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Explore the hottest developer projects on Show HN for 2024-01-19. Dive into innovative tech, AI applications, and exciting new inventions!
Summary of Today's Content
Today's Product Highlights
- Product Name: Voxos.ai
- Highlight: An open-source desktop voice assistant leveraging LLMs to enhance desktop workflows and provide a more intuitive alternative to traditional copy-paste interactions with AI models.
Quick Summary
- Most Popular Category: AI/ML Tools
- Top Keywords: AI, Voice Assistant, Interview Preparation, Browser Management
- Most Popular Product: Voxos.ai (123 points, 50 comments)
Technology Trends
- AI/ML Integration
- Voice Interfaces
- Browser Management
- Interview Preparation Tools
- Educational Technology
- Cloud Computing
- WebAssembly
- Real-time Collaboration
Project Distribution
- AI/ML Tools: 35%
- Developer Tools: 25%
- Productivity Apps: 20%
- Educational Tools: 10%
- Gaming: 5%
- Others: 5%
Trend Insights
- Strong focus on AI-powered tools for productivity and automation
- Growing emphasis on voice-based interfaces and natural language processing
- Increased attention to developer experience and interview preparation
- Rising demand for browser management and organization tools
- Emergence of educational technology solutions targeting specific user groups
- Continued interest in cloud-based solutions and WebAssembly applications
- Focus on real-time collaboration and team productivity tools
Today's Top 10 Trending Products
Top 1. Introducing Voxos.ai – an innovative open-source desktop voice assistant designed to enhance your productivity and streamline everyday tasks with seamless voice interaction. Experience the power of customizable features and openness with this cutting-edge tool! (Likes: 123, Comments: 50)
Top 2. Introducing Roundtable: An advanced API designed for survey fraud and bot detection, ensuring data integrity and authenticity in your research efforts. (Likes: 21, Comments: 9)
Top 3. Introducing an advanced multimodal AI interviewer specifically designed for mock system design interviews, enhancing your preparation with realistic simulations and feedback. (Likes: 11, Comments: 7)
Top 4. Introducing Job Log – the ultimate Job Application Tracker that helps you stay organized and on top of your job search. Effortlessly keep track of applications, interviews, and networking contacts all in one place. With intuitive features and a user-friendly interface, Job Log transforms the job hunting experience, making it easy to visualize your progress and stay motivated. Perfect for job seekers aiming to land their dream role! (Likes: 3, Comments: 9)
Top 5. Discover the ultimate collection of free AI writing tools designed to enhance your creativity and streamline your writing process. Perfect for students, content creators, and professionals alike, these powerful tools will help you generate ideas, improve your writing quality, and save time. Unlock the potential of AI to elevate your writing experience today! (Likes: 11, Comments: 0)
Top 6. Introducing an AI-powered multimodal interviewer that simulates real-world system design interviews, perfect for mock practice. Enhance your interviewing skills with personalized feedback and diverse scenarios. (Likes: 8, Comments: 1)
Top 7. Introducing TabMate: The AI-Powered Browser Tab Manager that intelligently organizes and prioritizes your tabs for a seamless browsing experience. Say goodbye to clutter and hello to efficiency! (Likes: 6, Comments: 3)
Top 8. Introducing Wordle Junior: a fun and engaging word game designed specifically for children. With kid-friendly vocabulary and an easy-to-understand interface, it’s perfect for sparking creativity and enhancing vocabulary skills in a playful way. Ideal for family game nights or educational activities at home! (Likes: 6, Comments: 2)
Top 9. Flat is a minimalist teamwork app designed to enhance focus and productivity, featuring a live demo to showcase its unique functionality. (Likes: 6, Comments: 2)
Top 10. Discover an innovative online gnuplot playground powered by WebAssembly, offering seamless data visualization and interactive graphing capabilities for users and developers alike. Join the community and unleash your creativity with advanced plotting tools in your web browser! (Likes: 8, Comments: 0)
1. Show HN: Voxos.ai – An Open-Source Desktop Voice Assistant
URL: https://gitlab.com/literally-useful/voxos
Author: Falimonda
Description: Voxos is an open-source desktop voice assistant that aims to put Clippy to shame while supporting new desktop workflows powered by LLMs.
