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Show HN: I’m building open-source headless CMS for technical content
In the last few years I've been doing a lot of technical writing, both for my own programming blog and others, and I've noticed there is a lack of good tools for this kind of writing.<p>Whether that was a programming blog post or documentation, I always had to move back an forth between different editors, and sometimes even other apps for content management and the actual content publication. A lot of copy-pasting, and wasted time.<p>Based on this experience I decided to try and build a tool that could provide a good experience for this kind of content from writing to publishing. This (I call it Vrite) ended up being essentially a headless CMS, but optimized for technical content and a pretty unique one overall, I'd say.<p>I tried to combine what can be seen as 3 separate products into one:
- WYSIWYG editor (with the addition of code-specific tooling like code editor or formatter)
- Kanban dashboard (inspired by my experience of tools like Trello used in larger technical content teams to manage content production process)
- The actual headless CMS (content delivery via API, integrations, etc.)<p>Most recently I decided to open-source it and see if there's any interest in such a tool. Right now the primary focus was my personal use-case (kind-of "promotional" technical writing seen in programming and start-up blogs), but I think, with more customization, something like this could extend to the documentation space and make writing and managing docs a lot easier.<p>Let me know what do you think about this.
Show HN: Apricot – because RSS won't come back unless we move it forward
I’ve been using RSS readers for decades, but they’ve started feeling more and more like a chore. Something about the inbox/to-do list design, counts of unread items, managing teams and complex filtering rules... I realized they add to my stress level instead of reducing it.<p>I’ve also come to rely on social media for discovery – hearing about new ideas, tools, papers, people, etc., but I’m so tired of the ads, spam, addictiveness, and toxicity.<p>Apricot is my attempt to distill the best of both worlds. It’s a web app where users subscribe to feeds like an RSS reader then see new items as they come in, in a single, combined, social media-style feed.<p>Apricot goes beyond traditional RSS readers in a couple other ways:<p><pre><code> * Users can follow TV shows (via TVmaze), Spotify podcasts, Substack newsletters, YouTube channels, and Subreddits (if/when they come back online) in addition to traditional RSS feeds. I’m open to adding other platforms if there’s demand and the content is programmatically accessible.
* Cross-platform feed search. I know search isn’t hot at the moment but it’s pretty useful in this context. Search for “Star Trek” and find not just the TV shows, but the podcasts and Subreddits too.
* Items can be sorted chronologically or with an ML-powered recommender system.
* Users can filter their feed by platform, which is helpful for specific use cases like finding a good podcast episode for a car ride or a good TV episode to watch after dinner.
* On-demand, GPT-powered content summaries help users see what an article is really about before clicking. (gotta sprinkle some gen AI on there!)
</code></pre>
Apricot is free while it’s in beta. I’m still thinking through the pricing model, but it will likely be some form of freemium starting in September. I want to avoid ads if at all possible.<p>If you’ve got a few minutes (and come on, with Reddit offline, I know you do), check it out and let me know what you think!<p>App: <a href="https://app.theapricot.io" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://app.theapricot.io</a><p>Homepage: <a href="https://theapricot.io" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://theapricot.io</a><p>Blog: <a href="https://blog.theapricot.io" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://blog.theapricot.io</a>
Show HN: Apricot – because RSS won't come back unless we move it forward
I’ve been using RSS readers for decades, but they’ve started feeling more and more like a chore. Something about the inbox/to-do list design, counts of unread items, managing teams and complex filtering rules... I realized they add to my stress level instead of reducing it.<p>I’ve also come to rely on social media for discovery – hearing about new ideas, tools, papers, people, etc., but I’m so tired of the ads, spam, addictiveness, and toxicity.<p>Apricot is my attempt to distill the best of both worlds. It’s a web app where users subscribe to feeds like an RSS reader then see new items as they come in, in a single, combined, social media-style feed.<p>Apricot goes beyond traditional RSS readers in a couple other ways:<p><pre><code> * Users can follow TV shows (via TVmaze), Spotify podcasts, Substack newsletters, YouTube channels, and Subreddits (if/when they come back online) in addition to traditional RSS feeds. I’m open to adding other platforms if there’s demand and the content is programmatically accessible.
* Cross-platform feed search. I know search isn’t hot at the moment but it’s pretty useful in this context. Search for “Star Trek” and find not just the TV shows, but the podcasts and Subreddits too.
* Items can be sorted chronologically or with an ML-powered recommender system.
* Users can filter their feed by platform, which is helpful for specific use cases like finding a good podcast episode for a car ride or a good TV episode to watch after dinner.
* On-demand, GPT-powered content summaries help users see what an article is really about before clicking. (gotta sprinkle some gen AI on there!)
