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[API/SDK] Show HN: Zoneless – Open-source Stripe Connect clone with $0.002 fees using USDC Hi HN,<p>I&#x27;m Ben &#x2F; Tiny Projects (I once posted here about buying 300 emoji domains from Kazakhstan…).<p>For the past 3 years I&#x27;ve been solo bootstrapping PromptBase, an AI marketplace with 450k+ users. At the peak, I was burning $9,400&#x2F;month in opaque Stripe Connect fees for seller payouts, so I built Zoneless to replace it:<p>- GitHub: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;zonelessdev&#x2F;zoneless" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;zonelessdev&#x2F;zoneless</a><p>- Website: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;zoneless.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;zoneless.com</a><p>Zoneless is a free, open-source (Apache 2.0) drop-in replacement for the payout part of Stripe Connect. It allows you to pay marketplace sellers globally with stablecoins (USDC) using an identical API to Stripe and at near-zero fees.<p>I&#x27;ve been dogfooding Zoneless on PromptBase for 3 months with some good results:<p>- 2,200+ sellers onboarded<p>- 1,400+ payouts completed<p>- Monthly payout fees reduced to just a few dollars<p>- 73% of sellers, when given the choice at onboarding, actively picked Zoneless over Stripe Connect<p>A massive part of running a marketplace is paying sellers. While Stripe Connect is a great product, it has big pain points:<p>- Expensive + complex fees: <i>$2&#x2F;mo per active account, 0.25% + $0.25 domestic payout fee, $1.50 international payout fee, 0.25–1.25% cross-border fee, 0.50–1% FX fee.</i> It costs &gt;$2 to move $1.<p>- Limited reach: Only supports around 47 countries.<p>- Slow payouts: Takes 2-7 days to settle.<p>- Platform risk: A massive single point of failure if your account gets randomly flagged.<p>Zoneless is designed to solve all this:<p>- Payouts cost ~$0.002 on Solana<p>- Global: 220+ countries&#x2F;regions<p>- Instant payouts, 24&#x2F;7.<p>- Self-hostable and open-source<p>The API&#x2F;SDK is identical to Stripe (same webhook events, same object shapes, etc.). If you know Stripe, you already know how to use Zoneless. There’s also an Express Dashboard for sellers to onboard and track their earnings.<p>I&#x27;ve been able to remove annoying things on PromptBase like forcing sellers to accrue a $30 minimum balance before a payout just to keep our costs down. I can now also onboard sellers from more countries, which has helped spread the word and grow the buyer side too.<p>A big worry was that non-crypto users would be confused or hate getting paid in USDC, but they actually don’t mind at all, they just care about being paid faster. If they want to convert to their local currency, they simply use an exchange like Coinbase.<p>Zoneless is self-custodial, meaning you create and own your wallet, and the code never touches funds. You can also easily plug in providers for KYC&#x2F;AML.<p>I appreciate that anything related to crypto is like Marmite (pretty polarizing); I’m a no-coiner and have never dabbled in NFTs, but I do think stablecoins are different: they’re just boring tech to move money around cheaply.<p>I&#x27;d love to hear your thoughts, feedback, or questions - especially if you&#x27;ve dealt with Stripe Connect &#x2F; payouts &#x2F; marketplaces before.<p>- GitHub: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;zonelessdev&#x2F;zoneless" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;zonelessdev&#x2F;zoneless</a><p>- Website: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;zoneless.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;zoneless.com</a><p>- Docs: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;zoneless.com&#x2F;docs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;zoneless.com&#x2F;docs</a>

