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Show HN: Ductape – Build back end integrations once, reuse them anywhere
Hey HN, We built Ductape to make backend integrations reusable and environment-agnostic. You define the logic once (e.g. payments, auth, notifications) and externalize provider-specific stuff like API keys, endpoints, and retries into a config. That logic can then be reused across services, projects, and environments without rewriting code. It’s like decoupling your service logic from your infrastructure. You can even switch providers by changing config, not code. We’re using it to save time, reduce bugs, and simplify service expansion. Curious what you think. We’ve been building quietly and are now coming out of stealth with our public beta. We’d love your feedback You can try it at www.ductape.app Join our Discord — https://discord.gg/JHXxQ6MAwb We’re there to chat, answer questions. Happy to answer anything below..
Why it failed: Hey HN, We built Ductape to make backend integrations reusable and environment-agnostic. You define the logic once (e.g. payments, auth, notifications) and externalize provider-specific stuff like API keys, endpoints, and retries into a config. That logic can then be reused acros
Ifedayo_s
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Show HN: Stagewise (YC S25) – Front end coding agent for existing codebases
Hey HN, we're Julian and Glenn, and we're building stagewise ( https://stagewise.io ), a frontend coding agent that lives inside your browser on localhost and operates on local codebases. You can spawn the agent into locally running web apps in dev mode with `npx stagewise` from the project root. The agent lets you then click on HTML Elements in your app, enter prompts like 'increase the height here' and will implement the changes in your source code. Before stagewise, we were building a vertical SaaS for logistics from scratch and loved using prototyping tools like v0 or lovable to get to the first version. But when switching from v0/ lovable to Cursor for local development, we felt like the frontend magic was gone. So, we decided to build stagewise to bring that same magic to local development. The first version of stagewise just forwarded a prompt wi
Why it failed: Hey HN, we're Julian and Glenn, and we're building stagewise ( https://stagewise.io ), a frontend coding agent that lives inside your browser on localhost and operates on local codebases. You can spawn the agent into locally running web apps in dev mode with `
juliangoetze
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Launch HN: Nao Labs (YC X25) – Cursor for Data
Hey HN, we’re Claire and Christophe from nao Labs ( https://getnao.io/ ). We just launched nao, an AI code editor to work with data: a local editor, directly connected with your data warehouse, and powered by an AI copilot with built-in context of your data schema and data-specific tools. See our demo here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmG6X-5ftZU Writing code with LLMs is the new normal in software engineering. But not when it comes to manipulating data. Tools like Cursor don’t interact natively with data warehouses — they autocomplete SQL blindly, not knowing your data schema. Most of us are still juggling multiple tools: writing code in Cursor, checking results in the warehouse console, troubleshooting with an observability tool, and verifying in BI tool no dashboard broke. When you want to write code on data with LLMs, you don’t care much about the co
Why it failed: Hey HN, we’re Claire and Christophe from nao Labs ( https://getnao.io/ ). We just launched nao, an AI code editor to work with data: a local editor, directly connected with your data warehouse, and powered by an AI copilot with built-in context of your data schema
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Launch HN: ASim (YC S21) – Mobile app that generates mobile apps
Hey HN, we’re Daniel and Daniel (the Daniels) from aSim ( https://asim.sh/ ). aSim is a mobile app that can generate immediately usable and shareable mobile apps from your phone. Tools like bolt.new and v0 have made it easier to build websites by just chatting with an LLM, but things have been lagging on the mobile side. We’ve always been suckers for well-made mobile apps, but today, it is still extremely difficult to build mobile apps with LLMs on your computer, and nearly impossible to do it from your phone. We built aSim to make it easy to build prototypes, “trinket” apps, or just random fun things all async from your phone. You can check our landing page ( https://asim.sh/ ) for some ideas of different types of apps. Hopefully we can bring some life to your side project graveyard, or at least make the graveyard even more numerous. Here’s a demo video of
Why it failed: Hey HN, we’re Daniel and Daniel (the Daniels) from aSim ( https://asim.sh/ ). aSim is a mobile app that can generate immediately usable and shareable mobile apps from your phone. Tools like bolt.new and v0 have made it easier to build websites by just chatting with
dli123
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Show HN: Breakout with a roguelite/vampire survivor twist