</code></pre>
Apricot is free while it’s in beta. I’m still thinking through the pricing model, but it will likely be some form of freemium starting in September. I want to avoid ads if at all possible.<p>If you’ve got a few minutes (and come on, with Reddit offline, I know you do), check it out and let me know what you think!<p>App: <a href="https://app.theapricot.io" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://app.theapricot.io</a><p>Homepage: <a href="https://theapricot.io" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://theapricot.io</a><p>Blog: <a href="https://blog.theapricot.io" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://blog.theapricot.io</a>
Show HN: Apricot – because RSS won't come back unless we move it forward
I’ve been using RSS readers for decades, but they’ve started feeling more and more like a chore. Something about the inbox/to-do list design, counts of unread items, managing teams and complex filtering rules... I realized they add to my stress level instead of reducing it.<p>I’ve also come to rely on social media for discovery – hearing about new ideas, tools, papers, people, etc., but I’m so tired of the ads, spam, addictiveness, and toxicity.<p>Apricot is my attempt to distill the best of both worlds. It’s a web app where users subscribe to feeds like an RSS reader then see new items as they come in, in a single, combined, social media-style feed.<p>Apricot goes beyond traditional RSS readers in a couple other ways:<p><pre><code> * Users can follow TV shows (via TVmaze), Spotify podcasts, Substack newsletters, YouTube channels, and Subreddits (if/when they come back online) in addition to traditional RSS feeds. I’m open to adding other platforms if there’s demand and the content is programmatically accessible.
* Cross-platform feed search. I know search isn’t hot at the moment but it’s pretty useful in this context. Search for “Star Trek” and find not just the TV shows, but the podcasts and Subreddits too.
* Items can be sorted chronologically or with an ML-powered recommender system.
* Users can filter their feed by platform, which is helpful for specific use cases like finding a good podcast episode for a car ride or a good TV episode to watch after dinner.
* On-demand, GPT-powered content summaries help users see what an article is really about before clicking. (gotta sprinkle some gen AI on there!)
</code></pre>
Apricot is free while it’s in beta. I’m still thinking through the pricing model, but it will likely be some form of freemium starting in September. I want to avoid ads if at all possible.<p>If you’ve got a few minutes (and come on, with Reddit offline, I know you do), check it out and let me know what you think!<p>App: <a href="https://app.theapricot.io" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://app.theapricot.io</a><p>Homepage: <a href="https://theapricot.io" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://theapricot.io</a><p>Blog: <a href="https://blog.theapricot.io" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://blog.theapricot.io</a>
Show HN: LLaMA tokenizer that runs in browser
Show HN: LLaMA tokenizer that runs in browser
Show HN: LLaMA tokenizer that runs in browser
Show HN: A smarter Unix shell and scripting environment
Show HN: A smarter Unix shell and scripting environment
Show HN: A smarter Unix shell and scripting environment
Show HN: Zsync, a Reddit Alternative with the Goal to Reward Quality Comments
I built this last year but never posted it anywhere, but now with Reddit hiatus it seems like the right time to give it a shot.<p>The main goal of zsync is to foster high quality content and discussion. That's it. If it can't accomplish that, then to me it is a failure. I watched Reddit go from having high quality discussion in 2008-9 to devolving into the PC meme dumpster it is today [1]. HN still has the highest discussion quality of any "forum" I know of, but (1) it can sometimes randomly be very hostile/toxic to new tech, the most glaring example being crypto. (2) HN is basically a single subreddit mostly geared towards tech and startups. It'd be nice to have an equivalent of "subreddits"<p>Zsync's version of subreddits are tags. You can tag your posts. Instead of viewing a subreddit for, let's say neuroscience, you view the tag for neuroscience. This eliminates the need to submit the same post multiple times to many different subreddits.<p>The core challenge is incentivizing/rewarding high quality content (I don't believe in censorship). Users can have custom avatars and links to their personal website and Twitter next to their username, which I believe provides a little more incentive to write a more thoughtful comment vs. your post merely showing up next to an anonymous handle with some autogenerated alien avatar (which you're free to still do if you prefer).<p>Anyone who connects an ethereum wallet to their account will also have a (non-invasive) "Tip" option at the bottom of their comment, allowing anyone to directly tip commenters cryptocurrency (no middleman taking a cut here), offering a financial incentive. I was thinking of some other ideas to use crypto to reward quality, but I wouldn't want to implement anything that could be gamed or exploited ultimately defeating its purpose. Open to ideas though.<p>In the future, we could use ML to offer options to sort comments in more useful ways, such as by sorting by "most insightful". We could determine based on your upvote history the type of content you'd be most likely to enjoy. Anyways I admittedly didn't implement this ML stuff yet, those are just ideas for future improvement.<p>Anyways would love to hear your thoughts. What do you think of this idea, and what would it take to accomplish its mission? Regardless of whether my little project amounts to anything or not, I hope something like this will be made to exist. And thank you HN for not deteriorating in quality even remotely to the extent that Reddit has. It was really sad watching Reddit devolve into what it is today (way before all this recent stuff). We can do better, and now is a better time than ever to shake up the status quo and start envisioning what better platforms for online communities can look like.<p>[1] <a href="https://jsavage.xyz/2022/03/13/the-downfall-of-reddit-why-reddit-sucks-and-how-to-fix-it/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://jsavage.xyz/2022/03/13/the-downfall-of-reddit-why-re...</a>
