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Show HN: Killer Crossword - A crossword puzzle variation with no clues
Show HN: Killer Crossword - A crossword puzzle variation with no clues
Show HN: Killer Crossword - A crossword puzzle variation with no clues
Show HN: Superblocks – IDE for Internal Apps, APIs and Cron Jobs
Hey HN, I’m Brad, one of the creators of Superblocks and a YC alum, excited to share our internal tooling IDE.<p>As developers ourselves, we faced the problem of building tons of internal admin UIs, backends to connect siloed data, reporting jobs, and data pipelines. For UIs we would build one-off React components. For integrations, we would have to decipher vendor docs and implement auth. Finally, for reporting jobs we had to handle failures and observability – many hours of repetitive engineering effort.<p>So we built Superblocks, an internal tooling IDE to connect to any datasource (databases, APIs, data warehouses), drag and drop your common UI components (tables, charts, forms), spin up backend APIs and schedule cron jobs, all in one place.<p>Since developers we spoke to hated repeatedly handling permissions, hooking up observability, configuring security and managing CI/CD pipelines, we built Superblocks to integrate with popular dev tools like Datadog, Elastic, GitHub, GitLab, Okta and more. Use our cloud version, or run a self-hosted agent to ensure your data never leaves your VPC [1].<p>Superblocks is quite differentiated from other “low-code” tools out there:
* 100% built for developers: observability, debuggability, version control, extend with Python & JS
* A platform, not a point solution: An all-in-one builder for internal tools: app UIs, APIs and cron jobs
* Agent architecture: source-available, stateless and lightweight vs a legacy on-prem deployment
* Scalable pricing: Pay for apps by Creator and usage-based pricing for end users (based on day passes) so it’s affordable to have 100s or 1000s of end users. Workflows and Jobs are billed on the number of executions.<p>A quick 4 min demo on the website: <a href="https://cdn.superblocks.com/superblocks-demo-06132022.mp4" rel="nofollow">https://cdn.superblocks.com/superblocks-demo-06132022.mp4</a>
Developer docs: <a href="https://docs.superblocks.com" rel="nofollow">https://docs.superblocks.com</a>
To illustrate Superblocks in action, we built this startup funding explorer last night [2]<p>Would love to hear feedback!<p>[1] Agent <a href="https://github.com/superblocksteam/agent" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/superblocksteam/agent</a>
[2] Superblocks Startup Explorer App <a href="https://app.superblocks.com/applications/4aab03cd-3b18-4138-aa8b-ac7c7592574f/pages/bdf59690-18a5-42d5-9014-250f8318a8cc?environment=production" rel="nofollow">https://app.superblocks.com/applications/4aab03cd-3b18-4138-...</a>
Show HN: Superblocks – IDE for Internal Apps, APIs and Cron Jobs
Hey HN, I’m Brad, one of the creators of Superblocks and a YC alum, excited to share our internal tooling IDE.<p>As developers ourselves, we faced the problem of building tons of internal admin UIs, backends to connect siloed data, reporting jobs, and data pipelines. For UIs we would build one-off React components. For integrations, we would have to decipher vendor docs and implement auth. Finally, for reporting jobs we had to handle failures and observability – many hours of repetitive engineering effort.<p>So we built Superblocks, an internal tooling IDE to connect to any datasource (databases, APIs, data warehouses), drag and drop your common UI components (tables, charts, forms), spin up backend APIs and schedule cron jobs, all in one place.<p>Since developers we spoke to hated repeatedly handling permissions, hooking up observability, configuring security and managing CI/CD pipelines, we built Superblocks to integrate with popular dev tools like Datadog, Elastic, GitHub, GitLab, Okta and more. Use our cloud version, or run a self-hosted agent to ensure your data never leaves your VPC [1].<p>Superblocks is quite differentiated from other “low-code” tools out there:
* 100% built for developers: observability, debuggability, version control, extend with Python & JS
* A platform, not a point solution: An all-in-one builder for internal tools: app UIs, APIs and cron jobs
* Agent architecture: source-available, stateless and lightweight vs a legacy on-prem deployment
* Scalable pricing: Pay for apps by Creator and usage-based pricing for end users (based on day passes) so it’s affordable to have 100s or 1000s of end users. Workflows and Jobs are billed on the number of executions.<p>A quick 4 min demo on the website: <a href="https://cdn.superblocks.com/superblocks-demo-06132022.mp4" rel="nofollow">https://cdn.superblocks.com/superblocks-demo-06132022.mp4</a>
Developer docs: <a href="https://docs.superblocks.com" rel="nofollow">https://docs.superblocks.com</a>
To illustrate Superblocks in action, we built this startup funding explorer last night [2]<p>Would love to hear feedback!<p>[1] Agent <a href="https://github.com/superblocksteam/agent" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/superblocksteam/agent</a>
[2] Superblocks Startup Explorer App <a href="https://app.superblocks.com/applications/4aab03cd-3b18-4138-aa8b-ac7c7592574f/pages/bdf59690-18a5-42d5-9014-250f8318a8cc?environment=production" rel="nofollow">https://app.superblocks.com/applications/4aab03cd-3b18-4138-...</a>
Show HN: Penumbra, a perceptually optimized color palette based on natural light
For this palette, I used recent advances in color science, which made perceptual design more accessible, to choose a set of colors (mainly for syntax highlighting) that have uniform luminance for less visually uneven, fluidly readable code, but at the same time maximally distinguishable hue and chroma. The background colors are based on natural (sun-)light and shade for a more pleasing look than equally neutral greys.<p>For much more detailed info, including the construction, check out the repository.<p>There’s also already a (bare-bones) VSCode extension, linked in the repository, but it could admittedly use more informed distribution of colors over tokens, language specific highlighting and perhaps more opinionated use in UI elements.
