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Respan (YC W24) – Open-source Rust AI gateway built around plugins
Hey HN, this is Andy from Respan (https://www.respan.ai). We are building an open-source Rust AI gateway. It is a decoupled gateway, so everything is a plugin, including different providers, protocols (MCP, voice), modalities (images, videos), and gateway features (fallbacks, PII redaction, smart routing).Instead of packaging tons of providers and features into one gateway, Respan provides a small core and public interfaces that teams can use to assemble the AI infrastructure their application needs. That way, users can build their own features as additional plugins without having to change the gateway's core.Here’s a video demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVv2ibXiTXMThere are countless LLM gateways and most of them solve a common problem: calling different providers from a single endpoint. However, adding new features can become prohibitively difficult. So developers can end up building another gateway to solve a specific problem.We've been building our gateway based on LiteLLM since 2024, and now it's providing services for thousands of orgs. Each org needs different API key settings, routes, and limits. To support that, we kept wrapping LiteLLM, adding more features to it, and at one stage, our wrapper code exceeded 100,000 lines.This January, a routine LiteLLM upgrade caused intermittent connection errors, and we had to roll back. We still haven't figured out the cause, but since then, we no longer upgrade LiteLLM directly and instead manually backport upstream fixes. These experiences made us realize that continuing to patch LiteLLM is not a sustainable long-term solution, and we had to redesign the gateway ourselves.While redesigning our gateway, we wanted to make it easier to add features without breaking existing ones. Inspired by Nginx, we think an AI gateway should have a really small core, only responsible for dispatching events.We believe that everything should be a plugin in our gateway, including provid
Hacker News10d agoToolAI
VoidAccess – open-source dark web OSINT, from query to a graph
Hi HN! Im Katriel, and im a Security Researcher/Enthusiast and in the wave of AI, i wanted to build that next gen of security tooling that surpasses the current tools, and even the paid industries with an open source engine. I built MailAccess as well, which is going to be the best damn email osint tool out there, in another year. But just before building MailAccess i built VoidAccess, because i was delving a lot into DarkINT and the content inside the dark web is too difficult to navigate through for a human, so i automated that pipeline, made sure the noise was removed, and anything NSFW was filtered out, to give the analyst an overview of what is present in the dark web, without having to actually go through it manually.Very simple to run, you just run a few commands to install, and a couple to investigate. Then the engine takes over, and stops onyl when the job is done(or at a particular time limit, if set by the user).Do check it out, if that is something that interests you.Thanks to the community for giving it the love it has got till now.
Hacker News10d agoToolAI
Death Plan Switch, a self-hosted dead man's switch for solo devs
Hi HN,I'm Peter Bishop and I've been working in graphics and web tech for over 25yrs.I've recently launched Death Plan Switch to solve a major problem in my succession plan. What if I go missing or die? The right people are told and my business can continue to operate for my clients.There's a backstory to this project, I was hospitalised in 2012 and lost my business back then and I couldn't get the data to my technical 2IC in time without frustrating my clients.Death Plan Switch solves this problem, it's free to download and use or study under the MIT license.I've been using it for the last few weeks. It was authored with the help of Claude Code after writing an extensive MD document and it passed 42 unit tests.I hope you get some use out of it, or it inspires your own succession plans. My clients are telling me this is a strong sales feature when they trust me with their hosting and technology accounts.Happy to answer any questions.Kind regards, Peter Bishop.
Hacker News11d agoToolAI
Lack of comprehensive online archive for Brazilian dictatorship history
There is no dedicated website archiving documents, testimonies, and records of the Brazilian military dictatorship (1964-1985), similar to specialized archives for other historical atrocities like the Israeli genocide archive.
