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Show HN: I made a MailChimp alternative that connects to your database
Hi all! Excited to share cc.dev after months of work and refinement.<p>The idea for this product came from trying to do email marketing for my side project, CubeDesk, a site where Rubik's Cube enthusiasts can time themselves, race with one another, train algorithms — it's a fun niche!<p>With over 40k users, sending even a single campaign was becoming expensive with MailChimp. I knew AWS SES would be much cheaper, but it’s just an API with none of the other necessities you need for a robust email marketing platform.<p>Beyond cost, I was also frustrated with having to make sure my database was always in sync with MailChimp and the audience schema they enforced. If I wanted to email every user who had completed 10 solves, that would be a whole ordeal and eat up hours of my day.<p>So, I started (and am now launching):<p><a href="https://cc.dev" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://cc.dev</a><p>cc.dev connects directly to your database and lets you write SQL queries to target your audience. It's backed by AWS SES, so the cost to send emails is significantly less than what you're used to seeing. Combined with a template builder, media management, and campaign monitoring, cc.dev is meant to be your final destination whenever you need to send marketing emails to your users.<p>Would love to hear your feedback on this! If you're interested in trying out cc.dev as your email marketing platform, shoot me an email and let's have a chat: kash at cc.dev
Show HN: I made a MailChimp alternative that connects to your database
Hi all! Excited to share cc.dev after months of work and refinement.<p>The idea for this product came from trying to do email marketing for my side project, CubeDesk, a site where Rubik's Cube enthusiasts can time themselves, race with one another, train algorithms — it's a fun niche!<p>With over 40k users, sending even a single campaign was becoming expensive with MailChimp. I knew AWS SES would be much cheaper, but it’s just an API with none of the other necessities you need for a robust email marketing platform.<p>Beyond cost, I was also frustrated with having to make sure my database was always in sync with MailChimp and the audience schema they enforced. If I wanted to email every user who had completed 10 solves, that would be a whole ordeal and eat up hours of my day.<p>So, I started (and am now launching):<p><a href="https://cc.dev" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://cc.dev</a><p>cc.dev connects directly to your database and lets you write SQL queries to target your audience. It's backed by AWS SES, so the cost to send emails is significantly less than what you're used to seeing. Combined with a template builder, media management, and campaign monitoring, cc.dev is meant to be your final destination whenever you need to send marketing emails to your users.<p>Would love to hear your feedback on this! If you're interested in trying out cc.dev as your email marketing platform, shoot me an email and let's have a chat: kash at cc.dev
Show HN: I made a MailChimp alternative that connects to your database
Hi all! Excited to share cc.dev after months of work and refinement.<p>The idea for this product came from trying to do email marketing for my side project, CubeDesk, a site where Rubik's Cube enthusiasts can time themselves, race with one another, train algorithms — it's a fun niche!<p>With over 40k users, sending even a single campaign was becoming expensive with MailChimp. I knew AWS SES would be much cheaper, but it’s just an API with none of the other necessities you need for a robust email marketing platform.<p>Beyond cost, I was also frustrated with having to make sure my database was always in sync with MailChimp and the audience schema they enforced. If I wanted to email every user who had completed 10 solves, that would be a whole ordeal and eat up hours of my day.<p>So, I started (and am now launching):<p><a href="https://cc.dev" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://cc.dev</a><p>cc.dev connects directly to your database and lets you write SQL queries to target your audience. It's backed by AWS SES, so the cost to send emails is significantly less than what you're used to seeing. Combined with a template builder, media management, and campaign monitoring, cc.dev is meant to be your final destination whenever you need to send marketing emails to your users.<p>Would love to hear your feedback on this! If you're interested in trying out cc.dev as your email marketing platform, shoot me an email and let's have a chat: kash at cc.dev
Show HN: CopilotKit – a hackable OSS copilot for any react app
CopilotKit is a typescript library for adding a hackable copilot to any react app.<p>You can let the copilot interact with your app via <i>plain typescript closures</i>, and give it (explicit) read access to app data.<p>An example user interaction could look like:
- "Which of these travel destinations has a rich architecture history?"
- [Copilot answers]
- "Great. Add these to my august trip folder, except the ones where it's typically rainy then"
- [Added]<p>Recursive agent integration (via Langchain) is in the works - if you have ideas I'd love to hear them here or on the discord.
Show HN: LLM Assistant to Navigate Regulations
Starting with the upcoming UK Renters Reform Bill project - ask questions and get directed to the right places in the docs
Show HN: I trained a 65B LLM on my texts to talk to myself (details inside)
I trained the 65b model on my texts so I can talk to myself. It's pretty useless as an assistant, and will only do stuff you convince it to, but I guess it's technically uncensored? I'll leave it up for a bit if you want to chat with it.<p>I posted this to Reddit and had several hundred people talking to it. Salient points from that discussion:<p>LLAMA 1 65b<p>Rank 128<p>5 epochs<p>Batch size 1, 256 cutoff<p>Trained in the Oobabooga suite using bitsandbytes 4-bit quantization for the lora<p>Loss around 1.5 seems to give the most coherent results<p>Trained on raw text dumps that is then parsed by a crappy Blazor Server app I threw together in a few hours. Text format is just "Sender:The Message\n"<p>Trained on 2x 3090<p>Training took about 16 hours at a 90% power cap on the 3090's<p>Trained on ~30k texts (I talk a lot, that was just 2 years)<p>There's nothing telling it that it's a robot, though it sometimes seems to know<p>It was largely inspired by the Unreal Engine lora tutorial<p>I generated a list of fake names and addresses, pulled a list of my contacts, and then scripted out swapping the names and addresses for fictitious PII. I don't really send other sensitive data through text and my account is so thoroughly associated with my real name/location that the data leakage risk is manageable for the short period of time I'll have this available. It tends to halucinate fake PII as well which I think is partially a side effect of the data scrubbing. You'll notice it says things like that I live at 420 Ligma.<p>I'll need to mix in some actual assistant tasks to the dataset before it will actually be useful as an assistant. Right now it's largely just for idle conversation.<p>It's pretty ADHD and will randomly go off on its own tangents. I don't think it's the model. I think I just talk like that.<p>Let me know if you have any questions or comments. I built it for myself, but figured I'll let the communities that have taught and entertained me so much play with it a little, too.<p>Note: it says some pretty unhinged stuff. There's absolutely no guardrails. It also tends to talk like you're already friends with history.
