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ElasticBottle

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hacking on random things! currently https://fluidposts.com
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ElasticBottle··on Do the Hardest Thing
Care to share? Would love to hear your story!
ElasticBottle··on Show HN: Omni – Open-source workplace search and chat, built on Postgres
is this AI?
ElasticBottle··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
building out https://www.fluidposts.com, which is a writer for SEO folks.

Thought it would be a good way to learn about one form of marketing while building out some useful tools!

Looking for beta users and would love some early feedback!

ElasticBottle··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
wow, looks awesome!

Would love to pick one up if there's ever a sale!

ElasticBottle··on What is the nicest thing a stranger has ever done for you?
Super actionable, will give these a go. Reading through this I now see that I get stuck on the first step and just beat myself out about it instead of making progress.

Thank you!

ElasticBottle··on What is the nicest thing a stranger has ever done for you?
I actually struggle with this quite a bit, took me a while to realised, but wonder if you have any advice to get over it? (Aside from just succeed more)
ElasticBottle··on What is the nicest thing a stranger has ever done for you?
LoL
ElasticBottle··on Launch HN: Browser Buddy (YC W24) – A recommendation system for Internet writing
I've wanted something like this for a long time! Waiting for the android /browser release!
ElasticBottle··on Netflix’s AV1 Journey: From Android to TVs and Beyond
Can someone explain what the war is about?

Like HDR abuse makes it sound bad, because the video is bright? Wouldn't that just hurt the person posting it since I'd skip over a bright video?

Sorry if I'm phrasing this all wrong, don't really use TikTok

ElasticBottle··on So you wanna build a local RAG?
How does this compare with orama?
ElasticBottle··on Claude Advanced Tool Use
don't listen to the naysayers! Had a chuckle as well LoL
ElasticBottle··on 73% of AI startups are just prompt engineering
I had the exact same thoughts. Even while I don't disagree with the premise, I'm so confused as to how they are intercepting the calls.

Like I don't think 73% of companies are foolish enough to be calling their LLM provider from the front-end with their API key.

Either they are doing something that they aren't mentioning, or this is just complete bogus.

ElasticBottle··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)
are you guys built on recall or did you guys build out the meeting joining functionality yourself?
ElasticBottle··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)
wow, lots going on.

I'm actually curious how you get the data from reddit! Are you running your own scrapers or buying the data?

also small typo `State of art AI agents` -> State of the art AI agents

ElasticBottle··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)
It was super fun! Would love a little more space to move pieces around but otherwise fantastic job!
ElasticBottle··on Show HN: Open-source alternative to ChatGPT Agents for browsing
All good questions and is the second piece aside from the agent.

1. We have proxy support right now and most traffic are already being proxied today. Might allow fine tuning of this over time 2. We have plans to allow this, but not currently available 3. We are leveraging some anti bot/captcha solving, but I do believe this will be a never ending problem in some sense

ElasticBottle··on Show HN: Open-source alternative to ChatGPT Agents for browsing
I see it 3 fundamental pillars:

* Accuracy (does it do what we want) * Reliability (does it consistently do what we want) * Speed (does it do what we want fast)

We're mostly focused on solving 1 and maybe in some capacity 2.

The belief here is that models are going to get better. With that smaller models will become more capable. This will result in speed ups automatically.

So yes, I will concur that speed is probably not the main strength of our framework right now, but believe that we will get there with time.

ElasticBottle··on Show HN: Open-source alternative to ChatGPT Agents for browsing
Yeap, that's exactly where the agents run in
ElasticBottle··on Show HN: Tinder-style trip planning – Trip planning for the brainrot era
This was quite fun! Used it for a day trip to Cologne, and it was pretty nice for us to shortlist a bunch of landmarks.
ElasticBottle··on Show HN: E2E testing is a chore. We taught an AI to do it instead
Yeap, you get a live feed into what the agent is doing
ElasticBottle··on Show HN: E2E testing is a chore. We taught an AI to do it instead
Thanks! What're the biggest pain points that you have today?
ElasticBottle··on Show HN: E2E testing is a waste of time. We taught an AI to do it instead
Hmm, the video loads fine for me. Good call on the seeker, that's something we can add.

In general, our agent today is unlikely to call out on stylistic choices, but rather more so if something is broken. For e.g., the video doesn't start / the link doesn't go anywhere, etc.

everything you mention are good points though, and we've made a note!

ElasticBottle··on Show HN: E2E testing is a waste of time. We taught an AI to do it instead
Depends on the PR / test ask. From our internal usage, most tests take around 5 - 15 mins.

Also noted on the invisible links, will get it fixed!

ElasticBottle··on How not to find ideas worth solving
LoL, what're some on your list right now?
ElasticBottle··on How not to find ideas worth solving
Hello Hackernews,

I've been writing more recently about the things I see as an engineer at various early-stage start-ups and an aspiring founder myself.

Wrote a short piece on how (generally) not to find good ideas.

If you enjoyed it, I would love for you to subscribe and share more of what you'd like to see!

ElasticBottle··on Show HN: I built a Notion for science
Love it! I use latex today but this seems much faster. Will it a try
ElasticBottle··on Show HN: Open-source superhuman like email client
> Perhaps create a walkthrough / demo with screenshots that highlight different features?

Sounds good, will take note and add that in for future showcases!

> Also, can you explain the basic requirements? I assume an imap email server? Does it run on Windows / MacOS, or do I need to figure out how to host it?

Ya, so it turns out I might have been misleading when I mention email client which a couple others have pointed out. Going to update my post to be more accurate.

Right now it's more of a Gmail client. runs in a browser, and you can access it at curdinc.com/1

ElasticBottle··on Show HN: Open-source superhuman like email client
Fair enough, will take note in future communications!
ElasticBottle··on Show HN: Open-source superhuman like email client
That's super good to know, thanks for sharing! been years since my last IRC. Will have to get back into it
ElasticBottle··on Show HN: Open-source superhuman like email client
fair enough though, and ya, we were never allowed to cite wiki sources either. I'll make a note for future docs to be more serious
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