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radius.to, a hyper-local groups-and-events site, reached Hacker News with explicit landing pages for "Meetup.com alternative," "Eventbrite alternative" and "Facebook Events alternative," plus a free tier pitched as 60-second setup. No named team, no AI angle in the pitch. Logging it because it's the shape of solo-built replacement that keeps appearing in categories where the incumbent's moat was network effect rather than features.
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It's a free WYSIWYG editor pitched as a local-first Notion/Obsidian alternative, with built-in MCP so agents read and rewrite local files with no cloud round-trip. If you keep your knowledge base in markdown (I do), an agent-native editor with no cloud hop is worth a test driv...
asciimoo/hister indexes full page contents captured by Firefox and Chrome extensions plus local directories and crawled sites, serving results over web, terminal, CLI and an MCP endpoint so a coding agent can query your browsing history. It took 637 points on Hacker News and g...
Anysite.io took Product Hunt's #1 slot September 11 with 451 votes selling B2B company and contact data over MCP or REST "inside Claude, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode" with no scrapers to maintain. Cortex took #1 on September 12 with 151 votes turning one API-spec config into SDKs,...
Red Hat's Emerging Technologies group published ripwire, an Apache-2.0 zero-dependency C++23 binary with vendored tree-sitter grammars for 21 languages, exposed as both a CLI and an MCP server (GitHub). It reached 969 stars on Hacker News on September 7. It returns ranked symb...
Ten days from spec to shipped client. That's fast even for this ecosystem. The MCP 2026-07-28 revision replaced the bidirectional stateful protocol with request/response. Every request now independently carries protocol version, client identity and capabilities. Cloudflare's t...
Cyera signed an LOI to acquire Oasis Security for roughly $1 billion, about $700M in cash (SecurityWeek). Act Security came out of stealth with $60M total, a $20M seed from Team8 and Bessemer plus a $40M Series A led by Notable Capital (SecurityWeek). Hush Security closed a $3...
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