Saturday, 6 February 2021

Friday, 5 February 2021

Show HN: Hire Hacker News https://bit.ly/3ayE9tS

Show HN: Hire Hacker News https://bit.ly/3oTEtII February 6, 2021 at 03:47AM

Show HN: Temps-lite – 5mb clone of 43mb Electron weather app https://bit.ly/2N13xAt

Show HN: Temps-lite – 5mb clone of 43mb Electron weather app https://bit.ly/2YRW5Ko February 6, 2021 at 03:01AM

Show HN: Pleke – free personal finance app for Android and iOS https://bit.ly/2N0KdTX

Show HN: Pleke – free personal finance app for Android and iOS https://bit.ly/3cPAgn1 February 5, 2021 at 10:10PM

Show HN: Ht – HTTPie Clone in Rust https://bit.ly/3tzdq90

Show HN: Ht – HTTPie Clone in Rust https://bit.ly/3rl5lTA February 6, 2021 at 12:19AM

Show HN: Decoding Panda Express APIs to Find Places with Eggplant Tofu https://bit.ly/3oTnHcO

Show HN: Decoding Panda Express APIs to Find Places with Eggplant Tofu https://bit.ly/3oNIv5q February 5, 2021 at 10:05PM

Show HN: Web Serial Controller – Web App for USB Serial Communication https://bit.ly/3aHAk5y

Show HN: Web Serial Controller – Web App for USB Serial Communication https://bit.ly/36LSEto February 5, 2021 at 10:04PM

Show HN: Block Out – Line and Block Puzzle Game https://bit.ly/3cM9V9h

Show HN: Block Out – Line and Block Puzzle Game https://bit.ly/39PLF4r February 5, 2021 at 08:56PM

Show HN: QuikPub – Write, Publish and Share rich text via short URLs https://bit.ly/3aHjlR7

Show HN: QuikPub – Write, Publish and Share rich text via short URLs https://bit.ly/3oOwaxL February 5, 2021 at 01:25PM

Show HN: A modern documentation tool for C++ and a replacement for Doxygen https://bit.ly/3tz3YCW

Show HN: A modern documentation tool for C++ and a replacement for Doxygen https://bit.ly/2MCRWaS February 5, 2021 at 06:32PM

Show HN: Remarkbox is now Free (pay what you can) https://bit.ly/3txw7di

Show HN: Remarkbox is now Free (pay what you can) https://bit.ly/36L2SKs February 5, 2021 at 06:06PM

Launch HN: Text Blaze (YC W21) Programmable snippets to automate tedious typing https://bit.ly/3jiIKEw

Launch HN: Text Blaze (YC W21) Programmable snippets to automate tedious typing Hi HN! We’re Scott and Dan of Text Blaze ( https://bit.ly/2N2Q1fp ). Text Blaze lets you create programmable text snippets that you can insert anywhere in Chrome by typing a brief shortcut. Before Text Blaze, we designed and built internal tools for thousands of sales and support reps at Google. As much as we tried though, our tools could never automate all repeated work for all users. We saw that there were always tech savvy reps who would build additional scripts to fill gaps and help save even more time. With Text Blaze, we wanted to create something for those kinds of reps to speed up and automate their boring repetitive work (and make it super easy for them to share with teammates). Text Blaze snippets help users to do this. You can start by taking all the repetitive messaging that they have and making it insertable with a few keystrokes. Many of our users easily save hours a month of typing just doing that. Technical users can go much further though. Our snippets can include form fields like text boxes or drop down menus in them and have dynamic fields with formulas. Users can use this to: - calculate a 15% service charge automatically when entering a price in a snippet text field. - or automatically pulling in the name of contact when sending a message in LinkedIn, - or saving data to a Google Spreadsheet every time they use a snippet, - or create patient diagnostic templates where the snippet may include a drop down to capture whether the patient is a smoker. If (and only if) the answer is yes, a follow up question and text box (number of cigarettes a day) will appear. Think of Text Blaze a little like Zapier meets Emmet. Some of the ways people use Text Blaze have amazed us. For example, the Customer Success department at a European delivery company, uses Text Blaze to standardize their comms with customers and drivers and automate much of the related processes. For example, their snippets read conversations with drivers in Intercom and automatically send a summary of the required information to a rep in the relevant Slack channel. Our most common users of Text Blaze are in customer support and recruiting, but we’re also seeing a lot of adoption in other areas like education (especially with the increased levels of remote learning with Covid). Text Blaze is free to use for many use cases and we have paid versions with additional features and improved collaboration for teams. Want to try Text Blaze out? You can get started by installing our extension from the Chrome Web Store ( https://bit.ly/39Q7C37... ). We’re a Chrome Extension as we see more and more users are spending all their time in Chrome and we want to be able to closely integrate with the different web applications they use. We would love your feedback on the Text Blaze here and your experiences with tools for end-user automation in general. What’s worked for you and where are there opportunities to improve existing approaches? February 5, 2021 at 05:10PM

