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This will crush OpenAI.
Note: I am not talking about coding here - it will take a while longer but when it is optimized to the bone and llms output has stabilized, you will be running that too on local hardware. Cost will come down for Claude and friends too but why pay 5 when you can have it for free?
Next up: tasteful AI features then i18n
GitHub: https://github.com/valbuild/val/blob/main/packages/next/READ...
GitHub: https://github.com/valbuild/val/blob/main/packages/next/READ...
I tried to create a category here if it is useful for others as well: https://european-alternatives.eu/admin/category-votes/3daefd...
Oh, and here's the product page: https://val.build
GitHub is here: https://github.com/valbuild/val
GitHub: https://github.com/valbuild/val
Intro video: https://youtu.be/83bnYGIsm5g?si=5LN7dxnARrS4jNEx
What sets it apart is that it 1) stores content in TS / JS files 2) is a fully fledged CMs. It is designed to be nice to work with from the start a project (and the structure of your app changes all the time) -> when everyone works on individual PRs -> to the end when the project is decommissioned.
It needs no cloud APIs, no DBs nor caching. No query language to learn. No sign up to get started. It is fully TypeSafe and needs no type generation. You can rename and refactor content from you IDE. It works amazingly with Cursor and friends (local content and schema + strong typesafty + validation)
Currently reqs are: Nextjs and GitHub.
APIs are pretty stable. UI is in the process of a revamp. Will do a proper show hn some time in the near future.
It is not a reality since it has not happen. In the real world it has not happened.
There is no reason to believe that the current rate of progress will continue. Intelligence is not like the weaving machines. A software engineer is not a human calculator.
For me, the trick to basic understanding of perf in PG was exactly this: it is all about limiting the amount of rows you have to iterate over. It is true for count() but also for every other operation you do.
PG is surprisingly non-magical (at least in my experience) in that you won't get much perf for free, but on the other hand you can reason about perf & optimize pretty reliably once you come to terms with this.
Having such a powerful (or at least performant), free and risc-y machine has been a dream of mine for quite some time now... If I can only find a good argument to my wife as why we need one :P