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Show HN: I made a little digital circuit simulator that operates on PNGs
This is a little toy project of mine that lets you simulate digital logic graphs. It was inspired by Minecraft's Redstone and the Piet esolang.<p>It's got some serious drawbacks-- you write circuits as PNGs and simulate them with a Python interface. It's slow to run and slow to experiment with. And it is certainly difficult to use for people with any kind of color blindness. But despite that, I hope this can still be a fun toy!
Show HN: Federalist and Bob – uncensorable website with webtorrent and Handshake
Bob Extension just added ability to resolve Handshake domain with webtorrent.<p>Any Handshake TLDs can update its TXT record with a magnet link pointing to a folder that contains a index.html page - Bob Extension will download and show the content using webtorrent when users go to the TLDs (e.g. federalistpapers/)<p><a href="https://github.com/kyokan/bob-extension/pull/18" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/kyokan/bob-extension/pull/18</a>
Show HN: Add a “1” to your Hacker News URL to get fancy social previews
For example, paste this into Slack or Discord or whatever: <a href="https://news.ycombinator1.com/item?id=30179549" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator1.com/item?id=30179549</a><p>It works with comments, too: <a href="https://news.ycombinator1.com/item?id=30180253" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator1.com/item?id=30180253</a><p>Hastily-developed source: <a href="https://github.com/statico/ycombinator1.com" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/statico/ycombinator1.com</a>
Show HN: Add a “1” to your Hacker News URL to get fancy social previews
For example, paste this into Slack or Discord or whatever: <a href="https://news.ycombinator1.com/item?id=30179549" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator1.com/item?id=30179549</a><p>It works with comments, too: <a href="https://news.ycombinator1.com/item?id=30180253" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator1.com/item?id=30180253</a><p>Hastily-developed source: <a href="https://github.com/statico/ycombinator1.com" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/statico/ycombinator1.com</a>
Show HN: Add a “1” to your Hacker News URL to get fancy social previews
For example, paste this into Slack or Discord or whatever: <a href="https://news.ycombinator1.com/item?id=30179549" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator1.com/item?id=30179549</a><p>It works with comments, too: <a href="https://news.ycombinator1.com/item?id=30180253" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator1.com/item?id=30180253</a><p>Hastily-developed source: <a href="https://github.com/statico/ycombinator1.com" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/statico/ycombinator1.com</a>
Show HN: Add a “1” to your Hacker News URL to get fancy social previews
For example, paste this into Slack or Discord or whatever: <a href="https://news.ycombinator1.com/item?id=30179549" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator1.com/item?id=30179549</a><p>It works with comments, too: <a href="https://news.ycombinator1.com/item?id=30180253" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator1.com/item?id=30180253</a><p>Hastily-developed source: <a href="https://github.com/statico/ycombinator1.com" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/statico/ycombinator1.com</a>
Show HN: A daily math puzzle inspired by Wordle
Show HN: A daily math puzzle inspired by Wordle
Show HN: What do you think of my new social app?
Hey there,<p>First time posting on Hacker News in about 2 years! The reason I’m posting is that I thought I’d write about the product I’ve been building, in hopes it resonates with people.<p>Why build yet another social app? Because I deleted almost all social media around 3/4 years ago as it was just net negative on my life. There was very little that was truly interesting, I didn’t care about looking good to other people and because of the ‘media’ and ads, the apps were all designed to make me spend too much time for what I was getting. I hated it and what it meant for people’s behaviour, including mine and my friends.<p>I also noticed that the vast majority of my friends were pretty much passive on the services, even if they had an account. Turns out that most people felt uncomfortable sharing to people they didn’t know too well, which inevitably happens as you meet new people, add them, and often don’t develop the relationship much further. I had a sense that there could be a better way.<p>In that, I remembered the days of Path and Google+ which had the model of focusing on particular people in your network, both through the feed and in how you shared. Path in particular was a ‘real life’ social network, something that despite being brought to market in 2010 or whatever, seemed to be more relevant today.<p>So problem found, problem solved. I took the journey of learning how to code when COVID hit (I was working in Architecture and Design and was about to start my masters degree at Harvard GSD in Boston), then one thing led to another, my prototype garnered some investment interest, and Circles was born.<p>The idea is very much like the name suggests, it’s about adding your contacts (synced through your phonebook) into Circles that define what the relationship is. This means that you only see things from people you have tagged (rather than everyone) and when you share, you choose exactly who it goes to (rather than all your friends or followers).<p>It also takes cues from other privacy focused social products. Posts are encrypted, reactions and comments are only shown to people who are contacts with eachother, and user profiles only show that which has been explicitly shared to the user viewing the profile.<p>As they were mentioned briefly before, it’s essentially a crossover between Path and Google+ with a wrap around layer of privacy, so the potential revenue has to eventually come through paid features rather than ads.<p>We’re in the app store and google play store (yay, cross-platform JS frameworks), the invite code is ‘FULLCIRCLE’ and download links are below:<p>Landing: <a href="https://oncircles.com" rel="nofollow">https://oncircles.com</a><p>iOS: <a href="https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/circles-share-more-with-less/id1532621483" rel="nofollow">https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/circles-share-more-with-less/i...</a><p>Android: <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.oncircles" rel="nofollow">https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.oncircles</a><p>I would love to hear your feedback and suggestions on the idea. Hit or miss?<p>PS: If you want to chat about the idea or are interested in working together I’d love to chat. Always interesting to meet people on HN and we have the funds, ideas and drive to continue making cool things that can solve big problems. Send me an email at james@oncircles.com<p>Thanks!
