Ideas Lab

Voice-Controlled Audio Device UX

Voice-controlled speakers in 2016 had poor sound quality and limited contextual awareness. Users wanted beautiful hardware with excellent audio that could understand natural voice commands.

YC Graveyard10y agoToolConsumer

StackScope – I crawled over 40k indie launches to see what they ship

Hey all, I built StackScope, a crawler/catalogue that looks at new product launches and shows what they were built with.It watches launches from Product Hunt, Show HN, and PeerPush, then crawls the public site behind each one. The goal is to show what people actually launched with: hosting, frameworks, analytics, DNS, security headers, legal pages, AI-builder signals, and other public clues.I started building it because most stack-detection sites look at the web as a whole. I was more interested in the current indie launch scene: what people are choosing right now, at the point they first put something in public.A few implementation details: it runs on .NET, uses Playwright for rendered pages, and has a first-party fingerprint catalogue rather than one copied from Wappalyzer/etc. robots.txt is honoured, and the bot identifies itself.Frustratingly, I am still waiting for verified bot status from Cloudflare and currently that knocks out about 10% of all sites.There is also a private readiness check: paste a URL, get the same style of report, fix things, and recrawl. No account or email needed.I'd be interested in feedback on the usefulness of this, the methodology, and any obvious false positives.Jonathan.

Hacker News3mo agoToolAI

BitBoard (YC P25) – Analytics Workspace for Agents

We’re Connor and Ambar from BitBoard (https://bitboard.work). BitBoard is an agentic analytics workspace. We give you the infrastructure and visualization layer to analyze data with AI.Today, we’re launching dashboards that you and your agents can work on together. You can connect your coding agent or AI chat to BitBoard and build live reporting. Here’s a demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPl0K565a7c.AI tools treat data analysis as ephemeral, making it hard to report or collaborate. Legacy BI tools weren’t intended for AI users, so they bolt on chatbots and can’t offer meaningful control to your agents. Software can now make far more of a business legible than BI ever could, but neither legacy BI nor chat bots are built to handle it.Our original product was AI agents for administrative tasks in healthcare (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44237769), but customers kept pulling us toward their data analysis problems: queries scattered across disparate sources, spreadsheets floating everywhere. We kept building tooling for addressing that, and at a certain point those tools were becoming our product.We ran into several problems. Agents made bad inferences because they had no context on the business. They couldn't be trusted to make decisions because nothing checked their work. And anything one agent or one person figured out was invisible to everyone else. In BitBoard, humans and agents interact with the same data primitives but get tools designed for their own work.We’re building dashboards to make the human reading experience better. These dashboards progressively use intelligence - starting from code or SQL queries and leading to full embedded apps. Humans and agents will need to agree on methods to interpret data, so we’re letting both contribute to canonical sources, entities, and measures (using your favorite semantic model or ours). Every answer comes with provenance, and the same call with the same parameters

Hacker News3mo agoToolAI

Script to bulk delete Claude chats from the web UI

I haven't found a way to delete all chats in bulk like you can on Chatgpt. With Claude, you have to scroll to the bottom, select everything, and delete. The problem is, if you have a lot of chats, it becomes impossible. I created this script. It does it alone. I hope it helps someone.(conversations disappear from the UI slowly, over several minutes, and remember to keep the tab open until the console shows "Finished", refreshing away from the page can stop the deletion process.)

Hacker News3mo agoToolAI

35FL score

Difficulty managing personal finances leading to inability to enjoy life

Users express deep frustration with their monthly finances, feeling sad and restricted from basic activities like going out due to poor financial control.

X3mo agoToolFinance

Missing World Cup mode in FIFA Career Mode

FIFA Career Mode lacks a World Cup feature, frustrating players who want to simulate international tournaments within their career saves.

X3mo agoOtherSport & Fitness

15FL score

Lack of honest RSVP system for events like weddings

People get invited to weddings and feel obligated to attend even if they don't want to, leading to wasted money, time, and awkward situations for both hosts and guests. No easy way to gauge genuine interest.

X3mo agoToolBusiness

Desire for custom artwork from personal photos without easy access to services

People want physical custom paintings or art pieces created from their specific photos but have no straightforward, affordable way to get them made.

X3mo agoOtherDesign & Creative

No option to pickup packages at FedEx facilities after failed deliveries

Customers receiving packages via FedEx cannot easily choose to pickup at a facility instead of waiting for rescheduled home delivery, causing inconvenience when no one is home to sign.

