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Re:Mario Maker 2 API on Monday January 08, 2024 @03:21PM (#38917556)
This is so cool hope to play around with it tonight. I converted the API to a OAS/swagger file and temporarily hosted them here to play around with while the site is hugged to death https://mariomaker2api.apidocumentation.com/

I exposed "AI" logo makers stealing fonts

Posted by cameronrohani on Saturday November 18, 2023 @03:53PM
from the self-post dept.

Hey HN this story is from 2018 but I always wanted to share it.I had just launched my first SaaS, it was 100% funded by my student loans (I don't recommend anyone do this ). I was extremely lucky that the launch went viral on Hacker News, Producthunt, and Twitter which resulted in 4-6 paying customers a day.After about a month the paying customers were dwindling to around 2-3 a day and I needed...

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Re:Scalar: An open-source alternative to Redocly and Swagger UI on Friday October 13, 2023 @02:03PM (#37873570)
Appreciate it! Don't hesitate to reach out ([email protected]) if you have any feedback.
Re:Scalar: An open-source alternative to Redocly and Swagger UI on Friday October 13, 2023 @01:11PM (#37872940)
This is great feedback that we'd love to take a closer look at.

If you have a chance please reach out to [email protected] and we can start working on some improvements.

Re:Scalar: An open-source alternative to Redocly and Swagger UI on Friday October 13, 2023 @01:02PM (#37872835)
Can certainly respect that approach!

This is definitely a more Javascript heavy approach but without JS you can't get some nice quality of life features like the embedded REST API client for experimenting with endpoints.

As for LLMs we have had the best experience passing them Swagger files directly and not relying on an intermediate parse to text.

Re:Scalar: An open-source alternative to Redocly and Swagger UI on Friday October 13, 2023 @12:52PM (#37872708)
They sure are. In hindsight the title is a little ambiguous but OSS is the standard for this type of developer tooling.
Re:Scalar: An open-source alternative to Redocly and Swagger UI on Friday October 13, 2023 @12:52PM (#37872704)
Besides being huge fans of OSS software we really feel like packages like this only make sense in an Open Source environment. Licensing for developer tooling can't be restrictive or it's just a hassle to use. There great open source business models around support, service, and hosting.
Re:Scalar: An open-source alternative to Redocly and Swagger UI on Friday October 13, 2023 @12:38PM (#37872509)
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Re:Show HN: HackNews – Not an Ugly Hacker News Reader on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @01:25AM (#16974276)
You can indeed download the websites and host them yourself :)
Re:Launchaco – Instantly generate a responsive, free, website on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @06:11PM (#13127086)
Thanks for the kind words. We honestly would rather people's emails then any money at all. We're working really hard to make good design more accessible, and monetization will certainly come down the line! Plus we already make a bit of money with our other tool listed on the website :)
Re:Launchaco – Instantly generate a responsive, free, website on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @05:49PM (#13126982)
Yah good idea, I'll make a readme attached to the download.
Re:Launchaco – Instantly generate a responsive, free, website on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @05:31PM (#13126879)
Agreed, I think there's simple things we can do to help with this. The UX is flawed atm, with out a doubt.
Re:Launchaco – Instantly generate a responsive, free, website on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @05:29PM (#13126862)
I recently read a really great book about issues similar to this called "politics of design". Making things more accessible to everyone honestly really excites me. I hope that every time I ever make something I get called out on all of it's accessibility flaws. So thank you for bringing it to light :)
Re:Launchaco – Instantly generate a responsive, free, website on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @05:03PM (#13126683)
That is indeed a big problem, we're deploying some changes atm that should hopefully fix this. Sorry about that.
Re:Launchaco – Instantly generate a responsive, free, website on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @05:03PM (#13126675)
Thank you for this enlightening comment, and apologies that our website isn't more accessible. We'll be looking in to this through out the day and will try to add some better html to accommodate for anyone who may be in a similar boat to you. I'm really sorry we didn't think about this stuff up front, and will do my best to from here on out.
Re:Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making? on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @02:11PM (#12961178)
http://launchaco.com/

I hate how long it takes me to find a name for my new projects so I made launchaco. It's super simple but has saved me so much time when ever exploring names for new projects.