Show HN: What do you think of my new social app?
Hey there,<p>First time posting on Hacker News in about 2 years! The reason I’m posting is that I thought I’d write about the product I’ve been building, in hopes it resonates with people.<p>Why build yet another social app? Because I deleted almost all social media around 3/4 years ago as it was just net negative on my life. There was very little that was truly interesting, I didn’t care about looking good to other people and because of the ‘media’ and ads, the apps were all designed to make me spend too much time for what I was getting. I hated it and what it meant for people’s behaviour, including mine and my friends.<p>I also noticed that the vast majority of my friends were pretty much passive on the services, even if they had an account. Turns out that most people felt uncomfortable sharing to people they didn’t know too well, which inevitably happens as you meet new people, add them, and often don’t develop the relationship much further. I had a sense that there could be a better way.<p>In that, I remembered the days of Path and Google+ which had the model of focusing on particular people in your network, both through the feed and in how you shared. Path in particular was a ‘real life’ social network, something that despite being brought to market in 2010 or whatever, seemed to be more relevant today.<p>So problem found, problem solved. I took the journey of learning how to code when COVID hit (I was working in Architecture and Design and was about to start my masters degree at Harvard GSD in Boston), then one thing led to another, my prototype garnered some investment interest, and Circles was born.<p>The idea is very much like the name suggests, it’s about adding your contacts (synced through your phonebook) into Circles that define what the relationship is. This means that you only see things from people you have tagged (rather than everyone) and when you share, you choose exactly who it goes to (rather than all your friends or followers).<p>It also takes cues from other privacy focused social products. Posts are encrypted, reactions and comments are only shown to people who are contacts with eachother, and user profiles only show that which has been explicitly shared to the user viewing the profile.<p>As they were mentioned briefly before, it’s essentially a crossover between Path and Google+ with a wrap around layer of privacy, so the potential revenue has to eventually come through paid features rather than ads.<p>We’re in the app store and google play store (yay, cross-platform JS frameworks), the invite code is ‘FULLCIRCLE’ and download links are below:<p>Landing: <a href="https://oncircles.com" rel="nofollow">https://oncircles.com</a><p>iOS: <a href="https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/circles-share-more-with-less/id1532621483" rel="nofollow">https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/circles-share-more-with-less/i...</a><p>Android: <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.oncircles" rel="nofollow">https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.oncircles</a><p>I would love to hear your feedback and suggestions on the idea. Hit or miss?<p>PS: If you want to chat about the idea or are interested in working together I’d love to chat. Always interesting to meet people on HN and we have the funds, ideas and drive to continue making cool things that can solve big problems. Send me an email at james@oncircles.com<p>Thanks!
Show HN: Just Launched an App for Dads
Hey there,<p>First time posting on HN. We're looking for feedback from parents.<p>We're 2 dads who started working on Dadditude in the midst of covid lockdowns last year.<p>Being a dad can be a long, emotional, draining, and lonely journey. Through our research we learned that dads want to improve their parenting but are too shy to ask for help, and are tired of reading content online written for mums. We set out to fix that and create a platform that would help dads feel seen, validated, and supported.
By helping dads, we hope to support moms and partners too, because all parents deserve more support.<p>Quick timeline so far:
We started a community of dads on Instagram last Feb to test hypothesis and learn about their needs. We then launched an MVP in April, a super simple app serving weekly coaching guides created with a parenting professional partner.
We made several updates in summer and fall, working like crazy in the background to convince parenting professionals to write coaching guides for us. Especially hard when you're a nobody. But people are kind and we found all the support we needed.
We launched a v1 app mid-December with 50 coaching guides and a more full fledge community board (and a paid membership tier).
