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Fractal_HQon Ask HN: I can't remember the name of this SaaS product

Ah yes- thanks! I appreciate the clarification- and I edited my typo. I was imagining something more lightweight than your average headless CMS, but upon further consideration, what I'm looking for certainly lands under that category nonetheless.

Much appreciated!

Fractal_HQon Ask HN: I can't remember the name of this SaaS product

Ah this must have been it! Thanks!!

Fractal_HQon Astro: Ship Less JavaScript

I use Routify for everything- the ecosystem of tools from it's creator Jake already takes care of everything Sveltekit aims to solve.

I have Starter Templates with everything set up the way I usually like it if you want to check them out-

SvelteKit starter template: https://github.com/FractalHQ/frackit

Routify starter template: https://github.com/FractalHQ/fractify

Fractal_HQon Show HN: A simple JavaScript notebook in one file

I never get an email confirmation when I try to sign up for Starboard :(

Edit: Suddenly got both!

Fractal_HQon Astro: Ship Less JavaScript

Svelte has everything I need to build websites and apps. The performance, bundle size, and DX combo is unparalleled. All vanilla JS libs are plug-and-play. Building production-ready apps is incredibly fast, and done with less code than any other framework.

Svelte's compiler-first approach really fixes all of my problems with the JS ecosystem. Compile-to-JS langs aren't new, but learning a whole new language has non-0 overhead. HTML, CSS, and JS/TS in a .svelte file is awesome, and the syntactic sugar makes the ugly parts of JS (like state management and reactivity) extremely trivial to implement.

The first class support for Vanilla JS & Typscript is brilliant. Vite and ESBuild are incredibly fast and hassle free. The water has never felt nicer for me as a web dev!

Fractal_HQon FicusJS

You can make vanilla web components with Svelte, and Svelte has a much better DX than React, Vue, and Angular. It also performs better thanks to the compile step. I highly recommend checking it out!

Fractal_HQon Launch HN: Athens Research (YC W21) – Open-Source Roam Research

Considering the page you linked is a javascript application, why would anyone expect to be able to use a Javascript application without Javascript?

Fractal_HQon Offbase: Static site generator in a browser

Is that really an AI voice? Sounded real to me.

Fractal_HQon Offbase: Static site generator in a browser

Where can I go to learn how to do this? It's an awesome concept. Are there any resources you can point me to?

Fractal_HQon Ableton Live 11

Depending on your use-case there are a lot of options to consider before investing in a professional solution like Ableton Live.

- LMMS[1]: The go-to cross-platform FOSS DAW solution, with VST support and a healthy community.

- Ardour[2]: Much like LLMS, it's a classic Open Source project that runs cross-platform and is quite fully-featured.

- VCVRack[3]: A brilliant FOSS EuroRack Simulator. It has a built-in package manager with an enormous selection of officially supported and community submitted plugins, complete with VST and Linux support.

- Waveform Free[4]: By Tracktion, Waveform is a robust DAW with VST sandboxing and great built-in FX.

- Audio Tool[5]: A great web-based DAW, featuring online collaboration. Last I checked, there was no VST support.

- Bandlab[6]: Another web-based DAW by the folks behind Cakewalk. While it lacks VST support, it offers online collaboration and straight-forward defaults.

If you like scripting, Reaper[7] offers a personal license for $60 and supports Lua, Python, EEL2/JSFX, and it's own ReaScript[8]. Reaper offers a highly customizable, robust solution for power-users. While the above projects are some of the more complete projects, there are many more scattered around Github. If you're interested in the more niche/experimental ones, let me know and I'll reply with my more comprehensive list.

That being said, I've been an Ableton Live user for over a decade and I recommend it for anyone who wants to invest into a more serious music project. These days, I tend to reach for Studio One[9] by Presonus for more involved projects. While it lacks the focus on live performance, it is more feature-complete DAW than Ableton. Studio One doesn't have the same friction-less workflow that Ableton is famous for, but it's an absolute powerhouse when mastered. It's very well funded and one of the youngest, so Presonus had the opportunity to adopt the best features of more dated solutions like Cubase, Logic, Pro-Tools, and Ableton, while stripping away a lot of the bloat.

[1] https://lmms.io/ [2] https://ardour.org/ [3] https://vcvrack.com/ [4] https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform-free [5] https://www.audiotool.com [6] https://www.bandlab.com/ [7] https://www.reaper.fm [8] https://www.reaper.fm/sdk/reascript/reascript.php [9] https://www.presonus.com/products/studio-one/