Show HN: I did a little thing in V https://bit.ly/2LRQAsp

Show HN: I did a little thing in V https://bit.ly/3p4CJNG January 21, 2021 at 07:22PM

Show HN: Fast Steghide bruteforcer with detection/decryption, useful for CTFs https://bit.ly/2Y0Kc4z

Show HN: Fast Steghide bruteforcer with detection/decryption, useful for CTFs https://bit.ly/2LJeLt7 January 21, 2021 at 05:39PM

Show HN: Duffel (S18) – The best API to sell flights online https://bit.ly/3o4ThUG

Show HN: Duffel (S18) – The best API to sell flights online Hey HN, We're Steve and Tom (YC S18), the co-founders of Duffel (https://bit.ly/392qoUC), an API-based travel platform. Think of Stripe, but for searching and booking flights. We built Duffel after running head first into the problem of accessing airline inventory for a side-project that we had. All the providers out there (ever heard of a GDS? Amadeus? Sabre?) felt antiquated, expensive and quite frankly didn't even want to work with us. To top it up, once we started digging the only things we could hear were "PNR", "IATA", "ARC", "RBD" and other wonderful acronyms. It’s difficult to innovate in travel today. The process is intimidating, time-consuming, and often cost-prohibitive for new startups. The antiquated tech stacks and expensive accreditation processes are enough to keep great travel sellers locked out of the industry. We built Duffel to remove all the barriers to innovation in travel. With our new self-serve platform, we're making it possible for anyone to sign-up, activate their account, and start selling flights in just minutes – without having to interact with anyone on our team. You also won't need to worry about applying for an IATA - or ARC - accreditation, building relationships with airlines or deciphering the documentation of an EDIFACT (1) service The Duffel platform is built for the modern developer, offering simple, composable APIs, comprehensive documentation, and a robust testing environment. Check this video to see it in action: => https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMPFL7x0uko Since our founding, we have grown to an international team of 40+ spread across the UK and US. We're on a mission to make travel effortless by rebuilding the software backbone of the travel industry layer by layer. We would love any feedback you have on the product and are always keen to discuss with people with deep knowledge of the industry. Looking forward to reading you in the thread below! Thank you for reading! January 21, 2021 at 04:48PM

Launch HN: Finmark (YC S20) – Financial planning software for startups https://bit.ly/2Y0Pc9k

Launch HN: Finmark (YC S20) – Financial planning software for startups Hi HN! I’m Rami, cofounder of Finmark. We make it simple for companies to manage their runway, hiring, and cash. Three years ago a bad financial model almost killed my last company. A miscalculation in our behemoth of a financial model led us to overestimate the amount of cash we had coming in, and in turn, to overspend. When we finally discovered the error after 5 months, we were forced to shift from aggressive hiring to aggressive cost cutting and had to lay off employees. We were able to course-correct and sold the company successfully in 2019, but I kept coming back to how difficult and time-consuming financial modeling is for founders. So after taking some time off to recharge post acquisition, I pulled my old team together to start Finmark. We built Finmark so all founders, not just finance pros, can easily create, update, and share custom financial models without having to spend weeks laboring over complex spreadsheets. While the flexibility spreadsheets afford is great, they are also susceptible to human error, challenging for collaboration and version control, and time-consuming to create and maintain. Finmark takes complex financial concepts and calculations, distills them down into a simple dashboard, and makes it easy for startups to create and share their financial plans, manage burn rate and cash, forecast revenue and expenses, and plan for fundraising Finmark is modular, so rather than using a template that might not be a great fit for your startup, you’re building a completely custom model based on your individual business needs. Finmark integrates with your entire stack to reconcile your actuals without manual data entry. It is also very easy to create, compare, and share as many different scenarios as you’d like, e.g. a base plan, upside plan, and downside plan. Since launching in Fall 2020 we’ve had over 1,000 companies sign up for our waitlist, and have onboarded over 400 companies so far. Subscriptions start at $25/month and increase based on a company’s monthly revenue. You can check out our pricing calculator here: https://bit.ly/2XXYhjj We are skipping the waitlist for anyone signing up from HN ( https://bit.ly/3sIt1Tn ). We're looking forward to your comments and are eager to hear your feedback on Finmark and your experiences with financial modeling in general! January 21, 2021 at 05:42PM

Show HN: 71 Lines – Build Chrome Extensions with No-Code Tools https://bit.ly/39Q0DpO