Show HN: A fine-tuned Stable Diffusion model for generating Minecraft skins
Show HN: Qwokka – see what's great on Netflix
Show HN: Qwokka – see what's great on Netflix
Show HN: Qwokka – see what's great on Netflix
Show HN: LibreScroll – enable flywheel-scrolling on any generic mouse
Based on the framerate-independent momentum simulation[0] that I used in my TPMouse script[1]<p>If you've ever used a mouse with Infinite-scrollwheel such as Logitech, this utility for Windows basically recreates that functionality for any generic mouse.<p>Actually, it's even better than that: this allows for simultaneous horizontal and vertical scrolling, so essentially it combines two of the best features of the Logitech MX Master -- horizontal wheel, and unlocked momentum scrolling -- into one intuitive control scheme.<p>To enable horizontal scrolling, set the X-sensitivity to a value you prefer.<p>[0] <a href="https://old.reddit.com/r/Trackballs/comments/ym9q2t/tpmouse_a_virtual_trackball_for_windows/ivl0sr8/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://old.reddit.com/r/Trackballs/comments/ym9q2t/tpmouse_...</a><p>[1] <a href="https://github.com/EsportToys/TPMouse">https://github.com/EsportToys/TPMouse</a>
Show HN: LibreScroll – enable flywheel-scrolling on any generic mouse
Based on the framerate-independent momentum simulation[0] that I used in my TPMouse script[1]<p>If you've ever used a mouse with Infinite-scrollwheel such as Logitech, this utility for Windows basically recreates that functionality for any generic mouse.<p>Actually, it's even better than that: this allows for simultaneous horizontal and vertical scrolling, so essentially it combines two of the best features of the Logitech MX Master -- horizontal wheel, and unlocked momentum scrolling -- into one intuitive control scheme.<p>To enable horizontal scrolling, set the X-sensitivity to a value you prefer.<p>[0] <a href="https://old.reddit.com/r/Trackballs/comments/ym9q2t/tpmouse_a_virtual_trackball_for_windows/ivl0sr8/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://old.reddit.com/r/Trackballs/comments/ym9q2t/tpmouse_...</a><p>[1] <a href="https://github.com/EsportToys/TPMouse">https://github.com/EsportToys/TPMouse</a>
Show HN: LibreScroll – enable flywheel-scrolling on any generic mouse
Based on the framerate-independent momentum simulation[0] that I used in my TPMouse script[1]<p>If you've ever used a mouse with Infinite-scrollwheel such as Logitech, this utility for Windows basically recreates that functionality for any generic mouse.<p>Actually, it's even better than that: this allows for simultaneous horizontal and vertical scrolling, so essentially it combines two of the best features of the Logitech MX Master -- horizontal wheel, and unlocked momentum scrolling -- into one intuitive control scheme.<p>To enable horizontal scrolling, set the X-sensitivity to a value you prefer.<p>[0] <a href="https://old.reddit.com/r/Trackballs/comments/ym9q2t/tpmouse_a_virtual_trackball_for_windows/ivl0sr8/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://old.reddit.com/r/Trackballs/comments/ym9q2t/tpmouse_...</a><p>[1] <a href="https://github.com/EsportToys/TPMouse">https://github.com/EsportToys/TPMouse</a>
Show HN: A non-VC backed content creation and social media platform
Hey HN, I'm soft launching my MVP today and would love to hear your honest feedback. For the past few months I've been working extremely hard on this side hustle in my spare time (I have a day job as a CTO).<p>I'm building a platform for writers, bloggers and content creators that's built for them rather than for investors and advertisers like most similar products and social media platforms backed by VCs.<p>I wrote about why I built it here: <a href="https://persumi.com/c/persumi/u/fredwu/p/welcome-to-persumi-a-modern-platform-for-content-creation" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://persumi.com/c/persumi/u/fredwu/p/welcome-to-persumi-...</a><p>And the landing page is here: <a href="https://persumi.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://persumi.com/</a><p>I would really love your honest feedback, if you care to share them with me. :)<p>In the next week or two I'll write about how I built this MVP in three months - the tech, the architecture, the experiments and the missteps... If you are curious, stay tuned!
Show HN: Primo – a visual CMS with Svelte blocks, a code editor, and SSG
Show HN: Primo – a visual CMS with Svelte blocks, a code editor, and SSG
Show HN: Primo – a visual CMS with Svelte blocks, a code editor, and SSG
Show HN: Primo – a visual CMS with Svelte blocks, a code editor, and SSG
Show HN: Netdata got new impressive dashboard
Show HN: ChatGPT Alternative with LLaMA Models
Hey folks, we created a ChatGPT alternative for anyone to try out LLaMA models and benchmark responses across OpenAI's models and other open source models.<p>Would love some feedback! No data is being used for retraining models.