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Show HN: I'm building an open-source Amazon
A couple of years ago, I had an interesting idea. What if there was a marketplace where all the underlying tech was open-source? The order management system, the storefront, customer support, etc.<p>The marketplace would simply connect to the seller’s infra instead of locking them in. If, for some reason, the seller is removed from the marketplace, their software stays with them and they can continue accepting orders directly.<p>This model can be used to disrupt any marketplace from AirBNB to UberEats: building tech for home renters and restaurants and later, leveraging that to build a competing marketplace.<p>In 2019, I started building the first piece, Openship, an order management system that lets you source orders and fulfill them from anywhere. Now that that’s in stable release, next up is Openfront (an e-commerce platform for storefronts) and Opensupport (ticketing software for customer support). Together, they provide the staples for any modern business: sales, fulfillment, support.<p>Let me know what you guys think of the idea and if you see any potential pitfalls.
Show HN: I'm building an open-source Amazon
A couple of years ago, I had an interesting idea. What if there was a marketplace where all the underlying tech was open-source? The order management system, the storefront, customer support, etc.<p>The marketplace would simply connect to the seller’s infra instead of locking them in. If, for some reason, the seller is removed from the marketplace, their software stays with them and they can continue accepting orders directly.<p>This model can be used to disrupt any marketplace from AirBNB to UberEats: building tech for home renters and restaurants and later, leveraging that to build a competing marketplace.<p>In 2019, I started building the first piece, Openship, an order management system that lets you source orders and fulfill them from anywhere. Now that that’s in stable release, next up is Openfront (an e-commerce platform for storefronts) and Opensupport (ticketing software for customer support). Together, they provide the staples for any modern business: sales, fulfillment, support.<p>Let me know what you guys think of the idea and if you see any potential pitfalls.
Show HN: Async OK – Find an async job, work anytime
Show HN: Open-source infra for building embedded data pipelines
Hey HN!<p>We are building *open source infrastructure for deploying customer-facing data pipelines.*<p>Here’s our repo <a href="https://github.com/pipebird/pipebird" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/pipebird/pipebird</a> and website <a href="https://pipebird.com/" rel="nofollow">https://pipebird.com/</a>.<p>Pipebird (YC W22) is designed to enable companies that generate important data to offer secure data pushes to their customers’ warehouses, directly from their products.<p>Our team was previously building in fintech, where we heard from many of our peers that their customers wanted data pushed directly to their warehouses. Customers wanted to bring data into their source of truth without having to maintain custom built pipelines or introduce security risks by contracting a third-party ETL/ELT provider.<p>After seeing Stripe <a href="https://stripe.com/data-pipeline" rel="nofollow">https://stripe.com/data-pipeline</a> and customer.io <a href="https://customer.io/data-warehouse" rel="nofollow">https://customer.io/data-warehouse</a> recently invest in building out their own native data sharing products, we realized that many SaaS companies could better support their customers and even generate additional revenue by offering native data pipelines.<p>Our goal with Pipebird is to make creating a reliable data pipeline as simple as pressing a button from a vendor's dashboard.<p>With the current iteration of the product, data can be selected from a number of sources (ex: Postgres, MySQL, CockroachDB, etc.), customers can configure pipelines and optionally apply transformations (like type casting), and data can be periodically synced directly to customers’ warehouses (ex: Snowflake). We’re actively adding sources/destinations and would appreciate any feature requests.<p>Here's a 2 min demo of the product <a href="https://www.loom.com/share/c7a7e4b4e57c4015b533fd754c510b2e" rel="nofollow">https://www.loom.com/share/c7a7e4b4e57c4015b533fd754c510b2e</a><p>Pipebird is open source (MIT license) so that any developer can use it. Our aim is to not charge individual developers - we make money selling paid plans that include features like multiple projects, user permissions, additional security features, managed infra, support, etc.<p>Give us a whirl: <a href="https://github.com/pipebird/pipebird" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/pipebird/pipebird</a>. We’d love your feedback and will be here to answer any questions!
