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Talent needs a system to license their likeness to movie makers and track every design decision so they can monetize their work.
X1mo agoToolLegal
Companies have customer data in CRMs but no system turns notes into timely gestures or actions to delight customers.
X1mo agoToolOther
Users want a way to see other users' vibe-coded alternatives on platforms like Canivibe Codeit.
X1mo agoToolDev
Venues need clear policies and tech solutions for smart glasses with cameras. Build a digital toolkit helping venues define rules, communicate them, and verify compliance at entry. [Trending: "meta glasses" with 100+ searches in GB]
Google Trends1mo agoToolBusinessGB
Real estate professionals struggle with fragmented, inefficient tools for property listings, mortgage origination, and document management. A unified platform to streamline these workflows could reduce time and errors.
YC Graveyard4y agoToolReal Estate
Companies struggle to find qualified penetration testers and manage bug bounty programs. Manual coordination, vetting, and payment processing for distributed security researchers is fragmented and expensive.
YC Graveyard8y agoToolB2B Security
Small retailers in Southeast Asia struggle to source inventory reliably and affordably. Risk of unsold stock, long payment cycles, and unreliable suppliers create cash flow friction. A platform matching verified suppliers to retailers could reduce waste and improve margins.
YC Graveyard3y agoToolSupply Chain
Hi HN, today I’m revealing Altar II, an ultra-low profile (4.75mm) mechanical keyboard designed to replace your Magic Keyboard. It’s the keyboard I wish Apple made.Altar II has fully mechanical switches, plus a magnetically detachable dial, haptic feedback, a red backlight, and a native macOS companion app.I’m a heavy Mac user and I feel that Apple hasn’t given its keyboards the attention they deserve, in terms of hardware, software, and features, so I set out to try and change that.It was a massive undertaking and it has taken almost 2 years to get to this stage. One of the main obstacles was fitting a reasonably sized battery into the chassis, and aggressive power profiling without messing with the user experience. Another issue was we couldn’t fit any components on the underside of the PCB because there was literally no space to do so (and there are a lot of components).Around 4 years ago I posted my first keyboard to HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32507172). Its response blew me away and ultimately led to me quitting my job and making and selling keyboards full time. I’ve taken some of the feedback from that original post and incorporated it into Altar II (e.g. the detachable dial).I’ll be around to answer any questions. Please let me know what you think, I’d love to get some feedback.
Hacker News1mo agoToolAI
The idea is a place for beautiful notes like https://insidevoices.handwritten.blog.
Hacker News1mo agoToolOther
Hey HN, we’re Will & Johnny from ProvenMetal (https://provenmetal.com). You send us design files or specs and we give you assembled boards domestically in days.The US produced 30% of PCBs globally in 2000, now they produce 4%. Chinese manufacturers have completely dominated this space at 55% of global production.Now, the need for a domestic PCB supply chain is higher than ever before, yet the infrastructure has been dissolving over the last 2 decades. What is left is mostly small family run manufacturers (CMs) that have been operating in largely the same, labor intensive way since the early 2000’s.When you place an order through a CM it typically takes several days to receive a quote and complete design for manufacture review, and then you have to source all of the components (the hardest part) and bare boards yourself, then wait anywhere from a few days to several weeks for the assembly and testing of those boards.We started off assembling circuit boards out of a garage with prosumer grade equipment (NeoDen YY1, Glenbrook X-ray, solder paste stencils, and manual rework stations). We believed that by owning the manufacturing process, we could turn all the front of house automations inwards. But here’s the thing… manufacturing circuit boards with prosumer grade equipment out of a garage takes a huge amount of time. Suddenly we were spending 90% of our time assembling circuit boards instead of growing the business. We were completely capacity constrained, with fancy software automations that are not the binding constraint at low volumes.Then we got our heads out of the weeds, took a step back, and realized that we were trying to solve the wrong bottlenecks.These manufacturers are good at manufacturing and terrible at the front of house (quoting, DFM review, and part procurement). When you look at the full process, you realize that assembly is not the bottleneck. So we stopped trying to solve the problem that we can’t solve at this stage.We measured the b
Hacker News1mo agoToolAI
People buying macumba (spiritual/occult) products can't find cheap deals easily and hate paying high prices; they wish for automated 'look what I found' bots like those popular on Shopee but tailored for this niche.
