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Show HN: Lemonade – A Lemmy client using GTK 4 and libadwaita
Show HN: An AI-based OKRs generator
Show HN: An AI-based OKRs generator
Show HN: An AI-based OKRs generator
Show HN: Gamebody, a full-body game controller
Show HN: Gamebody, a full-body game controller
Show HN: Gamebody, a full-body game controller
Show HN: Halloy – A GUI Application in Rust for IRC
Show HN: Halloy – A GUI Application in Rust for IRC
Show HN: Halloy – A GUI Application in Rust for IRC
Show HN: Gitopia: Decentralized GitHub Alternative for Open Source Collaboration
Hey HN! We're Parth and Faza and we'd like to introduce you to Gitopia - <a href="https://gitopia.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://gitopia.com/</a>.
Our vision with Gitopia is to create a decentralized platform for open-source code collaboration that is both resilient against censorship and promotes free exchange of ideas. To make this vision a reality, we've developed tools that foster community-led governance and incentivize active participation.<p>Our journey into the open-source world started with Google Summer of Code, where we contributed to syslog-ng and GDAL, respectively. It was a transformative experience that truly highlighted the value of open-source development to us.<p>During the pandemic, we participated in an Arweave hackathon hosted on Gitcoin. It was here that our initial project, Dgit - <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201029162838/https://dgit.sh/#/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://web.archive.org/web/20201029162838/https://dgit.sh/#...</a>, took form. This sparked the idea of a decentralized code collaboration platform and set us on the path towards what we now call Gitopia - a 'utopia' for open-source collaboration.<p>One of our guiding principles while developing Gitopia has been to maintain familiarity for users. To achieve this, we designed Gitopia to work directly with the git CLI and incorporated Gitopia's git remote helper - <a href="https://docs.gitopia.com/git-remote-gitopia" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://docs.gitopia.com/git-remote-gitopia</a>, that allows git to understand our custom transport protocol. This integration ensures that you can continue using the git commands you use daily, thereby offering a decentralized experience that doesn't disrupt your existing workflow.<p>Making the transition easier, we have also released a GitHub action, gitopia-mirror-action: <a href="https://github.com/marketplace/actions/gitopia-mirror-action">https://github.com/marketplace/actions/gitopia-mirror-action</a>, that mirrors your repositories from GitHub to Gitopia. Each commit is backed up on IPFS, Filecoin, and Arweave, safeguarding your code against censorship and eliminating single points of failure. A basic search feature is also enabled on Gitopia using the graph protocol.<p>We recognize the challenges in the open-source community around lack of incentivization. Developers often find themselves contributing their time and skills for free, leading to potential burnout. To combat this, we have implemented bounties, allowing contributors to earn rewards when their PRs get merged. We encourage you to contribute and get involved with the bounties open in various Gitopia repositories.<p>- gitopia-web: <a href="https://gitopia.com/Gitopia/gitopia-web/issues" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://gitopia.com/Gitopia/gitopia-web/issues</a><p>- gitopia chain: <a href="https://gitopia.com/Gitopia/gitopia/issues" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://gitopia.com/Gitopia/gitopia/issues</a><p>- git-remote-gitopia: <a href="https://gitopia.com/Gitopia/git-remote-gitopia/issues" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://gitopia.com/Gitopia/git-remote-gitopia/issues</a><p>Gitopia introduces a utility token, $LORE, which plays a crucial role in our platform. $LORE not only incentivizes open-source maintainers and contributors but also empowers the community to participate in platform governance via proposals. You can find more details about our token model here - <a href="https://blog.gitopia.com/post/2023/03/lore-token-model/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://blog.gitopia.com/post/2023/03/lore-token-model/</a><p>The journey towards building Gitopia is ongoing, and there are exciting features in our pipeline:<p>- Activity feed<p>- Improve search ranking<p>- CI/CD workflows<p>- DAO workflows<p>We're also actively working on tackling challenges in platform moderation, reducing maintainer fatigue, improving platform governance, and enhancing discovery on the platform.
