Show HN: I made a website that makes you cry https://bit.ly/44YtOoz

Show HN: I made a website that makes you cry https://bit.ly/3Usw9SJ July 28, 2025 at 01:19AM

Show HN: Demitter – Distributed Node.js Event Emitter (Pub/Sub) https://bit.ly/4mlG9ZA

Show HN: Demitter – Distributed Node.js Event Emitter (Pub/Sub) https://bit.ly/4mkmb1p July 31, 2025 at 11:52PM

Show HN: A tool for complete WebSocket traffic control https://bit.ly/3IV6GP0

Show HN: A tool for complete WebSocket traffic control I built a Chrome extension that acts as a WebSocket proxy, allowing real-time monitoring, message simulation, and traffic interception. Think "Proxyman for WebSockets" but integrated into Chrome DevTools. Key features: Real-time WebSocket monitoring and message capture Send custom messages in both directions (client ↔ server) Block incoming/outgoing messages for testing Background monitoring (captures connections even when DevTools is closed) Why: I was debugging a WebSocket chat app and needed better tools than browser DevTools. Existing solutions required external proxies or were too basic. Tech: Injects proxy script to intercept WebSocket constructor, React + Vite UI, Chrome DevTools API integration, MIT licensed. Perfect for debugging WebSocket apps, testing error scenarios, reverse engineering APIs, and QA testing real-time features. Links: GitHub: https://bit.ly/4mdvxvY YouTube Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L64x__1xORQ Would love feedback from developers who work with WebSockets regularly! https://bit.ly/47auiJB July 31, 2025 at 04:30AM

Show HN: Host Claude Artifacts on your own domain https://bit.ly/41f1HyY

Show HN: Host Claude Artifacts on your own domain Hi HN, I've been using Claude to generate landing pages and it's a huge time-saver. But, it's hard to go from Artifact -> Published website. That's where Artifact Ninja comes in. How it works: 1. Click "Copy" above your artifact in Claude.ai and paste into Artifact.Ninja 2. We'll generate a static webpage without any Claude branding 3. Use your registrar's "masked forwarding" feature to connect a custom domain Artifact Ninja is a quick utility I needed for my own purposes. It's cheap to host (Cloudflare worker + D1), so it's free! Hope it helps. https://bit.ly/4mm13YJ July 31, 2025 at 02:01AM

Show HN: I use AI to send myself personalized weekly recaps from my saved links https://bit.ly/45uwGJO

Show HN: I use AI to send myself personalized weekly recaps from my saved links Sharing something that I’ve been working on: I made a save-later app for all my bookmarks. I save links throughout the week and, every Sunday morning, the app sends me a personalized recap with: -patterns and themes that connect my week to my broader interests -a nudge toward links I saved but never revisited -one reflective question to help me decide what else might be worth exploring I was inspired by older read-later apps like Instapaper. I wanted to make something minimalist, so it’s just a simple feed of your links (with tags and annotations linked to each link) and it is set up to ingest all kinds of content, not just text. I also did want it to be bloated as the full-fat AI stuff you see recently. So this is a simpler and more proactive take on the concept of a bookmarking app. Imagine if Pocket and Spotify Wrapped had a baby. I also personally enjoy using the chat to find links across subjects and sources with context, like “Show me the 5 links on travel i’ve returned to the most” or “all recipes with porcini mushrooms” or “show me everything on Topic X i’ve made the most notes on.” I’ve posted about this on HN before, always had great feedback. Happy to answer any questions. (I’m not technical, I'm a writer/ filmmaker.) https://bit.ly/4lZxSem July 31, 2025 at 12:08AM

Show HN: I built a satirical Dowry Calculator to highlight a harmful tradition https://bit.ly/4l3Powz

