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Show HN: Radiopaper – Troll-resistant public conversations
Hi HN! We're a bootstrapped team of 4 and have been building Radiopaper for around 16 months alongside other full-time, part-time, and consulting jobs.<p>I wanted to highlight a couple of the unique characteristics of Radiopaper that may not be immediately apparent when browsing <a href="https://radiopaper.com/explore" rel="nofollow">https://radiopaper.com/explore</a><p>* It's possible to interact with Radiopaper entirely by email, and never log-in interactively. The notification emails contain context that explains that if you reply to the email, your message will be published on <a href="https://radiopaper.com" rel="nofollow">https://radiopaper.com</a><p>* The key mechanism that makes Radiopaper different from other social networks, and more resistant to trolling and abuse, is that messages are not published until the counterparty replies or accepts your comment. You can read more about this in our manifesto at <a href="https://radiopaper.com/about" rel="nofollow">https://radiopaper.com/about</a><p>The technical stack is a Vue/TypeScript app talking to an API backend written in Go, running on Cloud Run, and using Firestore for persistence, Firebase Auth for authentication.<p>Email processing is handled through the Gmail API hooked up to a Cloud Pubsub notification which triggers another Cloud Run service. Outbound emails go through SendGrid.<p>The whole stack "scales-to-zero", and on days that we have a few hundred active users, we're still under the free limits of Firebase Hosting, Cloud Run & Firestore, so this has allowed us to operate for a long time without funding or revenue. Our overall burn rate is around $40/month, mostly from the smattering of other SaaS offerings we use: Sentry, Mixpanel, Github & SendGrid.<p>Dave & I discuss our tech stack in a little more detail in this conversation:
<a href="https://radiopaper.com/conversation/4PsvfxLX2Q5NHLBs8nuN" rel="nofollow">https://radiopaper.com/conversation/4PsvfxLX2Q5NHLBs8nuN</a><p>The team (myself, daave, davidschaengold, youngnh) will be around to answer any questions!
Show HN: Radiopaper – Troll-resistant public conversations
Hi HN! We're a bootstrapped team of 4 and have been building Radiopaper for around 16 months alongside other full-time, part-time, and consulting jobs.<p>I wanted to highlight a couple of the unique characteristics of Radiopaper that may not be immediately apparent when browsing <a href="https://radiopaper.com/explore" rel="nofollow">https://radiopaper.com/explore</a><p>* It's possible to interact with Radiopaper entirely by email, and never log-in interactively. The notification emails contain context that explains that if you reply to the email, your message will be published on <a href="https://radiopaper.com" rel="nofollow">https://radiopaper.com</a><p>* The key mechanism that makes Radiopaper different from other social networks, and more resistant to trolling and abuse, is that messages are not published until the counterparty replies or accepts your comment. You can read more about this in our manifesto at <a href="https://radiopaper.com/about" rel="nofollow">https://radiopaper.com/about</a><p>The technical stack is a Vue/TypeScript app talking to an API backend written in Go, running on Cloud Run, and using Firestore for persistence, Firebase Auth for authentication.<p>Email processing is handled through the Gmail API hooked up to a Cloud Pubsub notification which triggers another Cloud Run service. Outbound emails go through SendGrid.<p>The whole stack "scales-to-zero", and on days that we have a few hundred active users, we're still under the free limits of Firebase Hosting, Cloud Run & Firestore, so this has allowed us to operate for a long time without funding or revenue. Our overall burn rate is around $40/month, mostly from the smattering of other SaaS offerings we use: Sentry, Mixpanel, Github & SendGrid.<p>Dave & I discuss our tech stack in a little more detail in this conversation:
<a href="https://radiopaper.com/conversation/4PsvfxLX2Q5NHLBs8nuN" rel="nofollow">https://radiopaper.com/conversation/4PsvfxLX2Q5NHLBs8nuN</a><p>The team (myself, daave, davidschaengold, youngnh) will be around to answer any questions!
