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Re:Google Pics is generally available starting today on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @05:36AM (#49533928)
Rollout pace

Rapid Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on September 1, 2026

Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on September 15, 2026

Availability Business: Business Standard and Plus Enterprise: Enterprise Standard and Plus Consumer: Google AI Pro and Ultra Education Add-ons: Google AI Pro for Education Other Add-ons: AI Expanded Access

Usage of generative AI features in Google Pics is subject to usage limits. At least through February 28, 2027, your users will have higher access to generative AI features in Google Pics. Access to these generative AI features may be limited afterward. We’ll notify you of any changes before they take effect.

Usage of Google Pics from other Workspace surfaces (such as Google Slides) is subject to existing image generation limits.

Congrats on the launch, and welcome to HN. This is a real problem and it is good to see more teams taking it seriously. For a bit of context, and full disclosure that I am on the other side of this market: we built Beefree SDK around almost exactly this use case about ten years ago. We started with an embeddable email editor and expanded into popups and web pages over time, so the pain points you describe, Outlook quirks, merge tags, exports, versioning, localization, plus many others like security, scale, and collaborative editing, are all very familiar to us. I am not saying this to rain on your parade. The category has been maturing for a while now and there is genuinely room for good products in it. Honestly, HN was a big part of how we got off the ground in the early days. A launch post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8474744) is a lot of why we were able to grow and develop at all, so I have real appreciation for founders sharing their work here. Happy to compare notes any time.
Re:Figma Announces IPO on Thursday July 31, 2025 @10:45AM (#44746229)
x1xhlol managed to obtain FULL official v0, Manus, Cursor, Same.dev, Lovable, Devin, Replit Agent, Windsurf Agent, VSCode Agent, Dia browser & Trae AI system prompts and internal tools.
You can do much more with AMP, not only marketing related stuff. Indeed, countdown timers can be done much easier with many tools (Nifty Images, Sendtric etc) without AMP.
Re:An AI bubble threatens Silicon Valley, and all of us on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @10:34AM (#43471845)
"It's evident that while AI presents transformative potential, the surrounding financial speculation warrants caution. The challenge lies in distinguishing between genuine technological advancements and market hype. As the industry evolves, a balanced approach that values innovation while remaining vigilant about speculative investments will be crucial to navigate the AI landscape effectively." {comment by ChatGPT after reading the article and all the comments here}
Re:Italy bans cultivated meat products on Wednesday November 29, 2023 @11:02AM (#38461113)
It's not shortsighted. It's just a decision driven by some Italian lobbies (meat industry), scared about this innovation where they feel threatened. For the same reason they managed to forbid the use of some Italian meat-words applied to plant-based meat.
Manual coding is getting very inefficient since it takes hours plus it requires a lot of testing (ie with litmus or emailonacid).

There are modern alternatives to manual coding both for developers (embeddable editors for SAAS) such as beefree, unlayer, chamaileon, stripo and for email designers like beefree, stensul, knak, stripo, taxiforemail...

Since 1998, we have been building Datatrics, an AI-driven platform for marketing personalisation with the primary objective of increasing e-commerce conversion rates. We chose to take a different approach because CDP applications (Amplitude, Klaviyo, Bloomreach, Segment, etc.) are typically complicated with long setup. As a result, Datatrics is now offered as a freemium service with (I think) a relatively straightforward setup. That is today's challenge. Simply link Datatrics to your website to begin gathering free insights and segmentation data. Then turn on a few touchpoints (up to 3 in the free edition). Of course, totally compliant with GDPR. Welcome to comment!
Re:Ask HN: What “special” app you are using? on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @10:00AM (#34339143)
Input Director (win64): use the same mouse and keyboard across multiple laptops

AutoHotKey: create custom hotkeys (ie CTRL+RightArrow to skip to the next Spotify song)

Chromacam: add a custom background in MS Teams videocalls

Re:Writing HTML sucks and No-code doesn't help on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @10:19AM (#31327443)
On the opposite side: https://beefree.io/bee-plugin/

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