We invite you to try out Gitopia - <a href="https://gitopia.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://gitopia.com</a> and share your feedback, ideas or suggestions. Please comment here or reach out to us at hi [at] gitopia.org. We look forward to hearing from you!<p>Helpful links:<p>Documentation: <a href="https://docs.gitopia.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://docs.gitopia.com/</a>
Show HN: Litnerd (YC S21) – Kids Book Club Meets Gaming
Hi HN! Anisa here from Litnerd (<a href="https://www.litnerd.com">https://www.litnerd.com</a>). We’re a reading club for kids. It’s been two years since our first HN launch and I am back today to share some updates we're extremely excited about.<p>Litnerd is an online reading club program with a weekly live meetup to help students make reading a lifelong habit. Think of us as “book club meets gaming”. New books go live weekly, and each book has movie adaptations, music, reading courseware, mini lessons with a virtual teacher and worksheets. There are reading tournaments every month to recognize the top reader. The goal of our app is to create a fun and engaging way of cultivating a child’s natural curiosity by bringing the subject matter to life (movie adaptation of books with real actors, cartoon animation, enacted experiences) and through gamification—our community is obsessed with earning “Litcoin” (yup, we actually did this and it really works!) and winning monthly tournaments.<p>Here’s a video that shows how Litnerd works: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSVjWi-rE8k">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSVjWi-rE8k</a>. Here’s a video I made for parents, summarizing what’s new with our product: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mniVUWx6tvM">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mniVUWx6tvM</a>, and here is an older video that gives you a quick demo: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1wdk9ofb5w">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1wdk9ofb5w</a>.<p>When we did our Launch HN back in 2021 (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28300640">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28300640</a>), we got two prominent themes of feedback. One was B2C access—you asked us to open the app for parents to buy directly rather than selling it only to schools. The other was that it gave you massive Diamond Age vibes. I read the Diamond Age. It gave me chills. Thank you!<p>Originally, Litnerd was only sold to schools, and teachers had to administer the product in classroom time. We were also streaming live actors into the classroom to reenact books and build interest and fun.<p>Now, our program is a standalone web app used by both schools and parents (B2C access is live—thanks HN!) We no longer stream live actors into classrooms, but rather have films and cartoons in-app to bring the book to life, all filmed in our Brooklyn studio. We also have original soundtracks for each book, in both the app and on Spotify.<p>Our product is now used by kids primarily after school hours—and the average kid is spending 30 minutes in the app daily! Parents in our first B2C cohort commented on how this is the only educational app their child wants to use without being pushed by a parent/teacher. With just 4 months of Litnerd usage, students improved comprehension by 72% and phonics improvement by 48%.
Your child is auto-enrolled in a cohort when they sign up. They are also auto-enrolled in the current reading tournament of the month. The goal is to earn the most amount of Litcoin so that you can win tournaments and go shopping in the Litnerd Store. To earn Litcoin, your child does 3 things. First, they complete at least 15 minutes of daily reading. Second, they have daily reading tasks, such as quizzes and worksheets to build vocabulary and comprehension. Third, they attend a weekly live (virtual) meetup with their cohort.<p>Why a live meetup? The Litnerd Reading Club is a <i>community</i> experience with a weekly meetup (if you miss the weekly meetup, you miss out on a lot of Litcoin earning potential). This ensures kids using the app feel like they are in a classroom or pod experience. Each child is entered into a cohort when they enroll, and each week your child will meet virtually with other kids in their cohort and discuss the book they are reading with our special guest (which might be the author of the book, an actor from the movie adaptation of the book, a literacy coach, etc). Here is a video to show what happens in these cohort sessions: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOcybwyGelo">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOcybwyGelo</a><p>We have so much more to build out our version of the Primer from Diamond Age and inspire millions of kids, just like Nell, to fall in love with learning. We are working on turning the entire app into a game-ux interface, where kids can explore different cities in the app and read books/go through materials at their own pace and that the app will adapt to their interests. We also have our eye on adding other subjects and older grades in the future.<p>As always, I would love to hear your thoughts and ideas on how you foster reading amongst your children! I am excited to hear your feedback and ideas to help us inspire the next generation of readers.
