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aliclark

67 karma · joined January 29, 2020

Building https://flexenv.com

alistairclark@flexenv.com

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aliclark··on AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up
In my case it's not the CI that's the bottleneck. It's the human testing side. Does it work, sure. But does it actually do the thing we want (and more importantly) does it do it in a way our customers will understand and actually like?
aliclark··on My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off”
Retired people a probably quite easy targets in this scenario.
aliclark··on Launch HN: Prized (YC S26) – Let non-engineer staff build secure internal tools
Me and my co-founder are building something similar but it started out as a tool to help build Lovable style prototypes for your existing product. Think Product Managers building an idea without having to figure out how to install git, VS Code, 17 other tools and then try share a URL.

Initial talks with customers resonated more with the internal tooling idea though. It's flexible enough to support both.

We're earlier along than this product though so there's a fair few wrinkles in our product.

https://flexenv.com/

aliclark··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
I'm working on Flex (https://flexenv.com/)

I am speaking to initial customers and from my initial pain at my day job it was going to be a way to be "Lovable for your existing product" . But it also seems like it might turn into "internal cloud to host dashboards non-technical people are making with Claude".

I'd love to talk to anyone that's in Product or Ops or Sales or Account Management or Customer Success who'd either like to make changes to their existing product without the need for a developer. Or maybe they have thrown something together with Claude and have no idea how to "get it into production".

aliclark··on Reverse centaurs are the answer to the AI paradox (2025)
I'm not sure his argument holds that foundational models will no longer function after the bubble pops. There's plenty of open weight models that are competitive which are more likely to exist in a world with abundant cheap GPUs.
aliclark··on $85,000 in tokens later: What I learned from scaling agentic coding at Lovable
I am not the author but Lovable tells me I'm in the top 10% of users. It's a great tool. Not affiliated in any way.
aliclark··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2026)
I'm working on Flex (https://flexenv.com/)

I am speaking to initial customers and from my initial pain at my day job it was going to be a way to be "Lovable for your existing product" . But it also seems like it might turn into "internal cloud to host dashboards non-technical people are making with Claude".

I'd love to talk to anyone that's in Product or Ops or Sales or Account Management or Customer Success who'd either like to make changes to their existing product without the need for a developer. Or maybe they have thrown something together with Claude and have no idea how to "get it into production".

aliclark··on Show HN: Boxes.dev: ditch localhost; run Claude Code and Codex in the cloud
I'm building something like this that you can run in your own cloud!

https://flexenv.com/

It's nowhere near advanced as boxes.dev but it's built on the premise of running on any cloud. Indeed I have it running on two different bare metal server providers and I'm about to add a third (Azure) as I'm using my day job as my first customer.

Can I grab your contact details and schedule a demo?

aliclark··on Show HN: Cadence Spanish – AI audio lessons to learn Spanish
Possibly the web socket timed out for the STT. I, erm, asked lovable to add some retry logic. If you get a chance could you refresh and try again? If it still doesn't work I'll try to repro and look at the code.
aliclark··on Show HN: Cadence Spanish – AI audio lessons to learn Spanish
Thanks!

Was this on the trial page? It should get to the end and politely ask you to sign up.

aliclark··on The year of the 3D printed miniature and other lies we tell ourselves
This was a great read. It reminds me slightly of the book Alchemy by Rory Sutherland. I used to play Warhammer (Fantasy, not 40k) so it was really nice to reminisce.
aliclark··on Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?
Thanks! Do you have a work email I can contact you on? We currently lookup >1 million IPs per second and are in the middle of evaluating IP-geo solutions.
aliclark··on Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?
Why/how is this better than existing IP solutions (e.g. https://www.maxmind.com/en/home or https://www.digitalelement.com/)?