Show HN: Radiopaper – Troll-resistant public conversations
Hi HN! We're a bootstrapped team of 4 and have been building Radiopaper for around 16 months alongside other full-time, part-time, and consulting jobs.<p>I wanted to highlight a couple of the unique characteristics of Radiopaper that may not be immediately apparent when browsing <a href="https://radiopaper.com/explore" rel="nofollow">https://radiopaper.com/explore</a><p>* It's possible to interact with Radiopaper entirely by email, and never log-in interactively. The notification emails contain context that explains that if you reply to the email, your message will be published on <a href="https://radiopaper.com" rel="nofollow">https://radiopaper.com</a><p>* The key mechanism that makes Radiopaper different from other social networks, and more resistant to trolling and abuse, is that messages are not published until the counterparty replies or accepts your comment. You can read more about this in our manifesto at <a href="https://radiopaper.com/about" rel="nofollow">https://radiopaper.com/about</a><p>The technical stack is a Vue/TypeScript app talking to an API backend written in Go, running on Cloud Run, and using Firestore for persistence, Firebase Auth for authentication.<p>Email processing is handled through the Gmail API hooked up to a Cloud Pubsub notification which triggers another Cloud Run service. Outbound emails go through SendGrid.<p>The whole stack "scales-to-zero", and on days that we have a few hundred active users, we're still under the free limits of Firebase Hosting, Cloud Run & Firestore, so this has allowed us to operate for a long time without funding or revenue. Our overall burn rate is around $40/month, mostly from the smattering of other SaaS offerings we use: Sentry, Mixpanel, Github & SendGrid.<p>Dave & I discuss our tech stack in a little more detail in this conversation:
<a href="https://radiopaper.com/conversation/4PsvfxLX2Q5NHLBs8nuN" rel="nofollow">https://radiopaper.com/conversation/4PsvfxLX2Q5NHLBs8nuN</a><p>The team (myself, daave, davidschaengold, youngnh) will be around to answer any questions!
Show HN: Free 30-year financial statements visualization
Show HN: Free 30-year financial statements visualization
Show HN: Free 30-year financial statements visualization
Show HN: Lists.sh – A Microblog for Lists
Greetings, creator here!<p>I've been working on a new blogging platform specifically for lists on and off for a few months now and I'm excited to officially announce its launch.<p>After seeing <a href="https://charm.sh" rel="nofollow">https://charm.sh</a> a few months ago, I've been enamored by the idea of SSH apps. I decided that a blogging platform focused on developers could be the perfect use case for an SSH app.<p>Also, I love writing lists. I think restricting writing to a set of lists can really help improve clarity in thought. The goal of this blogging platform is to make it simple to use the tools you love to write and publish lists. There is no installation, signup is as easy as SSH'ing into our CMS, and publishing content is as easy as copying files to our server.<p>Check it out and let me know what you think!<p>source: <a href="https://github.com/neurosnap/lists.sh" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/neurosnap/lists.sh</a>
Show HN: Lists.sh – A Microblog for Lists
Greetings, creator here!<p>I've been working on a new blogging platform specifically for lists on and off for a few months now and I'm excited to officially announce its launch.<p>After seeing <a href="https://charm.sh" rel="nofollow">https://charm.sh</a> a few months ago, I've been enamored by the idea of SSH apps. I decided that a blogging platform focused on developers could be the perfect use case for an SSH app.<p>Also, I love writing lists. I think restricting writing to a set of lists can really help improve clarity in thought. The goal of this blogging platform is to make it simple to use the tools you love to write and publish lists. There is no installation, signup is as easy as SSH'ing into our CMS, and publishing content is as easy as copying files to our server.<p>Check it out and let me know what you think!<p>source: <a href="https://github.com/neurosnap/lists.sh" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/neurosnap/lists.sh</a>
Show HN: Create awkward situations with a fake iMessage Popup
Show HN: Create awkward situations with a fake iMessage Popup
Show HN: Sqwok – A social chat alternative to Twitter and Reddit
I previously did a Show HN late Dec 2020:
<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25470672" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25470672</a><p>That was a great experience and in the past year I continued to develop the site to bring it to a level of stability and maturity that I felt necessary for it to have a chance to succeed.<p>Sqwok is all about answering the question: Can we have better open conversations on the internet?<p>I wasn’t satisfied with the existing means of discussing topics such as culture, history, politics, and technology through threaded comments, and was simultaneously impressed with Slack bringing the IRC experience to the browser for a more general but enterprise focused audience. I wondered why not create an open Slack-like chat app for general discussion? Not gamers or enterprise but rather for people to have open, kitchen-table discussion on the matters of the day (or just for fun!).