Currently, we display all products available in the customer portal, so customers may upgrade/downgrade to any of those products.In some circumstances, this is not desirable: we might want to have a "private" product that's only available through a checkout link or the checkout API.I suggest we have a "State" for product: * Draft — Product is not yet available to purchase * Public — Product is available to purchase and displayed in the customer portal * Private — Product is available to purchase only from a dedicated Checkout Link or Checkout Session * Archived — Product is no longer available to purchase
FL score
out of 100
Verdict
high confidence
Competition
5
competitors found, emerging market, funded players
Trend
8 community mentions
A niche feature to manage private product visibility in customer portals for subscription businesses, particularly relevant for open-source AI companies.
The pain
The gap
Build angle
Strengths
Questions about this idea?
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Risks
Next steps
Fly Labs Method
Is the pain real, is there a gap, is it the right time, can one person build it.
A highly specific billing feature for controlling product visibility in customer portals, with moderate pain and willingness to pay, but limited by its niche scope and the lack of direct market validation.
Value Equation
Dream outcome and how likely it feels, against the time and effort it costs.
A viable niche feature with clear value for specific businesses, but lacks strong market growth potential and differentiation as a standalone product.
One-Person Business
Curiosity pull, identity fit, and a path from free value to paid for a solo creator.
A clear, simple niche feature that addresses a specific operational need, but with a potentially limited audience and requiring specific creator fit.
Viral Frameworks
Hook strength, shareability, and how cheaply it can be tested.
A clear value proposition for a specific audience, but distribution and market validation are key risks.
Builder Lens
Evidence the problem exists, timing, defensibility, and a model that fits on a napkin.
Addresses a specific, growing operational pain for subscription businesses, with a clear narrow wedge and future relevance.
Why this verdict
Five lenses, one composite. How scoring works
The angle
This weekend
Who is already there, emerging market
An enterprise-ready AI governance toolkit designed to direct, manage, and monitor AI activities across the entire lifecycle, ensuring transparency and compliance.
Pricing: Custom plans, not publicly available.
Provides data security, privacy, governance, and compliance solutions for cloud applications, data, and AI models.
Pricing: Custom plans, not publicly available.
A nimble and collaborative GRC (Governance, Risk, and Compliance) solution that allows adaptation of processes, workflows, and content.
Pricing: Custom plans, not publicly available.
Offers an agentic access management platform to control access for AI agents and other non-human identities across enterprise systems.
Pricing: Custom plans, not publicly available.
An AI Detection and Response platform securing autonomous AI on endpoints, protecting companies from risks of expanding autonomous AI usage.
Pricing: Custom plans, not publicly available.
What they charge
What people say, 8 mentions
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Market signals
The broader 'Private AI' market, which focuses on data confidentiality, user privacy, and secure model deployment, is experiencing rapid growth, projected to reach USD 113.7 billion by 2034 with a CAGR of 29.5%. This growth is fueled by increasing regulatory compliance needs and data protection laws. While direct competitors for 'private/hidden products' are not explicit, the market for controlling access to AI and data is significant and expanding.
What frustrates people
Last summer we faced a conundrum at my company, Tiger Data, a Postgres cloud vendor whose main business is in timeseries data. We were trying to grow our business towards emerging AI-centric workloads and wanted to provide a state-of-the-art hybrid search stack in Postgres. We'd already built pgvectorscale in house with the goal of scaling semantic search beyond pgvector's main memory limitations. We just needed a scalable ranked keyword search solution too.The problem: core Postgres doesn't provide this; the leading Postgres BM25 extension, ParadeDB, is guarded behind AGPL; developing our own extension appeared daunting. We'd need a small team of sharp engineers and 6-12 months, I figured. And we'd probably still fall short of the performance of a mature system like Parade/Tantivy.Or would we? I'd be experimenting long enough with AI-boosted development at that point to realize that with the latest tools (Claude Code + Opus) and an experienced hand (I've been working in database systems internals for 25 years now), the old time estimates pretty much go out the window.I told our CTO I thought I could solo the project in one quarter. This raised some eyebrows.It did take a little more time than that (two quarters), and we got some real help from the community (amazing!) after open-sourcing the pre-release. But I'm thrilled/exhausted today to share that pg_textsearch v1.0 is freely available via open source (Postgres license), on Tiger Data cloud, and hopefully soon, a hyperscalar near you:https://github.com/timescale/pg_textsearchIn the blog post accompanying the release, I overview the architecture and present benchmark results using MS-MARCO. To my surprise, we were not only able to meet Parade/Tantivy's query performance, but exceed it substantially, measuring a 4.7x advantage on query throughput at scale:https://www.tigerdata.com/blog/pg-textsearch-bm25-fu
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Hi HN!I recently switched from a Fedora/GNOME laptop to a MacBook Air. My old setup served me well as a portable workstation, but I’ve started traveling more while working remotely and needed something with similar performance but better battery life. The main thing I missed was a simple taskbar that shows the windows in the current workspace instead of a Dock that mixes everything together.I built boringBar so I would not have to use the Dock. It shows only the windows in the current Space, lets you switch Spaces by scrolling on the bar, and adds a desktop switcher so you can jump directly to any Space. You can also hide the system Dock, pin apps, preview windows with thumbnails, and launch apps from a searchable menu (I keep Spotlight disabled because for some reason it uses a lot of system resources on my machine).I’ve been dogfooding it for a few months now, and it finally felt polished enough to share.It’s for people who like macOS but want window management to feel a bit more like GNOME, Windows, or a traditional taskbar. It’s also for people like me who wanted an easier transition to macOS, especially now that Windows feels increasingly user-hostile.I’d love feedback on the UX, bugs, and whether this solves the same Dock/Spaces pain for anyone else.P.S. It might also appeal to people who feel nostalgic for the GNOME 2 desktop of yore. I started my Linux journey with it, and boringBar brings back some of that feeling for me.
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### Describe the project you are working on Godot C# bindings ### Describe the problem or limitation you are having in your project For the past weeks, I've been discussing with several Unity users intending to move to Godot C# regarding dealing with the C# garbage collector. The most common complaint I hear from users is that, in Unity, allocations can trigger unexpected GC spikes into the game. In Godot, we target to make all of the high performance APIs (those that intended to be called every frame) not allocate any memory, so theoretically the GC should not be a problem. Additionally, Godot starting from 4.0, uses the Microsoft CoreCLR version of .net, which also supposedly has a better garbage collector than Unity. But in all, after several discussions with Unity users, neither is enough reassurance for them, and they would really feel safer if Godot exposed a zero allocation API. ### Describe the feature / enhancement and how it helps to overcome the problem or limitation The idea of this proposal is that Godot exposes zero allocation versions of many functions in the C# API, that users can use if they desire. Technically, this could be done from the binding generator itself, without breaking compatibility, and without doing any modification to Godot itself. ### Describe how your proposal will work, with code, pseudo-code, mock-ups, and/or diagrams **WARNING** I am not familiar with C#, so take this as pseudocode. Imagine you have two functions exposed as to C#: ```C# void MyClass.SetArray( Vector2[] array); Vector2[] MyClass.GetArray(); ``` This works and is pretty and intuitive. However, it has two problems: * GC is allocated on return * Memory is copied to Godot native formats every time there is a call. The idea is to add NoAlloc versions, which can be generated directly by the binder automatically when required: ```C# void MyClass.SetArrayNoAlloc( Godot.Collections.PackedVector2Array array); void MyCl
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