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Show HN: Magic links – Get video and dev logs without installing anything
Hey HN,<p>For a while now, our team has been trying to solve a common problem: getting all the context needed to debug a bug report without the endless back-and-forth. It’s hard to fix what you can't see, and console logs, network requests, and other dev data are usually missing from bug reports.<p>We’ve been working on a new tool called Recording Links. The idea is simple: you send a link to a user or teammate, and when they record their screen to show an issue, the link automatically captures a video of the problem along with all the dev context, like console logs and network requests.<p>Our goal is to make it so you can get a complete, debuggable bug report in one go. We think this can save a ton of time that's normally spent on follow-up calls and emails.<p>We’re a small team and would genuinely appreciate your thoughts on this. Is this a problem you face? How would you improve this? Any and all feedback—positive or critical—would be incredibly helpful as we continue to build.<p>PS - you can try it out from here: <a href="https://jam.dev/recording-links" rel="nofollow">https://jam.dev/recording-links</a>
Show HN: OpenAnimation – KMP app for exploring and editing Lottie animations
I’ve been building OpenAnimation, a Kotlin Multiplatform app that lets you discover, view, and edit Lottie animations.<p>You can try it live here:
<a href="https://openanimation.web.app" rel="nofollow">https://openanimation.web.app</a><p>Source code is available here:
<a href="https://github.com/orispok/OpenAnimationApp" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/orispok/OpenAnimationApp</a><p>I’d love to hear your thoughts and feedback!
Show HN: OpenAnimation – KMP app for exploring and editing Lottie animations
I’ve been building OpenAnimation, a Kotlin Multiplatform app that lets you discover, view, and edit Lottie animations.<p>You can try it live here:
<a href="https://openanimation.web.app" rel="nofollow">https://openanimation.web.app</a><p>Source code is available here:
<a href="https://github.com/orispok/OpenAnimationApp" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/orispok/OpenAnimationApp</a><p>I’d love to hear your thoughts and feedback!
Show HN: Auto-Match – How We Built Receipt-to-Transaction Matching (Open Source)
I’ve been working on automating bookkeeping tasks, and one big pain point was manually reconciling receipts with bank transactions. We built a system that runs in the background, parses receipts (including Gmail), suggests matches, and learns from confirmations to auto-match over time.<p>It's built into Midday and fully open-source.<p>Let me know if you have any questions!
Show HN: Auto-Match – How We Built Receipt-to-Transaction Matching (Open Source)
I’ve been working on automating bookkeeping tasks, and one big pain point was manually reconciling receipts with bank transactions. We built a system that runs in the background, parses receipts (including Gmail), suggests matches, and learns from confirmations to auto-match over time.<p>It's built into Midday and fully open-source.<p>Let me know if you have any questions!
Show HN: I made an Animal Crossing style letter editor
I made a simple open-source letter editor inspired by Animal Crossing NH. Took me forever to look over each card, but I'm quite pleased with how it turned out. You can even click the bottle in the bottom right to see a random letter design shared by other users! Now to see how long it stays up...<p>Check out the source code here: <a href="https://github.com/IdreesInc/Animal-Crossing-Letter-Generator" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/IdreesInc/Animal-Crossing-Letter-Generato...</a>
Show HN: I made an Animal Crossing style letter editor
I made a simple open-source letter editor inspired by Animal Crossing NH. Took me forever to look over each card, but I'm quite pleased with how it turned out. You can even click the bottle in the bottom right to see a random letter design shared by other users! Now to see how long it stays up...<p>Check out the source code here: <a href="https://github.com/IdreesInc/Animal-Crossing-Letter-Generator" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/IdreesInc/Animal-Crossing-Letter-Generato...</a>
Show HN: I made an Animal Crossing style letter editor
I made a simple open-source letter editor inspired by Animal Crossing NH. Took me forever to look over each card, but I'm quite pleased with how it turned out. You can even click the bottle in the bottom right to see a random letter design shared by other users! Now to see how long it stays up...<p>Check out the source code here: <a href="https://github.com/IdreesInc/Animal-Crossing-Letter-Generator" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/IdreesInc/Animal-Crossing-Letter-Generato...</a>
Show HN: Hacker News em dash user leaderboard pre-ChatGPT