Tired of copy and pasting ChatGPT responses between your web browser and IDE?
Does your copilot not quite do what you need it to do?
I invite you to give Voxos a try and maybe even become a contributor!
Popularity: 123 points | 50 comments
2. Show HN: Roundtable – Survey fraud and bot detection API
URL: #
Author: timshell
Description: Hi HN, we're Mayank and Matt of Roundtable (https://www.roundtable.ai). We launched our Survey Simulator as part of YC S23 (see Launch HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36865625), and ultimately decided to pivot because we couldn't convince users to trust our results and our value proposition wasn't clear.
We conducted tons of user discovery interviews, and a lot of big players talked about the pain of manual QC and bot detection. We launched a survey fraud and bot detection API (Alias; docs.roundtable.ai) that determines whether a bot is answering your survey or not. Our API embeds Javascript into survey programs (Forsta, Qualtrics, jsPsych, etc.) to track user behavior and make a judgment on whether the data is from a high-quality participant.
You can use our demo, and try to break it, here: https://www.roundtable.ai/hn-demo. See if you can generate LLM-based text without any flags going off! Feedback welcome!
Popularity: 21 points | 9 comments
3. Show HN: We built a multimodal AI interviewer for mock system design interviews
URL: https://app.techinterviewer.ai?source=hn
Author: jmtame
Description: Hey HN! We’re Jared, Shreyas, and Varun the creators of TechInterviewer. We’re building a product for software engineers to go through an entirely simulated systems design interview. Our AI interviewer, Steve, gives you a prompt and you talk out loud and draw on a whiteboard while Steve guides you through the interview and gives real-time feedback. Check out our demo:
https://app.techinterviewer.ai
Every software engineer today has to prepare for systems design interviews and have two awful options: pay hundreds of dollars for a single session with a FAANG engineer or follow silently alongside a YouTube playlist. Because there is no instant feedback while practicing, engineers often learn about their most important knowledge gaps during the course of the interview loop.
Jared and Shreyas are both senior engineers who have spent 1000s of hours preparing for and administering systems design interviews. Shreyas was an early engineer at Deepgram and spent many years tracking developments in the TTS (text to speech) space. He realized that voice interviews had potential to change the candidate experience when he starting using chatGPT to prepare for interviewing founding engineer candidates at his startup.
We’re hoping that having easy access to interview feedback will level the playing field of software engineers at different skill levels. We’re really excited to share this with you all and we’d love any thoughts, feedback, and comments
Popularity: 11 points | 7 comments
4. Show HN: Job Log – Job Application Tracker
URL: https://joblog-phi.vercel.app/
Author: dyz
Description: Happy Friday HN!
Long time lurker, first time poster here. I, along with many others in recent times, have been affected by the layoffs impacting the tech industry, and I'm currently on the software engineering job hunt. I had been tracking my job applications via Excel to help facilitate my WA state unemployment claims, but am (personally) anti-Excel / against using spreadsheets. I also wanted to explore the latest and greatest NextJS / Vercel features, so thought this would be a great time to learn something new! Job Log was never really meant to see the light of day for other users, but I thought "why not?" if it might help others in their job search hunt.
Note: this was built in about a week, so will definitely be a little rough around the edges. Please be patient as I continue to build on this!
You can learn more here: https://joblog-phi.vercel.app/about
Feel free to leave any feedback here in this thread or email me at joblogservice@gmail.com! Hope everyone has a great weekend!