Show HN: Open-source infra for building embedded data pipelines
Hey HN!<p>We are building *open source infrastructure for deploying customer-facing data pipelines.*<p>Here’s our repo <a href="https://github.com/pipebird/pipebird" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/pipebird/pipebird</a> and website <a href="https://pipebird.com/" rel="nofollow">https://pipebird.com/</a>.<p>Pipebird (YC W22) is designed to enable companies that generate important data to offer secure data pushes to their customers’ warehouses, directly from their products.<p>Our team was previously building in fintech, where we heard from many of our peers that their customers wanted data pushed directly to their warehouses. Customers wanted to bring data into their source of truth without having to maintain custom built pipelines or introduce security risks by contracting a third-party ETL/ELT provider.<p>After seeing Stripe <a href="https://stripe.com/data-pipeline" rel="nofollow">https://stripe.com/data-pipeline</a> and customer.io <a href="https://customer.io/data-warehouse" rel="nofollow">https://customer.io/data-warehouse</a> recently invest in building out their own native data sharing products, we realized that many SaaS companies could better support their customers and even generate additional revenue by offering native data pipelines.<p>Our goal with Pipebird is to make creating a reliable data pipeline as simple as pressing a button from a vendor's dashboard.<p>With the current iteration of the product, data can be selected from a number of sources (ex: Postgres, MySQL, CockroachDB, etc.), customers can configure pipelines and optionally apply transformations (like type casting), and data can be periodically synced directly to customers’ warehouses (ex: Snowflake). We’re actively adding sources/destinations and would appreciate any feature requests.<p>Here's a 2 min demo of the product <a href="https://www.loom.com/share/c7a7e4b4e57c4015b533fd754c510b2e" rel="nofollow">https://www.loom.com/share/c7a7e4b4e57c4015b533fd754c510b2e</a><p>Pipebird is open source (MIT license) so that any developer can use it. Our aim is to not charge individual developers - we make money selling paid plans that include features like multiple projects, user permissions, additional security features, managed infra, support, etc.<p>Give us a whirl: <a href="https://github.com/pipebird/pipebird" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/pipebird/pipebird</a>. We’d love your feedback and will be here to answer any questions!
Show HN: Open-source infra for building embedded data pipelines
Hey HN!<p>We are building *open source infrastructure for deploying customer-facing data pipelines.*<p>Here’s our repo <a href="https://github.com/pipebird/pipebird" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/pipebird/pipebird</a> and website <a href="https://pipebird.com/" rel="nofollow">https://pipebird.com/</a>.<p>Pipebird (YC W22) is designed to enable companies that generate important data to offer secure data pushes to their customers’ warehouses, directly from their products.<p>Our team was previously building in fintech, where we heard from many of our peers that their customers wanted data pushed directly to their warehouses. Customers wanted to bring data into their source of truth without having to maintain custom built pipelines or introduce security risks by contracting a third-party ETL/ELT provider.<p>After seeing Stripe <a href="https://stripe.com/data-pipeline" rel="nofollow">https://stripe.com/data-pipeline</a> and customer.io <a href="https://customer.io/data-warehouse" rel="nofollow">https://customer.io/data-warehouse</a> recently invest in building out their own native data sharing products, we realized that many SaaS companies could better support their customers and even generate additional revenue by offering native data pipelines.<p>Our goal with Pipebird is to make creating a reliable data pipeline as simple as pressing a button from a vendor's dashboard.<p>With the current iteration of the product, data can be selected from a number of sources (ex: Postgres, MySQL, CockroachDB, etc.), customers can configure pipelines and optionally apply transformations (like type casting), and data can be periodically synced directly to customers’ warehouses (ex: Snowflake). We’re actively adding sources/destinations and would appreciate any feature requests.<p>Here's a 2 min demo of the product <a href="https://www.loom.com/share/c7a7e4b4e57c4015b533fd754c510b2e" rel="nofollow">https://www.loom.com/share/c7a7e4b4e57c4015b533fd754c510b2e</a><p>Pipebird is open source (MIT license) so that any developer can use it. Our aim is to not charge individual developers - we make money selling paid plans that include features like multiple projects, user permissions, additional security features, managed infra, support, etc.<p>Give us a whirl: <a href="https://github.com/pipebird/pipebird" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/pipebird/pipebird</a>. We’d love your feedback and will be here to answer any questions!
