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Healthcare providers lack integrated tools to track patient health metrics, medication adherence, and clinical outcomes efficiently. Missing one-liner suggests data/analytics focus in health tech.
YC Graveyard6y agoToolHealthcare
It's a macOS menu bar app that reads the text of your focused window every few seconds through the Accessibility API. No screenshots, no video, or OCR. It writes plain markdown, one file per day, into a folder you choose.Point Claude Code (or anything with file access) at the folder and ask "what did I work on Tuesday?" or have it build memory about your projects. The folder contains an AGENTS.md explaining the format to the model.Thought it might be useful for someone so chucked it up on GitHub
Hacker News22d agoToolAI
I am looking for ideas on what to train a specialized model for!What is one simple thing you repeatedly ask ChatGPT, Claude, or another model to do that it still somehow messes up?
Hacker News21d agoToolAI
I'm a master's engineering student and a big fan of LaTeX, which I used for my thesis and research articles. I have used Overleaf and that was fine until I wanted to git sync, which unfortunately sits behind a paywall. Since I didn't want to pay subscriptions for things that should simply just work, I built the editor I wanted in my free time, where you open a tab, write LaTeX, get your PDF and the files stay all in one folder on my disk.TeXbrain is a static site with no backend. pdfTeX is compiled to WebAssembly (SwiftLaTeX) and runs in your browser. The editor can read and write your project folder through the File System Access API, so you can use git, any local TeX install, local AI Agents, or any other editor on the same files. Git is built in through isomorphic-git for anyone who would rather not touch a terminal and clone, branch, commit, push or pull via commands. No account is needed, no analytics, and everything works offline after the first load.Try it out: https://tex.swimmingbrain.dev/ (Chromium browsers get direct folder access, while Firefox or Safari fall back to a virtual filesystem)Or for self-hosting/contributing: https://github.com/swimmingbrain/texbrain (MIT, the pdfTeX engine is EPL 2.0 / GPL 2.0 and is listed in the THIRD_PARTY_LICENSES file).The part I'm most proud of getting to work is the package loading. The engine itself is only 1.8 MB. When it asks for a file it doesn't have, then a service worker intercepts the request and resolves it through Cache Storage first, then a small bundled subset, then a TeX Live tree mirrored on jsDelivr, then a SwiftLaTeX style server as a last resort. Every file is fetched once at most and after the first successful compilation, the core subset is prefetched in the background so that the offline story actually holds. Only file names go over the network, never any document content.So far, it only supports pdfTeX (no XeTeX or LuaTeX), so f
Hacker News21d agoToolAI
We have been using graph DBs more and more at work. I found them painful to work with locally and decided to try and build something better.
Hacker News22d agoToolAI
Building alone exposes every weakness fully, makes setbacks feel much worse, and causes founders to waste time on unproductive loops without external input or cofounder balance.
X1mo agoToolVC & Startups
Developers build many projects but struggle to actually ship and launch them, leading to unfinished work and lost momentum.
X22d agoToolDev
Outside the US, founders face gatekeepers requiring personal connections before users engage, making it hard to reach strangers directly.
X22d agoOtherOther
Founders quit early because they focus on building but fail to master distribution, narrative, trust, and consistency needed to reach users.
X21d agoOtherOther
Public sharing of builds allows others to replicate products exactly, use failures as free learning, and launch faster without the original builder benefiting from the openness.
X26d agoArticleVC & Startups
Solo builders face a constant barrage of security vulnerabilities, bugs, and usability drop-offs that must be fixed alone at odd hours, with no team or funding to help, leading to an ever-growing list of breaking issues.
X24d agoToolVC & Startups
Indie makers launch too late after perfecting unnecessary details, ignore early user talks, treat marketing as afterthought, and overengineer instead of simplifying based on real feedback.
X8mo agoArticleVC & Startups
Solo builders spend hours fixing unrequested issues or adding random features because building feels productive while marketing feels uncomfortable, leading to stalled growth and no user acquisition.
X23d agoToolVC & Startups
Consumers lack personalized product recommendations and experiences tailored to their unique preferences, leading to poor discovery and engagement.
YC Graveyard9y agoToolConsumer
PicoMQ is a Rust server for Durable Streams, built on Object Store. Cheap, URL-addressable, granular streams (create/append/read/long-poll/SSE), with Pico Protocol or Durable Streams Protocol as the facade.S3Stream is the stream storage primitive, used in AutoMQ, shipped as a Rust library. Coordination is a command log in Postgres.
Hacker News23d agoToolDev
I think agent-first chat interfaces will be a primary software modality and busy dashboard/UI will go away. I’m not sure who exactly wins it, but I want my knowledge to grow/go with me.A lot of the “knowledge” ie research, analysis, reasoning will be done by agents as the primary user. Our current notes tools & tasks management systems were built for humans… I don’t care what the 17th thing on my bug backlog is. I want to conduct agents that can execute for me and do great work.What I built OzBrain to do: + Create a central place for agent reasoned knowledge to live + Be agnostic about what apps/agents connect to it + Capture everything and track it so I can audit it + Enable teams, collaborators or partners to share brains + Handle conflicts so many agents in the same article doesn’t blow up + Refactor knowledge into more token friendly chunks and map the index well + Close the knowledge loop so new thinking supersedes old thinking across the corpus. Don’t erase, depreciate and link + Keep user data safe and secure ++ Be easy enough to use that you don’t have to have any technical knowledgeSome among us will always build their own custom solutions, but there are millions of tech professionals and small business owners that will use agents heavily and need a solution. So I’m trying to build that.Isn’t this like gBrain? Yes, similar. I think it’s like AWS vs Vercel. AWS is very powerful, configurable, and useful if you’re technical and want to invest the time into really fine tuning your system… but if you just want your web deploy/hosting to just work and be easy to deal with you use Vercel.// WHY I MADE ITI’ve been enjoying getting back to my technical roots, as I lost my coding skills more than a decade ago, but with AI I can focus on the system and the product in partnership with agent coding workflows.I recently built a Voice AI for older people. To build it I created an agentic engineering workflow (feel free to rip that up as
Hacker News25d agoToolAI
Hacker News23d agoToolOther
Repetitive tasks in trading or data management require manual effort that could be automated for efficiency.
X3mo agoToolFinance
Installing and managing custom content for The Sims involves emptying SSD, finding virus-free hacks, installing hundreds of items, and dealing with update conflicts, taking excessive time.
X24d agoToolProductivity