Show HN: Typeform was too expensive so I built my own forms https://bit.ly/4lPagsn

Show HN: Typeform was too expensive so I built my own forms Hey HN, I'm a solopreneur and run a web design agency. I create open-source apps, but I also work as a freelancer and designer. I was accepting any new freelance project via forms on my agency website. I was using Typeform, but as time went by and more people submitted forms, it got more and more expensive. That time, I thought to use Google Form, but it was way too blocky and looked very unprofessional on my agency website. So I thought to build my own forms for my own usage, and it turns out it almost doubled form submissions and inquiry calls. I was happy, so I thought to build it for everyone and make it open-source. I added AI functionalities using Vercel AISDK. I can generate forms almost instantly using AI and also added analytics AI so that users can talk with their forms—more like talk with their analytics data. I hope this product will be as helpful to you as it was for me. Would love your feedback pls Preet https://bit.ly/4nHhNeu July 10, 2025 at 10:02AM

Show HN: Still coding in VC++ 6.0 after losing everything, living in a trailer https://bit.ly/3Iml4zv

Show HN: Still coding in VC++ 6.0 after losing everything, living in a trailer Hey HN, I spent 30 years writing CAD plugins in C++, mostly in Visual C++ 6.0. Then the industry collapsed. And I lost an intellectual lawsuit, my income dried up, and my marriage ended. Now I live alone in a trailer in rural Canada — still writing code, still surviving, trying to crawl back. This is a short video I made (50 seconds), documenting a quiet moment from this strange life. If you’ve ever hit rock bottom and kept going, you might relate. https://youtube.com/shorts/dDLSd3pfIYI?feature=share Thanks for watching. Just sharing — not selling anything. July 10, 2025 at 04:26AM

Show HN: I built a playground to showcase what Flux Kontext is good at https://bit.ly/4luKnOD

Show HN: I built a playground to showcase what Flux Kontext is good at Hi HN, After spending some time with the new `flux kontext dev` model, I realized its most powerful capabilities aren't immediately obvious. Many people might miss its true potential by just scratching the surface. I went deep and curated a collection of what I think are its most interesting use cases – things like targeted text removal, subtle photo restoration, and creative style transfers. I felt that simply writing about them wasn't enough. The best way to understand the value is to see it and try it for yourself. That's why I built FluxKontextLab ( https://bit.ly/4nG4Pxq ). On the site, I've presented these curated examples with before-and-after comparisons. More importantly, there's an interactive playground right there, so you can immediately test these ideas or your own prompts on your own images. My goal is to share what this model is capable of beyond the basics. It's still an early project. I'd love for you to take a look and share your thoughts or any cool results you generate. https://bit.ly/4nG4Pxq July 10, 2025 at 02:10AM

Show HN: I built a social media app at 11 using AI and a phone https://bit.ly/44UnhLp

Show HN: I built a social media app at 11 using AI and a phone Hi HN, I'm 11 years old and I'm learning to code with the help of AI. I recently created my own social media app inspired by TikTok and short videos. I built it from scratch using my Android phone and some programming apps like Replit and Base44. The idea is to allow users to post and watch short videos, follow others, and use a like-based system. I created the interface and logic myself, and AI helped me when I got stuck on bugs or needed help understanding something. This is my first serious project, and I'd love to get feedback from real developers and creators. Here's the link: *[ https://bit.ly/3TxKuga ]* What do you think? What should I improve next? Thanks for reading https://bit.ly/3TxKuga July 10, 2025 at 12:11AM

Show HN: Multi-session Claude Code manager with async workflow https://bit.ly/3GxpPpx

Show HN: Multi-session Claude Code manager with async workflow https://bit.ly/44t5AkA July 9, 2025 at 08:30AM

Show HN: I rewrote an outdated React Native map clustering library https://bit.ly/4lulHFO

Show HN: A Truth Table Generator Written in Common Lisp https://bit.ly/4eFW5n4

Show HN: A Truth Table Generator Written in Common Lisp https://bit.ly/3Ikke6v July 9, 2025 at 04:52AM

Show HN: Track the AI-generated code in your repo https://bit.ly/4nF18rI

Show HN: Track the AI-generated code in your repo https://bit.ly/44Skt1h July 8, 2025 at 06:07PM

Show HN: PulseTimer – A clean, customizable work/break timer you can self-host https://bit.ly/4lewuUz