Show HN: Zsync, a Reddit Alternative with the Goal to Reward Quality Comments
I built this last year but never posted it anywhere, but now with Reddit hiatus it seems like the right time to give it a shot.<p>The main goal of zsync is to foster high quality content and discussion. That's it. If it can't accomplish that, then to me it is a failure. I watched Reddit go from having high quality discussion in 2008-9 to devolving into the PC meme dumpster it is today [1]. HN still has the highest discussion quality of any "forum" I know of, but (1) it can sometimes randomly be very hostile/toxic to new tech, the most glaring example being crypto. (2) HN is basically a single subreddit mostly geared towards tech and startups. It'd be nice to have an equivalent of "subreddits"<p>Zsync's version of subreddits are tags. You can tag your posts. Instead of viewing a subreddit for, let's say neuroscience, you view the tag for neuroscience. This eliminates the need to submit the same post multiple times to many different subreddits.<p>The core challenge is incentivizing/rewarding high quality content (I don't believe in censorship). Users can have custom avatars and links to their personal website and Twitter next to their username, which I believe provides a little more incentive to write a more thoughtful comment vs. your post merely showing up next to an anonymous handle with some autogenerated alien avatar (which you're free to still do if you prefer).<p>Anyone who connects an ethereum wallet to their account will also have a (non-invasive) "Tip" option at the bottom of their comment, allowing anyone to directly tip commenters cryptocurrency (no middleman taking a cut here), offering a financial incentive. I was thinking of some other ideas to use crypto to reward quality, but I wouldn't want to implement anything that could be gamed or exploited ultimately defeating its purpose. Open to ideas though.<p>In the future, we could use ML to offer options to sort comments in more useful ways, such as by sorting by "most insightful". We could determine based on your upvote history the type of content you'd be most likely to enjoy. Anyways I admittedly didn't implement this ML stuff yet, those are just ideas for future improvement.<p>Anyways would love to hear your thoughts. What do you think of this idea, and what would it take to accomplish its mission? Regardless of whether my little project amounts to anything or not, I hope something like this will be made to exist. And thank you HN for not deteriorating in quality even remotely to the extent that Reddit has. It was really sad watching Reddit devolve into what it is today (way before all this recent stuff). We can do better, and now is a better time than ever to shake up the status quo and start envisioning what better platforms for online communities can look like.<p>[1] <a href="https://jsavage.xyz/2022/03/13/the-downfall-of-reddit-why-reddit-sucks-and-how-to-fix-it/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://jsavage.xyz/2022/03/13/the-downfall-of-reddit-why-re...</a>
Show HN: Zsync, a Reddit Alternative with the Goal to Reward Quality Comments
I built this last year but never posted it anywhere, but now with Reddit hiatus it seems like the right time to give it a shot.<p>The main goal of zsync is to foster high quality content and discussion. That's it. If it can't accomplish that, then to me it is a failure. I watched Reddit go from having high quality discussion in 2008-9 to devolving into the PC meme dumpster it is today [1]. HN still has the highest discussion quality of any "forum" I know of, but (1) it can sometimes randomly be very hostile/toxic to new tech, the most glaring example being crypto. (2) HN is basically a single subreddit mostly geared towards tech and startups. It'd be nice to have an equivalent of "subreddits"<p>Zsync's version of subreddits are tags. You can tag your posts. Instead of viewing a subreddit for, let's say neuroscience, you view the tag for neuroscience. This eliminates the need to submit the same post multiple times to many different subreddits.<p>The core challenge is incentivizing/rewarding high quality content (I don't believe in censorship). Users can have custom avatars and links to their personal website and Twitter next to their username, which I believe provides a little more incentive to write a more thoughtful comment vs. your post merely showing up next to an anonymous handle with some autogenerated alien avatar (which you're free to still do if you prefer).<p>Anyone who connects an ethereum wallet to their account will also have a (non-invasive) "Tip" option at the bottom of their comment, allowing anyone to directly tip commenters cryptocurrency (no middleman taking a cut here), offering a financial incentive. I was thinking of some other ideas to use crypto to reward quality, but I wouldn't want to implement anything that could be gamed or exploited ultimately defeating its purpose. Open to ideas though.