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Liked on XI made a mistake. When Jack and I decided to organize this $100K Hackathon, my biggest concern was cheating. Unlike a regular hackathon, everyone participates from home. And because the winner is whoever makes the most PROFIT (not revenue), there are so many ways to manipulate the numbers. So I added a $99 entry fee. One thing I’ve learned from building businesses is that people tend to be more committed when they pay for something. I thought it would filter out spam, attract serious builders, and make the competition fairer for everyone. But I completely missed the other side. 3 years ago, I was a living with my apps. Today, I’m financially free. My life changed so much that somewhere along the way, I lost perspective on what $99 means to someone else. For someone in India, someone struggling to pay their bills, or someone trying to make their first dollar online, $99 can be a lot of money. And those are exactly the people I want to help! I’ve spent years sharing what I’ve learned, reviewing random people’s landing pages, and organizing free meetups around the world. Not because there’s money to make, but because I genuinely love seeing people build things and succeed. And somehow, I was so focused on keeping cheaters out that I didn’t realize I was also keeping genuine builders out. That’s my mistake. So I’ve decided to make the $100K Hackathon completely FREE :) Everyone who already paid got a full refund. I’m still worried about cheating. That problem hasn’t disappeared, and Jack and I will have to figure out better ways to verify profits and keep the leaderboard fair. But that’s our problem to solve. Thank you to everyone who shared their thoughts. Sometimes you need people to remind you of things you’ve forgotten. I genuinely hope this hackathon changes someone’s life. ❤️Liked on XIt’s time to bring back Cafe CursorPosted on Xyo @pendev i can't live share edit a .pen file? it's the most needed featurePosted on XI'm coining a word "Agentsplaining" Agents condescendingly assuming the user don't know fuck and repeating the obviousReplied on X@jayhxmo @raycast Hard to explain. It's the small detailsPosted on X@raycast iOS keyboard is insanely good. Might resub Raycast pro just cuz of thisReplied on X@ishuagra02 I saw a theory that F5.2 is a post train of 5.1, but O5.5 is a distillation of F5.5(unreleased new pretrain) and thats why O5.5 > F5.2Liked on X@anaclumos don't know what is actually improved 👀Posted on Xam i the only one underimpressed with 5.2 fableReplied on X@bvvst great minds think alike https://t.co/YRFWhb1mcOLiked on XClaude Fable 5.2 is out and it's the perfect time to run this god-level prompt on your codebase: "I want you to audit our codebase, is anything here unnecessary, overly complicated in our current setup, or based on weak assumptions? Challenge them. - What can be deleted entirely? - What can be simplified now that unnecessary pieces are gone? Then make the changes. Prefer deleting over simplifying, simplifying over optimizing, and optimizing over automating. This product is being used by thousands of customers, do not cut any corners." This prompt is one I run often and leads to the best results.Replied on X@akshayadinesh19 @bot can we please BYOM for botsLiked on XTo be fair, the Chinese models have a much lower refusal rateLiked on XF*CK IT, im creating a library of AI slop indicators. my feed is full of taste larpers. stay tuned https://t.co/5Muv8nQRm3Liked on XJENSEN! THATS NOT WHAT WE MEANT BY CHINESE MODELS!!!!!!!Liked on Xmy parents had to declare bankruptcy when I was a kid, so they had every reason to pressure me towards a more stable career path instead, they were so patient with me, even as i failed startup after startup for years so getting to tell my mom that everything turned out okay was a really special moment :) for those who can't read Korean, her first message roughly translates to: "Really!!! Congratulations my son. So much :') Thank you God!" i know I've been posting about my exit for like a week now, but it really is a big deal for me and my family! i'll share more about how this all happened and some tactical advice later this week, but for now i'm just riding out all the emotions to quote my mom, thank you God!!!!Liked on X@thefarmers_Dog it stands for Egg GzampleLiked on X🦍 Introducing Memorilla: memory as a modality for LLMs Memorilla turns everything a frozen LLM needs to remember into just 16 memory embeddings ⚡ It uses up to 4,212× fewer tokens and is 27× faster than full context inference while more accurate 🎯 Pushes the Pareto frontier over RAG and agentic memory in personalization, long-document and knowledge QA A thread 🧵:Liked on XThere's a huge product opportunity downstream of Tailscale etc too. At @tldraw we've started designing for "high trust networks" and it's been a beautiful thing. 1. Features that would be a nightmare on the internet are okay on my computer and mostly okay on private networks. Websites that execute user-generated scripts, control production systems, allow for users to send desktop notifications, spend tokens, or directly prompt my agent. Crazy stuff that would only make sense if everyone was in a committed polycule. 2. When everyone on the server can be trusted to have _external_ reasons for good behavior (eg keeping their job, or maintaining friends, family, church, mafia org), the software can be designed in a default social way. Most apps default to isolation, low horizontal visibility, highly restricted collaboration. Makes sense if the social contracts are inside of the app, but if you can trust that they live outside of the app then you can get wild. Example being small group chat names as an emergent comedy phenomenon because anyone in the group can change the name. 3. This can work for commercial products, too, not just internal stuff. Security matters more than ever but the way we've seen that manifest is that more companies are more confident in their own solutions than anything we could provide, to the point where owning data and access is a better value proposition than having it managed. Always has been true for big companies but now even small companies can get a good secure network set up pretty easily, and the hooks we need to build are easy enough. tldraw offline got us started down this road (and shout out to @pendev for first introducing me to the idea of desktop + mcp). We've been bringing that product to private networks and it's been exciting to see how much we can get away with. Keep an eye outReplied on X@saradu birds eye viewLiked on XApplications close in 2 days!! If you have a cool bio idea, and $5-10k will go a long way for you, please apply!!! https://t.co/NCvmrNC53cLiked on XWe've been early adopters of Rust since 2018 and a lot of our infra, voice tech, and even some of the current client is already Rust, the holy grail was getting the whole client there. That means Electron goes away, and so does React Native, mobile keeps native UI but shares app code with desktop via Rust. We hope to get it into testing with users soon™. (And it's not Tauri, it's GPUI, so good guess everyone.) Alright, back to staring at the WoW Forever login screen.Reposted on XOh boy. https://t.co/X7SSskGuGvLiked on XRIP .si domain squatters
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Self-Hosted SaaS Alternatives: Replacing Paid Tools With FOSS Tools

