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1. Magictools

Engines and Frameworks / Voxel Editors

• 🎉 is::Engine (⭐218) - C++, SDL 2 and SFML game engine that allows to create games on Nintendo Switch, Web (HTML 5), Mobile and PC.

2. Awesome Vue

Components & Libraries / UI Components

• vue-infinity (⭐96) - An easy-to-use virtual list component for Vue 3. Supports configurable grid layout, horizontal/vertical scroll, scroll snapping, seeking, ssr

Components & Libraries / Utilities

• vue-tiny-translation (⭐6) - Super lightweight (0.32KB) reactive translation plugin for Vue 3. Demo

• Loccy - Effortless Vue-i18n management in VS Code-based editors, featuring smart AI translations and key suggestions.

3. Awesome Billing

Basics

• Billed for ¥21,120, invoiced at ¥2,112,000 and paid ¥2,112,000 - Get rid of integers and floats for monetary values. Use decimals. Or face the risks of anomalous x100 charges.

• How to recruit software engineers in this domain? “The trick is to make the accounting/billing/payment department the antechamber of data engineering.” (source)

Pricing

• Axial - Business models - 38 models for inspiration.

• SaaS pricing explorer - A collection of 1000+ pricing pages for inspiration.

Pricing / Usage-based Pricing

• A Survey of Profit Optimization Techniques for Cloud Providers - “The strategy of improving user service quality is discussed first, followed by the pricing strategy for cloud resources to maximize revenue.”

• “Billing is not complex on purpose: it's the price to pay for elasticity.” (source) - Or why you're likely to get an endless stream of complaining users if choosing utility pricing scheme: while accurate to the (milli-)cent, this model is frustrating for customers not ready to invest time grasping the underlying concepts.

Pricing / Strategy

• "There are two ways to make money. You can bundle, or you can unbundle." - Jim Barksdale.

• The Anatomy of SaaS Pricing Strategy - Explain how to articulate the pricing of SaaS businesses around the product strategy.

• Changing the Pricing Model - A couple of ways to re-license your product.

Product Catalog / Market Research

• OpenPIM - A streamlined open-source project, focusing on PIM-only features.

Cost Forecast / Market Research

• Transforming Financial Forecasting with Data Science and Machine Learning at Uber - Discusses how Uber apply data science and machine learning in their financial planning platforms.

• How to save money on your AWS bill - “The biggest cost savings there are: 1. Turning things off that you're not using; 2. Then spot instances; 3. Then reserved instances.”

Marketplace / Market Research

• How to Kickstart and Scale a Marketplace Business: Constrain the marketplace; Decide which side of the marketplace to concentrate on; Drive initial supply; Drive initial demand. A 4-parts series with dozen of interviews of people with direct experience building and scaling marketplaces.

Marketplace / Cloud Resources

• Deconstructing Amazon EC2 Spot Instance Pricing - “Cloud providers possessing large quantities of spare capacity must either incentivize clients to purchase it or suffer losses. Amazon is the first cloud provider to address this challenge, by allowing clients to bid on spare capacity and by granting resources to bidders while their bids exceed a periodically changing spot price.”

Contracts / Currencies

• Is this what Enterprise mean? - When contracts, invoicing and payments are not working together, you end up alienating your big enterprise customers. See the associated HN comments on bulk license purchase.

• CUDs vs. Commit Contracts vs. SUDs in Google Cloud - Explains the differences between various types of discounts and usage commitments in GCP.

Coupons and Vouchers / Currencies

• Hacking Scooters: How I Created $100k Worth Of Free Rides - A cautionary tale on how promo codes can be exploited to get unlimited free rides.

• China's Pinduoduo reports theft of online discount vouchers to police - The next level of fraud: “an online collective exploited a loophole on its platform to ‘steal’ tens of millions of yuan worth of discount vouchers”.

Taxes / Currencies

• 2017 Tax Software Developer's Guides - A list of test cases for developers to test their tax code against.

Invoice / Electronic invoices

• EU eInvoicing - European standard on electronic invoice.

Payments / Electronic invoices

• The Best Payment Gateway for Startups - A benchmark of top payment providers, their pricing and models.

• How ACH works: A developer perspective, part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5.

• Hyperswitch (⭐21k) - Open-source backend for payment processing.

Payments / Bank Accounts

• EPC QR code - EU standard for QR codes used to transfer money between bank accounts via SEPA.