Show HN: 71 Lines – Build Chrome Extensions with No-Code Tools https://bit.ly/3qK1xeb January 21, 2021 at 04:59PM

Show HN: Mibo – Video chat that feels like real life https://bit.ly/3sMIRwv

Show HN: Mibo – Video chat that feels like real life https://bit.ly/2XYTspE January 21, 2021 at 02:59PM

Show HN: Twemex – A browser extension that surfaces the best ideas on Twitter https://bit.ly/2Nt7Vsh

Show HN: Twemex – A browser extension that surfaces the best ideas on Twitter https://bit.ly/35YF19u January 21, 2021 at 02:47PM

Show HN: Open-source tool for catching spelling mistakes on websites https://bit.ly/2KCMDHu

Show HN: Open-source tool for catching spelling mistakes on websites https://bit.ly/383PhPc January 21, 2021 at 01:52PM

Show HN: Analytics for LinkedIn https://bit.ly/2Y2G5oK

Show HN: Analytics for LinkedIn https://bit.ly/393pfvY January 21, 2021 at 10:18AM

Show HN: Composable Named Entities in Apache NLPCraft https://bit.ly/398F3hn

Show HN: Composable Named Entities in Apache NLPCraft https://bit.ly/3sSpwKr January 21, 2021 at 08:38AM

Show HN: A dead code killer for Erlang https://bit.ly/3sJqo3Q

Show HN: A dead code killer for Erlang https://bit.ly/2LLa6a6 January 21, 2021 at 11:21AM

Show HN: An automated security/performance checker for Laravel apps https://bit.ly/3oZaZdk

Show HN: An automated security/performance checker for Laravel apps https://bit.ly/3o4Dfd8 January 21, 2021 at 01:11AM

Show HN: FaceCompare – A macOS app for finding similar photos by face https://bit.ly/39296Hh

Show HN: FaceCompare – A macOS app for finding similar photos by face https://bit.ly/3p7fSRy January 21, 2021 at 12:16AM

Show HN: A simple rust library to extract code blocks from Markdown files https://bit.ly/39OC2lf

Show HN: A simple rust library to extract code blocks from Markdown files https://bit.ly/38Zg1RB January 20, 2021 at 09:54PM

Show HN: New data portal for Medicare/Medicaid I designed https://bit.ly/3ivs6B6

Show HN: New data portal for Medicare/Medicaid I designed https://bit.ly/2XXyk3h January 20, 2021 at 07:37PM

Launch HN: Manara (YC W21) – Connecting MENA engineers with global companies https://bit.ly/3qAKYl0