The use of the em dash (—) now raises suspicions that a text might have been AI-generated. Inspired by a suggestion from dang [1], I created a leaderboard of HN users according to how many of their posts before November 30, 2022—that is, before the release of ChatGPT—contained em dashes. Dang himself comes in number 2—by a very slim margin.<p>Credit to Claude Code for showing me how to search the HN database through Google BigQuery and for writing the HTML for the leaderboard.<p>[1] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45053933">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45053933</a>
Show HN: Hacker News em dash user leaderboard pre-ChatGPT
The use of the em dash (—) now raises suspicions that a text might have been AI-generated. Inspired by a suggestion from dang [1], I created a leaderboard of HN users according to how many of their posts before November 30, 2022—that is, before the release of ChatGPT—contained em dashes. Dang himself comes in number 2—by a very slim margin.<p>Credit to Claude Code for showing me how to search the HN database through Google BigQuery and for writing the HTML for the leaderboard.<p>[1] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45053933">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45053933</a>
Show HN: Hacker News em dash user leaderboard pre-ChatGPT
The use of the em dash (—) now raises suspicions that a text might have been AI-generated. Inspired by a suggestion from dang [1], I created a leaderboard of HN users according to how many of their posts before November 30, 2022—that is, before the release of ChatGPT—contained em dashes. Dang himself comes in number 2—by a very slim margin.<p>Credit to Claude Code for showing me how to search the HN database through Google BigQuery and for writing the HTML for the leaderboard.<p>[1] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45053933">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45053933</a>
Show HN: A minimal TS library that generates prompt injection attacks
I made an open source, MIT license Typescript library based on some of the latest research that generates prompt injection attacks. It is a super minimal/lightweight and designed to be super easy to use.<p>Keen to hear your thoughts and please be responsible and only pen test systems where you have permission to pen test!
Show HN: A minimal TS library that generates prompt injection attacks
I made an open source, MIT license Typescript library based on some of the latest research that generates prompt injection attacks. It is a super minimal/lightweight and designed to be super easy to use.<p>Keen to hear your thoughts and please be responsible and only pen test systems where you have permission to pen test!
Show HN: Octarine – a fast, lightweight, opinionated Markdown notes app
Hey HN! I’ve been building [Octarine](<a href="https://octarine.app/" rel="nofollow">https://octarine.app/</a>) for a little over 2 years. It started because I wanted a note-taking app that was:<p>- <i>Lightweight</i> (< 30MB, fast to launch, no Electron bloat).<p>- <i>Opinionated</i> (good defaults, clean UI, not a plugin bazaar).<p>- <i>Yours</i> (all plain Markdown, nothing proprietary).<p>---<p>- Command bar (Cmd/Ctrl+K) to navigate and run commands quickly.<p>- WYSIWYG editor (rich text without live preview jumping).<p>- Git sync built-in — backups to GitHub/GitLab, no plugins.<p>- Natural language dates (“yesterday”, “last week”).<p>- Multiple workspaces, templates, tags, graph view.<p>- Backup anywhere — iCloud, Dropbox, Syncthing.<p>- Tabs & Panes — split and rearrange notes/graphs like a code editor.<p>*Pro Features*<p>- BYOK for over 9 AI providers including OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity, Gemini and more!<p>- Ask Octarine — chat with your notes (RAG, embeddings done on-device).<p>- Writing Assistant — Sidebar assistant to help rewrite, improve or create.<p>- Focus Mode — distraction-free, sentence spotlight.<p>- Customisation — 30+ fresh themes, different paper types.<p>- Locked Notes — Disallow a note from editing.<p>- Folder Customisations — Add icons/colors to folders, have them manage their own unique sorting.<p>*FAQ*<p>- Free plan gets updates forever; some features are Pro.<p>- Pro is a one-time license (no yearly “updates tax”).<p>- Over 130+ releases shipped.<p>- iOS app is in development.<p>- Overlaps with Obsidian, but follows different methodologies about having less but baked in features, over an extensible plugin system (each work for different users)<p>---<p>Try it: [octarine.app](<a href="http://octarine.app" rel="nofollow">http://octarine.app</a>)<p>Changelog: [octarine.app/changelog](<a href="https://octarine.app/changelog" rel="nofollow">https://octarine.app/changelog</a>)<p>Documentation: [docs.octarine.app](<a href="https://docs.octarine.app" rel="nofollow">https://docs.octarine.app</a>)<p>I’d love your feedback - what works, what feels off, what’s missing? Always open to ideas (and criticism).
