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Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?

OnlineOrNot collAnon HubDesk Crystal (programming language) Tailwind UI 40 Hadiths Notabase.io Iceburg CRM /dev/esc Confluo - the productivity app
  1. Uptime monitoring for software teams (even teams of one).
    Pricing:
    • Freemium
    • Free Trial
    • $24.0 / Monthly (30 Uptime Checks, 1 Status Page, 1 User)

    #Uptime Monitoring #Website Monitoring #Monitoring Tools 55 social mentions

  2. The web app for your private discussions, perspectives exchange and a growing set of mini apps in one place
    Pricing:
    I tried with my web app https://collanon.com and didn't get much traction on HN(maybe bad timing). It's on its 3rd year of development/improvement and it's about making and sharing easily private discussions and confrontations(1vs1) with temporary/total anonymity in mind without relying on any big tech service or cloud providers to keep the data more private. I'm on a path to a big upgrade soon too.

    #Social & Communications #Open Discussions #Communication 8 social mentions

  3. HubDesk lets you receive and respond to emails with Github issues.
    Https://hubdesk.io/. Create Github issues from emails and respond to them by starting a comment with "@reply". If you've got a side project, already use Github issues, and want to manage support emails the same as bugs. Easier and cheaper than signing up for a help desk SaaS.

    #Email #GitHub #Project Management 1 social mentions

  4. Programming language with Ruby-like syntax that compiles to efficient native code.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    Very cool! Are you open to other people contributing PRs to add other languages, or is this a learning project and prefer to do it yourself? (I'm considering adding Crystal https://crystal-lang.org/).

    #Programming Language #Generic Programming Language #OOP 110 social mentions

  5. Beautiful UI components by the creators of Tailwind CSS.
    Nicely designed site! Some unsolicited feedback/idea: I like the examples page but it's a few too many clicks away for the average internet attention span. Could you have a couple interactive examples directly in the hero on the front page? With a button to see "More examples". I'm imagining something like how https://tailwindui.com/ presents their front page.

    #Design Tools #UI Design #Components Library 207 social mentions

  6. Hadith Nawawi is an Islamic Android App that is designed with the purpose to enlighten the heart and souls of Muslims around the globe with the authentic teachings of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    Https://communiqai.com Also via the Play Store at <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dev.mtc.ga">https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dev.mtc.ga</a>. CommuniqAI is an intelligent tool for scheduling and automating SMS text messages, calls and email. It’ll help you stay in touch with those who mean the most to you—and it’ll be there for you through life’s many distractions. Let’s face it, some of us are better at communicating than others. Rather than forgetting or being “too busy” to reach out to those who are important to you, CommuniqAI will cleverly send text messages of your choosing to, and smartly prompt you to call and email, the people you care about. Whether that person is a significant other, family member, friend, or even a patient, CommuniqAI will help you stay in constant contact. Some people are, very much, against automation technology like this, but we believe that anything that can help keep communication high between loved ones is, in the long run, a good thing. CommuniqAI, by default, will not take any action and largely act as a helpful reminder, and we recommend this type of use.

    #Mobile Apps #Religion #Web Search 1158 social mentions

  7. Notabase is a powerful and easy-to-use note-taking app for networked thinking. Connect your ideas together and write more effortlessly.
    Pricing:
    Https://notabase.io - a note-taking app for networked thinking. It supports page stacking, linked references, block references, a graph view, and all that good stuff. Think of it as similar to Roam Research / Obsidian. It's also open source so you can self-host it. Here's the code: <a href="https://github.com/churichard/notabase">https://github.com/churichard/notabase</a> I'm hoping to add support for shareable links soon. Open to other ideas or feedback!

    #Notes #Note Taking #Personal Knowledge Base 8 social mentions

  8. Meta data CRM that allows you to quickly prototype any CRM
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    IceburgCRM - https://iceburg.ca Iceburg CRM is a metadata driven CRM that allows you to quickly prototype any CRM. The default CRM is based on a typical business CRM but the flexibility of dynamic modules, fields, subpanels allows prototyping of any number of different types of CRMs. Features.

    #Productivity #Developer Tools #Software Engineering 1 social mentions

  9. Challenge yourself and your team to code, puzzle and hack your way out of /dev/esc - an online escape room designed for developer teams.
    Https://dev-esc.com - an online escape room for developer teams. I aimed to make a team-building experience that was a bit different. Unashamedly geeky: you’ll need puzzling and some coding to solve the challenges. Fully remote for teams of 1-8ish; free to explore. Originally it was free to play - I got a fair few plays off my HN post, now I have a trickle of paying customers. Use code hackernews22 for a 40% discount Original submission at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28579191.

    #Software Engineering #Developer Tools #Games 1 social mentions

  10. A social productivity app for high overachievers
    Https://confluo.app - A productivity assistant app that instead of planning your day in advance dynamically suggests you tasks to pick based on the time of the day.

    #Productivity #Social Network #Task Management 1 social mentions

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    The fastest tool for creating step-by-step guides.
    Pricing:
    For the past three years I have been working on a desktop app for creating step by step tutorials, guides, documentation, walkthroughs etc. It captures your workflows while you work and outputs it in one of 7 formats, such as pdf, doc, json, markdown and more. https://folge.me.

    #Productivity #Customer Communication #Document Management 8 social mentions

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    Join the World's Largest Personal Chatbot Community
    Https://presbot.com/ Lead generation focused chatbot for your website. Takes a min to setup, no conversational flow building required. Performs way better than traditional lead-capture forms by asking targeted and dynamic questions.

    #Chatbots #Data Science And Machine Learning #AI 5 social mentions

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    Passit is an open-source, cloud-based password manager.
    I helped make GlitchTip (https://GlitchTip.com) and Passit (https://passit.io) at my last job. The latter got started and ramped up too late to contend with Bitwarden, but I still use it and enjoy it (and I trust it, because I helped build it!) The former is still very active, and a great solution if you like Sentry clients but think Sentry is too bloated / too hard to self-host / too far from its original open source ideals.

    #Password Management #Password Managers #Security & Privacy 2 social mentions

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    infinite editor for intriate poetry
    I made an infinite canvas specialized editor for poets because I was frustrated with the painful workflow for submitting poetry to magazines: https://koodpad.com/venba.

    #Employee Engagement #SaaS #Productivity 1 social mentions

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