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Small businesses need automated accounting but existing solutions are too complex or expensive
Small businesses, especially in emerging markets, struggle with manual bookkeeping and can't afford complex accounting software or professional services.
YC Graveyard4y agoToolFinance
AI-Generated Content Detection for Educators & Publishers
Educators, publishers, and content moderators need a simple tool to detect if text was written by ChatGPT or similar AI models. Existing detectors are unreliable, paywalled, or fragmented across platforms. [Google Search suggestion]
Google Trends5mo agoToolEducationUS
Video creators need better monetization through contextual advertising
Video creators struggle to monetize content effectively, especially with ads that are relevant to specific moments in their videos.
YC Graveyard15y agoToolMedia
Mass block tool for engagement farming accounts on X
X users are annoyed by engagement farming accounts and want a way to mass block them instead of one-by-one.
X6mo agoToolProductivity
App for disguised self-messaging as if from other people
No app exists to let users send messages to themselves that appear as coming from someone else, for sharing random thoughts or self-motivation without it looking self-sent.
X6mo agoToolPsychology
Repositories lack automatic AI-updated documentation for LLM agents
Developers merge PRs but documentation like READMEs isn't updated to reflect changes, forcing LLM agents to scan entire codebases inefficiently instead of quick-reference docs.
X6mo agoToolDev
How much should I pay for the given website.
Project Title: Micro-Task Platform Project Overview Build a web platform where clients can create online tasks and workers can complete them to earn money. Workers submit proof, tasks are verified automatically or manually, and earnings are credited to their wallet. The platform must support crypto withdrawals and an admin management system. User Roles 1. Worker - Create account and login - View available tasks - Complete tasks and submit proof (link or screenshot) - Track earnings and task history - Request withdrawals 2. Client - Create campaigns/tasks - Set reward amount per task - Define number of workers required - Track task completion statistics - Pay for campaigns 3. Admin - Approve or reject task submissions - Manage users - Manage campaigns - Process withdrawals - Monitor platform activity Core Features User System - Registration and login - Email verification - User dashboard - Wallet balance display Task System - Task listing page - Task instructions page - Proof submission (URL or screenshot upload) - Task status tracking (pending / approved / rejected) Verification System - Automatic link validation for tasks when possible - Manual admin approval for complex tasks Wallet System - User balance management - Earnings credited after task approval - Withdrawal request system Payments - Crypto payments (USDT, BTC, ETH) - Admin manual approval for withdrawals Admin Dashboard - View all users - Manage tasks - Approve submissions - Approve withdrawals - Platform analytics Security & Anti-Fraud - Duplicate submission detection - Rate limiting for tasks - IP monitoring for multiple accounts Technical Requirements Frontend Responsive web interface. Backend API based architecture. Database Store users, tasks, submissions, and transactions. Optional Features (Phase 2) - Automated verification via social platform APIs - Referral system - Reputation score for workers - Automated crypto payouts - Real-time notifications
Reddit6mo agoToolDev
outsourced our phone answering to save time and now we're spending more time fixing the notes than we saved
We run a small insurance agency and phones are the biggest time suck in the office. Figured we'd try one of those call answering services to handle the easy stuff while we focus on quotes and renewals. Three weeks in it's a mess. The operators keep mixing up policy numbers and claim numbers in the notes they send us, carrier names are misspelled half the time, and if a client asks anything slightly specific they just transfer the call right back to us. So we're paying for a service that handles maybe 20% of calls on its own and creates cleanup work for the rest. One call really got me. Commercial client called about adding a location to their bop. Notes came back saying "customer wants to add a body shop to their policy." I still don't understand how you get there from what was actually said. Another time someone called about their personal umbrella policy and the only note was "customer has question about umbrella insurance." Zero context, zero details, so we had to call the client back and redo the whole conversation. The frustrating part is the terminology isn't even that complicated once you learn it but these generic services clearly don't train their people on any of it. I'm pulling the plug this week. Been poking around at some of the industry specific options, saw a few names come up like sonant and a couple others that are supposedly trained on insurance calls specifically but honestly at this point I'm skeptical anything that isn't our own staff will get it right. Anyone else dealt with this when trying to automate or outsource something in a specialized field? feels like the generic tools just don't cut it when there's real domain knowledge involved.
Reddit6mo agoToolProductivity
A startup founder loses focus and productivity juggling 5-7 tools for a single project. Existing «all-in-one» platforms don't provide the feel of a unified workspace.