Show HN: I built a satirical Dowry Calculator to highlight a harmful tradition Hi HN, I've created a simple, non-commercial web tool called the Dahej (Dowry) Calculator. Growing up hearing stories within my community about the immense pressure and financial ruin caused by the dowry system in India, I wanted to find a way to talk about this difficult topic. Direct confrontation often shuts down dialogue, so I chose satire as a way to approach it. The calculator is intentionally absurd; it generates a monetary 'worth' based on real-world (and often ugly) factors like profession, salary, and even caste. The goal isn't to be accurate, but to be a conversation starter. It's an educational tool designed to hold up a mirror to a practice that treats marriage like a transaction. There are no ads, trackers, or sign-up requirements. It's just a simple page built with React. I'm here to answer any questions and would love to hear your feedback on using satire and technology for social commentary. Thanks for checking it out. https://bit.ly/4kYHqop July 30, 2025 at 02:57AM

Show HN: Building a Production Finance Model for Open Source https://bit.ly/4kZwEyb

Show HN: Building a Production Finance Model for Open Source It started off with the simple idea to cram together the accountability of Patreon (quit when you want) with the coordinated action of Kickstarter (thresholds). The MVP behind the link demonstrates the very first iteration of this concept. The second big idea was keeping power with the backers. Let communities of users freely move between different people who make stuff instead of being captives like with Star Citizen. This also lets creators focus on making stuff instead of selling the next Solar Roads. Along the way I realized that there are opportunities where the world can deliver a ton of value for not that much cost but the money still can't flow. Why can't the capital move? It's because of value capture difficulty or value production uncertainty. However, the downstream often doesn't care. Consumers and downstream businesses are not sensitive to the profitability of upstream. They want stuff and they don't want to wait on startups to figure out how to bootstrap to profitability to get out of the chicken and egg dilemmas. Deep tech and open IP are those kinds of things. Welcome to https://bit.ly/4o3yqRE . Our mission is to connect demand for downstream value creation to upstream enabling technologies. This Production Finance concept is very broadly applicable. This can be a remedy to the extremely poor monetization of independent media. My main point is that these things are worth building, and PrizeForge is a feature complete product the moment that we realize that we want things like PrizeForge to exist and that this MVP is a way for us to get there faster. For now, I want to focus on the consumer open source market because it's a deeply distressed market where billions of willing dollars are stuck behind the volunteer's dilemma. It's also a simple market because there's no IP law to juggle. Open source has a strong tradition of killing stupid competition and delivering lots of indirect value that pays big dividends. In getting ready for this moment, I pulled together a modest YouTube following, some Github stars, and developed my own takes on where open source thinking needs to go to win. I will be inviting my Github Sponsors over pretty soon and, above all, introducting features on our sub-Reddit to get the iteration dynamo going. The MVP is a full-stack Rust application. It has a Leptos reactive frontend and Axum on the backend, talking to Postgres and NATS. I'll have a lot to say about that while courting some communities and engineers. https://bit.ly/4kZwFCf I came up with the binary fragmentation idea while developing. I was just going to truncate. I chopped out two planned features becuase they were going to require fixed-point calculations. I'm glad I did because last night I crafted a bad kubernetes secret and discovered it only because a header unwrap in Stripe's library was panicking. I am toasted. The Elastic Fund Raising feature was easier to get an MVP going, but our communication and decision delegation tools are probably going to be more impactful. We need social decision systems designed for open communities, from first principles, for the information age, not the age of horses and ballots. I need to cut chase for now. I've got several communities I need to pull together. I've done a lot of ground work to build up my reputational constraints, figuring out video production, and talking to people to find out what clicks. Log in, top-up, and enroll. The system is pre-pay. Funds are not truly mine until matched and I don't want to go to SBF jail, so you can trust me to implement logouts and refunds as soon as possible. Follow my socials and go be social yourselves. It's not about what you can do. It's about what millions of angry gamers who want VKD3D right now can do if only they have a better Kickstarter. https://bit.ly/45aHQlU July 30, 2025 at 02:21AM

Show HN: BreathylBox – A lockbox that only opens when you're sober https://bit.ly/4ohTLHi

