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Saggar, a Mac terminal that keeps sessions and your attention organized
Hi HN, like many of you talented folk, I’ve been building more, faster than ever. I built Saggar after my terminal stopped feeling like a tool and started feeling like a tab-management problem. Let me know you think!
Hacker News2mo agoToolDesign & Creative
Free Creative Software Comparison Suite
Freelancers/students seek free alternatives to expensive Adobe Creative Suite. A tool mapping Adobe tools to free equivalents (Photoshop→GIMP, Illustrator→Inkscape) with tutorials addresses serious demand. [Google Search suggestion]
Google Trends2mo agoToolDesign & CreativeUS
Ember – Redshift safe color palettes
Most color palettes collapse if you've got a strong redshift/nightshift color filter actively suppressing green and blue channels. I made one that doesn't.Ember has terminal, chart, heatmap, and UI palettes designed and tested to be as distinguishable as possible under both the redshift & non-redshift condition... so no more duplicate color appearances (or worse yet, disappearing colors!).
Hacker News2mo agoToolDesign & Creative
No AI tool for generating custom fonts from images or drawings
Designers and creators lack an easy AI-powered tool to create custom font kits by uploading images or drawing characters, instead of manual design processes.
X3mo agoToolDesign & Creative
DaVinci Resolve Volume Automation Plugin
Streamline audio editing in DaVinci Resolve by automating volume level adjustments, normalization, and keyframe generation from templates or AI-detected speech patterns. [Google Search suggestion]
Google Trends2mo agoToolDesign & CreativeUS
Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones
Hello HN!I found that picking out plausible but diverse skin tones for my digital art and game development projects was kind of difficult, and I got curious about if there was a way to define a color space that made it easy.I've built a color picker and procedural generation algorithm based on the space as well as a bunch of other fun js features and demos throughout the page that use the equations. If you find it interesting, I have lots of explanations of how I built it and what properties the space has.The methodology might be a bit shaky, but hopefully the result is as helpful for others as I have found it! There's lots of room for improvements (see the Future Work section), but I'm really happy with how it turned out.
Hacker News2mo agoToolDesign & Creative
Need app or tool for learning Blender
Beginners seek effective, structured learning resources or tools specifically for 3D modeling software like Blender to start their creative projects.
X3mo agoToolDesign & Creative
Open-source design tool directory
Designers seeking Figma alternatives (Penpot, Excalidraw, etc.) face scattered resources. A curated directory with feature comparison, pricing, learning curves, and community reviews helps navigate fragmented options. [Google Search suggestion]
Google Trends3mo agoToolDesign & CreativeUS
Descript wanted $24/mo, I built an open-source alternative in a weekend
Descript costs $24/mo, so I built this over a single weekend with Fable!Introducing Rescript: edit videos by simply editing the transcript text. Drop in a video and it is transcribed locally with per-word timestamps and speaker labels. Delete words in the transcript and the corresponding clip is cut from the video.Runs fully in the browser: Local, free, offline and open source.→ Github https://github.com/wassgha/rescript→ App https://wassgha.github.io/rescript
Hacker News3mo agoToolDesign & Creative
CheapSecurity – Lightweight, Self-Hosted CCTV for Linux SBCs
Hacker News3mo agoToolDesign & Creative
Remux – an open-source tmux workspace designed for iPhone
Hacker News3mo agoToolDesign & Creative
Free Design Tool Aggregator for Teams
Curated marketplace comparing free Canva alternatives (Figma, Piktochart, Pixlr) with feature matrix, ease-of-use, templates, and integrations to help small teams find right fit. [Google Search suggestion]
Google Trends3mo agoToolDesign & CreativeUS
Manual color palette extraction for personal charts
Doing hex code extraction manually for astrology Big 3 + Venus because palette websites use GenAI ads that interfere with workflow.
X3mo agoToolDesign & Creative
Sigwire – a live TUI switchboard for every signal on your Linux box
Hey everyone, I wrote this tool for inspecting linux signals across proceses
Hacker News3mo agoToolDesign & Creative
Clawk – Give coding agents a disposable Linux VM, not your laptop
Hacker News3mo agoToolDesign & Creative
FireAlpaca drawing software lacks professional features
Digital artists find FireAlpaca frustrating to use for serious work and wish they could afford or access more capable paid alternatives like Clip Studio without high costs.
X3mo agoToolDesign & Creative
Learn by rebuilding Redis, Git, a database from scratch
Hacker News3mo agoToolDesign & Creative
Custom link-in-bio tool for Letterboxd and Spotify
Creators need a prettier, more customizable link-in-bio page specifically tailored to showcase Letterboxd and Spotify profiles, without using generic Linktree.
X3mo agoToolDesign & Creative
PostgreSQL performance and cost across 23 EC2 instance types
Hey! I'm Andrei.I got frustrated by how people tend to build overcomplicated backend systems, being "motivated" by big tech case studies and popular books.So, I started exploring lean architecture, and building my digital garden of ideas, approaches and data that align with this direction.Here I want to present one of the tools – Sizing tool for PostgreSQL. I've benchmarked PostgreSQL on different EC2 instances and disks, with different initial data sets to see performance that these instances can give you. And I've built a tool to visualize this data, which I welcome you to explore.So, you can put your usual input parameters, like needed RPS and disk size as input, and find out which instance will be the most cost-efficient for your needs.You can read about the methodology here: https://postgres.saneengineer.com/aboutI've tested one workload – mixed 90/10 read/write, and only selected configurations. But it is extensible, and I (and you – benchmark is open source: https://github.com/anivaniuk/sanebench) can run more configurations to have more data represented.Does it look interesting? What workload should I benchmark next?
Hacker News3mo agoToolDesign & Creative