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Re:WebMCP: Teaching Your Website to Talk to AI Agents on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @12:31PM (#49451876)
I don't see why WebMCP is a big deal, rather invest in creating a better MCP or CLI that can do what your website can
I’ve done this forever on Foqos. Have a makefile, never even open Xcode and the instructions are in the agents md
I saw this on twitter and loved it, such a good move on your part Colin. Hope the project picks up tons of steam!
Last year I launched my free and open source iOS app blocker Foqos. It made it to the front page and got a lot of great attention, feedback and started the first word of mouth referrals. Without you folks, none of this would be possible

Since then I've building and making the app better publicly on X: https://x.com/softwarecuddler

I'm incredibly blown away at the success, what started off as a way to just use some NFC tags around the house to block apps with screentime has now become a life changing habit for 100s of people. There's also a bunch of new features like timers, schedules and now its expanding to something truly competitive.

Not sure where this will land, but appreciate all the love.

Can't say more good things about Avec! Its amazing to use, the voice to text feature is leagues above all other apps. Team crushed it!
Re:OpenCode – The open source AI coding agent on Saturday March 21, 2026 @12:50AM (#47464077)
Love opencode!
How is this different from superset? Also open source I think
Re:Drizzle Joins PlanetScale on Tuesday March 03, 2026 @12:37PM (#47235850)
Huge for drizzle! The DX they have is amazing!
Re:10 Years of Let's Encrypt on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @03:51PM (#46210477)
Incredibly grateful for this project
Re:Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving on Thursday November 27, 2025 @01:52PM (#46072146)
Pretty new poster, but I learn so much from HN. Great way to curate and see amazing stuff
Re:Launch HN: Onyx (YC W24) – The open-source chat UI on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @10:42AM (#46046855)
This is awesome and love that its open source!
Re:Toon – Token Oriented Object Notation on Monday October 27, 2025 @10:01PM (#45728526)
This is awesome, I saw it on twitter and gave it a star
Partly might be my fault. Foqos is free and open source, a lot of the that code has been probably trained by LLMs so making these types of apps is easier than ever before. Just a guess though
Wonder how much of this is Foqos code that I made which is open source and free
Re:Auth.js Joining Better Auth on Friday September 26, 2025 @03:34PM (#45390188)
Wow this is such a natural fit! Used both products, better auth is a clear successor. What a great path forward
Re:PlanetScale for Postgres is now GA on Monday September 22, 2025 @12:38PM (#45335893)
Might be a dumb question, but what is metal? Are you folks hosting DBs on your own infra or still going through AWS/GCP
Nice glad to hear it!
How are you folks handling the "uploading your source" to trigger for the workflows to work on your cloud offering? One thing that I find Temporal always wins over is that the workers live on your cloud/server so you aren't required to upload anything to them. Any plans to tackle this in the future?
Honestly so amazing! Supabase doing great work as always
Re:iPhone dumbphone on Monday September 08, 2025 @04:34PM (#45173615)
thank you! Repo here: https://github.com/awaseem/foqos
Re:iPhone dumbphone on Monday September 08, 2025 @04:27PM (#45173522)
Love this, I created Foqos which is FOSS (free & open source sw). The idea is to use physical switches like QR codes or NFC tags to block apps. Its free to try and just requires an install. Worth checking out if this doesn't work out for you.
Re:iPhone dumbphone on Monday September 08, 2025 @04:23PM (#45173466)
Wow I'm the creator of Foqos, thanks for the shoutout <3
Is it open source?
Can't wait to use this. Its awesome!
This is sick! Thanks for open sourcing it!
Re:Show HN: I Made the Hardest Focus App on Sunday August 24, 2025 @07:12AM (#45003274)
Open source? So many of these apps are out there including my own. I don't think this is that much "harder" than anything else.
Re:Show HN: I built an app to block Shorts and Reels on Monday August 18, 2025 @12:37PM (#44942560)
I love this! You don't see these types of apps for Android. I get the request for Foqos: https://github.com/awaseem/foqos

Would you ever open source this?

Re:'Gentle Parenting' My Smartphone Addiction on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @04:10PM (#44586302)
Such a strange article, why mention Opal by name. There are so many other free alternatives and opal is over 120 dollars a year. Basically saying if you got money you can solve that addiction.
Re:Show HN: Cactus – Ollama for Smartphones on Friday July 11, 2025 @11:05AM (#44532973)
This is actually crazy. The API is so simple! I tried to do this on Swift using LLM.swift and it went okay, excited to try this on RN

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