<p>I set out to build this because I wanted to use it myself and felt that existing chat apps weren't designed for open public discourse in the way Reddit/Twitter are but for threaded comments & mostly unidirectional communication.<p>This past year I’ve been very grateful to have a group of people continuously show up, offer support of the site and the idea, encouraging me to continue. Without those people I would have probably gave up!<p>But alas I want to see this through and I believe now is the moment to make it happen.<p>Since the last Show HN I’ve added:<p>- markdown support in chat messages, post text, and user bio in profile (soon coming to full text post).<p>- User profiles including bio, location, photo avatar, and chronological post listings.<p>- New “who’s online” list that shows the top 10 ppl online and helps steer people to active conversations.<p>- @mentions now work in posts, user bios, as well as chat messages.<p>- Email notifications to be alerted when someone @mentions you.<p>- Settings pages with ability to change password, delete account, and manage notification settings.<p>- Upgraded image handling to support higher res photos with upcoming features allowing enhanced viewing.<p>- Major refactor of the chat handling to stabilize it and fix many bugs with presence, locations, etc.<p>- Many improvements to the codebase, frontend, backend, UI, tests, etc<p>- Updated mobile web UI that drops you straight into the chat in a single view.<p>- Ability to toggle full width chat view on desktop.<p>- Live message counts displayed on the post list items that are updated in realtime.<p>- Updated location handling for realtime location display.<p>- Backend stability & aggregate analytics.<p>Through Sqwok and particularly through the last Show HN I've met & got to know numerous people living across the entire Earth from Laos to Europe to Africa, all through a silly piece of software that for some reason seemed like the thing to work on.<p>Truth be told there is much, much more I want to do with this. I believe now is the perfect time with the state of existing social networks and I’m hoping to find more people to support the site and help drive it to the next level.<p>Let me know if you have any questions,<p>Thanks!
Show HN: Sqwok – A social chat alternative to Twitter and Reddit
I previously did a Show HN late Dec 2020:
<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25470672" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25470672</a><p>That was a great experience and in the past year I continued to develop the site to bring it to a level of stability and maturity that I felt necessary for it to have a chance to succeed.<p>Sqwok is all about answering the question: Can we have better open conversations on the internet?<p>I wasn’t satisfied with the existing means of discussing topics such as culture, history, politics, and technology through threaded comments, and was simultaneously impressed with Slack bringing the IRC experience to the browser for a more general but enterprise focused audience. I wondered why not create an open Slack-like chat app for general discussion? Not gamers or enterprise but rather for people to have open, kitchen-table discussion on the matters of the day (or just for fun!).<p>I set out to build this because I wanted to use it myself and felt that existing chat apps weren't designed for open public discourse in the way Reddit/Twitter are but for threaded comments & mostly unidirectional communication.<p>This past year I’ve been very grateful to have a group of people continuously show up, offer support of the site and the idea, encouraging me to continue. Without those people I would have probably gave up!<p>But alas I want to see this through and I believe now is the moment to make it happen.<p>Since the last Show HN I’ve added:<p>- markdown support in chat messages, post text, and user bio in profile (soon coming to full text post).<p>- User profiles including bio, location, photo avatar, and chronological post listings.<p>- New “who’s online” list that shows the top 10 ppl online and helps steer people to active conversations.<p>- @mentions now work in posts, user bios, as well as chat messages.<p>- Email notifications to be alerted when someone @mentions you.<p>- Settings pages with ability to change password, delete account, and manage notification settings.<p>- Upgraded image handling to support higher res photos with upcoming features allowing enhanced viewing.<p>- Major refactor of the chat handling to stabilize it and fix many bugs with presence, locations, etc.<p>- Many improvements to the codebase, frontend, backend, UI, tests, etc<p>- Updated mobile web UI that drops you straight into the chat in a single view.<p>- Ability to toggle full width chat view on desktop.<p>- Live message counts displayed on the post list items that are updated in realtime.<p>- Updated location handling for realtime location display.<p>- Backend stability & aggregate analytics.<p>Through Sqwok and particularly through the last Show HN I've met & got to know numerous people living across the entire Earth from Laos to Europe to Africa, all through a silly piece of software that for some reason seemed like the thing to work on.<p>Truth be told there is much, much more I want to do with this. I believe now is the perfect time with the state of existing social networks and I’m hoping to find more people to support the site and help drive it to the next level.<p>Let me know if you have any questions,<p>Thanks!
