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Summary of Today's Content
Today's Product Highlights
- Product Name: Nino App
- Highlights: An innovative "superapp" that consolidates 18 different productivity apps (docs, sheets, forms, chat, etc.) into one unified platform with offline capabilities and end-to-end encryption.
Quick Summary
- Most Popular Category: Productivity Tools
- Top Keywords: Integration, Consolidation, Privacy, Offline-first
- Most Popular Product: Nino App (810 points)
Technology Trends
- Cloud-native applications
- End-to-end encryption
- Offline-first architecture
- AI-powered tools
- Open-source solutions
- Cross-platform integration
Project Distribution
- Productivity Tools: 35%
- Developer Tools: 25%
- AI/ML Applications: 20%
- Educational Tools: 10%
- Gaming: 5%
- Others: 5%
Trend Insights
- Strong demand for unified workspace solutions that reduce app switching
- Growing emphasis on privacy and security features in productivity tools
- Increasing focus on offline-first architecture for better performance
- Rise of browser-based development environments
- Continued interest in AI integration for everyday tools
- Shift towards open-source alternatives to enterprise software
Recommendations:
- Focus on seamless integration capabilities
- Prioritize data privacy and security features
- Invest in offline-first architecture
- Consider AI-powered features for productivity enhancement
- Build for cross-platform compatibility
Today's Top 10 Trending Products
Top 1. An innovative app that combines 18 essential tools including document editing, spreadsheets, forms, websites, and chat functionality into a single, streamlined platform for enhanced productivity and collaboration. (Likes: 810, Comments: 258)
Top 2. Discover the ultimate HTMX Playground designed entirely in-browser, enabling seamless experimentation and integration with your web projects. Perfect for developers looking to enhance their skills in a hands-on, interactive environment! (Likes: 482, Comments: 118)
Top 3. An engaging interactive math crossword puzzle designed for endless fun and learning, offering unlimited levels to challenge your skills! (Likes: 165, Comments: 45)
Top 4. Quickwit is an open-source alternative to popular data search and analytics tools like Elasticsearch, Splunk, and Datadog. It offers a high-performance solution for efficient log and event data management, making it ideal for developers and organizations seeking a flexible and cost-effective tool for real-time data analysis and monitoring. (Likes: 145, Comments: 51)
Top 5. A powerful tool that enables users to send 10,000 emails for just $1 using AWS, perfect for businesses looking to maximize their outreach efficiently and affordably. (Likes: 58, Comments: 56)
Top 6. AnyText AI is a powerful multilingual text generation and editing tool that streamlines your writing process, allowing for seamless content creation in multiple languages. Whether you need to generate fresh ideas or refine existing text, AnyText AI harnesses advanced AI technology to enhance your productivity and creativity. Perfect for writers, marketers, and professionals seeking efficient communication across language barriers. (Likes: 24, Comments: 3)
Top 7. Tidytrace.com is an innovative stack trace formatter that simplifies debugging by transforming complex stack traces into clean, easy-to-read formats. Ideal for developers looking to enhance productivity and streamline error resolution, Tidytrace.com provides a user-friendly interface for quickly understanding and addressing issues in code. (Likes: 8, Comments: 1)
Top 8. Inference Mixtral 8x7B is a cutting-edge machine learning framework developed entirely in Rust, offering efficient inference capabilities for advanced AI models. Its robust design ensures high performance and low overhead, making it ideal for developers seeking to integrate powerful inference systems seamlessly into their applications. Experience the future of AI with the speed and safety of Rust. (Likes: 4, Comments: 2)
Top 9. A powerful command line tool designed for tracking and journaling your daily accomplishments, helping you stay organized and motivated. Ideal for productivity enthusiasts and anyone looking to reflect on their progress. (Likes: 3, Comments: 1)
Top 10. Alts: A completely free, local, and offline voice assistant with advanced speech recognition capabilities. (Likes: 4, Comments: 0)
1. Show HN: I made an app that consolidated 18 apps (doc, sheet, form, site, chat…)
URL: https://nino.app
Author: harrisonlo
Description: Nino is a radical approach to solve the app chaos problem for today's knowledge worker. I believe there are still too many tools; even using them becomes work in itself. I'm building all these apps from scratch in one place, using the same database and UI, with the flexibility to eventually support the majority of work from one "superapp."