Using GPT-3 to answer annoying interview application questions
Hi folks. My wife has been looking for a job and sometimes in the application forms there are annoying questions like "Why do you want to work here?". At the same time I've been playing around with GPT-3 and have blown away by it's capabilities, so I decided to build a site that can answer these annoying questions for her.<p>Github: <a href="https://github.com/Lior539/why-do-you-want-to-work-here" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/Lior539/why-do-you-want-to-work-here</a><p>Here's an example of a generated answer:
Using this opening for a Senior iOS Engineer at Monzo -<a href="https://boards.greenhouse.io/monzo/jobs/3838039" rel="nofollow">https://boards.greenhouse.io/monzo/jobs/3838039</a>
The generated answer question on the application "What attracted you to Monzo?":
"What attracted me to Monzo is that it is a bank that is trying to make a difference in the world by making it easier for people to manage their money. Monzo is also very customer focused and puts the customer first in everything they do."
Show HN: Encrypted Git hosting should be easy
Show HN: Encrypted Git hosting should be easy
Show HN: Bankrank.io – Search hundreds of bank accounts to find the best rates
Show HN: Bankrank.io – Search hundreds of bank accounts to find the best rates
Show HN: An opinionated and statically-typed TypeScript SDK generator
Hi Hacker News!<p>My name is Sagar, I’m working on a startup called Speakeasy - we’re making all APIs self-service. The platform is currently in beta, but we’re independently launching this tool which you can use to generate language-idiomatic, statically-typed TS SDKs from any public OpenAPI schemas. We hope to continue iterating on this to give devs a way to easily generate high fidelity client SDKs for all the major languages.<p>Inspiration for this product is from past experiences struggling with OpenAPI. I was originally optimistic about using the OpenAPI tools to build out our offering, but quickly realized that the tools left a lot to be desired, and would not have provided our end users with the developer experience we wanted. While it’s not exhaustive, we’ve tried to address some of the biggest gaps in this tool:<p>* Low-dependency - To try and keep the SDK isomorphic (i.e. available both for Browsers and Node.JS servers), we wrap axios, but that’s it.This is intended to be idiomatic typescript; very similar to code a human would write; with the caveat that the typing is only as strict as the OpenAPI specification.<p>* Code just like a human would write - At this point static typing is everywhere. So wherever possible, we generate typed structures, construct path variables automatically, pass through query parameters, and expose strictly typed input / output body types.<p>* Future direction - There’s value in being neutral, but we felt like there is more value in being opinionated. In the future we’ll add features like built-in Pagination, Retries (Backoff/Jitter etc), Auth integrations, which should be handled in the SDK.<p>We’re planning to continue improving this service, so would love to hear what you think of the choices we’ve made, the issues we should address next, and what languages we should work on supporting.
Show HN: Investorsexchange.jl – parse trade-level stock market data in Julia
Backstory:<p>I wanted to play with intraday stock data but couldn't find a free dataset anywhere. IEXCloud [1] offers API access to 1-minute granularity intraday historical price data, but I was worried that it could get expensive or unwieldy to build up a substantial dataset via API calls. Plus, IEX gives out their raw data for free.<p>I probably should have just used the IEXTools python library [2] to parse IEX's raw data dumps, but I was working on a Julia project, so it felt more thematically appropriate to build a new tool from scratch.<p>I haven't been actively using InvestorsExchange.jl a lot lately, but it's made me the proud owner of a 50GB SQLite DB dump covering several years of trade data, and I think it would be awesome if I could help folks in the HN community more quickly build up this kind of dataset for their own curiosity or research.<p>Feedback is also greatly appreciated!<p>[1] <a href="https://www.iexcloud.io/docs/api/#historical-prices" rel="nofollow">https://www.iexcloud.io/docs/api/#historical-prices</a><p>[2] <a href="https://github.com/lvfrazao/IEXTools" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/lvfrazao/IEXTools</a>
Show HN: Investorsexchange.jl – parse trade-level stock market data in Julia