Popularity: 3 points | 9 comments
5. Show HN: Free AI Writing Tools
URL: https://www.thesamur.ai/tools
Author: Anil1331
Description:
Popularity: 11 points | 0 comments
6. Show HN: We built an AI multimodal interviewer for mock system design interviews
URL: https://app.techinterviewer.ai/
Author: jmtame
Description: Hey HN! We're Jared, Shreyas, and Varun the creators of TechInterviewer. We're building a product for software engineers to go through an entirely simulated systems design interview. Our AI interviewer, Steve, gives you a prompt and you talk out loud and draw on a whiteboard while Steve guides you through the interview and gives real-time feedback. Check out our demo:
https://app.techinterviewer.ai
Every software engineer today has to prepare for systems design interviews and have two awful options: pay hundreds of dollars for a single session with a FAANG engineer or follow silently alongside a YouTube playlist. Because there is no instant feedback while practicing, engineers often learn about their most important knowledge gaps during the course of the interview loop.
Jared and Shreyas are both senior engineers who have spent 100s of hours preparing for and administering systems design interviews. Shreyas was an early engineer at Deepgram and spent many years tracking developments in the TTS (text to speech) space. He realized that voice interviews had potential to change the candidate experience when he starting using chatGPT to prepare for interviewing founding engineer candidates at his startup.
We're hoping that having easy access to interview feedback will level the playing field of software engineers at different skill levels. We're really excited to share this with you all and we'd love any thoughts, feedback, and comments
Popularity: 8 points | 1 comments
7. Show HN: AI-Powered Browser Tab Manager – TabMate
Author: justfinish
Description: Hello HN,
My friend and I have spent the last month building an AI-powered browser tab manager. It's a Chrome extension that automatically categorizes all tabs into topics.
It also supports some basic organization features like custom groups and locked groups (groups that AI doesn't touch). We would like to experiment with a few other things like nested folders, sync with browser tab grouping, user controlled prompt & categories soon!
At the moment we just started looking for early adopters to help us test it + provide suggestions and feedback! Please consider giving it a try if this sounds interesting to you! (Or tell us here why it's a terrible idea and how it could be more useful! ;D)
Thank you!
-Lance
Popularity: 6 points | 3 comments
8. Show HN: I made a Wordle Game suitable for my children to play – Wordle Junior
Author: kianworkk
Description: Wordle Junior is a Wordle game version specifically designed for kids, aiming to provide an educational and entertaining experience for young players. Here are the key features of our product: 1.More Guesses: Unlike the traditional Wordle game, Wordle Junior offers 8 chances to guess, allowing kids more time and opportunities to explore and learn. 2.4-Letter Words: We carefully select four-letter words that are both interesting and appealing to children, making it a fun way for them to learn new vocabulary. 3.Fun Hints: After several attempts, the game provides fun hints to help young players find the correct answer, enhancing the game's interactivity and enjoyment. 4.Unrestricted Play: You can play Wordle Junior multiple times a day with no limitations, ensuring they can enjoy the game anytime they want.
Popularity: 6 points | 2 comments
9. Show HN: Flat – a minimalist teamwork app that protects focus (live demo)
URL: #
Author: Aalk4308
Description: Hi HN! We're Seth, Andrew, & Marcin.
After a decade of wanting a simple, lightweight teamwork tool and not finding one, we decided to build one ourselves. You can try out what we're building in a sandbox demo here: https://try.flat.app.
We’re calling it Flat, and we have two main goals:
1. Everyone can figure it out in just a few minutes, from the intern to the zero-patience CEO.
2. It doesn’t create extra work for anybody. Everything written in Flat would have been written somewhere anyway; Flat just provides an obvious, consistent place to put it.
If you check out the demo, please let us know how you think we’re doing on these goals and where we could do better. (Mobile users, there’s a video for you since Flat is desktop-only at the moment.)
Also: we think it's crazy that work communication has become so dominated by synchronous chat e.g. Slack and Teams over the past decade. It's too easy for balls to get dropped, it’s hard to get real work done, and it's hard to find things. Chat is great for some things, but we don’t think it should be the center of our work lives or the system of record. So Flat includes async discussion threads that are as quick and easy as chat but without the downsides.
You can read more about why we're building Flat at https://flat.app/why.
HN FAQ
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How baked is this? We’re still in beta, but it’s pretty darn baked.
What’s your business model? No-nonsense SaaS. We’re currently in beta and free for all teams, but you can find our future pricing on our homepage.