Show HN: BreathylBox – A lockbox that only opens when you're sober Hi HN, I'm an incoming college freshman building BreathylBox, a lockbox that stays locked unless you pass a breathalyzer test and authenticate with a passcode. It’s designed to help prevent access to car keys, firearms, or phones when someone’s been drinking. Here’s the landing page: https://bit.ly/3U7xtKq Right now, we’re validating demand across use cases: Parents storing car keys after parties Gun safety in homes with teens People trying to reduce tech use while drinking We’re not selling anything yet — just trying to see if the idea resonates and which use case to prioritize. Would love your feedback: Would you use something like this? What should we do (or avoid) before moving to manufacturing? Any obvious legal or hardware red flags? Thanks in advance — happy to answer any questions! Sean Short, CEO BreathylBox (seanshort@breathylbox.com) https://bit.ly/46DIfzH July 29, 2025 at 11:08PM

Show HN: FastLaunchAPI – A production-ready FastAPI template batteries included https://bit.ly/45ouROB

Show HN: FastLaunchAPI – A production-ready FastAPI template batteries included Hello HN After building numerous FastAPI backends, I consistently found myself repeating the same configuration, including auth, email, payments, migrations, etc. In order to handle all the boilerplate, I developed FastLaunchAPI, a production-ready startup package. Included are: JWT authentication with social login and email Webhooks and Stripe billing together Alembic, PostgreSQL, and SQLAlchemy Background work for celebrities SMTP email that includes templates Integration of LangChain and OpenAI Setup for Pytest + API documents It is designed to bring you to production in less than half an hour and is modular. There is a comprehensive documentation, which can be viewed before pruchase. I would be happy to hear any comments or inquiries! https://bit.ly/3IS9VXr July 28, 2025 at 11:59PM

Show HN: (Ask HN) Color Me Same – A New Kind of Logic Game – Pursue It Further? https://bit.ly/46ybmV2

Show HN: (Ask HN) Color Me Same – A New Kind of Logic Game – Pursue It Further? https://bit.ly/3U5CHX4 July 26, 2025 at 10:22AM

Show HN: 433 - How to Make a Font That Says Nothing https://bit.ly/459H8oM

Show HN: 433 - How to Make a Font That Says Nothing https://bit.ly/45hdxKq July 25, 2025 at 12:05PM

Show HN: Vested – A financial analyst for retail investors https://bit.ly/4f5EWTO

Show HN: Vested – A financial analyst for retail investors We built Vested, a website to aggregate information around the internet to give retail investors more informed understanding of the companies they are investing in. Currently, we generate our reports with information from SEC and current news, but we plan to expand this in the near future to include job listings, social media, papers, and more. Our goal is to make institutional-grade research accessible to everyone. We'd love feedback and features you'd would like to see. https://bit.ly/4f6QrKO July 28, 2025 at 03:12AM

Show HN: OpenUX – a free and open alternative to Mobbin https://bit.ly/4mkgYqx

Show HN: OpenUX – a free and open alternative to Mobbin https://bit.ly/3H8K6C1 July 28, 2025 at 01:54AM

Show HN: A semantic code search tool for cross-repo context retrieval https://bit.ly/4mbBFEP

Show HN: A semantic code search tool for cross-repo context retrieval I’ve been frustrated trying to get the right context when working across multiple repos in AI assisted software development. So over a weekend, I built h‑codex – a tool that can pull context from scattered repos into Cursor / Claude Code (integrated via MCP); ensuring that they’ve got the full picture when doing the plans/implementation. How it works: - Indexes the repos - Chunks code with AST for optimal chunk boundaries - Generates embeddings and stores them in pgvector for fast semantic search Check it out: https://bit.ly/44OJQRN https://bit.ly/44OJQRN July 28, 2025 at 04:15AM

Show HN: A WordPress MCP Server – Connect Claude Desktop to WordPress via AI https://bit.ly/4lPprlK

