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Congrats on the launch! I've tried building a windows automation script myself but found existing solutions quite cumbersome booking appointments and fetching information on a desktop SMS.

Can I monitor/manage this remotely? I'm not on site with the client and previously tried to manage through AnyDesk but the client often turned off the machine.

Also is there anyway to run this so that it won't interrupt workflows while someone is using the machine? I imagine a solution could just be having the client run an extra computer that's dedicated for this or running after hours on the local machine.

Scheduled a demo

This is cool. Built an iOS app to do this for myself six months back, but it falls over to pretty basic IVR navigation.

Any transactional call should be handled by AI on both sides.

I've often been running several claude code sessions across separate terminal tabs. Was a user of chorus.sh and excited to try another product from y'all! Congrats

This is cool. I have a pet project around building voice-enabled toys I'd love to have this level of control when narrating.

my gf and I play a lot of scrabble and this was really fun. just sent this to her (and a little embarrassed I only got 18/23)

Thanks for the thoughtful feedback!

1. Yeah definitely not clear what's going to happen when you click "start interview". I'll edit the description to be clear what you're getting. 2. Definitely need to be clear on what's saved/retained. 3. Totally missed that and now I can't unsee it. Something wonky going on w/ text area. Taking a look

Given all the investor enthusiasm around live-shopping, was surprised to see Amazon live running a QVC-esque program

I’ve been frustrated time and time again with Google Drive’s clunky UI and search ability to find relevant docs and files, especially when projects have taken on different names.

Sortado is a chrome extension that adds a sidebar to your Google doc to make it faster to organize and find files. We’ve been using it at our company, and I wanted to take the product and make it available to others. I took notes from Notion’s sidebar, but I honestly just prefer the UI and accessibility of Google Docs, so wanted to customize it to make a better experience :)

I'm actually the current owner of this repo!! I started it because I love working with unofficial APIs for fun hacks that improve my life. During college, I had an alert that told me when the Krispy Kreme donuts were fresh built off an unofficial API that promised enjoyable donuts.

If you're interested, I have a newsletter to update you when new repos are added https://forms.gle/e8nCivpTBNftNtgGA and to feature interesting stories from the community.

py-imessage is a lightweight library you can use on your mac to send iMessages.

It was originally started to build an API for iMessages which anyone could pay for; however, Apple has fairly aggressive detection policies that make it difficult to scale.

One of my favorite hackathon projects was using an unofficial Robinhood API (https://github.com/sanko/Robinhood) to ask Alexa how a current stock was doing. If it had increased over the last year, I would ask Alexa to "purchase X shares of X stock".

Writing joke apps is a fun way to try out a new programming language and laugh about it.

Yes. There's a mac mini running which directly interfaces with the Messages app and underlying data storage. There's been a few synchronization problems, but for the most part the Messages platform is fairly robust. Unfortunately, there's a couple sleep statements that I had to write in for the short term, but there's a path to removing them in the long term.

Hey HN, proud to share balto, an API to send iMessages from a new phone number. I originally built this out to take advantage of the iMessage features (specifically read receipts and videos) after sadly learning that these features are severely limited when using Twilio or other SMS providers.

From there I went down a crazy rabbit hole, talking to apple support, shopping on eBay for an old iPhone, digging through poorly documented JXA (javascript to control your mac), and eventually landing on a MVP which today supports sending new iMessages from a custom phone number and looking at read receipts (if the other party has them turned on); with many more features on the way (think full videos, audio recording, tapbacks, group chats, etc.)

Love this community and the valuable feedback y’all provide!

I'm flexible on monetization patterns for now, but if this were to take off, I'd imagine it'd be some sort of team-based pricing for teams heavily using it and introducing a collaboration-first experience.

Looks super useful. I'm all for eliminating steps in typical workflows. I've never been at a company that used Dropbox so didn't even know it existed.

This is really cool. I can see how the e2e encryption could be super valuable. Thanks for suggesting!

Interesting. It looks like it was just the less popular option. https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2019/01/24/clarifyin...

Hey Jowsie! Yes, currently the files are hosted on just on a public s3 bucket, so definitely not the most secure, but maybe something to add in the future.

I haven't heard of ShareX so will check that out and definitely look into a self-hosted option.

I made this extension out of a frustration from working with my friend, sending screenshots without linking to the article (or design) where it came from. Screenshot HQ solved this by pulling the URL when the screenshot was taken.

In order to mimic our workflow as much as possible, it uses the open graph social html tags to load the screenshot directly on the page in Slack.

We're thinking about adding comment capabilities), among other features (i.e. automatically rendering a mobile, tablet, and desktop screenshot, immediately making the background transparent etc.) and would love any thoughts.

I like this a lot. I often find myself too "behind" on the podcasts that I like to listen to and often don't have the time to sit through and listen to all of them.

I'm down to try it out. Maybe you and I like similar things

Hey HN,

I built caffeinator https://www.caffeinator.co/ as a side project around finding/discovering new coffee shops as a fun way to explore my neighborhood and go for a walk.

We send a text at your desired frequency (daily to weekly) with a coffee shop near you. Honestly, there's nothing different here then going to to google maps/yelp, searching for a cafe, then discovering it that way, I'm just lazy and I felt like there were too many choices.

It's definitely in an early stage, but would love any feedback. Surprisingly, someone picked it up on Nextdoor and wrote an article https://missionlocal.org/2020/01/caffeinator/

Would love your feedback/suggestions

Loom https://www.loom.com/ started as a chrome extension.

Grammarly has done really well https://www.grammarly.com/