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Ask HN: OpenSEO inspiration for other tools, asking for opinion
OpenSEO got to 22k+ stars in <7 months
We were planning to opensource 4 tools (2 of which we have build but they are not opensource yet)
- Meltwater alternative for social listening (already taken: freesociallistening and getting some users from chatgpt)
- Gong alternative for sales roleplay (already setup dosalesroleplay)
- Podium alternative for Review collection and SMS
- AgencyAnalytics alternative for agency reporting, we already have some sort of tool setup to run our own firm we can build it out and opensource it
our right to win is our engineering team based in India where we have already deployed and run 50M+ voice mins, 1K+ brands use our platforms to run paid ads, and we generate more than 5K+ leads/month
one of the biggest constraint we end up facing is that we don't end up speaking with enough customers or pace of improvement is pretty low post we get something to a nascent build stage, believe bunch of us would have faced similar issues here.
what I wanted to understand was that we opensource solutions for the above would anyone be open to try it out and give feedback, and if yes what would it take for you to try it
Questions from my end: 1. which tool do you think we should opensource first 2. what would make someone to switch to our alternative & what can possibly stop from the same happening 3. what are the sources that matter for social listening? 4. what is the license type which would be widely used? 5. how does these opensource tools gets traction/maintainers/early adopters?
advice/feedback/inputs would be really helpful
thanks HN community!
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49898465
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Efficient Image Steganography Method
Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-41168-0
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49898459
Points: 1
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Spencer Pratt on X: most political advisors are so bafflingly incompetent
Article URL: https://twitter.com/spencerpratt/status/2104944747806695496
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49898450
Points: 1
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Spaghetti Celesti – Devour the Heavens
Article URL: https://punkcake.itch.io/spaghetti-celesti
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49898449
Points: 1
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OpenAI Agent Bypasses Internet Restrictions Through DNS
Article URL: https://circleid.com/posts/openai-agent-bypasses-internet-restrictions-through-dns
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49898442
Points: 1
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Annalist – required GitHub check for what a coding agent wrote
Article URL: https://github.com/GregDixonMXN/annalist
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49898434
Points: 1
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Why has Shopify dropped React Native?
Article URL: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/shopify-native-mobile
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49898423
Points: 2
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The AI margin collapse is gathering pace
Article URL: https://martinalderson.com/posts/ai-margin-collapse-gathering-pace/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49898418
Points: 3
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An LLM Workflow That Reproduces, Improves, Extends Published Economics Research
Article URL: https://www.nber.org/papers/w35782
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49898416
Points: 2
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Show HN: Relay – a harness for AI coding agents that recover and verify
I'm tired of AI coding agents which are good for 30 seconds and then completely fail on the slightest hiccup: a failing test, a temporarily unavailable dependency, an incorrect assumption. Sometimes I end up having to babysit these agents anyway.
Relay is a harness for coding agents which takes advantage of the fact that agents are often good at doing something slightly wrong, and not so good at doing something correctly and completely. Relay repeatedly tries the task and on each failure, uses the output to find a better way to do it.
It does this by running the task in a loop: attempt the task, run the checks in a fresh sandbox, on failure read the error and retry instead, until the checks pass. What it learned from a run is retained, so that it doesn't repeat the same mistake, and when the checks eventually pass, it will ship the change as a normal git PR - no hidden state, no magic, the diff is human readable.
A few specifics:
- it runs locally, is free, and doesn't require an account to run the local agent - it uses a top-tier model to plan/review, and cheaper models to actually write code (for cost reasons) - happy to discuss why this is a good idea and why it isn't - the checks run in an isolated sandbox for each task, rather than "trusting" the agent - currently supports [list actual models/integrations - Opus 5.5, GPT-6, etc] - there's a paid tier for running this unattended across multiple repos with shared sandbox minutes, the actual agent is free.
It's not magic, it's not AGI, and it will fail badly on some problems.
Would appreciate feedback, particularly from people who've deployed agents unattended and found that they don't actually work, or have had to build substantial tooling around them to get useful results.
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49898411
Points: 2
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DARPA Selects Xint to Use AI in Securing Military Messaging Apps
The AIxCC competition winner will analyze messaging app code and compiled binaries for vulnerabilities, with technology that could also help commercial customers secure their software.
The post DARPA Selects Xint to Use AI in Securing Military Messaging Apps appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Google Says Chromebook Updates End In 2034, 'Many' Models Move to Googlebook OS
The latest vulnerabilities to be uncovered in the frequently-targeted Citrix NetScaler product lines were being exploited well-before disclosure, prompting disquiet.
Prompts Are Not Guardrails
Article URL: https://sdeaton.com/blog/prompts-are-not-guardrails/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49896520
Points: 1
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The Download: climate tech companies to watch and AI's discovery problem
Article URL: https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/29/1145249/the-download-climate-tech-ai-scientific-discovery/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49896508
Points: 1
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Ask HN: Do you believe that the AI will kill everyone who doesn't say please?
New Spectre v2 Variant Exposes Intel, AMD, Arm CPUs to Data Leaks
Branch Target Reuse (BTR) is a new Spectre v2 attack targeting JIT compilers in web browsers, language runtimes, and the operating system kernel
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Hibernating bacteria survive outer space but energy budget reveals a weakness
Article URL: https://phys.org/news/2026-09-hibernating-bacteria-invade-hospitals-survive.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49896480
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