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Startups struggle to quickly generate essential legal documents like privacy policies, ToS, and NDAs
Startup founders face challenges with compliance and creating legal docs manually or via expensive lawyers, leading to delays and high costs.
X5mo agoToolLegal
A designer needs an AI agent to eliminate the manual drudgery of adapting designs for mobile/tablet. Willing to pay €20–30 per project.
ProblemHunt5mo agoToolAI
Low-learning-curve 3D modeling tool for non-professionals
Blender has a steep learning curve; designers, product managers, and hobbyists need simpler 3D tools for basic modeling (mockups, visualizations). Demand exists for web-based or simplified desktop 3D editor with templates. [Google Search suggestion]
Google Trends5mo agoToolDesign & CreativeUS
Open-source text-to-speech API wrapper for cost-conscious developers
Developers searching for ElevenLabs alternatives face fragmented open-source TTS options (Piper, Glow-TTS, Tortoise) with no unified API. A lightweight wrapper/manager tool could unify access, provide cost tracking, and simplify switching between open models. [Google Search suggestion]
Google Trends5mo agoToolDevUS
Locating nearby branch locations for traditional banks
People searching for bank branch locations lack a unified tool showing updated branch availability, hours, and services. Banks are reversing branch closures but availability info is scattered across fragmented sources. [Trending: "barclays online banking" with 200+ searches in GB]
Google Trends5mo agoToolFinanceGB
Auto-scaling cloud infrastructure with simplified pricing
GoScale solved dynamic VM scaling and cost optimization for developers who struggled with manual infrastructure management and unpredictable cloud bills.
YC Graveyard14y agoToolDev
Converting ML models into optimized custom hardware
Tooling to compile machine learning models into efficient hardware implementations. Real problem as ML deployment complexity grows; now more viable as model ecosystems mature and AI coding tools improve.
YC Graveyard7y agoToolDev
Water delivery marketplace for urban areas
Marketplace connecting water suppliers to consumers in water-stressed urban regions. Addresses real logistical problem of water scarcity in India and similar markets.
YC Graveyard9y agoToolLogistics & Delivery
How do systems (or people) detect when a text is written by an LLM
Hello guys, just curious about how can people or systems (computers) detect when a text was written by an LLM. My question is mainly focused to if there is some API or similar to detect if a text was written by an LLM. Thanks!!!
Hacker News5mo agoToolAI
Modo – I built an open-source alternative to Kiro, Cursor, and Windsurf
Hacker News5mo agoToolDesign & Creative
I made a YouTube search form with advanced filters
Hacker News5mo agoToolOther
Freestyle – Sandboxes for Coding Agents
We’re Ben and Jacob, cofounders of Freestyle (https://freestyle.sh). We’re building a cloud for Coding Agents.For the first generation of agents it looked like workflows with minimal tools. 2 years ago we published a package to let AI work in SQL, at that time GPT-4 could write simple scripts. Soon after the first AI App Builders started using AI to make whole websites; we supported that with a serverless deploy system.But the current generation is going much further, instead of minimal tools and basic serverless apps AI can utilize the full power of a computer (“sandbox”). We’re building sandboxes that are interchangeable with EC2s from your agents perspective, with bonus features:1. We’ve figured out how to fork a sandbox horizontally without more than a 400ms pause in it. That's not forking the filesystem, we mean forking the whole memory of it. If you’re half way down a browser page with animations running, they’ll be in the same place in all the forks. If you’re running a minecraft server every block and player will be in the same place on the forks. If you’re running a local environment and an error comes up in process that error will be there in all the forks. This works for snapshotting as well, you can save your place and come back weeks later.2. Our sandboxes start in ~500ms.Demo: https://www.loom.com/share/8b3d294d515442f296aecde1f42f5524Compared with other sandboxes, our goal is to be the most powerful. We support full Linux + hardware-virtualization, eBPF, Fuse, etc. We run full Debian with multiple users and we use a systemd init instead of runc. Whatever your AI expects to work on debian should work on these vms, and if it doesn’t send a bug report.In order to make this possible, we’ve moved to our own bare metal racks. Early in our testing we realized that moving VMs across cloud nodes would not have acceptable performance properties. We asked Google Cloud and AWS for a quote on their bare metal nodes and found tha
Hacker News5mo agoToolAI
GovAuctions lets you browse government auctions at once
I've long been into finding deals on government auction sites (seizures, surplus sales etc.) - right now for example San Diego DHS is selling 26 tons of lead shot, with bidding starting at $1,000 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯It has historically been extremely tedious though: scanning dozens of janky sites which have interminable page loading times; back buttons take you all the way back to the homepage etc.The site I built - GovAuctions - lets you search every government surplus auction at once. You can filter by location, category, and price, save items to a watchlist, and get alerts when new auctions match what you're looking for.Let me know what you think, if you have any suggestions, and if you find any deals in your area!
Hacker News5mo agoToolMarketing & Sales
How do you handle marketing as a solo technical founder?
I've shipped multiple products over the past few years. Every single one followed the same pattern: build, post, get 12 likes from friends, a bit of organic traction, then nothing. Back to coding a new thing.I know I need marketing help but giving equity to someone I met online feels like a huge risk. At the same time hiring a paid marketer when you have zero revenue feels just as scary. And I'm not dancing on TikTok, that's for sure.Have any of you actually taken on a marketing co-founder? What made you say yes to that person specifically? Was it their track record, the way they pitched, a trial period first?
Hacker News5mo agoToolAI
Reconstructing weekly activities from scattered logs every Monday morning
Professionals waste the first hour of each week manually searching and piecing together what happened last week from Friday logs and notes, hindering immediate productivity.
X5mo agoToolProductivity
Manually compiling raw documents into structured LLM knowledge bases and wikis
Researchers and professionals collect raw documents but rely on hacky scripts and manual processes in tools like Obsidian to compile them into a structured, queryable wiki with summaries, backlinks, and articles for LLM interaction, lacking a dedicated product.
X5mo agoToolProductivity
Manual DNS enumeration and Burp sitemap population in pentesting
Pentesters and security researchers repeatedly manually enumerate DNS records, determine live hosts, and request them in browsers to populate Burp Suite target sitemaps.
X5mo agoToolDev
Manual prospect profile research for outreach
Sales and outreach teams manually read and check each prospect's profiles on LinkedIn, X, and personal websites to customize their outreach efforts.
X5mo agoToolMarketing & Sales