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dorongrinstein

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CEO of Control Plane Corporation. We make multi region, multi cloud microservices easy and unbreakable.
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dorongrinstein··on Val Town is winding down
sorry it did not work out. To your customers: feel free to check out https://controlplane.com - it handles all your use cases and them some. You can converse with it your agent of choice, and it comes with a UI, CLI, API, Terraform, Pulumi and MCP. It lets you run across any cloud and on-prem with the same interface. it is very cost effective and supports ANY service of any cloud, including over a hundred open source templates like Postgres, CockrochDB, Kafka, Rabbit, Cassandra and much more. I am the ceo of Control Plane. Ask me anything. https://controlplane.com
dorongrinstein··on Open Source Railway Alternatives
If you want a real alternative - one that lets you run ANYWHERE - your own cloud, own hardware, a combination - look at https://controlplane.com (I am the founder, ask me anything)
dorongrinstein··on A Modern Web App in C
Many tools can achieve the same thing. I can write a note in pencil, pen, crayon etc. I will tell you a secret, but don't tell anyone: you can write it in assembly also.
dorongrinstein··on [dead]
I added Jev evaluation to check if content being uploaded to boomurl.com is spam or phishing. I used to use Claude but it was getting expensive. This is a great use case for such a model. Boomurl.com lets anyone upload content for free. The content stays up forever, or until you delete it.
dorongrinstein··on Show HN: Jev-pages – Building landing pages real time with Jev
cool idea. I had chatGPT deploy to Control Plane (https://controlplane.com). here is my prompt: "can you create a gvc called jev-pages in aws-us-west-2 and use this for the code https://github.com/sagapranav/jev-pages" and it ran great. I supplied it a TypeSafe API key and it worked. However, I tried using it to create a real landing page and the result was somewhat disappointing. It proves the IDEA, but implementation needs a bunch more work.
dorongrinstein··on America.gov
I found the site excellent. I had a real question and got very relevant information quickly. I had a follow up question and it kept the context and gave perfect info with even a suggestion for the logical question to ask next - which I did, and got the right info. Nice job!
dorongrinstein··on Obscura: VPN that can't log your activity
I love the website, messaging and idea. Well done. if you guys need a place to host, please consider controlplane.com
dorongrinstein··on [dead]
if you need quick encryption / decryption with the latest algorithms with zero backend, feel free to use this URL.
dorongrinstein··on Ask HN: How do you host your vibe coded tools/sites?
Many use our service https://controlplane.com - we have an MCP server that makes it trivial to ask for postgres, kafka, cassandra, mongo, cockroachdb, mysql, or many other databases. It is easy and does not limit you in terms of where you can run (any cloud, on prem), and even run multi-region and multi-cloud. I am interested to hear your experience.
dorongrinstein··on Docker Sandboxes – Disposable, isolated sandboxes for AI agents
we at Control Plane (https://controlplane.com) allow you to run sandboxes anywhere - any cloud (our AWS, GCP, Azure, OCI accounts) or your cloud or bare metal hardware. What sets Control Plane sandboxes apart is:

- They can securely consume ANY service of ANY cloud without needing credentials - They can securely communicate to any VPC or private network resource - When you're ready to go to prod - you simply deploy to the Global Virtual Cloud (GVC) which can run in one region, multi-region, hybrid, any number of regions and clouds and data centers.

our website is https://controlplane.com

dorongrinstein··on Our position on open-weights models
I agree with Dario Amodei. Every word makes sense.
dorongrinstein··on User provider content is dangerous. Our experience
We deployed a project called boomurl.com to allow anyone to publish content and BOOM - get a URL with just an email. Since anyone can upload content, people DID. All kinds of phishing ensued - which made Google Site Safety flag the site as a "social engineering site". This short article describes what we did to fix the issue and avoid it in the future.
dorongrinstein··on Cloudflare Drop
Looks like Cloudflare copied https://boomurl.com which I published a few weeks ago. It is possible they were working on it independently, but the timing is funny. Anyway. https://boomurl.com does a lot more and gives you a permanent URL for free.
dorongrinstein··on Oxide computer 3D rack guided tour
I met Bryan Cantrill the CEO of Oxide many years ago. He's awesome. I am rooting for Oxide to become as big as Dell.
dorongrinstein··on Show HN: A GPT to get a free URL for AI generated content
I created a useful (I hope) tool for non-developers who don't want to deal with creating accounts and remembering passwords. They just want to publish some content (text, html md, pdf, jpg, etc.) and BOOM - get a URL. It is called https://boomurl.com

