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Show HN: Adapt Copilot to Your Goals
Show HN: PlotAI – Create Plots in Python and Matplotlib with LLM
Show HN: PlotAI – Create Plots in Python and Matplotlib with LLM
Show HN: Release AI – Talk to Your Infrastructure
Hello, Hacker News! I'm David, cofounder of Release (YCW20). Introducing Release AI, a tool designed to empower users with instant access to DevOps expertise, all without monopolizing the valuable time of our experts. Developed with the developer and engineer community in mind, Release AI takes the power of OpenAI's cutting-edge GPT-4 public LLM and augments it with DevOps knowledge.<p>In its initial phase, Release AI offers "read-only" access to both AWS and Kubernetes. This means you can engage in insightful conversations with your AWS account and K8s infrastructure effortlessly. Looking ahead, our roadmap includes plans to integrate more tools for commonly used systems. This will enable you to automate an even broader array of your daily tasks.<p>If you would like more info you can check-out our launch YC (it has more details, screen casts): <a href="https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/JI1-release-ai-talk-to-your-infrastructure">https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/JI1-release-ai-talk-to-...</a><p>Our quickstart guide: <a href="https://docs.release.com/release-ai/quickstart">https://docs.release.com/release-ai/quickstart</a><p>Signup and use it: <a href="https://beta.release.com/ai/register">https://beta.release.com/ai/register</a><p>Please give it a try! We would love your feedback as we are enhancing Release AI, reach out to us with any feature requests or crazy ideas that Release AI could do for you. Feel free to email me at david@release.com or leave a comment, looking forward to chatting with you.<p>Join the conversation in our Slack community and discover the future of DevOps with Release AI!
Show HN: Release AI – Talk to Your Infrastructure
Hello, Hacker News! I'm David, cofounder of Release (YCW20). Introducing Release AI, a tool designed to empower users with instant access to DevOps expertise, all without monopolizing the valuable time of our experts. Developed with the developer and engineer community in mind, Release AI takes the power of OpenAI's cutting-edge GPT-4 public LLM and augments it with DevOps knowledge.<p>In its initial phase, Release AI offers "read-only" access to both AWS and Kubernetes. This means you can engage in insightful conversations with your AWS account and K8s infrastructure effortlessly. Looking ahead, our roadmap includes plans to integrate more tools for commonly used systems. This will enable you to automate an even broader array of your daily tasks.<p>If you would like more info you can check-out our launch YC (it has more details, screen casts): <a href="https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/JI1-release-ai-talk-to-your-infrastructure">https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/JI1-release-ai-talk-to-...</a><p>Our quickstart guide: <a href="https://docs.release.com/release-ai/quickstart">https://docs.release.com/release-ai/quickstart</a><p>Signup and use it: <a href="https://beta.release.com/ai/register">https://beta.release.com/ai/register</a><p>Please give it a try! We would love your feedback as we are enhancing Release AI, reach out to us with any feature requests or crazy ideas that Release AI could do for you. Feel free to email me at david@release.com or leave a comment, looking forward to chatting with you.<p>Join the conversation in our Slack community and discover the future of DevOps with Release AI!
Show HN: Release AI – Talk to Your Infrastructure
Hello, Hacker News! I'm David, cofounder of Release (YCW20). Introducing Release AI, a tool designed to empower users with instant access to DevOps expertise, all without monopolizing the valuable time of our experts. Developed with the developer and engineer community in mind, Release AI takes the power of OpenAI's cutting-edge GPT-4 public LLM and augments it with DevOps knowledge.<p>In its initial phase, Release AI offers "read-only" access to both AWS and Kubernetes. This means you can engage in insightful conversations with your AWS account and K8s infrastructure effortlessly. Looking ahead, our roadmap includes plans to integrate more tools for commonly used systems. This will enable you to automate an even broader array of your daily tasks.<p>If you would like more info you can check-out our launch YC (it has more details, screen casts): <a href="https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/JI1-release-ai-talk-to-your-infrastructure">https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/JI1-release-ai-talk-to-...</a><p>Our quickstart guide: <a href="https://docs.release.com/release-ai/quickstart">https://docs.release.com/release-ai/quickstart</a><p>Signup and use it: <a href="https://beta.release.com/ai/register">https://beta.release.com/ai/register</a><p>Please give it a try! We would love your feedback as we are enhancing Release AI, reach out to us with any feature requests or crazy ideas that Release AI could do for you. Feel free to email me at david@release.com or leave a comment, looking forward to chatting with you.<p>Join the conversation in our Slack community and discover the future of DevOps with Release AI!
