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Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list?

• jimdavenport 6y ago
  As an ethical vegetarian for the past five years, I've very interested in cultured (lab-grown) meat technology[1]. FWIW, I'm very happy with my diet and probably wouldn't switch back even if this does become affordable, but I'm 100% supportive of the concept of cruelty-free meat. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultured_meat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultured_meat
  • danieltillett 6y ago
    I am an ethical meat eater. I would rather eat grass fed beef and lamb than see the additional suffering of hundreds/thousands of rodents (let alone the tens of millions of insects) that me adopting a vegetarian diet would induce. Being poisoned or shredded in a harvester is not a cruelty-free way to die. On a more philosophical note, I think it is better to have lived and died than to not have ever existed. Given very few cattle and sheep would be born if it wasn’t for meat/dairy production then a case can be made that meat eating is the more ethical option. I do admit that this view is incompatible with my first opinion as there would be many more animals born if I adopted a vegetarian diet.
    • saila 6y ago
      Massive amounts of grain are fed to livestock, and vast acreage is cleared for grazing livestock. If everyone went vegetarian, I'm fairly certain the amount of crops grown and land we use for agriculture would be significantly less. Turning grain into meat is highly inefficient.
      • wolco2 6y ago
        Why does everyone have to become vegetarian? When everyone stops eating meat and turns to "healthy" meals like corn based vegetarian burgers I think we are all worse off. Variety, locally grown produce, locally raised animals is the best way to keep diversity and quality. The vegetarian food available now is good because it's not as mass produced.
        • rhn_mk1 6y ago
          The point of ethical vegetarianism is not keeping diversity and quality of foods, it's preventing bad life of animals. It's also not the point of ecological vegetarianism: it's preserving the diversity of natural ecosystems, as opposed to food farms.
          • danieltillett 6y ago
            Grass fed cattle and sheep have a pretty good life. What you are arguing against is intensive feedlots.
            • rhn_mk1 6y ago
              There's a third aspect to that. Or maybe it's another ecology problem. While I don't have the numbers, I strongly suspect there's not enough grass to feed all the humans the amount of meat they would like to eat right now. At least based on observing the prices of intensive vs grass fed, or watching the numbers for intensive production alone. So if we want grass fed as the new normal, we're either going to have to intensify it back again, or we'll end up eating respectively less meat. That's near-vegetarianism or bust.
    • corobo 6y ago
      You're allowed to just say you like eating meat mate, haha
      • danieltillett 6y ago
        I certainly do like eating meat and I don’t think there is any ethical problem with eating meat. The problem with trying to use ethics to justify a position is there is little agreement on what is ethical or not.
        • xupybd 6y ago
          Some people are not comfortable killing an animal to eat it. To them it's not an ethical choice. I have no problem killing an animal for food. I also have no problem with someone else finding it unethical. Each person has their own beliefs that govern their ethics. As long as we all find a way to live peacefully together there is nothing wrong with that.
          • danieltillett 6y ago
            I am in 100% agreement with this sentiment, what I am not in agreement with is that vegetarians are somehow more ethical than meat eaters.
    • jimdavenport 6y ago
      This is a new and surprising take.
      • jgwil2 6y ago
        This incredibly stupid take is actually pretty common on HN whenever vegetarianism comes up. I don't know whether they're simply mocking the serious thought many people have put into the ethics of eating animals or what, but it's manifestly false and patently ridiculous to claim that eating plants kills more animals than eating animals.
        • nefitty 6y ago
          Some people have a hard time engaging with ideas that might cast them in a negative, ethical light. I’ve had people abruptly stop me from explaining ethical vegetarianism, even though they initiated the conversation haha
          • danieltillett 6y ago
            Some people don’t think there is any ethical problem with eating meat and rather than get into an argument with a vegetarian prefer to end the conversation. I am not one of these people.
          • minot 6y ago
            On a side note, I never followed the project very closely but I was really hopeful for soylent. What happened? Is the technology just not there? Do we not know enough about human physiology? What is missing to take the soylent idea — which I understood as automate most (boring) meals — and make it a reality? I saw a quora answer which says we simply don’t know enough about the science behind food but to me it implies that maybe some day our knowledge will get there? People laugh but the idea of “bachelor chow” from futurama makes sense to me. I don’t know enough about the topic of ethical vegetarianism to criticize it. I eat meat. In fact, I had fish for dinner last night. I just don’t think about the ethics of it. Now I may sound hypocritical when I say this because I’m against policy action through taxation (make taxes as simple as possible by eliminating all income tax credits and deductions). However, I know I’ll continue to eat meat (including milk, eggs, chicken, pork) unless it is either too impractical or too expensive. I want to believe that if push comes to shove I’ll be able to adjust my eating habits and that my current eating habits are not a part of my identity. I don’t really have a point to make here except that something like soylent would go a long way toward making me vegetarian at least for the meals I eat alone.
    • ivalm 6y ago
      Cattle eat more plant calories than the resultant meat. All those plant calories include the “vegetarian suffering.” Purely grass fed meats with no farming will be too inefficient to provide meat to everyone.
      • danieltillett 6y ago
        Sure meat might become more of a luxury than it is now, but in a calorie to calorie trade off grains have a higher animal kill rate than grass fed meat. I don’t many people are aware how many rodents are killed harvesting and storing grain.
    • trianglem 6y ago
      I like meat too and won’t give it up unless decent lab grown meat comes around but this comment is the most dissembling nonsense I have heard in a while.
      • danieltillett 6y ago
        It is no more nonsense that the OP’s argument. If you do an analysis on animals killed per calorie, grains kill many more animals than say grass fed cattle. I think many people are unaware how many rodents are killed every year growing and harvesting grains. I don’t think this is a very good reason to eat or not eat meat.
        • jgwil2 6y ago
          Citation?
          • danieltillett 6y ago
            https://grdc.com.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0015/207321/mousemgtsep1120fact20sheet.pdf https://grdc.com.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0015/207321/mouse...
            • jgwil2 6y ago
              This PDF is a flyer on pest control, presumably targeted at growers of grain. Nowhere does it contain anything resembling the "analysis on animals killed per calorie" you referred to.
    • chrisdirkis 6y ago
      > On a more philosophical note, I think it is better to have lived and died than to not have ever existed. Would that not lead to a desire to create as many "lives" as possible? I don't think I've met many people optimising for that, although I won't rule it out.
      • danieltillett 6y ago
        I would not be surprised if there was some religion out there that espoused such a doctrine, likely one that believed in reincarnation.
