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Show HN: Kill-The-Backlog, self-hosted background agents

https://github.com/jvaill/Kill-The-Backlog

Hey all,I've been quietly working on a background agent runner inspired by Ramp Inspect.I'm working on closing the loop between prompting, testing, and deploying:1) You prompt agents to make changes to your projects in a web interface2) Agents pull your code and make changes in a sandbox3) Instantly test your changes with preview environments4) Get a PR backAppreciate any comments or input!jv

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I think eventually it'll support many different runtimes. I started with e2b because it has stronger security guarantees, especially useful if this ends up being multi-tenant.

Show HN: I built an open source background agent inspired by Ramp Inspect

https://github.com/jvaill/Kill-The-Backlog

I’ve been quietly building an open source background agent inspired by Ramp’s Inspect.Basically, you can self-host it, point it to a GH repo, and prompt agents to do work on your behalf in the cloud.The idea is to tighten the prompt -> preview -> deploy loop. Next steps will be to add preview environments and trigger changes from sources other than the web ui, like slack or your favorite...

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Re:I built an AI-powered Kanban board for your GitHub repos on Thursday April 09, 2026 @04:53PM (#47709899)
It's not much yet! But it's fully open source!

If anyone has any thoughts on what they'd like to see in a project like this, I'd love to hear it.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2018) on Monday April 02, 2018 @06:43PM (#16740147)
Dooly - Vancouver, BC, Canada We're building a note taking app for sales folks. Take notes in Dooly, we update Salesforce for you, and we surface information in the moment to help close deals. Check out our website: https://www.dooly.ai

CRM is broken. You pay a lot of money for the software, then you hire an administrator, and then no one puts the data in because it's not helping them do what they were hired for: to sell. We're on a mission to fix that.

We've spent the last year building a foundation and obsessing on early customers.. we're now seeing the fruits of that. Our customers tell us that they love and couldn't live without Dooly, including some well-known valley brands that we're excited to have using. New deals are coming in on an almost weekly basis. Now we're ramping up to deliver knowledge in the moment and help our customers be the smartest people in their meetings.

We're a small, super-passionate team and we're looking to bring onboard another well-rounded engineer. Our stack is es6/react/redux on the frontend and rails on the backend.

Everyone here is passionate about design and bringing consumer-grade product to the enterprise.

Send me an email if you're in Vancouver or if anything caught your attention!

-> [email protected]

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2018) on Friday March 02, 2018 @01:57PM (#16504585)
Dooly - Vancouver, BC, Canada We're building a note taking app for sales folks. Take notes in Dooly, we update Salesforce for you, and we surface information in the moment to help close deals.

Check out our website: https://www.dooly.ai

CRM is broken. You pay a lot of money for the software, then you hire an administrator, and then no one puts the data in because it's not helping them do what they were hired for: to sell. We're on a mission to fix that.

We've spent the last year building a foundation and obsessing on early customers.. we're now seeing the fruits of that. Our customers tell us that they love and couldn't live without Dooly, including some well-known valley brands that we're excited to have using. New deals are coming in on an almost weekly basis. Now we're ramping up to deliver knowledge in the moment and help our customers be the smartest people in their meetings.

We're a small, super-passionate team and we're looking to bring onboard another well-rounded engineer. Our stack is es6/react/redux on the frontend and rails on the backend.

Everyone here is passionate about design and bringing consumer-grade product to the enterprise.

Send me an email if you're in Vancouver or if anything caught your attention!

-> [email protected]

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2018) on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @03:14PM (#16064620)
Dooly - Vancouver, BC, Canada

We're building a note taking app for sales folks. Take notes in Dooly, we update Salesforce for you, and we surface information in the moment to close deals.

Check out our website: https://www.dooly.ai

CRM is broken. You pay a lot of money for the software, then you hire an administrator, and then no one puts the data in because it's not helping them do what they were hired for: to sell. We're on a mission to fix that.

