Launch HN: Papercups (YC S20) Open-Core Intercom Alternative https://bit.ly/2PNA9vC

Launch HN: Papercups (YC S20) Open-Core Intercom Alternative Hi HN! Kam and Alex here. We’re founders of Papercups ( https://bit.ly/30SaDMa ), a live customer chat app written in Elixir. We offer an open-core self-hosted alternative to Intercom for companies that are security and privacy conscientious. Alex and I met in SF around 6 years ago, and have been hacking on small projects together for the past couple years. Before covid, we would spend many Sunday afternoons in coffee shops building prototypes of whatever our latest and greatest idea was… most of these fizzled out after a few weeks or so For 2020, we wanted to take the idea of “building something people want” a bit more seriously. We started off trying to build SaaS tools for ocean freight logistics companies. That failed, but we learned a ton in the process. After our experience in freight we wanted to work on tools that are a little closer to home and tried a completely new idea: a web app that makes it super easy to manage and deploy simple cron jobs and other recurring/scheduled tasks. One thing we learned from the feedback on this product was how difficult it can be to set up and schedule email campaigns. This definitely resonated with us since we've both had this pain professionally. While working at Stripe, one particularly painful project Alex worked on was setting up email campaigns to notify their customers of new regulations. I had a similar experience at Pivotal where I worked on a project to email users about security updates. So we started tackling this particular pain point: setting up and managing email campaigns. A few companies already do this pretty well. Intercom is one, but it can be prohibitively expensive. And for companies that have concerns about sending their customer data to 3rd party services, these products aren’t an option. At this point we figured, why not be more ambitious? Instead of just building an email campaign tool, let’s build an open core alternative to Intercom! So here we are. We’re starting off with chat but we plan on expanding into email campaigns and push notifications. We chose chat to start off with because we wanted something that we could use immediately. And for a lot of our previous projects, we had set up chat on our sites to engage with customers. We’ve launched this repo under MIT license so any developer can use the tool. The goal is to not charge individual developers. Features like chat, canned responses, private notes, and auto assignments will stay free and open source. Right now we plan on making money by providing things like a hosted version and support contracts. We eventually plan on making a licensed version where we charge for features that large companies care about like Active Directory support, Okta integration, and compliance exports. Finally we decided to build Papercups on top of Elixir/Phoenix because it seemed like the best tool for a job that requires a lot of “realtime” functionality and first class support for websockets/channels. It’s been great so far! The frontend uses React/TypeScript. We may explore using LiveView in the future, but we wanted to start off with a frontend stack that we were familiar with. You can check out our repo at https://bit.ly/3and10y we have a ton of features in mind would love your feedback and any feature requests! P.S. This is our first time working in Elixir so would love any feedback there too! August 12, 2020 at 05:32PM

Davido receives honorary plaque as his album hits 1 billion streams (Photo)

Popular Nigerian singer and music executive, Davido, has received a plague in honour of his album that recently hit 1 billion streams worldwide. The news was shared by his manager, Asa Asika and his friend, Cubana Chief Priest on Instagram. The plaque according to online speculations, was forwarded to Davido by Sony Music Entertainment as […]

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Weeks after taking girl on a romantic date, Rema says he needs a wife (Video)

Nigerian singer, Divine Ikubor popularly known as Rema has expressed his desire to have a wife who would be making romantic videos with him. The award winning singer took to his official instagram page to share a lovely video of a family doing the ‘woman’ challenge. Sharing the video, Rema announced that he needs a […]

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Show HN: Kinopio.club – visual thinking, brainstorming tool https://bit.ly/3akDGLu

Show HN: Kinopio.club – visual thinking, brainstorming tool https://bit.ly/3kB0RWp August 12, 2020 at 03:55PM

Actress Zenande Mfenyana attacked by her ex-Boyfriend’s baby mama

Actress Zenande Mfenyana has shared how she dealt with her ex’s dramatic baby mama who had ordered her to stay away from her man! The actress is known for calling out nonsense and her fiery clapbacks, she reminisced about her ex-boyfriend’s ‘baby mama drama.’ Any moment now the expectant mom will welcome her baby and […]