  • quiescant_dodo 6y ago
    What is an ethical vegetarian and how is it different from veganism? Sorry if I'm misunderstanding.
    • jamil7 6y ago
      People are vegan or vegetarian for various reasons, health, environmental or ethical. An ethical ovo-lacto vegetarian doesn't make much sense to me since the dairy industry is pretty cruel, egg production isn't great either.
      • Veen 6y ago
        I wouldn't call myself an "ethical ovo-lacto vegetarian" because it sounds pompous, but it's basically what I am. My position is that raising and killing animals for meat is unjustifiable by any reasonable ethical or environmental standard. However, it is possible for dairy and egg production to be ethical, even though it often isn't in practice. So, I try to source eggs and milk from producers who minimize suffering. For example, I could get eggs from a local smallholding where I can see for myself that the chickens live fairly good lives.
        • jamil7 6y ago
          I had a similar mindset and was vegetarian for around 7 years. My girlfriend 3 years ago challenged me on some of my thoughts and I bit the bullet and stopped eating all animal products. The transition is a lot easier if you’re already vegetarian and the amount of options around now make it really easy.
        • type0 6y ago
          > I wouldn't call myself an "ethical ovo-lacto vegetarian" because I wouldn't call myself an "pesca-pescatarian" but it sure sounds fun. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC-ZBJ-Kw2E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC-ZBJ-Kw2E
    • rhn_mk1 6y ago
      Perhaps it's someone who doesn't think in absolutes: sees the value of the ethical argument, but allows that other factors may dominate depending on the circumstances.
  • dmje 6y ago
    30 year pescetarian here. I mean, mainly vegetarian but some fish every so often. I gave up meat at 17 on the basis of no reason whatsoever, I was just a contrary teen who liked giving things up. Down the line a few years I find so many compelling reasons to not eat meat. Each individually may be argued out of the room but collectively it's pretty compelling. Ethically: there's no arguing meat eating is better. None. However well you treat animals you're still ultimately going to kill them. Environmentally: a hundred reasons to choose a plant based diet, all of which have been cycled here a million times so won't go back through it but we all know it's true. Health: again, see pretty much all the research ever. Eating a plant based diet is so much better for weight, health, BMI, etc etc etc Taste: this is the kicker imo. If you'd asked me 15 years ago when the vegetarian alternative was a crappy pasta with tomato sauce, I'd have been more tempted to chomp my way into a steak. Nowadays? There is SO much good vegetarian food. Loads of choice, huge range of flavours and in many places it's the vegetarian food that gets the chef's attention, rather than falling back on the Default Meat. I totally support anyone making whatever decision they like about eating meat, but I'm completely unable to agree that it's a good idea. Cultured meat in this context is a difficult one to parse. For people like me there's literally no point. I'm just not interested in eating steak, whether it's killed or grown. For your hardcore fleshy, a bloody slab of meat is all that's going to satiate them, so it misses that market too. I guess there's maybe a middle ground of people who could be convinced to stop eating killed meat if they see an alternative? It'll be interesting to see where this one goes and how it is marketed...
    • xupybd 6y ago
      Hardcore fleshy here. I have no ethical concern in killing an animal for food. But if someone can lab grow meat that tastes like meat sign me up. My only concerns would be taste, cost and food safety.
      • dmje 6y ago
        Out of interest, which would you choose on balance in a scenario in which the lab meat tasted the same, cost the same and came with the same food safety aspects?
  • Funes- 6y ago
    I'm interested in cultured meat as well, but also in cultured dairy. I follow an ovolactovegetarian diet, and I exercise heavily six days a week. I find it really difficult to take even the minimum 50 grams of complete (which is crucial) protein just from eggs, dairy, and plant-based foods. Having the chance of eating cruelty-free meat would save me from thinking so much about coming up with ways of fulfilling my nutritional requirements.
  • AntiImperialis2 6y ago
    I will never go vegetarian and will never eat fake meat, whether it's fabricated or cultured. I think it's ethical to kill living beings you can get away with. You may choose to limit it to plants. Some of us don't like to put fake limits on to ourselves like that. Even if I took the vegan position to show pretend virtue in front of people I wish to impress or annoy, I would still: - kill an animal to protect my child - pay to abort my unwanted child to protect myself from future obligations as a parent and a partner - kill humans who pose a threat to my life or that of a loved one
    • dang 6y ago
      Could you please stop posting flamebait and ideological battle-style comments to HN? You've done it a lot, and it's not what this site is for. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
• sanxiyn 6y ago
  SixtyFPS is a new GUI toolkit. It's on my watch list. https://sixtyfps.io/ https://sixtyfps.io/
  • adamnemecek 6y ago
    You guys should check out femtovg, the rendering framework sixtyfps is using https://github.com/femtovg/femtovg https://github.com/femtovg/femtovg that I’m coincidentally maintaining. SixtyFPS recently added WebGL support https://tronical.github.io/femtovg/examples/index.html https://tronical.github.io/femtovg/examples/index.html
• atonse 6y ago
  I started off more bullish about ForestAdmin but then maybe I just couldn’t grok it but what it auto-generated wasn’t as elegant (connecting to a Postgres server) as I’d hoped.
  • lumberjack24 6y ago
    Would you care to elaborate? Which parts of the admin API didn't you find elegant (the ORM, the express based framework?)?
• aaronbrethorst 6y ago
  Clickable (for folks on mobile, and whatnot): https://hasura.io/ https://hasura.io/ - Instant GraphQL with built-in authorization for your data https://strapi.io/ https://strapi.io/ - Open source Node.js Headless CMS https://www.forestadmin.com/ https://www.forestadmin.com/ - Forest Admin does all the heavy lifting of building the admin panel of your web application and provides an API-based framework to implement all your specific business processes. https://www.appgyver.com/ https://www.appgyver.com/ - The world's first professional no-code platform, enabling you to build apps for all form factors, including mobile, desktop, browser, TV and others. https://www.integromat.com/en https://www.integromat.com/en - Integromat is the most advanced online automation platform https://nodered.org/ https://nodered.org/ - Low-code programming for event-driven applications Interesting to me that I've never heard of any of these. Thanks for sharing.
• ghoomketu 6y ago
  I really like roam research and its open source alternative obsidian for note taking and research. But I feel there is still something lacking and there is definitely scope for a lot of improvement to make these type of software more useful. Still love the direction in which this is headed and it feels more in-sync than keeping a folder full of text files.
