I kind of liked the originality. It's what happens when you give software developers free reign on the marketing pages as well, I guess.
But it seems to have gotten a re-skin recently, and I preferred the previous more pixelated version. Also, there used to be a way to render a "normal" version of the website, but I can't find it anymore.
Could this simply be more hours spent focusing intention on lucid dreaming?
Only the group using the lucid dream VR app got extra sessions on the topic, so the headset can't be separated from the added focus. What seems to be missing is a control with the same intensity of focus and training, without VR.
There is no consensus yet on the biological function of dreaming, and neither is it clear if suspension of reflective self awareness is necessary to perform those functions.
What is for certain: even in lucid dreams, physiologically you are still asleep, and in genuine REM sleep. So in that sense it should provide the exact same restorative and cognitive benefits. It's just that several brain regions associated with self awareness, metacognition, attention, and cognitive control show increased activity.
So taking that into account, I would argue lucid dreaming only has net benefits, if you value those metacognitive features.
Shouldn't we encourage more companies starting like this, have a (permissive) open source platform anyone can use, while also offering a commercial managed service.
It's a model that's been around for a long time, but is now gaining more traction thanks to AI commoditizing software development. And I think it's an improvement over the closed-source giants we are used to having dominate each market (and strangle customers through annual price increases, especially when acquired and their investors are looking to squeeze out a return).
unfortunately, this openship thing is copyleft though, so not particularly permissive vs. Apache 2.0 or MIT-licensed alternatives, but still...
Openship is copy left, Openfronts are all MIT. Some are missing the license since they are not launched. Openship will move to MIT in the near future as well.
I don’t think so, other than it’s an opportunity for younger companies to enter the market and they charge less. We should be seeing good price competition right now just from the age of all these new companies.
I don’t have a good model for what lower B2B prices would look like when company age/growth aggression/pricing unsophistication are factored, though. I don’t take the presence of some downside for granted because projects like this can be taken by incumbents and bundled into high margin services (copyleft helps a bit here.) Would welcome data.
This model to depress prices does definitely work in B2C, but it’s not necessary to develop an open source app to get cloned to drive down prices there; it happens to everyone.
I actually started building the open-source Shopify version because it was being enshittified. They were making store owners jump thru hoops to use their custom apps. It’s my store, my custom app, why would I need to register with Shopify.
Ask the vape companies that were on Shopify for nearly a decade and Shopify kicked them off a couple months back. I bet they wish they went with open-source instead of blindly trusting a company to whom you are expendable.
Not necessarily (just) ego. It's also that greenfield is much, much easier than brownfield. You can make your own decisions, rather than first having to learn what others decided for you. You can start with a naive blue sky vision of the product, not yet tainted by all the complexities that will only surface when you really get into the weeds of the problem you're trying to solve.
Depends what you mean with "agents"... LLMs in coding harnesses, or fully autonomous agents?
If you mean the former, I think you'll find probably 90% of devs are "crazy", running Claude Code or Codex on their bare metal using the auto-classifier.
I used to always run claude with `--dangerously-skip-permissions` in a dev container, but I had to rebuild my container 10 times a day to update the firewall so it can access documentation.
Now I find the included auto-classifier is very reliable. If you keep tasks contained instead of open-ended long-horizon work, it doesn't seem much goes wrong with frontier models. The worst unintended action claude did for me in the past months is that it once discarded an unstaged file which wasn't committed yet, without asking.
But I realize it's still playing with fire, no matter how good the auto-classifier is.
Yes, I think a lot of us feel this nostalgic yearning for a revival of more science&techno-optimistic times.
We are tired of the constant cynicism, negativity, and small-minded thinking. It's too easy to be a cynic. To put everyone & everything down, and to feel intellectually superior. You see it all over on the Internet and in the real world too, it's a true mind virus. It'll never die, but one can only hope more people just get tired of it.
I will teach my kids that a cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
Great but imho Canva alternatives that stand a chance should be made API and MCP-first, not just an afterthought.
That's the thing I miss with Canva right now. Yes there are API & MCP options (4 different ways even I think, it's pretty messy), but it's just not sufficient. Ideally you can fully vibe code a poster or a video from the context of your repo, which has all the context and assets, then edit the result online in their point-and-click editor.
> Ideally you can fully vibe code a poster or a video from the context of your repo
Ideally for who?
Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but this seems to be a tool for people who at least have a slight intention of producing something coherent, consistent and generally nice looking. What you're suggesting is to turn this "tool for a human" into a slop producer, so it's able to produce as much content as fast as possible, with as little human input as possible. Couldn't you fork this and implement this "slop factory feature" yourself instead of asking this tool to be re-built from the ground up to cater to this?
