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Unified credit card spending tracker and optimizer
Users struggle to track spending across multiple credit cards, optimize rewards, and avoid interest on balances. No single tool aggregates card usage, alerts on due dates, and recommends which card to use for max rewards. [Google Search suggestion]
Google Trends5mo agoToolFinanceUS
Multi-account email management with unified inbox and smart routing
Professionals and small business owners manage multiple Gmail accounts but lose track of important emails across them. A unified inbox with AI-powered email routing, smart notifications, and quick-switch reduces context-switching and missed messages. [Google Search suggestion]
Google Trends5mo agoToolProductivityUS
Automated job application bulk submission tool
Job seekers spend hours manually filling identical application forms across platforms. A tool that auto-populates and submits applications to multiple job boards using a single profile would save time and increase application volume. Existing solutions are fragmented or expensive. [Google Search suggestion]
Google Trends5mo agoToolHR & CareerUS
Exam result notification aggregator for Indian boards
Students across Indian state boards (TSBIE, BIEAP, etc.) have fragmented result release processes with unclear timelines. A tool that aggregates official release dates, sends SMS/email alerts, and auto-fills login credentials to fetch results could save hours of manual checking. [Trending: "telangana state board of intermediate education" with 5000+ searches in IN]
Google Trends5mo agoToolEducationIN
Aggregated Civil Service Exam Opportunity Alerts
Job seekers in Brazil struggle to track fragmented public sector exam announcements across state courts and agencies. A tool that consolidates all 'concurso público' listings, filters by location/salary/eligibility, and sends alerts solves this coordination problem. [Trending: "concurso público" with 100+ searches in BR]
Google Trends5mo agoToolHR & CareerBR
At-Home Blood Testing and Health Insights
Consumers want convenient at-home blood testing with personalized health insights and analysis. The core problem—accessible home health monitoring—is still real, but the execution needs to be lean and digital-first.
YC Graveyard9y agoTemplateMedicine & Health
Group messaging with instant voice/text to multiple friends
Users want a frictionless way to initiate quick group conversations (voice or text) without creating formal group chats. Still relevant as group communication remains scattered across apps.
YC Graveyard14y agoToolProductivity
Gemma 4 Multimodal Fine-Tuner for Apple Silicon
About six months ago, I started working on a project to fine-tune Whisper locally on my M2 Ultra Mac Studio with a limited compute budget. I got into it. The problem I had at the time was I had 15,000 hours of audio data in Google Cloud Storage, and there was no way I could fit all the audio onto my local machine, so I built a system to stream data from my GCS to my machine during training.Gemma 3n came out, so I added that. Kinda went nuts, tbh.Then I put it on the shelf.When Gemma 4 came out a few days ago, I dusted it off, cleaned it up, broke out the Gemma part from the Whisper fine-tuning and added support for Gemma 4.I'm presenting it for you here today to play with, fork and improve upon.One thing I have learned so far: It's very easy to OOM when you fine-tune on longer sequences! My local Mac Studio has 64GB RAM, so I run out of memory constantly.Anywho, given how much interest there is in Gemma 4, and frankly, the fact that you can't really do audio fine-tuning with MLX, that's really the reason this exists (in addition to my personal interest). I would have preferred to use MLX and not have had to make this, but here we are. Welcome to my little side quest.And so I made this. I hope you have as much fun using it as I had fun making it.-Matt
Hacker News5mo agoToolAI
AdaShape-3D modeler for intuitive 3D printing parts / Windows 11
I've spent the last years obsessed with a sideproject to build a humanistic 3D modeler for desktop.By humanistic I mean a tool that stays out of your way, instead of requiring the user to learn both a complex UX surface as well as a complex theoretical basis before being able to model effectively. The GUI is uncrowded and the modeling affordances are only those which are intuitive to present to the user. Which is sort of backwards compared to most CAD packages where the technical complexity takes the front stage. Here the hierarchy is intentionally reversed.This is still in alpha-stage, but the features are mature enough for feedback and experimentation.TinkerCAD is actually what comes philosophically closest to this, but it's hobbled either by Autodesk's strategy or by technical limitation to be a really good tool beyond certain complexity.The ambition here eventually is to provide a tool that has same intuitive capability as building Lego bricks, while not compromising on engineering qualities.The main intent is to make extrusion based modeling operations super easy, to offer robust STL and STEP import and allow complex modeling via boolean operations.The modeling logic is parametric and volume based - the surface presentation is always a discretized water tight triangle mesh.This is the clearest philosophical differentiator to traditional CAD/CAM packages - or visual editors like Blender. Rather than force the user to nurse surface topology at every stage, the modeler will only permit those operations that result in a correct output.This is not an SDF (signed distance field) modeler. The domain model is fully based on parametric analytic shapes. This means the tessellation is crisp and specific.The modeling data is immutable and serialized to disk while modeling. For the user this gives a perfect undo and zero data loss.It's built for efficiency first - my test workhorse is a Thinkpad T14 Gen 2 i5 with an integrated gpu.It's not su
Hacker News5mo agoToolAI
Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS
I built this because I wanted to see how far I could get with a voice-to-text app that used 100% local models so no data left my computer. I've been using a ton for coding and emails. Experimenting with using it as a voice interface for my other agents too. 100% open-source MIT license, would love feedback, PRs, and ideas on where to take it.
Hacker News5mo agoToolAI
Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead
Last week SWYX nerd-sniped me into building an Open-source Dropbox.Here is Locker: the ultimate open-source Google Drive/box/Dropbox alternative - Provider agnostic (S3, R2, vercel blob, local) - BYOB (Bring your own bucket) - Virtual file system - QMD Search plugin
Hacker News5mo agoToolDesign & Creative
Small businesses lack affordable AI tools without tech teams
Small businesses repeatedly hit operational walls and can't implement AI solutions due to high costs of hiring tech teams.
X5mo agoToolBusiness
Solo builders lack centralized project management workspace
Indie hackers juggle disorganized tracking for launches, revenue, content pipelines, feedback, and roadmaps across scattered tools.
X5mo agoTemplateProductivity
Indie devs waste weeks on repetitive SaaS boilerplate setup
Solo developers and indie hackers repeatedly build auth, billing, AI integration, and dashboards from scratch for each project, delaying launches by 2 weeks.
X5mo agoTemplateDev
Learning complex software lacks real-time on-screen guidance
Users learning tools like DaVinci Resolve waste time searching tutorials or screenshots; no seamless AI that observes the screen, speaks instructions, and points to elements in real-time.
X5mo agoToolEducation
Indie hackers lack a dedicated platform for product launches and discovery
Builders have no efficient way to submit, vote on, view activity for, and discover new product launches with proper search and notifications.
X5mo agoToolVC & Startups
Serious YouTube creators struggle to optimize content for virality
YouTube creators lose views due to suboptimal hooks, structure, and retention strategies, lacking specialized tools for analysis.
X5mo agoToolMedia
Hard to discover and collect relevant SaaS companies
Individuals and teams waste time manually searching and organizing lists of SaaS tools that fit their needs.
X5mo agoToolBusiness