  • andreilys 6y ago
    What would you say is the advantage of roam research over the open source alternative of Obsidian?
    • ghoomketu 6y ago
      For starters roam is web based and the other one is desktop software. Also don't think there is a mobile app for later iirc. Also I was wrong that it's OSS. it's a free alternative, it's not OSS.
    • theptip 6y ago
      I tried both and found the UI to be better in Roam. The WYSIWYG aspect of Roam is real nice, vs having unrendered markdown in one pane and the rendered version on the other side. Also, the “daily notes” feature in Roam is really useful, it’s a small UI thing but it gives me a nudge to make a daily note when I do any thinking, rather than having to file it manually in Obsidian. Obsidian has most of the core stuff that Roam does though.
      • sali0 6y ago
        Obsidian also has a daily note extension built in to the app.
    • dahx4Eev 6y ago
      Block Level reference is a huge advantage. Obsidian supports page based reference.
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• mikewarot 6y ago
  Technology - Multilevel Security, which if widely deployed would solve almost all pedestrian IT security issues There are systems that work on mainframes, but the only realistic (in my opinion) option coming down the pike for the rest of us is from http://genode.org http://genode.org
  • DyslexicAtheist 6y ago
    I have been following genode since ~4 years and am surprised this hasn't caught on more. (from https://genode.org/documentation/general-overview/index https://genode.org/documentation/general-overview/index) == Mastering complexity through application-specific trusted computing bases > Because software complexity correlates with the likelihood for bugs, having security-sensitive functionality depending on high-complexity software is risky. The term trusted_computing_base (TCB) was coined to describe the amount of code that must not be compromised to uphold security. In addition to the code of the sensitive application, the TCB comprises each system component that has direct or indirect control over the execution of the application (affecting availability and integrity) or that can access the processed information (affecting confidentiality and integrity). On monolithic OSes, the TCB complexity can be regarded as a global system property because it is dominated by the complexity of the kernel and the privileged processes, which are essentially the same for each concurrently executed application. On Genode, the amount of security-critical code can largely differ for each application depending on the position of the application within Genode's process tree and the used services. To illustrate the difference, an email-signing application executed on Linux has to rely on a TCB complexity of millions of lines of code (LOC). Most of the code, however, does not provide functionality required to perform the actual cryptographic function of the signing application. Still, the credentials of the user are exposed to an overly complex TCB including the network stack, device drivers, and file systems. In contrast, Genode allows the cryptographic function to be executed with a specific TCB that consists only of components that are needed to perform the signing function. For the signing application, the TCB would contain the microkernel (20 KLOC), the Genode OS framework (10 KLOC), a minimally-complex GUI (2 KLOC), and the signing application (15 KLOC). These components stack up to a complexity of less than 50,000 LOC. > Genode tailors the trusted computing base for each application individually. The figure on the right illustrates the TCB of the yellow marked process. Naturally, it contains the hierarchy of parents and those processes that provide services used by the application (the left component at the third level).
• Beached 6y ago
  5d glass storage. I think it will revolutionize it, specifically the backup /dr world. it can't come fast enough
  • tomashertus 6y ago
    What is “5d glass storage”? Do you have any links on good source of information?
    • whiskypeters 6y ago
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5D_optical_data_storage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5D_optical_data_storage
      • thegreatpeter 6y ago
        Wow super cool. Doesn’t seem that far off either
      • raverbashing 6y ago
        Pretty cool. But this: > Assuming a 100% efficient laser, that is one watt-hour (3.6 kJ) of energy consumption for a maximum 0.5 Mbits of data storage. Is not good
        • kortex 6y ago
          That's 16 kWh per GB. About $2-4, or a around ten years of cloud storage. But this data lasts forever. And the energy costs will certainly drop.
• Havoc 6y ago
  Matrix. I also think we'll see much more fun ARM based SBC going forward. The raspberry pi 4 was already powerful enough to be useful & it's only going to get better.
  • Jamie9912 6y ago
    I heard that Matrix have already made some design errors that significantly impacts its scalability
    • raymond_goo 6y ago
      Could you please elaborate.
      • Jamie9912 6y ago
        Yeah it's shit for scaling
• wlflnhrdt 6y ago
  I am really looking forward to this product and the subsequent evolution of the tech: https://lookingglassfactory.com/ https://lookingglassfactory.com/ I would love a large screen version of it with an array of cameras that would allow people to communicate in some sort of futuristic FaceTime experience.
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• alasdair_ 6y ago
  I’m still bullish on AR once Apple launch Glass in early ‘22. Having a real-life videogame HUD with a blue marker showing my next destination sounds fantastic.
  • na85 6y ago
    Once Facebook and Google get their hooks in it'll be real life but "augmented" with ads and DRM.
    • m463 6y ago
      You mean cost-reduced/subsidized :)
  • DyslexicAtheist 6y ago
    Hard to wrap my head around the idea that civilians run around with these on their heads recording everything in their path including others who haven't consented. I hope it stays an assistive niche technology for people with disabilities and gamers. People wearing this in a pub or on the streets hopefully continue to get ridiculed (e.g. they were called "glassholes" for good reason). When they say that if a person loses one of their senses then the other senses become heightened, it's interesting to note that this does the opposite by attempting to heighten (augment) several senses. The net benefit is not just poor but negative since it just is one more way to overload our cognitive abilities. In other words who cares about the additional things (data points) we see when it makes us miss others (since it's still a distortion)
    • KozmoNau7 6y ago
      I think AR won't break through in the mainstream until the devices are indistinguishable from regular glasses. Of course people will know that it exists, but it gets over the important hurdle of "looks different and weird" Personally I'm not interested. I have no need to be connected all the time.
  • kilroy123 6y ago
    Me too! I think it will truly be the next big thing. I just recently got my first VR headset and it's very cool, but AR by Apple will be way bigger.
• randycupertino 6y ago
  I haven't found anything promising, but my nephew plays college football (against my lobbying him and my sister) and I've been keeping my eye out for an early diagnosis CTE assay. There's been a lot of hype over various protein analysis and Alzheimer diagnosis tests but so far nothing with legs.
• akudha 6y ago
  Anyone used appgyver? This one looks solid
  • lbotos 6y ago
    It's wild because I used to intern at Applique which was purchased by Appgyver, not sure how much is still powered by or was ever powered by the Applique core. I feel like react native is more prominent, but also it could be just the people I interact with.
