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Show HN: Lotus – Open source pricing and packaging infrastructure

Hi HN! We’re building an open-source pricing & packaging engine for SaaS with a built-in billing system. (<a href="https://github.com/uselotus/lotus" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/uselotus/lotus</a>).<p>We strongly believe pricing is the largest untapped growth lever for SaaS, primarily because pricing affects so many critical systems that don’t talk to each other (billing, payments, feature limits, metering, and CRM). We’re building this infrastructure to fix this and enable quick experimentation.<p>Lotus acts as a central repository for all of your pricing plans and utilizes your payment gateway, to manage usage-based, per-seat, and custom enterprise pricing. We’re excited to open-source this because we want to enable developers to build their custom pricing and integration edge cases on top of this base.<p>We’ve launched this repo under an MIT license so any developer can use the tool. Give it a spin for us at either:<p>* test our cloud version at (<a href="https://demo.uselotus.io" rel="nofollow">https://demo.uselotus.io</a>)<p>* self-host here (<a href="https://github.com/uselotus/lotus" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/uselotus/lotus</a>) and let us know what you think.<p>All feedback is appreciated! If the project is especially relevant to you, follow us and we’ll keep you updated when we’ve fully published all our beta features.

Show HN: Lotus – Open source pricing and packaging infrastructure

Hi HN! We’re building an open-source pricing & packaging engine for SaaS with a built-in billing system. (<a href="https://github.com/uselotus/lotus" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/uselotus/lotus</a>).<p>We strongly believe pricing is the largest untapped growth lever for SaaS, primarily because pricing affects so many critical systems that don’t talk to each other (billing, payments, feature limits, metering, and CRM). We’re building this infrastructure to fix this and enable quick experimentation.<p>Lotus acts as a central repository for all of your pricing plans and utilizes your payment gateway, to manage usage-based, per-seat, and custom enterprise pricing. We’re excited to open-source this because we want to enable developers to build their custom pricing and integration edge cases on top of this base.<p>We’ve launched this repo under an MIT license so any developer can use the tool. Give it a spin for us at either:<p>* test our cloud version at (<a href="https://demo.uselotus.io" rel="nofollow">https://demo.uselotus.io</a>)<p>* self-host here (<a href="https://github.com/uselotus/lotus" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/uselotus/lotus</a>) and let us know what you think.<p>All feedback is appreciated! If the project is especially relevant to you, follow us and we’ll keep you updated when we’ve fully published all our beta features.

Show HN: Feep! search, an independent search engine for programmers

Hi HN! This started late last year as an afternoon project to play around with ElasticSearch, and then I kept thinking of new features I wanted to add. I still have a lot of things I want to build, but now seemed like a good time to put it out there: even if the results aren’t nearly the quality I’d like, I’ve still found it useful and I want to show it off!<p>I’ve been working on it since September 2021, but only in fits and starts. The entire thing runs on a computer in my living room (there’s a picture on the About page); I haven’t done any load testing so we’ll see how it holds up.

Show HN: Feep! search, an independent search engine for programmers

Hi HN! This started late last year as an afternoon project to play around with ElasticSearch, and then I kept thinking of new features I wanted to add. I still have a lot of things I want to build, but now seemed like a good time to put it out there: even if the results aren’t nearly the quality I’d like, I’ve still found it useful and I want to show it off!<p>I’ve been working on it since September 2021, but only in fits and starts. The entire thing runs on a computer in my living room (there’s a picture on the About page); I haven’t done any load testing so we’ll see how it holds up.

Show HN: Feep! search, an independent search engine for programmers

Hi HN! This started late last year as an afternoon project to play around with ElasticSearch, and then I kept thinking of new features I wanted to add. I still have a lot of things I want to build, but now seemed like a good time to put it out there: even if the results aren’t nearly the quality I’d like, I’ve still found it useful and I want to show it off!<p>I’ve been working on it since September 2021, but only in fits and starts. The entire thing runs on a computer in my living room (there’s a picture on the About page); I haven’t done any load testing so we’ll see how it holds up.

Show HN: Feep! search, an independent search engine for programmers

Hi HN! This started late last year as an afternoon project to play around with ElasticSearch, and then I kept thinking of new features I wanted to add. I still have a lot of things I want to build, but now seemed like a good time to put it out there: even if the results aren’t nearly the quality I’d like, I’ve still found it useful and I want to show it off!<p>I’ve been working on it since September 2021, but only in fits and starts. The entire thing runs on a computer in my living room (there’s a picture on the About page); I haven’t done any load testing so we’ll see how it holds up.