Backstory:<p>I wanted to play with intraday stock data but couldn't find a free dataset anywhere. IEXCloud [1] offers API access to 1-minute granularity intraday historical price data, but I was worried that it could get expensive or unwieldy to build up a substantial dataset via API calls. Plus, IEX gives out their raw data for free.<p>I probably should have just used the IEXTools python library [2] to parse IEX's raw data dumps, but I was working on a Julia project, so it felt more thematically appropriate to build a new tool from scratch.<p>I haven't been actively using InvestorsExchange.jl a lot lately, but it's made me the proud owner of a 50GB SQLite DB dump covering several years of trade data, and I think it would be awesome if I could help folks in the HN community more quickly build up this kind of dataset for their own curiosity or research.<p>Feedback is also greatly appreciated!<p>[1] <a href="https://www.iexcloud.io/docs/api/#historical-prices" rel="nofollow">https://www.iexcloud.io/docs/api/#historical-prices</a><p>[2] <a href="https://github.com/lvfrazao/IEXTools" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/lvfrazao/IEXTools</a>
Show HN: Investorsexchange.jl – parse trade-level stock market data in Julia
Backstory:<p>I wanted to play with intraday stock data but couldn't find a free dataset anywhere. IEXCloud [1] offers API access to 1-minute granularity intraday historical price data, but I was worried that it could get expensive or unwieldy to build up a substantial dataset via API calls. Plus, IEX gives out their raw data for free.<p>I probably should have just used the IEXTools python library [2] to parse IEX's raw data dumps, but I was working on a Julia project, so it felt more thematically appropriate to build a new tool from scratch.<p>I haven't been actively using InvestorsExchange.jl a lot lately, but it's made me the proud owner of a 50GB SQLite DB dump covering several years of trade data, and I think it would be awesome if I could help folks in the HN community more quickly build up this kind of dataset for their own curiosity or research.<p>Feedback is also greatly appreciated!<p>[1] <a href="https://www.iexcloud.io/docs/api/#historical-prices" rel="nofollow">https://www.iexcloud.io/docs/api/#historical-prices</a><p>[2] <a href="https://github.com/lvfrazao/IEXTools" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/lvfrazao/IEXTools</a>
Show HN: Live-Map of Public Transport in Kiel, Germany
Show HN: Live-Map of Public Transport in Kiel, Germany
Show HN: Live-Map of Public Transport in Kiel, Germany
A short sci-fi story written with GPT-3 and illustrated with DALL-E 2
Hi there HN,<p>Disclaimer: I've submitted a Show HN as well as the link for this general project before, but particularly like this one short story so want to submit one for it specifically. Hope it's not considered spammy!<p>I and a collaborator who writes sci-fi just released the short story "The Great Filter Button" - <a href="https://storiesby.ai/p/the-great-filter-button" rel="nofollow">https://storiesby.ai/p/the-great-filter-button</a><p>Here's why it's relevant to HN: most of the text for it was generated by GPT-3 (with human curation, using SudoWrite) and it was entirely illustrated using DALL-E 2 and MidJourney, and a bit of DreamStudio aka Stable Diffusion (of course with human selection of prompts) AND it narrated using neural voice synthesis (via BeyondWords). And I think it came out very well!<p>To my mind it is a pretty good example of how the newest commercial tools by powered by learned media synthesis models can be leveraged by humans to make art. It also shows some of the limits: DALLE-2, MidJourney, and Stable Diffusion all have trouble with more complex prompts and don't follow various aspects of them, the voice synthesis is still pretty robot-y, and the GPT-3 written parts are heavily guided by human text (and the whole story is quite short).<p>We plan to keep exploring these realm of human-AI creative collaboration by releasing weekly short stories with this newsletter, and would love feedback, suggestions, or even entire submissions of your own creative work done using AI. Feel free to just comment here on HN, email us at contact@storiesby.ai, or comment here - <a href="https://storiesby.ai/p/submit-your-stories-ideas" rel="nofollow">https://storiesby.ai/p/submit-your-stories-ideas</a><p>Last thought: even with AI doing the "heavy lifting" of writing and illustration, a great deal of creative decision making is still left up to us with respect to subject matter, style, formatting, etc. I hypothesize that sturgeon's law will remain true in the age of AI-generated text/images (most of everything will be crap), and the job of literary agents, producers, etc. will just become far more involved. Sort of like A24 is mostly a distributor (and to some extent producer) yet have made a huge name for themselves - this may become the norm.<p>Edit: wow thanks for feedback HN! To the comments saying this is at best a mediocre story/outline, totally agree. Since we want to put something out weekly, these stories are quickly generated with the intent to be a neat example of human-AI collaboration, rather than with the intent to reach the bar of published sci short stories. Maybe one day...
Show HN: EthicalAds – Privacy-first ad network for developers
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