Hi HN,We’re Ruben, Afnan, and Theo, and about a month ago we started working on a beta webapp for a more visual roleplay experience.We felt that roleplay works best when it feels like a real conversation, not like reading a chat log. So we focused on a phone-exchange format, where characters message you as if they’re on the other end of your phone and can send images that evolve with the story...
https://www.npmjs.com/package/davia
Hi HN,We’re Ruben, Afnan, and Theo. A few days ago we shared the first early version of Davia, and the feedback was far more active than we expected. For context, you can see the previous discussion and reactions here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45880716Based on that response, we decided to push things further and release Davia as a fully open-source package you can run locally.Davia...
https://docs.davia.ai/quickstart
Hi HN,We’re Ruben, Afnan, and Theo. A couple of days ago we released the early repo for Davia and were surprised by how much feedback came in right away. We decided to turn it into a full open-source package you can run locally.Davia is designed for coding agents to generate an editable internal wiki for your project. It focuses on producing high-level internal documentation: the kind you often...
https://davia.ai/blog/open-source-announcement
Hi HN,We’re Ruben, Afnan, and Theo, and we’re building Davia to make documenting and understanding codebases easier. Generating internal docs takes too long, diagrams are essential to grasp structure, and editable visuals are often missing from existing tools. Plus, most solutions aren’t open source.Davia is an open source tool. Point it at your codebase, and it automatically generates an...
https://github.com/davialabs/davia
Hi HN,We’re Ruben, Afnan, and Theo, and we’re building Davia to solve a common problem: documenting and explaining large codebases is complex. It takes too long to generate even a first draft of a wiki, visuals are essential to understand the structure, internal docs should be editable in the IDE, and most solutions aren’t open.Davia is an open source tool. You enter the path of your repo, and...
https://old.reddit.com/r/davia_ai/comments/1ndoenu/what_is_davia_a_workspace_for_creating/
I’ve been working on something called Davia — a platform for creating interactive documents.These are “living documents”: each page is self-contained, combining editable content, interactive components, and data. You can read them, edit them, and actually interact with them — more like mini-apps than static docs.Here’s what makes it interesting: The interactive components are pieces of code...
https://docs.davia.ai/overview
Hi HN!I'm Ruben, the founder of Davia (https://davia.ai/). Davia is a platform to build, edit and share applications, where builders get rewarded based on usage while users can discover and reuse any app's code to fit their own needs.The problem we're trying to solve: Today's AI coding platforms charge you upfront for creation - it's like paying per block modification in no-code solutions. This...
I’ve lived in Notion for years, but I keep hitting the same ceiling: Notion was built for people, not for AI. Because it's closed, agents like Cursor can’t write to it and bulk edits stay manual. I fall back to local markdown I edit with Cursor, but that breaks as soon as we need shared tables or quick productivity tools.
We’re working on something more open:
- Docs and tables live as plain code you (and AI) can edit
- Any AI agent like Cursor or Claude code can propose changes without fighting a closed UI.
- A web editor is still available for quick comments when needed.
The project’s in wait-list mode: https://waitlister.me/p/davia-workspace
If this scratches an itch for you too, I’d love to hear how you’d use it.
https://github.com/davialabs/collaborative-photoshop
Hi HN,I just built an MVP of a collaborative image editor you control by speaking.You can say things like “remove the background” or “make the image look more realistic,” and it updates automatically.It’s powered by an OpenAI agent sdk that routes requests to the right tools: • Speech-to-text using OpenAI API • Image operations like background removal via OpenCV • Higher-level...
Hi HN,We’re Afnan, Theo and Ruben. We’re all ML engineers or data scientists, and we kept running into the same thing: we’d write useful Python functions, either for ourselves or internal tools, and then hit a wall when we wanted to share them as actual apps.We tried Streamlit and Gradio. They’re great to get something up quickly. But as soon as we needed more flexibility or something more...