Beating GPT-4 on HumanEval with a fine-tuned CodeLlama-34B
Hi HN,<p>We have fine-tuned CodeLlama-34B and CodeLlama-34B-Python on an internal Phind dataset that achieved 67.6% and 69.5% pass@1 on HumanEval, respectively. GPT-4 achieved 67%. To ensure result validity, we applied OpenAI's decontamination methodology to our dataset.<p>The CodeLlama models released yesterday demonstrate impressive performance on HumanEval.<p>- CodeLlama-34B achieved 48.8% pass@1 on HumanEval<p>- CodeLlama-34B-Python achieved 53.7% pass@1 on HumanEval<p>We have fine-tuned both models on a proprietary dataset of ~80k high-quality programming problems and solutions. Instead of code completion examples, this dataset features instruction-answer pairs, setting it apart structurally from HumanEval. We trained the Phind models over two epochs, for a total of ~160k examples. LoRA was not used — both models underwent a native fine-tuning. We employed DeepSpeed ZeRO 3 and Flash Attention 2 to train these models in three hours using 32 A100-80GB GPUs, with a sequence length of 4096 tokens.<p>Furthermore, we applied OpenAI's decontamination methodology to our dataset to ensure valid results, and found no contaminated examples.<p>The methodology is:<p>- For each evaluation example, we randomly sampled three substrings of 50 characters or used the entire example if it was fewer than 50 characters.<p>- A match was identified if any sampled substring was a substring of the processed training example.<p>For further insights on the decontamination methodology, please refer to Appendix C of OpenAI's technical report.<p>Presented below are the pass@1 scores we achieved with our fine-tuned models:<p>- Phind-CodeLlama-34B-v1 achieved 67.6% pass@1 on HumanEval<p>- Phind-CodeLlama-34B-Python-v1 achieved 69.5% pass@1 on HumanEval<p>Note on GPT-4<p>According to the official technical report in March, OpenAI reported a pass@1 score of 67% for GPT-4's performance on HumanEval. Since then, there have been claims reporting higher scores. However, it's essential to note that there hasn't been any concrete evidence pointing towards an enhancement in the model's coding abilities since then. It's also crucial to highlight that these elevated figures lack the rigorous contamination analysis that the official statistic underwent, making them less of a reliable comparison. As a result, we consider 67% as the pass@1 score for GPT-4.<p>Download<p>We are releasing both models on Huggingface for verifiability and to bolster the open-source community. We welcome independent verification of results.<p>Phind-CodeLlama-34B-v1: <a href="https://huggingface.co/Phind/Phind-CodeLlama-34B-v1" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://huggingface.co/Phind/Phind-CodeLlama-34B-v1</a><p>Phind-CodeLlama-34B-Python-v1: <a href="https://huggingface.co/Phind/Phind-CodeLlama-34B-Python-v1" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://huggingface.co/Phind/Phind-CodeLlama-34B-Python-v1</a><p>We'd love to hear your thoughts!<p>Best,<p>The Phind Team
Show HN: Chat with GPT about medical issues, get answers from medical literature
Clint is an open-sourced medical information lookup and reasoning tool.<p>Clint enables a user to have an interactive dialogue about medical conditions, symptoms, or simply to ask medical questions. Clint helps connect regular health concerns with complex medical information. It does this by converting colloquial language into medical terms, gathering and understanding information from medical resources, and presenting this information back to the user in an easy-to-understand way.<p>One of the key features of Clint is that its processing is local. It's served using GitHub pages and utilizes the user's OpenAI API key to make requests to directly to GPT. All processing, except for that done by the LLM, happens in the user's browser.<p>I recently had a need to lookup detailed medical information and found myself spending a lot of time translating my understanding into the medical domain, then again trying to comprehend the medical terms. That gave me the idea that this could be a task for an LLM.<p>The result is Clint. It's a proof-of-concept. I currently have no further plans for the tool. If it is useful to you as-is, great! If it is useful only to help share some ideas, that's fine too.
