frontpage.
newsnewestaskshowjobs

Made with ♥ by @iamnishanth

Open Source @Github

Open in hackernews

Show HN: Magic Sandbox – An AI app platform

https://magicsandbox.ai
1•k_kelleher•15h ago
I built Magic Sandbox, an AI app platform where your AI assistant can directly interact with Magic Sandbox apps published by the community.

Check out the demo video to see it in action: https://www.loom.com/share/4a1d4aee83a5485197898f537e1cb397

Or head to https://magicsandbox.ai to go through the onboarding tutorial.

Originally I set out to build a monetized version of OpenAI’s custom GPTs, where developers would earn money when users used their custom GPT. Eventually this evolved into a platform for AI powered apps, which expose not only context and capabilities to an LLM but also a UI to a human user.

Magic Sandbox apps execute in a strictly sandboxed iframe and communicate via postMessage to request to persist data or hit backend endpoints (what I call Functions), among other capabilities. Because Magic Sandbox provides the AI assistant and handles auth, persisting data, and payments, building apps is super easy - it’s a great platform for publishing (and monetizing!) your vibe coded apps.

Apps can expose a context function which is called when the user chats with their AI assistant with the app open - the context function returns a string which is added to the LLM’s prompt. Apps can also expose an API of functions that the assistant can call to fulfill the user’s request, or the assistant can generate arbitrary code to execute in the app’s sandbox.

I’d love to hear your thoughts and feedback - thanks in advance!

Kevin

Fun Command-Line Tricks You Should Try

https://www.nxgntools.com/blog/5-fun-and-handy-curl-command-line-tricks-you-should-try
1•doppelgunner•5m ago•0 comments

New Gemini app tools to help students learn, understand and study better

https://blog.google/products/gemini/new-gemini-tools-students-august-2025/
2•from_neverland•6m ago•0 comments

Sleep Ledger

https://domofutu.substack.com/p/sleep-ledger
1•wjb3•8m ago•0 comments

Your LLM Does Not Care About MCP

https://hackteam.io/blog/your-llm-does-not-care-about-mcp/
1•gethackteam•12m ago•0 comments

AI in production: reflecting on one year, five projects and factories deployed

https://medium.com/oss-ventures/ai-in-production-reflecting-on-one-year-five-projects-and-dozens-of-factories-deployed-582e627d6cec
1•philberto•12m ago•0 comments

Run LLM's Locally on iPhone

https://github.com/Q2-Development/q2-edge-chat
1•Michaelgathara•15m ago•0 comments

Slab City, California

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slab_City,_California
2•benbreen•22m ago•0 comments

Anyone Bored at Work?

1•kake25•23m ago•1 comments

Terrence Tao Loses Funding

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/terence-tao-ucla-mathematician-mozart-of-math-trump-funding-nsf
3•colonCapitalDee•26m ago•0 comments

Explicit tail calls are now available on Rust Nightly (become keyword)

https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1mjb7w6/explicit_tail_calls_are_now_available_on_nightly/
1•manaskarekar•31m ago•0 comments

Ivanpah Solar Power Facility

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivanpah_Solar_Power_Facility
2•thunderbong•33m ago•0 comments

APIs Don't Make Good MCP Tools

https://www.reillywood.com/blog/apis-dont-make-good-mcp-tools/
1•appreciatorBus•35m ago•0 comments

Cligen: A Native API-Inferred Command-Line Interface Generator for Nim

https://github.com/c-blake/cligen
1•TheWiggles•36m ago•0 comments

Can Local Contribution-Based Currencies Replace Crypto?

1•mzk_pi•37m ago•0 comments

SF tech CEO offers buyouts to let workers flee 'extreme' work culture

https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/sf-tech-ceo-buyouts-culture-20805250.php
2•Stratoscope•42m ago•1 comments

Federal court filing system hit in sweeping hack

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/06/federal-court-filing-system-pacer-hack-00496916
3•c420•44m ago•0 comments

America may be copying the worst part of Europe's real estate market

https://www.businessinsider.com/real-estate-listings-zillow-america-europe-france-italy-house-hunting-2025-8
2•harambae•44m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Rust framework for advanced file recognition and identification

https://crates.io/crates/magical_rs
2•reimisdev•44m ago•0 comments

Ethiopia avoided colonization in the late 19th century but lagged in the 20th

https://www.africanistperspective.com/p/how-ethiopia-avoided-colonization
1•mooreds•45m ago•0 comments

FDA approves eye drops that fix near vision without glasses

https://newatlas.com/aging/age-related-near-sighted-drops-vizz/
8•geox•48m ago•0 comments

Meet the AI Vegans

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/06/meet-the-ai-vegans
1•mitchbob•50m ago•1 comments

Why Every AI Company Eventually Has to Pay the Universe (A Gangster Comedy)

https://medium.com/@ivanmworozi_52873/an-ai-tale-3ec2a0eefa8b
1•hadrianhu•1h ago•0 comments

New York Times Revenue Jumps 9.7% from Subscriptions and Ads

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/business/media/new-york-times-earnings.html
2•giuliomagnifico•1h ago•0 comments

Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence [pdf]

https://www.nsa.gov/portals/75/documents/news-features/declassified-documents/cryptologic-spectrum/communications_with_extraterrestrial.pdf
2•andsoitis•1h ago•0 comments

How to Review Code

https://endler.dev/2025/how-to-review-code/
2•lwhsiao•1h ago•0 comments

Coursera's Monetization Journey: From Zero to IPO

https://www.classcentral.com/report/coursera-monetization-revenues/
1•kianN•1h ago•0 comments

Apple made a 24k gold and glass statue for Donald Trump

https://www.theverge.com/news/737757/apple-president-donald-trump-ceo-tim-cook-glass-corning
9•archagon•1h ago•3 comments

Efficient AI: KV Caching and KV Sharing

https://blog.gaurav.ai/2025/08/05/kv-caching-kv-sharing/EfficientAITechniques:KVCachingandKVSharing
1•gauravm•1h ago•1 comments

Thorsten Ball on Technical Blogging

https://writethatblog.substack.com/p/thorsten-ball-on-technical-blogging
1•pbardea•1h ago•0 comments

A Lightweight Solution to Speed Up Queries by Dumping Data to Files

https://github.com/SPLWare/esProc/wiki/A-Lightweight-Solution-to-Speed-up-Queries-by-Dumping-Data-to-Files
1•swqliyt•1h ago•0 comments