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Products that do what Lambda – The first-ever open-source privacy based social media app does
Hi HN community! NOTE: This is a repost due to missing of links I’m excited to introduce Lambda, a project I've been working on. Lambda is the world's first open-source social media app designed to prioritize your privacy and well-being. It's still in its early stages, but I'm eager to share it with you and get your feedback. What is Lambda? Lambda is an open-source social media app that addresses privacy concerns and reduces social media addiction. Here's what makes Lambda unique: - Privacy First: Lambda does not collect personal information beyond your email address for account creation.…
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I got my start on the Internet in the very early 90s playing with, authoring in, and programming on LambdaMOO (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LambdaMOO) and similar systems. Shared virtual social spaces, with a persistent object oriented authoring / scripting language. They can be classified as MUDs (depending on who you talk to) but the focus is social, creative / authoring, and shared programming not RPG gaming. I've always wanted to see this kind of thing modernized and further developed. Over the last 25 years or so I've worked on similar but novel & improved…
2023 · github.com
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2015 · cloudnative.io
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Hi HN! During the last few years, I worked on a few applications built with Go, running on AWS Lambda. As I got to know the platform better, I started to find Go & Lambda to be a really productive combination. The applications were fast, and they ended up being much cheaper to run than what my team & I had built before. It’s probably not the best platform for _every_ application, but I was surprised at how much of our workload worked well on it. As we brought new engineers on to our team and helped them get up to speed with the stack, I found that we were covering a lot of the same topics…
2021
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Hey fellow HN-ers, I'd like to ask HN about my latest startup: SocialFolders. We take a Dropbox-like approach to managing your content on your social networks by mirroring all the content you have on these networks in folders on your computer. Moving this content around, between folders or between services, is mirrored in the all-mighty "cloud" (ugh, I hate this word). We'd love to know what you think. We think our approach solves the problem of managing content at scale. We put together a quick 2'30 screencast to show HN how it works: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4s2TFsVezZQ If you want…
2012
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I am working on this project, http://epsilonwiki.free.fr/lambdaway/, and would be happy to get your opinion back. Thanks a lot. Alain Marty
2016
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We are looking for feedback on a novel way to build and run a service for you to manage and share your identity. Demo: https://greenfielddemo.com
2022 · hello.coop
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2021 · impervious.com
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Hey HN, I've been a long time HN reader and here is my first contribution. Hoodsup.me is a chat-based matchmaking app built on top of your Facebook social graph. It matchmakes you with people who are geographically close to you and with whom you share common points. You can optionally activate your webcam to talk face-to-face with your partner. Think of it as a Sonar meets a genital-free Chatroulette. I would love to get some feedback. It's only optimized for WebKit for now. No signup is required so just stop by and say hi! :) Clickable link: <a…
2011 · hoodsup.me
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Hi HN, I built Lambda ERP, an open-source ERP prototype where chat is the primary interface. It handles sales/purchase flows, invoices, payments, inventory, double-entry accounting, reports, and chat-generated analytics. There’s a live demo in the README with 3 years of simulated data, plus a Docker Compose setup if you want to run it locally. It is not production-ready yet; I’m looking for feedback on the architecture, the chat-first workflow, and whether this direction makes sense for small teams that can’t afford traditional ERP implementation projects.
Apr 2026 · github.com
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TLDR: I built a "quick and dirty " private social network for my friends, posted on Reddit and HN, got some interest so now have built it properly along with my brother. site link: https://intimost.com/login/ demo creds: [email protected] Demo123! Full version: I needed a social network where I can just send updates and nothing else. So I built it, my friends liked and now I have built it "for the world". Everything is private by default. - Text-only updates - No likes. Only views to acknowledge a post - [in development] Comments are private between the poster and…
Oct 2025
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What's your tool chain for data and document processing? - jq is great, but limited to JSON; and jQuery limited to HTML; templating systems get messy for non-trivial logic; TypeScript lacks pattern matching and schema support. So I built Lambda — an expressive functional language that combines the power of Lisp, TypeScript, and many DSLs like jq, jQuery, RelaxNG, etc. It has a lightweight 9 MB runtime, built from scratch in C/C++, that provides an end-to-end document processing pipeline (parse → validate/query/transform → layout → render/view). Internally, Lambda parse…
Mar 2026 · github.com
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i had previously posted this when it was aws-rce. it’s changed enough that i want to post it again.
2022 · github.com
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Heya! We're longtime lurkers and do sometimes post, today however I want to present to you with the fruits of almost 4 years of work, hacking, designing, physically building (for the record: 2 years full time). We'd love to get some feedback from you guys and feel free to give us any hints on what we could/should change, or any opinion on whether you think that'd be something you'd use. protonet.info So here's our rough plan: We love the web and the possibilities it gives us, we also love the way the cloud allows us instant and ubiquitous access to our data and apps. Now what we don't like…
2012
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Hi everyone! I’m Arvid, cofounder of Anysphere (https://anysphere.co). With my two friends Sualeh and Shengtong I have been spending the last few months building a dedicated home for important, long-form conversations. We’re super excited to let the HN community test it out! We think that no existing platform for point–to-point communication prioritizes the conversations that you actually care about and that really matter. Instant messaging is filled with careless texts and stickers, email is filled with receipts and spammers, and physical mail, while better in those respects, is…
2022 · gist.github.com
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Hey everyone! I've developed a new CLI that I'm hoping will turn into a vibrant community. Its a developer friendly alternative to using Terraform, Serverless, or other CDKs or Toolchains. I'd love any feedback you all may have!
2024 · scaffoldly.dev
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Hi HN, we're Patrick and Florian, and we created Omnifact out of frustration with the underwhelming impact of AI on business productivity. After working with large companies struggling to adopt AI in a meaningful way due to data privacy concerns and vendor lock-in, we decided to build the platform we wished we had. Omnifact is designed for organizations that want to make use of generative AI and RAG without compromising data security or flexibility. Here's the tech breakdown: - Deployment Flexibility: Omnifact can be used as a SaaS in our Azure-based cloud, deployed within a company's…
2024
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http://valleyanon.com/ -- A simple anonymous blogging platform for free speech online. I built it so that people can let their stories be known without fear.
2013
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