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No perfume that matches the exact scent of Dove shea butter and vanilla soap
People love the scent of a specific Dove soap but cannot find a matching perfume or body product, leading to frustration when trying to replicate the fragrance.
X1y agoOtherRetail
No course or resource for learning to swear like a native French speaker
Language learners want authentic, informal swearing and slang lessons in French but no dedicated course or material exists for this specific cultural aspect of the language.
X3mo agoToolEducation
University Cybersecurity Incident Response Platform
Universities lack integrated tools to manage data breach incidents, student/alumni notifications, compliance reporting, and recovery workflows. Current solutions are fragmented or overly complex. [Trending: "university of nottingham data breach" with 100+ searches in GB]
Google Trends3mo agoToolEducationGB
Data Breach Monitoring for Schools & Institutions
Schools and educational institutions lack affordable tools to monitor, detect, and respond to data breaches affecting student/staff records. Most rely on expensive enterprise solutions or reactive incident response. [Trending: "what is a data breach" with 200+ searches in US]
Google Trends3mo agoToolEducationUS
Food Procurement Inefficiency for Restaurants and Caterers
Restaurants, caterers, and food businesses waste time managing fragmented supplier relationships, inconsistent pricing, and spotty availability when sourcing fresh ingredients. No unified platform aggregates verified fresh suppliers with real-time inventory and transparent pricing.
YC Graveyard4y agoToolFood & Beverage
Veterinarian turned founder, AI lawn diagnosis
I know, it's kind of weird. What is a veterinarian doing creating an analysis tool for lawn problems?Frankly, the idea was born of my own lawn care struggles. Endless lawn care company fees without any actual improvement. Googling problems and finding generic solutions without regional considerations. One time I overseeded my grass not realizing I had to actually put soil down too.One day, I decided to run lawn pictures through AI and found some pretty helpful information. So I decided with my clinical background (the idea of treating the cause, not just the symptoms), as well as tech savvy, I would create an AI tool where homeowners can upload pictures of their lawn, enter their ZIP code, and get a diagnosis tailored to their location with actionable next steps in just 15 seconds.Completely free. The platform is monetized with affiliate sales (if a user elects to purchase through one of our Amazon or other links) and by selling exclusive rights to individual ZIP codes to lawn care companies seeking warm leads. Users can pursue their own DIY plan, purchase a lawn care subscription service, or contact a local lawn care system.I'd love if you'd test it out, toy with it, try to break it, and give me your feedback. Any feature requests would be super helpful.Thanks! Excited to hear your thoughts.Andrew
Hacker News3mo agoToolAI
VoiceDraw – Talk system design out loud, the diagrams draw themselves
I was frustated by having to draw system design diagrams by hand when discussing it with my team mates or in an interview. So I thought "Wouldn't it be great if someone draws it for me, while I think out loud?".That is when I came up with VoiceDraw. You can just think out loud or discuss your system architecture with a friend/interviewer, the diagrams are automatically drawn along with your reasoning, open questions and tradeoffs beautifully written on to the side.Demo Video: https://youtu.be/36PgHKSuccE
Hacker News3mo agoToolDesign & Creative
Fata – Spaced repetition to fight skill rot from AI coding
Hi HN, I'm Djoumé. I've been a developer for over 20 years, and like a lot of you I've been coding almost exclusively through an agent in the past few months.It's been amazing to vibe code prototypes in any stack, but when it comes to building something reliable/scalable, I couldn't effectively guide the agent unless I knew the technology. And the scariest part is that I'm seeing a lot of my technical skills decreasing due to AI coding.Reflecting on my journey, I also worry about how the new "AI native" generation of software developer is going to acquire technical depth.So I built fata.dev: short daily spaced-repetition sessions for programming skills (Rust, CSS, React, Python, TypeScript, Architecture).You can try it in the browser with no signup: https://fata.app/coursesIt's an offline-first mobile app built with Capacitor, RxDB and Firebase. The first courses were painfully written by hand, but most content is now AI-generated. It takes about 3000 LLM calls to generate a course, and every code samples goes through compilation, linting, unit testing, AI and a final manual review.Would very much appreciate any feedback on the product & website, what works and what could be better. Thanks!