    • thegreatpeter 6y ago
      Check out Draftbit (YC 18) that generates React Native (Expo) code for ya! Connect any backend. We’re launching a lot of exciting features in the next couple weeks! https://www.draftbit.com https://www.draftbit.com I’m one of the founders, would love to know what you think!
      • vmurthy 6y ago
        Exciting app :) . Have requested access to the private beta
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  • Kagerjay 6y ago
    Wow and it's free for less than $10MM ARR? I might just play around with it out of curiosity
• jpau 6y ago
  Snowflake's `Snowpark` product that they recently announced, which is to bring Spark-like APIs to Snowflake. Having a DS background, I love what SQL-orchestration tool dbt (and peers) have enabled: data consumers to rapidly create our own safe data pipelines. There's easily a 10x productivity improvement for most of my transformation pipelines vs. when I write them in Python or PySpark. But batch ML and SQL are not that friendly (even BigQuery ML is too limiting). I end up butchering dbt's value (simplicity and iteration speed), splitting the DAG into pieces and orchestrating them with Airflow so that I can wedge in other non-dbt parts (like feature engineering, inference, logging, detecting stale models, ...). This isn't what the future looks like. I've tried switching to Databricks, but do not see this as the path forward for unioning the warehouse + batch ML. Hopefully Snowpark is a step forward :) ------------------- Separately, https://materialize.com/ https://materialize.com/ is something I'm paying attention to! Being able to implement all of my SQL-based pipelines as materialized views would be immensely valuable. They recently raised capital and they could become huge.
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  • mr_toad 6y ago
    And not something like Spark on EMR?
    • jpau 6y ago
      Well no, unfortunately. Remember that "data is a team sport". Together, we try and make better decisions (in manual or automated ways). A DE can produce great data but it's only useful if it helps the DA/DS. There's a lot of friction there. Most of that friction disappears with SQL-based orchestration tools (I mean specifically dbt here, but there are others). Suddenly the analyst can create the data they need! With minimal guidance from a DE. That can be with Spark SQL (+ DeltaLake / Iceberg), or some warehouse. That's not the issue. The issue is around keeping orchestration simple when you're not just doing simple stuff anymore. Keeping that DAG logical, clear, and smooth is difficult once you include non-SQL items. This isn't solved by Spark UDFs unfortunately :)
• absolutelyrad 6y ago
  https://prisma.io https://prisma.io I love their Prisma 2 product. And it lives up to the hype, it is indeed a next generation ORM. Very useful when you're rushing to iterate.
  • tenaciousDaniel 6y ago
    I shied away from it because it didn’t seem to handle schema migrations well, but that was v1. Do you know if things have improved in v2?
    • sologuardsman2 6y ago
      It's in a much better place now [1] [1] https://www.prisma.io/blog/prisma-migrate-preview-b5eno5g08d0b https://www.prisma.io/blog/prisma-migrate-preview-b5eno5g08d...
  • tehlike 6y ago
    I need to look at this. If it supports json_agg for postgres instead of doing joins that'd be a winner in my book.
• systemvoltage 6y ago
  All these automation tools for APIs miss the fundamental reason why we need an API in the first place.
  • hurflmurfl 6y ago
    Could you please expand a bit on this thought? I personally haven't used almost any API automation tools yet, although I do keep on looking in that direction from time to time. It would be great to hear another perspective.
    • neeeeees 6y ago
      I think I can answer part of this. I worked on building GraphQL APIs dynamically from Rails models as sort of a pet-project at Shopify a few years ago. It’s not a difficult task, but when discussing viability with the APIs team, the general consensus was that you don’t want your API coupled to your data. Most of the time, you don’t want to expose everything. Of course, you can start describing what to omit, but now you’re just writing an API design by omission. Building good APIs is hard, so you want to build the right abstraction - which is not always the easiest one.
      • creztoe 6y ago
        That sounds awesome and also a huge headache. I've found its much easier to work with an ORM that is specifically designed for GraphQL, like TypeORM[1]. Otherwise you are just kind of trying to force a square peg in round hole (like Graphene[2] for Django). As for not exposing some data, just use "private" schema directives, etc. [1] https://github.com/typeorm/typeorm https://github.com/typeorm/typeorm [2] https://github.com/graphql-python/graphene https://github.com/graphql-python/graphene
    • systemvoltage 6y ago
      I am opionated about this, I am sure people can share other perspectives. When you're operating a CNC machine, as an operator, do you need mess around with internal wiring, schematic, motor controllers? No. You just need a control panel, with DRO and a bunch of buttons, a joystick for manual override, e-stop and a keypad. You're not dealing with the exposed wiring and internals of the machine. Nor do you care (except if you're a hacker, more on this below). APIs are all things the user needs to do and we allow them specific endpoints to do those things. A lot of modern GraphQL methods allow you to become a "hacker" and get access to what you want. But, after you're done hacking, you want a proper control panel with steel panels and a version number. You, as a user, are guaranteed that interface and you're going to build your world around it. Check out Shopify, Stripe or Dropbox APIs. See what they allow you to do and what they don't. Here are some reasons why we want an API: - Decoupling internal resources from the user (user can still be an internal service). We want to be able to change the database, swap it with anything else we want, completely change the schema, whatever... without affecting the user. - We might require processing/handling of the data, sometimes with help from other microservices before serving. - We might want to cache read access, although I am sure this is possible with these automation tools. - We want stability over expediency (although, this is ok to forego initially). - We want a singular point of entry, aka entrypoint and be able to control it. - We might want to asychorniously process the request. "Hey, I got your request and I am processing, here is the processing ID" and respond with status code 202. All these automation tools are great to get a product running quickly. Personally, I would just use straight SQL for prototyping. If you're working on UIs and don't have access to the server, you can just use https://postgrest.org/ https://postgrest.org/ and get an API running. However, after you're product has reached maturity, tighten up those endpoints. The endpoint design is your control panel. Make it look tidy, checkout how others build this panel, engineer it well and your users will thank you.
