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I'm taking on Vercel and Render with a zero config cloud hosting platform. So far we have: - connect your github and deploy from web/cli/vs code/cursor - static sites automatically detected and deployed on a CDN - logging - encrypted env vars - built in monitoring - custom domains - auto deployments from new branches or commits - multi-branch deployments
The goal was to build something as fast as a native app but with the convenience of a web link. Some of the technical bits:
* Instant Streaming: Recipients can start downloading a file the moment the first chunk leaves the sender's computer. No waiting for the full upload to finish.
* Bespoke Chunking Protocol: To handle "unlimited" file counts (tested into the millions), we group small files into larger chunks and split massive files down, so many small files and a few large files can get transferred at similar speeds.
* Auto-Resume: Both uploads and downloads automatically resume from the exact byte where they left off, even if you switch networks or close/reopen your laptop.
* E2EE via Web Crypto API: Everything is AES-GCM-256 encrypted. The secret key stays in the URL fragment (after the #), so it never gets sent to our servers.
* Zero-Knowledge Auth: We use the OPAQUE protocol for logins, meaning we can authenticate users and store their encrypted Data Encryption Keys (DEKs) without ever seeing their password or having the ability to decrypt their files.
* Passkey + PRF: We support the WebAuthn PRF extension. If your passkey supports it (like iCloud Keychain or YubiKeys), you can decrypt your account's metadata without the password.
* On-the-fly Zipping: When a recipient selects multiple files, the browser decrypts and zips them locally in real-time as they stream from our server.
* Performance: Optimized to saturate gigabit connections (up to 250 MB/s) by maintaining persistent streams and minimizing protocol overhead.
Everything is hosted in Germany (EU) for GDPR compliance. I'd love to hear any feedback on the streaming architecture or the OPAQUE implementation!
I’ve been developing a rewrite of the dashboard app (admin app) for a fairly popular free app that has been out for just about 2 years. The original dashboard was written in a hurry. It’s solid and effective, but clunky. It was written in UIKit, and uses the same backend as the main app. The new app is being done in SwiftUI (with all its strengths and weaknesses), and has a new, streamlined, backend. It’s much faster…
is it mobile app or webapp?
Vim-inspired, as in it's minimal and fast, text editor on the web. No modal-editing yet but, once the current natural input mode is decoupled, clients can bring their own modes/controllers via the extension system. It's meant to be embeddable and hackable, serving as a building block for custom IDEs as opposed to being IDE-like VSCode. I felt the web IDE space was uninspired with apps built around VScode/Monaco effec…
this looks very nice. I see this doesn't use or contenteditable, I'm curious how close can it get to native controls or can this replace them? Things like mouse selection and usual hot keys like Cmd+A and maybe other things.
Technically, there is but it's strictly for a more seamless interface with copy/paste. The web standard's clipboard API was not satisfactory.
> mouse selection
There was previously mouse selection but that was removed after I rewrote the selection logic. This will be re-introduced as an extension that be can opt into. It's relatively trivial for a mouse but will be harder to be robust with touch events.
One tricky bit will be the UX of scrolling and selecting at the same time, especially on mobile phones.
> usual hot keys like Cmd+A and maybe other things.
The general philosophy is to not assume any native controls, have zero default key handlers and have clients bring their own extension that adds this functionality. Cmd+a in particular would perhaps be something I can add directly in the default keyboard controller.
The underlying API is defining operations from two coordinates. From the current exposed API you can also get the last line, and from there get the last coordinate. This could be a new API I expose. With (0,0) and the last coordinate, the keyboard handler would just call that.
The one limitation is that we have to convert a bunch of lines of string into a giant string into the user's clipboard. This overload the browser's clipboard buffer once we get to a million lines of code.
Over the holidays I was building a wooden birdhouse with a Unifi Protect camera and a small web interface that automatically identifies the birds and shows me a simple overview over which type of bird visited how many times. Birdhouse: https://img.notmyhostna.me/cRQ1gJfZCHjQKwFrgKQj UI: - https://img.notmyhostna.me/Hnw4qcvbg1ZQCrFxzGMn - https://img.notmyhostna.me/62TFwSXSRRbCfxDz297h - https://img.notmyhostna.me/40q…
I'm working on BacklogAI, an autopilot engineer for SaaS teams. You connect GitHub, CI, Sentry, and Linear, and it takes tickets all the way to production. Claude writes the changes, BacklogAI handles tests, migrations, feature flags, staged rollouts, etc... It’s clearing months of backlog work in hours, and a couple teams I’m working with have already stopped hiring because it’s cheaper than adding more developers.…
If your story were true, I could just have Claude implement your business and would have no need to pay you. If these productivity gains were real, no one would be giving you access.
After years of wondering what the post-UNIX paradigm of computing could look like, these past few months I've been prototyping a software platform built around capabilities and message passing, targeting Linux and bare-metal RISC-V. The big ideas I'm pursuing is a stackless design running on a flat address space with lightweight processes to minimize message-passing latency, and all the benefits of capabilities so ev…
Are you aware of CHERI? And Singularity from Microsoft Research?
Singularity/Midori from MS Research have a lot of good ideas but I feel we don't completely have to compromise forcing a managed environment or language in userspace. I want to run native binaries in this platform, which of course would look a bit different than one is used to (no _entry, no dedicated stack, just a message handler that's called directly by the scheduler, no concept of syscall, just sending messages to a capability)
After years of wondering what the post-UNIX paradigm of computing could look like, these past few months I've been prototyping a software platform built around capabilities and message passing, targeting Linux and bare-metal RISC-V. The big ideas I'm pursuing is a stackless design running on a flat address space with lightweight processes to minimize message-passing latency, and all the benefits of capabilities so ev…
> how I wish I was paid to work on this type of problems Did you apply for funding? Any subsidies?
I'd like to apply for funding by the end of this year, when I'll have saved enough money from contracting to dedicate myself fully to this project.
A tiny adventure journal for the outdoors: https://gipfelbuch.org/ * Upload a GPX file -> see the route, map and key stats. * Store every hike, bike ride, walk, or trek in one place. * Think of it as a “personal notebook” for families, not a leaderboard. I built it to keep the stories of my own kids’ adventures. It’s still in early‑stage development - if you’d like to test it out or share ideas, drop me a line!
Looks cool! One suggestion - in the demo mode it would be nice if you provide a sample GPX file which you can try right away.
Thanks for your interest and the suggestion. I added it to the demo mode.
There was a bug in the PWA, you need to unregister the service worker in your browser otherwise the App will never update on your device.
I'm working on Tech Posts ( https://techposts.eu ), a Hacker News for Europe! Since the last time I posted on HN it's gained a decent amount of traffic and users. I'm particularly happy with the jobs section, which is growing into a high signal-noise source for European tech jobs: https://techposts.eu/jobs The reason I started this website is because so much incredible innovation and growth in Europe flies under the…
Great idea, I've bookmarked it! Any plans for a simple way to search for posts?