Show HN: Chat with GPT about medical issues, get answers from medical literature
Clint is an open-sourced medical information lookup and reasoning tool.<p>Clint enables a user to have an interactive dialogue about medical conditions, symptoms, or simply to ask medical questions. Clint helps connect regular health concerns with complex medical information. It does this by converting colloquial language into medical terms, gathering and understanding information from medical resources, and presenting this information back to the user in an easy-to-understand way.<p>One of the key features of Clint is that its processing is local. It's served using GitHub pages and utilizes the user's OpenAI API key to make requests to directly to GPT. All processing, except for that done by the LLM, happens in the user's browser.<p>I recently had a need to lookup detailed medical information and found myself spending a lot of time translating my understanding into the medical domain, then again trying to comprehend the medical terms. That gave me the idea that this could be a task for an LLM.<p>The result is Clint. It's a proof-of-concept. I currently have no further plans for the tool. If it is useful to you as-is, great! If it is useful only to help share some ideas, that's fine too.
Show HN: Automate complicated manual business processes
Show HN: I built this Postgres logger
Hey HN,<p>Some of you were really interested in Postgres logging with pgAudit in my previous post here: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37082827">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37082827</a><p>So I built this logger: <a href="https://rocketgraph.io/logger-demo" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://rocketgraph.io/logger-demo</a><p>using pgAudit to show you what can be done with Postgres auditing. It offers some powerful features like "get me all the CREATE queries that ran in the past hour". These are generated by AWS RDS Instance running on my Rocketgraph account. Then they are forwarded to Cloudwatch for complex querying. In the future we can connect these logs to slack so you can get slack alerts when a developer accidentally DROPs a table.<p>If you like my work, please check it out here: <a href="https://github.com/RocketsGraphQL/rgraph">https://github.com/RocketsGraphQL/rgraph</a><p>And if you want this logging on your own Postgres instance. Use <a href="https://rocketgraph.io/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://rocketgraph.io/</a>
And setup a project. pgAudit is automatically installed.
Show HN: Use Code Llama as Drop-In Replacement for Copilot Chat
Hi HN,<p>Code Llama was released, but we noticed a ton of questions in the main thread about how/where to use it — not just from an API or the terminal, but <i>in your own codebase</i> as a drop-in replacement for Copilot Chat. Without this, developers don't get much utility from the model.<p>This concern is also important because benchmarks like HumanEval don't perfectly reflect the quality of responses. There's likely to be a flurry of improvements to coding models in the coming months, and rather than relying on the benchmarks to evaluate them, the community will get better feedback from people actually using the models. This means <i>real</i> usage in <i>real</i>, everyday workflows.<p>We've worked to make this possible with Continue (<a href="https://github.com/continuedev/continue">https://github.com/continuedev/continue</a>) and want to hear what you find to be the real capabilities of Code Llama. Is it on-par with GPT-4, does it require fine-tuning, or does it excel at certain tasks?<p>If you’d like to try Code Llama with Continue, it only takes a few steps to set up (<a href="https://continue.dev/docs/walkthroughs/codellama">https://continue.dev/docs/walkthroughs/codellama</a>), either locally with Ollama, or through TogetherAI or Replicate's APIs.
Show HN: Use Code Llama as Drop-In Replacement for Copilot Chat
Hi HN,<p>Code Llama was released, but we noticed a ton of questions in the main thread about how/where to use it — not just from an API or the terminal, but <i>in your own codebase</i> as a drop-in replacement for Copilot Chat. Without this, developers don't get much utility from the model.<p>This concern is also important because benchmarks like HumanEval don't perfectly reflect the quality of responses. There's likely to be a flurry of improvements to coding models in the coming months, and rather than relying on the benchmarks to evaluate them, the community will get better feedback from people actually using the models. This means <i>real</i> usage in <i>real</i>, everyday workflows.<p>We've worked to make this possible with Continue (<a href="https://github.com/continuedev/continue">https://github.com/continuedev/continue</a>) and want to hear what you find to be the real capabilities of Code Llama. Is it on-par with GPT-4, does it require fine-tuning, or does it excel at certain tasks?<p>If you’d like to try Code Llama with Continue, it only takes a few steps to set up (<a href="https://continue.dev/docs/walkthroughs/codellama">https://continue.dev/docs/walkthroughs/codellama</a>), either locally with Ollama, or through TogetherAI or Replicate's APIs.