Hi HN ! This is an open source project I've been working on for a while. It's actually the third breakout-like game I've built. I really like the simplicity of the concept, having just one input (the puck horizontal position) and a simple gameplay that gives a low skill floor. My girlfriend and I played a lot of the excellent LBreakoutHD, an open source breakout game that follows the traditional formula of having multiple lives, scoring points by breaking bricks and catching the good upgrades that spawn randomly and fall down, while avoiding bad upgrades. She liked this game because it is non-violent, and doesn't make her sick like the first person 3D games. There are some issues though, it gets boring to break the last bricks, it's a bit unfair or slow sometimes, and the run length is too long with 30 something levels to clear for a high score. I wanted to make
Why it failed: Hi HN ! This is an open source project I've been working on for a while. It's actually the third breakout-like game I've built. I really like the simplicity of the concept, having just one input (the puck horizontal position) and a simple gameplay that gives a low
lecarore
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Show HN: Pipo360 – Generate production-ready back end APIs in 60 seconds with AI
Hi HN , I got tired of writing the same boilerplate over and over — DB setup, auth, routes, security — every time I built a backend. So I built Pipo360 — an AI-powered tool that generates production-ready backends in under 60 seconds, from just a plain-text description. How it works: Type what you need “Create a task management API with user auth and MongoDB” Hit Generate Get real, exportable code Auth (JWT) Database schema CRUD routes Deployable to Vercel, AWS, etc. No templates. No lock-in. Just code that works. Why it’s different: Built with Gemini AI + human supervision (to ensure real prod-quality output) Exports to MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite Secure by default (JWT, RBAC, etc.) Supports no-login backend previews Try it live (No signup needed): https://pipo360.xyz Would love feedback: What backend would you try first? What would make it better for your workflow? Wou
Why it failed: Hi HN , I got tired of writing the same boilerplate over and over — DB setup, auth, routes, security — every time I built a backend. So I built Pipo360 — an AI-powered tool that generates production-ready backends in under 60 seconds, from just a plain-text description. How it wo
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Show HN: We started building an AI dev tool but it turned into a Sims-style game
Hi HN! We’re Max and Peyton from The Interface ( https://www.theinterface.com/ ). We started out building an AI agent dev tool, but somewhere along the way it turned into Sims for AI agents. Demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRPnX_f2V_c . The original idea was simple: make it easy to create AI agents. We started with Jupyter Notebooks, where each cell could be callable by MCP—so agents could turn them into tools for themselves. It worked well enough that the system became self-improving, churning out content, and acting like a co-pilot that helped you build new agents. But when we stepped back, what we had was these endless walls of text. And even though it worked, honestly, it was just boring. We were also convinced that it would be swallowed up by the next model’s capabilities. We wanted to build something else—something that made AI less of a bl
Why it failed: Hi HN! We’re Max and Peyton from The Interface ( https://www.theinterface.com/ ). We started out building an AI agent dev tool, but somewhere along the way it turned into Sims for AI agents. Demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRPnX_f2V_c . T
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Launch HN: Jasmine (YC S22) – Automating REC compliance and payouts for solar
Hi HN — we’re Nathalie, Dalton, Vince, and Matt, and we’re launching Jasmine Energy ( https://www.jasmine.energy ), a tool that helps residential and commercial solar owners automatically register their systems, track energy generation, and get paid for Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs). RECs are tradeable certificates for clean electricity, issued by energy markets across the US. Most people with rooftop or small commercial solar have never heard of them, let alone claimed them, but they’re real! They are typically bought by utilities or companies to meet climate targets. The problem is, the process to claim and sell RECs is a mess—designed decades ago for utility-scale players, not individuals or small businesses. To register a system and start claiming RECs, you usually have to: Navigate one of 10+ regional REC registries, each with its own documentation, forms, and rules
Why it failed: Hi HN — we’re Nathalie, Dalton, Vince, and Matt, and we’re launching Jasmine Energy ( https://www.jasmine.energy ), a tool that helps residential and commercial solar owners automatically register their systems, track energy generation, and get paid for Renewable Energy
