Startups — Page 19
Companies to watch, momentum, milestones.
- XS is a new general-purpose language asking for feedback, shipping a playground on day one
The creator of XS says the language is at v1.2.15 and has a playground and docs live at xslang.org, inviting developers to try it and weigh in.
- Christoph Nakazawa ships Codiff, a local Git diff reviewer with an AI walkthrough
The macOS app lets developers review staged and unstaged changes locally, add inline comments, export to Markdown, and call an LLM with a -w flag.
- Grafana Labs says attacker accessed GitHub and downloaded codebase, declines ransom
In a thread on X, the company said no customer data was accessed, it invalidated the leaked credentials, and it will publish a post-incident review.
- Five ACT students launch PART Telescopes to put $500 radio astronomy kits in rural schools
The Narrabundah College team published open docs and software for capturing the 21 cm hydrogen line with off-the-shelf parts, backed by Science Mentors ACT.
- Spectre debuts as a contract-first systems language with immutability by default
Docs outline compile-time contracts, manual memory control, and a translate-c path to pull existing C code into Spectre.
- v0 adds agentic browser mode to test and debug the apps it builds
The new mode navigates live UIs, critiques designs, debugs flows, and sends screenshots while it works, per a post on X.
- RevSwap.ai ships a satire of startup revenue games, complete with fake ARR and a FAQ
An anonymous landing page skewers vanity metrics with a fake platform to “swap” dollars and book ARR, tapping a very real pressure founders feel to show traction fast.
- Jarred Sumner merges Bun's Rust rewrite into main
Bun's creator says the Rust port passes tests, trims 3-8 MB off the binary, stays neutral-to-faster in benchmarks, and brings compiler-assisted memory safety.
- Jason Scott finishes 11-year rescue: 13,000 scanned manuals now live on Internet Archive
The archivist who rallied a last-minute warehouse save says the loop is complete, with thousands of manuals digitized and accessible.
- Thomas Gazagnaire gets OCaml into orbit with Parsimoni's Borealis
Running inside DPhi Space's ClusterGate-2 payload module, the pure-OCaml CCSDS stack brings end-to-end encrypted command and control with OTAR to low Earth orbit.
- Farm to Door launches map of 3,876 local farms and markets with raw dairy and CSA filters
The site aggregates thousands of farm and market listings and flags delivery, shipping, and pickup options alongside filters for raw dairy, A2/A2 milk, CSA shares, and more.
- Amjad Masad: worked things out with Apple, Replit iOS app is publishing again after four months
Masad said his team can publish the Replit iOS app for the first time in four months after working things out with Apple, thanking customers and creators and hinting at more features.