[DevOps] Launch HN: Relvy (YC F24) – On-call runbooks, automated Hey HN! We are Bharath, and Simranjit from Relvy AI (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.relvy.ai">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.relvy.ai</a>). Relvy automates on-call runbooks for software engineering teams. It is an AI agent equipped with tools that can analyze telemetry data and code at scale, helping teams debug and resolve production issues in minutes. Here’s a video: [[[<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=BXr4_XlWXc0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=BXr4_XlWXc0</a>]]]<p>A lot of teams are using AI in some form to reduce their on-call burden. You may be pasting logs into Cursor, or using Claude Code with Datadog’s MCP server to help debug. What we’ve seen is that autonomous root cause analysis is a hard problem for AI. This shows up in benchmarks - Claude Opus 4.6 is currently at 36% accuracy on the OpenRCA dataset, in contrast to coding tasks.<p>There are three main reasons for this: (1) Telemetry data volume can drown the model in noise; (2) Data interpretation &#x2F; reasoning is enterprise context dependent; (3) On-call is a time-constrained, high-stakes problem, with little room for AI to explore during investigation time. Errors that send the user down the wrong path are not easily forgiven.<p>At Relvy, we are tackling these problems by building specialized tools for telemetry data analysis. Our tools can detect anomalies and identify problem slices from dense time series data, do log pattern search, and reason about span trees, all without overwhelming the agent context.<p>Anchoring the agent around runbooks leads to less agentic exploration and more deterministic steps that reflect the most useful steps that an experienced engineer would take. That results in faster analysis, and less cognitive load on engineers to review and understand what the AI did.<p>How it works: Relvy is installed on a local machine via docker-compose (or via helm charts, or sign up on our cloud), connect your stack (observability and code), create your first runbook and have Relvy investigate a recent alert.<p>Each investigation is presented as a notebook in our web UI, with data visualizations that help engineers verify and build trust with the AI. From there on, Relvy can be configured to automatically respond to alerts from Slack<p>Some example runbook steps that Relvy automates: - Check so-and-so dashboard, see if the errors are isolated to a specific shard. - Check if there’s a throughput surge on the APM page, and if so, is it from a few IPs? - Check recent commits to see if anything changed for this endpoint.<p>You can also configure AWS CLI commands that Relvy can run to automate mitigation actions, with human approval.<p>A little bit about us - We did YC back in fall 2024. We started our journey experimenting with continuous log monitoring with small language models - that was too slow. We then invested deeply into solving root cause analysis effectively, and our product today is the result of about a year of work with our early customers.<p>Give us a try today. Happy to hear feedback, or about how you are tackling on-call burden at your company. Appreciate any comments or suggestions!

[Other] Show HN: CSS Studio. Design by hand, code by agent Hi HN! I&#x27;ve just released CSS Studio, a design tool that lives on your site, runs on your browser, sends updates to your existing AI agent, which edits any codebase. You can actually play around with the latest version directly on the site.<p>Technically, the way this works is you view your site in dev mode and start editing it. In your agent, you can run &#x2F;studio which then polls (or uses Claude Channels) an MCP server. Changes are streamed as JSON via the MCP, along with some viewport and URL information, and the skill has some instructions on how best to implement them.<p>It contains a lot of the tools you&#x27;d expect from a visual editing tool, like text editing, styles and an animation timeline editor.

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[Other] Show HN: I built a local data lake for AI powered data engineering and analytics I got tired of the overhead required to run even a simple data analysis - cloud setup, ETL pipelines, orchestration, cost monitoring - so I built a fully local data-stack&#x2F;IDE where I can write SQL&#x2F;Py, run it, see results, and iterate quickly and interactively.<p>You get data lake like catalog, zero-ETL, lineage, versioning, and analytics running entirely on your machine. You can import from a database, webpage, CSV, etc. and query in natural language or do your own work in SQL&#x2F;Pyspark. Connect to local models like Gemma or cloud LLMs like Claude for querying and analysis. You don’t have to setup local LLMs, it comes built in.<p>This is completely free. No cloud account required.<p>Downloading the software - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;getnile.ai&#x2F;downloads" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;getnile.ai&#x2F;downloads</a><p>Watch a demo - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=C6qSFLylryk" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=C6qSFLylryk</a><p>Check the code repo - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;NileData&#x2F;local" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;NileData&#x2F;local</a><p>This is still early and I&#x27;d genuinely love your feedback on what&#x27;s broken, what&#x27;s missing, and if you find this useful for your data and analytics work.

