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Small businesses struggle to effectively track and optimize their mobile advertising campaigns across platforms. They need simple tools to measure ROI and improve ad performance without complex enterprise solutions.
YC Graveyard14y agoToolMarketing & Sales
Mobile typing is slow and inefficient, especially for emoji and context-aware suggestions. Users want smarter keyboards that predict what they want to type.
YC Graveyard12y agoToolProductivity
Fashion shoppers want personalized product discovery from multiple brands rather than browsing individual retailer sites. Generic newsletters don't provide personalized curation.
YC Graveyard15y agoOtherE-Commerce
Local businesses struggle to raise capital from their community while residents want to support local ventures but lack accessible investment opportunities.
YC Graveyard12y agoToolVC & Startups
People want to monitor and improve their brain health but lack accessible tools to track cognitive performance and get personalized recommendations.
YC Graveyard12y agoToolMedicine & Health
Many people, especially men, want to dress better but don't know how to put together outfits or what looks good on them. Personal stylists are expensive and inaccessible to most.
YC Graveyard14y agoToolOther
Traditional e-commerce relies on static images while video drives more engagement and sales. The problem is making video content directly shoppable without complex integrations.
YC Graveyard12y agoToolE-Commerce
Developers need to make API calls from browsers that are blocked by CORS policies. A proxy service that handles cross-domain requests safely is still needed.
YC Graveyard15y agoToolDev
Adult children need peace of mind about elderly parents living alone, wanting to monitor activity and health without being intrusive. Current solutions are expensive or require complex medical devices.
YC Graveyard13y agoToolMedicine & Health
Most people can't harness computational power because programming languages and tools are too technical and intimidating for everyday users to create useful applications.
YC Graveyard14y agoToolNo-Code
Many developers know HTML/CSS/JS but get stuck when they need databases, APIs, and server logic for their web applications. This gap still exists despite current solutions.
YC Graveyard14y agoToolDev
Small businesses need an easy way to manage their phone systems, routing, and communications without complex telecom setups or expensive legacy solutions.
YC Graveyard14y agoToolBusiness
Content creators and marketers need to easily extract and share specific moments from videos across the web for social media, presentations, and content creation.
YC Graveyard14y agoToolMedia
Authors and publishers need better tools to track eBook performance, marketing effectiveness, and reader engagement across platforms. Current analytics are fragmented and limited.
YC Graveyard14y agoToolMedia
Developers need easy ways to add video transcoding, thumbnail generation, and basic editing to their apps. Existing solutions are either too complex or too expensive for small projects.
YC Graveyard14y agoToolDev
I was frustrated with photo sharing sites. Apple's iCloud shared albums take 20+ seconds to load, and everything else comes with ads, cumbersome UIs, or social media distractions. I just want to share photos with friends and family: fast, mobile-friendly, distraction-free.So I built DD Photos. You export photos from whatever you already use (Lightroom, Apple Photos, etc.) into folders, run `photogen` (a Go CLI) to resize them to WebP and generate JSON indexes, then deploy the SvelteKit static site anywhere that serves files. Apache, S3, whatever. No server-side code, no database.Built over several weeks with heavy use of Claude Code, which I found genuinely useful for this kind of full-stack project spanning Go, SvelteKit/TypeScript, Apache config, Docker, and Playwright tests. Happy to discuss that experience too.Live example: https://photos.donohoe.info Repo: https://github.com/dougdonohoe/ddphotos
Hacker News6mo agoToolAI
Zero dependencies. No external databases. Single binary. Just deploy and go. I needed something that would allow for real-time monitoring, and installation is as simple as dropping a single file and running it. That's exactly what Kula is. Kula is the Polish word for "ball," as in "crystal ball." The project is in constant development, but I'm already using it on multiple servers in production. It still has some rough edges and needs to mature, but I wanted to share it with the world now—perhaps someone else will find it useful and be willing to help me develop it by testing or providing feedback. Cheers! Github: https://github.com/c0m4r/kula
Hacker News6mo agoToolAI
Hi HN, I’m Alberto. I co-founded Didit (https://didit.me) with my identical twin brother Alejandro. We are building a unified identity layer—a single integration that handles KYC, AML, biometrics, authentication, and fraud prevention globally. Here’s a demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTdcg7JCc4M&t=7s.Being identical twins, we’ve spent our whole lives dealing with identity confusion, so it is a bit of irony that we ended up building a company to solve it for the internet.Growing up in Barcelona, we spent years working on products where identity issues were a massive pain. We eventually realized that for most engineering teams, "global identity" is a fiction—in reality it is a fragmented mess. You end up stitching together one provider for US driver's licenses, another for NFC chip extraction in Europe, a third for AML screening, a fourth for government database validation in Brazil, a fifth for liveness detection on low-end Android devices, and yet another for biometric authentication and age estimation. Orchestrating these into a cohesive flow while adapting to localized regulations like GDPR or CCPA is a nightmare that makes no sense for most teams to be working on.When we looked at the existing "enterprise" solutions, we were baffled. Most require a three-week sales cycle just to see a single page of documentation. Pricing is hidden behind "Contact Us" buttons, and the products themselves are often bloated legacy systems with high latency and abysmal accuracy.We also noticed a recurring pattern: these tools are frequently optimized only for the latest iOS hardware, performing poorly on the mid-range or older Android devices that make up a huge percentage of the market. This results in a "leaky" funnel where legitimate users drop off due to technical friction and fraud goes undetected because data points are spread across disparate systems. Also, these systems are expensive, often requi
Hacker News6mo agoToolAI