Launch HN: MagicBell (YC W21) – embedded notification system for your product https://bit.ly/3aBjuW1

Launch HN: MagicBell (YC W21) – embedded notification system for your product Hey everyone! I am Hana, and along with my co-founder Josue, we are excited to launch MagicBell ( https://bit.ly/3rvs3Zr ). You can embed MagicBell in your web/mobile application to show users workflow notifications in-app and real-time. If the user is not online when you send them a notification, we can send them an email (or text). For example, a project management app can use MagicBell to show new tasks assigned to a user or tasks due soon. A code collaboration app will notify users of pull-requests that need their review. These notifications keep the workflow moving. Building a notification system is challenging. We built robust email notifications at my last startup SupportBee [0], and it took us weeks to nail down the threading, reply by email, unsubscription links, and notification preference management. When we wanted to add an in-app inbox, I felt that we were building a mini email client into our app. A well designed in-app experience needs real-time updates and state management (read/unread/archived) apart from a lot of UI polish. Not only do we save you months of work to begin with, but we also have an extensive product roadmap with features like email templates and grouping of notifications. Your customers will get a better experience each day without you having to invest in the development effort. Apart from customer-facing features, we plan to add a debug interface and analytics so you can get more visibility into your notifications. Our embeddable notification inbox is written using React and MobX, and we use Ably.io for real-time updates. We offer a React SDK [1] that lets you build a custom interface, and we use Storybooks to test our UI. Fun fact: you can see the entire catalog of React components we offer [2]. We extracted the network layer of our embeddable into a Javascript package so customers not using React can use that to build a custom interface [3]. We'll work on Vue & React-Native SDK next. Our backend is hosted on AWS. Thank you for reading. Please try out our product and send us your feedback, questions, and ideas. If you have built a notification system at work, we’d love to hear about your experience! [0] https://bit.ly/3toUzxs... [1] https://bit.ly/3cL4Oq8 [2] https://bit.ly/3pUpm31... [3] https://bit.ly/2LrH1Ai February 5, 2021 at 04:56PM

Show HN: Socket.ly – A fast, global-scale solution for socket.io applications https://bit.ly/3jt2uoX

Show HN: Socket.ly – A fast, global-scale solution for socket.io applications https://bit.ly/3aAchpf February 5, 2021 at 12:32PM

Show HN: SVG Shape Generator – Create organic-looking shapes for your designs https://bit.ly/39ScaGA

Show HN: SVG Shape Generator – Create organic-looking shapes for your designs https://bit.ly/3tuAiGT February 5, 2021 at 03:38PM

Show HN: I made yet another calculator for programmers https://bit.ly/3rr24Co

Show HN: I made yet another calculator for programmers https://bit.ly/396RDgQ February 5, 2021 at 03:39PM

Show HN: Inlets 3.0 RC1 https://bit.ly/2MzNcmc

Show HN: Inlets 3.0 RC1 https://bit.ly/2N1YaRh February 5, 2021 at 01:46PM

Show HN: Graxel, a pocket doodling editor in pixel art https://bit.ly/3tvMmru

Show HN: Graxel, a pocket doodling editor in pixel art https://bit.ly/3tvMmI0 February 5, 2021 at 11:19AM

Show HN: I curated a list of actionable advice by indiehackers https://bit.ly/36J1QP9

Show HN: I curated a list of actionable advice by indiehackers https://bit.ly/2MY9opU February 5, 2021 at 09:55AM

Thursday, 4 February 2021

Show HN: Favorite writing / journaling tool? Half-finished projects welcome https://bit.ly/36I2pbW

Show HN: Favorite writing / journaling tool? Half-finished projects welcome I’m specifically looking for a tool a user shared on here that facilitated writing for content by scrolling up and disappearing text as new text was inputted. I believe it was a HTML/JSS only solution - a small personal project. I’ve done a lot of focused searches, but haven’t been able to find this comment. That said, I love these sorts of projects. I know they’re a self-indulgence and often a distraction. I’m celebrating that for a moment, personally. Please share your favorites writing tools, the smaller and more personal the better. February 4, 2021 at 10:56PM