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Show HN: OneUptime – open-source Datadog Alternative
Show HN: OneUptime – open-source Datadog Alternative
Show HN: Parallel Arabic – Arabic reading and writing practice
I have made a website called Parallel Arabic which enables users to read arabic texts alongside the same text in English.<p>Each story features a dictionary of key words, transliteration of the text, and full native audio recordings, creating a fully self-contained learning environment without the need for outside resources. <a href="https://parallel-arabic.com/stories" rel="nofollow">https://parallel-arabic.com/stories</a><p>There is also a section for writing where you can practice writing over 4000 words, with realtime spellchecking. The tool contains a fully featured Arabic virtual keyboard, built for english speaker
Show HN: Parallel Arabic – Arabic reading and writing practice
I have made a website called Parallel Arabic which enables users to read arabic texts alongside the same text in English.<p>Each story features a dictionary of key words, transliteration of the text, and full native audio recordings, creating a fully self-contained learning environment without the need for outside resources. <a href="https://parallel-arabic.com/stories" rel="nofollow">https://parallel-arabic.com/stories</a><p>There is also a section for writing where you can practice writing over 4000 words, with realtime spellchecking. The tool contains a fully featured Arabic virtual keyboard, built for english speaker
Show HN: Celest – Flutter Cloud Platform
Hi HN! I’m Dillon, the founder of Celest (<a href="https://celest.dev">https://celest.dev</a>). Celest is a
backend-as-a-service that lets you build full-stack Flutter and Dart apps
without leaving your IDE. There’s a short demo video here:
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Evs1f0zHpzk" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Evs1f0zHpzk</a><p>At AWS, I built the Amplify Flutter framework and saw the extraordinary power
(and complexity) the modern cloud presents. I wore many hats in that role, but
the hat I most disliked was devops. I just wanted to write my business logic and
have it work.<p>As a Flutter developer, I love writing Dart, and I want to use it everywhere.
But in order to do so today, it requires stringing together Docker, Terraform
and a healthy dose of cloud expertise to make it work.
I built Celest so that I never have to use anything but Dart in my
backends, and so other Flutter developers won’t either!<p>Celest brings infrastructure-from-code to Dart in a way that’s fun to write.
Cloud functions are just top-level Dart functions and the inputs and outputs are
automatically serialized for you. Run <i>celest start</i> to spin up a local
environment with hot reload, and <i>celest deploy</i> to deploy to our managed cloud
in under a few minutes. A type-safe client is generated for you as you build to
create an RPC-like interface for your backend.<p>Celest currently offers serverless functions, authentication, and authorization.
Our goal for the coming months is to further offer an offline-first SQL database
and ORM. One cool thing about our authorization mechanism is a novel token
format which combines Google’s Macaroons [1] with the Cedar policy language [2]
for expressing caveats. I call them Corks!
<a href="https://github.com/celest-dev/celest/tree/main/packages/corks_cedar">https://github.com/celest-dev/celest/tree/main/packages/cork...</a><p>You can download the CLI at <a href="https://celest.dev">https://celest.dev</a> and play in a local environment
for free with no sign ups. The client runtime is open-sourced as BSD at
<a href="https://github.com/celest-dev/celest">https://github.com/celest-dev/celest</a>. There are some examples here:
<a href="https://github.com/celest-dev/celest/tree/main/examples">https://github.com/celest-dev/celest/tree/main/examples</a>.<p>Check us out and let us know what you think!<p>[1] <a href="https://research.google/pubs/macaroons-cookies-with-contextual-caveats-for-decentralized-authorization-in-the-cloud/" rel="nofollow">https://research.google/pubs/macaroons-cookies-with-contextu...</a><p>[2] <a href="https://www.cedarpolicy.com/en" rel="nofollow">https://www.cedarpolicy.com/en</a>
Show HN: Celest – Flutter Cloud Platform
Hi HN! I’m Dillon, the founder of Celest (<a href="https://celest.dev">https://celest.dev</a>). Celest is a
backend-as-a-service that lets you build full-stack Flutter and Dart apps
without leaving your IDE. There’s a short demo video here:
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Evs1f0zHpzk" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Evs1f0zHpzk</a><p>At AWS, I built the Amplify Flutter framework and saw the extraordinary power
(and complexity) the modern cloud presents. I wore many hats in that role, but
the hat I most disliked was devops. I just wanted to write my business logic and
have it work.<p>As a Flutter developer, I love writing Dart, and I want to use it everywhere.
But in order to do so today, it requires stringing together Docker, Terraform
and a healthy dose of cloud expertise to make it work.
I built Celest so that I never have to use anything but Dart in my
backends, and so other Flutter developers won’t either!<p>Celest brings infrastructure-from-code to Dart in a way that’s fun to write.
Cloud functions are just top-level Dart functions and the inputs and outputs are
automatically serialized for you. Run <i>celest start</i> to spin up a local
environment with hot reload, and <i>celest deploy</i> to deploy to our managed cloud
in under a few minutes. A type-safe client is generated for you as you build to
create an RPC-like interface for your backend.<p>Celest currently offers serverless functions, authentication, and authorization.
Our goal for the coming months is to further offer an offline-first SQL database
and ORM. One cool thing about our authorization mechanism is a novel token
format which combines Google’s Macaroons [1] with the Cedar policy language [2]
for expressing caveats. I call them Corks!