Show HN: Caddy v2.5.0
Show HN: Caddy v2.5.0
Show HN: We launched a new web browser
My company launched a new open source web browser built on Chromium. It supports decentralized domains on Handshake and is the first browser to support .eth DNS. It is also the first browser to support secure web browsing with DANE.<p>Check it out:<p><a href="https://impervious.com/beacon" rel="nofollow">https://impervious.com/beacon</a><p><a href="https://github.com/imperviousinc/beacon" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/imperviousinc/beacon</a>
Show HN: We launched a new web browser
My company launched a new open source web browser built on Chromium. It supports decentralized domains on Handshake and is the first browser to support .eth DNS. It is also the first browser to support secure web browsing with DANE.<p>Check it out:<p><a href="https://impervious.com/beacon" rel="nofollow">https://impervious.com/beacon</a><p><a href="https://github.com/imperviousinc/beacon" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/imperviousinc/beacon</a>
Show HN: This AI Does Not Exist
Hey HN! Author of the site here. I tried a few tricks to keep the text-generation part of the site up, but even leaning hard on Huggingface's API and bumping time-outs up, it looks like the site is struggling a bit. I'm going to see if there's anything I can do to keep the text-generation part available, but in the meantime, the pre-generated set should stay pretty stable. Not sure if there's much else I can do without burning a hole in my cloud bills — sorry for the troubles!<p>I've put up a more detailed description of how this works on the GitHub - <a href="https://github.com/thesephist/modelexicon" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/thesephist/modelexicon</a><p>PS - if anyone at Huggingface is reading this and wants to help out with keeping the API up, that would be super :)
Show HN: This AI Does Not Exist
Hey HN! Author of the site here. I tried a few tricks to keep the text-generation part of the site up, but even leaning hard on Huggingface's API and bumping time-outs up, it looks like the site is struggling a bit. I'm going to see if there's anything I can do to keep the text-generation part available, but in the meantime, the pre-generated set should stay pretty stable. Not sure if there's much else I can do without burning a hole in my cloud bills — sorry for the troubles!<p>I've put up a more detailed description of how this works on the GitHub - <a href="https://github.com/thesephist/modelexicon" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/thesephist/modelexicon</a><p>PS - if anyone at Huggingface is reading this and wants to help out with keeping the API up, that would be super :)
Show HN: This AI Does Not Exist
Hey HN! Author of the site here. I tried a few tricks to keep the text-generation part of the site up, but even leaning hard on Huggingface's API and bumping time-outs up, it looks like the site is struggling a bit. I'm going to see if there's anything I can do to keep the text-generation part available, but in the meantime, the pre-generated set should stay pretty stable. Not sure if there's much else I can do without burning a hole in my cloud bills — sorry for the troubles!<p>I've put up a more detailed description of how this works on the GitHub - <a href="https://github.com/thesephist/modelexicon" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/thesephist/modelexicon</a><p>PS - if anyone at Huggingface is reading this and wants to help out with keeping the API up, that would be super :)
Show HN: Prevent your computer sleeping with just a webpage
There's often times I want to prevent a computer/laptop/VM from sleeping and while, yes, there's various Caffeine/Amphetamine apps they're often overkill.<p>Instead, this small (12Kb) page does the job and only needs a web browser.<p>It's just a very simple usage of a web api normally used for things like video players: <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Screen_Wake_Lock_API" rel="nofollow">https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Screen_Wake...</a>