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volkandkaya

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Founder of Versoly
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volkandkaya··on Why Speed Matters
For the complex stuff it still holds true.

A lot of times you have the wrong solution and the better use of your time is to do something you can do fast. Then keep coming back to it and usually you come up with an idea that is much simpler and fast to implement.

volkandkaya··on MCP-B: A Protocol for AI Browser Automation
Example:

You have google docs and CMS open in 2 tabs

1. Ask to take your google doc and add it to the CMS

2. MCP tool takes the data from Google docs

3. MCP tool to convert text to CMS item

4. MCP tool to insert that CMS item

With the above you can view unique UIs for each stage as well, such as generating a table with CMS fields before accepting.

volkandkaya··on MCP-B: A Protocol for AI Browser Automation
Sounds like more work needed for QA engineers, they will have to test that MCP-B works well with a bunch of other sites.
volkandkaya··on MCP-B: A Protocol for AI Browser Automation
Either AI will replace everyone and it doesn't matter what we did up until that point or it won't and building these systems will be useful.

What is your recommendation for companies? To take it to the extreme are you saying fire everyone and wait for AI?

volkandkaya··on MCP-B: A Protocol for AI Browser Automation
Doesn't sound like it conflicts with MCP-B, in theory they go well together.

- AI checks if a MCP tool exists - If it does not exist, AI can handle it, then send feature request to add new MCP tool

By doing the above it will be more likely to do the correct action and save a lot of tokens

volkandkaya··on Apple's M4 Max chip is the fastest single-core performer in consumer computing
Good choice, shocked that Dell haven't decided to create their own linux version or invest heavily into Ubuntu for software/hardware.
volkandkaya··on Ask HN: What is your goto website builder?
Big fan of Astro.

If you want to move fast, have clients/team members give Versoly a try (founder here).

The visual editor is based on editable HTML/Vue code. Low learning curve for developers and no vendor lock-in (main selling point is I can't increase prices, change license etc)

Open source is great but if the project dies or changes license it is useless, whereas open standards will live on. Which can be seen from tools using Redis APIs to create whole new backends on top of it.

volkandkaya··on Ask HN: Freelance website builders/maintainers, what's in your 2024 toolkit?
If this is for landing pages and marketing sites going to shill my own product Versoly.com

- Leverages web dev best practices (Tailwind, mobile first, tiny open source packages for extra features)

- Bootstrapped and profitable (I won't randomly increase prices, if anything with more customers would like to lower or add more features)

- Features built for freelancers/agencies such as saving components that can be reused across client projects

- Flexible CMS based on Vue syntax (one of the easiest ways to extend HTML)

volkandkaya··on The Techno-Optimist Manifesto
"I’ll eat my hat if carbon released due to US consumption is down."

Markets will figure out how to do more with less to reduce costs, and this includes energy.

volkandkaya··on The Techno-Optimist Manifesto
For all that work you did you could have used some imagination and thought about projects like Starlink + space mining.
volkandkaya··on Review: Framework Laptop finally gets an AMD Ryzen config–and it’s pretty good
One of the main reasons I didn't buy a new Macbook pro.
volkandkaya··on Review: Framework Laptop finally gets an AMD Ryzen config–and it’s pretty good
" has more bandwidth, lower latency, and consumes less power than the equivalent "

Any data points for the above?

Is it worth the ability to not replace them?

If so look forward to a marketplace of Framework laptops where you can easily sell your old model, and buy a new one.

volkandkaya··on Show HN: Trigger.dev V2 – a Temporal alternative for TypeScript devs
This has been a trend for at least past 3 years after Tailwind made it easy to add gradients to <span> and <button>

If anything they have a cool slider/tabs for different actions.

volkandkaya··on Open Source does not win by being cheaper
They just kept adding features to the point where it became impossible to run on a "simple" stack.

Is there any open source alternative that focuses just on product analytics?

volkandkaya··on Show HN: Rapidpages – OSS alternative to vercel's v0
Basic design system https://github.com/versoly/versoly-ui also not React.

