Show HN Today: Top Developer Projects Showcase for 2024-09-25
Explore the hottest developer projects on Show HN for 2024-09-25. Dive into innovative tech, AI applications, and exciting new inventions!
Summary of Today’s Content
Today’s content features a range of innovative projects presented on Hacker News. Highlights include ZenithChat, an Instagram DM automation tool for e-commerce; EdgeOne Pages, a free website hosting service; and a C++ library for task parallelism called Coros. Additionally, Ameliorate aims to help visualize complex discussions, while Noisefill offers open-source soundscapes. Other notable entries include a job board for remote four-day work weeks, a conversion tool for ADHD reading, and Launchgrid, which aggregates new product launches. Users are encouraged to explore these platforms and provide feedback to enhance their functionality.
1. Show HN: Instagram Messages Automation
Author: zenith_chat
Description: Hi HN, I’m Petar, Lead Software Engineer at ZenithChat. We recently launched a chatbot designed to help e-commerce stores automate their Instagram DM interactions. Many e-commerce stores struggle to keep up with responding to a large volume of customer messages on Instagram. This often leads to generic automated responses or, worse, no response at all. Even if a support team is in place, answering the same set of questions repeatedly can become tedious.
That’s why we built ZenithChat—a smarter way to automate DM interactions. Our goal is to help page owners engage more effectively with their customers, ultimately leading to more sales.
Unlike other Instagram automation tools, ZenithChat is personalized and easy to set up—no complicated drag-and-drop builders. You can connect it to your Instagram page in just a few clicks, and it’s ready to go.
While other similar tools can also use LLM’s, ZenithChat goes beyond basic API calls. It understands your Instagram posts, website content, and more. For example, you can forward it a post or a story, and ZenithChat will automatically pull all relevant product info. It can even handle customer orders by collecting shipping info, leaving you to just send out that order.
This is just the beginning—we have a lot more planned for the future!
If you’re interested in learning more, check out our website or our recent Product Hunt launch: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/zenithchat.
You can also test it live on our demo Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/zenithchat__shop/
We’d love your feedback and suggestions on how we can improve!
Popularity: 1 points | 0 comments
2. Show HN: Free Website Hosting with CDN Integration
URL: https://github.com/TencentEdgeOne/pages-templates
Author: oceanqa
Description: Hi HN!
We are excited to show you EdgeOne Pages, a free website hosting platform for developers and businesses. Our aim is to provide efficient, reliable, and secure website deployment and management services.
We’ve significantly simplified the deployment process. You can bind your existing GitHub repository to our platform with just a few clicks. After that, our platform automatically executes the deployment work whenever you commit code to the build branch, improving development efficiency and reducing operational costs.
Leveraging our vast network of global edge nodes and CDN servers, you can efficiently deploy web applications near users. This means users will access your resources from the nearest location, minimizing latency and avoiding cross-regional network issues.
We will soon introduce more edge features, such as edge storage, to further enhance your application’s potential.
Compared to other website hosting platforms currently on the market, EdgeOne Pages stands out by offering all its features completely free of charge.
We still have a long way to go and would love to hear your feedback.
Popularity: 3 points | 0 comments
3. Show HN: An app to beat wallpaper apps on iPhone (try with app clip)
URL: https://on.social/on-lock-screen
Author: halidon
Description: Put your favourite photos on lock screen, it will stay always above notifications by using Live Activity
Available to try without downloading with App Clips
https://appclip.apple.com/id?p=com.convenience.on.On-Screen-…
Popularity: 1 points | 0 comments
4. Show HN: AI Optimizer for Crafting Perfect Hacker News Posts
URL: https://sibyllinesoft.github.io/hn-post-optimizer/
Author: CuriouslyC
Description: Hey HN! I’d like to introduce my latest project: an AI-powered post optimizer specifically designed for Hacker News. This tool was born out of my own struggle to create captivating posts that gain traction on HN. It uses your existing product or post information to produce optimized titles and bodies, drawing from successful past posts and relevant keywords.
How it works:
- Enter unstructured product and company details for your post, then pick some keywords (or let AI do that for you)
- Retrieve related successful Hacker News posts and select the most relevant ones as examples
- Answer AI generated questions to clarify and enhance your post’s value proposition
- Generate high quality draft posts!
This tool removes the guesswork from post creation, ensuring your content is presented in a way that resonates with the HN community. It’s designed to help you communicate your ideas more effectively and engage your audience. Try it out and let me know what you think!
Popularity: 2 points | 0 comments
5. Show HN: Coros – A Modern C++ Library for Task Parallelism
URL: https://github.com/mtmucha/coros
Author: singledigits
Description: Hello Hacker News.