Does this have a proper integration with GitHub? Yes it does, because we're using Flat to build Flat!
Is this an “alternative to Jira”? Ha, no. Though… some teams have in fact migrated to Flat from Jira. So, maybe?
Is this an “opinionated” tool? Yes and no. Flat eschews complex features in favor of a small set of simple primitives (workspaces, topics, tasks, and threads). But Flat has no opinion about how you should work.
Is there a dark mode? You bet. It's in the demo, try it!
What's your stack? React, TS, PostgreSQL & Replicache (all data’s local, and Flat works offline)
Do you have a mobile app? Not yet, but we will. We've been focused on making the desktop experience great first.
Hang on, is this an Electron app? You got us! Feel free to use Flat in-browser if that offends you.
Popularity: 6 points | 2 comments
10. Show HN: I create online gnuplot playground using WebAssembly
URL: https://gnuplot.io
Author: rishidevkota
Description:
Popularity: 8 points | 0 comments
11. Show HN: RankIt - Private leagues w/ranking for tabletennis, shuffleboard, dart
Author: HenningF
Description:
Popularity: 2 points | 5 comments
12. Show HN: We built a bathroom rental marketplace
URL: https://flush-2011f.web.app
Author: eszabo
Description:
Popularity: 1 points | 6 comments
13. Show HN: RunComfy – ComfyUI cloud and guaranteed working AI video workflows
URL: https://www.runcomfy.com/
Author: henlee
Description: Hi HN! We just launched the RunComfy, a website let you run ComfyUI in the cloud.
We see two problems now facing by the ComfyUI community,
- most of the shared workflows will not run correctly on your own local box,
- two most of us don't have a good enough GPU for video generation (I spent about 3 hours on my local box to restyle a short 10 seconds clip).
Our solution is,
- AI video/image generation workflows listed in the RunComfy(https://www.runcomfy.com/explore) are guaranteed to run in the cloud env (We spent most our time on this)
- Very powerful RTX GPUs are running in the backend.
Try it out here, https://www.runcomfy.com/. Have fun, and lmk if you have any feedback! ;)
Also, feel free to join our Discord with lots of good folks making really nice art stuff w/ ComfyUI: https://discord.gg/aGGB4jhD7k
Popularity: 2 points | 4 comments
14. Show HN: ML pipeline that creates a model to produce ML pipelines
URL: https://github.com/zenml-io/zenml-projects/tree/main/zencoder
Author: htahir111
Description:
Popularity: 4 points | 2 comments
15. Show HN: I Created a Snake Game
URL: https://harshulpandav.github.io/snake.html
Author: harshulpandav
Description: I wrote this game for fun using JavaScript and a bit of JQuery. Hope you enjoy playing it!
Popularity: 4 points | 1 comments
16. Show HN: Text λ – Safe text storage app (Beta)
Author: apshrestha
Description: Text λ is a simple text storage app with user-side encryption. It is currently available for Beta testing.
I would appreciate any feedback or suggestions on the product.
Thank you.
Popularity: 4 points | 0 comments
17. Show HN: Tybalt – A collection of tools for building web components
URL: http://tybalt.org/
Author: AShedOfTools
Description: I wanted to learn more about web components/custom elements, and also about how the big JavaScript meta frameworks work, so I've been doing some research into how to fit a framework together. It's not intended for use in production today, and may never be, as it's primary purpose is educational.
Popularity: 3 points | 1 comments
18. Show HN: BoilerBot – Amazon Alexa Prize Challenge 2 TaskBot Code, Purdue Team
URL: https://github.com/jinensetpal/boilerbot
Author: codeinassembly
Description: The open source reimplementation is not as quick or robust as the closed source implementation - hopefully I'll be able to find time to make upgrades soon.
Popularity: 4 points | 0 comments
19. Show HN: I created an AI commercial about GitHub (just for fun)
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oA3ecAvGk9g
Author: igorkotua
Description: In childhood I dreamt about becoming a film director. But then I became a developer :)
In the last months I've seen a lot of AI films on Twitter. So I decided that given my knowledge about AI tools I should try to shoot a film.
