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obaidon Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure Rust

Worth noting the "Unix-inspired" framing is the HN title, not the README — the project itself pitches "minimalistic" and "optimized for memory footprint." Curious what the author means by Unix-inspired specifically, since a single-binary TUI running a multi-tool agent loop doesn't immediately read as do-one-thing-well-and-compose.

obaidon Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)

Working on a few things:

Rundash (rundash.ai) - an easy way to create automated AI agents that can run tasks for you with over 1000+ integrations. Built this from my own needs to run better meetings, discover product insights etc..

Provision (provision.ai) - how I run a team of openclaw agents without burning money on Mac minis. Each agent is given a dedicated email inbox (powered by Mailboxkit) and a dedicated chrome browser that you can connect via browser to unblock if needed. Currently doing some pilots with a few startups. It's interesting to learn how teams want to use AI agents like OpenClaw.

[unnamed project] - a macOS menu-bar AI agent that drives your real apps similar to Perplexity Computer. Hit ⌘⌘, type a task (optionally @-mentioning apps like @slack), and an agent Claude Code or Codex; clicks, types, scrolls, switches apps, and reads the screen via accessibility APIs, with a visible cursor so you can watch it work. Everything runs locally on your own logged-in Mac (BYOK to Anthropic/OpenAI), so there’s no cloud VM or re-auth flow. It also snapshots the frontmost app for ambient context ("summarize this page" just works) and supports parallel tasks with persistent history/workspaces. Pre-release, but the core bet is that desktop agents should feel like a teammate living in your menu bar, not a browser tab or rented remote computer.

obaidon Launch HN: Zenfetch (YC W23) – Turn notes/browser history into an AI assistant

Very interesting product. How is this compared to https://save.day?

obaidon Ask HN: What are few good AI tools for generating stories

I built https://storypanda.ai a while back to help with storytime with my daugther.. check it out, happy to take feedback.

obaidon Ask HN: Successful Startup founders. Do they have families?

I did take break in those hours. Honestly it was tough to survive on 4 hours of sleep during weekdays. I usually slept in a bit on Sundays.

I would also recommend not to do it this way. It was brutal.

obaidon Show HN: I “wrote” a kid's book with ChatGPT and Midjourney

Awesome. I built StoryPanda[1] to do something similar. My daughter, and kids of my friends absolutely love creating a story every night.

1. https://storypanda.ai

obaidon Show HN: I built an app for when I talk too much in online meetings

This is pretty neat. I am going to use it to monitor myself during the calls. I am curious about the tech behind this. Speaker identification locally on the machine seems like what's happening here. The nerd in me wants more tech deep dive :)

obaidon Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?

Neat. I will check it out!

obaidon Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?

I have been looking into this lately as well. My problem is that even if I visit back those pages, I don't remember the context of why I bookmarked it.

I have been toying with a chrome extension that enables me to add "annotations" to these pages and it helps me find websites based on my note search. It's far from perfect but I realized that I remember my notes / thoughts more than the website url or name.

obaidon AI Clones Your Voice After Listening for 5 Seconds (2018)

This is awesome (in a crazy way). I was playing with Resemble.ai [1] yesterday and was surprised by how good it was in replicating my voice with just a few minutes of dataset. This technology is going to keep on getting better by the minute.

As with any piece of technology, there are always good and bad actors.

1- [Resemble.ai](http://resemble.ai)

obaidon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2019)

Botmock | Ottawa (preferably Canadian) or Remote | Full-Time | Frontend

Botmock is a collaborative design, prototype and testing platform for conversational experiences. We're a funded high-growth startup that's rapidly becoming the starting point for all conversational projects.

Our product is used by thousands of users to design, prototype and test conversational experiences for Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, Facebook Messenger, Custom Website, SMS, Apple Business Chat and more.

We’re a remote-first team that thrives on flexibility and creativeness. Each team member gets perks like allowance for co-working space, equipment and all of the other benefits to help you make the most of your day.

We're hiring for one role, either remote or in Ottawa. Please note that we cannot sponsor visas at this time.

Description:

As part of our frontend team you will be working on building the core of Botmock. Our users spend on average 5-7 hours every day using our product. Our front-end stack is React, Redux with Rest API. We are looking for someone to help us take our front-end to the next level while working with the existing team.

Interview process: Call 1: We get to know each other. Call 2: We solve a technical problem together (max 40 mins) and ask questions (20 mins) Call 3: We either make an offer or give you feedback on why you weren't selected

If interested, reach out directly to me: obaid@botmock.com

obaidon Building Conversational Interfaces to Make the Web More Accessible for All

This is great, OP. We are building a prototyping tool [1] for conversational interfaces and with our tool we have seen teams improve the entire prototyping, design and testing process by 10x.

1. http://www.botmock.com

obaidon Show HN: Blogcast – Generate audio versions of your articles

Interesting product. I have tried http://voicepods.com previously and its a neat experience.

Well done!

obaidon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2018)

Botmock | Frontend Software Engineer | Ottawa / Toronto / Remote (Canada/US) | Full Time, Contract-to-Hire

We are startup building tools to help conversational designers on Alexa, Google Assistant, Facebook Messenger, Web and more. Our product is being used by agencies and large Fortune500 companies. You will be part of our small team and help us grow it further in coming months.

