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AI chat apps have premium barriers, security issues, boring responses
Users frustrated with CHAI forcing premium subscription, Cai lacking security, and Emochi providing overly long or short boring answers; need a reliable AI chatbot app balancing features, security, and engaging responses.
X5mo agoToolAI
Stream viewers can't easily clip live moments
Live stream viewers see others clipping ongoing streams instantly but can't figure out how without randomly recording. Need a tool or app that automatically saves the last 60-120 seconds of screen for quick clipping.
X6mo agoToolMedia
Sports card collectors lack an automated tracking app
Collectors manually track their sports card inventory, which is tedious and error-prone. They want an app like Collectr (for wine collections) specifically for sports cards to automate tracking without constant manual checks.
X5mo agoToolRetail
No simple app to erase entire digital footprint
People want a single app that erases their digital presence across all platforms and services completely, allowing them to 'disappear' online without manual effort on each site.
X6mo agoToolOther
No app tracks lifetime calorie deficit/surplus
Calorie tracking apps only show daily/weekly data, but dieters need one that inputs BMR and food logs to compute and display total deficit/surplus accumulated since app installation for long-term progress motivation.
X6mo agoToolSport & Fitness
Quick, high-protein ready-to-eat meals
Consumers need fast, nutritious, protein-rich meals for convenience. Choppy tried to address this with prepared products.
YC Graveyard3y agoTemplateFood & Nutrition
At-home diagnostic testing and telehealth triage
Patients want quick, affordable home testing for common acute and chronic conditions with fast telehealth guidance. Modern rapid tests (COVID, flu, strep) and telehealth platforms make this increasingly viable.
YC Graveyard10y agoToolMedicine & Health
Indie game development and distribution
Solo game developers struggle with distribution, monetization, and marketing their games. Modern AI tools (art generation, music, code assistance) dramatically reduce friction.
YC Graveyard10y agoToolMedia
Personalized entertainment feed for procrastination and mindless browsing
A curated, engaging social feed specifically designed for entertainment and distraction, similar to TikTok but focused on being the most fun way to waste time.
YC Graveyard10y agoToolMedia
I made an email app inspired by Arc browser
Email is one of those tools we check daily but its underlying experience didn’t evolve much. I use Gmail, as probably most of you reading this.The Arc browser brought joy and taste to browsing the web. Cursor created a new UX with agents ready to work for you in a handy right panel.I use these three tools every day. Since Arc was acquired by Atlassian, I’ve been wondering: what if I built a new interface that applied Arc’s UX to email rather than browser tabs, while making AI agents easily available to help manage emails, events, and files?I built a frontend PoC to showcase the idea.Try it: https://demo.define.appI’m not sure about it though... Is it worth continuing to explore this idea?
Hacker News6mo agoToolAI
Joonote – A note-taking app on your lock screen and notification panel
I finally built this app after many years of being sick of unlocking my phone every goddamn time I need to take or view my notes. It particularly sucks when I'm doing my grocery and going down the list.I started building last year June. This is a native app written in Kotlin. And since I'm a 100% Web dev guy, I gotta say this wouldn't have been possible without this AI to assist me. So this isn't "vibe-coded". I simply used the chat interface in Gemini website, manually copy paste codes to build and integrate every single thing in the app! I used gemini to build it just because I was piggybacking on my last company's enterprise subscription. I personally didn't subscribe to any AI (and still don't cuz the free quota seems enough for me :)So I certainly have learnt alot about Android development, architecture patterns, Kotlin syntax, and obeying Google's whims. Can't say I love it all, but for the sake of this app, I will :)Anyway, I finally have the app I wish existed, and I'm using it everyday. It not only does the main thing I needed it to do, but there's also all this stuff:- Make your notes private if you don't want to show them on lock screen. - Create check/to-do lists. - Set one time or recurring reminders. - Full-text search your notes in the app. - Speech-to-text. - Organize your notes with custom or color labels. - Pin the app as a widget on your home screen. - You can auto backup and restore your notes on new install or Android device. - Works offline. - And no funny business happening in the background https://joonote.com/privacyIt's 30-day trial, then a one-time $9.99 to go Pro forever.I would love you all to check it out, FWIW.Ok thanks!
Hacker News6mo agoToolAI
Freelancers suffer severe scope creep turning advertised high hourly rates into low effective pay due to unpaid extras, tweaks, and admin
Unbilled 'quick' work and late requests drain margins; diagnostic tool creator identifies as core hidden problem misattributed to 'bad clients'.
X6mo agoToolFreelance
Freelancers hate the awkward process of chasing clients for overdue payments manually
Need automated, polite repeated reminders; indie hacker building Nudge specifically for this tiny but monetizable pain.
X6mo agoToolFreelance
Freelancers, artists, and musicians find tracking commissions, payments, and client work extremely painful and disorganized
Manual tracking leads to lost income and chaos; creator opened VGen service highlighting the widespread frustration.
X6mo agoToolFreelance
Busy professionals forget key details from meetings due to inadequate note-taking during fast-paced discussions
Meeting Ghost addresses real pain for 29+ users growing daily via organic Twitter traction; insufficient manual or existing tools for capturing essentials invisibly.
X6mo agoToolProductivity
Developers have no simple kill-switch or budget controls for LLM API calls, causing unexpected skyrocketing costs
AI builders risk massive bills from uncontrolled LLM usage; author confirms 'problem is real' while building ThSkyshield after weeks of private development.
X6mo agoToolAI
Dropshippers cannot reliably dub winning English video ads into other languages like Spanish without tools removing music and producing dead-sounding ads that kill performance
Current video dubbing solutions destroy ad quality, leading marketers to spend months rebuilding or lose international sales opportunities. Author validated the pain by experiencing it firsthand and building a fix after 8 months.
X6mo agoToolOther
Windows Terminal development hindered by poor core components
Developing features for Windows Terminal demands excessive effort because conpty, process management, and UI are fundamentally flawed, causing pain for developers.
X6mo agoToolDev
AI coding tools lack safeguards causing production outages
AI-assisted code deployments at scale (e.g., Amazon) delete live environments or cause Sev-1 outages due to inadequate safeguards, exacerbated by staff cuts and rushed adoption.
X6mo agoToolAI
Company-mandated inferior AI coding tools cause engineer frustration and outages
Engineers are required to use subpar proprietary AI coding tools (e.g., Amazon's Kiro) while blocked from better alternatives, leading to unsafe code changes, outages, and reduced productivity.
X6mo agoToolDev