• tomashertus 6y ago
  https://hotwire.dev/ https://hotwire.dev/ - alternative approach to building modern web applications by sending HTML instead of JSON over the wire. https://temporal.io/ https://temporal.io/ - is the new kid on the block of state-dependent service-orchestrated application development platforms. https://workos.com/ https://workos.com/ - is building enterprise-readiness as a service, enabling new companies to start selling to enterprise customers with just a few lines of code. https://www.around.co/ https://www.around.co/ - provides an AI-based camera framing designed for high-impact video calls. It helps users take video meetings less intrusive and less clunky. Age of Empires IV (https://www.ageofempires.com/games/age-of-empires-iv/ https://www.ageofempires.com/games/age-of-empires-iv/) - The next chapter in the Age of Empires series that will take us back to the Middle Ages
  • Cyclone_ 6y ago
    Haven't seen an update for the release of AoE 4, really hoping they release a demo soon. Been dying to get back to a high quality RTS. I thought the AoE 2 games took a little too long, so hoping these ones are shorter on average.
    • tomashertus 6y ago
      They released a tragically short gameplay trailer [1] that revealed two fractions: England and Mongols. The r/aoe4 has quite active community and the following thread [2] summarizes all known information about the game. 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFlVNtGJVDU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFlVNtGJVDU 2. https://www.reddit.com/r/aoe4/comments/hf1da1/1st_attempt_at_what_we_know_about_aoe_4/ https://www.reddit.com/r/aoe4/comments/hf1da1/1st_attempt_at...
    • nindalf 6y ago
      How long were your games taking? From what I saw, pro games took less than half an hour because they knew how to press their advantage but amateurs would play it safe and build up a lead before their final attack. I have seen this pattern in other games too.
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• akritrime 6y ago
  For some reason I thought development of strapi was stopped due to lack of funding. Glad to see it well and alive.
  • woutr_be 6y ago
    I've been using it as a CMS in one of my latest projects, and so far it's been great. The database structure it generates is pretty neutral, and probably the same way I would normally build it. I haven't used their API/GraphQL yet, just ran my own queries.
• dave333 6y ago
  https://brilliantlightpower.com/hydrino-states-of-hydrogen/ https://brilliantlightpower.com/hydrino-states-of-hydrogen/ - 12 experiments that prove hydrinos exist - this will revolutionize physics and solve climate change amongst many other things. Yes wikipedia says it's pseudoscience, but that is under skeptic lock and key.
• tjko 6y ago
  Maybe check out https://pipedream.com https://pipedream.com if you are interested in exploring other low-code, automation solutions? You can get a lot done on the free tier (full disclosure: I'm one of the co-founders; please let me know if you have any questions)
• seibelj 6y ago
  Optimistic rollups to scale Ethereum pre-ETH2 and after in a generic way https://optimism.io/ https://optimism.io/
• mynegation 6y ago
  Materialize [1]. I am a big fan of Frank McSherry’s work on Naiad, timely and differential data flow. [1] https://materialize.com/ https://materialize.com/
  • unk1102 6y ago
    Do you mind sharing details how do you use materialize especially if you already have Spark/Flink and Hive warehouse setup?
    • mynegation 6y ago
      I haven’t used it yet, but read through the papers.
• riffnote 6y ago
  https://Futureland.tv https://Futureland.tv - a community of people learning a craft and sharing their progress along the way.
  • meagher 6y ago
    FL is great. Team and community that care about each other and are building an incredible product.
• da02 6y ago
  https://fauna.com/ https://fauna.com/ - FaunaDB: Evan Weaver and Chris Anderson were involved in created a distributed relational datastore. You can use it as an API and never have to think about provisioning or managing a server. It's proprietary, but the prices are insanely low for all the features and convenience you're getting. Zinc Gluconate 15mg + Selenium + Quercetin 200mg (zinc ionosphere): For years I ignored the advice of knowledgeofhealth.com when it came to zinc and quercetin. I finally used it this year and it got rid of my cold in less than 48 hours with no side-effects. This has never happened to me before. Zinc-based supplements get rave reviews on Amazon and they seem legit. Google: selenium virus mutations. (I also took a new Vitamin C formula, Formula 216). https://aureon.ca/ https://aureon.ca/ - Safire Project. Some claim it's a fraud, but I'm hoping something good will come out of it. They are using a different model of stars/suns to generate energy and other benefits. There's always molten salt reactors in case this one doesn't pan out.
  • AhtiK 6y ago
    For fun, this is the ShowHN for FaunaDB back in March 2017, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13879475 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13879475
• starchild_3001 6y ago
  1. Biological-age clocks. 2. Treatments that reverse aging in tissues and organisms. Expect major breakthroughs in these areas in a decade or two with direct implications for human health and lifespan.
  • suifbwish 6y ago
    Also on the topic of biology 1) Remote controlled orgasmic neural implants 2) Bangfit
• pgt 6y ago
  Differential Dataflow and McSherry’s commercial SQL Driver implementation at Materialize: - https://github.com/TimelyDataflow/differential-dataflow/ https://github.com/TimelyDataflow/differential-dataflow/ - https://materialize.com/ https://materialize.com/
  • curiousDog 6y ago
    Could you expand and explain why you think so (I do understand it’s a novel idea).
• seveibar 6y ago
  macrofab.com - full pcb etching and routing with component assembly for SMBs or hobbyists. Although this technology exists to an extent today, I think eventually "2 day delivery" of fully assembled customed circuits + the ability to instantly scale up will enable a lot of new hardware innovation.
  • nrp 6y ago
    Agreed on MacroFab, though I think CircuitHub takes that concept to the next level by having project cloning and forking built in.
  • sigstoat 6y ago
    having worked on a professional but very low volume product, ordering took about an afternoon. all the rest of it took months. and there are already assembly companies in most major cities that will take your money and files and just make a thing happen. not clear how this is different enough to change anything. getting it made just isn’t the hard part for anything interesting (and small).
• rdlecler1 6y ago
  Mycoworks: which makes leather from mycelium. Will see products 2021. Brightseed: uncovering the medicine that’s in our food. Uses AI to identify bioactive molecules found in common food crops that can regulate genetics associated with health. Imagine safe drugs that only take 24 months to get to market. Atomo Coffee: Makes molecular without the coffee bean; made from sustainable agriculture side streams. Best coffee I’ve ever had. Disclosure: These companies are in our portfolio so obviously on our watch list.
  • slow_donkey 6y ago
    Are you able to comment at all about Indigo's products? Is it something people should keep an eye on? I've interviewed there before and it was difficult for me to understand if what they were doing was actually beneficial to farmers.
  • dehrmann 6y ago
    > Mycoworks How did they trademark "reishi," a mushroom variety, for what's essentially mushroom leather?
    • rdlecler1 6y ago
      Good question, and hadn’t asked them this but I assume it’s like Apple, but in this case ReiShi is the name of a material.
