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Are other people seeing a spike in IT problems with businesses?
In the last month it seems like I've experienced a surge in businesses having IT screwups. For instance my wife paid my homeowner's insurance bill but they referred my bill to a lawyer for collections and canceled my policy. (To her credit when my agent was notified she got my policy reinstated) Now I have a UPS package that seems to have been stuck in Montana for a week but what I am seeing on the tracker doesn't make complete sense.Have I just had bad luck or are other people seeing this? Can we blame vibe coding? Are we living in Gas Town now?
Hacker News3mo agoToolAI
Recall – Local project memory for Claude Code
Hacker News2mo agoToolAI
Developers need efficient routing between local and hosted AI models
Builders require a deterministic way to decide and route between local versus hosted AI models without manual configuration each time.
X2mo agoToolAI
Job seekers need better preparation tools for technical interviews
Candidates want practical ways to improve performance in big tech interviews without relying on generic or ineffective practice methods.
X2mo agoToolHR & Career
Content creators face high recurring costs for AI video generation tools
Users want to produce unlimited reels and shorts locally on their own machines without paying monthly subscriptions for cloud-based tools.
X2mo agoToolMedia
Screen recording tools are overpriced and lack editable auto-zoom for click interactions
Tools like Screen Studio cost $30/month for basic zoom features; users need free/cheap browser-based recorders with auto-zoom on clicks and post-edit zoom keyframes.
X3mo agoToolProductivity
Small businesses lack affordable access to CFO-level financial insights and automation
Companies need to connect accounting software and bank accounts to receive automated CFO-level insights directly in Slack, but current options are either too expensive or manual.
X2mo agoToolFinance
Founders lack visibility into how AI perceives and recommends their businesses post-launch
After shipping apps/websites, founders face blind spots where AI systems fail to understand positioning, leading to competitors being recommended instead; no easy way to audit or fix AI visibility.
X3mo agoToolAI
Apple Search Ads management lacks privacy-focused local tools for keyword ROI tracking and AI insights
Campaign management on Apple Search Ads is time-consuming; users need local Mac apps to track revenue/profit/ROAS per keyword, manage bids, and query AI about ad performance without sending data to cloud.
X3mo agoToolMarketing & Sales
Website owners struggle to quickly identify SEO and GEO opportunities without paid tools
Users need a free, instant generator for site overviews, traffic opportunities, competitor analysis, content gaps, and GEO/AI mentions to grow their websites.
X2mo agoToolSEO & Geo
Marketers struggle to identify and target actual paying customers versus lurkers
Founders and marketers need methods to find real buyers who convert, instead of wasting effort on non-paying users who only engage passively.
X2mo agoToolMarketing & Sales
Agencies need actionable lead data with built-in outreach and CRM integration for newly advertising local businesses
Lists of businesses starting Meta ads are useless without actionability; agencies want auto-generated pitches, outreach drafts, and one-click CRM pushes for HVAC, roofing, etc.
X3mo agoToolMarketing & Sales
Simplified ticket resale management platform
Independent ticket sellers struggle with StubHub's fees (20-30%) and complex selling process. A streamlined alternative connecting sellers directly to buyers or using cheaper distribution channels could capture resellers frustrated with current high-fee platforms. [Google Search suggestion]
Google Trends2mo agoToolE-CommerceUS
Lightweight payroll & HR for micro-businesses
Small businesses (<20 employees) need affordable payroll, tax filing, and compliance without enterprise software costs. Existing solutions are expensive or overly complex for simple use cases. [Google Search suggestion]
Google Trends2mo agoToolHR & CareerUS
Due to spam on GitHub, what platforms can I move my projects?
I have a few projects on Github. I am receiving a lot of spam PRs and requests from vibe coders and bots. Most of them to prop up their profiles. The stars are obviously exaggerated too.What other platforms are you using for your projects?
Hacker News2mo agoToolDev
StartupWiki – A Free Alternative to Crunchbase
I've been building StartupWiki, a free startup database designed to make it easier to discover and research companies.The original motivation was frustration with how difficult it can be to find information on early-stage startups. Most databases need accounts, or subscriptions, ro just feel too cluttered. I wanted a website that felt like Wikipedia, no accounts, no subscriptions, no weird metrics, just go in, the info is on the page.The project is still very early, but currently includes:Startup profiles Search and filtering Company categorization Public API (in progress)I'm especially interested in feedback on:What information you look for when researching startups Features missing from existing startup databases API use casesI'd love to hear feedback.
Hacker News2mo agoToolDev
Make PDFs look scanned (CLI or in the browser via WASM)
I made this because the online "make my PDF look scanned" tools want you to upload your file to their servers, which feels sketchy at best. Also, I wasn't happy with the output they produce, I wanted something that looks realistic.
Hacker News2mo agoToolOther
Are You in the Weights?
With more traffic moving off-web and into LLMs, I got curious about what traces we leave "in the weights". My design partner and I built a site in the past few weeks that checks recognition across frontier and small models. It queries many of them in parallel, clusters the responses, and tells you how strongly they recognize you. Happy to answer any questions here!
Hacker News3mo agoToolAI
We post-trained a model that pen tests instead of refusing
Anthropic and OpenAI's publicly available models are explicitly guard-railed so that they refuse offensive tasks. And their cyber-focussed models are gated for enterprises. This leaves SMEs and mid market open to major vulnerabilities.AI can be used as both an adversarial and defensive tool in the world of cyber. A worst case outcome is if only the adversaries have access.Meanwhile, most existing AI cyber tools are just wrappers. The problem is that they still have all the guardrails on from the foundation model where they will inherit its refusals.For this project we've post-trained a specific model on a decade of capture-the-flag contests. This won't be made available to anyone and everyone, but we do believe that responsible SMEs and midmarket companies also need access to these tools in order to identify key vulnerabilities in their systems; not just enterprises.We have developed two modes that run over a CLI:• Security scan: a read-only audit of your local codebase for vulnerabilities. It only reports what it can tie to a specific file and line, so you're not wading through vibes-based findings.• Pen test: an active adversarial mode that will try to break a live system in a sandboxed environment. It proves each vulnerability by running the exploit and showing the request it sent and the response your code gave back, not a confidence score. Currently gated.To show what the scan does, we pointed it at Bank of Anthos and it found an integer overflow in the transfer path: amount is an int, and amount + fee can overflow negative, so the balance check passes and you move funds you don't have. Plus the usual auth and secrets issues. (Bank of Anthos is Google's open-source bank. It's a known app and some of it is intentionally weak, which is the point: you can clone it and re-run the scan yourself instead of trusting a screenshot)The base model is a Kimi K2.6 (open weights). We didn't pretrain from scratch. We post-trained it our
Hacker News2mo agoToolAI