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Show HN: HyprMCP – Analytics, logs and auth for MCP servers
Hi HN, my name is Philip, I’m the co-founder of Glasskube and one of the creators of HyprMCP. This project started when we did what everyone was doing — building a remote MCP server and launching it. Building the first local MCP server for testing was quite simple, and we had our first tools ready within a day. The next step was turning that into a production-ready remote MCP server. As we exposed the MCP server to our users, we wanted to authenticate them with our existing authentication methods. We dove deep into authentication. Our approach was to build an auth proxy and plug it in front of our MCP. It took a while to figure out Dynamic Client Registration (DCR) and the OAuth spec, and especially the gaps between existing OIDC IDPs and what LLM clients needed. We thought authentication would be the hard part — but it wasn’t. When we shared the MCP server with a few friendly startups,
Why it failed: Hi HN, my name is Philip, I’m the co-founder of Glasskube and one of the creators of HyprMCP. This project started when we did what everyone was doing — building a remote MCP server and launching it. Building the first local MCP server for testing was quite simple, and we had our
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Show HN: A real-time 4D fractal explorer in the browser using WebGPU
Hi HN, I've always been interested in fractals, especially the Mandelbrot and Julia sets. A few years ago I created a 2d viewer of this inherently 4d space. But the other day I decided to ask Claude and GPT how to make this a full RT 3d explorer. A few hours later and this was vibe coded. To use it you can use the mouse to rotate the fractal the the mouse wheel to zoom in and out. to map from 4d to 3d, one of the dims is mapped to an adjustable slider. the there is also a clipping plane slider to help visualize the internal structures of the fractal. I have mixed feelings about vibe coding. It was amazing to go from an idea to live implementation within a few hours, but in my coding projects, I've always appreciated the journey and the learning, not just the final product. Vibe coding kind of skips to the end which is exciting and efficient, but just not as fulfilling as strugg
Why it failed: Hi HN, I've always been interested in fractals, especially the Mandelbrot and Julia sets. A few years ago I created a 2d viewer of this inherently 4d space. But the other day I decided to ask Claude and GPT how to make this a full RT 3d explorer. A few hours later and this w
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Launch HN: Simplex (YC S24) – Browser automation platform for developers
Hi HN! We’re Marco and Shreya, founders of Simplex ( https://www.simplex.sh/ ). We’re building all the infrastructure you need for modern browser automation – including remote browsers, steerable web agents, and more. Here’s a demo: https://youtu.be/7KpWJbOcm1Y We’re excited to be posting on HN again! Back in January, we Show HN’d the earliest version of Simplex ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42704160 ). We’ve now spent close to a year working with real customers, forward-deploying into their codebases, and building web agent systems for them from the ground up to understand what it takes to get agents working in production. We built Simplex because we started seeing a pattern: companies would initially roll their own Playwright/Stagehand web automation solutions. This worked fine in the early prototype stages, but they’d quickly
Why it failed: Hi HN! We’re Marco and Shreya, founders of Simplex ( https://www.simplex.sh/ ). We’re building all the infrastructure you need for modern browser automation – including remote browsers, steerable web agents, and more. Here’s a demo: https://youtu.be/
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Launch HN: Cyberdesk (YC S25) – Automate Windows legacy desktop apps
Hi HN, We’re Mahmoud and Alan, building Cyberdesk ( https://www.cyberdesk.io/ ), a deterministic computer use agent for automating Windows desktop applications. Developers use us to automate repetitive tasks in legacy software in healthcare, accounting, construction, and more, by executing clicks and keystrokes directly into the desktop. Here’s a couple demos of Cyberdesk’s computer use agent: A fast file import automation into a legacy desktop app: https://youtu.be/H_lRzrCCN0E Working on a monster of a Windows monolith called OpenDental (showcases agent learning process as well): https://youtu.be/nXiJDebOJD0 . Filing a W-2 tax form: https://youtu.be/6VNEzHdc8mc Many industries are stuck with legacy Windows desktop applications, with staff plagued by repetitive tasks that are incredibly time consuming. Vendors offering automatio
Why it failed: Hi HN, We’re Mahmoud and Alan, building Cyberdesk ( https://www.cyberdesk.io/ ), a deterministic computer use agent for automating Windows desktop applications. Developers use us to automate repetitive tasks in legacy software in healthcare, accounting, constructio