  • say_it_as_it_is 6y ago
    It took some time to figure out what Atomo was offering based on an unclear landing page. Alt-coffee is an important category and worth the investment.
    • 1123581321 6y ago
      Did you click on the "To the Lab" link? I think that it would be a more informative homepage. But to explain the product, the current homepage just needs to add "Plant-based" before "Coffee without beans? It's molecular!" above the "To the Lab" link. Otherwise you might wonder what "Coffee without beans" must be made of.
• tardismechanic 6y ago
  Materialize V lang
• yevpats 6y ago
  https://github.com/cloudquery/cloudquery https://github.com/cloudquery/cloudquery
• Fordec 6y ago
  Terahertz technology. Has big potential in communications and sensing, particularly in the medical field. Starship, $50 per kg absolutely changes a lot of assumptions and has definite 2nd order effects around transport, satellite orchestration, communication monopolies, network latency. A big "holy st" moment I had lately was pack a starship with autonomous drones, combine it with the Adama Maneuver from Battlestar Galactica. If you can drop a squadron, anywhere in the world for X $M within 2 hours, why would the US military ever need super-carriers any more? Or Island carrier theory if you stretch out that logic. Which then why would the US need as close relationship regional allies to contain neighboring countries? How does that affect the US-Israeli relationship with the middle east? Or the US-British with Europe one? Or the US-Japanese one with China? Pure fusion weapons. It's a true pandora's box for nuclear proliferation if nuclear weapons no longer need enrichment facilities. Atom Interferometry. Potentially, GPS level location tracking without the satellite / radio component.
  • checker659 6y ago
    America could also be at the receiving end of said weapons. So, you’d need soft power in the region to monitor and control production. Back at square one.
  • phreeza 6y ago
    I'm not sure the price point changes that much for the US military. The same tactic would have been achievable for a long time by strapping drones + heat shield to a bunch of ICBMs. It just doesn't give you a sustained presence in the target location. A carrier is more of a logistical presence, not just a bunch of planes with a single load of fuel and munitions.
  • garmaine 6y ago
    > Pure fusion weapons. It's a true pandora's box for nuclear proliferation if nuclear weapons no longer need enrichment facilities. Is this actually a thing? My understanding is that the fusion stage of a nuclear weapon is purely to generate neutrons to trigger the 3rd, fission based stage. The destructive power of the bomb comes from the fission reactions.
• aloukissas 6y ago
  Wasm & kubelets
• offtop5 6y ago
  Serverside ARM. So much power is used just keeping data centers up. Gonna be a long time for legacy stuff to get ported, but some places are still running mainframes.
• JoshTriplett 6y ago
  fly.io . Not just for their current product (which is already awesome in a space that no one else seems to be in), but because the infrastructure they're building seems to position them to address many adjacent areas very easily, including areas that need more competition. An infrastructure built around firecracker VMs at scale is exactly what I'd like to be running on.
• dawnerd 6y ago
  Strapi is VERY nice. It's still missing a bit and can be a pain at time but they're pretty responsive to bug reports. Also I'd like to add meilisearch to the list.
  • jabo 6y ago
    Have a look at Typesense as well which is an OSS alternative to Algolia: https://github.com/typesense/typesense https://github.com/typesense/typesense
• franciscop 6y ago
  I also use some more mainstream things like Heroku, so these are my more-indie/alternative services I'm watching/playing with: • Backblaze B2 https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage.html https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage.html: super-cheap and straightforward data management. I made a Node.js library around it: https://www.npmjs.com/package/backblaze https://www.npmjs.com/package/backblaze • Bunny CDN https://bunnycdn.com/ https://bunnycdn.com/: it looks like a great indie CDN solution. The normal CDN is dead cheap, and the very wide CDN has great coverage. Self reported metrics are amazing as well. The company is based in EU, which is a plus on my book. • Gandi https://www.gandi.net/ https://www.gandi.net/: they have a lot of types of domains so you can search across many at a glance. They do show some unrelated panels and push for their own services but less than other registrars. Based in France (EU).
  • absolutelyrad 6y ago
    Would recommend Bunny CDN to anyone. It's super fast and super cheap.
• fb03 6y ago
  - Rust + WASM - WASM accessing DOM directly (and the subsequent explosion of front end frameworks completely bypassing JS) I'm a simple person with mundane wants :)
  • mrathi12 6y ago
    WASM is definitely one to look out for.
  • djeiasbsbo 6y ago
    I want this so bad. I have compiled C code to WASM before but without knowing JavaScript of course there is little that can be done. Unfortunately for us, I think that most people come from the other camp, and want parts of their JavaScript to be more efficient, thus turning to WASM.
• aaron695 6y ago
  Xiaomi Not a start up, but I think to watch. They seem to be getting high end technological products to consumers at a reasonable price. For instance I'm hoping their 34" Mi Curved Gaming Monitor will break this high priced monitor market and get large monitors mainstream.
• phreeza 6y ago
  mRNA technology, I have a hunch that the current situation could give this area a boost similar to what computers got through WW2, and we could witness a cambrian explosion. CRISPR in contrast seems overhyped to me.
• yhoiseth 6y ago
  https://blitzjs.com/ https://blitzjs.com/ Many interesting innovations to make developing React/Node applications easier and faster.
• max_ 6y ago
  1. Flutter - Cross platform development of user interfaces is now a solved problem. 2. RISC-V - It may make it easier for guys to get into chip design. 3. Scilla Lang - The clear logic of formal Mathematics applied to finance. [1]: https://flutter.dev https://flutter.dev [2]: https://riscv.org/ https://riscv.org/ [3]: https://scilla-lang.org/ https://scilla-lang.org/
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• chr1 6y ago
  1. Issue based direct democracy allowing to trade votes https://voteflux.org https://voteflux.org 2. longevity research https://www.sens.org https://www.sens.org
  • kortex 6y ago
    Flux is a wild idea. I kinda love it - everyone gets the same "vote budget" but they can spend it only on issues that matter to them. But I can also see this going sideways in so many ways. Namely I can see single issue voters setting up "chaff" minutia bills to accrue vote credits in order to strategically dominate their issue. But it would break the deadlock we have now in the USA so that's worth experimenting with.
    • chr1 6y ago
      Yes, there are many possible issues, but most of them can't be identified without real use. One way to create a sandbox for finding edge cases would be to create a general petition site using voteflux, or convince change.org to implement it. I think such a site would also help with adoption, because it will gradually introduce people to the idea, and for issues with large enough support politicians will have to follow petition results, even if they were not elected on flux platform.