Show HN: Auto generate images from Figma using an API

Show HN: Stable Diffusion print-on-demand apparel

Hey HN,<p>Obviously we are experiencing a surge of stable-diffusion based apps at the moment, but I have yet to see anyone try and map the outputs onto actual physical products that can be delivered to your door.<p>I wanted to make it easy to:<p>- pick an artistic style<p>- hit 'record' and speak into your phone / tablet / desktop or whatever, and describe the kind of design you want your clothing to have (since speaking is more spontaneous that typing)<p>- swipe among a variety of mockups (t-shirts, hoodies etc.) featuring your design, and order it to your door with the click of a button<p>The product is called 1SEWN. Fulfilment is currently achieved using a print-on-demand service called Printful (<a href="https://www.printful.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.printful.com</a>) that I have integrated with.<p>If you guys would like to try it, I would love some feedback. Shipping is currently limited to outside Europe, but even if you are in Europe, your feedback about the whole UX would be much appreciated!<p>Much love,<p>Matt

Show HN: Stable Diffusion print-on-demand apparel

Hey HN,<p>Obviously we are experiencing a surge of stable-diffusion based apps at the moment, but I have yet to see anyone try and map the outputs onto actual physical products that can be delivered to your door.<p>I wanted to make it easy to:<p>- pick an artistic style<p>- hit 'record' and speak into your phone / tablet / desktop or whatever, and describe the kind of design you want your clothing to have (since speaking is more spontaneous that typing)<p>- swipe among a variety of mockups (t-shirts, hoodies etc.) featuring your design, and order it to your door with the click of a button<p>The product is called 1SEWN. Fulfilment is currently achieved using a print-on-demand service called Printful (<a href="https://www.printful.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.printful.com</a>) that I have integrated with.<p>If you guys would like to try it, I would love some feedback. Shipping is currently limited to outside Europe, but even if you are in Europe, your feedback about the whole UX would be much appreciated!<p>Much love,<p>Matt

Show HN: Stable Diffusion print-on-demand apparel

Hey HN,<p>Obviously we are experiencing a surge of stable-diffusion based apps at the moment, but I have yet to see anyone try and map the outputs onto actual physical products that can be delivered to your door.<p>I wanted to make it easy to:<p>- pick an artistic style<p>- hit 'record' and speak into your phone / tablet / desktop or whatever, and describe the kind of design you want your clothing to have (since speaking is more spontaneous that typing)<p>- swipe among a variety of mockups (t-shirts, hoodies etc.) featuring your design, and order it to your door with the click of a button<p>The product is called 1SEWN. Fulfilment is currently achieved using a print-on-demand service called Printful (<a href="https://www.printful.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.printful.com</a>) that I have integrated with.<p>If you guys would like to try it, I would love some feedback. Shipping is currently limited to outside Europe, but even if you are in Europe, your feedback about the whole UX would be much appreciated!<p>Much love,<p>Matt

Show HN: Structpad: notepad-database hybrid that helps you use abstract thinking

Hello. Briefly about Structpad: All interaction with app comes down to simple typing, like in a notepad. No buttons, commands or special characters needed. However, you can still build complex structured data.<p>Something about why I'm building Structpad: I love taking notes and I think it's necessary for deep thinking because our brain is very powerful, but it has one weakness - memory. I noticed that not only the text itself matters, but also some invisible structure in our minds. There are various tools that try to reveal this structure, such as filenames, folders, tags, links, tables of contents, but they are often complex and unreusable. So I wanted more structure, less clutter, and no extra clicks.<p>Programming languages use OOP for a higher level of abstraction, to create more complex programs, so why not use something similar for our thoughts instead of plain text? In this way, Structpad reduces the load on memory for the sake of the quality of using the mind.

Show HN: Structpad: notepad-database hybrid that helps you use abstract thinking

Hello. Briefly about Structpad: All interaction with app comes down to simple typing, like in a notepad. No buttons, commands or special characters needed. However, you can still build complex structured data.<p>Something about why I'm building Structpad: I love taking notes and I think it's necessary for deep thinking because our brain is very powerful, but it has one weakness - memory. I noticed that not only the text itself matters, but also some invisible structure in our minds. There are various tools that try to reveal this structure, such as filenames, folders, tags, links, tables of contents, but they are often complex and unreusable. So I wanted more structure, less clutter, and no extra clicks.<p>Programming languages use OOP for a higher level of abstraction, to create more complex programs, so why not use something similar for our thoughts instead of plain text? In this way, Structpad reduces the load on memory for the sake of the quality of using the mind.

Show HN: Structpad: notepad-database hybrid that helps you use abstract thinking

Hello. Briefly about Structpad: All interaction with app comes down to simple typing, like in a notepad. No buttons, commands or special characters needed. However, you can still build complex structured data.<p>Something about why I'm building Structpad: I love taking notes and I think it's necessary for deep thinking because our brain is very powerful, but it has one weakness - memory. I noticed that not only the text itself matters, but also some invisible structure in our minds. There are various tools that try to reveal this structure, such as filenames, folders, tags, links, tables of contents, but they are often complex and unreusable. So I wanted more structure, less clutter, and no extra clicks.<p>Programming languages use OOP for a higher level of abstraction, to create more complex programs, so why not use something similar for our thoughts instead of plain text? In this way, Structpad reduces the load on memory for the sake of the quality of using the mind.