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Show HN: OverType – A Markdown WYSIWYG editor that's just a textarea
Hi HN! I got so frustrated with modern WYSIWYG editors that I started to play around with building my own. The problem I had was simple: I wanted a low-tech way to type styled text, but I didn't want to load a complex 500KB library, especially if I was going to initialize it dozens of times on the same page. Markdown in a plain <textarea> was the best alternative to a full WYSIWYG, but its main drawback is how ugly it looks without any formatting. I can handle it, but my clients certainly can't. I went down the ContentEditable rabbit hole for a few years, but always came to realize others had solved it better than I ever could. I kept coming back to this problem: why can't I have a simple, performant, beautiful markdown editor? The best solution I ever saw was Ghost's split-screen editor: markdown on the left, preview on the right, with synchronized scrolling. T
Why it failed: Hi HN! I got so frustrated with modern WYSIWYG editors that I started to play around with building my own. The problem I had was simple: I wanted a low-tech way to type styled text, but I didn't want to load a complex 500KB library, especially if I was going to initialize it
panphora
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Show HN: Slurm-web – open-source lightweight web UI for Slurm HPC/AI clusters
Hi HN, I’d like to share Slurm-web, an open source web interface to monitor Slurm HPC & AI clusters in real time. It provides a read-only overview of job queues and node status with metrics and advanced visualizations – useful to sysadmins, managers and end-users – without needing to SSH in or run command-line tools. Slurm is the world's leading workload manager and the de facto standard for HPC and AI clusters. It has a powerful command-line interface, but it's complex to use. Many HPC centers deploy advanced stacks to create custom dashboards with exporters, Prometheus, InfluxDB, Grafana, which are complex and time-consuming to design and maintain. Slurm-web offers clear and accessible views of the cluster – with minimal setup and overhead. And it is released as free software under the GNU GPL v3! Key features: - Dashboard with interactive charts of resources and jobs sta
Why it failed: Hi HN, I’d like to share Slurm-web, an open source web interface to monitor Slurm HPC & AI clusters in real time. It provides a read-only overview of job queues and node status with metrics and advanced visualizations – useful to sysadmins, managers and end-users – without ne
rezib
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Show HN: I built an app store for open-source financial plans (on spreadsheets)
Hi HN, Mahmoud here. I'm usually here for Python/FOSS reasons (boltons, glom, CalVer, ZeroVer), and that's still the case, but this time with a twist. While I was on parental leave from Stripe a couple years back, I started helping my parents figure out their retirement. They're academics coming from overseas, so let's just say I'm a big part of the plan. We found ourselves quibbling over Zoom screenshares, multi-tabbed Google Sheets, and countless links to articles and blog posts. When we looked for professional advice, we found conflicting guidance and misaligned incentives. I looked at the tools my friends and I use for big decisions and saw a huge gap. This isn't budgeting, nor is this investing. This is actual finance . Money management and decision making. Your options are usually: 1. Read a bunch of Bogleheads, Investopedia, Wikipedia, and Reddit
Why it failed: Hi HN, Mahmoud here. I'm usually here for Python/FOSS reasons (boltons, glom, CalVer, ZeroVer), and that's still the case, but this time with a twist. While I was on parental leave from Stripe a couple years back, I started helping my parents figure out their retir
mhashemi
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Show HN: Galaxybrain.com – a JSON-based knowledge system
Hi HN, I’d like to share a project I’ve been working on called GalaxyBrain. It’s a tool for organizing information. Key features: Embeddable dynamic metadata: as you type, metadata is generated in the background. This metadata can be accessed and embedded directly into the page. Light programming concepts built in: you can add custom values (think variables) to any page, then reference those values across different pages to build dynamic relationships. Metadata can be chained together: referencing values on other pages, or by using a formula. Updates to anything flow through the entire system (like a spreadsheet). It runs on local JSON files: plan is to offer a hosted version, with structured end points for everything so you can use it as a datastore. If you host the json files locally it will be free forever. I use it to build a model of my life. Everything I care about has a page, each
Why it failed: Hi HN, I’d like to share a project I’ve been working on called GalaxyBrain. It’s a tool for organizing information. Key features: Embeddable dynamic metadata: as you type, metadata is generated in the background. This metadata can be accessed and embedded directly into the page.