Show HN: Webhooks for platforms that do not natively support them
Hello HN,<p>We’d like to show you our project — Nohooks[0]. The aim is to add webhooks to platforms that do not natively support webhooks. We really believe many APIs can provide a better developer experience by providing webhook notifications to enable us to automate more things.<p>Nohooks works by intelligently polling the integrated platform's APIs, determining if a change has occurred, and generating webhook events. Nohooks currently supports webhooks from Notion’s Databases, Render’s Services & Deployments, and DigitalOcean’s Droplets. We will add more in the coming days and improve the types of events/payloads generated to enable new workflows that were previously impossible or difficult to achieve. It uses Convoy[1] to power its webhooks delivery and debugging dashboard.<p>We welcome you to try it out and give us your feedback — what platform would you love to have webhooks for that doesn’t currently exist? What webhooks best practices would you like to see implemented?<p>[0]<a href="https://nohooks.io" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://nohooks.io</a><p>[1]<a href="https://github.com/frain-dev/convoy">https://github.com/frain-dev/convoy</a>
Show HN: Webhooks for platforms that do not natively support them
Hello HN,<p>We’d like to show you our project — Nohooks[0]. The aim is to add webhooks to platforms that do not natively support webhooks. We really believe many APIs can provide a better developer experience by providing webhook notifications to enable us to automate more things.<p>Nohooks works by intelligently polling the integrated platform's APIs, determining if a change has occurred, and generating webhook events. Nohooks currently supports webhooks from Notion’s Databases, Render’s Services & Deployments, and DigitalOcean’s Droplets. We will add more in the coming days and improve the types of events/payloads generated to enable new workflows that were previously impossible or difficult to achieve. It uses Convoy[1] to power its webhooks delivery and debugging dashboard.<p>We welcome you to try it out and give us your feedback — what platform would you love to have webhooks for that doesn’t currently exist? What webhooks best practices would you like to see implemented?<p>[0]<a href="https://nohooks.io" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://nohooks.io</a><p>[1]<a href="https://github.com/frain-dev/convoy">https://github.com/frain-dev/convoy</a>
Show HN: Webhooks for platforms that do not natively support them
Hello HN,<p>We’d like to show you our project — Nohooks[0]. The aim is to add webhooks to platforms that do not natively support webhooks. We really believe many APIs can provide a better developer experience by providing webhook notifications to enable us to automate more things.<p>Nohooks works by intelligently polling the integrated platform's APIs, determining if a change has occurred, and generating webhook events. Nohooks currently supports webhooks from Notion’s Databases, Render’s Services & Deployments, and DigitalOcean’s Droplets. We will add more in the coming days and improve the types of events/payloads generated to enable new workflows that were previously impossible or difficult to achieve. It uses Convoy[1] to power its webhooks delivery and debugging dashboard.<p>We welcome you to try it out and give us your feedback — what platform would you love to have webhooks for that doesn’t currently exist? What webhooks best practices would you like to see implemented?<p>[0]<a href="https://nohooks.io" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://nohooks.io</a><p>[1]<a href="https://github.com/frain-dev/convoy">https://github.com/frain-dev/convoy</a>
Show HN: Webhooks for platforms that do not natively support them
Hello HN,<p>We’d like to show you our project — Nohooks[0]. The aim is to add webhooks to platforms that do not natively support webhooks. We really believe many APIs can provide a better developer experience by providing webhook notifications to enable us to automate more things.<p>Nohooks works by intelligently polling the integrated platform's APIs, determining if a change has occurred, and generating webhook events. Nohooks currently supports webhooks from Notion’s Databases, Render’s Services & Deployments, and DigitalOcean’s Droplets. We will add more in the coming days and improve the types of events/payloads generated to enable new workflows that were previously impossible or difficult to achieve. It uses Convoy[1] to power its webhooks delivery and debugging dashboard.<p>We welcome you to try it out and give us your feedback — what platform would you love to have webhooks for that doesn’t currently exist? What webhooks best practices would you like to see implemented?<p>[0]<a href="https://nohooks.io" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://nohooks.io</a><p>[1]<a href="https://github.com/frain-dev/convoy">https://github.com/frain-dev/convoy</a>
Show HN: Tweak your chord progressions for practice or composition
I'm excited to share with HN a new pet project I've been working on to explore how AI can create and explain harmonic chord progressions - Chord Variations.<p>The project uses GPT-4 to generate unique and interesting chord combinations based on user input chord progression. It's akin to having a virtual musical assistant that can help non-musicians and musicians alike explore and create harmonious sound without needing any prior knowledge of music theory. The generated chord suggestions maintain a similar vibe to the user input. Alternative chord progression includes extended chords, chord substitutions, unique passing chords, and more.<p>Additionally, musical theory explanations within the tool is helpful for users not just to create music, but understand the underlying structure it's built on a bit better. These chord progression suggestions can be used for practice or composition. As a musician myself, I am having quite a lot of fun playing around with it.<p>One of the things I'm proud of is how the application really dips into music theory. It includes nuanced aspects such as dominant chords, secondary dominant chords, and the famous 2-5-1 chord progressions.<p>That said, the development journey was full of lessons. Dealing with the latency of the GPT-4 API was particularly challenging. I used a Celery based queue system + client polling to manage the delay between request and response (from OpenAI API). Additionally, to keep the chord names consistent, I used a combination of prompting and regex. There are still some bugs that need to be squashed but overall I am pretty happy with the results.<p>I'd love to hear your thoughts and feedback on the project. Also, if you're curious about anything, I am happy to delve into the details in comments.<p>Feel free to take Chord Variations for a spin here: <a href="https://chord-alt.vercel.app/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://chord-alt.vercel.app/</a><p>Looking forward to some interesting discussions!