Payments / Online Payments

• UPI 101: The Basics - “In this article, we will learn about India's Unified Payments Interface. A four-year-old payment scheme that has been accounting for 40-45% of digital payments across India.”

Fraud / Cards

• Five Fun Fraud Facts - Another tiny collection of features we can feed to a ML system to detect fraud. Comments on HN also unearthed more qualifying signals and derived geodata on the transaction.

• Training an ML model to score chargebacks - An example of a platform's network effect, which allows to predict the likelihood of winning a dispute.

Fraud / Statistics

• Method to check if you swapped 2 digits - Standard manual accounting trick employed when isolating an error in a double ledger.

UX/UI / Billing

• We tried to make billing backendless - Failed attempt to move the billing experience by from backend to frontend because of security.

Business Intelligence / Customer Lifetime Value

• Churn Prediction - “How to use Python in a simplistic way to fuel your company's growth by applying the predictive approach to all your actions.” Relies on XGBoost binary classification.

• PyMC-Marketing (⭐883) - A full-featured Python package to analyze your users based on their "alive" and "dead" states.

Business Intelligence / Data Engineering

• AI vs Data Science vs Data Engineering - “Data Engineers build data pipelines and infrastructure to ensure a constant availability of transformed data. Data Scientists analyze and build models from these data to develop new product features or drive the bottom line of the business.” As for AI professionals, their focus is on cognitive automation.

• Why not use Double or Float to represent currency? - Because of precision: floats and doubles cannot accurately represent the base 10 multiples that we use for money.

Business Intelligence / Tools

• Meltano (⭐2.1k) - Open source convention-over-configuration product for the whole data lifecycle, all the way from loading data to analyzing it.

Competitive Analysis / Cloud providers

• AWS reserved instances vs saving plan - A feature matrix of the different scheme and their average dicounts.

History / Cloud providers

• Product Development as Iterated Taste - AWS sacrificed the simplicity of subscription pricing for S3 and went instead with a safe cost-following strategy because they had no clue how the users will use their service.

• £sd computing - The IBM 1401 mainframe (1959) optionally supported pounds/shillings/pence (£sd) currency arithmetics in hardware.

4. Awesome Developer First

Monitoring

• Maxim AI - End-to-end evaluation and observability platform, helping teams ship their AI agents reliably and 5x faster.

5. Discount for Student Dev

Email

• Lettermint [FREE] - Get Lettermint Starter for free for six months (normally €60) to send transactional emails with your projects.

6. Awesome Ironsworn

Official content

• Ironsworn - A tabletop RPG of perilous quests

• Ironsworn: Delve - Supplement for the Ironsworn tabletop roleplaying game taking your quests to the deepest, darkest reaches of the Ironlands

• Ironsworn: Starforged - The sci-fi evolution of the award-winning tabletop roleplaying game

• Lodestar - Reference guide for Ironsworn and Ironsworn: Delve

• Sundered Isles - Supplement for Ironsworn: Starforged with guidelines, options, and tools for exploring a world of fantasy seafaring adventure

7. Awesome Cryptography

JavaScript / Git

• micro-rsa-dsa-dh (⭐17) - Minimal implementation of older cryptography algorithms: RSA, DSA, DH, ElGamal.

8. Awesome Playcanvas

3D Gaussian Splatting / YouTube Playables

• 2nd Swing - Golf retailer using splats for product visualization.

• 4DV - Impressive implementation of animated Gaussian splats (4DGS).

• Arrival Space - Social metaverse built on splat-based spaces.

• DiffStudio - Create digital twins of e-commerce products.

• Doly - Capture high-quality 3D photos of your products and embed them on Shopify in minutes.

• Prewatch - Smart virtual scouting for better decisions.

• The Season - Real estate visualization of a modern apartment block.

9. Awesome Svelte

Preprocessing

• @nvl/sveltex (⭐12) - Svelte + Markdown + LaTeX.

10. Free for Dev

Messaging and Streaming

• SuprSend - SuprSend is a notification infrastructure that streamlines your product notifications with an API-first approach. Create and deliver transactional, crons, and engagement notifications on multiple channels with a single notification API. In free plan you get 10,000 notifications per month, including different workflow nodes such as digests, batches, multi-channels, preferences, tenants, broadcasts and more.