<p>In the future, we could use ML to offer options to sort comments in more useful ways, such as by sorting by "most insightful". We could determine based on your upvote history the type of content you'd be most likely to enjoy. Anyways I admittedly didn't implement this ML stuff yet, those are just ideas for future improvement.<p>Anyways would love to hear your thoughts. What do you think of this idea, and what would it take to accomplish its mission? Regardless of whether my little project amounts to anything or not, I hope something like this will be made to exist. And thank you HN for not deteriorating in quality even remotely to the extent that Reddit has. It was really sad watching Reddit devolve into what it is today (way before all this recent stuff). We can do better, and now is a better time than ever to shake up the status quo and start envisioning what better platforms for online communities can look like.<p>[1] <a href="https://jsavage.xyz/2022/03/13/the-downfall-of-reddit-why-reddit-sucks-and-how-to-fix-it/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://jsavage.xyz/2022/03/13/the-downfall-of-reddit-why-re...</a>
Show HN: FlingUp, a Reddit-like platform Ive been building for the last 2 years
Show HN: FlingUp, a Reddit-like platform Ive been building for the last 2 years
Show HN: Stable Diffusion powered level editor for a 2D game
Hey folks, I’ve been working on using control-net to take in a video game level (input as a depth image) and output a beautiful illustration of that level. Play with it here: dimensionhopper.com or read the blog post about what it took to get it to work. Been a super fun project.
Show HN: Stable Diffusion powered level editor for a 2D game
Hey folks, I’ve been working on using control-net to take in a video game level (input as a depth image) and output a beautiful illustration of that level. Play with it here: dimensionhopper.com or read the blog post about what it took to get it to work. Been a super fun project.
Show HN: Stable Diffusion powered level editor for a 2D game
Hey folks, I’ve been working on using control-net to take in a video game level (input as a depth image) and output a beautiful illustration of that level. Play with it here: dimensionhopper.com or read the blog post about what it took to get it to work. Been a super fun project.
Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years
Heya HN, I've been working on a reddit-like platform as my primary side project for the last few years. Doing a (very) soft launch today, mainly because I want to use it to encourage discussion of alternatives.<p>How non.io works:<p>1. Free to browse, paid to interact.<p>2. Minimum subscription is $2 (though you can choose more). I take $1 to run the servers, everything left gets split evenly between everything you upvote that month.<p>It's a simple model, but I hope it's a better one than the freemium model we've been relying on for the last few years. Fundamentally I feel like any ad-supported network doesn't have alignment between the needs of the users and the needs of the platform, which is what drove me to make this.<p>Because this is a soft launch, if you do subscribe I'd encourage you <i>not</i> to pay for the time being. I'm still testing the distribution algorithm for returning funds - you won't get overcharged or anything, but I just want to guarantee your funds are properly distributed at the end of the month. I've opened up free accounts to post and interact in the meantime. If you want to try a test account, use this login:<p>login: hackernews pw: helloworld<p>Edit: Loginless browsing here: <a href="https://non.io/#all" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://non.io/#all</a><p>If you want to browse the code or the api:<p><a href="https://api.non.io" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://api.non.io</a><p><a href="https://github.com/jjcm/nonio">https://github.com/jjcm/nonio</a>
Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years
Heya HN, I've been working on a reddit-like platform as my primary side project for the last few years. Doing a (very) soft launch today, mainly because I want to use it to encourage discussion of alternatives.<p>How non.io works:<p>1. Free to browse, paid to interact.<p>2. Minimum subscription is $2 (though you can choose more). I take $1 to run the servers, everything left gets split evenly between everything you upvote that month.<p>It's a simple model, but I hope it's a better one than the freemium model we've been relying on for the last few years. Fundamentally I feel like any ad-supported network doesn't have alignment between the needs of the users and the needs of the platform, which is what drove me to make this.<p>Because this is a soft launch, if you do subscribe I'd encourage you <i>not</i> to pay for the time being. I'm still testing the distribution algorithm for returning funds - you won't get overcharged or anything, but I just want to guarantee your funds are properly distributed at the end of the month. I've opened up free accounts to post and interact in the meantime. If you want to try a test account, use this login:<p>login: hackernews pw: helloworld<p>Edit: Loginless browsing here: <a href="https://non.io/#all" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://non.io/#all</a><p>If you want to browse the code or the api:<p><a href="https://api.non.io" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://api.non.io</a><p><a href="https://github.com/jjcm/nonio">https://github.com/jjcm/nonio</a>