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Show HN: A minimal, ad-free World Cup web-app for fixtures and live scores Hi all! With the World Cup around the corner, and being a football fan, I went looking for apps that would give me a detailed overview of groups, matches categorized by group or team, a daily timeline of when games happen that day (especially useful for us in Europe, since some games run pretty late), and a way to follow my favorite team or teams. The problem I ran into was that most apps out there are pretty bloated — like, really bloated. The ones that weren&#x27;t either didn&#x27;t focus on the World Cup specifically, or were ridden with betting ads and ads in general. So I built a very minimal ad-free (mostly tailored for myself) World Cup web app for fixtures and live scores. The fixture data comes from the openfootball&#x2F;worldcup.json project - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;openfootball&#x2F;worldcup.json" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;openfootball&#x2F;worldcup.json</a>. I hope you find it helpful, would love any feedback.

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Show HN: Gitdot – a better GitHub. Open-source, anti-AI, and written in Rust What works now: user signups, org creations, private&#x2F;public repos, and importing GitHub repositories (both as read-only mirrors and full migrations). So basically, you can create, push and pull to a repo, but we don&#x27;t have many features quite yet (issues, PRs, CI).<p>What is a bit unique is: 1) we built it in Rust and 2) the website is a little odd. Its design is inspired by CLIs (e.g., fzf, broot, vim) instead of web apps, and as such, lacks some affordances that you might typically expect in favor of keyboard-driven instant navigations (we have the very ambitious goal of an FCP of 100ms). In case you&#x27;re curious, here&#x27;s how we we built it: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitdot.io&#x2F;designs">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitdot.io&#x2F;designs</a><p>We recognize that we&#x27;re making some bold claims here and are also well aware that we have much to learn. Building software is still hard, and that&#x27;s a fact we seem to relearn everyday.<p>But we wanted to share what we built so far nonetheless.<p>Cheers, thank y&#x27;all for reading, and till the next —paul &amp; mikkel.

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Show HN: Startup sci-fi novel that took me 5 years to write It started after reading Stephen King&#x27;s &quot;On Writing&quot; where he likened the art of writing as the unearthing of an archeological site after you stumbled upon a unique bone of a story. His advice was to choose a domain you are deeply intimate with. For me, I&#x27;ve been a struggling startup founder for 15 years—enough material to inspire a novel.<p>A 1,000-word writing exercise turned into a complete 125k-word manuscript over the course of a year.<p>In year 1, I learned the sheer joy of unencumbered creative flow and authentic expression. A similar flow I used to get from coding (and more recently vibe coding). What made it effortless was a mindset that I was writing for the sake of it, not with the intention of publishing.<p>After a year of keeping it close to my chest, I decided to show it to a few close friends. They liked some of it, destroyed some of it. Some ultimately encouraged me to publish it.<p>In year 2, I learned about the chasm between writing for myself and writing for an audience. Nerdy stuff I thought were clever completely flew over my readers&#x27; heads. So I studied a dozen textbooks on literature, prose, poetry, voice, grammar, and completely rewrote the manuscript twice over, this time with the audience in mind. There is a lot more finesse to writing than I originally appreciated.<p>In year 3, I felt ready to pitch literary agents. The reason wasn&#x27;t to make a career out of writing, but to learn from professionals. After 100 personalized pitches and 0 offers of representation, I learned that pitching agents was much harder than pitching VCs. Especially for a niche novel like mine; fellow startup founders was too small of a TAM.<p>In year 4, I engaged with a professional author&#x2F;editor (Rob Hart, author of The Warehouse), who gave me essays worth of incredible developmental feedback. Lots of nuanced feedback I couldn&#x27;t get from textbooks. Per his advice, I started back at chapter 1 and refactored the whole manuscript. I distilled it down to the best 88k words.<p>The tinkering never stops; when do you know it&#x27;s done? I realized that I kept on tinkering because it was more comfortable than overcoming the fear of launching. Today, on 06&#x2F;08&#x2F;26, almost 5 years after that Stephen King writing exercise, I&#x27;m ready to say “ship it.”<p>Blockchained is a near-future startup sci-fi thriller that chronicles a struggling startup founder who meets a mysterious investor in Hong Kong. Little does he know that the too-good-to-be-true investor works for the Chinese government.<p>Blockchained was written for the fellow startup founders, engineers, and near-future sci-fi enthusiasts. In other words, HN community, you are my target audience<p>Sample chapters available at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.blockchainednovel.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.blockchainednovel.com&#x2F;</a> — eBook and paperback available today. Hardcover edition coming soon.<p>I suppose we live in an era where it must be qualified that Blockchained was 99.9% lovingly handcrafted. No AI was used to write this novel aside from research, spellcheck, grammar, and the occasional phrasing checks.

