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Canine mentions (22)

• Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (May 2026)

  Been working on an open source, free, Heroku alternative at https://canine.sh for about two years. I feel like even after all these years we’re still missing the devex that Heroku provided. It’s been super fun to experiment & integrate MCP into it. We just passed 2000 developers last month actively deploying with canine. - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

• Show HN: I put an AI agent on a $7/month VPS with IRC as its transport layer

  Agreed, at the moment, I have it set up on https://canine.sh which is fully open source. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)

  I’ve been working on an open source tool that turns your Kubernetes into a Heroku like PaaS — https://canine.sh A problem that we had at my last startup was that we got stuck between not wanting to spend too much time on devops, and getting price gouged by Heroku. We were too big for the deploy to a VPS type options like coolify, but too small to justify hiring a full time Devops. Eventually a few of us had to... - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• I'm losing the SEO battle for my own open source project

  I've been developing and maintaining https://canine.sh and https://hellocsv.github.io/HelloCSV/ for some time now, and its really odd what pops up when you google these. Neither of these projects anything requiring payment anywhere, but tons of sites pop up trying to "sell" these projects. I wouldn't even know what that means and I'm kind of tempted to drop in a credit card to see what happens. Would they auto... - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• Railway Global Outage

  Been building an open source version of railway at https://canine.sh. Offers all the same features without the potential of a vendor lock-in / price gouging. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

React Native mentions (243)

• Yoga: A Simple Guide to Layout in React Native

  When you build layouts in React Native, you write styles that look a lot like CSS: flexDirection, alignItems, justifyContent, and so on. - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago

• I Built The Same App 3 Ways: No-Code, React Native, And Angular + .NET On Azure - Here’s What Nobody Tells You

  React Native hit the best balance for speed and product quality. Its official docs still position it around building native apps with React, and the project continues shipping frequent releases and improvements to the New Architecture. (React Native). - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago

• AI-Native Mobile Device Automation: Give Your AI Agent Eyes and Hands on Real Phones

  For apps with custom-rendered UIs — React Native, Flutter, games — where the accessibility tree is sparse, MobAI offers an OCR fallback that returns recognized text with tap coordinates. The agent always has something to work with. - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago

• First Time Using GitHub CoPilot to Create a ReactNative LoginPage app. What Could Go Wrong?

  Before I started anything, the first thing I had to do was set up my environment on my MacBook, according to the directions on the ReactNative.dev site. ReactNative allows one project to create both iOS and Android mobile applications, but since I didn’t want to bite off more than I could chew, I would focus on developing an app for the iPhone 16 Pro:. - Source: dev.to / 4 months ago

• Top 10 Frameworks for Hybrid Mobile Apps in 2026

  React Native is a widely used framework for hybrid mobile app development, supported by Meta. It enables developers to build cross-platform applications using JavaScript and React while delivering a near-native experience. Instead of relying on WebViews, React Native renders actual native UI components, resulting in better performance and smoother interactions. - Source: dev.to / 7 months ago