Huge market outside of React for developers who just want a good looking UI.

volkandkaya··on We are not sustainable
Not sure I understand this at all.

Compiling code faster and running it are different things.

If the goal is code that runs better on slower machines then that code needs optimising and to do that a faster machine is better at.

volkandkaya··on Why Tailwind CSS Won
Maintaining is a different story and that is where Tailwind shines.
volkandkaya··on Show HN: Primo – a visual CMS with Svelte blocks, a code editor, and SSG
"A headless CMS in our case would be a better approach" doesn't the client just get mad they can't do what they want? You can only build so many components.

Ideal world is a CMS that allows clients to easily change the HTML without code. That way it loads fast, has great SEO and stops developers re-inventing the wheel.

That was the reason I built https://versoly.com/ (Website builder + CMS), why does the client have to contact you to change the background color or add a new section?

volkandkaya··on Pines – Alpine and Tailwind UI Library
Why would you use Vue and Alpine together?
volkandkaya··on Is Htmx Gaining in Popularity?
https://github.com/versoly/versoly-ui would also work especially well with this stack as it comes with classes like Daisy (btn btn-primary) and JS like Flowbite (tabs).
volkandkaya··on Get a personal teacher
I want to see cool ideas being built, I don't have time to build them all. Helping new founders is a way to do it.
volkandkaya··on Show HN: Build your own no-code editor with Reka.js
I see you was inspired by https://github.com/BuilderIO/mitosis was there no way to extend there AST?
volkandkaya··on Show HN: I spent 2 years building Tablane as a 17-year-old
In the UK we have "freshers week" where all the students party straight for 1 or 2 weeks.

That is the "most" fun part of college if you're into nightlife. Friends of students would come up in the 2nd year and have a lot more fun because they had been earning money by working a full time job while students were getting themselves into debt to have a "good" time.

volkandkaya··on Show HN: I spent 2 years building Tablane as a 17-year-old
Why was it the right decision?
volkandkaya··on Show HN: I spent 2 years building Tablane as a 17-year-old
Counter advice, going to college isn't special and I wasted 4 of the best years of my life for it.

Unless you come from a good family you can't do any of the above and most of the time is spent being cheap.

Great friendships are forged by doing hard things, college can do that but there are infinite other ways to do it.

Find a great job with smart people, take long holidays and do the above without worrying about money.

volkandkaya··on Show HN: Open-Source Page Block Builder with Remix and Tailwind CSS
Not at the moment, the only option seems to be sync to github so i need to work out how to push changes to a repo.
volkandkaya··on Show HN: Open-Source Page Block Builder with Remix and Tailwind CSS
That is https://versoly.com/

1) Non-technical people can get setup without a developer

2) VS Code is built into the platform

3) Export as a static site if required

I tried 5+ website builders for my last company in 2017/18 and in 2019 decided I could do better.

volkandkaya··on Writing HTML sucks and No-code doesn't help
Kind of described https://versoly.com/

All no-code tools of the past start from making it easy to use. Instead of making it flexible. They end up abstracting the HTML into custom JSON objects.

Versoly starts with HTML and gives you full flexibility.

volkandkaya··on DNS doesn't “propagate”
I have been able to send https://www.whatsmydns.net/ to customers helps a ton
volkandkaya··on Show HN: Randomly create beautiful website layouts
Huge fan of the designs of Shuffle and they have been shipping constantly for years.

If you're looking for a website builder to import them into and host I built https://versoly.com/

It has a code editor to import/edit/export code and has a no-code mode for marketers.

When I freelanced my #1 problem was clients asking for small updates such as a button changes, padding adjustments and adding new sections. I built Versoly to solve that while still being enjoyable for developers.

Usual questions from devs

- Does it include hosting? Yes

- Where is it hosted? AWS on s3/cloudfront

- Can i export code? yes

- Do the pages load fast? 99/100 on mobile

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