Show HN: PulseTimer – A clean, customizable work/break timer you can self-host I built PulseTimer because I wanted a clean, distraction-free work/break timer that actually lets me tweak session lengths, break intervals, and notifications without requiring an account or tracking anything. Features: – Customizable work sessions & break durations – Optional notifications with sound – Skip break button when needed – Session history and progress tracking – Fully local, no accounts or tracking – Self-hostable (Node + Express) Live demo: https://bit.ly/3Ggdd69 Source: https://bit.ly/4kvxLFv Would love any feedback, suggestions, or bug reports! https://bit.ly/3Ggdd69 July 8, 2025 at 02:21PM

Show HN: OffChess – 100k+ Offline, Ad-Free Chess Puzzles App https://bit.ly/403f70z

Show HN: OffChess – 100k+ Offline, Ad-Free Chess Puzzles App Hi HN! I'm the developer of rdx, a mildly popular ad-free, privacy and user friendly Reddit client. This time, I made something for a very specific use case: solving chess puzzles with no internet. Why? Well, my Wi-Fi is terrible in the bathroom—and that's where I do some of my best thinking. I tried printing out “mate in X” puzzles to solve offline, but they weren’t fun without interaction. So I built OffChess. OffChess is an iPhone/Android app that contains over 100,000 chess puzzles, fully offline and completely ad-free. You can solve puzzles by category (Mate in 1/2/3/4/5, tactics like pins/forks/skewers, or openings like Sicilian/French, etc). You gain or lose points based on how you perform, so there's a light rating system to keep things engaging. No accounts, no tracking, no monthly subscriptions, no internet required. Just pure, old-school tactical chess training, wherever you are. You can check out the iPhone/iPad app at https://apple.co/4lewow5... or the Android app at https://bit.ly/4kwEm2K Would love feedback, bug reports, or suggestions. Thanks! https://bit.ly/4ktqOVM July 8, 2025 at 09:57AM

Show HN: HireIndex – A Searchable Directory for Who Wants to Be Hired on HN https://bit.ly/4kuEPlU

Show HN: HireIndex – A Searchable Directory for Who Wants to Be Hired on HN Hi HN, I built hireindex.xyz – a searchable website that aggregates and indexes candidates from the "Who Wants to Be Hired" threads on Hacker News. Coming soon: Analytics to highlight trends in skills, technologies, and candidate preferences across HN posts. With HireIndex, you can: Search by tech stack. Quickly scan bios, salary expectations, and contact links. Filter by remote/on-site preferences and employment type. I made this because I was tired of scrolling through long threads and wanted a better way to find interesting people. Would love your feedback – especially around UX and anything that would make it more useful to hiring managers, founders, or even job seekers themselves. https://bit.ly/4ledipT https://bit.ly/4ledipT July 8, 2025 at 05:11AM

Show HN: I built a website to summarize Tech Twitter each day https://bit.ly/3TqN2N6

Show HN: I built a website to summarize Tech Twitter each day Hey folks, I built this as a nightly job that pulls the tweets from a burner account I made, then passes it to GPT-4.1 to summarize alongside some recent headlines: https://bit.ly/3Igw1Tl... https://bit.ly/40D8rX2 July 7, 2025 at 03:36AM

Show HN: uvtarget – a helpful utility to manage Python in CMake, powered by uv https://bit.ly/46sUUFi

Show HN: uvtarget – a helpful utility to manage Python in CMake, powered by uv https://bit.ly/44hHpac July 7, 2025 at 12:44AM

Show HN: Modernized File Manager and Program Manager from Windows 3.x https://bit.ly/4nRWzuD

Show HN: Modernized File Manager and Program Manager from Windows 3.x This is a fork of Windows File Manager combined with a from-scratch remake of Program Manager. Fast, lightweight, and suitable for daily driver use. https://bit.ly/4nAwAHC July 7, 2025 at 12:55AM

Show HN: I Built a Minimal AI Chat app with Local Storage and Advanced Research https://bit.ly/44gE2jF

Show HN: I Built a Minimal AI Chat app with Local Storage and Advanced Research https://bit.ly/45ReMln July 6, 2025 at 03:04AM

