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Show HN for July 5, 2025

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From Photos to Positions: Prototyping VLM-Based Indoor Maps(arjo129.github.io) #

2 comments11:19 PMView on HN
Just a fun hack I did while bored over the weekend. My wife was busy shopping, it got me thinking that can VLMs solve the indoor location problem in a mall? Can I just show a VLM a map and an image and have it doa good enough job locating me? I hacked this P.O.C and it seems to work.
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MCP-123, a 2-line MCP server/client (Windows-friendly)(github.com) #

1 comments6:39 AMView on HN
Got tired of every MCP example being overly verbose, or needing Docker or Mac-only scripts, so I threw together MCP-123. Point it at a tools.py, run `server.run_server(...)`, and the client auto-discovers/calls functions with OpenAI. I hope this is useful to you all.
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Certimon – Free Telegram bot to monitor SSL certificate expiry(certimon.com) #

0 comments9:59 PMView on HN
Hey folks,

I'm a developer who got tired of having to rely on SaaS providers for such a simple task as monitoring an SSL certificate expiry. I had to create calendar entries just for the sake of making sure we don't forget it because of course warning emails got lost or the person responsible was on holiday..

So instead of "building yet another platform" I decide to take the un-sexy and simple route and put together a Telegram bot, called it Certimon. Thanks to Claude and Cursor I also put together a landing page for it https://certimon.com/ but I don't think you'll get any value out of it...

If you want to give it a try, just add @CertimonBot to your Telegram or visit https://t.me/certimonbot to add directly.

You can check a domain like this: /check google.com

And get reminders like: /remind google.com 30

It's 100% free, supports as many domains as you need and you won't need to sign up to anything or download anything (assuming you already have Telegram).

Hope someone other than me will find this useful, would love to hear your thoughts, comments and questions!

Edit: Forgot to mention, but the operational cost of this solution is around £3 per month on AWS.

-Tamas

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Distapp. Manage and distribute Android, iOS and Desktop app(distapp.lhf.my.id) #

2 comments6:24 PMView on HN
Hi HN,

I built DistApp, a tool for managing and distributing Android, iOS, and Desktop app builds. I created it after App Center Distribution was discontinued, I wanted a way to easily share builds with the QA team and users with different groups.

DistApp lets you manage multiple apps across different organizations and groups. It also supports self-hosting on your own infrastructure and is open-source https://github.com/yunusefendi52/distapp

You can try the free version by signing in with your Google account. I chose not to support email/password accounts to reduce abuse on the free version. But I’m open to suggestions if you think there’s a better way :)

Thank you