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Couple Excited As They Welcome Their First Child After 8 Years Of Marriage (Photos)

Nigerian husband and wife are currently celebrating as they welcome their first child after 8 years of marriage and waiting. The excited mum, Okot Thomas Ekpang has taken to social media to share photos of her baby bump. Sharing the adorable photos on her Instagram page, she wrote; “YES I am a Proof that God […]

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Yul Edochie’s shy daughter, Danielle thanks fans for supporting her dad (Video)

Danielle Edochie, daughter of popular Nollywood actor, Yul Edochie has expressed her gratitude to fans for supporting her father. Yul Edochie shared a video on his Instagram page where he thanked his fans for loving him and supporting him. He also mentioned how his daughter made him happy after she showed interest to following him […]

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Show HN: dstack – an open-source tool to build data applications easily https://bit.ly/2PIyFCM

Show HN: dstack – an open-source tool to build data applications easily Dear HN, I am Riwaj, the cofounder of dstack.ai (https://bit.ly/2DWA2v7). A few months ago, we built an online service that allows users to publish data visualizations from Python or R. The idea was to build a tool that did not require additional programming or front-end development for publishing data visualizations. Such a code can be invoked from either Jupyter notebook, RMarkdown, Python, or R scripts. Once the data is pushed, it can be accessed via a browser. Open-sourcing dstack: During our customer discovery phase, we realized that dstack.ai should integrate a lot more open source data science frameworks than we integrated ourselves. For example, as a user, I want to push a matplotlib plot, a Tensorflow model, a plotly chart, a pandas dataframe, and I expect the presentation layer to fully-support it. Supporting all types of artifacts and providing all the tools to work with them solely seems to be a very challenging task. With this, we open-sourced the framework. Now you can build dstack locally, and run it on your servers, or in a cloud of your choice if that’s needed. More details on the project, how to use it, and the source code of the server can be found at the https://bit.ly/31JNSsT repo. The client packages for Python and R are available at the https://bit.ly/3iAnys4 and https://bit.ly/2PJqJ43 correspondingly. What’s next: User callbacks- so that application shows not just pre-calculated visualizations but also can fetch data from a store and process it in real-time. ML models- so that data scientists can publish a stack which binds together a pre-calculated ML model and user parameters Use cases- Support specific use cases that help data scientists to build data science models into data applications as fast as possible. We would be happy to get your feedback on the open-source framework and also get your opinion on what kind of use cases can be built on top of the framework? Thank you. August 12, 2020 at 02:14PM

Show HN: Orchest – Data Science Pipelines https://bit.ly/3kwvSe2

Show HN: Orchest – Data Science Pipelines Hello Hacker News! We are Rick & Yannick from Orchest (https://bit.ly/30NhUfW - https://bit.ly/3kwvQTs). We're building a visual pipeline tool for data scientists. The tool can be considered to be high-code because you write your own Python/R notebooks and scripts, but we manage the underlying infrastructure to make it 'just work™'. You can think of it as a simplified version of Kubeflow. We created Orchest to free data scientists from the tedious engineering related tasks of their job. Similar to how companies like Netflix, Uber and Booking.com support their data scientists with internal tooling and frameworks to increase productivity. When we worked as data scientists ourselves we noticed how heavily we had to depend on our software engineering skills to perform all kinds of tasks. From configuring cloud instances for distributed training, to optimizing the networking and storage for processing large amounts of data. We believe data scientists should be able to focus on the data and the domain specific challenges. Today we are just at the very beginning of making better tooling available for data science and are launching our GitHub project that will give enhanced pipelining abilities to data scientists using the PyData/R stack, with deep integration of Jupyter Notebooks. Currently Orchest supports: 1) visually and interactively editing a pipeline that is represented using a simple JSON schema; 2) running remote container based kernels through the Jupyter Enterprise Gateway integration; 3) scheduling experiments by launching parameterized pipelines on top of our Celery task scheduler; 4) configuring local and remote data sources to separate code versioning from the data passing through your pipelines. We are here to learn and get feedback from the community. As youngsters we don't have all the answers and are always looking to improve. August 12, 2020 at 01:24PM