I’m Martin, a graduate student from Prague, and I’ve been working on Coros, a C++ library for task-based parallelism.
After spending some time with OpenMP and oneTBB, I wanted to try building a library using modern features from the C++ standard library. I’ve used coroutines for task encapsulation and C++23 expected for exception handling, while trying to maintain good performance.
Additionally, I’ve implemented monadic-like behavior to allow easy chaining of tasks, similar to the monadic operations in std::expected.
You can check out the project here: https://github.com/mtmucha/coros
While this library isn’t fully-fledged or production-ready, I’d really appreciate your feedback!
Popularity: 100 points | 46 comments
6. Show HN: Hello Hotwire
URL: https://hellohotwire.com/
Author: justalever
Description:
Popularity: 2 points | 0 comments
7. Show HN: I Made a Remote Only 4 Day Work Week Job Board
Author: Sontho
Description: I made a job board exclusive for remote 4 day work week jobs. It’s free to use and free to post. I started with all kinds of 4 day work week jobs and then slowly narrowed it down to remote 4 day work week jobs. Please use it and let me know what you think.
Popularity: 2 points | 0 comments
8. Show HN: Ameliorate – Analyze Debatable Problems
Author: keyserj
Description: Hi HN, I’m building Ameliorate, a tool that helps you visualize all details and perspectives relevant to a problem.
I get frustrated when discussions about problems don’t go anywhere. When problems are complex and people have different understandings, it gets really hard to effectively communicate about it all.
In order to reduce misunderstandings, I feel that it would be immensely helpful if
- discussion is contextualized within a visual breakdown of the problem,
- we’re explicit about intuitions, reasoning, unknowns, and
- we can acknowledge nuanced details without stepping away from our main points.
I think doing these things in a manner that’s organized, navigable, and maintainable is something that’s more achievable with a specialized tool. I’m not aware of such a tool[1], so I started building Ameliorate.
I feel strongly that a tool like this, if done well, could really help with solving problems generally. I’ve been working on it full-time for a year and a half now, and I plan on spending at least the next year[2] continuing full-time.
There’s a lot of refining to do, and I have a million ideas[3] for ways to improve the tool, but now that it’s got a solid base of features, I’m focusing more on finding opportunities to share about the tool and help others benefit from using it for their own situations (and therefore to get more feedback for refining it further).
I’d love to hear any suggestions, questions, criticism, or feedback you have :)
Repo: https://github.com/amelioro/ameliorate
[1] Tools for argument (e.g. https://www.kialo.com/) handle reasoning very well, but don’t contextualize them within the breakdown of a problem. Ibis diagram tools (e.g. https://debatemap.app/) do the same, and nicely allow contextualizing arguments to a problem (in the form of a question or position), but don’t break down the problem. Free-form diagram tools (e.g. https://miro.com/) allow you to visualize the breakdown of a problem, but can’t help much with organizing/navigating all the details because kinds of information aren’t distinguished.
[2] If it takes off, I might look for ways to get funding, but I don’t want to go any routes that impede accessibility or UX (maybe offering private hosting, consulting, workshops?)
[3] https://github.com/orgs/amelioro/projects/2/views/1
Popularity: 4 points | 0 comments
9. Show HN: Samarium: Readme Update
URL: https://github.com/oitcode/samarium
Author: cbswei
Description: README is updated.
Popularity: 1 points | 0 comments
10. Show HN: ConverForm – Conversational Forms Builder
Author: Sllotan
Description:
Popularity: 12 points | 1 comments
11. Show HN: Classic Programming Quotes Turned into Free Vector Designs
URL: https://www.tshirtdesigns.com/programming-quotes/
Author: jonifico
Description:
Popularity: 3 points | 4 comments
12. Show HN: Noisefill – open-source soundscapes site
URL: https://www.noisefill.com/
Author: georg-stone
Description: Hello HN! Today I am launching my new soundscapes website called Noisefill. Noisefill lets you listen to soundscapes and white/pink/brown noise easily. It is completely open-source on GitHub.
The source code is available at https://github.com/georg-stone/noisefill
You can access it on the web at https://noisefill.com
Popularity: 6 points | 1 comments
13. Show HN: Launchgrid – Explore Today’s Launches Across Product Hunt and Show HN
URL: https://launchgrid.blitlabs.com
Author: justspamjustin
Description: Hundreds of new tech ideas are launched every day. The best communities online for these launches are right here on Hacker News and of course Product Hunt. However, if you want to try and discover your next favorite product, often what you want to see are screenshots and some more detail about the product before drilling into it. So I created Launchgrid to give you that quick overview of each launch across Show HN and PH. This way you’ll have a quicker and more pleasant experience discovering the new products of today!
