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Posted by
balaselvam on Thursday July 23, 2026 @04:03PM
from the show-hn dept.
https://github.com/iBala/open-artifact
Hey HN, Open artifact is an easy way to view your docs, html artifacts and collaborate with others.I like to keep my stack llm agnostic. My default way is to read docs via markdown and visualize reports via html. But sharing it with colleagues and keeping track of it was a big pain. I like claude artifacts but I don't like to get tied to a single provider. So, I built open artifact.Open...
Posted by
balaselvam on Friday August 09, 2024 @04:19AM
from the self-post dept.
I've been reading Nicholas Naseem Taleb's Antifragile. I like the concept of antifragility but some of the arguments are contradictory.
W.r.t starting a new business,
- It would be considered antifragile because there is limited downside (loss of income for x years before shutdown or profitability) and unlimited upside (the business has unlimited upside of making money)
- it would not be...
Posted by
balaselvam on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @10:34PM
from the aeon.co dept.
Can you share the SD APIs list?
Thanks! Will check these out.
Posted by
balaselvam on Friday July 28, 2023 @12:26PM
from the ask-hn dept.
I've been working on something and need some help.
I've a way of creating posts automatically in my narrative style. I would like to automate Image generation too. I use Midjourney (Nothing else seems to be usable, yet) but unfortunately, they don't provide an API to connect. Does anyone have a suggestion for me here on how to proceed?
Makes me think who's the customer here. Is this the engg team that's going to host it or the finance team who's the primary user of the product.
If the final user is finance, should the support be targeted towards them?
There's no free lunch right? Someday someone will collect the bill. I don't know what the some day would be and who the someone is.
Posted by
balaselvam on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @01:45AM
from the self-post dept.
If the company is serious enough about competing with Quickbooks and solving a real customer problem, Discord is not going to cut it.
Posted by
balaselvam on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @10:39AM
from the show-hn dept.
https://www.zorp.one/sdk
Hello folks, I'm thrilled to present the new Forms SDK. It helps you push custom forms, tasks, checklists into your mobile apps without additional dev.Forms, tasks are commonly used in internal apps and change a lot. Rebuilding and pushing new app updates every time the flow changes is probably not the most efficient way. With this SDK, you can do a one time integration and push new forms...
Posted by
balaselvam on Thursday February 02, 2023 @11:49PM
from the self-post dept.
Need to integrate customizable forms into a native app. Looking for an SDK. Typeform seems too expensive. Any other alternative?
Thanks for checking it out. We don't have native localization but the UI text is user written, it can be written in any text. This might lead you to create different workflows for different languages but can be used as a work around.
Thanks for the feedback. Zorp is use case agnostic. You can build simple forms to really complex supply chain applications. We've taken a modular approach, where you get all the lego blocks and build them according to your specific use case.
Some of our customers use Zorp for really long tail use cases like dog walking, yoga training, KYC document collection, etc.
Posted by
balaselvam on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @12:32PM
from the show-hn dept.
https://www.zorp.one/
Hey HN, founder here.
Zorp is a no-code/low-code platform to build native android and iOS apps for internal teams. It is workflow-based as opposed to CRUD since most mobile app use cases are process-oriented.Few highlights,
- Mobile UI can be built using a WYSIWYG interface
- Integrate with any external system via REST APIs (We're adding more integrations soon)
- Built-in database
- Fully...
Backing not just 1 but 2 investments of Neumann seems strange. Having said that, there must be some due diligence or arbitrage identified. I wouldn't write this one off.
How do you think copyrights around these images will evolve? No copyrights? Full ownership to the one creating the prompt? Copyrights based on specific context?
Posted by
balaselvam on Thursday August 04, 2022 @12:19AM
from the twitter.com dept.
Is this really true? Is an overwhelming cost of medicine insurance?
This argument holds true for most VC firms in general. My contention is that YC's stance on defining the "bar for acceptance" seems to be on how much cash they have. So a mediocre company and founders could have got in the previous batch and a deserving one may not this year. I agree that this is fair and square in market economics. I simply expected more from this institution.
The emphasis on "downturn" concerns me. Aren't reputed firms like YC supposed to look at a 10+ year horizon?
If this is true, it indicates that earlier investments were based on the market than the fundamentals of the founding team, market, and product.
This is a fantastic read. But don't agree with the conclusion. It's myopic.
Few problems I have with this,
- The cost saving of 600K/truck/year is low relative to the cost saving with lower autonomy. When improving efficiency in any operations system, the ROI keeps getting lower and lower with further improvements. Does not mean that the investment is not worth doing
- The efficiency principle of software relies on scale. There's no reason to build autonomous vehicles at all if you own a single truck but this makes sense when you have a large fleet. That's why software earns with scale. 600K/yr is a single truck saving. It becomes significant over the scale of trucks and the years.
The unit economics is wonderful to go through. Appreciate the research!
How do you handle copyrights for the songs?
Love it when people create great things for fun! Here I am working the work :(