Show HN: Use Code Llama as Drop-In Replacement for Copilot Chat
Hi HN,<p>Code Llama was released, but we noticed a ton of questions in the main thread about how/where to use it — not just from an API or the terminal, but <i>in your own codebase</i> as a drop-in replacement for Copilot Chat. Without this, developers don't get much utility from the model.<p>This concern is also important because benchmarks like HumanEval don't perfectly reflect the quality of responses. There's likely to be a flurry of improvements to coding models in the coming months, and rather than relying on the benchmarks to evaluate them, the community will get better feedback from people actually using the models. This means <i>real</i> usage in <i>real</i>, everyday workflows.<p>We've worked to make this possible with Continue (<a href="https://github.com/continuedev/continue">https://github.com/continuedev/continue</a>) and want to hear what you find to be the real capabilities of Code Llama. Is it on-par with GPT-4, does it require fine-tuning, or does it excel at certain tasks?<p>If you’d like to try Code Llama with Continue, it only takes a few steps to set up (<a href="https://continue.dev/docs/walkthroughs/codellama">https://continue.dev/docs/walkthroughs/codellama</a>), either locally with Ollama, or through TogetherAI or Replicate's APIs.
Show HN: Shimmer – ADHD coaching for adults, now on web
Hi, I’m Chris, one of the co-founders of Shimmer. Last October, following my ADHD diagnosis, I launched Shimmer (<a href="https://shimmer.care">https://shimmer.care</a>), one-to-one ADHD Coaching for adults. Our HN launch was here: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33468611">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33468611</a>.<p>A quick recap before I dive into our new launch: Shimmer is an ADHD coaching service for adults. We took apart the traditionally expensive, inaccessible ADHD coaching offering ($300-600+/session) and redesigned it from first principles. You get matched with one of our expert ADHD coaches, meet weekly over video, and get supported throughout the week via text and with learning tools. This solution is special to me personally (and our community) because it doesn’t just give you “knowledge” or offer another “tool”—our coaches help you set realistic goals, take personalized steps towards it, and keep you accountable.<p>Today we’re excited to launch our most-request feature: Web.<p>Over the past 9 months, we learned (and iterated) a lot with our members and coaches. A few key challenges pointed to the need for a web version:
(1) ADHD “object permanence” challenges (e.g. out of sight out of mind), we needed to be multi-platform so when you finish a task or goal or encounter a challenge, regardless of if you’re near your laptop or phone, you can check it off & ping your coach right away,
(2) members used reflection modules (e.g. after each task, you’re prompted to reflect on what worked and didn’t work, and it informs your coach) more thoroughly than we originally anticipated, and web allows for deeper reflection and typing,
(3) overarching coaching goals were often forgotten during the day-to-day, and the web makes it easier to use visual cues to keep goals top of mind for motivation,
(4) many of our members struggle with phone addiction and driving members to the mobile app ended them up in Tiktok/IG, whereas the web app offers a focused environment to get in their “coaching zone”.<p>Our new web app was designed alongside over 1,200 members, 22 coaches, countless hours of testing and iterating. We’re excited (but nervous!) to unveil this new version. If you have ADHD (or think you do), we’d love for you to check out our platform and give us critical feedback (or positive reinforcement!). It’s a super streamlined and ADHD-friendly signup process and in honor of our web launch and back to school/work, the first month is 30% off.<p>Our pricing: $115/mo. for Essentials plan (15-min weekly sessions), $230/mo. for Standard plan (30-min weekly sessions), $345/mo. for Immersive plan (45-min weekly sessions); all plans additional 30% off first month, HSA/FSA-eligible.<p>We know these prices are expensive for many people with ADHD and we’re committed to bringing costs down over time. It’s more affordable than what many people are paying for coaches, but the fact that we’re relying on humans, and not going the “we can automate all this with AI” route, puts a floor on how low the costs can drop. That said, here are some actions we’re taking to drive down costs for those who need it: (1) we offer needs-based scholarships and aim to have 5% of members on them at any time, (2) we often run fully sponsored scholarships with our partners—over 40 full ride scholarships and 100 group coaching spots have been disbursed alongside Asian Mental Health Project, government of Canada, and more, and (3) we have aligned our coaching model alongside Health & Wellness Coaching, which is expected to be reimbursed in 2024. If you have ideas or expertise here, please reach out to me directly at chris@shimmer.care.<p>On behalf of our small but mighty & passionate Shimmer team, I’m excited for the Hacker News community to share your thoughts, feedback, and ideas. If you feel comfortable, I’d also love to hear your personal ADHD story and what has worked / hasn’t worked for you.<p>Co-founders Christal & Vikram