ProblemHunt7mo agoToolProductivity
Fans of paper planners lack an iPad app that would allow importing PDF layout templates and using them as a foundation for digital notes
ProblemHunt8mo agoToolProductivity
Clients struggle to verify the competence and pricing honesty of freelancers when creating websites — there is no AI tool for real-time proposal analysis.
ProblemHunt9mo agoToolFreelance
Problem of access to loans for immigrants in the EU
ProblemHunt10mo agoToolImmigration
Problem of managing type 1 diabetes without AI assistance
ProblemHunt11mo agoToolAI
Truckers Need Unified Business Management Platform
Owner-operator truckers struggle to manage dispatching, invoicing, compliance, fuel, maintenance, and finances across fragmented tools and spreadsheets
YC Graveyard6y agoToolB2B / Transportation
Npunlock – Run custom C kernels for Intel NPUs
Hacker News2d agoToolOther
AgentRun: DSL to turn agents into workflows
Hi HN,I just open sourced the DSL that our harness in grep.ai uses to turn repeatable parts of agent work into workflows. You can combine tool calls, code, Jev-powered system one decisions for things like routing and screening evidence, and agents when a step needs more investigation.Our harness uses the traces and retro notes agents leave behind when doing a job to figure out which parts can become a workflow. The idea is to make the work easier to understand and avoid paying for a full agent loop where one isn’t needed. For example, a research workflow can split a question into subquestions, send agents to research them in parallel, use Jev to screen the evidence, and have another agent write the report. You can inspect the steps, evaluate the evidence screening separately, or change one agent without rebuilding everything.The DSL and examples are in our GitHub. There’s a scripted demo you can run without API keys: https://github.com/Parcha-ai/agentrunYou can also use it as a Pi extension to build, inspect, and run workflows: https://github.com/Parcha-ai/agentrun#use-it-in-piI would love to hear if this is useful to others.More background on how AgentRun works in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOVhtGjtwpg. Or read about our use cases in this article: https://x.com/MiguelriosEN/status/2101029313906987422.
Hacker News1d agoToolAI
Air-gapped file encryption as self-decrypting HTML page
Air-gapped file encryption packed into a single, self-decrypting HTML page. Repo: https://github.com/ApelegHQ/ts-cms-ep-sfxI was inspired by self-extracting archives. I wanted to share files with basically no dependencies. The goal was: 1. Something that didn't require any installation (assuming a web browser) 2. Have a single file with no network that could self-decrypt 3. Be fully auditable The second point is done by having (sort of(*)) reproducible builds and embedded OpenPGP signatures.The first point is made by cleverly manipulating the HTML structure so that it can decrypt without breaking the PGP signature. It can even decrypt using bare openssl (which was a design goal too, though getting the exact structure right took some work and bug reports).The third point is accomplished by the first two, and by the source being freely available.(*) Depends on the OS at the moment.
Hacker News1d agoToolAI
Whiteboard (YC W26) – An open-source IDE for thoughtful software design
Hello! We’re Sid, Alex, Ketan, and Milan. We’re building Whiteboard (https://whiteboard.dev.fast/), an open-source desktop app where humans and agents can architect software together in a common workspace. Here’s our repo: https://github.com/devdotfast/whiteboard.We were missing the feeling of a “whiteboard session” with another dev where you leave with a deep understanding of a system, so we built this app for ourselves. Whiteboard plugs into the tools you already use - e.g. Claude Code, Codex, etc. – and gives your agent an SDK to draw on an in-app canvas to describe its work. We began with an MVP based on HTML artifacts and started rethinking the app as we ran into limitations:1. Built on top of CodeOSS: We found that in pure HTML tools it was hard to connect a spec or diagram to code. In Whiteboard, when you click on visualizations like a sequence diagram, an entity relationship diagram, or a quote from the agent’s trace, you can jump to the underlying code directly. When navigating code, you get keybindings and LSP support from VSCode out of the box. We’ve found this is especially valuable because tradeoffs are often only discovered after a first pass at implementation (re: slop)2. Semantic diff viewer: we wrote a semantic, AST-aware diff viewer in Rust so you can only view the code changes which are relevant to you [1]. We’ve set up some sane defaults: large added functions are summarized as pseudocode, and things like unit tests and large documentation changes are collapsed / hidden. This is all customizable with a WASM-based plugin system.3. Decision Log: We found it difficult to reason about what set of decisions our agents made autonomously. So we built tools for agents to query and link their own traces to the Whiteboard, so you can understand how the requirements that you set were implemented, and understand what decisions your agent made autonomously.Here’s a quick demo video explaining more: https://www
Hacker News17h agoToolAI