X1mo agoToolE-Commerce
Communities need tools to track, report, and coordinate responses to automated license plate reader (ALPR) camera installations in their neighborhoods. Current solutions are fragmented across multiple platforms. [Trending: "winona flock camera theft" with 500+ searches in US]
Google Trends1mo agoToolProductivityUS
Help content creators and small businesses automatically respond to common Instagram DMs and comments with templated replies, saving time on repetitive communication while maintaining engagement. [Google Search suggestion]
Google Trends1mo agoToolMarketing & SalesUS
Streamline audio editing in DaVinci Resolve by automating volume level adjustments, normalization, and keyframe generation from templates or AI-detected speech patterns. [Google Search suggestion]
Google Trends1mo agoToolDesign & CreativeUS
Automate sending templated or bulk emails in Outlook with scheduling, conditional logic, and tracking to reduce manual email workload for business teams and freelancers. [Google Search suggestion]
Google Trends1mo agoToolProductivityUS
Help golfers optimize club selection and arrangement by distance, club type, and course conditions. Solo builders could create a digital planner that tracks club distances, suggests optimal bag setup, and stores course-specific strategies. [Google Search suggestion]
Google Trends1mo agoToolSport & FitnessUS
As AI agents become more capable, there's a gap in standardized tooling for publishing, versioning, and managing agent outputs/actions. Teams building multi-agent systems need a way to orchestrate, version-control, and publish agent workflows.
YC Graveyard3y agoToolB2B SaaS
Hi HN, this is Shailendra and Karan here. We are building a fast and safe way for coding agents to debug issues live in production.When prod breaks, it lets Cursor, Claude, and others drop virtual breakpoints or probes safely in your running code, and extract the exact variable values that logs don’t have.All this saves time and effort for engineers who’d otherwise dig through logs and traces or redeploy with console.logs or print statements until they find the root cause.Here is the link to the video that explains this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivV7I--ta5cAgents write most of our code now. This shrinks the useful context engineers need to debug AI written code, a problem not helped by the limited telemetry added in the same code by AI.So when something breaks in prod, the first instinct for an engineer is to open logs or throw them to your agents. But if the line you are looking for is not there, agents will start guessing the root cause on non-existent data, forcing you to add a log, and redeploy.This analysis-inference loop of agents with existing data does not come cheap, burning a lot of tokens. And the add log, redeploy cycle is so slow and painful that it makes engineers hate on-call.Our approach lets agents capture telemetry on-demand at the exact moment and point of failure, killing the log-redeploy cycle and getting the most accurate RCA while burning fewer tokens.The obvious problem is making it work on a running service. You can't pause a live service the way you'd pause a debugger on your laptop. Getting the value out of a running process safely, without pausing a thread or slowing the host is the challenge.We are making this happen.Before this I ran engineering at a 100 member team. Then Karan and I spent three years on HyperTest which was a testing tool.At HyperTest, we turned production traffic into integration tests using OpenTelemetry. That was production instrumentation too. The hard parts of pulling real runtime st
Hacker News1mo agoToolAI
People living in emotional 'gaps' struggle to articulate feelings, find the right words, and feel understood, needing tools to talk it out and gain clarity.
X1mo agoToolPsychology
Indie developers building simple apps with no accounts, sign-up, or data leaving the device face opaque App Store review processes, long review times (nearly 2 weeks), and rejections over optional data uploads or data policies, requiring manual policy writing even when data stays local.
X1mo agoToolDev