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See all 4,555Consus (YC F24) – LLM gateway for companies handling sensitive data
Hey Hacker News! I'm Eric, the founder of Consus. We route all AI requests to ITAR restricted and controlled unclassified information (CUI) compliant infrastructure. Consus itself satisfies ITAR restrictions, and we recently completed our FedRAMP equivalency audit against the 410 FedRAMP High controls. FedRAMP High is the U.S. government’s strictest security baseline for cloud services handling sensitive unclassified data. A breach of this data could cause severe or catastrophic harm. Achieving FedRAMP equivalency, or authorization, is required before processing CUI information.Demo: https://youtu.be/6MYxJe6P4oYAerospace and defense is experiencing rapid growth. Unfortunately, most companies are struggling to use AI because of necessary data protections & compliance risk. These companies can move even faster if they could use the AI tools that most other industries take for granted.I spent most of my career prior to Consus in aerospace & defense. I launched national security payloads at SpaceX, and was an early employee at Castelion. I’ve watched first hand how compliance red-tape makes it difficult for companies to adopt new technologies and trust vendors that touch their sensitive data. For example, I worked with a satellite manufacturer that doesn’t allow any AI tools, even for non-sensitive work.Even as AI has become extremely useful over the past 9-12 months, I was surprised by how many aerospace & defense companies refused to touch it. They could see how it could be helpful, but they were scared about model providers training on their data, violating an ITAR rule, or risk losing new business because of a failed cyber assessment. These are all rational fears.There were a lot of ways to solve some/all of these problems, but we focused on building a compliant AI inference layer that can "plug" into any AI tool or workflow. Just as OpenRouter integrates with most tools, Consus can connect to tools like ChatGPT or Clau
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Spotatui, a Spotify TUI/GUI without web API rate limits
About 11 months ago i revived the amazing but unfortunately unmaintained spotify-tui. Since then I have been working on it almost non stop, finding a lot of problems on the way.One of the main issues I ran into were the Spotify web API rate limits. Third party clients like spotatui are dependent on a developer app made in the Spotify developer dashboard, which get rate limited a lot and Spotify has slowly been deprecating endpoints from it. The workaround for this used to be using a shared client id from ncspot but unfortunately that got rate limited too. This is when i started adding other playback sources, including YouTube, Navidrome/Subsonic, Internet radio with +- 30.000 stations, local files, Qobuz for lossless audio and Apple Music for macOS only where it controls the music app remotely.I fixed both the deprecated endpoints and the rate limits with one solution. It still uses librespot in the back, my spotatui specific fork, but gets all data from it instead of only playback. The data comes from the internal API of the official clients, that API gives metadata, playlists, the user library, devices, lyrics and audio analysis. For searching it uses Pathfinder, the internal GraphQL API.There are no web API rate limits because there is no shared app quota. Every user uses their own session as if it was the official client. The only potential problem is that Spotify does not document this API so any change on their side would break it. I intend to fix any of those issues as soon as they pop up.It all started as a TUI back in 2019 but since then I've added a GUI to it too. The GUI is still a bit behind the TUI in terms of features, it only ships Spotify for now, but full parity between the TUI and GUI is coming soon. After that full parity with the official client is next. That is also why I made the GUI looks almost the same as the official client. That way its easier for me and users to find missing features.Spotatui also has lua scripting support, a op
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Solo founders get stuck implementing specific features during SaaS development
Young solo founders building their first or second SaaS products frequently hit roadblocks on individual features, stalling progress for days and highlighting the challenges of solo development without sufficient guidance or tools.
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