We've just added on-demand parenting professional support in Jan.
And last week added a picture board for dads to upload pics of their families, and that's become more popular than the forums!! ← I knew dads wanted to feel more visible but I love these discoveries!<p>Super proud of the work done so far, but still so much to do to smooth out the product experience, and get closer to PFM. So much learning.<p>web: <a href="http://www.dadditude.app" rel="nofollow">http://www.dadditude.app</a>
ios: <a href="https://apps.apple.com/app/id1558653576" rel="nofollow">https://apps.apple.com/app/id1558653576</a>
android: <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dadditude.app" rel="nofollow">https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dadditude....</a><p>(part of the experience is behind a paywall, but you can test nearly all paid features once for free - so long as you register through Apple or Google)<p>All thoughts and feedback welcome in the comments below, especially if you're a parent entrepreneur. TYIA<p>[edited top statement to "<i>can be</i> long..." for the dads here who felt it was too gloomy - it was]
Show HN: Just Launched an App for Dads
Hey there,<p>First time posting on HN. We're looking for feedback from parents.<p>We're 2 dads who started working on Dadditude in the midst of covid lockdowns last year.<p>Being a dad can be a long, emotional, draining, and lonely journey. Through our research we learned that dads want to improve their parenting but are too shy to ask for help, and are tired of reading content online written for mums. We set out to fix that and create a platform that would help dads feel seen, validated, and supported.
By helping dads, we hope to support moms and partners too, because all parents deserve more support.<p>Quick timeline so far:
We started a community of dads on Instagram last Feb to test hypothesis and learn about their needs. We then launched an MVP in April, a super simple app serving weekly coaching guides created with a parenting professional partner.
We made several updates in summer and fall, working like crazy in the background to convince parenting professionals to write coaching guides for us. Especially hard when you're a nobody. But people are kind and we found all the support we needed.
We launched a v1 app mid-December with 50 coaching guides and a more full fledge community board (and a paid membership tier).
We've just added on-demand parenting professional support in Jan.
And last week added a picture board for dads to upload pics of their families, and that's become more popular than the forums!! ← I knew dads wanted to feel more visible but I love these discoveries!<p>Super proud of the work done so far, but still so much to do to smooth out the product experience, and get closer to PFM. So much learning.<p>web: <a href="http://www.dadditude.app" rel="nofollow">http://www.dadditude.app</a>
ios: <a href="https://apps.apple.com/app/id1558653576" rel="nofollow">https://apps.apple.com/app/id1558653576</a>
android: <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dadditude.app" rel="nofollow">https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dadditude....</a><p>(part of the experience is behind a paywall, but you can test nearly all paid features once for free - so long as you register through Apple or Google)<p>All thoughts and feedback welcome in the comments below, especially if you're a parent entrepreneur. TYIA<p>[edited top statement to "<i>can be</i> long..." for the dads here who felt it was too gloomy - it was]
Grafana Incident: Smart incident management for your teams
Show HN: Coffeehouse, one-on-one voicechat with random HN users
Show HN: Coffeehouse, one-on-one voicechat with random HN users
Show HN: Coffeehouse, one-on-one voicechat with random HN users
Show HN: Coffeehouse, one-on-one voicechat with random HN users
Show HN: Staat – mission control for eng managers
We made this because we thought managers could be more strategic and effective for their teams, their stakeholders, and themselves. One central place to get a pulse on project changes, bottlenecks, and updates from across tools. Think of it as a manager IDE.<p>No not an engineering performance measurement tool, a first point of contact to triage and prioritize the day without having to spend time digging into 4-5 information channels (Slack channels, unexpected meetings, task management boards, pull requests, etc).<p>This is our experimental quest at rethinking the manager workflow. De-cluttering everyday information to get to answers fast with a clear view on where things are and how things are moving is our starting point.<p>We'd love your feedback!<p>We have over 375+ managers on our waitlist and would love to put this in the hands of all managers. We’re offering a Staat First 500 promo code to anyone who wants to try it out for free!
Show HN: Free 3D icons, fully customizable online
Show HN: Atlas – A deployment pipeline platform built on Argo CD
Atlas is an open-source deployment pipeline platform built for cloud-native applications.<p>Atlas allows users to:
- Create continuous pipelines across all their environments and clusters
- Add custom tasks/tests plugins (Python scripts, K8S manifests, Argo Workflows, environment setup, etc.)
- Automatically rollback applications in case of failure or degradation (Atlas watches the application past the scope of a pipeline run to ensure and enforce stability)
- Use all existing Argo features<p>Would love to hear all of your feedback and thoughts on this!