<a href="https://github.com/celest-dev/celest/tree/main/packages/corks_cedar">https://github.com/celest-dev/celest/tree/main/packages/cork...</a><p>You can download the CLI at <a href="https://celest.dev">https://celest.dev</a> and play in a local environment
for free with no sign ups. The client runtime is open-sourced as BSD at
<a href="https://github.com/celest-dev/celest">https://github.com/celest-dev/celest</a>. There are some examples here:
<a href="https://github.com/celest-dev/celest/tree/main/examples">https://github.com/celest-dev/celest/tree/main/examples</a>.<p>Check us out and let us know what you think!<p>[1] <a href="https://research.google/pubs/macaroons-cookies-with-contextual-caveats-for-decentralized-authorization-in-the-cloud/" rel="nofollow">https://research.google/pubs/macaroons-cookies-with-contextu...</a><p>[2] <a href="https://www.cedarpolicy.com/en" rel="nofollow">https://www.cedarpolicy.com/en</a>
Show HN: Celest – Flutter Cloud Platform
Hi HN! I’m Dillon, the founder of Celest (<a href="https://celest.dev">https://celest.dev</a>). Celest is a
backend-as-a-service that lets you build full-stack Flutter and Dart apps
without leaving your IDE. There’s a short demo video here:
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Evs1f0zHpzk" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Evs1f0zHpzk</a><p>At AWS, I built the Amplify Flutter framework and saw the extraordinary power
(and complexity) the modern cloud presents. I wore many hats in that role, but
the hat I most disliked was devops. I just wanted to write my business logic and
have it work.<p>As a Flutter developer, I love writing Dart, and I want to use it everywhere.
But in order to do so today, it requires stringing together Docker, Terraform
and a healthy dose of cloud expertise to make it work.
I built Celest so that I never have to use anything but Dart in my
backends, and so other Flutter developers won’t either!<p>Celest brings infrastructure-from-code to Dart in a way that’s fun to write.
Cloud functions are just top-level Dart functions and the inputs and outputs are
automatically serialized for you. Run <i>celest start</i> to spin up a local
environment with hot reload, and <i>celest deploy</i> to deploy to our managed cloud
in under a few minutes. A type-safe client is generated for you as you build to
create an RPC-like interface for your backend.<p>Celest currently offers serverless functions, authentication, and authorization.
Our goal for the coming months is to further offer an offline-first SQL database
and ORM. One cool thing about our authorization mechanism is a novel token
format which combines Google’s Macaroons [1] with the Cedar policy language [2]
for expressing caveats. I call them Corks!
<a href="https://github.com/celest-dev/celest/tree/main/packages/corks_cedar">https://github.com/celest-dev/celest/tree/main/packages/cork...</a><p>You can download the CLI at <a href="https://celest.dev">https://celest.dev</a> and play in a local environment
for free with no sign ups. The client runtime is open-sourced as BSD at
<a href="https://github.com/celest-dev/celest">https://github.com/celest-dev/celest</a>. There are some examples here:
<a href="https://github.com/celest-dev/celest/tree/main/examples">https://github.com/celest-dev/celest/tree/main/examples</a>.<p>Check us out and let us know what you think!<p>[1] <a href="https://research.google/pubs/macaroons-cookies-with-contextual-caveats-for-decentralized-authorization-in-the-cloud/" rel="nofollow">https://research.google/pubs/macaroons-cookies-with-contextu...</a><p>[2] <a href="https://www.cedarpolicy.com/en" rel="nofollow">https://www.cedarpolicy.com/en</a>
Show HN: DN$ – an innovative, ad-supported DNS resolver
Tired of companies snooping through your DNS traffic? Don't you wish you could get advertisements with your DNS records?<p>Today we're introducing the innovative, privacy-focused, ad-supported DNS resolver - DN$! Traditional DNS resolvers provided by your internet service provider, cloudflare, or google could be tracking your internet activity and selling it to third-party data vendors. We at DN$ want to fix that and cut out these nefarious actors (until we've amassed a critical number of users to exploit).<p>In order to support such a radically new business model, our service needs to serve adverts because $INSERT_FAKE_REASONS. Open source and built in rust - our software is secure and blazingly fast because it is open source and built in rust.<p>As a corporate entity, our executives are not liable for prison time and will probably only be fined small financial penalties for any serious crimes we commit. However, we *promise* that we are NOT doing anything nefarious like tracking and selling your user data and internet behavior. We will also NOT be using the data (we are <i>not</i> collecting : ) to train AI models to make ourselves rich.<p>Did we mention that it's built in rust therefore it's safe and fast?<p>Send your DNS queries to `35.223.197.204` :) to try it out:<p>```
dig @35.223.197.204 hackernews.com
```
Show HN: DN$ – an innovative, ad-supported DNS resolver
Tired of companies snooping through your DNS traffic? Don't you wish you could get advertisements with your DNS records?<p>Today we're introducing the innovative, privacy-focused, ad-supported DNS resolver - DN$! Traditional DNS resolvers provided by your internet service provider, cloudflare, or google could be tracking your internet activity and selling it to third-party data vendors. We at DN$ want to fix that and cut out these nefarious actors (until we've amassed a critical number of users to exploit).<p>In order to support such a radically new business model, our service needs to serve adverts because $INSERT_FAKE_REASONS. Open source and built in rust - our software is secure and blazingly fast because it is open source and built in rust.<p>As a corporate entity, our executives are not liable for prison time and will probably only be fined small financial penalties for any serious crimes we commit. However, we *promise* that we are NOT doing anything nefarious like tracking and selling your user data and internet behavior. We will also NOT be using the data (we are <i>not</i> collecting : ) to train AI models to make ourselves rich.<p>Did we mention that it's built in rust therefore it's safe and fast?<p>Send your DNS queries to `35.223.197.204` :) to try it out:<p>```
dig @35.223.197.204 hackernews.com
```
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: 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.