The only question was, that this film should be about?
I am working at an open-source startup (crowd.dev) and recently I also made a side-project that generates AI pictures in a GitHub logo style (octoart.vercel.app).
GitHub even wrote about me in the blog (https://github.blog/2023-12-19-release-radar-dec-2023/).
So I thought, why not to shoot a commercial about GitHub? It is a relatively short format and there is a chance GitHub will write about me (again).
So yes, I went ahead and created this AI commercial using MidJourney, Runwayml, Pika and ElevenLabs.
Maybe it's stupid and silly, but to be honest I don't care - I just wanted to experiment.
Would love to hear your thoughts about the film!
Thanks :)
Popularity: 2 points | 0 comments
20. Show HN: CoWordle – 1v1 Multiplayer Wordle
URL: https://cowordle.xyz
Author: gregzeng95
Description:
Popularity: 1 points | 1 comments
21. Show HN: Website for Brutalist Buildings in London, UK
URL: https://brutalistmap.jackkershaw.net/
Author: jones58
Description:
Popularity: 1 points | 1 comments
22. Show HN: Agents – Open source framework for realtime multimodal AI
URL: https://github.com/livekit/agents
Author: russ
Description:
Popularity: 2 points | 0 comments
23. Show HN: Claude and ChatGPT can't do basic operations?
URL: #
Author: laurex
Description: Fascinating experience in trying to get Claude and ChatGPT to do basic data analysis. I pasted a list of 290 locations into each tool and asked each one to tell me the percentage each location represented in the data set as well as a count for each location.
Both of them were wildly wrong for different reasons.
Claude completely miscounted the number of instances for one location. https://imgur.com/a/ShaORko
And then it kind of tried to gaslight me about it. https://imgur.com/a/ehbQ9hu
(EDIT) ChatGPT incorrectly counted instances and then reported that one location it said had 189 instances (actually 91) represented 99.47% of the dataset. Other locations had also incorrect percentages and the total percentage was far over 100%. This seems to be because despite identifying the instances individually, it was calculating using a total of 190 instances. https://imgur.com/a/yNcAHZB
Presumably this has something to do with the data format, but it was simply a copy-paste from a single column in a Google Sheet, which strikes me as a pretty standard format for data. I also pasted the same data into a different Google Sheet and it behaved normally.
Popularity: 2 points | 0 comments
24. Show HN: Jeki – Code-sharing widget with dynamic parts
URL: https://jeki.io/
Author: dtymoshuk
Description: Hi HN, I’m Danyil, founder of Jeki – an open-source code-sharing widget with dynamic parts for editing predefined sections into the widget directly instead of the copy-and-paste routine into a separate editor.
You can integrate the Jeki widget into your Confluence pages as a macro or add it to your HTML ones as a web component. Additionally, our CLI tool is a valuable asset for anyone dealing with Bash commands.
For a hands-on experience, visit https://jeki.io to watch a demo and explore the widget's capabilities.
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Developers worldwide are increasingly involved in documenting inner source software, runbooks, and deployment procedures, yet the process often lacks convenience, particularly when adapting it to specific needs. Take, for instance, Bash commands: the repetitive cycle of copying, pasting, modifying, and executing in a console is far from efficient.
Our solution simplifies this challenge, empowering developers to streamline their workflow, enhance efficiency, and eliminate errors associated with manual copy-pasting. This tool is designed to change how developers work, providing a seamless experience.
— — —
The Jeki widget macro designed for Confluence will soon be accessible on the Atlassian marketplace by the end of this month. We're gearing up to make our repositories publicly accessible later this month.
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We want to go forward and provide organizations with premium development tools that leverage advanced functionalities based on the core features of our widget.
We're eager for you to experience Jeki and provide us with your valuable feedback! Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments section.
Follow our Linkedin page for updates: https://www.linkedin.com/company/jeki-io
Popularity: 2 points | 0 comments
25. Show HN: The LeadSavvy Pro Story. For Facebook Marketers
Author: Tim_Builds
Description: Hello, I'm Tim, solo founder of LeadSavvy Pro. I wanted to share a bit of my journey as a solo entrepreneur, the challenges faced, and the creation of LeadSavvy Pro – a tool born out of a simple idea to make accessing Facebook Leads easier for everyone.