I do find it funny how many people on HN consider a product needing a bot layer a necessity as if the producer of the product derives some kind of benefit from allowing anonymous bot traffic to their site or their app; as if bots have some added value as opposed to be nerd parasites on the internet's store of value.
I do find it funny how many people on HN think products are needed.
They're not, that's what AI is killing. The true successor of Canva isn't some vibed clone, it's just a bag of tools, without branding, and this will have to come from outside because obviously the company behind Canva isn't willing to reduce Canva to what it truly is, once you cut out the branding, which is... just a bag of tools.
> What you're suggesting is to turn this "tool for a human" into a slop producer, so it's able to produce as much content as fast as possible, with as little human input as possible.
I'm starting to really hate the word "slop". It's such a lazy way of discussing AI content generation. I think we can all agree the "slop" produced by AI right now is (if prompted well, curated & edited), of a much higher quality than the average designer was able to produce in reasonable time before AI.
The whole point of technology, since the dawn of mankind, is to reduce the amount of human inputs, so we can focus more on what truly matters. In that sense, AI is fantastic. That doesn't mean you shouldn't just let it rip and turn off all of your own thinking and effort in editing the "slop" it creates. But I'm just getting really tired having to point that out in literally every conversation about AI. Can we just move on already, please.
> Couldn't you fork this and implement this "slop factory feature" yourself instead of asking this tool to be re-built from the ground up to cater to this?
Of course I could? What's your point? "Shut up and vibe code it yourself"?
Slop is used nowadays purely as a jealousy and fear of unknown response. Every HN comments I read when they brought up slop negatively (I havnt encounter positive one) seems to show projections from writers' inadequacy.
But if it was just made with one prompt if you considered that feature important why would you use this as a base and not just start your own project for the clout.
If something was easy for someone to spin up there's little reason to build on their work rather than just make your own thing you fully control.
I think the poster is saying that adding an MCP feature to it is trivial, which doesn't say anything about the complexity in building the tool in the first instance.
Just making an observation that people vibe coding these projects don’t want to contribute to shared efforts, they want to be the guy who did the thing.
The problem is most people (who may say they want censorship-free social media) do not really want it to be censorship-free. They want it to be censorship-free for the opinions and views they hold, not for those they oppose.
I think X arguably comes closest, and at least it costs bots money to post with a checkmark (unlike Reddit, which is a bot free-for-all - since its very origins actually). Plus, the feed & community notes algorithms are actually open source (whether or not that's also the deployed version, I can only speculate).
If you have a bar and you let Nazi's speak openly of Nazi things, they'll come from miles around and drive away anyone who isn't a Nazi. A bar that permits Nazi's is a Nazi bar. I admit that I don't want censorship-free social media. I want some censorship. Defining where the line is between what is allowed and what isn't can be tricky, but it's a struggle worth engaging with.
At present, U.S. social media tends to create echo chambers where moderators have absolute power to push whatever agenda they want. That's too much censorship power in the hands of people who are completely anonymous. I'd like to dial it back a bit, at least to the point where reasonable people of different political persuasions can live in a shared reality (without Nazi's). We need to stop treating political affiliations like Abrahamic religions.
X's censors are, at least, following the wishes of someone who is anything but anonymous. Don't pretend there isn't a slant there though.
If people are not allowed to speak openly about their Nazi opinions, they will simply do it silently between each other, creating an echo chamber.
Imagine that you're having a nice life until a black family moves in next door and turns whole area into a ghetto. Everyone around you tells you to suck it up and stop being racist. Online platforms ban you for racism. Until one day you stumble upon secret underground community of people in similar situations. Sure, some of their claims might be a little extreme, but at least they're the only ones willing to listen to your problems without telling you to shut the fuck up.
Yes, I agree. Nazi's will go find/make a Nazi bar. I'm not going to hang out in a Nazi bar myself though.
Some people are just too extreme to be happy in a space with standards. They're the police's problem, quite frankly. Unhappy Nazi's are a sign of a healthy society.
Please bear in mind that, when I say Nazi, I mean literal Nazi. People who march around with swastika's, sieg heil'ing, praising Hitler, believe their race is superior, call for the extermination of others based on race, etc.. Nazi's should fear the light of day.
Yes, I agree. Feminists will go find/make a Feminist bar. I'm not going to hang out in a Feminist bar myself though.
Some people are just too extreme to be happy in a space with standards. They're the police's problem, quite frankly. Unhappy Feminist's are a sign of a healthy society.
But it seems to have gotten a re-skin recently, and I preferred the previous more pixelated version. Also, there used to be a way to render a "normal" version of the website, but I can't find it anymore.
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