I then create an MCP and created a GPT that knows how to publish created content straight from the browser - so if you want a landing page, or form stood up without leaving ChatGPT (or other LLM) you can do it easily.

It is free forever, with a $2/mo. fee to remove the small footer - to help support the free user base.

I had a ton of fun creating it.

dorongrinstein··on Boomurl.com
added custom domain support.
dorongrinstein··on Boomurl.com
I added support for bring your own custom domain. Try it out and let me know your thoughts. It is not meant as a Vercel replacement, but as a quick way to share vibe coded and other websites with the world for free and without creating an account. It only does quick email validation.
dorongrinstein··on Boomurl.com
Easiest way to get a web page, or site online. Custom domains will be supported soon.
dorongrinstein··on Diode – Build, program, and simulate hardware
wow. looks amazing
dorongrinstein··on Converting a $3.88 analog clock from Walmart into a ESP8266-based Wi-Fi clock
awesome project
dorongrinstein··on Somebody Build This
I already use it. It is called ssh from claude code.
dorongrinstein··on Show HN: Just built the best domain search engine
Indeed. Excellent work.
dorongrinstein··on [dead]
He risked his own life and saved countless others
dorongrinstein··on Control Plane MCP
Control Plane is a virtual cloud platform. It lets you run workloads that scale up and down to save $ on AWS, GCP, Azure, on-prem or any provider. The Control Plane MCP service allows your AI tool to interface with the Control Plane API/CLI to deploy and manage your backend workloads, and persistent databases, queues, etc.
dorongrinstein··on AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1
Anyone needing multi-cloud WITH EASE, please get in touch. https://controlplane.com

I am the CEO of the company and started it because I wanted to give engineering teams an unbreakable cloud. You can mix-n-match services of ANY cloud provider, and workloads failover seamlessly across clouds/on-prem environments.

Feel free to get in touch!

dorongrinstein··on Zero – Local Encrypted Vault App (No Cloud, No Signup, Free)
Looks cool. To gain any traction, it must be open source. Otherwise, how do I know whether the app sends my credentials to someone else?
dorongrinstein··on Replacing Kubernetes with systemd (2024)
At https://controlplane.com we give you the power of Kubernetes without the toil of k8s. A line of code gets you a tls terminated endpoint that is geo routed to any cloud region and on-prem location. We created the Global Virtual Cloud that let's you run compute on any cloud, on premises hardware or vm's and any combination. I left vmware to start the company because the cognitive load on engineers was becoming ridiculous. Logs, metrics, tracing, service discovery, TLS, DNS, service mesh, network tunnels and much more - we made it easy. We do to the cloud what vmware did to hardware - you don't care what underlying cloud you're on. Yet you can use ANY backing service of AWS, GCP and Azure - as if they merged and your workloads are portable - they run unmodified anywhere and can consume any combination of services like RDS, Big Query, Cosmos db and any other. It is as if the cloud providers decided to merge and then lower your cost by 60-80%.

Check it out. Doron

dorongrinstein··on Email signatures are harming the planet and could cost people their lives
I can't go to sleep now, knowing I killed 0.000001 people with my stupid email signature. I'm a terrible person.
dorongrinstein··on Ask HN: Why there's no email address portability like with phone numbers?
Email is portable. You need to use your own domain. If you use Gmail.com as the domain it isn't reasonable to expect yahoo can serve a Gmail domain. That's not how the internet works. There's a very easy and common solution - buy a domain for $10/yr and use email providers that let you bring your own domain. It is portable by design.
dorongrinstein··on The SSO Wall of Shame
Great list. At https://controlplane.com we don't charge you extra for SSO
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