Show HN: Shimmer – ADHD coaching for adults, now on web
Hi, I’m Chris, one of the co-founders of Shimmer. Last October, following my ADHD diagnosis, I launched Shimmer (<a href="https://shimmer.care">https://shimmer.care</a>), one-to-one ADHD Coaching for adults. Our HN launch was here: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33468611">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33468611</a>.<p>A quick recap before I dive into our new launch: Shimmer is an ADHD coaching service for adults. We took apart the traditionally expensive, inaccessible ADHD coaching offering ($300-600+/session) and redesigned it from first principles. You get matched with one of our expert ADHD coaches, meet weekly over video, and get supported throughout the week via text and with learning tools. This solution is special to me personally (and our community) because it doesn’t just give you “knowledge” or offer another “tool”—our coaches help you set realistic goals, take personalized steps towards it, and keep you accountable.<p>Today we’re excited to launch our most-request feature: Web.<p>Over the past 9 months, we learned (and iterated) a lot with our members and coaches. A few key challenges pointed to the need for a web version:
(1) ADHD “object permanence” challenges (e.g. out of sight out of mind), we needed to be multi-platform so when you finish a task or goal or encounter a challenge, regardless of if you’re near your laptop or phone, you can check it off & ping your coach right away,
(2) members used reflection modules (e.g. after each task, you’re prompted to reflect on what worked and didn’t work, and it informs your coach) more thoroughly than we originally anticipated, and web allows for deeper reflection and typing,
(3) overarching coaching goals were often forgotten during the day-to-day, and the web makes it easier to use visual cues to keep goals top of mind for motivation,
(4) many of our members struggle with phone addiction and driving members to the mobile app ended them up in Tiktok/IG, whereas the web app offers a focused environment to get in their “coaching zone”.<p>Our new web app was designed alongside over 1,200 members, 22 coaches, countless hours of testing and iterating. We’re excited (but nervous!) to unveil this new version. If you have ADHD (or think you do), we’d love for you to check out our platform and give us critical feedback (or positive reinforcement!). It’s a super streamlined and ADHD-friendly signup process and in honor of our web launch and back to school/work, the first month is 30% off.<p>Our pricing: $115/mo. for Essentials plan (15-min weekly sessions), $230/mo. for Standard plan (30-min weekly sessions), $345/mo. for Immersive plan (45-min weekly sessions); all plans additional 30% off first month, HSA/FSA-eligible.<p>We know these prices are expensive for many people with ADHD and we’re committed to bringing costs down over time. It’s more affordable than what many people are paying for coaches, but the fact that we’re relying on humans, and not going the “we can automate all this with AI” route, puts a floor on how low the costs can drop. That said, here are some actions we’re taking to drive down costs for those who need it: (1) we offer needs-based scholarships and aim to have 5% of members on them at any time, (2) we often run fully sponsored scholarships with our partners—over 40 full ride scholarships and 100 group coaching spots have been disbursed alongside Asian Mental Health Project, government of Canada, and more, and (3) we have aligned our coaching model alongside Health & Wellness Coaching, which is expected to be reimbursed in 2024. If you have ideas or expertise here, please reach out to me directly at chris@shimmer.care.<p>On behalf of our small but mighty & passionate Shimmer team, I’m excited for the Hacker News community to share your thoughts, feedback, and ideas. If you feel comfortable, I’d also love to hear your personal ADHD story and what has worked / hasn’t worked for you.<p>Co-founders Christal & Vikram
