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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: FontAwesome makes it impossible to downgrade. Any alternatives?

Ask HN: FontAwesome makes it impossible to downgrade. Any alternatives? 3 by dk8996 | 3 comments on Hacker News. I've been using and supporting FontAwesome for over 10 years, including paying for licenses to support the great work they do. However, their sales tactics have become quite frustrating. I encountered an issue where I couldn't downgrade from Pro Max to Pro, despite their plan page stating: "If you just need icons for a web project, our online-only Pro Lite plan is a good choice. If you’re not sure, our Pro Plan is a good choice to start with, and don’t worry - it’s easy to change your plan." Does anyone know of good alternatives to FontAwesome?

New ask Hacker News story: Sandra AI (YC F24) – AI receptionist for car dealers

Sandra AI (YC F24) – AI receptionist for car dealers 2 by IsmailMajjad | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hey Hacker News! We’re Badr, Ismail, and Skandere, co-founders of Sandra AI (https://ift.tt/BFigEx9). Sandra AI is the first multilingual voice AI receptionist built specifically for car dealerships. It handles both inbound and outbound calls, helping dealerships capture every customer opportunity while freeing up their staff to focus on in-person interactions and closing deals. Here’s a demo video: https://youtu.be/89BbgavAffQ Phones are still a critical channel for car dealerships, with around 80% of service appointments booked by phone. Yet, 30% of calls typically go unanswered, leading to lost revenue and frustrated customers. Traditional call centers are expensive, hard to scale, and often fail to meet demand. Delays and missed follow-ups frequently drive customers toward competitors. We designed Sandra AI to tackle these issues. Using multilingual voice AI, Sandra communicates n

New ask Hacker News story: How to Reach Angel Investors in the San Francisco Area for Agentic AI Startup?

How to Reach Angel Investors in the San Francisco Area for Agentic AI Startup? 4 by ttsemih | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hi All! We’ve recently launched a San Francisco-based Agentic AI startup. So far, we’ve organically built a waitlist of over 1000 users and converted some of them into paying subscribers without any marketing spend. With this early traction, we’re eager to scale our platform and attract enterprise clients. Given our progress, what strategies or channels would you recommend for connecting with angel investors in the San Francisco area? Any insights or advice on approaching potential investors effectively would be greatly appreciated!

New ask Hacker News story: Free Microblogging

Free Microblogging 2 by benjamim | 3 comments on Hacker News. Looking for free microblogging. So far I found these: https://public.me/ (you need to have: iMessage) https://vagabundo.co (you need to have: Telegram) Create a Telegram public channel and add a "S" to the URL: https://ift.tt/ZiEFNom

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: You are posting too fast."

Ask HN: You are posting too fast." 3 by silexia | 5 comments on Hacker News. I see this warning periodically and it blocks me from posting the comment I wrote. This is very frustrating. This feature should give a warning BEFORE you write a long comment reply right?

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What projects are you going to work on if no need to work?

Ask HN: What projects are you going to work on if no need to work? 3 by hnthrowaway0328 | 0 comments on Hacker News. I think we can all dream. I'll start: - I will read geological surveys and find fossils. - I will teach myself Physics and see what happens.

New ask Hacker News story: Documind ripped our open source tool and swapped the license

Documind ripped our open source tool and swapped the license 13 by themanmaran | 0 comments on Hacker News. Saw a ShowHN post [0] today about an open source document extractor tool. I thought the workflow sounded pretty similar to our library, and only to realize it's a direct rip of Zerox [1]. Looking through the code: 1. They removed the MIT License and added AGPL. 2. It's not a fork, they purposefully copied the code and did a find/replace to swap out Zerox for their name. 3. There is no attribution or mention of the original library. 4. They are trying to market this as a competitive product. If you inspect the source code, it's a verbatim copy. They literally just renamed the `ZeroxOutput` to `DocumindOutput` [2][3]. I recognize that plenty of people are using Zerox within commercial products, but to copy to copy the code and pitch it as your own open source product is pretty fraudulent. Especially slapping a copyleft license on it. [0] https://ift.tt/xn0uyNm [1] ht