Sometimes I will see a domain on YC and immediately know it will be LLM-designed before clicking on the link. This was one of those projects. Wish they were more human and more understated.
I'm a student at Stanford — this is hitting the whole school hard. Unlike a lot of schools on the east coast that are affected (Brown, Harvard, MIT) we are on the quarter system so we're just ending Midterms right now. We're also lucky enough to have our CS department entirely independent from Canvas, but most of my humanities classes are not so lucky. One art history class is having us submit our midterm papers by uploading to a google drive folder—another is pausing weekly quizzes. The main thing this has revealed is just how dependent students and teachers are on Canvas... I hope that this re-prompts discussions about moving off of a platform that was already (from a student perspective) not very good.
This seems like a great opportunity for new platforms who are rethinking the OSS space to finally gain the traction they need to be effective. For a collaborative platform, quantity is key, and I am hopeful that someone who is interested in advancing the software space will become the new go-to. This isn't to say that GitHub hasn't been innovating, but at least from my perspective, the way we've used git for the past however-many-years has remained basically constant.
Some projects that seem interesting:
- https://tangled.org/ seems to be building out cool and exciting ways to write and interact with code (and they're distributed on the ATProto! But notably that's not their core selling point)
- Microservices like https://pico.sh/ and https://sr.ht/ feel like fresh air...
Farming is a funny example to use, given that it's one of the best examples of an industry that's continually revolutionized by evolving technology. Farming today is about owning the best tractor.
The table also seems like the kind of thing that Gemini seems to generate a lot. "Here's a table that communicates almost no information! One of the rows is constant for each item."
LiveStore is the only sync engine I’ve used for Expo / RN that actually just works out of the box. In a space that is seemingly mature it’s nice to see something polished and I’m excited to see how it develops over the next year!
It's so funny you mention this, I actually just launched something super similar today for the California DMV (as a Bay Area student). It checks for openings from cancellations and notifies people.
There's a special kind of magic that comes from meaningfully improving your life from software :)
As a current student and self-taught developer this is one of the best representations I’ve seen about what makes the world of CS fun. You have a bunch of people with a crazy idea that’s just SO niche and they’re able to use their brains to create something beautiful of immense value.
There are basically three parts to this question, all of which can be chosen independently and then fit together.
First you choose a frontend (and often backend) framework to actually build the pages, like Next.js, Svelte, Laravel, etc.
Then, you can choose an auth solution like Clerk, auth0, NextAuth, Supabase, etc. Most of these products work with a wide variety of frameworks. Some of the frameworks (like Laravel) also have an auth framework built in.
For payments, you technically have choices but I would just use stripe.
> Southwest even sues websites that display its schedules and fares without authorization
Why does Southwest even have any jurisdiction here? It seems like they won a preliminary case, but don't we have established president that scraping websites is legal, thanks to hiQ Labs v. LinkedIn?