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    A free React/NodeJS SaaS template for quick idea execution

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    Hey all, I just wanted to share a project I've been working on for the past month. After years of heavy frameworks, I really like the idea of using htmx, but it’s a little too low level for me and needs a thin layer above it to facilitate things like components, better syntax with complex JS inside of an attribute, etc To try and solve this problem with a very minimal stack (golang + htmx) that I've been really enjoying, I'm building this project to cater to my needs and was thinking it would be useful for other developers.

    2024 · htmgo.dev

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    Your playground for writing custom API security tests

    2023

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    Hey HN! I built Typebase, a library that gives you Convex's DX with Supabase's openness. After trying Supabase I liked how fast it is to spin up a DB and auth, but really didn't like using RLS and SQL for authorization. With Convex I loved how your server "lives" in your code, but disliked the DB model and the realtime-first defaults. With Typebase you just write TS files inside a typebase/ folder in your existing repo. You can define your DB tables inside a schema.ts file and export server functions that your frontend calls like local functions, fully typed. Auth is built in. Then one…

    11d ago · typebase.io

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    Deploy your backend without code in a few days

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    Instantly generate openapi (OAS) 3.0.0 REST + GraphQL APIs

    2019

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    Hey everyone, I've been working on publishing Lama2, a Plain-Text Powered REST API Client for Teams, for the past few months. Initial work on Lama2 started after my dissatisfaction with existing tools such as Postman/Insomnia. I wanted a text-powered and git-friendly system with a lightweight GUI layer on top so that I could onboard beginners/newcomers quickly into my team while also maintaining control over data. Today, we use Lama2 extensively internal to Hexmos; almost every internal code review tends to have a `.l2` API file attached now. It has worked great for us. More about…

    2023 · hexmos.com

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    This is an educational reference implementation showing how to build reasonably secure, standards-compliant authentication from first principles on Cloudflare Workers. Stack: Hono, Turso (libSQL), PBKDF2-SHA384 + normalization + common-password checks, JWT access + refresh tokens with revocation support, HTTP-only SameSite cookies, device tracking. It's deliberately minimal — no OAuth, no passkeys, no magic links, no rate limiting — because the goal is clarity and auditability. I wrote it mainly to deeply understand edge-runtime auth constraints and to have a clean Apache-2.0 example that…

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    BoringSSL and nghttp2. Matches JA3N, JA4, and JA4_R fingerprints. Supports HTTP/2, async/await, and works with Cloudflare-protected sites. Not trying to compete with curl_cffi - just a learning project that turned into something functional.

    Nov 2025 · github.com

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    Hi all, Aram and Eduard here - authors of Modelence (https://github.com/modelence/modelence), an all-in-one backend platform for teams that love TypeScript + MongoDB. Think Supabase, but for MongoDB: auth, cron jobs, email, monitoring, without glue code before you can ship. As Karpathy (and many of us) noted, getting from prototype to production is mostly painful integration work. The pieces exist, but stitching them together reliably is the hard part: https://x.com/karpathy/status/1905051558783418370. YC AI Startup School talk about this -…

    2025 · github.com

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    Hi HN , I got tired of writing the same boilerplate over and over — DB setup, auth, routes, security — every time I built a backend. So I built Pipo360 — an AI-powered tool that generates production-ready backends in under 60 seconds, from just a plain-text description. How it works: Type what you need “Create a task management API with user auth and MongoDB” Hit Generate Get real, exportable code Auth (JWT) Database schema CRUD routes Deployable to Vercel, AWS, etc. No templates. No lock-in. Just code that works. Why it’s different: Built with Gemini AI + human supervision (to ensure real…

    2025 · pipo360.xyz

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    Hi HN! Together with contributors, we've been making a small template language for a year now, which, in our opinion, can replace HTMX and Alpine.js. It is a mix between EJS and Handlebars, that is, you can make a request with a familiar syntax to the server in HTML right in the markup. Requests are made via fetch and are configured via javascript almost entirely, which is what is needed today to work with the server. The very essence of the template language comes down to minimizing the size of the bundle of the original web application by moving the components to the server and then…

    2025 · github.com

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    Hey HN! QuickNode team here, and we just launched a REST API for Aerodrome (Base) and Velodrome (Optimism) DEXs. What it does: Get real-time prices, quotes, and ready-to-sign swap transactions via simple HTTP calls. No Web3 libraries, no ABI handling, no complex routing logic. We support all 8000+ pools on Aerodrome. Why we built this: - Aerodrome uses three different pool types, making direct integration complex - EVM ecosystem is expanding, but developers need simple access to DEX data - Existing solutions require deep Web3 knowledge just to get a token price What makes this different: -…

    2025 · marketplace.quicknode.com

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    Hi HN — I am the CTO of Rierino (https://rierino.com/platform/core), a low-code backend platform built for developers, not business users. We recently launched our Developer Lite version on AWS Marketplace, and we're offering a free private trial to HN users. We built our low-code platform while working with scale-ups, out of frustration with how painful and expensive backend logic can be to implement and maintain in high-speed, distributed environments. It either meant hand-coding everything or relying on rigid tools that abstract away too much. We tested a range of LCNC…

    2025

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    I've been exploring clean architecture and fullstack development in Go. This is a demo application with: - SSR frontend (pure Go templates) - REST API backend (modular design with internal packages) - Dockerized setup (frontend + backend + compose) - Taskfile for automation Inspired by common SaaS platform patterns. Code structure is intentionally clear, with backend and frontend separated, and all dependencies kept minimal. Repo: https://github.com/norbix/demo1_fullstack_golang More thoughts on Go, SaaS, CQRS, and microservices: https://norbix.dev Would love…

    2025 · github.com

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    INTRO: Hi HN community, it is been 2 years since I developed Apisentris (https://apisentris.com) that initially aimed to make my big brother easier to consuming data from his database (MySQL, back then). He is non programmer and wanted me to create some programming scripts to do his jobs. I found out "Database to API" libraries already out there but we have to do some programming works and server configuration to make them work. So that's the idea, what if there is a platform that would instantly generates API from database(s) without (reduce) all of scary configs stuff and backend…

    2019

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    i'm building this minimalistic framework mostly for myself. it's really just a project template + a tiny library that adds file based routes to express and persistent task queues. i wanted something that: 1. is a single long-running process to deploy and manage (thanks sqlite!) 2. has type-safe database queries and type-safe server rendered React-like `.tsx` components 3. addresses 80% of common full-stack concerns like emails, task queues and routing 4. doesn't have a frontend build process curious to hear what you think!

    2024 · plainweb.dev

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