Show HN: Penumbra, a perceptually optimized color palette based on natural light
For this palette, I used recent advances in color science, which made perceptual design more accessible, to choose a set of colors (mainly for syntax highlighting) that have uniform luminance for less visually uneven, fluidly readable code, but at the same time maximally distinguishable hue and chroma. The background colors are based on natural (sun-)light and shade for a more pleasing look than equally neutral greys.<p>For much more detailed info, including the construction, check out the repository.<p>There’s also already a (bare-bones) VSCode extension, linked in the repository, but it could admittedly use more informed distribution of colors over tokens, language specific highlighting and perhaps more opinionated use in UI elements.
Show HN: Penumbra, a perceptually optimized color palette based on natural light
For this palette, I used recent advances in color science, which made perceptual design more accessible, to choose a set of colors (mainly for syntax highlighting) that have uniform luminance for less visually uneven, fluidly readable code, but at the same time maximally distinguishable hue and chroma. The background colors are based on natural (sun-)light and shade for a more pleasing look than equally neutral greys.<p>For much more detailed info, including the construction, check out the repository.<p>There’s also already a (bare-bones) VSCode extension, linked in the repository, but it could admittedly use more informed distribution of colors over tokens, language specific highlighting and perhaps more opinionated use in UI elements.
Show HN: Penumbra, a perceptually optimized color palette based on natural light
For this palette, I used recent advances in color science, which made perceptual design more accessible, to choose a set of colors (mainly for syntax highlighting) that have uniform luminance for less visually uneven, fluidly readable code, but at the same time maximally distinguishable hue and chroma. The background colors are based on natural (sun-)light and shade for a more pleasing look than equally neutral greys.<p>For much more detailed info, including the construction, check out the repository.<p>There’s also already a (bare-bones) VSCode extension, linked in the repository, but it could admittedly use more informed distribution of colors over tokens, language specific highlighting and perhaps more opinionated use in UI elements.
Show HN: Penumbra, a perceptually optimized color palette based on natural light
For this palette, I used recent advances in color science, which made perceptual design more accessible, to choose a set of colors (mainly for syntax highlighting) that have uniform luminance for less visually uneven, fluidly readable code, but at the same time maximally distinguishable hue and chroma. The background colors are based on natural (sun-)light and shade for a more pleasing look than equally neutral greys.<p>For much more detailed info, including the construction, check out the repository.<p>There’s also already a (bare-bones) VSCode extension, linked in the repository, but it could admittedly use more informed distribution of colors over tokens, language specific highlighting and perhaps more opinionated use in UI elements.
Show HN: AskEdith.ai - A GPT-3-Powered Text-to-SQL Tool
Show HN: Mom, can we have (Haskell flavored) post-modern C++ at home?
