nocommandline (u/nocommandline)

nocommandline commented on Updates to Consumer Terms and Privacy Policy anthropic.com/news/update... · Posted by u/porridgeraisin

episteme · 5 months ago

What will you use instead? I’m finding Claude the best experience since ChatGPT 5 is so slow and not any better answers than 4.

nocommandline · 5 months ago

If you aren't using it for coding or advanced uses like video, etc, you can try running models locally on your machine using Ollama and others like it.

Self plug here - If you aren't technical and still want to run models locally, you can try our App [1]

1] https://ai.nocommandline.com

nocommandline commented on Ollama's new app ollama.com/blog/new-app... · Posted by u/BUFU

pzo · 6 months ago

this is actually positive even for devs. The more users have ollama installed then you can release some desktop ai app for them and don't have to bundle additional models in your own app. Easier to provide to such user free or cheaper subscription because you don't have additional costs. Latest Qwen30B models area really powerful.

Would be even better if there was a installation template that checks if Ollama is installed and if not download it as sub installation first checking user computer specs if enough RAM and fast enough CPU/GPU. Also API to prompt user (ask for permission) to install specific model if haven't been installed.

nocommandline · 6 months ago

> Would be even better if there was a installation template that checks if Ollama is installed and if not download it as sub installation first..... Also API to prompt user (ask for permission) to install specific model if haven't been installed.

That's actually what we've done for our own App [1]. It checks if Ollama and other dependencies are installed. No model is bundled with it. We prompt user to install a model (you pick a model, click a button and we download the model; similar if you wish to remove a model). The aim is to make it quite simple for non-technical folks to use.

1) https://ai.nocommandline.com/

nocommandline commented on Ollama's new app ollama.com/blog/new-app... · Posted by u/BUFU

apitman · 6 months ago

Kudos for making an effort to keep it small. Some of these Electron AppImages are 1GB+ which is pretty wild.

How do you handle markdown rendering?

nocommandline · 6 months ago

> Some of these Electron AppImages are 1GB+

I recently released an Electron App for Ollama [1] and it's nowhere close to 1GB (between 300 - 350MB). A 1GB App would be really big

1) https://ai.nocommandline.com/

nocommandline commented on Ask HN: How are you acquiring your first hundred users? · Posted by u/amanchanda

nocommandline · 9 months ago

Since my App is targeted at developers building on Google Cloud, I focused on

1) Answering questions on Stackoverflow.

    - A few users clicked on the profile and went to our home page

    - A few of my responses involved a link to post on our blog (only did this where it was absolutely necessary)

2) Answering questions on Google Cloud reddit channel and Google Cloud Community (forum)

nocommandline commented on Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025) · Posted by u/david927

nocommandline · a year ago

Still working on https://nocommandline.com which started out as a GUI for Google App Engine & Datastore Emulator.

I recently added support for Cloud Run and am now building it out. Support for Cloud Function is also on the road map.

I’m also still maintaining the patch [2] I created which allows you run App Engine Python 3 Apps with dev_appserver.py on Windows. To test App Engine bundled API/services, you need dev_appserver.py

[2] https://github.com/NoCommandLine/dev_appserver-python3-windo...

nocommandline commented on Ask HN: What projects are you working on? · Posted by u/mguin

nocommandline · a year ago

An alternative to Oracle's VBCS Plugin for Excel [1]

Oracle's plugin allows you access Fusion REST Endpoints (your business data) from within an Excel workbook but it only works on Windows machines and has some other limitations

[1] https://vbcs-alt.com/

nocommandline commented on Ask HN: Solopreneurs, how did you come up with your idea? · Posted by u/californium

nocommandline · a year ago

I usually try to solve my own problem.

E.g. I use/used Google App Engine (GAE)[1] a lot. When Google deprecated the GUI, I found it inconveniencing using the CLI. Secondly, there was no GUI for the Datastore Emulator. So, I set out to build something for both of them [2] and then decided to put it out there for others.

Along the line, it turned out that Google didn't support using one of their tools "dev_appserver.py" for building Python 3 Apps on Windows and so I also built a patch for it [3]

1) https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard

2) https://nocommandline.com

3) https://github.com/NoCommandLine/dev_appserver-python3-windo...

nocommandline commented on Ask HN: Small teams and solopreneurs, how are you hosting your apps? · Posted by u/aosaigh

nocommandline · 2 years ago

I try to stick to serverless rather than trying to manage any infrastructure

1) Google App Engine Standard. Datastore for DB.

2) For anything that won’t work with the above, then it’s Google Cloud Run

nocommandline commented on Ask HN: Why is hosting a contact form so difficult? · Posted by u/scrollaway

nocommandline · 2 years ago

Why not just use Google Forms? Our website uses it.

1) You can customize it and add your company logo/image. Can also limitedly change colors to match your branding.

2) It can be set to notify you of new submissions (ie each time someone fills it and submits it, you get an email)

3) It’s free and easy to set up.

4) You get a link which you place behind a ‘Contact Us’ text on your website. When users click it, it opens up the form.