Show HN: Tweak your chord progressions for practice or composition
I'm excited to share with HN a new pet project I've been working on to explore how AI can create and explain harmonic chord progressions - Chord Variations.<p>The project uses GPT-4 to generate unique and interesting chord combinations based on user input chord progression. It's akin to having a virtual musical assistant that can help non-musicians and musicians alike explore and create harmonious sound without needing any prior knowledge of music theory. The generated chord suggestions maintain a similar vibe to the user input. Alternative chord progression includes extended chords, chord substitutions, unique passing chords, and more.<p>Additionally, musical theory explanations within the tool is helpful for users not just to create music, but understand the underlying structure it's built on a bit better. These chord progression suggestions can be used for practice or composition. As a musician myself, I am having quite a lot of fun playing around with it.<p>One of the things I'm proud of is how the application really dips into music theory. It includes nuanced aspects such as dominant chords, secondary dominant chords, and the famous 2-5-1 chord progressions.<p>That said, the development journey was full of lessons. Dealing with the latency of the GPT-4 API was particularly challenging. I used a Celery based queue system + client polling to manage the delay between request and response (from OpenAI API). Additionally, to keep the chord names consistent, I used a combination of prompting and regex. There are still some bugs that need to be squashed but overall I am pretty happy with the results.<p>I'd love to hear your thoughts and feedback on the project. Also, if you're curious about anything, I am happy to delve into the details in comments.<p>Feel free to take Chord Variations for a spin here: <a href="https://chord-alt.vercel.app/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://chord-alt.vercel.app/</a><p>Looking forward to some interesting discussions!
Show HN: Tweak your chord progressions for practice or composition
I'm excited to share with HN a new pet project I've been working on to explore how AI can create and explain harmonic chord progressions - Chord Variations.<p>The project uses GPT-4 to generate unique and interesting chord combinations based on user input chord progression. It's akin to having a virtual musical assistant that can help non-musicians and musicians alike explore and create harmonious sound without needing any prior knowledge of music theory. The generated chord suggestions maintain a similar vibe to the user input. Alternative chord progression includes extended chords, chord substitutions, unique passing chords, and more.<p>Additionally, musical theory explanations within the tool is helpful for users not just to create music, but understand the underlying structure it's built on a bit better. These chord progression suggestions can be used for practice or composition. As a musician myself, I am having quite a lot of fun playing around with it.<p>One of the things I'm proud of is how the application really dips into music theory. It includes nuanced aspects such as dominant chords, secondary dominant chords, and the famous 2-5-1 chord progressions.<p>That said, the development journey was full of lessons. Dealing with the latency of the GPT-4 API was particularly challenging. I used a Celery based queue system + client polling to manage the delay between request and response (from OpenAI API). Additionally, to keep the chord names consistent, I used a combination of prompting and regex. There are still some bugs that need to be squashed but overall I am pretty happy with the results.<p>I'd love to hear your thoughts and feedback on the project. Also, if you're curious about anything, I am happy to delve into the details in comments.<p>Feel free to take Chord Variations for a spin here: <a href="https://chord-alt.vercel.app/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://chord-alt.vercel.app/</a><p>Looking forward to some interesting discussions!
Show HN: Tweak your chord progressions for practice or composition
I'm excited to share with HN a new pet project I've been working on to explore how AI can create and explain harmonic chord progressions - Chord Variations.<p>The project uses GPT-4 to generate unique and interesting chord combinations based on user input chord progression. It's akin to having a virtual musical assistant that can help non-musicians and musicians alike explore and create harmonious sound without needing any prior knowledge of music theory. The generated chord suggestions maintain a similar vibe to the user input. Alternative chord progression includes extended chords, chord substitutions, unique passing chords, and more.<p>Additionally, musical theory explanations within the tool is helpful for users not just to create music, but understand the underlying structure it's built on a bit better. These chord progression suggestions can be used for practice or composition. As a musician myself, I am having quite a lot of fun playing around with it.<p>One of the things I'm proud of is how the application really dips into music theory. It includes nuanced aspects such as dominant chords, secondary dominant chords, and the famous 2-5-1 chord progressions.<p>That said, the development journey was full of lessons. Dealing with the latency of the GPT-4 API was particularly challenging. I used a Celery based queue system + client polling to manage the delay between request and response (from OpenAI API). Additionally, to keep the chord names consistent, I used a combination of prompting and regex. There are still some bugs that need to be squashed but overall I am pretty happy with the results.<p>I'd love to hear your thoughts and feedback on the project. Also, if you're curious about anything, I am happy to delve into the details in comments.<p>Feel free to take Chord Variations for a spin here: <a href="https://chord-alt.vercel.app/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://chord-alt.vercel.app/</a><p>Looking forward to some interesting discussions!