I'm hoping to get some feedback and ideas on how best to market LeadSavvy Pro.
LeadSavvy Pro is the most cost effective and simply way to sync and access your Facebook Leads. https://leadsavvy.pro
My journey started with a realization: businesses needed a straightforward solution for accessing leads. Facebook Leads access is quite difficult on a mobile device and the most robust way to access your leads is by downloading csv files (again a challenge on mobile devices). With that in mind, I set out on a solo venture to develop a tool that simplifies lead management, reducing manual effort, and making life a bit easier for businesses.
I started grinding 6 months ago. The road wasn't easy, especially with a day job. Late nights and overcoming technical challenges were part of the process. Yet, each hurdle became a learning opportunity, helping LeadSavvy Pro evolve from a concept to a robust tool.
LeadSavvy Pro isn't just about features; it's about being user-friendly. I aimed to create an interface that even those without technical know-how could navigate effortlessly. The goal was to empower users without overwhelming them.
LeadSavvy Pro emerged as a simple solution to send Facebook leads directly to Google Sheets. No complicated integrations or premium zaps – just a straightforward, cost-effective tool designed to make lead management hassle-free.
Going beyond lead transfer, LeadSavvy Pro includes a built-in lead viewer and the beginnings of CRM functionality. Now, businesses can nurture leads within the platform, creating a central hub for efficient customer relationship management.
This solo entrepreneur journey has been about turning an idea into a tool that simplifies a small part of business life. LeadSavvy Pro isn't a grand revolution; it's a personal project aimed at making lead management accessible. Given time, I would like to make LeadSavvy Pro the go to tool for marketing agencies and their clients alike.
If you have any feedback or some interesting ideas on how best to market and get the word out, I would love to hear them.
Cheers, Tim
Popularity: 1 points | 0 comments
26. Show HN: Aoi Speak – practice languages with AI native speakers
URL: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/aoi-speak-learning-languages/id6456224117
Author: shellfly
Description:
Popularity: 1 points | 0 comments
27. Show HN: GitHub Desktop (GUI for Git operation)
URL: https://desktop.github.com/
Author: ahmednazir
Description: GitHub Desktop is a graphical user interface (GUI) for managing your Git repositories. It simplifies common Git tasks, making it more user-friendly for those who prefer a visual interface over the command line. You can use it to clone repositories, manage branches, and commit changes easily.
What is your opinion about github desktop?
Popularity: 1 points | 0 comments
28. Show HN: I made this custom Valentine's gift maker
URL: https://www.lovecation.com/moments
Author: armir
Description:
Popularity: 1 points | 0 comments
29. Show HN: Open Graph Debugger
URL: https://imgsrc.io/tools/open-graph-debugger
Author: fadymak
Description:
Popularity: 1 points | 0 comments
30. Show HN: Modular, A Start for Apps using: Laravel, Vue, Inertia.js and Tailwind.
URL: https://docs.ismodular.com/
Author: dccintra
Description: A Starting Point for Apps using: Laravel, Vue, Inertia.js and Tailwind CSS.
Popularity: 1 points | 0 comments
31. Show HN: workin – A web app to create and run smart trainer workouts
URL: https://github.com/jsmolka/workin
Author: jsmolka
Description:
Popularity: 1 points | 0 comments
32. Show HN: GopherSignal – Instant Summaries for HN Articles
URL: https://gophersignal.com/
Author: computers3333
Description: Hi HN, I've created Gopher Signal specifically for our community here. It's a tool that generates quick summaries of lengthy Hacker News articles.
Gopher Signal is your solution for those moments when your curiosity is as endless as a cat's, but your time and tab space aren't. It's the laser pointer that cuts through lengthy reads, saving your browser from becoming a tab-hoarding alley cat.
Try it out at https://gophersignal.com or check out the code https://github.com/k-zehnder/gophersignal
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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