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Accessible Door Retrofit Technology for Disabled Users
Many buildings have doors that are inaccessible for disabled people. An automated door upgrade system could make existing infrastructure more compliant with ADA standards.
YC Graveyard7y agoToolBusiness
Ghost Kitchen Operator Workflow Automation
Managing multiple delivery-only restaurant brands efficiently. Solo builder could create a SaaS for ghost kitchen operators to manage multi-brand orders, inventory, and delivery logistics.
YC Graveyard6y agoToolFood & Nutrition
Personalized Clothing Recommendations and Shopping
Most people struggle with finding clothes that match their style and body type. AI-powered personal styling could solve this for online and offline shopping.
YC Graveyard7y agoToolE-Commerce
Digital environment creation tool for film and media production
Creating photorealistic digital environments (backgrounds, scenes) for movies is a real problem that VFX teams solve manually. AI image generation and 3D tools have made this dramatically cheaper and faster.
YC Graveyard8y agoToolDesign & Creative
Making shooting sports practice feedback and targeting accessible to amateurs
Shooters lack real-time feedback on accuracy and targeting. Smart targets with AI-powered analysis could make practice more efficient and fun for hobbyists and competitors.
YC Graveyard9y agoOtherSport & Fitness
Industrial simulation engineers lack accessible AI tools to optimize complex processes
Manufacturing and supply chain engineers spend weeks manually tuning simulations. AI could automate optimization, but the original startup needed enterprise sales + 15-person team. Now Claude/GPT can power lightweight simulation analysis tools.
YC Graveyard10y agoToolB2B
Giving fractional stocks as gifts is friction-filled
Gifting stock or index funds is complicated and expensive for retail users. AI and modern APIs now make this feasible for a solo builder to offer as a simple digital gift card.
YC Graveyard11y agoToolFinance
Affordable access to mental health therapy
In Your Corner attempted to make therapy more accessible and engaging, leveraging technology to reduce costs and improve user experience. Mental health accessibility remains a significant problem.
YC Graveyard12y agoToolPsychology
Lack of accessible, affordable online tutoring with quality matching
Students struggle to find qualified tutors efficiently, and tutors lack platforms to reach students and manage bookings. This problem persists today despite competitors.
YC Graveyard15y agoTemplateEducation
College student task management and collaboration
College students struggle to organize coursework, group projects, and study schedules in one tool optimized for their workflow. This problem remains real as existing tools (Asana, Notion) are enterprise-first, not student-native.
YC Graveyard15y agoToolEducation
FR: Support custom records in MagicDNS
Also, for DNS, the Customer would really like to make DNS aliases such as **example.ourdomain.beta.tailscale.net** always point to a machine name **staging-1** or something like that. This way, they can easily access the machines.
GitHub5y agoToolAI
The Mog Programming Language
Hi, Ted here, creator of Mog.- Mog is a statically typed, compiled, embedded language (think statically typed Lua) designed to be written by LLMs -- the full spec fits in 3,200 tokens. - An AI agent writes a Mog program, compiles it, and dynamically loads it as a plugin, script, or hook. - The host controls exactly which functions a Mog program can call (capability-based permissions), so permissions propagate from agent to agent-written code. - Compiled to native code for low-latency plugin execution -- no interpreter overhead, no JIT, no process startup cost. - The compiler is written in safe Rust so the entire toolchain can be audited for security. Even without a full security audit, Mog is already useful for agents extending themselves with their own code. - MIT licensed, contributions welcome.Motivations for Mog:1. Syntax Only an AI Could Love: Mog is written for AIs to write, so the spec fits easily in context (~3200 tokens), and it's intended to minimize foot-guns to lower the error rate when generating Mog code. This is why Mog has no operator precedence: non-associative operations have to use parentheses, e.g. (a + b) * c. It's also why there's no implicit type coercion, which I've found over the decades to be an annoying source of runtime bugs. There's also less support in Mog for generics, and there's absolutely no support for metaprogramming, macros, or syntactic abstraction.When asking people to write code in a language, these restrictions could be onerous. But LLMs don't care, and the less expressivity you trust them with, the better.2. Capabilities-Based Permissionsl: There's a paradox with existing security models for AI agents. If you give an agent like OpenClaw unfettered access to your data, that's insecure and you'll get pwned. But if you sandbox it, it can't do most of what you want. Worse, if you run scripts the agent wrote, those scripts don't inherit the permissions that constrain th
Hacker News6mo agoToolAI
Tailored tree recommendations for farm profitability
Small-scale farmers need location-specific advice on trees that provide both immediate annual income and long-term value, considering local conditions like water availability.
X6mo agoToolAgTech
Painful iteration on AI agents
Iterating and improving AI agents is a painful, manual process requiring multiple updates and testing, hindering development speed.
X6mo agoToolAI
Improved Sponsorship Payouts for Streamers
Content creators and streamers are experiencing reduced earnings from paid sponsorships due to platform changes impacting tools like StreamElements.
X6mo agoOtherMedia
Reliable Forex Cards for International Travel
Frequent travelers are looking for dependable forex cards since previous favorites like Bookmyforex have significantly declined in service quality.
X6mo agoOtherFinance
Protective Cases for Sleeved High-Value Sports Cards
Sports card collectors need one-touch or magnetic display cases that securely fit sleeved cards to safely showcase high-value items.
X6mo agoOtherRetail
Exhausting cognitive load from managing multiple parallel AI agents
Tracking tasks, states, and outputs across numerous simultaneously running AI agents creates mental fatigue and confusion, acting as a new productivity bottleneck.
X6mo agoToolOther