Show HN: The cheapest investment platforms in the UK https://bit.ly/3ajK1a0

Show HN: The cheapest investment platforms in the UK https://bit.ly/33StDvC August 12, 2020 at 09:48AM

Show HN: SOTA semantic segmentation with MobileNetV3, in 3 lines of PyTorch code https://bit.ly/3fKqQqM

Show HN: SOTA semantic segmentation with MobileNetV3, in 3 lines of PyTorch code https://bit.ly/3ajJXqM August 12, 2020 at 01:33AM

Simphiwe Ngema Reveals her baby bump – And guess who the baby daddy is?

Our favorite celebs continue to debut their pregnancy on social media. Expecting another bundle of joy is Simphiwe Ngema, who took to Instagram this morning to debut her baby bump. The starlet who is excited about her pregnancy, lost her husband Dumi Masilela in 2017, and it seems as if she has now found new […]

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Boity Thulo And Maps Maponyane Engaged? #BoityEngagedByMaps

Forget Sunday Twitter, midnight Twitter is the littlest! This morning, we woke up to the news that Boity and Maps are engaged, the hashtag #BoityEngagedByMaps has been trending at number one all morning. Black Twitter has a tendency of making the most unexpected hashtags or topics trend when everyone is fast asleep. Since Boity and […]

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Zodwa Wabantu Not Worried about being Arrested

Zodwa Wabantu doesn’t seem worried at all. Reports this morning were that Zodwa Wabantu faces Arrest after Vusi Ngubane reported to the police. But a video of Zodwa Wabantu grooving in the car shows the dancing queen is not worried about the arrest claims. Zodwa is seen in car singing to the beat and doesn’t […]

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#BBNaija: Vee describes the size of Laycon’s ‘cassava’ to Erica and she confirms it (Video)

Big Brother Naija housemate, Erica recently had a conversation with TolaniBaj and Vee, where they talked about Erica’s feelings towards Laycon and Kiddwaya. During the conversation, Erica disclosed how she’s mentally attracted to Laycon and physically attracted to Kiddwaya. Erica expressed how she really desires to have a guy with Kidd’s physical attributes and Laycon’s […]

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Master KG’s age shocks his fans

Internationally acclaimed musician Master KG, left his fans in a state of disbelief when he took to Twitter to reveal his age. The Limpopo native who has the world on their feet with his Jerusalema hit, has managed to curve out an impressive career in the music industry. After having achieved many accomplishments, tweeps are […]

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Zodwa Wabantu Faces Arrest over Ben 10 Vusi

Zodwa Wabantu’s ex Vusi Buthelezi says he is opening a police case against her for defamation and harassment. Posting on his Instagram, Vusi says he has turned himself in at various police stations but there is no case opened against him as reported by Zodwa Wabantu. He has decided to fight back through the courts. […]

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BET Award winner Sjava Joins Uzalo

Uzalo fans should be delighted to know that BET Award winner Sjava will be joining the soap-drama. It was announced by entertainment commentator Phill Mphela that Sjava is currently on set filming. The star will play Jombigazi, a trigger happy hitman attached to Nkunzi and Mageda. We’re seeing more and more celebrities explore other avenues […]

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Dorathy finally cuts ties with Ozo, warns him to keep his distance (Video)

Busty Big Brother Naija housemate, Dorathy Bachor has finally cut all ties with her best friend in the house, Ozo. In a short clip shared online, Dorathy told Ozo that she no longer wants him to hang around her anymore for reasons best known to her. Ozo said the fact that he has emotional feelings […]

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Zodwa Wabantu finds Vusi Buthelezi’s Sister

Zodwa Wabantu’s quest to make her ex-boyfriend Vusi Buthelezi pay for stealing from her has reached new levels, as she took it upon herself to confront his sister. Earlier today, Vusi and his sister made light of Zodwa’s video which claimed that she was going to find him, and shared their own clip which showed […]

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