Currently there are 18 apps (called "modules") on Nino:
- Database types: Sheet, Form, Calendar, Gallery, Board, Todo, List
- Composition types: Doc, Slide, Drive, Notebook, Canvas, Grid, Blog, Site
- Communication types: Channel, Chat, Meet
I want to improve these modules and build more. Your feedback is important!
FAQ: How is it different from Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, or startups like Notion and Clickup?
A: I think Nino has a better foundation to (1) consolidate a lot more apps than they currently do, (2) drastically improve speed with offline architecture, and (3) offer unmatched privacy and security with end-to-end encryption (coming soon)
Let me expand on these points:
1. Consolidation
In Nino, pages and blocks are interoperable with each other. Google and Microsoft still have mostly isolated apps. Nino is one (super)app that supports 18 modules, saving you time from switching and integrating between different providers.
2. Offline mode
This is actually more complex than it seems, but I ultimately decided it's worth it, not only for people who need to work without internet, but also for everyone else who want instant page load. Everything is saved locally by default.
3. End-to-end encryption (E2EE)
This is just a preview and not open to public yet, but is something I have been building alongside since day 1. In fact, it's likely not architecturally possible for existing products to add later on. Nino is built to offer both E2EE and cloud features (backup, search, collaboration).
One more thing: pages on Nino are also publishable! There are blog and site modules, but you can also publish other modules (i.e. sheet, board, canvas, etc.) on your custom domain or on a free nino.page subdomain.
Give it a try and let me know how it can improve. I want to hear from you.
Popularity: 810 points | 258 comments
2. Show HN: I made a HTMX Playground 100% in the browser
URL: https://lassebomh.github.io/htmx-playground/
Author: bitterblotter
Description: I recently dug up an old project in an attempt to improve on it. It's a code sandbox for playing around with HTMX in the browser, that runs a mock server within the sandbox iframe. The server "framework" is loosely based on Django, so if you're familiar with Django, you'll immediately understand what's going on.
I recommend clicking through the examples.
Github repo: https://github.com/lassebomh/htmx-playground
Probably my favorite part is the lack of HTMX specific code. It's designed to mimic the client and server, but really nothing else. In principle, this means that it is agnostic to whatever frontend framework is being used.
Known problems: Limited mobile support, Ace Editor (should just be Monaco) and lack of proper error outputs.
Feel free to give feedback, suggestions or questions.
I learned a lot when making it, and I hope you'll something about HTMX! Happy tinkering.
Popularity: 482 points | 118 comments
3. Show HN: I made an interactive math crossword puzzle with infinite levels
URL: https://scientific.place/math-crossword/
Author: xk4rim
Description: Hey there! I'm the brains behind the math crossword game on my site.
This game is all about making math a little more fun – users just drag and drop numbers to fill in the blanks and move on to the next level if they get it right.
Let me know if face any issues or have any suggestions! :)
Popularity: 165 points | 45 comments
4. Show HN: Quickwit – OSS Alternative to Elasticsearch, Splunk, Datadog
URL: https://github.com/quickwit-oss/quickwit
Author: francoismassot
Description: Hi folks, Quickwit cofounder here.
We started Quickwit 3 years ago with a POC, "Searching the web for under $1000/month" (see HN discussions [0]), with the goal of making a robust OSS alternative to Elasticsearch / Splunk / Datadog.
We have reached a significant milestone with our latest release (0.7) [1], as we have witnessed users of the nightly version of Quickwit deploy clusters with hundreds of nodes, ingest hundreds of terabytes of data daily, and enjoy considerable cost savings.
To give you a concrete example, one company is ingesting hundreds of terabytes of logs daily and migrating from Elasticsearch to Quickwit. They divided their compute costs by 5x and storage costs by 2x while increasing retention from 3 to 30 days. They also increased their durability, accuracy with exactly-once semantics thanks to the native Kafka support, and elasticity.
The 0.7 release also brings better integrations with the Observability ecosystem: improvements of the Elasticsearch-compatible API and better support of OpenTelemetry standards, Grafana, and Jaeger.
Of course, we still have a lot of work to be a fully-fledged observability engine, and we would love to get some feedback or suggestions.
To give you a glance at our 2024 roadmap, we planned to focus on Kibana/OpenDashboard integration, metrics support, and pipe-based query language.