X3mo agoToolLogistics & Delivery

28FL score

Lack of quiet, uninterrupted personal time in adult life

Adults crave a full day of complete silence and solitude but find it impossible to achieve amid daily responsibilities, leading to willingness to pay for such an experience.

X3mo agoOtherPsychology

Browser-Based Vector Design Tool for Web Creators

Web designers and social media creators need affordable Illustrator substitute for logos, icons, and graphics. Web-based vector editor with component library, live collaboration, and export to SVG/code. [Google Search suggestion]

Google Trends3mo agoToolDesign & CreativeUS

Web-Based Photo Editing & Organization Suite

Photographers and content creators need affordable Lightroom alternatives. A web-based tool offering non-destructive editing, batch processing, cloud sync, and presets without $10/mo subscription. [Google Search suggestion]

Google Trends3mo agoToolDesign & CreativeUS

Privacy-Focused Flashcard & Study Platform

Students and educators need open-source, privacy-respecting study tools without ads or data collection. Quizlet alternative with offline sync, community decks, and collaborative features for teams. [Google Search suggestion]

Google Trends3mo agoToolEducationUS

Xbox/Gaming Network Status Dashboard

Real-time status monitoring tool for Xbox Live and other gaming network outages. Players need quick, reliable information during service disruptions to check if issues are widespread or local. [Trending: "xbox down" with 200+ searches in GB]

Google Trends3mo agoToolDevGB

35FL score

Lightweight Vector Graphics Editor for Non-Designers

Designers and small business owners struggle with Illustrator's complexity and cost ($85/mo). A lightweight, web-based vector editor with affordable pricing ($5-15/mo) and simplified UI could capture price-sensitive users. [Google Search suggestion]

Google Trends3mo agoToolDesign & CreativeUS

Affordable Photo Organization & RAW Editor

Photographers need Lightroom functionality (RAW processing, library management, presets) at lower cost. Open-source Lightroom alternative with sync, batch editing, and cloud backup. [Google Search suggestion]

Google Trends3mo agoToolDesign & CreativeUS

Expensive and slow neural network inference

Running large AI models is computationally expensive and slow, limiting accessibility for developers and businesses without massive GPU budgets

YC Graveyard2y agoToolAI/ML Infrastructure

Claw Patrol, a security firewall for agents

At Deno we've been using OpenClaw and other agents increasingly for addressing production problems in Deno Deploy - when a PagerDuty alert fires, the agent starts researching the cause and making fixes.In order to do this, the agent needs access to real production systems - postgres, kubernetes, gcp, clickhouse, github, etc. But this is dangerous to say the least - we want destructive actions to be reviewed by other LLMs, approved by humans, and logged appropriately.Claw Patrol terminates TCP connections over WireGuard or Tailscale, then parses application protocols (eg http, postgres, ssh) to apply rules that allow you to deny/allow requests.There are a few projects that sit as a proxy in front of agents to do secret injection or apply various guardrails, but none met our needs (LLM gateways, MCP proxies, sandboxes), particularly the need to handle low-level protocols, or handle complex real world situations like tunneling postgres through k8s.Written in Go, configured in HCL, MIT licensed. Happy to answer any questions.https://clawpatrol.dev/

Hacker News3mo agoToolAI

Atlasphere – Live Infrastructure Diagrams

Hi HN. My name is Andrey. On a regular business day, I'm a software engineer working at AWS. Outside of work hours, I spend time on my hobby - writing code.I was once building a pet project that allowed customers to spin up fully synchronized blockchain nodes within just a few minutes. The backend was split into a control plane and a data plane, each with its own AWS account. Later I added two more AWS accounts. One for shared RPC nodes. One for the Analytics Service.Since I love to visualize things, I used drawio to visualize the architecture.With time, I noticed a pattern. I'd write some code, add a few lambda functions, update my drawio diagram, write more code, introduce a few more resources, test things, see that everything works fine and go to sleep with a smile on my face. Next week I'd check my diagram, and shockingly, it's missing some of the resources! This kept happening for a few more weeks until I decided to fully abandon the project until my infrastructure diagrams could stay in sync with my cloud account.That's how Atlasphere.io was born. I've been working on it for the past 6 months and I think the product is ready for some feedback :)A few notes:- Atlasphere uses a ReadOnly IAM role to scan your AWS account (my account reaches your account through a trust relationship).- The number of services is currently limited (WIP)- It's a macOS app- It's NOT an Electron app, i use Rust + WebviewWhat am I looking for? All I really need is for someone to try the app and tell me what they like about it and what they absolutely hate about it, haha!The website is https://atlasphere.io/

Hacker News3mo agoToolAI