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[Other] Show HN: 500k+ events/sec transformations for ClickHouse ingestion Hi HN! We are Ashish and Armend, founders of GlassFlow.<p>Over the last year, we worked with teams running high-throughput pipelines into self-hosted ClickHouse. Mostly for observability and real-time analytics.<p>A question that came repeatedly was: What happens when throughput grows?<p>Usually, things work fine at 10k events&#x2F;sec, but we started seeing backpressure and errors at &gt;100k.<p>When the throughput per pipeline stops scaling, then adding more CPU&#x2F;memory doesn’t help because often parts of the pipeline are not parallelized or are bottlenecked by state handling.<p>At this point, engineers usually scale by adding more pipeline instances.<p>That works but comes with some trade-offs: - You have to split the workload (e.g., multiple pipelines reading from the same source) - Transformation logic gets duplicated across pipelines - Stateful logic becomes harder to manage and keep consistent - Debugging and changes get more difficult because the data flow is fragmented<p>Another challenge arises when working with high-cardinality keys like user IDs, session IDs, or request IDs, and when you need to handle longer time windows (24h or more). The state grows quickly and many systems rely on in-memory state, which makes it expensive and harder to recover from failures.<p>We wanted to solve this problem and rebuild our approach at GlassFlow.<p>Instead of scaling by adding more pipelines, we scale within a single pipeline by using replicas. Each replica consumes, processes, and writes independently, and the workload is distributed across them.<p>In the benchmarks we’re sharing, this scales to 500k+ events&#x2F;sec while still running stateful transformations and writing into ClickHouse.<p>A few things we think are interesting: - Scaling is close to linear as you add replicas - Works with stateful transformations (not just stateless ingestion) - State is backed by a file-based KV store instead of relying purely on memory - The ClickHouse sink is optimized for batching to avoid small inserts - The product is built with Go<p>Full write-up + benchmarks: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.glassflow.dev&#x2F;blog&#x2F;glassflow-now-scales-to-500k-events-per-sec" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.glassflow.dev&#x2F;blog&#x2F;glassflow-now-scales-to-500k-...</a><p>Repo: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;glassflow&#x2F;clickhouse-etl" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;glassflow&#x2F;clickhouse-etl</a><p>Happy to answer questions about the design or trade-offs.

[Other] Show HN: TUI-use: Let AI agents control interactive terminal programs

[Other] Show HN: BAREmail ʕ·ᴥ·ʔ – minimalist Gmail client for bad WiFi I&#x27;ve been frustrated one too many times by terrible airplane wifi and not being able to load Gmail or Superhuman when all I want to do is get a few simple text-only emails out the door.<p>These clients have become pretty bloated with the assumption you&#x27;ve always got great bandwidth.<p>So I vibe coded BAREMAIL. It&#x27;s open source, has no backend, and you can just set it up for yourself. Takes ~3 mins to setup API access via Google Cloud Platform (thanks for making this not super easy Google!)<p>I tried to maintain nice design and some important keyboard shortcuts without getting to overBEARing.

[Other] Show HN: We fingerprinted 178 AI models' writing styles and similarity clusters We have a dataset of 3,095 standardized AI responses across 43 prompts. From each response, we extract a 32-dimension stylometric fingerprint (lexical richness, sentence structure, punctuation habits, formatting patterns, discourse markers).<p>Some findings:<p>- 9 clone clusters (&gt;90% cosine similarity on z-normalized feature vectors) - Mistral Large 2 and Large 3 2512 score 84.8% on a composite metric combining 5 independent signals - Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite writes 78% like Claude 3 Opus. Costs 185x less - Meta has the strongest provider &quot;house style&quot; (37.5x distinctiveness ratio) - &quot;Satirical fake news&quot; is the prompt that causes the most writing convergence across all models - &quot;Count letters&quot; causes the most divergence<p>The composite clone score combines: prompt-controlled head-to-head similarity, per-feature Pearson correlation across challenges, response length correlation, cross-prompt consistency, and aggregate cosine similarity.<p>Tech: stylometric extraction in Node.js, z-score normalization, cosine similarity for aggregate, Pearson correlation for per-feature tracking. Analysis script is ~1400 lines.

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[Other] Show HN: Mo – checks GitHub PRs against decisions approved in Slack Built this after a recurring frustration at our agency: the team would agree on something in Slack (&quot;only admins can export users&quot;), someone would open a PR two weeks later that quietly broke it, and nobody caught it until QA or after deploy.<p>Mo watches a Slack channel for decisions. When someone tags @mo to approve something, it stores it. When a PR opens, Mo checks the diff against the approved decisions and flags conflicts before merge.<p>It doesn&#x27;t review code quality. It only cares whether the code matches what the team actually agreed to.<p>Would love feedback, especially from anyone who&#x27;s been burned by this exact problem.<p>Try it here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hey-mo.io" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hey-mo.io</a>

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