[0] Searching the web for under $1000/month: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27074481
[1] Release blog post: https://quickwit.io/blog/quickwit-0.7
[2] Open Source Repo: https://github.com/quickwit-oss/quickwit
[3] Home Page: https://quickwit.io
Popularity: 145 points | 51 comments
5. Show HN: I built a tool to send 10k emails for $1 via AWS
Author: mddanishyusuf
Description:
Popularity: 58 points | 56 comments
6. Show HN: AnyText AI – Multilingual text generation and editing tool
Author: banbanlu
Description: I just started to learn frontend and built a free AI powered web app for editing text in image using AnyText.
I will continue iterating the AnyText.pics to make it easier to use and will learn frontend skills by building the web app.
Popularity: 24 points | 3 comments
7. Show HN: Tidytrace.com – Stack Trace Formatter
Author: sgarlatm
Description: Hey HN Community,
For years I’ve received bug reports with stack traces that were garbled and hard to read. It’s easy enough to use a regular expression to fix them, but I noticed that some folks on my team hadn’t thought to do that. So, I created TidyTrace.com to quickly and easily do it for my team members.
For example, take this Java stack trace
Exception in thread "main" java.util.InputMismatchException\n\tat java.base/java.util.Scanner.throwFor(Scanner.java:939)\n\tat java.base/java.util.Scanner.next(Scanner.java:1594)\n\tat java.base/java.util.Scanner.nextFloat(Scanner.java:2496)\n\tat com.example.myJavaProject.hello.main(hello.java:12)
After formatting it on TidyTrace.com, it’s much more readable
Exception in thread "main" java.util.InputMismatchException at java.base/java.util.Scanner.throwFor(Scanner.java:939) at java.base/java.util.Scanner.next(Scanner.java:1594) at java.base/java.util.Scanner.nextFloat(Scanner.java:2496) at com.example.myJavaProject.hello.main(hello.java:12)
Behind the Scenes: Actually formatting the stack trace was the least interesting part of this project. It could easily be written in a single line of code. I did split it to multiple lines for better formatting though. The real journey was in the other aspects of building and deploying the site.
Adventures in Advertising: Attempting to monetize through Google AdSense hit a snag – apparently, TidyTrace was "too content-light" for their liking. An experiment with another ad network bombarded the site with adult content, so I took that down quickly! I know none of us need that to pop up at work haha.
Deploying with Azure: I had never used Microsoft Azure before, and was pleasantly surprised how easy everything was. It was really cool that they had a free tier, and Azure created a Github action for me so that whenever I push to Github it automatically deploys the site. I didn’t read much of the Azure documentation myself; I just asked ChatGPT what to do each step of the way.
Learning Curve: My CSS skills aren’t all that great, but ChatGPT did the heavy lifting for me. As part of this I learned about CSS Grid which is super cool! There’s a really quick/easy tutorial I found that was really enjoyable to go through: https://www.joshwcomeau.com/css/interactive-guide-to-grid/
Example ChatGPT conversation: If you haven’t used ChatGPT 4 as part of your development process before, I highly recommend it! I’ve found it to be much better than GitHub Copilot. Just be sure you’re using ChatGPT 4, because it produces much higher quality code than 3.5. Here’s a real example conversation I used yesterday to tweak some of the behavior on the site. In this particular example, ChatGPT didn’t come up with exactly what I wanted so I gave up and asked ChatGPT for the API and fixed it myself. https://chat.openai.com/share/e8436702-937f-40ad-9977-ee7ee7...
Feedback Wanted: I’d really appreciate your thoughts, feedback or suggestions on TidyTrace.com. In particular, if you have a stack trace that isn’t formatted well, I’d be happy to look to see if I can make TidyTrace.com fix it for you.
Popularity: 8 points | 1 comments
8. Show HN: Inference Mixtral 8x7B in pure Rust
URL: https://github.com/moritztng/mixtral
Author: molli
Description:
Popularity: 4 points | 2 comments
9. Show HN: A Command Line tool to journal your daily accomplishments
URL: https://github.com/bovem/brag
Author: bovem
Description: I saw this blog from Julia Evans on HN about building a bragging document: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38826014 . It inspired me to create a CLI tool to log my accomplishments in markdown files.
I was learning about building CLI applications in Go and this project seemed like a good entry point.
I used to maintain a Google Docs as my work log and bragging document but I'll often forget to update it or lose it between my open tabs. A CLI tool will be present right in my development environment and that removes friction with information logging.