• red0point 6y ago
  I find it odd that forestadmin boasts security, but requires you to setup your project over HTTP, although there is a HTTPS version available. https://app.forestadmin.com/new-project https://app.forestadmin.com/new-project redirects (via JS, if https is detected) to: http://app.forestadmin.com/new-project http://app.forestadmin.com/new-project
  • seyz 6y ago
    I can understand your concern. But don't worry, there's no problem here. HTTP is used when you create a localhost project. On a local server, API requests transit directly from the browser to the local server without going through an external network. On a remote server, HTTPs is enforced to avoid security issues.
• rklaehn 6y ago
  https://www.unisonweb.org/ https://www.unisonweb.org/ Functional programming language where the canonical representation is a content-addressed directed acyclic graph. Solves all kinds of problems from dependencies to deployment and moving code between nodes in a principled way. The language itself is inspired by haskell, but has a principled and clean solution to the coloured function problem of async programming, and a simpler way to compose effects than monad stacks.
  • rewq4321 6y ago
    Interesting! Deno's official module registry stores immutable tagged versions of open-source projects, but there's a project called Nest.land[1] that takes the immutability one step further by putting modules on the arweave[2] blockchain. I'm not sure where the JS standardization process is at with import integrity checks for non-script-tag imports, but Deno has lock files and integrity checking built in.[3] I like the idea of a language that's built with content addressing from the ground up. I dream of being able to import IPFS urls (or something like that) directly within JS. Although that wouldn't be as good as a language that forced usage of content-addressed imports, since that way you don't have to scour the code for any sneaky dynamic imports (especially since in JavaScript there's `eval` and the like, and they can be obscured). I guess this is partially solved by Deno's ability to limit the network requests to specific domains like: deno run foo.js --allow-net=deno.land,foo.com I'll definitely be keeping an eye on this project - thanks for sharing! [0] https://deno.land/x https://deno.land/x [1] https://nest.land/ https://nest.land/ [2] https://www.arweave.org/ https://www.arweave.org/ [3] https://deno.land/manual/linking_to_external_code/integrity_checking https://deno.land/manual/linking_to_external_code/integrity_...
• fsflover 6y ago
  Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list? 1006 points|iameoghan|7 months ago|669 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23276456 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23276456
• amai 6y ago
  https://www.xaynet.dev/ https://www.xaynet.dev/ - open source federated learning backend in Rust https://flower.dev/ https://flower.dev/ - A Friendly Federated Learning Framework in Python https://jina.ai/ https://jina.ai/ - Neural search engine
• steve_taylor 6y ago
  The market for self diagnostic medical technology is going to boom at some point. It will be a long time before we have an AutoDoc, but until then, diagnostic equipment and diagnosis automation are something to keep an eye on and possibly invest in. Very few doctors will see it coming, because they don't want to believe that they can be partially automated.
  • ibeckermayer 6y ago
    Except this is already heavily regulated and/or the AMA will lobby to regulate it, making it impossible/expensive in many cases, slowing innovation, and keeping doctor’s salaries and health care costs high
    • kgin 6y ago
      If so, the United States will be left as island with tech adopted by developed countries with socialized systems and developing countries with fewer regulations.
    • steve_taylor 6y ago
      The taxi industry was highly regulated worldwide. It didn’t stop Uber.
• bionhoward 6y ago
  [Serverless] Graph databases [Scripting Language] Infrastructure as code tools Genetic Programming Functional Programming Neural Networks / Differentiable Programming Cognitive Architecture Reinforcement Learning Causal Statistics Array databases Bitemporal data PostgreSQL schema migration tools Functional GraphQL directives CRDT/ORDT frameworks WASI/WASM as a replacement for Docker
  • rajington 6y ago
    excellent collection, what's the closest to functional graphql directives you've come across so far? i think directives are really going to unlock the power of graphql, and replace a lot of code with something more declarative
• mooncakecat 6y ago
  From a more corporate/sales perspective the Snacker looks promising. https://edensnacker.com https://edensnacker.com VR in a showcase and training environment has always been a giant pain with cables and straps and whatnot. This is solution tries to solve that and removes the middleman who often awkwardly has to put the straps over your head.
• mercer 6y ago
  Elixir's/Phoenix' LiveView (and clones/similar approaches). It's been discussed plenty on HN, so I don't think I need to elaborate too much. But I'll just say that as I'm using it in more and more new projects and adding it piecemeal to existing ones, I'm constantly amazed by how much complexity just disappears, and how pleasant it all is to work with. I do feel that it'll take another year or two for all of it to 'mature', though. For one, I'm not a big fan of how it still relies on 'old-fashioned' templating, but I've been looking into Surface [1] as a solution to that (it uses a more React-like component-based approach). I also find that there's often confusion about best practices. About what goes where exactly, asking myself whether to keep state in the top-level LiveView is best, or perhaps too much based on the old client-side React/Redux paradigm and less necessary now that fetching data is a server-side-only DB call away (and using PubSub for any inter-LiveView communication). But even with some of these 'issues', it's probably the most fun I've had building interactive web apps! [1]: http://surface-demo.msaraiva.io/getting_started http://surface-demo.msaraiva.io/getting_started
  • AhtiK 6y ago
    Can you name a few of Phoenix LiveView clones/similar approaches in other languages that are actively developed and worth looking into?
    • tducasse 6y ago
      Hotwire, with Ruby on rails
      • digianarchist 6y ago
        I've got my eye on that. Hopefully it works with AnyCable.
    • sfusato 6y ago
      Here's a Github repository listing Phoenix LiveView workalikes for different languages and frameworks: https://github.com/dbohdan/liveviews https://github.com/dbohdan/liveviews ps: The BEAM is what makes LiveView so great, do not expect the same in the other environments.
• DrStartup 6y ago
  Hasura, SvelteJS - the compiler is the framework, headless CMS, distributed edge functions
• dgudkov 6y ago
  WASM and WebView2 in .NET Core. It can be a breakthrough for cross-platform desktop applications.
• up6w6 6y ago
  https://fly.io https://fly.io - containers at edge https://www.xanadu.ai/ https://www.xanadu.ai/ - quantum computing with photonic approach
• johnx123-up 6y ago
  AppGyver looks interesting. Thanks for sharing. FWIW, it looks similar to https://restya.com/core-jira-slack-alternative https://restya.com/core-jira-slack-alternative But, they promote it as Jira + Slack alternative (Disclosure: I'm on their private beta and for unknown reason they keep pushing their public release)
  • gingerlime 6y ago
    “It will be launched at the beginning of 2020.” ... is still on their website today. Doesn’t inspire a lot of confidence.