Show HN: Reveddit.com: Improving online discourse with transparent moderation

Hi HN, this talk represents a summary of my work over the last four years on addressing shadow moderation with Reveddit.<p>Let me know what you think, good or bad, and I'll do my best to answer.<p>What is shadow moderation? It is any action taken against your content that you aren't told about and aren't able to detect while logged in. I focus on Reddit comments since every single removal is shadow removed— removed comments are shown to you as if they're not.<p>You can try this for yourself on,<p><a href="https://www.reveddit.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.reveddit.com</a><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CantSayAnything/about/sticky/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/CantSayAnything/about/sticky/</a><p>Your content will be removed, you won't be told, and it will be shown to you as if it's publicly visible.

Show HN: Reveddit.com: Improving online discourse with transparent moderation

Hi HN, this talk represents a summary of my work over the last four years on addressing shadow moderation with Reveddit.<p>Let me know what you think, good or bad, and I'll do my best to answer.<p>What is shadow moderation? It is any action taken against your content that you aren't told about and aren't able to detect while logged in. I focus on Reddit comments since every single removal is shadow removed— removed comments are shown to you as if they're not.<p>You can try this for yourself on,<p><a href="https://www.reveddit.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.reveddit.com</a><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CantSayAnything/about/sticky/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/CantSayAnything/about/sticky/</a><p>Your content will be removed, you won't be told, and it will be shown to you as if it's publicly visible.

Show HN: Reveddit.com: Improving online discourse with transparent moderation

Hi HN, this talk represents a summary of my work over the last four years on addressing shadow moderation with Reveddit.<p>Let me know what you think, good or bad, and I'll do my best to answer.<p>What is shadow moderation? It is any action taken against your content that you aren't told about and aren't able to detect while logged in. I focus on Reddit comments since every single removal is shadow removed— removed comments are shown to you as if they're not.<p>You can try this for yourself on,<p><a href="https://www.reveddit.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.reveddit.com</a><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CantSayAnything/about/sticky/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/CantSayAnything/about/sticky/</a><p>Your content will be removed, you won't be told, and it will be shown to you as if it's publicly visible.

PostgreSQL Sessions in Vim

Really just a few lines of code to have a REPL-like experience with Vim and Postgres.

Show HN: Step CI – open-source lightweight alternative to Pingdom and Checkly

In our last post, we showed that there is an easy way to generate automated tests for Rest APIs from your specification.<p>Since the last release, we have added some new features:<p><pre><code> - Generate tests from your API spec in the CLI - Run tests against gRPC APIs automatically - Get request and response information when your tests fail - Generate fake data and use it in the requests - Bring your own test data (from .csv) - More intuitive CLI interface </code></pre> We built this because we wanted a simple, developer-friendly way to automate API testing without relying on cloud solutions. You can integrate it with Docker, GitHub Actions and Node. Your tests can have multiple steps, with shared context between them. Lastly, you can use it as a library and in combination with other testing tools like Jest, Ava, Mocha (and soon Insomnia).<p>If you want to step out of locked-in cloud solutions, give our tool a try.

Show HN: Step CI – open-source lightweight alternative to Pingdom and Checkly

In our last post, we showed that there is an easy way to generate automated tests for Rest APIs from your specification.<p>Since the last release, we have added some new features:<p><pre><code> - Generate tests from your API spec in the CLI - Run tests against gRPC APIs automatically - Get request and response information when your tests fail - Generate fake data and use it in the requests - Bring your own test data (from .csv) - More intuitive CLI interface </code></pre> We built this because we wanted a simple, developer-friendly way to automate API testing without relying on cloud solutions. You can integrate it with Docker, GitHub Actions and Node. Your tests can have multiple steps, with shared context between them. Lastly, you can use it as a library and in combination with other testing tools like Jest, Ava, Mocha (and soon Insomnia).<p>If you want to step out of locked-in cloud solutions, give our tool a try.

Show HN: Step CI – open-source lightweight alternative to Pingdom and Checkly

In our last post, we showed that there is an easy way to generate automated tests for Rest APIs from your specification.<p>Since the last release, we have added some new features:<p><pre><code> - Generate tests from your API spec in the CLI - Run tests against gRPC APIs automatically - Get request and response information when your tests fail - Generate fake data and use it in the requests - Bring your own test data (from .csv) - More intuitive CLI interface </code></pre> We built this because we wanted a simple, developer-friendly way to automate API testing without relying on cloud solutions. You can integrate it with Docker, GitHub Actions and Node. Your tests can have multiple steps, with shared context between them. Lastly, you can use it as a library and in combination with other testing tools like Jest, Ava, Mocha (and soon Insomnia).<p>If you want to step out of locked-in cloud solutions, give our tool a try.