Curious Fictions

What it does

Reward award-winning short stories, support independent authors.

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  Maker Stories2014 · ▲303

  Discover the stories behind products

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  #IWriteBecause2017 · ▲111

  Every author has a story to tell, what's yours?

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  tale.fyi, we deserve a home for fictionJul 2026 · tale.fyi · ▲74

  for decades, i have been concerned that the internet was being built around non-fiction, so i built something to show how we could celebrate great fiction on the web. i started with an amazing library from the public domain, and i also added tools to add your own stories super interested to hear any feedback, and if you read anything good!

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  Reedsy Discovery2019 · ▲199

  Discover and showcase the best new indie books

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  Tales Untold2015 · ▲128

  Smart stories for smart kids (and smart parents, too).

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  Inkshares2014 · ▲101

  Crowdfunded Book Publishing

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  Clipto MCP▲640

  Hey HN, We recently built Clipto. It’s a tool that lets you search over terabytes of video, audio, and images on your computer, without relying on the cloud. Motivation: we probably all had this similar experience, we know a moment exists in a video or audio, but finding it takes hours scrubbing the timeline. You can send all the media to process in the cloud, but it’s slow, expensive and raises privacy concerns. So we decided to build our own on-device media search engine. How it works (high level): 1. We ingest video, audio, image; normalize formats via ffmpeg; run content analysis to…

  Work · 23d ago · clipto.com

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  Computable GPU Index (CGI)▲426

  Hey we are Computable. We spent years building trading infrastructure at Jump Trading and Coinbase. From that point of view, compute looks like energy markets before 2000: everything trades through private bilateral leases, there’s no visible price, and nothing can be resold. The same H100 rents at a 2x spread depending on who’s asking, and once you sign a 24-month lease, it can never change hands. So we built a market for GPU nodes, sold by the calendar week. Here are three things you can do on it that you can’t do anywhere else: - Buy exactly the weeks you need. Three nodes for the last…

  Work · 15d ago · getcomputable.com

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  HyNote for Mac▲383

  Free local transcription that is 100% Private

  Work · 22d ago · hynote.ai

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  Scrimba Explain▲325

  Ask any question, get a video back instantly

  Work · 29d ago · scrimba.com

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  The New Calendly▲211

  Handle all of the work before, during, and after meetings

  Work · 22d ago · calendly.com

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  Stripe Billing▲1,030

  Billing and subscriptions for fast-growing businesses

  Dev tools · 2018 · stripe.com

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  New Gmail▲935

  The new version of Gmail web

  Work · 2018 · blog.google

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  The Business Messenger by Intercom▲905

  More than just chat. Intercom's new app platform.

  Life & fun · 2018 · fin.ai

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  1.1.1.1 by Cloudflare▲871

  The Internet’s fastest, privacy-first DNS resolver

  Dev tools · 2018 · one.one.one.one

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  Artboard Studio▲730

  Online graphic design app mainly focused on product mockups.

  Growth · 2018 · artboard.studio

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  Grasshopper▲664

  The coding app for beginners by Google

  Dev tools · 2018