  • tim333 6y ago
    It's funny seeing AppGyver as the thing to watch when I was using their stuff in 2013. I guess it's probably progressed though.
• dahx4Eev 6y ago
  e-ink tablets and displays
• 37ef_ced3 6y ago
  AVX-512 neural net inference on inexpensive, CPU-only cloud compute instances. GPU cloud compute is almost unbelievably expensive. Even Linode charges $1000 per month, or $1.50 per hour (look at the GPU plans: https://www.linode.com/pricing/#row--compute https://www.linode.com/pricing/#row--compute) An AVX-512 Skylake-X cloud compute instance costs $10 per CPU-core per month at Vultr (https://www.vultr.com/products/cloud-compute/ https://www.vultr.com/products/cloud-compute/), and you can do about 18 DenseNet121 inferences per CPU-core per second (in series, not batched) using tools like https://NN-512.com https://NN-512.com As AVX-512 becomes better supported by Intel and AMD chips, it becomes more attractive as an alternative to expensive GPU instances for workloads with small amounts of inference mixed with other computation
  • rewq4321 6y ago
    How could it be competitive with GPUs in terms of price-per-unit-performance? Seems like GPUs are expensive only because you can't rent a small portion of a GPU? But shouldn't that be possible with GPU virtualisation? Or is it the case that if you virtualised a GPU up into tiny pieces, the memory-to-flops ratio would be way off what's needed for inference? Or the virtualisation overhead would be too big? Those are all genuine questions, just to be clear - this is not my area of expertise.
    • 37ef_ced3 6y ago
      Well, a GPU is a cluster of SIMD units with fast memory A GPU thread variable is just like a SIMD lane, and a GPU warp variable is just like a SIMD vector register Nvidia's SIMD instructions are called PTX and they are similar to AVX-512 An AVX-512 core is like a general purpose CPU with a 512-bit GPU core built in So paying for a single AVX-512 core is like paying for part of a GPU, plus the general purpose compute you need to keep the GPU supplied with work If you could divide the GPU up, you would lose most of the parallelism, keep all of the communication latency, and still need the drivers etc. Would a hypothetical virtualized GPU be competitive with an AVX-512 core in terms of price/performance? I don't know, I haven't done the comparison
• abss 6y ago
  www.opendsu.com
• abss 6y ago
  www.opendsu.com
• leeuw01 6y ago
  Materialize - https://materialize.com/ https://materialize.com/ I'm very curious to try it out for incremental consistency checking (i.e. does all the data satisfy a set of predicates)
• kostadin 6y ago
  https://www.openwater.cc/technology https://www.openwater.cc/technology In general anything Mary Lou Jepsen touches will be on my to watch list. Dynamicland Graph processing hardware accelerators Content addressable web
• nlstitch 6y ago
  Was honestly looking for something revolutionary but did not find any here; Just some service/app to replace another service. Where is my electric driverless car? Space travel or actual tech that prevents polarization and prevent narrow targeting of people that feel drawn to conspiracy theory rabbit holes? We should be aiming much higher.
• kgin 6y ago
  https://www.lifebiosciences.com/our-research https://www.lifebiosciences.com/our-research Research on epigenetic reprogramming of existing cells to restore them to youthful states, including the ability to regenerate.
  • awillen 6y ago
    This truly fascinates me... it's the potential for immense extension of human life that no one's talking about. If you're interested in this topic, I highly recommend the book Lifespan by Dr. David Sinclair.
• pronouncedjerry 6y ago
  Thank you for recommending appgyver!! I have been looking for something like this for years. I kept starting and stopping native app development but it was too technical for me. This is seriously life-changing. I can't believe it's free to boot. I'd be willing to pay them.
• m463 6y ago
  https://puri.sm https://puri.sm https://pine64.org https://pine64.org https://inkplate.io/ https://inkplate.io/ https://www.protondb.com/ https://www.protondb.com/ https://www.proxmox.com/ https://www.proxmox.com/ https://www.qubes-os.org/ https://www.qubes-os.org/ https://pop.system76.com/ https://pop.system76.com/
  • ampdepolymerase 6y ago
    Proxmox has been around for decades, they are not exactly a new player.
• tjansen 6y ago
  Nanovms (https://nanovms.com/ https://nanovms.com/), a Linux-compatible unikernel for cloud deployments.
• andrefuchs 6y ago
  Cockpit - a self-hosted headless and api-driven CMS. https://getcockpit.com/ https://getcockpit.com/ It's clean, fast and easy to setup.
• leannamesearch 6y ago
  Lean Name Search - Quickest way to find lean domain names. https://leannamesearch.com https://leannamesearch.com
• firemelt 6y ago
  So forest admin is commercial for rails_admin or active_admin right?
  • lumberjack24 6y ago
    That's right, it provides a lot more out of the box however and its hybrid architecture (1/2 SaaS 1/2 self-hosted) lets you instantly benefit from updates by refreshing your browser.
• newera2017 6y ago
  https://render.com/ https://render.com/ - Winner of Disrupt startup battlefield 2019. Use it everyday for HealingGardens.co and am amazed of all the things it does smoothly. There are little attentions to detail that shine through such as auto issues https certs as soon as my domain was connected. I didn't have to lift a finger. Rock on Render!
• raadore 6y ago
  May I ask, I’m curious: why is ethereum contracts/blockchain not mentioned in any reply?
  • kangax 6y ago
    Wondering the same thing. I learned about DeFi recently and am now curious to learn more about smart contracts, the underlying code and everything surrounding it.
• vlindos 6y ago
  https://icesemulator.com https://icesemulator.com A DYI kit to make EVs audible.
• alexgia 6y ago
  https://adminbro.com https://adminbro.com - An Auto-generated Admin Panel for your Node.js Application
• forcery 6y ago
  https://forcery.com/ https://forcery.com/ MarTech consulting startup
• acwatt 6y ago
  https://www.cockroachlabs.com/ https://www.cockroachlabs.com/ - Cockroach DB. It's a distributed SQL database that scales horizontally, supports strongly-consistent ACID transactions, and provides failover with minimal latency disruption. The founders are ex-Google employees who wanted to use Spanner[1] outside Google. [1] https://cloud.google.com/spanner https://cloud.google.com/spanner