j0ncc
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Show HN: Fingernotes – handwritten notes which become their own preview image
Hi HN, I've lurked here for ages and decided to come out of the shadows for my latest side project which reached the point where it’s sort of fun to use and hopefully not totally embarrassing to share. Hacking fingernotes.com together over a couple of weeks was a creative outlet when work got stressful. I think of it as digital sticky notes. The goal was to make notes with a personal touch that are easy to write and share. I also wanted them to appear as their own link preview image on supported platforms. That way when you send the link to a note, the person sees the message without following the link. Let me know what you think! I drew inspiration from Apple's quick notes: low latency made scribbling a pleasure, and sending notes to friends felt warm and original compared to a typical exchange. It was also intriguing to see my handwriting printed in a message chat. In a time
Why it failed: Hi HN, I've lurked here for ages and decided to come out of the shadows for my latest side project which reached the point where it’s sort of fun to use and hopefully not totally embarrassing to share. Hacking fingernotes.com together over a couple of weeks was a creative ou
sumolessons
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Launch HN: Hypercubic (YC F25) – AI for COBOL and Mainframes
Hi HN, we’re Sai and Aayush and we’re building Hypercubic ( https://www.hypercubic.ai/ )! Hypercubic is an AI platform that helps Fortune 500 companies understand, preserve, and modernize their mainframe systems. These are the systems that run COBOL from the 1960s that still quietly power banking, insurance, airlines, and governments today. 70% of the Fortune 500 still run on mainframes, but the engineers who built and maintained them are retiring. Today, the average age of a COBOL/mainframe engineer is about 55 and rapidly increasing. What’s left behind are opaque, black box systems with almost no one who understands how they work. Modernization projects often fail, documentation is decades out of date, and critical institutional knowledge lives only in the minds of a few senior subject matter experts who are now leaving the workforce. Current “AI for code” tools foc
Why it failed: Hi HN, we’re Sai and Aayush and we’re building Hypercubic ( https://www.hypercubic.ai/ )! Hypercubic is an AI platform that helps Fortune 500 companies understand, preserve, and modernize their mainframe systems. These are the systems that run COBOL from the 1960s
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Show HN: Nxtscape – an open-source agentic browser
Hi HN - we're Nithin and Nikhil, twin brothers and founders of nxtscape.ai (YC S24). We're building Nxtscape ("next-scape") - an open-source, agentic browser for the AI era. -- Why bother building a new browser? For the first time since Netscape was released in 1994, it feels like we can reimagine browsers from scratch for the age of AI agents. The web browser of tomorrow might not look like what we have today. We saw how tools like Cursor gave developers a 10x productivity boost, yet the browser—where everyone else spends their entire workday—hasn't fundamentally changed. And honestly, we feel like we're constantly fighting the browser we use every day. It's not one big thing, but a series of small, constant frustrations. I'll have 70+ tabs open from three different projects and completely lose my train of thought. And simple stuff like reordering
Why it failed: Hi HN - we're Nithin and Nikhil, twin brothers and founders of nxtscape.ai (YC S24). We're building Nxtscape ("next-scape") - an open-source, agentic browser for the AI era. -- Why bother building a new browser? For the first time since Netscape was released i
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Is Product Search Broken? Why Are We Still Stuck with Ads and Fake Reviews?
Hi HN, I’ve been thinking a lot about how broken product search is today. You type in a query, and the first page is just ads, SEO-optimized blogs, or fake reviews. It feels like the system is designed to waste our time rather than help us. For example, I was searching for a decent pair of wireless headphones under $200. After an hour of scrolling through Google, Amazon, and forums, I found a thread on Reddit from 2019. Guess what? The recommended model was discontinued. This made me wonder: Why are we still stuck with ads and fake reviews? Why hasn’t anyone built a better solution? What would your ideal product search engine look like? I’ve been exploring some tools that claim to solve these issues, but I’m curious to hear how you handle it. Do you have any tips, tools, or tricks to share? Let’s discuss!
