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Parents struggle with emotional regulation and coping strategies during toddler care. A tool offering stress-reduction techniques, community support, and parenting guidance tailored to frustration triggers could address this gap. [Google Search suggestion]
Google Trends2mo agoToolPsychologyUS
People struggle to find low-cost or free activities and entertainment. A tool aggregating local free events, low-cost activities, and budget-friendly entertainment options could solve decision paralysis. [Google Search suggestion]
Google Trends2mo agoToolOtherUS
Traders/investors track stock indices across regions (KOSPI, NIFTY, etc.) on fragmented platforms. Unified dashboard with custom alerts, correlation analysis, and bear market triggers solves monitoring friction. [Trending: "kospi moneycontrol" with 1000+ searches in IN]
Google Trends2mo agoToolFinanceIN
Players manually hunt scattered Roblox game codes across forums/sites. A tool aggregating codes, auto-notifying new drops, and tracking expiry dates solves fragmented discovery. [Trending: "gakuran codes" with 200+ searches in BR]
Google Trends2mo agoToolOtherBR
Large real estate investors lack streamlined insurance solutions tailored to their portfolio complexity and risk profiles.
YC Graveyard3y agoToolReal Estate
Hi HN, I'm Brian, I spent the last few years at Vanta (YC W18), helping startups and enterprises become compliant and I recently started exploring what that might look like in a post-agentic world.The problem Halo solves is: when a company buys an AI agent from a vendor and gives it access to their data, they have no way to check what the agent did with that data. Vendors may have built observability dashboards and audit logs, but those are editable and partisan. SOC 2 and ISO 27001 audit a company's controls, but controls are less predictive when the software is agentic. TLDR: give an agent the same prompt 50 times, and you get 50 slightly different actions/answers - so the only thing worth auditing in a post-agentic world is what happened at runtime.Halo is an open-source project that produces agent runtime evidence. It's a small recorder that records every action an agent takes (eg. tool calls, model calls, data access, etc), and becomes a record in an append-only log. It's hash-chained, so anyone can re-verify.Run the following command to see a fictional example: uvx --from halo-record halo demo --serve Then, delete a line from one of the .jsonl files and reload, and the report will catch that it's been tampered with.To wire up your own agent, run this line of Python: agent = trace(run_my_agent, profile="my-agent", log="audit.jsonl") Then use this to generate a real report and give it to your customers: halo report audit.jsonl -o report.html Disclaimer: this proves integrity, not completeness (as a self-held chain proves nothing was edited but does NOT prove that nothing was omitted). Catching this requires a witness outside the vendor and is what I'm working on next.Halo is Apache-2.0, contains zero runtime dependencies, and is about 4,300 lines of Python with 125 tests (if you prefer TypeScript, here's that repo: https://github.com/bkuan001/halo-record-ts).Give it a
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Hacker News2mo agoToolOther
My Downloads folder had been left unkept for a really long time and cleaning it up using Finder was quite cumbersome. So I started creating a simple app to help me filter out and delete or move the files in the folder.It started out very basic and the filtering options genuinely helped me clean out the Downloads folder, then as I thought of more features I would like to see in a file manager I started to add them. Some of the features are:- Fuzzy go to folder/file where you only need to write a few letters of a full path, get suggestions and can jump to the correct path instantly - Hover over a file to preview an image or PDF without opening it - Dual-pane view and tabs that remember selected filters - Command palette to find actions fast - Batch rename (with regex support and presets for common operations), image conversion (HEIC/WebP/AVIF to JPG/PNG), zip creation - Bookmarks, Quick Look, single-click open, keyboard controlAnd many other small quality of life features.I used Claude Code for making the app and the tech stack is .NET/C# with AppKit. The app is compiled to Native AOT so the total app size is only around 9 MB. Since file operations are very important to get right (I don’t want to lose any important files) I put a lot of time into hardening file move/copy/delete operations. Copies are written to a temp file and atomically renamed into place. I also made a dedicated audit of move/copy/delete and verified each operation by hand.Another thing that’s important to me is apps that are privacy first so the only network request the app makes is to check if there’s a new version (this is not done at all for the trial version, the trial expiry date is enforced locally by just checking the date and trusting the user) and the only information that is sent is the current app version.The app is Apple Silicon, macOS 12+ and has a 30-day free trial with a one-time launch price of $19.99 (no subscription).
