel="nofollow">https://levelup.gitconnected.com/checking-mining-and-explori...</a><p>This major release brings a lot of improvements: support for several novel patterns, support for novel data type — graphs, added python bindings for existing patterns, better guides and examples and more. The detailed changelog can be seen here (<a href="https://github.com/Desbordante/desbordante-core/releases/tag/v2.0.0">https://github.com/Desbordante/desbordante-core/releases/tag...</a>).
Show HN: Desbordante 2.0 – A high-performance data profiler
Hi! We are excited to announce the second release of Desbordante — an open-source, high-performance data profiler that is capable of discovering and validating many different patterns in data using various algorithms.<p>Unlike existing data profilers, Desbordante focuses on discovering complex patterns in data, which are notoriously hard to extract. Since its inception in 2019, it has become the fastest open-source tool for these tasks. It also offers an array of patterns which have no alternative implementations. With this release, Desbordante now supports 17 types of patterns, such as: various types of functional dependencies, inclusion and order dependencies, fuzzy algebraic constraints and many others.<p>Some ways in which Desbordante can be helpful are:
1) Hypothesis generation for scientists that work with large volumes of data.
2) Business data owners and business analysts can benefit from hypothesis generation as well as data quality improvement: cleaning databases from errors, finding and removing inexact duplicates, and so on.
3) Found primitives can help data scientists in feature engineering and choosing the right direction for ablation studies.<p>Desbordante solves two types of tasks: Discovery and Validation. The Discovery task is designed to identify all instances of a specified pattern type of a given dataset. The Validation task is different: it is designed to check whether a specified pattern instance is present in a given dataset. This task not only returns True or False, but it also explains why the instance does not hold (e.g. it can list table rows with conflicting values).<p>Desbordante offers a CLI, a web application, and a Python library. The latter makes it possible to construct ad-hoc data analysis pipelines — essentially, your own applications for various data quality tasks: data cleaning, data deduplication, anomaly detection, data schema recovery and many others. You can check out example implementations here: <a href="https://github.com/Desbordante/desbordante-core/tree/main/examples">https://github.com/Desbordante/desbordante-core/tree/main/ex...</a>.<p>Check out some of our articles for more details:<p><a href="https://medium.com/@chernishev/exploratory-data-analysis-with-desbordante-4b97299cce07" rel="nofollow">https://medium.com/@chernishev/exploratory-data-analysis-wit...</a><p><a href="https://itnext.io/building-a-simple-data-cleaning-application-with-desbordante-e4897dcd4c5d" rel="nofollow">https://itnext.io/building-a-simple-data-cleaning-applicatio...</a><p><a href="https://levelup.gitconnected.com/checking-mining-and-exploring-functional-dependencies-in-python-903bb0e26d5d" rel="nofollow">https://levelup.gitconnected.com/checking-mining-and-explori...</a><p>This major release brings a lot of improvements: support for several novel patterns, support for novel data type — graphs, added python bindings for existing patterns, better guides and examples and more. The detailed changelog can be seen here (<a href="https://github.com/Desbordante/desbordante-core/releases/tag/v2.0.0">https://github.com/Desbordante/desbordante-core/releases/tag...</a>).
Show HN: Brewer X, a native macOS client for Homebrew
Hi HN! Like many of you, for my entire career I have relied on Homebrew to install all kinds of software on my Mac. That's why today I'm really excited to share a new app that my partner and I are building: Brewer X, a refreshing user interface for Homebrew.<p>Brewer X is graphical interface that lives on top of Homebrew. Leveraging the power of native APIs improves the classic experience and unlocks new features. For example:<p>• bulk actions are performed in parallel<p>• syncing the entire library locally provides incredible search performances and the ability to query descriptions and other previously unaccessible fields<p>• maintenance scripts run automatically for you<p>• last but not least... app icons (or favicons when not available) let you quickly identify what you're looking for<p>The app is written in Swift and uses only AppKit with Nib files for top performance, pixel perfect design, and maximum flexibility.<p>We also designed the app icon and all the others in the UI ourselves. Following the great insights from Sketch[^1] we managed to make them super crispy. We're also very proud to have been featured in the macOS App Icon Book[^2].<p>The app has only been out for a couple of weeks, but we've already seen an amazing response from the community. We can't tell you all of our future plans yet, but here's a list of things we'd like to see in the app in the near future:<p>• Import/Export<p>• Automatic replacement of apps installed without Homebrew<p>• Notifications about available updates<p>• Finder actions<p>• Spotlight integration<p>I hope you find Brewer X interesting. We're happy to answer any question!<p>[^1]: <a href="https://www.sketch.com/blog/how-we-redesigned-our-toolbar-icons-for-big-sur-and-monterey/" rel="nofollow">https://www.sketch.com/blog/how-we-redesigned-our-toolbar-ic...</a><p>[^2]: <a href="https://www.appiconbook.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.appiconbook.com/</a>