The main features are:
- Aggregates today’s launches for both Product Hunt and Hacker News
- The first screenshot from PH, and the open graph image from HN are shown for each launch
- If there’s no OG image for an HN post, a screenshot of the website is shown
- Link to PH or HN from the launch card, but also a direct link to the product
- Ability to install as a progressive web app
Some ideas for the future of this project:
- Archive for the launches of previous days
- An RSS feed so you can consume the same content in your app of choice
- Introduce more sources. Are there other sources for new launches that you think I should include?
- What else?
Please take a moment to check it out and let me know what you think! Thank you!
Popularity: 3 points | 1 comments
14. Show HN: Sell Event Tickets with Stripe
URL: https://tixfox.co
Author: iyared
Description: TixFox is integrated with Stripe, allowing you to connect your Stripe account and start selling tickets in minutes.
Popularity: 1 points | 0 comments
15. Show HN: Hey, Community
URL: #
Author: yiyiya
Description: I’m Emily, part of the team at Habox. I just wanted to take a quick moment to introduce us. At Habox, we’re all about making file sharing as simple as it should be. We know how frustrating it can get when it takes too many steps to send a file or collaborate smoothly with others. That’s why we’ve worked hard to create a tool that streamlines everything for you—whether you’re managing documents or collaborating with your team, it’s all straightforward and efficient.
I’m not here to make big claims or say we’ve got it all figured out. We’re learning and growing every day, based on real feedback from users like you. What we can promise is that we’re always listening and committed to making the experience better.
I’m purposely keeping this post light, without any flashy links or promotions. I just wanted to introduce Habox, share a little about what we’re aiming for, and connect with anyone who’s curious. If you have thoughts or ideas, feel free to share—I’d love to hear them!
Thanks for your time!
Popularity: 3 points | 3 comments
16. Show HN: Orbit (Fleetdm) Desktop Notifier
URL: https://github.com/ilpianista/orbit-notifier
Author: ilpianista
Description: So, at my company they started using fleetdm, which is fair (they even disabled some privacy concerning tables), but I’m a privacy freak so I’ve enabled orbit log file and wrote this script to get a desktop notification whenever a query is performed by remote.
In future I would like to implement “allowed queries” so that I don’t get a notification for known queries.
Popularity: 1 points | 0 comments
17. Show HN: I had AI pre-screen candidates’ resumes
URL: https://github.com/sliday/resume-job-matcher
Author: kulesh
Description:
Popularity: 9 points | 5 comments
18. Show HN: CombatChurn – Cancellation flow builder for Stripe
Author: svenvdz
Description: Churn is a big problem for most SaaS, but most of it is easily preventable by offering alternative options.
That’s were CombatChurn comes in, it easily allows you to create churn reducing cancellations flows using our drag and drop editor. Offer exclusive deals to your customers, allow them to temporarily pause subscriptions or get in touch with you.
We can’t however stop every customer from churning, but we can help you prevent it from happing in the future. By giving you advanced insights in reasons why customers are churning to give you the possibility to fix those.
CombatChurn is far from finished, I am planning to add more features around recapturing churned users and providing insights which customers are at-risk of churning.
P.S. We have a special deal for launch day, 50% OFF the first year of Scale! Claim it before it expires.
Popularity: 1 points | 0 comments
19. Show HN: ADHD Chrome Extension
URL: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/adhd-reader-lite/mnpbibangepcjlihpcojcjgdbeaojifl
Author: codewithbernard
Description: I wanted to build something fun and useful and that’s how this ADHD Reader was born.
- It turns any webpage into distraction-free reading experience.
- It removes ads, images, banners (pretty much everything except text).
- You can set your preferred font size.
- I also added bionic reading experience.
Popularity: 1 points | 0 comments
20. Show HN: I built a fast, simple, and affordable Image CDN
URL: https://magecdn.com/
Author: shubhamjain
Description:
Popularity: 4 points | 2 comments
21. Show HN: I put everything windows was missing in an app
Author: Ad_stefnum
Description: I wanted an infinite clipboard that things didn’t get lost from after a few copies.
I wanted a fast way to convert my speech to text.
I decided to build it. Been using it now and enjoying it.
Please read and share. Thank you.
Popularity: 4 points | 0 comments
22. Show HN: WebJSX – A tiny Web Components and JSX library
URL: https://webjsx.org/
Author: jeswin
Description:
Popularity: 19 points | 13 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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