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Every FaceTime call redirects to Snapchat app instead of native calling, creating constant frustration and unwanted app switching.
X1mo agoToolProductivity
Uploading custom emotes to server chat requires exact 128x128 pixels and under 256KB, otherwise the app squishes images or rejects files, making it frustrating for creators.
X1mo agoToolMedia
US businesses spend $222B yearly on machine maintenance/repair with no centralized service history, predictive capabilities from sensors, spare parts marketplace, operator training, or AI chat support tied to specific machines, leading to inefficiency and lost tribal knowledge.
X5mo agoToolBusiness
Providus debit card online payments now require going to a different app for verification, making the process stressful and terrible UX compared to previous reliable flow.
X1mo agoToolFinance
Users struggle to plan balanced, personalized meals that match dietary restrictions, budgets, and preferences. Existing solutions are fragmented—generic apps lack personalization, while nutrition experts are expensive. [Google Search suggestion]
Google Trends1mo agoToolFood & NutritionUS
Developers spend significant time on boilerplate infrastructure, configuration, and DevOps tasks when building backends. Shuttle attempted to abstract away backend complexity with a unified platform.
YC Graveyard6y agoToolB2B SaaS
Clinical trials require massive amounts of standardized documentation, data collection, and regulatory compliance reporting. Teams manually create hundreds of documents with high error rates, causing delays and cost overruns.
YC Graveyard2y agoToolHealthcare/Life Sciences
Hacker News1mo agoToolAI
Hacker News1mo agoToolAI
Hey HN! I wanted to share this OSS project I've been working on.It's called Yap and its a small menu-bar app for macOS that does voice to text for any input. You'll set a hotkey, press it, talk, press it again, and the text gets pasted into whatever field you were in. Everything runs locally and never leaves your computer. Fully OSS and MIT licensed.With macOS 26, Apple recently added two new APIs, SpeechAnalyzer and SpeechTranscriber, that do streaming on-device speech to text using models the OS ships and manages. So the app ships no model of its own and loads nothing before the first word. A recent benchmark put Apple's model slightly ahead of Whisper Small on accuracy and about 3x faster (see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48894752). On Mac, there's really no need anymore to download models or pay for expensive APIs.A lot of existing dictation tools do one of a few things I wanted to avoid with this OSS project. They either:- cost money (for something that's literally built into the OS)- bundle memory-intensive models (e.g. Whisper or Parakeet)- webapps wrapped in Electron- Intel macs straight up don't work- closed source- use third-party APIs that will have access to all your transcriptsIt's around 3,000 lines of native Swift in a 4 MB app and idles near 60 MB of memory. Audio comes off AVAudioEngine into SpeechAnalyzer with volatile results turned on for the live preview, history is stored in SwiftData. There's no network code in it at all.Repo and a demo available here: https://github.com/FrigadeHQ/yapHappy to answer questions and would love to hear any feature requests!
Hacker News1mo agoToolAI
HN is great for the links people share, but a big part of the value I get comes from reading the discussion around them. I realized I was always opening the article in one tab and the comments in another, constantly switching back and forth.I figured there was probably a simpler way, so I threw together this userscript to merge the two.1. Clicking a link from Hacker News opens the article with a side panel containing the discussion. It doesn't require your credentials, is resizable, and is easy to tweak if you want to customize it.2. If you land on an article that has previously been shared on HN, the script finds the existing discussion and adds a button in the top-right to open the panel.Feedback welcome.
Hacker News1mo agoToolAI
Theater fans cannot easily access Broadway, West End, and touring productions via streaming and are willing to pay significantly for a dedicated service.
X1mo agoToolMedia
Followers want a paid Substack or similar service for everything a specific person posts online and are willing to subscribe.
X1mo agoToolMedia
People want easy access to classic soaps from all major networks and different eras but no such service exists due to licensing challenges.
X1mo agoToolMedia
Farm employers and workers lack a system to share verified reviews of past working relationships, making it hard to avoid unreliable hires or bad bosses in agriculture.
X1mo agoToolAgTech
Viewers want a standalone app for favorite channels or shows without requiring cable subscriptions and are ready to pay directly for it.
X1mo agoToolMedia
Power users on X/Twitter need a way to take and organize private notes about specific accounts they interact with frequently, but no built-in or simple tool exists for this.
X1mo agoToolProductivity
Job seekers have no reliable way to learn the real reasons people quit toxic jobs at specific companies before applying or accepting offers.
X1mo agoToolHR & Career