Ideas Lab
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Yoink – Spotify to lossless with full metadata, self-hostable, ad-free
Hacker News7mo agoToolOther
NFT project launch tools suffer from terrible UX causing frequent failures
NFT projects commonly fail not due to poor ideas but weak launches stemming from terrible user experience in tools, incorrect chain selection, bad timing, and insufficient hype generation mechanisms.
X7mo agoToolOther
Event networking hindered by manual social media follow-up
After events like Luma, extracting Twitter/Instagram handles from attendees, sorting by engagement, and following them is time-consuming and inefficient.
X7mo agoToolOther
Sonar – A tiny CLI to see and kill whatever's running on localhost
Hacker News7mo agoToolOther
Friction in accessing A/B test and experiment results
Users of experiment tools face constant context-switching, logins, and dashboards to get test results, preventing quick insights via simple queries.
X8mo agoToolOther
Communication and service platform for incarcerated people and their families
High costs for phone calls, video visits, and money transfers make it difficult for incarcerated individuals to stay connected with family. This remains a real pain point affecting millions of families.
YC Graveyard11y agoToolOther
No simple app to erase entire digital footprint
People want a single app that erases their digital presence across all platforms and services completely, allowing them to 'disappear' online without manual effort on each site.
X8mo agoToolOther
Dropshippers cannot reliably dub winning English video ads into other languages like Spanish without tools removing music and producing dead-sounding ads that kill performance
Current video dubbing solutions destroy ad quality, leading marketers to spend months rebuilding or lose international sales opportunities. Author validated the pain by experiencing it firsthand and building a fix after 8 months.
X7mo agoToolOther
Native support for web sockets
We've been attempting to migrate our app from sapper to sveltekit and ran into the problem of web sockets, in sapper we could simply attach the WebSocket server directly to the express server and be done with it, but as per Rich Harris' comments [here](https://github.com/sveltejs/kit/issues/334#issuecomment-804987028) and here [here](https://github.com/sveltejs/kit/issues/334#issuecomment-806289525) in sveltekit we don't want to expose direct access to the middlwares thus promoting the node adapter over the serverless ones. However seeing as some of the serverless providers are starting to support web sockets ([cloudflare](https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-websockets-in-workers/)) ([begin](https://blog.begin.com/introducing-architect-5-0-fully-serverless-websockets-20bb97673c4e)) ([AWS Lambda](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/announcing-websocket-apis-in-amazon-api-gateway/)) should sveltekit provide a way to handle these connections directly? A native approach to this could also potentially provide a tool to solve this [issue](https://github.com/sveltejs/kit/issues/87) and [this](https://github.com/sveltejs/kit/issues/887) **Describe the solution you'd like** An interesting solution could be to expose functions in endpoints in the same way we handle http requests, and then let the adapters handle the rest ```routes/api/index.ts``` ```js // Handle post requests export const post: RequestHandler = async (request) => {....} // Handle web socket requests export const ws: WebSocketRequestHandler = async (request) => {....} ``` A concern with this approach could be mixing protocols, within an endpoint could be confusing. Another could be if this becomes too complicated since as far as I know the initial [handshake](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebSockets_API/Writing_WebSocket_servers#the_websocket_handshake) to start a WebSocket connection is handled over http, would this then be handled directly by sveltekit which cou
GitHub5y agoToolOther
Sales teams struggle to find leads from recently funded startups
No centralized tool to discover and contact customers from companies that just raised funding, wasting time on manual research.
X7mo agoToolOther
Sales teams repeat basic demos on unqualified calls
Sales reps waste time giving identical basic product walkthroughs to early-stage prospects who book demos just to learn basics.
X7mo agoToolOther
No world quest tracker for Genshin Impact
Players lack a reliable way to track completed and pending world quests in Genshin Impact, causing frustration for completionists.
X7mo agoToolOther
Need a reliable service for relaxing back hair removal using tweezers
User's mother used to remove back hair with tweezers, finds it relaxing but bothersome now without it; would pay for a business offering this service.
X7mo agoOtherOther
No user-friendly app for optimizing salespeople's multi-stop travel routes
Salespeople who travel frequently to multiple locations throughout the year struggle to find the shortest efficient route that visits each location once before returning home, leading to wasted time and fuel costs.
X8mo agoToolOther
No self-cleaning lint rollers available
Users of lint rollers deal with the hassle of manually cleaning accumulated lint from the roller itself, making repeated use inefficient and messy.
X7mo agoOtherOther
AI agents can't reliably build and deploy production apps without manual developer intervention
Currently, developers using AI agents to build fullstack applications must manually set up backend infrastructure (databases, auth, storage), integrate multiple services, and translate agent outputs into deployable code. This creates bottlenecks where agents get stuck on infrastructure decisions, agents can't autonomously handle critical backend operations, and even simple app deployments require significant human oversight. Teams either abandon agent-driven development or spend weeks building custom integrations.
Product Hunt7mo agoToolOther
Scale to zero
I have a serious side-project habit - I often have dozens of side projects on the go at once. As such, I really appreciate scale-to-zero services like Google Cloud Run and Vercel, where if my project isn't getting any traffic at all it costs me nothing (or just a few cents a month in storage costs) - then it spins up a server when a request comes in, with a cold-start delay of a few seconds before it starts serving traffic. I would love it if App Runner could do this! It looks like at the moment you have to pay for a minimum of one running instance.
GitHub5y agoToolOther
Absence of a mind-reading personalized recommender for niche content like fanfics, doramas, movies, and books
Users struggle with discovery, constantly trying dozens of mismatched fanfics, doramas, AUs, movies, and books; need an intelligent system that perfectly matches their exact tastes without trial-and-error.
X7mo agoToolOther
Users waste time searching their phone for the perfect meme to send in group chats
People who actively participate in group chats spend several minutes per day scrolling through their camera roll, downloads, or meme folders trying to find a meme that matches the current conversation vibe. This breaks conversation flow, slows down real-time banter, and often results in sending a suboptimal meme or giving up entirely. The friction of app-switching and manual searching kills the spontaneity that makes meme-based communication fun.
Product Hunt8mo agoToolOther