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Banking for Cannabis Industry
Cannabis businesses struggle with payment processing and loans due to federal illegality and bank restrictions. The industry still lacks reliable financial services.
YC Graveyard11y agoToolFinancial Services
Job Matching & Placement Automation
Automating the process of matching job seekers with relevant opportunities at scale
YC Graveyard18y agoToolB2B
Unified Messaging for Small Teams
Lightweight, low-friction messaging and communication tool for small teams and groups
YC Graveyard19y agoToolConsumer
Talent Discovery & Hiring for Creatives
Streamlined way for brands/agencies to discover and hire freelance creative talent (designers, videographers, etc.)
YC Graveyard18y agoToolB2B
Event Planning and Guest Management
Creating and managing event invitations, RSVPs, and guest coordination is tedious and fragmented across email, spreadsheets, and manual tracking
YC Graveyard18y agoToolConsumer
Simple Social Bookmarking for Knowledge Workers
Knowledge workers need a lightweight, searchable, shareable bookmarking service to organize and rediscover saved links/articles without clutter or lock-in.
YC Graveyard14y agoToolB2B
Remote Collaboration and Team Presence
Teams working remotely or across locations struggle to stay connected, coordinate work, and understand who's available without constant status updates
YC Graveyard18y agoToolB2B
Insurance distribution fragmentation and complex agent workflows
Insurance agents use fragmented legacy systems to issue policies. Complex multi-step distribution workflows, high manual data entry, poor automation integration.
YC Graveyard9y agoToolFintech
Digital Care Coordination for Chronic Conditions
Patients with complex chronic conditions (diabetes, heart disease, COPD) struggle to coordinate care across multiple specialists, manage medication adherence, and track health metrics. Existing solutions are siloed or require heavy medical infrastructure.
YC Graveyard6y agoToolHealthcare
Group buying discount platform for India
Indians want access to bulk discounts like Pinduoduo offers in China, but lack a platform designed for Indian payment systems and consumer behavior.
YC Graveyard5y agoToolConsumer
Crypto Payment Gateway Access
Merchants and individuals struggle to easily integrate crypto buy/sell functionality with simple APIs and low fees. Getting regulatory compliance and payment processing integration is difficult.
YC Graveyard4y agoToolFintech
Digital check writing is unnecessarily painful
Check writing still exists (B2B payments, landlords, contractors) but digital tools are clunky. Glassjar solved it but failed due to execution/timing. Today, a solo builder could create a lean check-printing SaaS that integrates with banking APIs, handles check image generation and mailing via USPS services.
YC Graveyard11y agoToolFintech
SmallDocs – Markdown without the frustrations
Hi HN, I’d like to introduce you to SmallDocs (https://sdocs.dev). SDocs is a CLI + webapp to instantly and 100% privately elegantly preview and share markdown files. (Code: https://github.com/espressoplease/SDocs)The more we work with command line based agents the more `.md` files are part of our daily lives. Their output is great for agents to produce, but a little bit frustrating for humans: Markdown files are slightly annoying to read/preview and fiddly to share/receive. SDocs was built to resolve these pain points.If you `sdoc path/to/file.md` (after `npm i -g sdocs-dev`) it instantly opens in the browser for you to preview (with our hopefully-nice-to-look-at default styling) and you can immediately share the url.The `.md` files our agents produce contain some of the most sensitive information we have (about codebases, unresolved bugs, production logs, etc.). For this reason 100% privacy is an essential component of SDocs.To achieve this SDoc urls contain your markdown document's content in compressed base64 in the url fragment (the bit after the `#`):https://sdocs.dev/#md=GzcFAMT...(this is the contents of your document)...The cool thing about the url fragment is that it is never sent to the server (see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/URI/Reference/F...: "The fragment is not sent to the server when the URI is requested; it is processed by the client").The sdocs.dev webapp is purely a client side decoding and rendering engine for the content stored in the url fragment. This means the contents of your document stays with you and those you choose to share it with, the SDocs server doesn't access it. (Feel free to inspect/get your agent to inspect our code to confirm this!)Because `.md` files might play a big role in the future of work, SDocs wants to push the boundaries of styling and rendering interesting content in markd
Hacker News5mo agoToolAI
Kampala (YC W26) – Reverse-Engineer Apps into APIs
Hey! I am Alex and together with my co-founder Tarun built Kampala (https://www.zatanna.ai/kampala). It’s a man-in-the-middle (MITM) style proxy that allows you to agentically reverse engineer existing workflows without brittle browser automation or computer use agents. It works for websites, mobile apps, desktop apps.Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_PeostC-b4. Many people spend hours per day in legacy dashboards and on-prem solutions reconciling data across platforms. Current attempts at automation use browser automations or computer use agents which are brittle, slow, and nondeterministic. I come from a web reverse engineering background and spent the last 7-8 years building integrations by hand for sneaker/ticket releases, sportsbooks logins, and everything in\ between. During that time I consulted for several companies and brought them off of browser based infrastructure into the requests layer.When we started Zatanna (that’s our company name) we worked in dental tech, which meant we had to deal with tons of insurance payer dashboards and legacy dental-practice solutions. Our superpower (as a fairly undifferentiated voice agent/front desk assistant company) was that we could integrate with nearly any system requested. During this time we built extensive tooling (including what we’re now calling Kampala) to allow us to spin up these integrations quickly. Existing MITM proxies and tooling didn’t work for a few reasons: (1) They manipulated the TLS and HTTP2 fingerprint over the wire which was detected by strict anti-bots. (2) They had bad MCPs which did not adequately expose necessary features like scripts/replay. (3) They did not allow for building workflows or actions given a sample or sequence of requests.As the tools we built got more powerful, we began to use them internally to scrape conference attendees, connect to external PMS systems, and interact with slack apps. I even sent it to my property manager
Hacker News5mo agoToolAI
Plain – The full-stack Python framework designed for humans and agents
Hacker News5mo agoToolAI
CodeBurn – Analyze Claude Code token usage by task
Built this after realizing I was spending ~$1400/week on Claude Code with almost no visibility into what was actually consuming tokens.Tools like ccusage give a cost breakdown per model and per day, but I wanted to understand usage at the task level.CodeBurn reads the JSONL session transcripts that Claude Code stores locally (~/.claude/projects/) and classifies each turn into 13 categories based on tool usage patterns (no LLM calls involved).One surprising result: about 56% of my spend was on conversation turns with no tool usage. Actual coding (edits/writes) was only ~21%.The interface is an interactive terminal UI built with Ink (React for terminals), with gradient bar charts, responsive panels, and keyboard navigation. There’s also a SwiftBar menu bar integration for macOS.Happy to hear feedback or ideas.
Hacker News5mo agoToolAI
Lack of niche apps for analyzing specific wearable health data
No simple wrappers or apps exist to customize and monetize open-source health platform data from wearables for specific niches like muscle gains or heart health tracking.
X6mo agoToolMedicine & Health
No dating app that matches users based on Goodreads book preferences
Users crave a dating app similar to Goodreads where matches are made based on shared book tastes and reading lists, as current dating apps fail to prioritize intellectual compatibility in this way.
X5mo agoToolDating & Community