Self-hosted Google Analytics alternatives

  • Too hot: Umami is slightly warmer than the winner in this category and is quite similar in many ways. However, Umami's hosted cloud service is not ready for mainstream use yet, giving its competitor the edge. But watch this space.
  • Too cold: Matomo is only a little more complicated than the alternatives, not by much. It's still quite good. Its interface, which can be viewed in demo form here, is more like Google Analytics than the alternatives, but in a way that makes sense.
  • Just right: Plausible strikes the perfect balance in cost and usability. The company makes an open-source version that is quite good but also offers a paid version that costs enough that you know you're the customer, not the product. Easy to set up and friendly to use.
  • Outside the box: You could always do with Mastodon does and eschew analytics entirely.

Self-hosted Email newsletter platforms

  • Too hot: Keila, a very-polished-looking email sender that will fit many users' needs, but its emphasis on a single flexible template makes it difficult to recommend for power users. (They are working on it, however--and the team seemed responsive to feedback.) Sendportal also has potential, but the fact it hasn't been updated in more than a year gives us pause.
  • Too cold: Mailtrain has most of the features one might expect out of an email-sending tool, including power-user features like support for MJML, but its user interface can feel imposing to new users. A less-imposing but still-complex alternative is Mautic.
  • Just right: Listmonk has a clean interface and lightweight feature set. It lacks some bells and whistles that some users might expect, like on-the-fly segmentation, but it's closer to being a daily driver than any other tool in this category.
  • Outside the box: Hosting something through your CMS is a good idea. Ghost, while not anywhere near as full-featured as the other tools mentioned for email use cases, strikes a good balance for the average creator.

Self-hosted Zapier alternatives

  • Too hot: Automatisch is the closest thing to a direct open-source variant of Zapier at this time, as its design carries the spirit of the paid tool's interface, but it is brand new, having just launched only in November, and doesn't have many apps. It feels like one to watch, though. However, unlike other options, it falls under a standard AGPL license. So I had no trouble installing this locally.
  • Too cold: N8n has the correct number of apps, a larger community, and is much more mature than many of its competitors, but its less-intuitive design is potentially a turnoff. (Despite being free to self-host via a community option, it also does not have an open-source license.) It can be run inside a desktop application, which is a plus.
  • Just right: ActivePieces seems to have the right momentum to get things going in a good direction; it also has a reasonably priced cloud option, and while it is still new, it has a lot of potential and a quickly growing app list. (It, too, doesn't use a pure GPL-style license, however. Another responsive-to-feedback team, however.)
  • Outside the box: If your goal is automating some basic tasks, the browser extension Automa also has much potential.

Self-hosted Calendly alternatives

  • Too hot: Cal. Com has a lot of potential to make many people's lives more accessible; it's not only a helpful tool, but it also appears to be relatively modern and offers a natural alternative to the dance of trying to book a meeting. That means it is not embarrassing to use when you're trying to set up an appointment. But I'm not recommending it because, at least now, it fails at the fundamental hurdle of being self-hostable, in part. After all, it uses a very temperamental and very modern application stack.
  • Outside the box: If you're a NextCloud user, there's a decent appointment app that you can add to the application that covers most of Calendly's primary use cases. Granted, it's nowhere near as good as Calendly and doesn't seamlessly integrate into Zoom, but unlike Cal.com, you can install it without ripping out your hair.
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