- Build, maintain, and update editor features - Contribute to our large, beautiful single-page app - Write high-quality, maintainable and scalable code - Collaborate with other developers and designers to take a feature all the way from just an idea to something thousands of people use daily - Write modular, composable code for flexibility and re-use - Optimize processes and applications for efficiency, scalability, and availability - Communicate effectively, giving and receiving help as needed; give first, take later!

Our stack is React, Webpack, Redux

Email me directly with your resume, LinkedIn, and/or Github: obaid@botmock.com

obaidon Bottery – A conversational agent prototyping platform

We have been working on building a conversation prototyping tool for non-developers at Botmock (https://botmock.com)

Our approach has been to give a tool that enables people to create a true prototype and quickly test it before spending time developing it.

Thanks for sharing this (and other solutions like Wild Yak etc).

obaidon YC Summer 2017 Invites/Rejections

Does everyone get an email? Even those who have not been selected?

obaidon Show HN: Design chat bot conversations without any coding

Clickable link: http://botmock.com

obaidon Introducing Initialized Capital

Hi Garry, Do you guys hold office hours for startups in your portfolio or anyone can schedule some time with you? And what should one do to be prepared for the office hours?

Thanks

obaidon Show HN: Capture customer satisfaction score within FB Messenger

We are targeting existing chat bots. The idea is for these bots to be able to capture feedback from their users without having to build the whole backend to track, analyze and understand the feedback that they are getting.

obaidon Show HN: Jumper, a robot to help you exercise every day

Awesome. I have been experimenting with Facebook Messenger bots as well. Did you use any existing framework/tool to create the bot?

Also, I am building a service that allows bots to gather actionable feedback from the users. I am looking for some testers. Let me know if you would be interested in helping out. :)

obaidon Ask HN: Show off your weekend project

Wrote a small web app that allows non-profits (or any organization) to collect donations from their members via SMS.

http://kindly.at

obaidon Apply HN: AirLoop – free digital loyalty platform

We offer a card-less and hassle free experience compared to fivestars. Also, with our solution the customer actually interacts with your brand and not with a 3rd party brand like fivestars.

Currently the merchant has to use our kiosk app but we are working on integrations with solutions like square.

With AirLoop you get a completely white labelled solution, fully customizable with your brand and we don't share your customer data with other merchants.

We make money with our outbound marketing tools such as targeted campaigns delivered through SMS.

obaidon Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it awesome? Please include URL

http://www.getairloop.com

AirLoop is a fully customizable digital loyalty platform that provides the tools you need to optimize and enhance your customer engagement, to create repeat business and increase revenue.

We are on a mission to change the way our merchant partners think about customer loyalty and customer engagement. We help you understand and influence your customers, and help you turn every single customer interaction into an enduring relationship.

We believe that small businesses should be able to capture customer data without breaking the bank. Our loyalty program is completely free -- all you need is an iPad (Android coming soon), download our app, configure your rewards and off your go.

obaidon Show HN: Kedo.io – Backend-As-A-Service for SMS First Companies

Sorry, it has been fixed now.

obaidon Show HN: Kedo.io – Backend-As-A-Service for SMS First Companies

Wanted to give a bit of an background on the project and I am not sure how to change that now..

obaidon Show HN: We've been working on this idea, would love feedback

Interesting idea. Any real customers yet? I am still not sure how would it work for me as a customer? Would I download an app and then communicate with the businesses? If so, why can't I just tweet to them?

obaidon Emergency funding for Syria's humanitarian crisis

Thank you.

obaidon Next Gen of Innovators: Crowdfunding Campaign to Acquire a 3D-Printer for Youth

I am excited to present an initiative that will introduce local youth to the wonders of 3D printing. The basic idea is to seek community support to help us achieve the funding necessary to acquire a low-cost desktop 3D printer. We plan on bringing the 3D printer to schools, community centres, local libraries and other places where young people can have an opportunity to engage with this cutting-edge technology.

3D printing represents a powerful educational instrument that can simultaneously unleash the creative potential of youth, develop their technical skills while fostering experimentation, problem-solving and collaborative learning. Our "community" 3D printer will be the centerpiece of a program of "pop-up" events that we plan on organizing to introduce young people to the world of digital fabrication and the joy of "making".

I invite you to visit our crowdfunding campaign on the Indiegogo platform for more details: www.indiegogo.com/projects/young-makers-community-3d-printer-for-pop-up-demonstrations

If you are interested in supporting this campaign with a donation but prefer not to create an account on Indiegogo website, please let me know and we can discuss an alternative way to expedite your contribution.

If you would like to support the campaign other than through a financial contribution, I would be most grateful if you would consider: - forwarding this message or above weblink to friends and colleagues; or - referring a school, community centre or any other organization that you believe could benefit from our initiative.

obaidon CameraTag: Simplified Webcam Video Recording

Nice work. Can you talk about the technology stack behind this? I am very interested in knowing about that.

Thanks

obaidon BlockBattle (HTML5 multiplayer tetris) goes social

This is pretty well done. Good job guys!