Show HN: Octarine – a fast, lightweight, opinionated Markdown notes app
Hey HN! I’ve been building [Octarine](<a href="https://octarine.app/" rel="nofollow">https://octarine.app/</a>) for a little over 2 years. It started because I wanted a note-taking app that was:<p>- <i>Lightweight</i> (< 30MB, fast to launch, no Electron bloat).<p>- <i>Opinionated</i> (good defaults, clean UI, not a plugin bazaar).<p>- <i>Yours</i> (all plain Markdown, nothing proprietary).<p>---<p>- Command bar (Cmd/Ctrl+K) to navigate and run commands quickly.<p>- WYSIWYG editor (rich text without live preview jumping).<p>- Git sync built-in — backups to GitHub/GitLab, no plugins.<p>- Natural language dates (“yesterday”, “last week”).<p>- Multiple workspaces, templates, tags, graph view.<p>- Backup anywhere — iCloud, Dropbox, Syncthing.<p>- Tabs & Panes — split and rearrange notes/graphs like a code editor.<p>*Pro Features*<p>- BYOK for over 9 AI providers including OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity, Gemini and more!<p>- Ask Octarine — chat with your notes (RAG, embeddings done on-device).<p>- Writing Assistant — Sidebar assistant to help rewrite, improve or create.<p>- Focus Mode — distraction-free, sentence spotlight.<p>- Customisation — 30+ fresh themes, different paper types.<p>- Locked Notes — Disallow a note from editing.<p>- Folder Customisations — Add icons/colors to folders, have them manage their own unique sorting.<p>*FAQ*<p>- Free plan gets updates forever; some features are Pro.<p>- Pro is a one-time license (no yearly “updates tax”).<p>- Over 130+ releases shipped.<p>- iOS app is in development.<p>- Overlaps with Obsidian, but follows different methodologies about having less but baked in features, over an extensible plugin system (each work for different users)<p>---<p>Try it: [octarine.app](<a href="http://octarine.app" rel="nofollow">http://octarine.app</a>)<p>Changelog: [octarine.app/changelog](<a href="https://octarine.app/changelog" rel="nofollow">https://octarine.app/changelog</a>)<p>Documentation: [docs.octarine.app](<a href="https://docs.octarine.app" rel="nofollow">https://docs.octarine.app</a>)<p>I’d love your feedback - what works, what feels off, what’s missing? Always open to ideas (and criticism).
Show HN: FFmpeg Pages – because I was tired of fighting FFmpeg
You ever just want to shrink a video…
and suddenly you’re buried in flags, half-broken StackOverflow answers, and 10 tabs open just to figure out one command?<p>That’s been me. Every. Single. Time.<p>So I built FFmpeg Pages — a dead-simple collection of the commands I kept searching for. No fluff, no digging, just the stuff that actually works.
Show HN: FFmpeg Pages – because I was tired of fighting FFmpeg
You ever just want to shrink a video…
and suddenly you’re buried in flags, half-broken StackOverflow answers, and 10 tabs open just to figure out one command?<p>That’s been me. Every. Single. Time.<p>So I built FFmpeg Pages — a dead-simple collection of the commands I kept searching for. No fluff, no digging, just the stuff that actually works.
