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“I turned my iPhone and a $20 smart plug into an f-stop timer https://peterszentkiralyi.eu/darkplug/ Founder's Show HN post: I am a film photographer and do some darkroom printing and always wanted one of the proper, advanced f-stop timers, but never really wanted to spend a couple hundred dollars on one. Eventually I figured my phone was already perfectly capable of doing the timing, it just needed a way to switch the enlarger. So I built Darkplug around a cheap smart plug. The app controls the enlarger over the local network and does regular timing, f-stop timing, test strips, has an intuitive dodge/burn workflow, split grade (2 timing channels) and paper development timing. I’ve been using it for a few months in my improvised bathroom darkroom. Fair warning: the app was blindly vibe coded using Codex and Xcode. Landing page content (Darkplug – Péter Szentkirályi): Darkplug – Péter Szentkirályi # Darkplug A darkroom timer for iPhone that controls your enlarger. Control your enlarger with Darkplug and a compatible smart plug on your local network. Built for film photographers and darkroom printers, Darkplug combines precise timing, guided workflows, and a red-on-black interface designed for darkroom use. ☝️ You only need this beside your enlarger and you are set (EU model pictured). ## Designed for darkroom printing Darkplug times exposures like a classic darkroom timer, and also provides more advanced printing workflows with a very unique feature set. Whether you are making a straight print, testing exposure, planning a complex dodge and burn sequence, or doing split grade printing, Darkplug keeps the process fast and straightforward. Darkplug uses a red-on-black interface designed to stay safe to next to photo paper. The controls are simple, legible in low light, and focused on the task in front of you. The red colour was chosen and tested so that it does not fog paper. ## What you can do with Darkplug - Time straight prints - Add an optional 4-second count-in - Control the timer with F-Stop steps (Darkplug+ feature) - Run guided test strips with second or F-Stops increments (Darkplug+ feature) - Plan and execute complex dodge and burn steps with an easy to understand unique grid system (Darkplug+ feature) - Save and restore dodge and burn plans with reusable plan codes (coming soon as a Darkplug+ feature) - Split grade (two channel) print timer (Darkplug+ feature) - Use a guided paper developing timer (Darkplug+ feature) | | | | | --- | --- | --- | ## Darkplug+ Darkplug+ unlocks advanced tools and workflows for printers who want more control. It is available as a one-time in-app purchase. No subscriptions. ## How it works Set up your smart plug and note its local IP address. Make sure the plug and your iPhone or iPad share the same local network. Connect your enlarger to the smart plug. Enter the plug’s local IP address in Darkplug, and connect. Once set up, you can control the enlarger directly from your iPhone or iPad. ### Compatible smart plugs Darkplug works with the following smart plugs manufactured by Shelly: 1 - Shelly Plus Plug S Gen2 🇪🇺 - Shelly Plus Plug UK Gen2 🇬🇧 - Shelly Plug S Gen3 🇪🇺 - Shelly Outdoor Plug S Gen3 🇪🇺 - Shelly Plug M Gen3 🇪🇺 - Shelly Plug US Gen4 🇺🇸 ## Support For questions, feedback, or support, email me at fill.cans82@icloud.com. ## FAQ See here.”

