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Customers report symptoms not full context of issues
Under stress, clients send vague reports like screenshots without context, making it hard for support teams or freelancers to diagnose and resolve technical problems quickly.
X7mo agoTemplateProductivity
Photos ruined by mismatched good face/bad body or vice versa
Users take multiple shots where either face or body is off; need auto-transfer of best face to best body photo without manual editing.
X5mo agoToolDesign & Creative
No dedicated app like Letterboxd for rating and logging music albums
Music fans lack a simple mobile app to track, rate albums, and share logs similar to movie tracking apps.
X5mo agoToolMedia
Users risk exposing private nudes accidentally due to manual gallery management
Sorting and hiding sensitive photos in phone galleries is tedious and prone to errors, especially for users sharing devices or fearing breaches.
X5mo agoToolProductivity
Tedious manual unfollowing of accumulated Instagram accounts
Instagram users follow many shops and inactive profiles over time, but cleaning the list one-by-one takes too long; need bulk tool.
X5mo agoToolProductivity
Event tickets sell out too fast without urgent notifications
Current ticket monitoring lacks loud, insistent alerts like a fire alarm, causing users to miss limited availability despite watching.
X5mo agoToolOther
Affordable modular housing
Lack of portable, affordable, beautiful smart homes that can be deployed quickly and customized easily
YC Graveyard9y agoToolReal Estate and Construction
Manufacturing coordination and resource optimization
Small and medium manufacturers struggle to optimize production capacity, find spare manufacturing capacity, and coordinate supply chain operations
YC Graveyard9y agoToolIndustrials
Collaborative Knowledge Management & Wiki Infrastructure
Infogami attempted to build accessible wiki/knowledge base software for teams and communities to organize and share information collaboratively.
YC Graveyard21y agoToolB2B Software
Building a solo business is impossible?
I, like many engineers, dream about turning my love to programming into a side business. Nothing crazy, but enough to replace an average SWE income. And I, like many engineers, fell into the "build, and they will come" trap.I tried to build, calibrate, engage in SEO, talk to customers, but I can't seem to find traction. On one hand, people say that you need to build to solve a problem. You find a problem in a niche, say accounting for plumbers, and build for that, then you just go and market to these people. On the other hand, I see people who advocate for "I just built something that I needed, and it got traction". There are multiple examples for both camps, but the problem is that they contradict each other.This leads me to believe that most people either get lucky and then apply a framework in retrospect to justify their luck, or they simply don't tell the whole truth.I want to escape a salaried coder job, more so with the "push" of vibe coding across the board. But I have no idea how to approach a business. I refuse to believe that everyone who succeeded with a side project and replaced their job - is a liar, but maybe the truth is that it does not take 7 months, but 7 years?Anyone got something helpful to share in that regard?
Hacker News5mo agoToolDev
How did you get your first users with zero audience?
Solo developer, no audience, no network, no community presence.I've shipped working products (open-source) but every distribution channel has a cold start problem. you need traction to get traction. Even posting about your work requires reputation you can only build by posting. For those who built something with no existing audience to launch to: what specifically worked to get your first real users? Less interested in theory, more in "I did X and it actually moved the needle."
Hacker News5mo agoToolDev
How are you actively keeping your thinking sharp while using LLMs daily?
I've noticed AI tools have made me lazier. I used to think and reason through problems deeply, writing out my thoughts, going back and forth on items. With LLMs so easily available, I find myself having a conversation with Claude instead. I'm concerned that I'm not exercising my deep thinking muscles much.Anyone else feel this? And more specifically — what deliberate practices are you using to keep your reasoning sharp?
Hacker News5mo agoToolAI
Inefficient operations and compliance tracking for small teams with 10+ people
Teams managing operations with deadlines, approvals, and audit trails suffer from undocumented SOPs that aren't executed reliably, leading to errors and lost time.
X5mo agoToolBusiness
Fragmented food ordering from university campus vendors
University students struggle to order food from multiple small vendors and independent sellers on campus without a unified platform, leading to inconvenience; current solutions don't integrate campus-specific autônomos and vendinhas.
X5mo agoToolFood & Nutrition
Lack of easy project deployment platform tailored for Brazilian developers
Developers in Brazil need a simple tool like Vercel for creating and deploying projects easily, considering local infrastructure, payments, and latency issues that make international platforms suboptimal.
X6mo agoToolDev
Shortage of reliable local home service technicians
Homeowners face difficulty finding available electricians, plumbers, and other technicians locally due to lack of young professionals entering the field; market is underserved, with no easy digital booking despite demand.
X5mo agoOtherBusiness
Forced app downloads for simple purchases like cinema tickets and pizza
Consumers are frustrated with businesses requiring dedicated apps for basic transactions like buying cinema tickets or ordering pizza, preferring seamless web-based options; app fatigue hinders quick purchases.
X5mo agoToolE-Commerce
AI-Powered Personalized Weight Loss Coach
Users want affordable, personalized weight loss guidance without expensive personal trainers or nutritionists. Market is crowded but demand for budget-friendly, AI-driven coaching remains high. [Google Search suggestion]
Google Trends5mo agoToolSport & FitnessUS
Detect AI-written content with high accuracy and detail
Educators, publishers, and content teams need reliable AI detection to identify machine-generated writing. Existing tools (Turnitin, GPTZero, OpenAI detector) have high false-positive rates and limited detail on flagged sections. A more accurate detector with granular highlighting and batch processing could serve this growing need. [Google Search suggestion]
Google Trends5mo agoToolEducationUS