Hacker News2mo agoToolAI
Here's what I found so farapproach0.xyz : offlinesearchonmath.com : Gives irrelevant results such as p = m v when searching for F = m ahttps://search.mathweb.org/: A collection of abandoned projects and offline sites
Hacker News2mo agoToolOther
Claude’s desktop app is brilliant, but for our own daily work we kept wanting it to be less like a chat app and more like a full-fledged work app. Rowboat is our attempt at that, including the ability to build your own work surfaces inside Rowboat (more below).Our repo is https://github.com/rowboatlabs/rowboat, and there’s a demo video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et5yQABJ3xIIn a previous startup, we built a deep-learning product for enterprise support reps, including teams supporting P&G brands. Models took live notes, suggested replies, and recommended actions while support reps were on calls or handling emails. One lesson stuck with us: it's not enough for the AI to be right, the help has to show up where the work is happening.So we added what we came to call “work surfaces”: dedicated areas for email, meetings, notes, browser, and parallel coding, where the assistant can help inside the workflow itself rather than only through chat:- Email client: Rowboat has a simple email client that sorts incoming emails into important vs. everything else, and pre-creates drafts for important emails. As you edit and send emails, it takes notes on your style, so future drafts get closer to your voice.- Meeting notes: We built a Granola-style local meeting notetaker. Notes are stored as plain Markdown files on your machine. After a meeting, Rowboat feeds the notes back into the knowledge graph and updates the relevant people, project, and topic notes.- Browser: We added a built-in browser, isolated from your main one, where you can log in only to the accounts you want the assistant to help with. The assistant uses browser-use skills to navigate websites.- Parallel coding: The code-mode inside Rowboat lets you spin multiple instances of Claude Code or Codex and either work with them directly or let Rowboat use your work context to orchestrate them. We built an ACP (Agent Client Protocol) client in Rowboat for this.- Notes: Row
Hacker News2mo agoToolAI
Builders repeatedly validate ideas expensively over weeks instead of using AI for quick landing pages and analysis, causing delays and financial waste in early-stage development.
X2mo agoToolVC & Startups
Individuals suffer from overwhelming racing thoughts that disrupt daily life and wish for an easy 'off switch' mechanism or tool to control them.
X2mo agoToolPsychology
Individuals express strong willingness to pay for direct mentorship (e.g., with artists like Anitta) but current options are either unavailable or prohibitively expensive, leaving unmet demand for personalized guidance.
X2mo agoOtherEducation
Independent devs build full apps in isolation over weekends but lack easy ways to test market fit or share progress transparently, resulting in unvalidated ideas and missed opportunities.
X2mo agoToolDev
People want a simple app just to post and share short clips or mentions of songs they are listening to or that are stuck in their head every day.
X2mo agoToolMedia
People want to physically try on affordable fast-fashion items from Shein before buying, but only online options exist, leading to fit and quality uncertainty.
X2mo agoOtherE-Commerce
People want a fictional 'button' to instantly fast-forward through boring or anxious parts of the day to know outcomes and move on.
X2mo agoOtherProductivity
Fans of certain media want dedicated lesbian-themed 'Off Campus' style stories or spaces but lack a platform or creation tool for it.
X2mo agoOtherMedia
Accessible tool for non-technical users to automate repetitive business tasks using AI agents without coding. Solves fragmentation across manual workflows and expensive enterprise RPA tools. [Google Search suggestion]
Google Trends2mo agoToolProductivityUS