Ideas Lab

Donors unable to verify charity effectiveness

Charities often mislead donors by assigning generic photos/animals and diverting funds to unrelated causes instead of specific aid.

X5mo agoToolFinance

72FL score

Struggling to maintain no-contact with ex-partners

People, especially women post-breakup, have trouble sticking to no-contact rules when exes reach out, leading to repeated emotional harm.

X7mo agoToolPsychology

Guitarists can't easily scroll chord sheets (cifras) on websites without interrupting play due to no mouse-free scrolling

Music chord websites lack hands-free or auto-scroll features, forcing players to stop playing to scroll down manually.

X5mo agoToolMedia

Founders and job seekers lose opportunities due to tracking chaos

Hiring processes fail because of spreadsheet disorganization: founders miss great candidates, job seekers get ghosted without follow-up.

X5mo agoToolHR & Career

Public transit app Moovit has the worst UX, frustrating daily commuters

Moovit's interface is so terrible that users claim it's the most hated app, indicating need for better transit navigation tools.

X5mo agoToolTransportation

Portuguese Wikipedia overly restrictive editing policies prevent meaningful contributions due to clique control

Gatekeeping editors delete relevant content like club seasons, frustrating users who switch to English version instead.

X5mo agoOtherOther

25FL score

Video creators find Alight Motion app extremely difficult and frustrating to use for edits

Popular mobile video editing app Alight Motion has poor usability, making simple edits time-consuming and hard.

X5mo agoToolDesign & Creative

72FL score

Artists struggle to upload artwork to Pixiv from desktop without using the hated mobile app

Artists who create exclusively on desktop forget to update Pixiv because they hate the phone app for uploads and are rarely on mobile.

X5mo agoToolDesign & Creative

SMS Scheduler for iPhone

Apple doesn't natively support scheduled text messages, creating friction for users wanting to send SMS at optimal times. A third-party tool filling this gap would solve a real workflow gap. [Google Search suggestion]

Google Trends5mo agoToolProductivityUS

55FL score

Ovulation Prediction & Cycle Tracking

Dedicated cycle tracking tool that predicts ovulation windows using AI, integrating health data and providing insights beyond standard period trackers. [Google Search suggestion]

Google Trends5mo agoToolMedicine & HealthUS

Energy Sector Stock Impact Analyzer

Investors need to understand geopolitical event impact on energy stocks like BP/Shell but lack accessible analysis tools. Automated sentiment and correlation analysis solves this. [Trending: "bp share price" with 1000+ searches in GB]

Google Trends5mo agoToolFinanceGB

Stock Screener for Undervalued UK Equities

Retail UK investors lack easy access to screeners identifying cheap FTSE 250 stocks with growth potential. A tool filtering by valuation metrics solves discovery friction. [Trending: "ftse 250" with 1000+ searches in GB]

Google Trends5mo agoToolFinanceGB

Stock Portfolio Tracking for Retail Investors

Retail investors struggle to monitor multiple stock holdings, understand price movements, and identify trading opportunities across fragmented platforms. A unified dashboard consolidating price alerts, news, and performance metrics solves this need. [Trending: "itm power share price" with 500+ searches in GB]

Google Trends5mo agoToolFinanceGB

Cryptocurrency/Alternative Currency Exchange & Trading Infrastructure

Developers and entrepreneurs lack accessible tools to build and launch their own digital currency marketplaces and trading platforms without deep blockchain expertise.

YC Graveyard10y agoToolFintech

Banking products for couples managing joint finances

Couples struggle to manage shared finances, split expenses, and coordinate financial decisions. Existing banks don't offer purpose-built tools for joint financial planning and transparency.

YC Graveyard5y agoToolFintech

Financial rewards that actually incentivize wealth building vs consumption

Traditional credit cards reward spending; users want rewards aligned with financial goals. Stock-based rewards cards offer behavioral alignment but require careful compliance and user education.

YC Graveyard5y agoToolFintech

Allow to disable Customer Portal

### Feature request ## Is your feature request related to a problem? Yes, it's a UX problem where my users get confused about where to manage their purchases. I'd like them to only know about my platform to avoid this confusion. Also, receiving Polar's order confirmation email and mine adds to the confusion. When they buy my product. ## Describe the solution you'd like I'd like to be able to disable Polar's communication with my users, as well as the customer portal. ## Describe alternatives you've considered 1. Being able to set the link shown in the email from Polar. 2. Being able to use Polar as merchant of record, but something like Stripe to handle payments. ## Additional context Link to the original [discord question](https://discord.com/channels/1078611507115470849/1422931380085587978)

GitHub11mo agoToolAI

AI Subroutines – Run automation scripts inside your browser tab

We built AI Subroutines in rtrvr.ai. Record a browser task once, save it as a callable tool, replay it at: zero token cost, zero LLM inference delay, and zero mistakes.The subroutine itself is a deterministic script composed of discovered network calls hitting the site's backend as well as page interactions like click/type/find.The key architectural decision: the script executes inside the webpage itself, not through a proxy, not in a headless worker, not out of process. The script dispatches requests from the tab's execution context, so auth, CSRF, TLS session, and signed headers get added to all requests and propagate for free. No certificate installation, no TLS fingerprint modification, no separate auth stack to maintain.During recording, the extension intercepts network requests (MAIN-world fetch/XHR patch + webRequest fallback). We score and trim ~300 requests down to ~5 based on method, timing relative to DOM events, and origin. Volatile GraphQL operation IDs are detected and force a DOM-only fallback before they break silently on the next run.The generated code combines network calls with DOM actions (click, type, find) in the same function via an rtrvr.* helper namespace. Point the agent at a spreadsheet of 500 rows and with just one LLM call parameters are assigned and 500 Subroutines kicked off.Key use cases:- record sending IG DM, then have reusable and callable routine to send DMs at zero token cost- create routine getting latest products in site catalog, call it to get thousands of products via direct graphql queries- setup routine to file EHR form based on parameters to the tool, AI infers parameters from current page context and calls tool- reuse routine daily to sync outbound messages on LinkedIn/Slack/Gmail to a CRM using a MCP serverWe see the fundamental reason that browser agents haven't taken off is that for repetitive tasks going through the inference loop is unnecessary. Better to just record once, and

Hacker News5mo agoToolAI

72FL score

Hiraeth – AWS Emulator

With the recent changes around Localstack pricing/licensing I've been hunting for alternatives. I decided that it might be a fun experiment to try rolling my own. SQS is a service I use heavily so I chose that as the first service to implement. I have more services planned and in development.A few things I think are cool:4MB Docker Image SizeInstant StartupAWS Sigv4 AuthenticationA little admin UI that can be helpful for development/troubleshootingMost of the SQS API implemented, the rest will soon follow :)

Hacker News5mo agoToolDev