Show HN: a community for collaborating on sideprojects https://bit.ly/4kubTKX

Show HN: a community for collaborating on sideprojects TLDR: I made a community where you can find builders or product owners to collab on sideprojects together with <3 A year ago i completed my first sideproject, a digital course on how to "cold email a chief information security officer". I thought and think its a great course, but of course I fell into all the traps (didnt verify a need, i thought id make it and everyone would buy automatically), i tested google ads but hated nerding on that, so i decided to find a marketing person to partner up with! But i knew no one! That got me thinking how many people with relevant knowledge that isnt connected to others who need it, so i started gathering these people in an excel doc with what they know and then we created a slack channel for this etc! (fenomener.framer.website). Suddenly now we are 400 people sharing about our projects and collaborating! But if there is one thing ive been missing its "profile pages", that doesnt work well in slack. Id love to see an awesome project but then lurk a bit on who this person is before engaging in anything. so thats when we made the common decision of: what the heck, lets just build the thing we want. So I partnered up with a fullstack (from the community!!!!!) and built relentlessly.no. we have like 50 users now and 17 projects and just finished our Minimum Lovable Product. Its not good enough yet and we are working on adding notifications and at least optimizing for first the product leader flow, then the builder flow. (we often get product leaders with a demo joining that are HUNGRY for devs, or we get builders hungry for anyone with an idea! its a god damn marketplace maybe!) I actually think this might become 1000x more important than YC, because its place and time independant, and no one or no org has taken a place in the important space of sideprojects, where actually "everything begins". SIdeprojects sound so naive and not important, but after nerding on this a year i kinda see them as the most powerful thing we have. And this feels exactly as counter intuitive as a great idea should feel. So if we can let relentlessly resourceful people around the globe bump into each other, then the next gen of startups will be born here. Thats freaking meaningful stuff. And the hidden gem in all of this is something that didnt strike me before i had been working on it for a year: The point isnt to find someone to collab on your current sideproject. The whole value is the relationships that get formed. Because now after a year in this space then sideprojects have come and gone, but i have like 8 new "cofounder ready" relationships formed, where i actually trust them and "know" them and can build in the future with them. So i guess we are sortof solving "cofounder matching" without the akward "cofounder meetup night", or the slow "you HAVE to go to school with them for four years. business wise this is my passion project for life I feel, and the ethical founder friendly direction im pursuing is just adding this on the site: "if you met your cofounder here, like the product and youre raising money with another confirmed investor: please invite me to your round <3" I dont have money but maybe that will sort itself out, so this just makes me the worlds poorest investor with the most original investment product ever :D https://relentlessly.no/ July 2, 2025 at 07:32PM

Show HN: Quotatious – A Wordle and hangman inspired game https://bit.ly/4kjSFaF

Show HN: Quotatious – A Wordle and hangman inspired game Hey All, My wife loves word games like Wordle and Connections, she had an idea for a similar game inspired by Hangman and asked me to build it. Here it is, flaws and all. Any feedback is very welcome. https://bit.ly/4ks34kx July 6, 2025 at 12:49AM

Show HN: From Photos to Positions: Prototyping VLM-Based Indoor Maps https://bit.ly/3GsMnaV

Show HN: From Photos to Positions: Prototyping VLM-Based Indoor Maps Just a fun hack I did while bored over the weekend. My wife was busy shopping, it got me thinking that can VLMs solve the indoor location problem in a mall? Can I just show a VLM a map and an image and have it doa good enough job locating me? I hacked this P.O.C and it seems to work. https://bit.ly/4eJsx88 July 6, 2025 at 12:19AM

Show HN: Flint – Write code your way while ensuring remote consistency https://bit.ly/3IbYp92

Show HN: Flint – Write code your way while ensuring remote consistency I just released my biggest project yet: Flint, a language-agnostic Git wrapper that lets developers code using their own formatting preferences locally, while automatically enforcing the project's style on push. No more fighting over tabs vs spaces or dealing with noisy diffs. GitHub: https://bit.ly/3TTKarY Documentation: https://bit.ly/4lIzxo1 Article: https://bit.ly/3U2lfm5... https://bit.ly/3TTKarY July 1, 2025 at 02:01PM

Show HN: I built sinkedin – a LinkedIn but for flauting failures and screwups https://bit.ly/4eu4N7C

Show HN: I built sinkedin – a LinkedIn but for flauting failures and screwups Hi HN, I saw joke online about wanting a version of Linkedin for failures. I thought it was a great idea, so I decided to build a simple version of it. Sinkedin is a place to post (anonymously) stories about job rejections, interview screw-ups and other carrer failures. Website: https://bit.ly/4lBAtuf Github: https://bit.ly/40wxlrh I am not a designer, so the UI is very minimalistic. If it triggers your OCD, PRs are very welcome. The entire stack is running on free tiers, so please expect some latency if it gets any traffic. I wanted to ship it fast and see if the idea has legs before spending money. Happy to answer any questions. https://bit.ly/4lBAtuf July 4, 2025 at 05:57AM