Show HN: Find Hidden Gems on HN
Hey HN. I created this website.<p><a href="https://pj4533.com/hn-overlooked/" rel="nofollow">https://pj4533.com/hn-overlooked/</a><p>It's just a simple web app that discovers overlooked posts on Hacker News. I created it because I was often coming to Hacker News and realizing that I was missing a lot of stuff, and there just didn't seem to be an easy way to surface content that was interesting to me but just didn't bubble up to the top of the page. So I built this.<p>I got the idea a while back, one night when I was recording (you can watch it here, it's pretty funny: <a href="https://youtu.be/FDyDb4sX30w?si=E3rby-DaGWA6gy0R" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/FDyDb4sX30w?si=E3rby-DaGWA6gy0R</a> ). But I never really did anything with the idea. So I decided just to make it into a little single-page web app.<p>The Hacker News API is pretty cool because it doesn't require an API key, so you can just vibe code against it super easy. I just loaded up Claude Code and started talking to it. That first night when I was recording, it was just me with this repo, that I call 'thefuture' and I just put everything in there: scripts, whatever. Then i'll have Claude Code use OpenAI to talk to me and I'll just get bored and explore different APIs and see what I can come up with. That's all inside a single repo that Claude Code knows about, and just set it in YOLO mode and just go to town - it's super fun. It's kind of slow though, so that's the only downside. But if you put a script in there for Claude to talk to you, it can be pretty fun just to explore things.<p>This website is just one idea extracted from that one session of messing around with a Claude Code last month. I open sourced it, you can look at the repo here: <a href="https://github.com/pj4533/hn-overlooked" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/pj4533/hn-overlooked</a>
Show HN: Find Hidden Gems on HN
Hey HN. I created this website.<p><a href="https://pj4533.com/hn-overlooked/" rel="nofollow">https://pj4533.com/hn-overlooked/</a><p>It's just a simple web app that discovers overlooked posts on Hacker News. I created it because I was often coming to Hacker News and realizing that I was missing a lot of stuff, and there just didn't seem to be an easy way to surface content that was interesting to me but just didn't bubble up to the top of the page. So I built this.<p>I got the idea a while back, one night when I was recording (you can watch it here, it's pretty funny: <a href="https://youtu.be/FDyDb4sX30w?si=E3rby-DaGWA6gy0R" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/FDyDb4sX30w?si=E3rby-DaGWA6gy0R</a> ). But I never really did anything with the idea. So I decided just to make it into a little single-page web app.<p>The Hacker News API is pretty cool because it doesn't require an API key, so you can just vibe code against it super easy. I just loaded up Claude Code and started talking to it. That first night when I was recording, it was just me with this repo, that I call 'thefuture' and I just put everything in there: scripts, whatever. Then i'll have Claude Code use OpenAI to talk to me and I'll just get bored and explore different APIs and see what I can come up with. That's all inside a single repo that Claude Code knows about, and just set it in YOLO mode and just go to town - it's super fun. It's kind of slow though, so that's the only downside. But if you put a script in there for Claude to talk to you, it can be pretty fun just to explore things.<p>This website is just one idea extracted from that one session of messing around with a Claude Code last month. I open sourced it, you can look at the repo here: <a href="https://github.com/pj4533/hn-overlooked" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/pj4533/hn-overlooked</a>
Show HN: Find Hidden Gems on HN
Hey HN. I created this website.<p><a href="https://pj4533.com/hn-overlooked/" rel="nofollow">https://pj4533.com/hn-overlooked/</a><p>It's just a simple web app that discovers overlooked posts on Hacker News. I created it because I was often coming to Hacker News and realizing that I was missing a lot of stuff, and there just didn't seem to be an easy way to surface content that was interesting to me but just didn't bubble up to the top of the page. So I built this.<p>I got the idea a while back, one night when I was recording (you can watch it here, it's pretty funny: <a href="https://youtu.be/FDyDb4sX30w?si=E3rby-DaGWA6gy0R" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/FDyDb4sX30w?si=E3rby-DaGWA6gy0R</a> ). But I never really did anything with the idea. So I decided just to make it into a little single-page web app.<p>The Hacker News API is pretty cool because it doesn't require an API key, so you can just vibe code against it super easy. I just loaded up Claude Code and started talking to it. That first night when I was recording, it was just me with this repo, that I call 'thefuture' and I just put everything in there: scripts, whatever. Then i'll have Claude Code use OpenAI to talk to me and I'll just get bored and explore different APIs and see what I can come up with. That's all inside a single repo that Claude Code knows about, and just set it in YOLO mode and just go to town - it's super fun. It's kind of slow though, so that's the only downside. But if you put a script in there for Claude to talk to you, it can be pretty fun just to explore things.<p>This website is just one idea extracted from that one session of messing around with a Claude Code last month. I open sourced it, you can look at the repo here: <a href="https://github.com/pj4533/hn-overlooked" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/pj4533/hn-overlooked</a>