Show HN: Quick games disguised as boring spreadsheets I posted a version of this over a year ago but decided to rebuild it recently.<p>Bored Spreadsheet is a collection of quick and easy games that look like a spreadsheet from a distance. I have tightened the app to be a collection of 6 games: Minesweeper, 2048, solitaire, sudoku, a market trading game and a daily reconciliation puzzle where the player must find bad data in a fake table.<p>The games are free to play but sign up is required to submit your scores to the leaderboard. As was the original intention over a year ago, I hope this proves useful to those office workers who have a lot of downtime in between tasks or meetings yet don’t have the freedom to open Youtube or Cyberpunk 2077 on their work computers. Ironically my work network has blocked the website as it “contains non-business-related services” – I hope you have better luck than me!

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Show HN: Kronotop – A distributed multi-model database built on FoundationDB After almost three years of development, the first developer preview of Kronotop is out.<p>Kronotop is a distributed multi-model database built on FoundationDB.<p>Our motto is: One transaction, multiple models.<p>Documents, ordered key-value data, and other models can participate in the same strictly serializable transaction, even across namespaces.<p>I&#x27;d love to hear your feedback.

Launch HN: Intuned (YC S22) – Build and run reliable browser automations as code Hey HN, we&#x27;re Faisal and Ahmad from Intuned (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;intunedhq.com">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;intunedhq.com</a>). We’re building a platform for building, deploying, and maintaining browser automations.<p>Customers primarily use the Intuned AI agent to automate websites that don&#x27;t expose APIs. Common use-cases include scraping data, pulling reports, and submitting forms. As the website changes, our agent also helps automatically heal the automation.<p>On Intuned, browser automations are created by an AI agent and run as <i>code</i>. Our infra captures the context of every run, allowing our agent to debug and maintain the underlying code - to keep the automations working over time. This way, we’re able to offer the predictability, speed, and cost of code, without the painful parts of writing and maintaining it.<p>Here’s a demo of building a scraper on Intuned: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;ruZP73bK4FU" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;ruZP73bK4FU</a><p>Here’s a demo of using AI to maintain a project: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;e4R4hLdHBro" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;e4R4hLdHBro</a><p>Backstory: we were accepted into YC for a completely different idea. During the batch, because of Faisal&#x27;s background at UiPath, several batchmates asked us whether RPA tools could fill API gaps in their products by automating websites without APIs. When it was time to pivot, we went back to those founders to dig deeper. (RPA in this context is referring to using UI automation to do complete non-testing tasks)<p>We discovered that the actual hard problem in browser automation is maintenance. Websites change, selectors break, and failures can be painful to reproduce and fix. So in early 2024, we decided to take a crack at this problem with a handful of customers. It needed a fair number of iterations before we landed on our current code-first approach.<p>How it works: Intuned is infra + agent, deeply integrated.<p>On the infrastructure side, Intuned is a managed runtime for browser automation code. Projects are usually Playwright-based TypeScript or Python. Users can write them directly in our online IDE, or hand the work off to the agent. Either way, once deployed, the platform runs each project in its own isolated machine and handles auth&#x2F;session reuse, scheduling, batch execution, concurrency, observability, and the other plumbing around running browser code.<p>On the agent side, it took us a few iterations to get to the current approach. Our initial attempts were rigid pipelines: collect requirements, inspect the site, generate code, then try to patch whatever broke. It looked reasonable on paper, but real websites are too messy for fixed paths. Late last year, we were planning to ship that version when stronger models landed and harnesses like Claude Code and Codex showed what a more open-ended coding agent could do. We built a prototype on the Claude Agent SDK, it felt much better than what we had, and we scrapped the release and decided to rebuild the agent.<p>The rebuild came down to three pieces around the SDK: an execution environment for running long agent sessions reliably, a CLI that exposes the platform to the agent so it operates Intuned the way engineers do, and a custom plugin (skills + MCP) built around what we&#x27;ve learned building browser automations.<p>The infra-agent integration is where the product gets more interesting. The runtime doesn&#x27;t just run the automation; it captures the context needed to debug it when it fails: params, results, traces, logs. That enables features like Fix with AI, where you can open a failed run and have the agent investigate and prepare a fix.<p>The same integration powers a feature called self-healing. For configured projects, the platform detects failures, starts an agent session with the relevant context, and either proposes a fix for review or deploys it automatically. Demo: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;IVHIXw0lYMs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;IVHIXw0lYMs</a><p>We recently also packaged the infra and agent as an API called Web Task API, here is a demo: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;1olRn3l95vw" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;1olRn3l95vw</a><p>We strongly believe that browser automations can and should be faster, cheaper and more predictable. Check us out at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;app.intuned.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;app.intuned.io&#x2F;</a>, we have a free tier with trial credits for your first few automations. Excited to hear your thoughts, questions, and feedback!

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