We've spent the last year building a foundation and obsessing on early customers.. we're now seeing the fruits of that. Our customers tell us that they love and couldn't live without Dooly, including some well-known valley brands that we're excited to have using. New deals are coming in on an almost weekly basis. Now we're ramping up to deliver knowledge in the moment and help our customers be the smartest people in their meetings.

We're a small, super-passionate team and we're looking to bring onboard a third well-rounded engineer. Our stack is es6/react/redux on the frontend and rails on the backend.

Everyone here is passionate about design and bringing consumer-grade product to the enterprise.

Send me an email if you're in Vancouver or if anything caught your attention!

-> [email protected]

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2017) on Thursday November 02, 2017 @03:53PM (#15613666)
Dooly - Vancouver, BC, Canada

We're building a note taking app for sales folks. Take notes in Dooly, we update Salesforce for you, and we surface information in the moment to close deals.

Check out our website: https://www.dooly.ai

CRM is broken. You pay a lot of money for the software, then you hire an administrator, and then no one puts the data in because it's not helping them do what they were hired for: to sell. We're on a mission to fix that.

We've spent the last year building a foundation and obsessing on early customers.. we're now seeing the fruits of that. Our customers tell us that they love and couldn't live without Dooly, including some well-known valley brands that we're excited to have using. New deals are coming in on an almost weekly basis. Now we're ramping up to deliver knowledge in the moment and help our customers be the smartest people in their meetings.

We're a small, super-passionate team and we're looking to bring onboard a third well-rounded engineer. Our stack is es6/react/redux on the frontend and rails on the backend.

Everyone here is passionate about design and bringing consumer-grade product to the enterprise.

Send me an email if you're in Vancouver or if anything caught your attention!

-> [email protected]

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2017) on Monday October 02, 2017 @06:20PM (#15388457)
Dooly - Vancouver, BC, Canada

We're building a note taking app for sales folks. Take notes in Dooly, we update Salesforce for you, and we surface information in the moment to close deals.

Check out our website: https://www.dooly.ai

Salesforce is broken. You pay a lot of money for the software, then you hire an administrator, and then no one puts the data in because it's not helping them do what they were hired for: to sell. We're on a mission to fix that.

We've spent the last year building a foundation and obsessing on early customers.. we're now seeing the fruits of that.

Our customers tell us that they love and couldn't live without Dooly, including some well-known valley brands that we're excited to have using. New deals are coming in on an almost weekly basis. Now we're ramping up to deliver knowledge in the moment and help our customers be the smartest people in their meetings.

We're a small, super-passionate team and we're looking to bring onboard a third well-rounded engineer. Our stack is es6/react/redux on the frontend and rails on the backend. Everyone here is passionate about design and bringing consumer-grade product to the enterprise.

Send me an email if you're in Vancouver or if anything caught your attention!

-> [email protected]

Selling TRUST

My co-founder wrote a really great post on the telltale signs of someone who's great at sales. A lot has already been written here, but he takes his personal experience as a sales leader in the trenches and spins out some unique insights that you won't really find anywhere else. "Respond to my questions with certainty in-the-moment and you’re 10x more likely to earn my business. Let those...

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Hey! You're right, it's using Flash as the transport at the moment.. Not for long though, in the coming days I'm going to switch it up to use Socket.IO which supports virtually all platform/browser combinations (including mobile). Thanks for giving it a spin though, would you be interested in giving it another shot later?
This is my MVP. Test account is [email protected]/testing and is set up on http://jvaill.com/wordpress .. Looking for feedback. :]
Thanks for the comment, appreciate it.

I've tried Bespin, they've refreshed it and most of the features that made it awesome are now gone (for the time being). As nice as the editor is, I don't really have much faith in the project anymore. The problem (and also aspect that makes it good) with Bespin is that it uses the HTML5 canvas element. Slow as hell but it's only going to get faster.

I know what you're saying about speed. The goal with my editor since day one was to have it as speedy as possible. I won't settle for mild slowdowns under 5000 lines on a netbook. This is unacceptable considering it is a big portion of the market.

I like the tagging system, it's pretty innovative but I don't think anything else is ready for it yet. Plugins are a good idea too. Everyone likes to write code in their one way.

Thanks once again... :-)