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I spent the last few weeks building a UWP app for Windows 10 that finally made it into the Windows Store. The biggest challenge was that UWP seems to have limitations with the .net version for UWP has a different API, particularly around the UDPClient API. Shameless plug, it's available here https://www.microsoft.com/store/apps/9PCD9X9M1P5C Any ideas on what additional features you would like to see? I want to implement an energy monitoring report for those plugs that support it. If anyone has advice about a good free report generator compatible with UWP I'm all…

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    uBeam226

    Wireless electricity. Drop your cords & take charge.

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    2012 · cloudshark.org

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    Wyze Plug123

    Compact WiFi smart plugs for $15

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    Spatial awareness for your mobile apps

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    Real-Time Analytics for WordPress Plugins and Themes

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    Real install counts, usage data & feedback for WP plugins

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    I've been working on this for a few months since I got my Surface RT, and realized there wasn't a solid gtalk/gchat app. It's a C#/XAML app, and I ended up writing my own XMPP stack on-top of raw sockets since there wasn't a good open source one available (that would run in RT). I'll open source my XMPP library on GitHub shortly once I've cleaned it up a bit. Check it out! Store link: http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-US/app/gabberwocky/2d7a19c5-2522-461c-8706-99ff59bd84fe Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/gabberwockyapp

    2013

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    Is anyone else on HN participating in this FCC research project to measure broadband performance? [1] I signed up for more information when the project was announced, some time ago, but a few days ago the device arrived. Technically, it is quite an interesting little box. It's a generic consumer device, shaped like a wireless router, with an antenna and five RJ-45 jacks. But it works more like a bridge, plugging in between my existing ADSL modem/wireless-router and any wired devices that used to be plugged directly into the existing ADSL. No changes needed to be made to any of the…

    2013

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    So I got so involved in setting up AdWords, tracking down WP security bloggers, etc. that I forgot to post it here and get you all to check it out and offer suggestions. It's only been out for a couple weeks or so though, so this still qualifies as "launch window", I guess. Check it out here: http://www.panic-press.com/ Promo code "show-hn" for a free month to try it out. It has 100 uses, so it shouldn't run out, but if it does, let me know.

    2012

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    Hi All ,I been working on my idea , A Voice CRM solution for 2 years.When I started brainstorming the idea the only option I have to receive phone calls thru browser was a flash widget or use 3rd party providers like Twilio or Phono . Thanks to WebRTC we now integrated our VoIP services to receive and make calls directly thru browser .Please have a look and give us your feedback .Thanks Voz.io Team .

    2013 · voz.io

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    Hi HN, I'd like to share a small Go utility I wrote called prxy. The idea was born out of my frustration with accessing my self-hosted services when I'm on the go. I use WireGuard to connect to my homelab, but I really dislike sending all my computer's traffic through my home network — it slows things down and is inconvenient. I wanted proper application-level split-tunneling. A tool I love, wireproxy, got me most of the way there by creating an HTTP proxy from a WireGuard peer. This is perfect for apps that let you configure a proxy. The problem was the other 10%: apps that don't. Think of…

    2025 · github.com

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    Hi all, 1995 was a simpler time. There was no react, SSR, component libraries, and developers only had 4MB of RAM to work with. If you ask me, UIs have only gone downhill since then. So I created windows95jobs.com so people can experience the joy of simpler software while looking for a new SWE job. Repo: https://github.com/KyleMoore1/Win95Jobs (Built with react lol)

    2025 · windows95jobs.com

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    Our iOS Web Simulator for Windows, sims Geolocation, HTML5 local and session storage, accelerometer, userAgent etc. Great for demos and quick Mobile Web testing. http://www.electricplum.com/products.html

    2011

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    One of my previous side projects was to build a small web app meant to be run on enterprise Windows server environment. The type of place where software is still installed manually by clicking through an installer. I wanted the app to run as a Windows service, and to have a minimal .msi -installer, so that more or less anyone could install the software. Instead of being smart and writing the app in C# and get the full tooling of Microsoft... I choose to do a modern web app with Node.js and React. I thought, how hard can it be to package it into a Windows service? It turned out to be pretty…

    2023 · github.com

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    Hi HN, I'm Giovanni, founder of Userware. We built XAML.io, a free browser-based IDE for C# and XAML that compiles and runs .NET projects entirely client-side via WebAssembly. No server-side build step. The link above opens a sample project using Newtonsoft.Json. Click Run to compile and execute it in your browser. You can edit the code, add NuGet packages, and share your project via a URL. What's new in v0.6: - NuGet package support (any library compatible with Blazor WebAssembly) - Code sharing via URL with GitHub-like forking and attribution - XAML autocompletion, AI error fixing, split…

    Feb 2026 · xaml.io

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    We saw that the existing solutions have a learning curve and restrictions. So we thought to assemble one that can make things easy. Let me know your thoughts on this.

    Oct 2025 · producthunt.com

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    Hey HN, There’s been a lot of interest recently in meta-harnesses, loops, and multi-agent orchestration. Obviously, there are already a lot of good tools: Conductor, cmux, the native Codex / Claude Code apps, etc. For my own use cases, I’ve felt that the orchestration layer tends to feel overengineered. I mostly wanted a simple local harness (i.e Pi) for running and tracking CLI agents with the ability to hop in (via tmux). Relaymux is my opinionated attempt at that. A few design principles: - The frontend is just Telegram / iMessage / CLI. If I want more visibility, I hop…

    Jun 2026 · github.com

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