X20d agoOtherMedia
Tool to Track and Manage Invasive Python Sightings in Puerto Rico
Invasive reticulated pythons threaten Puerto Rico's wildlife. A digital tool to report, track, and coordinate removal efforts can help locals and authorities manage the problem. [Trending: "invasive reticulated python puerto rico jungle" with 500+ searches in US]
Google Trends11d agoToolAgTechUS
Consolidated Customer Service Dashboard for Ticketmaster Brazil
Ticketmaster Brazil faces data breaches and service issues. A unified customer support dashboard helping users track ticket status, refunds, and security could improve experience. [Trending: "ticket master" with 200+ searches in BR]
Google Trends11d agoToolE-CommerceBR
Taiwan Stock Index Monitoring and Alert Platform for Indian Investors
With Taiwan index fluctuations affecting investments, Indian investors need a tool to monitor TAIEX movements with alerts and insights. [Trending: "taiwan index" with 2000+ searches in IN]
Google Trends11d agoToolFinanceIN
Real-Time Silver and Gold Price Alert and Analysis Tool for Indian Market
Investors want timely price alerts and analysis for silver and gold in India. A simple app providing live pricing, trends, and alerts would serve this demand. [Trending: "silver price today" with 1000+ searches in IN]
Google Trends11d agoToolFinanceIN
Real-time affordable silver price alerts for Indian buyers
Silver prices fluctuate rapidly impacting buyers and small jewelers who lack timely affordable info. A tool providing real-time, localized silver rates with alerting would help them buy smartly. [Trending: "silver rate" with 200+ searches in IN]
Google Trends11d agoToolFinanceIN
Capital Gains Tax Calculator and Strategy Advisor for UK Residents
Capital gains tax rules can be complex. A tool that calculates CGT liabilities and suggests tax-efficient strategies would help UK investors and taxpayers. [Trending: "capital gains tax" with 200+ searches in GB]
Google Trends11d agoToolFinanceGB
Data Breach Alert and Management Tool for Ticketmaster Users in Brazil
Ticketmaster Brazil data breaches have exposed user accounts. A user-focused alert and monitoring tool can help affected consumers secure their accounts and manage risks. [Trending: "ticketmaster brasil" with 100+ searches in BR]
Google Trends11d agoToolOtherBR
Bank app outage detection & user impact notification tool
Users struggle to know when their bank's online services like ING go down and when they are restored. A service detecting outages & pushing notifications could improve user experience during banking disruptions. [Trending: "ing störung heute" with 200+ searches in DE]
Google Trends11d agoToolFinanceDE
Daily Puzzle Hint and Answer Tracker for NYT Connections Game
Players seek daily hints and answer explanations for NYT Connections. A dedicated app providing hints, stats, and community tips would improve the player experience. [Trending: "connections hint" with 1000+ searches in GB]
Google Trends11d agoToolEducationGB
Preventing software documentation rot
Software documentation often becomes outdated or inaccurate, reducing developer effectiveness and onboarding efficiency.
YC Graveyard5y agoToolB2B
Casual and engaging iPad games for mobile users
Creating fun, simple games on iPad to entertain users in short bursts is still a strong area with continuous demand.
YC Graveyard16y agoToolGaming
Easy self-hosting for applications
Simplify the process and maintenance of deploying, managing, and scaling self-hosted applications for developers and advanced users.
YC Graveyard7y agoToolConsumer
Style transfer and remixing of songs
Users want to remix any song into any style but lack easy tools to do this, making creative music production inaccessible to non-experts.
YC Graveyard2y agoToolConsumer
How do you deal with AI output of your boss?
So, my boss goes on a rampage. You can clearly see the joy and at the same time the rage and impatience. AI is the tool he always wanted. We are too slow. Process is out of the window. No need for sprints anymore. No planning, just doing. All people downstream must somehow adapt.Whenever i see now his automated messages in slack, my natural reaction is: why do i even bother reading that? Thats for machines to read. He does not need me? Clearly i am not made for that. What is he expecting me to do? To confirm how great the AI did the job? Should i remember all these perfect presentations AI has created and integrate it into my doings into the coming weeks?I am torn. Should i really free my AI and deal with all this incoming text? Is this the way to react on this perfection?I am not mad at him, it clearly frees him of all the burder of dealing with people.I just dont know how to deal with this output personally. It is not for humans.I feel left alone. This is not a company anymore. Everyone is talking to AI now. This feels like chaos. Where everyone can do everything and stepping into each other's domain and it is perfect. The only way AI is stopped at are the ACLs.And because AI does everything for me, i don't remember things anymore, as i have no emotion connected with it. Feels like bad schooling and memoizing and get through it and you can't as it so dry and lifeless.So, how people deal with it in a company context? How have they setup their machines to react and still be up to date without reading the constant stream of changes coming from others?
Hacker News13d agoArticleAI