Hacker News3mo agoToolAI
machine0 – Persistent NixOS VMs You Control from the CLI
Hi HN! Excited to launch machine0, a CLI that makes it easy to create, provision and snapshot persistent NixOS (& Ubuntu) VMs.You can think of machine0 as a modern VPS provider. VMs stay on unless switched-off (with 99.99% uptime), they have static IPs and HTTPS endpoints, 1-60 vCPU, up to 240GB RAM and optionally GPUs. The CLI provides commands to manage lifecycle, snapshots and also provision the VMs using Nix flakes or Ansible playbooks. VMs are priced by the minute of usage.What makes machine0 unique is that it has first class support for NixOS! In a nutshell, NixOS lets you define your entire OS as code (think Terraform but for your Linux). A flake declares your system state (packages, services, firewall rules, users...) and pins all dependencies via a lockfile. Given the same flake.nix and flake.lock, `nixos-rebuild switch` always produces the exact same system.The NixOS ecosystem is mature, and flakes are expressive: at the system level you can define packages, what's in /etc, firewall rules, users & groups etc. At the user level, you can define your shell, aliases, tmux and vim config. Having your entire environment defined as code makes it easy to audit what's installed and how things are set up. You can rollback by reverting the last commit. And agents can write the code for you and test it against disposable machine0 VMs.If you'd like to dive right in, these commands will get you started: npm install -g @machine0/cli machine0 new my-vm --image nixos-25-11 # create a new nixos VM machine0 provision my-vm ./flake#my-profile # provision it using a nix flake machine0 ssh my-vm # ssh in machine0 stop my-vm # stop the VM machine0 images new my-vm my-snapshot # create a snapshot machine0 new my-clone --image my-snapshot # create a new VM from the snapshot - Demo of installation + NixOS provisioning via Claude Code: https://www.y
Hacker News3mo agoToolAI
Drafted (YC P26) – Models for residential architecture
I’m Nick, founder of Drafted (https://www.drafted.ai). We’re training models that generate residential architecture from structured design constraints.Product demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QkJ7jNU9y4Residential architecture is still one of the most expensive, slow, and inaccessible creative processes in the world. Designing a custom home typically costs $10,000–$50,000 or more, takes months, and requires making major decisions before most people can even visualize the outcome. As a result, the vast majority of homes are built without direct architectural involvement.Our goal is to teach computers how the built environment works so anyone can imagine, explore, and eventually create physical spaces tailored to them.Today, users can design homes using simple inputs such as: - Square footage targets - Footprint shapes - Lot boundaries - Room placement preferences - Spatial relationships and constraints.Our models generate complete floor plans and matching exterior elevations in seconds. Users can explore designs in both 2D and 3D, iterate instantly, furnish interiors, experiment with materials, and export CAD, PDF, and other files for the rest of the pre-construction process.One of our newest capabilities allows users to draw any footprint shape and generate a complete home layout inside it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZJhBm7-OHI.Over the past month, more than 120,000 people have used Drafted, generating over 325,000 home designs.If you're building a home, developing property, working in architecture, construction, or AI, we'd love to hear your feedback!
Hacker News3mo agoToolAI
Understanding video editing curves for polished launch content
Creators making launch videos don't know how editing curves work to make content feel professional and polished, needing intuitive tools or previews to master easing effects quickly.
X3mo agoToolMedia
Difficulty hiring talent based solely on social media profiles instead of traditional resumes
Companies want to hire people based on their authentic social profiles and activity rather than outdated resumes or formal applications, but no platform facilitates this effectively at scale.
X3mo agoToolHR & Career
Turning competitor signals into actionable GTM steps
Founders and SaaS builders monitor competitors extensively but find it hard to convert observed changes (pricing, features, positioning) into specific, testable growth or marketing actions without complex tools or spreadsheets.
X3mo agoToolBusiness
Lack of affordable, subscription-free private journaling and habit tracking tools for personal growth
Users seek a private all-in-one journal that combines tracking, notes, and canvas features without ongoing subscriptions, as current options are either too expensive or lack privacy.
X3mo agoToolPsychology
Fragmented personal health data across sleep, training, and nutrition making consistent coaching hard
People struggle to connect and act on data from sleep trackers, workouts, and diet apps for holistic fitness guidance without manual effort or multiple disconnected tools.
X3mo agoToolSport & Fitness
Manual and repetitive mailbox operations for businesses lacking simple automation
Businesses waste time on manual email inbox management tasks that could be automated, with existing SMTP tools not providing full mailbox provider capabilities.
X3mo agoToolProductivity
Complex cap table and equity management for startups in emerging markets
Emerging market startups face difficulties managing cap tables, equity, and making themselves investable due to lack of localized, affordable infrastructure tools.
X3mo agoToolVC & Startups
Getting distribution and visibility for new products
Builders and founders create products but struggle with distribution, often spending months building things that nobody sees, needing practical lessons on getting initial users and reach.
X3mo agoArticleMarketing & Sales
Repurposing saved articles and posts into social media content
Content creators and builders save hundreds of posts and articles but struggle to turn them into actual X posts or content, needing a fast, simple AI tool to generate drafts quickly on mobile.
X3mo agoToolProductivity
Accessing affordable, industry-specific marketing advice for small businesses
Florists and similar small business owners find generic marketing advice unhelpful and professional services too expensive, needing targeted, problem-specific guidance that's practical and low-cost.
X3mo agoOtherMarketing & Sales