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Hey all - Invoke started as one of the earliest Stable Diffusion UIs (you may remember it as “lstein”), and has evolved significantly into a full fledged react/typescript web app. We’ve been hard at work building a professional-grade backend to support our commercial move to serving businesses and enterprise with a hosted offering (invoke.ai), while keeping Invoke one of the best ways to self-host and create content as an open-core project. As of 3.0, all of the developments we’ve been working on and tweaking for our hosted environment are available to install and use locally, including…

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    Hello HN! The day has finally come to stop adding features and start sharing what I've been building the last 5-6 months. It's a bit of CrewAI, OpenDevon, LangFuse/Cloud all in one, providing devs who prefer TypeScript an integrated framework thats provides a lot out of the box to start experimenting and building agents with. It started after peeking at the LangChain docs a few times and never liking the example code. I began experimenting with automating a simple Jira request from the engineering team to add an index to one of our Google Spanner databases (for context I'm the…

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    Everyone's shipping AI tools right now, and here I am with a visual editor. Still, I think many teams are very familiar with the problem of "marketing wants to change the landing page again." I've run into this for years. Campaign pages come in, engineers get pulled in, and tickets stack up. It's usually the same components, just rearranged. A few years ago, at a startup I worked at, we built an internal tool to deal with this. You register your existing React components, they show up as drag-and-drop blocks, and the result is a JSX string. No schema to learn, no changes to your component…

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    Hi HF, I'm Terrell, and we built an open-source app that lets developers create their own Operator with a Next.js/React front-end and a flask back-end. The purpose is to simplify spinning up virtual desktops (Xfce, VNC) and automate desktop-based interactions using computer use models like OpenAI’s There are already various cool tools out there that allow you to build your own operator-like experience but they usually only automate web browser actions, or aren’t open sourced/cost a lot to get started. Spongecake allows you to automate desktop-based interactions, and is fully open…

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    with affinity you can make multiple apps (components eventually) and store (ala redux) - while a store can be shared through apps. This started as a case study and as a small reusable code for creating self contained dom elements with functionality - during the time of development, ideas and inspiration came from angular, react and vuejs. suggestions and feedback is mostly welcomed. The interesting challenges were finding ways for these topics: 1. create a component lib using dom and js only, without any 3rd party . 2. producing semantic html in dom . 3. allow template micro syntax (using…

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    Hi HN! Solo developer here. 10 days ago, I started building this after spending countless hours copying/pasting marketing sections and fighting to keep them consistent with our design system. I wondered: "What if AI could understand our design system and generate React components that actually match it?" Current progress (10 days in): - Can generate hero sections that follow your design tokens - Uses your actual component variants and styles - Works with Next.js, Tailwind, shadcn/ui It's very early days, but I'm excited to share it with other devs who: - Are tired of rebuilding…

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    We just open sourced a first class our AI web app builder. Instead of using another hosted AI coding platform, you can fork this project and build your own AI app builder, fully customized and running under your own brand. It includes: Next.js + TypeScript AI chat with streaming Artifact generation File explorer Code editor Live preview Databases Sandboxes to be used by AI agents Versions Responsive production-ready UI And a lot more... The only required dependency is the Totalum API, which exposes the AI generation engine through a simple REST API. You can replace or extend the backend…

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    Hey HN! We’re Alberto, Carmelo, and Adrian, the founders of Invofox (https://invofox.com/) — the document processing AI built for software companies and developers. We started two years ago with invoice processing, but we’ve since expanded our capabilities to include utility bills, purchase orders, bank statements, pay slips, receipts, and checks. Why launch on Hacker News now, especially since we’re S22 batch? As we’ve grown, one of the most common questions we hear is: “Can Invofox handle this document type too?” To solve this, we’ve just launched Custom Documents…

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