Managed Data Services

• CockroachDB Cloud — Free tier offers 50 million RUs and 10 GiB of storage (same as 15$ worth) free per month. (What's the Request Units)

Issue Tracking and Project Management

• kan.bn - A powerful, flexible kanban app that helps you organise work, track progress, and deliver results—all in one place. Free plan up to 1 user for unlimited boards, unlimited lists, unlimited cards.

11. Awesome Postgres

Contents / High-Availability

• pgrwl (⭐47) - Stream write-ahead logs (WAL) from a PostgreSQL server in real time. A drop-in, container-friendly alternative to pg_receivewal.

Contents / Backups

• pg-backups-to-s3 (⭐16) - Docker-first solution on top of pg_dump with support for environment-based configuration for scheduled PostgreSQL backups with optional compression, GPG encryption, webhooks, automatic upload to Amazon S3.

Resources / Blogs

• Digoal's PostgreSQL and Technical blog(Chinese Language) (⭐8.3k)

12. Awesome Geek Podcasts

In Portuguese

• Café Debug - Um podcast de ciência e tecnologia que tem como intuito compartilhar idéias, projetos e conhecimento contando com entrevistas ricas e bem humoradas.

13. Awesome Zsh Plugins

Plugins / superconsole - Windows-only

• logout-user (⭐0) - Provides a function to log out another macOS user session.

Themes / superconsole - Windows-only

• afaq (⭐0) - Two line theme with decorators for hostname, local IP address, current working directory, current time, git status and Python virtualenv.

• candy-light - Light version of the candy theme.

• nidoranarion - Colorful, shows git status decorations.

14. Awesome Terraform

Learning and Studying

• Terraform Academy - (https://www.terraformacademy.com)

15. Awesome Chatgpt Prompts

Act as a Conventional Commit Message Generator / Using prompts.chat

• @jeff-nasseri

• @kamyab7

16. Awesome Selfhosted

Software / Database Management

• Kottster - Low-code admin panel that connects to your database and automatically generates pages to view and manage your data. (Demo, Source Code (⭐374)) Apache-2.0 Nodejs/Docker

Software / Software Development - Project Management

• Mergeable ⚠ - A better inbox for GitHub pull requests. (Demo, Source Code (⭐96)) MIT Nodejs/Docker/K8S

17. Awesome Angular

AI / Google Developer Experts

• CodeSage AI (⭐1) - Analyzes code quality of React, Vue, and Angular projects using linters and an LLM.

Integrations / Google Developer Experts

• ngx-xyflow (⭐46) - Angular wrapper of xyflow (⭐30k).

Internationalization / Google Developer Experts

• ngx-translate-cut (⭐13) - Angular pipe for cutting translations ✂️ 🌍 (plugin for @ngx-translate).

DOM / Google Developer Experts

• pyno-date (⭐1) - A lightweight Angular library for converting and formatting Jalali and Gregorian dates.

General / Google Developer Experts

• ngxAccessor (⭐2) - This library introduces an innovative method for interacting with Angular forms and signals. While Angular 19 supports Template Driven Forms and Reactive Forms, this library offers a third approach, seamlessly integrating signals while remaining adaptable to other state management solutions.

• angular-template-signal-forms (⭐4) - A modern Angular form library built from the ground up with Signals — flexible, type-safe, and fully themeable.

Form Controls / Google Developer Experts

• ngx-multi-select-input (⭐1) - A modern, customizable Angular standalone component for multi-term input with chips, autocomplete dropdown, and beautiful color support. Perfect for tag editors, search bars, and more!

Images / Google Developer Experts

• ngx-pinch-zoom (⭐23) - This module enables image zooming and positioning through touch screen gestures.

Mixed utilities / Google Developer Experts

• ng-util (⭐34) - A set of Angular utilities.

Tooltips / Google Developer Experts

• ngx-overlay (⭐1) - A lightweight Angular library designed to leverage the latest CSS and HTML features while maintaining compatibility with most browsers. It provides an elegant solution for creating overlay components such as modals, tooltips, and popups using modern web standards.

Tailwind CSS Based / Google Developer Experts

• seacotools (⭐1) - A library designed for modern Angular applications, offering a suite of reusable UI components and services compatible with Tailwind CSS.

Primitives / Google Developer Experts

• ngx-headless (⭐3) - A collection of Headless Libraries for Angular — fully standalone, accessible, and style-agnostic primitives inspired by Headless UI & FormKit.

Misc Components / Google Developer Experts

• d3-cloud-angular (⭐5) - D3 Cloud component for Angular built upon d3-cloud (⭐3.9k).

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