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Products that do what ElementaryUI – A Swift front end framework for the browser does
Against my better judgment I could not stop building a Swift + WebAssembly frontend framework and just kicked a 0.1 out the door. GitHub: https://github.com/elementary-swift/elementary-ui I understand there is a lot of skepticism around Wasm for general frontend work, but I think this can actually be pretty cool - heck, even a viable solution. Especially combined with Embedded Swift - which is still a bit rough, but you can fit little web apps in under 200 kB (compressed). The link contains a "Get Started" section with a template repo, you can try it out in minutes. What…
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2021 · skruv.io
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I have always dreamed of learning Swift and creating apps for iOS, but I never found the motivation to do so. I was scared by the complexity and the learning curve of programming with UIKit and Storyboard. I thought they were too complicated and too boring for me. But then I discovered SwiftUI, the new framework for building user interfaces for Apple platforms. I was captivated by its simplicity and elegance. I watched some videos and read some articles about it and I was blown away by what it could do. I decided to give it a shot and see if I could learn it and make something with it. I set…
2023 · apps.apple.com
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I wanted to have a framework that would let me build web apps faster than ever before. I didn’t care if it was a little hacky or didn’t use best practices — I wanted to be able to get a multi-user application out the door in hours instead of months. I researched the CMS space for months before deciding to build something from scratch. My goal was to be 90% done building a web app once I had the static HTML and CSS finished. I’m not a big fan of building out API endpoints over and over again for every new app, fiddling with a database, or doing lots of config. What I ended up with was a…
2020
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Hello everyone, I've built a simple macOS app for chatting with models downloaded by Ollama - https://github.com/sheshbabu/Chital It's written in Swift, consumes less memory and loads fast. It has these features: * Support for multiple chat threads * Switch between different models * Markdown support * Automatic chat thread title summarization It's my first time working with Swift and Xcode, and it has been an interesting journey. The performance of the application is a big plus when building native apps, but I wonder if I'll be able to add features like document…
2024 · github.com
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I started working on this back in 2019, mostly as a design idea. Over the last month I made a big push to make it 100% usable and replace C# in all my personal projects. I now feel it's solid enough to gather feedback from other developers. If you take it for a spin, I hope you enjoy it and send your thoughts!
Jun 2026 · davidobando.github.io
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After fine-tuning GPT for a personal project, I realized how tedious it is to write plain text in a massive JSON file. That's why I built this app for my own use, and I want to see if others could benefit from a tool like this as well ;)
2024 · finetuna-ui.com
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I'd appreciate any comments and critiques on a new site that I just launched - iosframeworks.com While developing an iPhone app, I kept stumbling across amazing frameworks/libraries/classes that my the job much easier, however, I couldn't find a concise listing of what was available. The site currently provides a searchable list of tagged frameworks. My next steps will be: * Allowing users to submit new links * Also cataloging the apps that use the frameworks listed. This will allow visitors to see how the code can be implemented. * Comments and ratings of the frameworks * A blog with…
2011
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Hi! Recently I've launched - mybfio.io - platform for software reviews with social network aspect. Prehistory Many great system are already in place that allow people to search and rate software products, including the site I am publishing this post on. However I have always felt that those systems are not specifically centered around product/software development lifecycle (releases, real users feedback over a product entire lifetime, so on) and often too broad or not designed specifically for that type of work, which is ok. Why? As an opensource author I would like to have constant…
2021
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Hi everyone let me tell you a story: Back 2 years ago I made Almighty https://www.producthunt.com/posts/almighty as a way to tweak some secrets settings like Showing Finder file extension or simply clear system clipboard quickly. Although the app had poor icon and no landing page, many have found it useful. Since then I've been working on an improvements for it, and when SwiftUI came out I decided to rewrite it from scratch to better leverage SwiftUI The result is Almighty 2 https://onmyway133.com/almighty/ with a nicer looking, both in main window and…
2021
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It's very early days for the project, but I wanted to share it to see if there is interest. It is the final piece of the FastAPI server-side rendering stack I started building with FastHX and htmy (the two dependencies of this project besides FastAPI). Think of it as a more powerful and convenient alternative to tools like FastHTML, powered by FastAPI (without any modifications). I hope you'll like it.
Oct 2025 · volfpeter.github.io
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Thesys just open-sourced their generative UI rendering engine. Interesting timing given where Google a2ui and Vercel's json-render are headed. The difference worth noting: a2ui and json-render both treat JSONL as the contract between the LLM and the renderer. Thesys is betting that's the wrong primitive. Their engine uses a code-like syntax (OpenUI Lang) instead — LLM writes it, renderer executes it. The argument is that LLMs are fundamentally better at generating code than generating structured data, so you get cleaner output and ~67% fewer tokens. The broader vision seems to be a…
Mar 2026 · openui.com
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Over three months ago, I posted my book on HN and got tremendous +ve reponse. I am happy to inform that I have published the book to leanpub as per the comments I got on HN itself! It is pay as you go model, and the minimum is $0 because I wanted to contribute back to the FOSS Community
2016
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It's a SwiftUI app (macOS 14+) that wraps the Homebrew CLI and adds features I've always wanted: - Browse, search, install, and uninstall formulae and casks with a 3-column native interface - Bulk operations – select multiple packages to upgrade or remove at once - CVE/vulnerability scanning – checks installed packages against the OSV database - Dependency tree visualization – see what depends on what before removing things - Orphaned dependency cleanup – find and remove packages nothing depends on anymore - Duplicate app detection – spots apps installed from both Homebrew and…
Feb 2026
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Features: 1. Simple 2. No back-end framework like beego, gin, etc 3. Without ORM 4. CSR only Hope to get your feedback, Address: https://github.com/godiscourse/godiscourse
2019
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I always thought Google's Just a Line experiment[1] was crazy cool and recently wanted to revisit it. But it hadn't been updated in 7 years So I upgraded all of the dependencies (including the latest version of Swift 5), added SwiftLint and SwiftFormat, and got it (mostly) working again! Hope you have some fun with it- help welcome there's still more to do! [1] https://experiments.withgoogle.com/justaline
2025 · github.com
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I've been specializing in UI for over a decade. Using code for UI is great but I always wished there was a more visual code to build apps and sites. So I went ahead and built it. Decided to build it with Compose Multiplatform since I work a lot with Kotlin. Currently exports to CMP as it was simpler due to the context switch. You can try it for free and export some apps
2025 · license.builtwithpaper.com
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Best practices for Server-Driven UI (SDUI) is hard to find or is unclear. I've worked with it for a number of years and have created this repository to share my learning. I hope this gives some clarity to what SDUI can do. It's a project that will continue to grow and feel free to share/express/educate/hate/love some feedback.
2022 · github.com
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http://az.ht/ui/build/curr/window.html http://az.ht/ui/build/curr/datatable.html http://az.ht/ui/build/curr/tabs.html http://az.ht/ui/build/curr/layout.html http://az.ht/ui/build/curr/accordion.html Github: https://github.com/elgs/azui I have been working on these web ui components in the past few months. Now they seem to start working. I was not a front end developer. The reason I was determined to write these components is…
2018
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Hi HN, I'm the author of FastMCP, the most popular Python framework for building MCP servers. I've been really excited about MCP Apps for a while. I think letting a server ship a fully interactive UI directly into the conversation is one of the most compelling additions to the protocol. I wanted to make this a first-class experience in FastMCP, but I kept getting stuck on what it actually means for a Python framework to integrate with a frontend feature. The JavaScript ecosystem has extraordinary tooling for this. I didn't want to build a worse version of it just to stay in Python. What…
Apr 2026 · prefab.prefect.io
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