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Teams struggle with DevOps tasks like deployment, monitoring, incident response, and infrastructure management. AI can now automate these workflows without requiring dedicated DevOps engineers.
YC Graveyard3mo agoToolDeveloper Tools / DevOps
Working on Mac, Linux, and Windows now. I include a simple GUI to find new models and get things built and set up. It is working quite well across a few models for me. The GitHub README and DESIGN.md files go into detail of the how/why and it's working remarkably well so far. https://github.com/notactuallytreyanastasio/shoehorn
Hacker News29d agoToolAI
Music enthusiasts want an app to rate albums song-by-song with automatic averages, similar to Letterboxd for films, but no such dedicated tool exists.
X25d agoToolMedia
Anime fans seek a YouTube-style channel or service for undubbed or legacy-dubbed anime broadcasts funded directly, but existing platforms focus on subs or modern dubs only.
X1mo agoToolMedia
Aggregated, searchable database tracking frequently-changing eligibility requirements for Indian judicial positions (practice years, training, clerkship rules) with instant alerts when criteria shift. [Trending: "3 year practice rule for judiciary latest update" with 2000+ searches in IN]
Google Trends26d agoToolLegalIN
Hey, I'm Ben. I built Zoneless because I was paying so much to use Stripe Connect on my own marketplace. The fees were really, really bad, and it was also limiting in terms of the seller countries I could onboard. To give you an idea, I was paying around $9,000 per month in fees just to run payouts. Using Zoneless, that cost goes down to around $6.I've been using it personally for the past few months, and onboarded 5,000+ sellers and done 3,000+ payouts. 74% of new sellers on my marketplace choose Zoneless over Stripe, which is really interesting. I appreciate crypto and stablecoins are a bit of a touchy subject, but for this use case of sending global payouts cheaply, it's perfect.The project is open source with an Apache 2.0 licence, which means there's the benefit of no lock-in and no risk of your account getting flagged or shut down. It also has an almost identical API and dashboard to Stripe.Would love to hear any feedback you may have in the comments.
Hacker News27d agoToolDev
Hi HN, I built this. Quick background on why it exists:When music is streamed on digital streaming platforms (think Spotify, Apple Music, Pandora), there are two separate royalty streams: one for the recording, paid through your distributor (DistroKid, TuneCore, CDBaby), and one for the underlying work (generally known as publishing). The work side's mechanical royalties are collected by The MLC, a nonprofit that was created by the 2018 Music Modernization Act (MMA). If you haven't registered your songs with The MLC, there are issues with your metadata, or about half a dozen other reasons, that money will never reach you, it just collects in a big pile we call the "black box".That pile is big. The MLC's own dashboard currently shows over $656M is held (themlc.com/blanket-royalties), and the biggest problem is the MMA dictates that The MLC cannot hold that money indefinitely. At some point, by law, The MLC must distribute this big pile of cash, and since they don't know who it's supposed to go to, they pay it out through a process called "market share" (themlc.com/marketshare). Market share means they pay it out, pro-rata, to the artists, songwriters and publishers that are in the system, which in practice means the largest publishers collect most of the leftovers.This is slated to begin in January 2027 and will pay portions of the pool out monthly (themlc.com/unclaimed-accrued-royalties), as of this morning, the next 12 months of market share sums up to $76.61M, starting with $6.41M in January.Full disclosure: I run Doubly, which is an independent publishing administrator, so I have a commercial interest in this space. That being said, we're a team of two people and we don't have the bandwidth to directly assist the hundreds of thousands of artists and songwriters who are going to start losing this money in January 2027.That's why I built this self-service tool, no signup, no email, no paywal
Hacker News27d agoToolAI
