I don't know that there are any similaries besides the names -- well maybe something thematic about distributing the future or what looked like it at the time to more programmers -- but the handful of times I've run across Grain (probably all on HN) I'm reminded of Wheat https://web.archive.org/web/20050215032130/http://wheatfarm....
I love this. I made something similar, even more bare-bones, for myself a few years ago. I still use it literally everyday: https://tabnotes.page (just type a note)
just if i need to type something quickly, to somewhere with effectively zero startup time, just quickly pop a new tab and get a thought down. it's easy for me to lose a thought when im in the middle of something complex, so "time-to-written-down" is kinda the only thing that matters to me
Hey Alessandro - I'm a huge fan of WebVM + y'all's other work at Leaning Tech.
Curious - is your implementation of how you wrangled lwIP for the networking piece open source? I had previously read the article you linked elsewhere, re: networking, but would love to see the specifics of your approach there.
All the components of the network stack are open source: namely the Tailscale go client and the lwip networking stack. Some (not fully trivial) glue code is also required, which is not currently published. We do plan to cleanup the stack and release it as one of our upcoming internship projects.
https://spinup.dev is a similar thing I made a few years ago, with free analytics out-of-the-box for each deploy. Syncing changes is a feature I'd like to add, but time is tight for side-projects at the moment.
https://postacard.co - I wanted a dead-simple way to create a postcard from a pic on my phone/device and then mail it, without a required login/subscription/ad-laden/SEO'd-to-death interface etc.
Had the idea while on a trip with friends last year in Mexico. The postcards we sent were a huge hit with our boomer parents.
This is exactly one of the use-cases for the Scale Framework[1]. (Full disclosure: I work on this project)
You can absolutely take a library from one language and run it in another. In a sense, you could kind of see this ability as drastically reducing the need for rewriting sdks, middlewares, etc. across languages, as you could just reuse code from one language across many others. We played around with some fun ideas here, like taking a Rust regex library and using it in a Golang program via a scale function plugin (compiled to Wasm), to the effect of the performance being ~4x faster than native code that uses Go's regex library[2].
A simple website deployer that has free server-side analytics on deploy.
It was a pandemic side-project, and I was mostly just interested to see what was involved in building it.
I made a paid plan and integrated stripe because I liked the idea of it possibly paying for its own infra costs at some point. I have some ideas for features I want to add for fun, hopefully in the next couple months.
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