Show HN: Shimmer – ADHD coaching for adults, now on web
Hi, I’m Chris, one of the co-founders of Shimmer. Last October, following my ADHD diagnosis, I launched Shimmer (<a href="https://shimmer.care">https://shimmer.care</a>), one-to-one ADHD Coaching for adults. Our HN launch was here: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33468611">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33468611</a>.<p>A quick recap before I dive into our new launch: Shimmer is an ADHD coaching service for adults. We took apart the traditionally expensive, inaccessible ADHD coaching offering ($300-600+/session) and redesigned it from first principles. You get matched with one of our expert ADHD coaches, meet weekly over video, and get supported throughout the week via text and with learning tools. This solution is special to me personally (and our community) because it doesn’t just give you “knowledge” or offer another “tool”—our coaches help you set realistic goals, take personalized steps towards it, and keep you accountable.<p>Today we’re excited to launch our most-request feature: Web.<p>Over the past 9 months, we learned (and iterated) a lot with our members and coaches. A few key challenges pointed to the need for a web version:
(1) ADHD “object permanence” challenges (e.g. out of sight out of mind), we needed to be multi-platform so when you finish a task or goal or encounter a challenge, regardless of if you’re near your laptop or phone, you can check it off & ping your coach right away,
(2) members used reflection modules (e.g. after each task, you’re prompted to reflect on what worked and didn’t work, and it informs your coach) more thoroughly than we originally anticipated, and web allows for deeper reflection and typing,
(3) overarching coaching goals were often forgotten during the day-to-day, and the web makes it easier to use visual cues to keep goals top of mind for motivation,
(4) many of our members struggle with phone addiction and driving members to the mobile app ended them up in Tiktok/IG, whereas the web app offers a focused environment to get in their “coaching zone”.<p>Our new web app was designed alongside over 1,200 members, 22 coaches, countless hours of testing and iterating. We’re excited (but nervous!) to unveil this new version. If you have ADHD (or think you do), we’d love for you to check out our platform and give us critical feedback (or positive reinforcement!). It’s a super streamlined and ADHD-friendly signup process and in honor of our web launch and back to school/work, the first month is 30% off.<p>Our pricing: $115/mo. for Essentials plan (15-min weekly sessions), $230/mo. for Standard plan (30-min weekly sessions), $345/mo. for Immersive plan (45-min weekly sessions); all plans additional 30% off first month, HSA/FSA-eligible.<p>We know these prices are expensive for many people with ADHD and we’re committed to bringing costs down over time. It’s more affordable than what many people are paying for coaches, but the fact that we’re relying on humans, and not going the “we can automate all this with AI” route, puts a floor on how low the costs can drop. That said, here are some actions we’re taking to drive down costs for those who need it: (1) we offer needs-based scholarships and aim to have 5% of members on them at any time, (2) we often run fully sponsored scholarships with our partners—over 40 full ride scholarships and 100 group coaching spots have been disbursed alongside Asian Mental Health Project, government of Canada, and more, and (3) we have aligned our coaching model alongside Health & Wellness Coaching, which is expected to be reimbursed in 2024. If you have ideas or expertise here, please reach out to me directly at chris@shimmer.care.<p>On behalf of our small but mighty & passionate Shimmer team, I’m excited for the Hacker News community to share your thoughts, feedback, and ideas. If you feel comfortable, I’d also love to hear your personal ADHD story and what has worked / hasn’t worked for you.<p>Co-founders Christal & Vikram
Show HN: Shimmer – ADHD coaching for adults, now on web