Launch HN: Manara (YC W21) – Connecting MENA engineers with global companies Hey everyone! My name is Laila and with my co-founder Iliana I’m building Manara ( https://bit.ly/3sKUZhe ). We support software engineers in the Arab region to get great jobs at tech companies worldwide. These companies appreciate being connected to skilled talent that is diverse and inclusive (50% of our engineers are women). I grew up in a refugee camp in Gaza. My dream was to become a Silicon Valley software engineer. Eventually I hacked my way there successfully, becoming a software engineer at Nvidia. I like to joke that the hardest part wasn’t escaping Gaza in the middle of the 2014 war, but rather, my first interviews... which I totally bombed. ;) Once I got to Silicon Valley, I was surprised at the lack of women. In Gaza, more women study computer science than men! I was also surprised to learn how hard it was for companies in Silicon Valley to attract the talent we needed. During interviews with candidates I’d often think, “I wish I could hire my friends in Gaza. They’d be great.” That’s when I re-connected with Iliana. She and I had met in Gaza when she was running Gaza Sky Geeks (GSG), the first startup accelerator in Gaza. Her work was widely covered and has a few threads on HN including https://bit.ly/3iwdXn5 . Iliana asked me “How can we produce more success stories like yours?” I told her that engineers in the Arab region don't lack talent, but they lack other ingredients. They're mostly not aware of opportunities outside their region, and even if they are aware, they think you have to be a genius to work at a company like Google. Also, they have no idea what sorts of resumes recruiters want to see and don't have brand names to put on them. They don't have referral networks to get their foot in the door. And they're completely unprepared for the style of interviews that tech companies go for. As we talked further, it became clear that all of these problems would be fixable with the right kind of coaching and support, and that bringing this growing talent pool to the global job marketplace would benefit both sides (accelerating the success of global companies, while redistributing wealth to the region). We developed an approach to address those gaps - and it worked. Just last week, 67% of the people we referred to Google for internships made it past the hiring committee (they’re now waiting for their job offers, so if you work at Google and have internship headcount, let us know!) We’ve heard Google interviewers say several times, “This is the best junior engineering interview I’ve ever done.” I want to emphasize that we are not a zero-to-hero bootcamp. Manara is a career accelerator for skilled software engineers at all levels with a focus on junior engineers. Students learn the technical and soft skills they need to pass interviews and get introductions to companies with jobs that are either remote or on-site (in Europe or Canada). We charge an affordable fee to both candidates and companies, only if a successful match is made. We focus on Arabic-speaking countries in the Middle East and North Africa region (MENA) for a few reasons. On the business side, that's where we're from and where our connections are, so we understand the dynamics and have comparative advantage there. Second, the region has a huge opportunity: the youngest population in the world, 2x more university graduates than 10 years ago, women studying computer science at high rates (in some countries more women study CS than men: 52% in Palestine, 62% in Tunisia, 70% in Qatar), and so on. Third, it lends itself to scale. Our graduates have a high sense of affiliation and loyalty to the region, which means that as soon as we place 1 candidate at a company that’s growing, s/he comes back to us looking for 3 more to hire. But we’re not building Manara just for business reasons; rather, we were motivated to launch Manara for social impact reasons. The unemployment rate for recent college grads is ~60%; for women who studied CS, it can be as high as 83%. It pains us personally to see highly talented friends of ours struggling to find (meaningful) work. We originally planned to build Manara as a non-profit, but after lots of research, we realized that a social enterprise approach would better support our mission: the pressure of becoming self-sustainable forces sharper thinking and execution, and will make it possible for us to deliver this solution at scale. A powerful part of our impact is the community we are building. Students study in cohorts. Within each cohort, they compete to see who can solve more coding problems, and form strong bonds and support each other. Students also meet volunteers from tech companies like Google, Amazon, Facebook, Wayfair, Stripe, etc for mentorship and mock interviews once they achieve certain milestones (e.g., 100 questions on Leetcode). This leads to high motivation and retention. It also gives them access to professional networks like those Americans have when graduating from universities like Stanford. Often these networks later help them with their job hunting: just last week, a candidate got an interview at Uber thanks to a referral from one of our volunteers who works there. Our volunteers love the chance to use their professional skills to mentor engineers from untraditional backgrounds. Several told us that they spent years looking for an effective way to contribute. One recently wrote to us, “I'm in awe of the work Manara is doing. I love interacting with my mentee and providing mock interviews - so thank you for giving me a platform to be able to support these students.” If you're hiring, check out https://bit.ly/2KA9hAg . If you'd like to get involved or join our newsletter, check out https://bit.ly/2M90F44 . Most importantly, we can't wait to hear what you think, wherever in the world you might be. Over to you, HN! January 20, 2021 at 06:21PM

Show HN: A mindfulness based social network designed to be checked once a week https://bit.ly/2M69g7t

Show HN: A mindfulness based social network designed to be checked once a week https://bit.ly/3o1Fi1N January 20, 2021 at 06:00PM

Show HN: Beeper – All Your Chats in One App https://bit.ly/391fbnu

Show HN: Beeper – All Your Chats in One App https://bit.ly/2LQGvMb January 20, 2021 at 05:24PM

Show HN: Dumbdown – A dumb alternative to Markdown https://bit.ly/38Z3SMk

Show HN: Dumbdown – A dumb alternative to Markdown https://bit.ly/3o2y4uu January 20, 2021 at 05:17PM

Show HN: AnimationCPU https://bit.ly/392cHFg

Show HN: AnimationCPU Features - Basis for OS, NoCode and UIs, apps and games - Ultra fast and light for low power devices, compiler, jit, vm, and everything is procedural - Reactive and live coding - ACPUL pure minimalistic programming language - Mobile IDE with realtime reverse debugger - Develop on desktop and mobiles, tablets and phones - Visual first - Code and No-code - Minimalistic core - A new alternative to Flash Screenshots: [1]: https://bit.ly/3p2of0S [2]: https://bit.ly/2Kxulr9 [3]: https://bit.ly/38Y6oTd More videos https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYvin_F73BoNJ_VibPvtSjg Bootloader code sample https://bit.ly/3qxqysY More updates on Twitter https://twitter.com/acpustudio Read more https://bit.ly/3o0RzU4 Please fill out the form to connect to Animation CPU TestFlight! https://bit.ly/3o5NUUV January 20, 2021 at 01:52PM