Release (v0.1): https://github.com/bovem/brag/releases/tag/v0.1
Popularity: 3 points | 1 comments
10. Show HN: Alts – 100% free, local, offline voice assistant and speech recognition
URL: https://github.com/alxpez/alts
Author: alxpez
Description:
Popularity: 4 points | 0 comments
11. Show HN: A game that simulates SpaceX rocket landing
URL: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/falcon-lander-spacex-edition/id1041594750
Author: lpeancovschi
Description:
Popularity: 3 points | 0 comments
12. Show HN: Go framework for DL model inference and API deployment
URL: https://github.com/jack139/go-infer
Author: jack139
Description: I made this framework to simplify the deployment of deep learning model inference. Using golang, some examples of model weight conversion are provided.
Popularity: 3 points | 0 comments
13. Show HN: TEAMMATES: free tool for managing peer evaluations built by Students
URL: https://github.com/TEAMMATES/teammates
Author: kyawzazaw
Description: Really interesting project - some SE student can dive right in
Popularity: 3 points | 0 comments
14. Show HN: Assert4rs – Expressive Assertions for Rust
URL: #
Author: sidcool
Description:
Popularity: 2 points | 0 comments
15. Show HN: Train a GPT to write like Shakespeare-from scratch, in one Python file
URL: https://gist.github.com/s-casci/0bad1a671d37d52ada3fb514046103ba
Author: s-casci
Description:
Popularity: 2 points | 0 comments
16. Show HN: ClubCompy returns with the Saturday Morning Code-toon show [video]
![Show HN: ClubCompy returns with the Saturday Morning Code-toon show [video] - Project Screenshot](https://showhntoday.com/images/38904665.png)
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt7AqBOy_Ls
Author: dwoldrich
Description: Greetings HN,
I demoed ClubCompy.com here way back in 2011, well ... I’m pleased to say it’s back, I hope you and your kids love it. https://clubcompy.com
I want to promote it over the next year with a Saturday Morning Cartoon and Coding show, and my first episode is going to get going in about 10 minutes. (Yes, I know it’s Sunday and probably no longer morning.)
Please watch and enjoy, we’re hacking a madlibs program in the new and improved Comfy Computer Language.
I’ll try to check comments here during downtime, but I might not be able to respond until afterwards.
Here’s the YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt7AqBOy_Ls
Popularity: 2 points | 0 comments
17. Show HN: Written a blog and animated the steps to implement Transformers model
Author: kunalmishra78
Description:
Popularity: 1 points | 0 comments
18. Show HN: Resurrect the wireless functionality of your old Panasonic cameras
URL: https://github.com/KerbalNo15/Shutterlink
Author: KerbalNo15
Description:
Popularity: 1 points | 0 comments
19. Show HN: Learn English with pictograms, speech and body pose
URL: https://github.com/mristin/dance-to-english
Author: mristin
Description: Hi HN, We are moving abroad, so my kids (7 and 4 yo) will have to attend classes in English, but they don't know any English (yet). I made two fairly simple language games to motivate them. I wanted to share the games with you assuming some of the other parents might be in the same situation.
Since both children are still only learning to read and write, I dispensed of all the text, and use only pictograms and speech synthesis for communication with the user. Both games run in a browser. I tested only with Chrome, but any browser which supports speech API should work.
The first game trains the passive vocabulary. The user listens to the word and is presented two pictograms to choose from, a correct one and an incorrect one. For selection I use body pose estimation. Raising the left hand chooses the left pictogram and, analogously, raising the right hand selects the right pictogram. So far, it seems that kids prefer body movements to typing / clicking on the screen, especially the younger one.
The second game is for practicing the active vocabulary. The user is presented with a pictogram and needs to pronounce the word. Three attempts are allowed, and if the user does not know the word, it needs to be later repeated. This is basically a flashcard method coupled with speech recognition.
In both games, the user gains diamonds. I inserted a silly ghost which tries to steal them to add some sense of temporal urgency.
You can access the games at: https://github.com/mristin/dance-to-english/
and
https://github.com/mristin/say-in-english/
Any feedback, suggestions or invitations for collaboration are very welcome!
Popularity: 1 points | 0 comments
Conclusion
Today's Show HN roundup showcases a diverse range of innovative projects. From AI-powered tools to creative coding solutions, these projects reflect the dynamic nature of our tech community. Which project caught your attention the most? Let us know in the comments!
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