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“Parseable, an open observability datalake, handles 100M time-series/min https://www.parseable.com Landing page content (Parseable | Observability infrastructure for fast growing teams): Parseable | Observability infrastructure for fast growing teams # Observability infrastructure for agents, apps, & systems Parseable unifies telemetry data, keeps full-fidelity data queryable. It all lives in open formats on object store with complete control and ownership THE PROBLEM Your observability stack costs more than it delivers users reported poor return on investment in their observability tooling. Primarily due to tool sprawl, lack of actionable insights, and the reactive nature of the tools. Poor customer experience Failures and performance issues are often detected by customers first, leading to frustration and loss of trust. Productive time lost Fragmented tooling and siloed data sources make it difficult to correlate events and understand root causes Rising costs eat into budgets Today's observability tools are reactive by design. You are always catching up to something that has already happened ### Predictive and proactive Modern time series forecasting model predict future trends and anomalies, giving you the power to proactively address issues before they arise ### Unified signals Single source of truth for all your observability signals. Goodbye tool sprawl! ### Compression up to 90% Columnar design for efficient storage and faster queries. Faster insights at a fraction of the cost ### Natural correlation Correlate across signals using natural language or SQL. Hello better insights and faster troubleshooting! ### Faster queries built-in Hybrid execution engine with columnar storage and indexing. Fast queries, no matter the scale ### Our cloud or yours Available wherever you are. Parseable is available as Parseable Cloud and BYOC model ### Open standards Zero vendor lock-in. From OTel to Parquet and object stores, open standards all the way Features that matter Proactive monitoring with forecasting Automatically analyze historical data to predict future trends and anomalies, enabling proactive monitoring and faster incident response Smart event parsing for filtering One click filters to quickly find the relevant data. Smart event parsing automatically extracts key information from your telemetry, making it easy to filter and analyze your data Slice and dice data with dashboards and SQL editor Power users love the SQL interface to slice and dice telemetry data exactly how they want. Use the assistant to generate SQL queries and dashboards in seconds Granular access control & federated IAM Connect with any”

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“Launch HN: Intuned (YC S22) – Build and run reliable browser automations as code https://intunedhq.com Founder's Show HN post: Hey HN, we're Faisal and Ahmad from Intuned (https://intunedhq.com). We’re building a platform for building, deploying, and maintaining browser automations. Customers primarily use the Intuned AI agent to automate websites that don't expose APIs. Common use-cases include scraping data, pulling reports, and submitting forms. As the website changes, our agent also helps automatically heal the automation. On Intuned, browser automations are created by an AI agent and run as code. Our infra captures the context of every run, allowing our agent to debug and maintain the underlying code - to keep the automations working over time. This way, we’re able to offer the predictability, speed, and cost of code, without the painful parts of writing and maintaining it. Here’s a demo of building a scraper on Intuned: https://youtu.be/ruZP73bK4FU Here’s a demo of using AI to maintain a project: https://youtu.be/e4R4hLdHBro Backstory: we were accepted into YC for a completely different idea. During the batch, because of Faisal's background at UiPath, several batchmates asked us whether RPA tools could fill API gaps in their products by automating websites without APIs. When it was time to pivot, we went back to those founders to dig deeper. (RPA in this context is referring to using UI automation to do complete non-testing tasks) We discovered that the actual hard problem in browser automation is maintenance. Websites change, selectors break, and failures can be painful to reproduce and fix. So in early 2024, we decided to take a crack at this problem with a handful of customers. It needed a fair number of iterations before we landed on our current code-first approach. How it works: Intuned is infra + agent, deeply integrated. On the infrastructure side, Intuned is a managed runtime for browser automation code. Projects are usually Playwright-based TypeScript or Python. Users can write them directly in our online IDE, or hand the work off to the agent. Either way, once deploy Landing page content (Reliable Integrations for Services with No APIs | Intuned): Reliable Integrations for Services with No APIs | Intuned # Build integrations for services with no APIs Intuned Agent builds and runs integrations for services that don't have APIs. It does this by either copying the service's network calls or automating a browser - whatever works best. Its platform then runs these integrations at scale and handles logins, captchas, and monitoring for you. ## Scrapers Create a scraper for any website - e-commerce, government portals, job boards, or anything else. Intuned Agent is the first AI Agent designed to build and maintain Scrapers. Intuned Agent generates playwright code that will be fast, cheap and predictable when it runs. Key Features: Intuned Agent - Generate any scraper from a prompt and schema, fix issues with AI when sites change. Enable self-healing and Intuned will monitor and fix your scrapers when they break. Support for authenticated scrapers - Scrape any website even if its behind authentication. Intuned Infra support helps you manage the authentication state as needed. Use Jobs to schedule the scraper runs and send the data to your backend, can be done via webhooks or another sink. Intuned observability saves records and traces for all your runs so you can debug them when something goes wrong. ## Crawlers Discover, navigate, and collect data across thousands of pages. Build crawlers that follow links, parse sitemaps, and index content - with built-in stealth, scheduling, and scale. Key Features: Use TypeScript or Python, use any framework you want. With Intuned, you can deploy any code you want. Crawl4AI support - First-class support for Crawl4AI - deploy and scale your crawlers without managing infrastructure Stealth mode - Anti-detection, proxies, and captcha solving built in Scheduled jobs & monitoring - Recurring crawls with full logs and session recordings Scalable infrastructure - Control how many machines to run on, we handle the rest ## Back Office Automation Automate internal operations in back-office systems that have no APIs. Intuned runs reliable browser automations for data entry, status checks, form submissions, report downloads, and account updates - with auth, stealth, concurrency, and monitoring built in. Key Features: Back-office workflows - Automate repetitive work inside CRMs, vendor portals, admin panels, and legacy systems. Authenticated operations - Intuned manages login sessions and auth state for systems your team already uses. Read, write, and submit -”