Show HN: Brewer X, a native macOS client for Homebrew
Hi HN! Like many of you, for my entire career I have relied on Homebrew to install all kinds of software on my Mac. That's why today I'm really excited to share a new app that my partner and I are building: Brewer X, a refreshing user interface for Homebrew.<p>Brewer X is graphical interface that lives on top of Homebrew. Leveraging the power of native APIs improves the classic experience and unlocks new features. For example:<p>• bulk actions are performed in parallel<p>• syncing the entire library locally provides incredible search performances and the ability to query descriptions and other previously unaccessible fields<p>• maintenance scripts run automatically for you<p>• last but not least... app icons (or favicons when not available) let you quickly identify what you're looking for<p>The app is written in Swift and uses only AppKit with Nib files for top performance, pixel perfect design, and maximum flexibility.<p>We also designed the app icon and all the others in the UI ourselves. Following the great insights from Sketch[^1] we managed to make them super crispy. We're also very proud to have been featured in the macOS App Icon Book[^2].<p>The app has only been out for a couple of weeks, but we've already seen an amazing response from the community. We can't tell you all of our future plans yet, but here's a list of things we'd like to see in the app in the near future:<p>• Import/Export<p>• Automatic replacement of apps installed without Homebrew<p>• Notifications about available updates<p>• Finder actions<p>• Spotlight integration<p>I hope you find Brewer X interesting. We're happy to answer any question!<p>[^1]: <a href="https://www.sketch.com/blog/how-we-redesigned-our-toolbar-icons-for-big-sur-and-monterey/" rel="nofollow">https://www.sketch.com/blog/how-we-redesigned-our-toolbar-ic...</a><p>[^2]: <a href="https://www.appiconbook.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.appiconbook.com/</a>
Show HN: Vapi – Convince our voice AI to give you the secret code
Show HN: Vapi – Convince our voice AI to give you the secret code
Show HN: Vapi – Convince our voice AI to give you the secret code
Show HN: A no-watermark video downloader for Any social media
Hi HN reader,<p>I'm a solo-founder navigating product market fit. I've spent 3 years building Double Subtitles which I am very proud of, but I don't know how to do marketing and my growth is somewhat stagnant. Through learning about SEO, I discovered this opportunity that I want to share:<p>There are a lot of websites that let you download social media videos, which have extremely high traffic. But they are all disjoint, in the sense that some download TikTok videos, while others download Instagram videos, others YouTube, etc...<p>I quickly prototyped software which downloads any video from any link. Currently the live version of FastDownload only supports TikTok and YouTube videos, since they are the most stable. But I will slowly start rolling out Instagram and other services weekly.<p>ps. Personally, what I think is really cool is this Apple Shortcut, which lets you download videos directly from within whatever app you're in, using Share Action Extensions.<p>pps. Another thing I'm very excited about is that while doing analysis with Ahrefs and SEMRush I have been able to identify many high value keywords which I'm deploying pSEO strategies for now.<p>I hope this product is helpful and any feedback (even negative) would bring me joy.<p>All the best,
Bojan
Show HN: A no-watermark video downloader for Any social media
Hi HN reader,<p>I'm a solo-founder navigating product market fit. I've spent 3 years building Double Subtitles which I am very proud of, but I don't know how to do marketing and my growth is somewhat stagnant. Through learning about SEO, I discovered this opportunity that I want to share:<p>There are a lot of websites that let you download social media videos, which have extremely high traffic. But they are all disjoint, in the sense that some download TikTok videos, while others download Instagram videos, others YouTube, etc...<p>I quickly prototyped software which downloads any video from any link. Currently the live version of FastDownload only supports TikTok and YouTube videos, since they are the most stable. But I will slowly start rolling out Instagram and other services weekly.<p>ps. Personally, what I think is really cool is this Apple Shortcut, which lets you download videos directly from within whatever app you're in, using Share Action Extensions.<p>pps. Another thing I'm very excited about is that while doing analysis with Ahrefs and SEMRush I have been able to identify many high value keywords which I'm deploying pSEO strategies for now.<p>I hope this product is helpful and any feedback (even negative) would bring me joy.<p>All the best,
Bojan