Hi, I’m Chris, one of the co-founders of Shimmer. Last October, following my ADHD diagnosis, I launched Shimmer (<a href="https://shimmer.care">https://shimmer.care</a>), one-to-one ADHD Coaching for adults. Our HN launch was here: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33468611">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33468611</a>.<p>A quick recap before I dive into our new launch: Shimmer is an ADHD coaching service for adults. We took apart the traditionally expensive, inaccessible ADHD coaching offering ($300-600+/session) and redesigned it from first principles. You get matched with one of our expert ADHD coaches, meet weekly over video, and get supported throughout the week via text and with learning tools. This solution is special to me personally (and our community) because it doesn’t just give you “knowledge” or offer another “tool”—our coaches help you set realistic goals, take personalized steps towards it, and keep you accountable.<p>Today we’re excited to launch our most-request feature: Web.<p>Over the past 9 months, we learned (and iterated) a lot with our members and coaches. A few key challenges pointed to the need for a web version:
(1) ADHD “object permanence” challenges (e.g. out of sight out of mind), we needed to be multi-platform so when you finish a task or goal or encounter a challenge, regardless of if you’re near your laptop or phone, you can check it off & ping your coach right away,
(2) members used reflection modules (e.g. after each task, you’re prompted to reflect on what worked and didn’t work, and it informs your coach) more thoroughly than we originally anticipated, and web allows for deeper reflection and typing,
(3) overarching coaching goals were often forgotten during the day-to-day, and the web makes it easier to use visual cues to keep goals top of mind for motivation,
(4) many of our members struggle with phone addiction and driving members to the mobile app ended them up in Tiktok/IG, whereas the web app offers a focused environment to get in their “coaching zone”.<p>Our new web app was designed alongside over 1,200 members, 22 coaches, countless hours of testing and iterating. We’re excited (but nervous!) to unveil this new version. If you have ADHD (or think you do), we’d love for you to check out our platform and give us critical feedback (or positive reinforcement!). It’s a super streamlined and ADHD-friendly signup process and in honor of our web launch and back to school/work, the first month is 30% off.<p>Our pricing: $115/mo. for Essentials plan (15-min weekly sessions), $230/mo. for Standard plan (30-min weekly sessions), $345/mo. for Immersive plan (45-min weekly sessions); all plans additional 30% off first month, HSA/FSA-eligible.<p>We know these prices are expensive for many people with ADHD and we’re committed to bringing costs down over time. It’s more affordable than what many people are paying for coaches, but the fact that we’re relying on humans, and not going the “we can automate all this with AI” route, puts a floor on how low the costs can drop. That said, here are some actions we’re taking to drive down costs for those who need it: (1) we offer needs-based scholarships and aim to have 5% of members on them at any time, (2) we often run fully sponsored scholarships with our partners—over 40 full ride scholarships and 100 group coaching spots have been disbursed alongside Asian Mental Health Project, government of Canada, and more, and (3) we have aligned our coaching model alongside Health & Wellness Coaching, which is expected to be reimbursed in 2024. If you have ideas or expertise here, please reach out to me directly at chris@shimmer.care.<p>On behalf of our small but mighty & passionate Shimmer team, I’m excited for the Hacker News community to share your thoughts, feedback, and ideas. If you feel comfortable, I’d also love to hear your personal ADHD story and what has worked / hasn’t worked for you.<p>Co-founders Christal & Vikram
Show HN: Open-source obsidian.md sync server
<a href="https://github.com/acheong08/obsidian-sync">https://github.com/acheong08/obsidian-sync</a><p>Hello HN,<p>I'm a recent high school graduate and can't afford $8 per month for the official sync service, so I tried my hand at replicating the server.<p>It's still missing a few features, such as file recovery and history, but the basic sync is working.<p>To the creators of Obsidian.md: I'm probably violating the TOS, and I'm sorry. I'll take down the repository if asked. It's not ready for production and is highly inefficient; Not competition, so I hope you'll be lenient.
Show HN: Open-source obsidian.md sync server
<a href="https://github.com/acheong08/obsidian-sync">https://github.com/acheong08/obsidian-sync</a><p>Hello HN,<p>I'm a recent high school graduate and can't afford $8 per month for the official sync service, so I tried my hand at replicating the server.<p>It's still missing a few features, such as file recovery and history, but the basic sync is working.<p>To the creators of Obsidian.md: I'm probably violating the TOS, and I'm sorry. I'll take down the repository if asked. It's not ready for production and is highly inefficient; Not competition, so I hope you'll be lenient.