I wanted to share a project I’ve been working on called Frugal Tokens. I originally built it because I was curious to see how much all of my sessions cost and how much cache misses affected that spend. I’d noticed people had widely different spend profiles and wanted to better understand what might contribute to that.As I’ve worked on this, the tool has grown to show more usage patterns across all of your sessions. It shows overall usage, estimated working time and overlapping sessions, and where your spend is coming from across models and cache misses. I also have a few session level metrics with percentile breakdowns, along with a list of your sessions and high level info.Clicking into a session opens an explorer where you can see individual model calls and tool inputs and outputs. You can also jump directly to where a cache miss happened. There’s also a rough cost comparison that shows what the recorded session would have cost with another model’s pricing, or for Anthropic, with 5m vs 1h caching.In the future, I’d love to collect more information to see which patterns might make people’s workflows more expensive, e.g. long sessions, high context usage, many turns, etc.The tool requires deno, but is just one command to run once that is installed. The demo provided has some of the data scrubbed, but helps to show what it looks like before running it.Would appreciate any thoughts or ideashttps://github.com/dpclark4/frugal-tokens
Hacker News28d agoToolProductivity
Hi HN, we’re Yousef & Nour, founders of Vendo (https://vendo.run). Vendo lets users create new features inside the software they already use. A user describes the dashboard, workflow, or small app they need, and Vendo builds it on top of the product’s existing data, API, and interface.Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdpHehY64lsWe built Vendo because every SaaS eventually faces the same problem: every customer needs something slightly different. One wants a new report and another needs a workflow that only makes sense for their team. These requests either sit on the roadmap, become one-off engineering work, or force the customer into spreadsheets and external tools. We wanted the user to be able to create the missing feature themselves, without leaving the product.Here is how it works:- npx vendo init reads the product's API surface, theme, routes, and more. These are used so that the apps Vendo creates (1) look on-brand and native and (2) have the ability to read data and perform actions directly through the company's API- When a user asks for a feature, we have a custom Vendo harness that writes a React component with a bunch of Vendo add-ons and guardrails (ex. ability to make calls to the host API + our component library). Every save is compiled, type-checked, run against real API responses, and rendered before the user sees it. We just released a benchmark and write-up here with more info for anyone interested: https://vendo.run/blog/generating-product-ui-measured- We use QuickJS to make sure that anything the agent creates is sandboxed and can't mess with the company's site. Vendo compiles the component and runs it with Preact inside a QuickJS VM with no access to the DOM, network, or clock. The VM returns a UI tree, which the host renders using the product’s registered components. When the user clicks something, QuickJS emits a tool call; the host executes it through Vendo’s guard and p
Hacker News27d agoToolAI
Local businesses in Nigeria face challenges in commerce operations like sourcing suppliers, inventory restocking, and scaling without dedicated tools tailored to their market.
X27d agoToolE-Commerce
People and institutions lack accessible solutions to see and track what they breathe in real-time for both indoor and outdoor environments.
X27d agoToolMedicine & Health
Founders can build great products but repeatedly face difficulties in handling marketing, distribution, and ongoing content creation needed for promotion and growth.
X1mo agoToolMarketing & Sales
Users struggle to maintain daily hydration without feeling overwhelmed by complex apps; need minimal, fast-logging tools with smart reminders and simple insights.
X26d agoToolOther
Current social platforms add too many features that fail to improve user connections; users need radical simplicity focused only on what enhances experience.
X27d agoToolMedia
Sustainable farming alternatives like mechanical weeding or individual plant treatment are too labor-intensive for large-scale adoption without returning to 80%+ population in fields; needs cheap intelligent labor for tasks like scouting and targeted treatment.
X26d agoToolAgTech
Sellers struggle with optimizing listings, pricing, photos, and managing inquiries on Vinted. A tool automating pricing suggestions, photo enhancement, listing templates, and bulk management would save time. [Google Search suggestion]
Google Trends27d agoToolE-CommerceUS
Homeowners and renters need affordable ways to visualize room redesigns before buying furniture. Current AI tools are expensive or limited; a dedicated room design tool with AI generation solves this gap. [Google Search suggestion]
Google Trends27d agoToolDesign & CreativeUS
Consumers want variety from multiple food brands delivered from shared kitchen spaces; coordinating multiple vendors from one location is complex.
YC Graveyard5y agoToolConsumer