Show HN: Discourse Announces Chat
Show HN: MutableAI (YC W22) – Copilot Alternative for VS Code
Hi HN! We’re MutableAI (YC W22) (<a href="https://mutable.ai" rel="nofollow">https://mutable.ai</a>). Our mission is to reduce the time and cost to create high quality code using AI. We have worked at the full gamut of companies ranging from startups to big tech and have gotten the sense that many of the rote aspects of software development could be made easier, freeing up precious mental energy.<p>Devs love Copilot, but autocomplete is just one of many ways that AI should make programming easier. We’re taking a more comprehensive approach to developer tooling that bundles Copilot-like autocomplete with documentation, custom AI instruction, and some early refactoring capabilities (Python only) in one extension. We currently support Javascript/Typescript, Python, Go, and Rust, with more coming soon. Overview (w/ bg music) [1].<p>In addition to autocomplete, which can be triggered either automatically or manually, we can add documentation to all your methods in a Rust file, or you can ask the AI to insert missing imports in a Python file. In some cases we can get really sophisticated and ask it to program a game from scratch or update your REST interface to accommodate a new data payload.<p>We use a combination of AI (e.g. OpenAI codex) and AST transformation / metaprogramming techniques on the backend. We are also working on providing other backend solutions for varying needs, including on-prem deployments.<p>We soft launched our product with a small cohort of users and want to welcome more of you to our pilot beta. We hope you enjoy the product and look forward to learning from you.<p>We are currently in an extended free trial phase for early adopters and plan to keep a free tier for solo devs and open source contributors. We also offer a generous discount to startups. For enterprise please reach out to info@mutable.ai<p>We want to thank our very earliest users and invite the HN community to try the product installing it via the VS Code marketplace [2]. We're looking forward to hearing your comments and feedback, or feature suggestions!<p>[1] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-gKEbgyzCg" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-gKEbgyzCg</a><p>[2] <a href="https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=mutable-ai.mutable-ai" rel="nofollow">https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=mutable-...</a>
Show HN: MutableAI (YC W22) – Copilot Alternative for VS Code
Hi HN! We’re MutableAI (YC W22) (<a href="https://mutable.ai" rel="nofollow">https://mutable.ai</a>). Our mission is to reduce the time and cost to create high quality code using AI. We have worked at the full gamut of companies ranging from startups to big tech and have gotten the sense that many of the rote aspects of software development could be made easier, freeing up precious mental energy.<p>Devs love Copilot, but autocomplete is just one of many ways that AI should make programming easier. We’re taking a more comprehensive approach to developer tooling that bundles Copilot-like autocomplete with documentation, custom AI instruction, and some early refactoring capabilities (Python only) in one extension. We currently support Javascript/Typescript, Python, Go, and Rust, with more coming soon. Overview (w/ bg music) [1].<p>In addition to autocomplete, which can be triggered either automatically or manually, we can add documentation to all your methods in a Rust file, or you can ask the AI to insert missing imports in a Python file. In some cases we can get really sophisticated and ask it to program a game from scratch or update your REST interface to accommodate a new data payload.<p>We use a combination of AI (e.g. OpenAI codex) and AST transformation / metaprogramming techniques on the backend. We are also working on providing other backend solutions for varying needs, including on-prem deployments.<p>We soft launched our product with a small cohort of users and want to welcome more of you to our pilot beta. We hope you enjoy the product and look forward to learning from you.<p>We are currently in an extended free trial phase for early adopters and plan to keep a free tier for solo devs and open source contributors. We also offer a generous discount to startups. For enterprise please reach out to info@mutable.ai<p>We want to thank our very earliest users and invite the HN community to try the product installing it via the VS Code marketplace [2]. We're looking forward to hearing your comments and feedback, or feature suggestions!<p>[1] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-gKEbgyzCg" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-gKEbgyzCg</a><p>[2] <a href="https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=mutable-ai.mutable-ai" rel="nofollow">https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=mutable-...</a>
Show HN: MutableAI (YC W22) – Copilot Alternative for VS Code
Hi HN! We’re MutableAI (YC W22) (<a href="https://mutable.ai" rel="nofollow">https://mutable.ai</a>). Our mission is to reduce the time and cost to create high quality code using AI. We have worked at the full gamut of companies ranging from startups to big tech and have gotten the sense that many of the rote aspects of software development could be made easier, freeing up precious mental energy.<p>Devs love Copilot, but autocomplete is just one of many ways that AI should make programming easier. We’re taking a more comprehensive approach to developer tooling that bundles Copilot-like autocomplete with documentation, custom AI instruction, and some early refactoring capabilities (Python only) in one extension. We currently support Javascript/Typescript, Python, Go, and Rust, with more coming soon. Overview (w/ bg music) [1].<p>In addition to autocomplete, which can be triggered either automatically or manually, we can add documentation to all your methods in a Rust file, or you can ask the AI to insert missing imports in a Python file. In some cases we can get really sophisticated and ask it to program a game from scratch or update your REST interface to accommodate a new data payload.<p>We use a combination of AI (e.g. OpenAI codex) and AST transformation / metaprogramming techniques on the backend. We are also working on providing other backend solutions for varying needs, including on-prem deployments.<p>We soft launched our product with a small cohort of users and want to welcome more of you to our pilot beta. We hope you enjoy the product and look forward to learning from you.<p>We are currently in an extended free trial phase for early adopters and plan to keep a free tier for solo devs and open source contributors. We also offer a generous discount to startups. For enterprise please reach out to info@mutable.ai<p>We want to thank our very earliest users and invite the HN community to try the product installing it via the VS Code marketplace [2]. We're looking forward to hearing your comments and feedback, or feature suggestions!<p>[1] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-gKEbgyzCg" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-gKEbgyzCg</a><p>[2] <a href="https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=mutable-ai.mutable-ai" rel="nofollow">https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=mutable-...</a>
Show HN: Tiny PS1-like Renderer in 500 lines
Show HN: Tiny PS1-like Renderer in 500 lines
Show HN: Tiny PS1-like Renderer in 500 lines
Show HN: Celody – A Music Network State