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mroling··on Show HN: NoPII – One line of code to protect PII before it hits your LLM
We want to protect custom apps but also between all of the numerous SaaS products that don’t run locally and the guantlet of LLMs. We’re plug and play with virtually every SaaS offering that talks to LLMs.
mroling··on Show HN: NoPII – One line of code to protect PII before it hits your LLM
Very cool project for those that only need protection locally with hand rolled rules. We're aiming to protect data flowing from SaaS solutions to LLMs and for those that don't want to manage the complexity of running a MITM locally.
mroling··on Show HN: Introducting Qbox.io - Hosted ElasticSearch with Free Dev Tier
Looks great but when I click 'Get started now' on the homepage, registration isn't over SSL.
mroling··on Show HN: an app I built to help you find great beer
I don't think so. The showcase on PhoneGap was posted in July 2012. Additionally, it's easy to tell that the app isn't utilizing the Cocoa Touch UI framework. Look at how the views bounce, how the buttons "feel". Those are dead PhoneGap giveaways.
mroling··on Show HN: an app I built to help you find great beer
It's not native in the strict sense. They ported over their web app using PhoneGap: http://phonegap.com/app/untappd/

Untappd uses webviews to serve up local HTML/CSS/JS. To me, that's not native.

mroling··on Show HN: an app I built to help you find great beer
The biggest difference between the two apps is that BeerQuest is just as much about the place as it is about the beer. We don't rely on third party places data like Untappd does (Foursquare). Checkins are about checking into a place and not a beer. If you're at a place and are drinking a beer, you 'drink' a beer. We also think the journal and maps aspect of the app turned out really well. Quickly map out all of the great places near you and everywhere you been.

From a technical perspective, BeerQuest was built using Objective C instead of HTML5, so it feels like a true native app because it is.

mroling··on Show HN: an app I built to help you find great beer
The guys at Untappd have done a great job, but we think this is a large enough market for us too.
mroling··on Show HN: an app I built to help you find great beer
Currently, all of the data comes from the users.
mroling··on Show HN: an app I built to help you find great beer
Great feedback regarding the conversion rate. We actually went down the road of building both an iOS and an Android version out of the gate but found that the Android platform seemed fragmented. With hundreds of different devices all running everything from 2.x to 4.x, it seemed too complicated initially to do it right.
mroling··on Show HN: an app I built to help you find great beer
BeerQuest was built using Objective C so no easy port over to the Android platform. We are looking into supporting Android in the future though.
mroling··on Objclibs: an index of objective-c frameworks
I think you mean http://cocoapods.org
mroling··on Show HN: iOS Mix - a list of useful iOS projects
Wow. This is a fantastic collection. Thank you!
mroling··on World IPv6 Launch
I'm not seeing it.
mroling··on Is Path Violating Google Maps ToS?
Path has decided to remove from view the Google Maps attribution. On the page linked, https://path.com/p/pCF0O, the Google maps image is "cropped", hiding the bottom portion of the map via CSS. Here's the actual link to the map that's being presented: https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/staticmap?center=54.804...

This clearly is against Google Maps ToS, right?