Why it failed: Hi HN, I’ve been thinking a lot about how broken product search is today. You type in a query, and the first page is just ads, SEO-optimized blogs, or fake reviews. It feels like the system is designed to waste our time rather than help us. For example, I was searching for a dece
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Show HN: StepKit, an open and cross-platform durable execution standard
Hi HN! I’m Tony, one of the co-founders of Inngest ( https://inngest.com/ ). Wanted to show you something we’re working on: StepKit. StepKit is an open source SDK and framework for building and iterating on durable workflows that run on any platform (self-hosted, Inngest, Cloudflare, Netlify, etc.) without requiring any provider or bundler-specific code. Here’s the repo: https://github.com/inngest/stepkit . StepKit extracts the core execution loop that we built in Inngest and makes it fully open, Apache 2, and hackable/pluggable to different backends. We don’t want people to have to go through multiple major versions in SDKs to learn the lessons we’ve already learned in production: It needs to work anywhere: This SDK is push-based and receives tasks via API endpoints, so it works anywhere (servers, serverless, k8s, etc). That's also customizab
Why it failed: Hi HN! I’m Tony, one of the co-founders of Inngest ( https://inngest.com/ ). Wanted to show you something we’re working on: StepKit. StepKit is an open source SDK and framework for building and iterating on durable workflows that run on any platform (self-hosted, I
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Launch HN: Nia (YC S25) – Give better context to coding agents
Hi HN, I am Arlan and I am building Nia ( https://trynia.ai ), a context layer for AI coding agents. Nia lets tools like Cursor, Claude Code, and other MCP clients index and query real codebases and documentation so they stop hallucinating against outdated or wrong sources, with applications beyond coding agents to any AI system that requires grounded context across domains. Coding agents are only as good as the context you give them. General models are trained on public code and documentation that is often old, and they usually have no idea what is inside your actual repo, internal wiki, or the exact version of a third party SDK you use. The result is very familiar: you paste URLs and code snippets into the prompt, the agent confidently uses an outdated API or the wrong framework version, and you spend more time verifying and correcting it than if you had written the code your
Why it failed: Hi HN, I am Arlan and I am building Nia ( https://trynia.ai ), a context layer for AI coding agents. Nia lets tools like Cursor, Claude Code, and other MCP clients index and query real codebases and documentation so they stop hallucinating against outdated or wrong sour
jellyotsiro
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Show HN: Neptune – Give your coding agents DevOps superpowers
Hi HN, We are the team behind Shuttle (YC S20). We just shipped Neptune, ( https://github.com/shuttle-hq/neptune-mcp ) an open source MCP server that lets coding agents actually deploy software, not just write code. Behind it is an app deployment platform we built to be friendly for AI agents. Neptune runs in your IDE. It reads your codebase, analyzes its structure and intent using ASTs and inference, and generates a deterministic infrastructure spec called neptune.json. You can inspect every change, approve it, and apply it. Think: coding agents that can actually ship safely to AWS. How it works in practice: 1. Take any of your existing apps 2. Install Neptune mcp & login 3. Tell your agent to deploy 4. Watch it do everything else for you and (super important) it keeps you in the loop at every step, asking for your approval and guidance. We’ve spent most of our t
Why it failed: Hi HN, We are the team behind Shuttle (YC S20). We just shipped Neptune, ( https://github.com/shuttle-hq/neptune-mcp ) an open source MCP server that lets coding agents actually deploy software, not just write code. Behind it is an app deployment platform we b
nodar-d
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Show HN: C.O.R.E – Opensource, user owned, shareable memory for Claude, Cursor
Hi HN, I keep running in the same problem of each AI app “remembers” me in its own silo. ChatGPT knows my project details, Cursor forgets them, Claude starts from zero… so I end up re-explaining myself dozens of times a day across these apps. The deeper problem 1. Not portable – context is vendor-locked; nothing travels across tools. 2. Not relational – most memory systems store only the latest fact (“sticky notes”) with no history or provenance. 3. Not yours – your AI memory is sensitive first-party data, yet you have no control over where it lives or how it’s queried. Demo video: https://youtu.be/iANZ32dnK60 Repo: https://github.com/RedPlanetHQ/core What we built - CORE (Context Oriented Relational Engine): An open source, shareable knowledge graph (your memory vault) that lets any LLM (ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude, SOL, etc.) share and query the same pers
Why it failed: Hi HN, I keep running in the same problem of each AI app “remembers” me in its own silo. ChatGPT knows my project details, Cursor forgets them, Claude starts from zero… so I end up re-explaining myself dozens of times a day across these apps. The deeper problem 1. Not portable –
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