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Wrote this blogpost in early Jan. Before the OpenClaw madness. I think it's never been more relevant to rethink how companies and especially open-source companies can leverage this…

Completely understand. It's up to us to keep shippinh and making this actually good during that time!

Yeah ! I feel like until we figure out the correct UX for non-technical people the right way would be a sort of hybrid. Where you'd set it up on a remote server (if you know openco…

let me know if you need help, still a bit rough around the edges

I used "open" because: - it's open source - built on top of open source (opencode) - it's built-around extensibility via plain-text files (skills) and open-source plugins

Yes it's fully integrated with Claude Skills. There's first-class integration of https://github.com/enulus/OpenPackage and we provide a ui to install from a list of skills easily a…

Yeah it is still too technical. First obvious stuff like getting the dmg notarized having easier install. Then after it will be about optimizing onboarding. One of the core goals i…

Fixed as well. Thanks again!

MIT

Updated ! Thanks for flagging

Oh damn thanks for flagging. I just added an MIT license.

hi hn, i built openwork, an open-source, local-first system inspired by claude cowork. it’s a native desktop app that runs on top of opencode (opencode.ai). it’s basically an alter…

Hi HN, I built Corgina, an open-source pregnancy health tracker for my wife after getting frustrated with commercial pregnancy apps that sell user data and lack privacy. GitHub: ht…

Hi I'm Ben Today, I want to share something I've been building for the last couple months. 0.finance is an open-source bank account. You might wonder what I mean with "bank account…

Hi HN! Ben here from hyprsqrl, and I just open-sourced something we’ve been quietly running in production: *hyprsqrl is a self-hostable bank. Think Revolut (if you know it), but ev…

Hi hn! I wanted to share a simple JS script I built that uses Anthropic's Claude AI to auto-generate OpenAPI specs from code. Keeping OpenAPI specs in sync is tedious and error-pro…

Hi, I'm Ben, the co-creator of Embedbase. Embedbase lets you use OpenAI Embeddings and Pinecone seamlessly. For example, you can add Embedbase to your app and pair it with GPT3 to …

Hi foks Louis & Ben here. We just wanted to share Embedbase. Embedbase is an open-source api to easily create, store, and rerieve embeddings. It started out as an internal api for …

This resonates so much with me. Are you familiar with Paul Graham's: How to Disagree http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html