Show HN: A WordPress MCP Server – Connect Claude Desktop to WordPress via AI Hi HN, I built a WordPress MCP Server that connects Claude Desktop to any WordPress site using the Model Context Protocol (MCP). It's designed for developers who want to work with WordPress content directly from their editor, assisted by AI. You can interact with posts, plugins, and themes through Claude — for example: Browse and edit content contextually Debug and develop plugins with AI help Automate repetitive WordPress tasks It’s fully open-source and self-hosted: https://bit.ly/3U2Z4MR I’m looking for feedback from developers interested in AI-assisted workflows, WordPress tooling, and protocol-based app integration. Happy to answer any questions — and open to contributors! – Thomas https://bit.ly/3U2Z4MR July 28, 2025 at 12:47AM

Show HN: The Aria Programming Language https://bit.ly/3IOJT7s

Show HN: The Aria Programming Language Aria is a modern, dynamic scripting language. It is meant to be a "sweet spot" language, easy to pick-up and enjoyable to use. It comes with a familiar C-style syntax, and draws inspiration from a variety of languages. It has a small but usable standard library and strives to be a low-ceremony-get-stuff-done kind of language. It is currently at version 0.9 and I would love feedback as I work towards getting it to 1.0. https://bit.ly/40EU9FA July 27, 2025 at 03:43AM

Show HN: QuickTunes: Apple Music player for Mac with iPod vibes https://bit.ly/4li2cjf

Show HN: QuickTunes: Apple Music player for Mac with iPod vibes The slow and bloated nature of the Mac Apple Music app inspired us to create QuickTunes. It is a simple, fast, and native Apple Music player inspired by the simplicity of the iPod. You can use keyboard shortcuts to navigate a simple multi column layout, pick something, and press Play. https://bit.ly/40DgvY9 July 27, 2025 at 12:43AM

Show HN: StackSafe, Taming Recursion in Rust Without Stack Overflow https://bit.ly/3UxAC6k

Show HN: StackSafe, Taming Recursion in Rust Without Stack Overflow https://bit.ly/4o8FDQy July 26, 2025 at 01:14AM

Show HN: LogMerge – View multiple log files in a merged view https://bit.ly/40EFydk

Show HN: LogMerge – View multiple log files in a merged view Hey HN! I needed a tool to view multiple log files in a merged view, and easily filter based on the specified fields. Spent a good amount of time searching, but couldn’t find any open source tool that quite did what I wanted. So, ended up building a custom solution instead (I would appreciate suggestions on tools that have similar functionality). I don't know much about GUIs (most all my PC based utilities are CLI) - but I did have the following: - I know enough Python to spot obviously wrong things - Some knowledge of how to make programs performant in general - ... and tokens to burn :) GitHub : https://bit.ly/3U1ZaUW Usage Video: https://youtu.be/37V_kZO2TLA Key Features: - Merge and display multiple log files in a single, chronologically ordered view - Live log monitoring with auto-scroll - Add files individually or discover them recursively with regex filtering - Plugin-based system to support any log format (easy to extend!) - Filtering: discrete values, numeric ranges, regex/text, and time-based queries - Color-coded file identification - Configurable columns and ordering - Built-in plugins for syslog, CANKing (CAN Bus monitoring tool), and another custom log format called dbglog. If you have any feedback or questions, let me know! Hope someone else finds it useful. https://bit.ly/3U1ZaUW July 25, 2025 at 11:53PM

Show HN: Add viral TikTok audio to work meetings https://bit.ly/4o6aAok

Show HN: Add viral TikTok audio to work meetings as title says i mostly did it because I had a free afternoon at work, built something fun and dumb and it ended up being more dumb and fun than i thought submit your meeting link and the bot should join the call. users can send commands in-chat and the bot will play the audio no sign-up required and i’m hosting it for free. hope you have as much fun as i did cheers! https://bit.ly/4kWzuUH July 25, 2025 at 04:14AM