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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 Trends6mo 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.
X7mo 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.
X7mo 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.
X7mo 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
Reddit7mo 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.
Reddit7mo 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.
ProblemHunt8mo 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
ProblemHunt9mo 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
ProblemHunt11mo agoToolImmigration
Problem of managing type 1 diabetes without AI assistance
ProblemHunt11mo agoToolAI
Cyberattack alert platform for bank customers and enterprises
Bank customers and small businesses need a simple tool to monitor and receive alerts about cyberattacks affecting major banks like SBI to proactively protect their data and accounts. [Trending: "state bank of india" with 2000+ searches in IN]
Google Trends11h agoToolFinanceIN
Track and notify users of GLP-1 medication recalls and safety alerts
Patients and healthcare providers need a reliable tool to get timely alerts and detailed information about GLP-1 medication recalls and safety issues, as current sources are scattered and often delayed. [Trending: "glp 1 medication safety recall" with 500+ searches in US]
Google Trends11h agoToolMedicine & HealthUS
Serving Spanish-speaking US population with dedicated banking services
US Spanish speakers face challenges in banking including language barriers and lack of tailored financial products.
YC Graveyard4y agoToolFinancial Services
AI Shopping Agent for Ecommerce Stores
Ecommerce store owners struggle to provide intelligent, personalized shopping assistance that boosts conversions and reduces customer service load.
YC Graveyard1y agoToolEcommerce/B2B
Death Plan Switch, a self-hosted dead man's switch for solo devs
Hi HN,I'm Peter Bishop and I've been working in graphics and web tech for over 25yrs.I've recently launched Death Plan Switch to solve a major problem in my succession plan. What if I go missing or die? The right people are told and my business can continue to operate for my clients.There's a backstory to this project, I was hospitalised in 2012 and lost my business back then and I couldn't get the data to my technical 2IC in time without frustrating my clients.Death Plan Switch solves this problem, it's free to download and use or study under the MIT license.I've been using it for the last few weeks. It was authored with the help of Claude Code after writing an extensive MD document and it passed 42 unit tests.I hope you get some use out of it, or it inspires your own succession plans. My clients are telling me this is a strong sales feature when they trust me with their hosting and technology accounts.Happy to answer any questions.Kind regards, Peter Bishop.
Hacker News1d agoToolAI
Respan (YC W24) – Open-source Rust AI gateway built around plugins
Hey HN, this is Andy from Respan (https://www.respan.ai). We are building an open-source Rust AI gateway. It is a decoupled gateway, so everything is a plugin, including different providers, protocols (MCP, voice), modalities (images, videos), and gateway features (fallbacks, PII redaction, smart routing).Instead of packaging tons of providers and features into one gateway, Respan provides a small core and public interfaces that teams can use to assemble the AI infrastructure their application needs. That way, users can build their own features as additional plugins without having to change the gateway's core.Here’s a video demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVv2ibXiTXMThere are countless LLM gateways and most of them solve a common problem: calling different providers from a single endpoint. However, adding new features can become prohibitively difficult. So developers can end up building another gateway to solve a specific problem.We've been building our gateway based on LiteLLM since 2024, and now it's providing services for thousands of orgs. Each org needs different API key settings, routes, and limits. To support that, we kept wrapping LiteLLM, adding more features to it, and at one stage, our wrapper code exceeded 100,000 lines.This January, a routine LiteLLM upgrade caused intermittent connection errors, and we had to roll back. We still haven't figured out the cause, but since then, we no longer upgrade LiteLLM directly and instead manually backport upstream fixes. These experiences made us realize that continuing to patch LiteLLM is not a sustainable long-term solution, and we had to redesign the gateway ourselves.While redesigning our gateway, we wanted to make it easier to add features without breaking existing ones. Inspired by Nginx, we think an AI gateway should have a really small core, only responsible for dispatching events.We believe that everything should be a plugin in our gateway, including provid
Hacker News19h agoToolAI