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Need for travel planning tool focused on organic content and deliberation
Travelers want tools that aggregate organic activity recommendations and support thoughtful planning/deliberation rather than instant booking, avoiding overly automated experiences.
X3mo agoToolTravel
Need for app to comp and price sports cards like TCG apps
Sports card collectors lack dedicated apps for accurate pricing and comps, unlike established TCG tools, making valuation manual and unreliable especially for junk era cards.
X3mo agoToolRetail
Need for unified app to host music, videos, and podcasts as YouTube alternative
Content creators and consumers seek a single platform to upload and manage diverse media types (music, videos, podcasts) without relying on YouTube due to policy concerns.
X3mo agoToolMedia
Manually deleting individual DMs one by one in X/Twitter Android app
Wasting significant time manually deleting DMs individually in the X Android app inbox instead of having a bulk select and delete all function to clear the inbox efficiently.
X3mo agoToolProductivity
Welfare Fraud Detection for Government Benefits Programs
Government welfare agencies struggle to identify false benefit claims and fraudulent applicant information. A tool that helps caseworkers flag high-risk applications and verify claims could reduce fraud without punitive processes. [Trending: "fred göcken" with 1000+ searches in DE]
Google Trends3mo agoToolBusinessDE
Simplified used goods marketplace
Frictionless buying and selling of used items with a clean user experience and brand positioning.
YC Graveyard5y agoToolConsumer
How to escalate a rejected Google extension?
I submit an extension (an adblocker) to Google Chrome's web store.Google keeps rejecting it for dubious reasons. The first rejection was claim it was "spam". When I appealed, the review came back that it contained "additional functionality" because it uses "modifies network traffic". Well of course it does! When I asked the reviewer how I could achieve the stated functionality of blocking ads without the use of "declarativeNetRequest" I simply received the same canned response.I submit a totally new update that simplified the code and included comments, and references to other open source projecs that use the exact same mechanisms. Again it was rejected. On this appeal I asked if it could be escalated to a senior reviewer who could possibly reply with more context. Same canned response and rejection.I can't help but think Google has some internal policy to give adblockers a runaround. It is obvious to me the stated rejections are not valid (Note that I'm also not new to this - I have several extensions that have been published for years with thousands of users) but have never encountered such gate-keeping before.It's a sad state of affairs even if not totally unpredictable. To be honest I'm surprised Google hasn't made it an official policy to prohibit adblockers. But they haven't - obviously there are other adblockers published to the store, and that's what makes this so frustrating.Anyway, fellow developers. Anyone run into a similar situation? And how did you resolve it? Thanks!
Hacker News3mo agoToolAI
Transload (YC P26) – Measuring freight items with CCTV
Hi HN — we’re Julius, Jago, and Nils, and we’re building transload (transload.io).transload helps LTL trucking companies measure freight dimensions using the security cameras already installed in their terminals. Instead of sending shipments through a dedicated dimensioning station, we measure them automatically as they move through the normal dock workflow.We’ve put together a small HN-specific demo site here: https://hn.transload.io/In LTL trucking, dimensions matter because they affect pricing, freight classification, and trailer utilization. If a shipment is larger than the shipper reported, the carrier may undercharge for it while still giving up the same amount of trailer space. The obvious fix is to measure every shipment, but that is surprisingly hard in a busy freight terminal. Dedicated dimensioning systems work for freight that passes through them, but they can add forklift travel, create dock congestion, and change the normal flow of work. In practice, many terminals only measure a sample of their shipments.Jago grew up close to this industry through his family’s LTL trucking and cross-docking business. We did not start out building freight dimensioning. Our first idea was an AI system for optimizing forklift routes inside cross-dock terminals. After spending time with customers and talking to more than 50 trucking companies, we realized that forklift routing was not the pain people kept bringing up. Freight dimensions were.At the same time, we saw that spatial AI was advancing quickly. Monocular metric depth estimation has become dramatically better, making it possible to recover accurate 3D structure from ordinary camera footage without expensive LiDAR sensors. MapAnything (https://github.com/facebookresearch/map-anything) and MoGe (https://github.com/microsoft/moge) are two examples.Freight terminals also have helpful structure: fixed cameras, repeated workflows, barcode scan timestamps, and known
Hacker News3mo agoToolAI
Frustrating seat selection UX on concert ticket websites
Ticket websites show available seats that suddenly become unavailable when users try to select them, causing repeated failures and frustration during booking.
X3mo agoToolE-Commerce
Legacy car software updates bricking vehicles
Software updates from traditional automakers like BMW can brick cars, leaving owners frustrated and searching for non-computerized alternatives.
X3mo agoToolTransportation
X mobile app performance and stability issues
The X mobile app frequently becomes slow, unreliable, or crashes, forcing users to uninstall/reinstall or switch to browser, unlike smoother apps like Instagram or TikTok.
X3mo agoToolProductivity
Need for on-demand hiring of men for physical tasks or companionship services
People require quick access to hire individuals for manual labor (drilling, lifting) or social roles (pretend partner), but no dedicated app exists for this niche freelance matching.
X3mo agoToolFreelance
Political ideology matching apps include too many irrelevant or extreme options
Existing ideology quiz apps overwhelm users with larp, Hitler-related, or anarchist tendencies; users want a version filtered only to ideologies left of centre.
X3mo agoToolOther
No way to record and share verified one-shot AI sessions for proof and learning
Users lack a tool to record Claude AI sessions to prove they were completed in one shot and enable others to learn from the interactions.
X3mo agoToolAI
No way to view history of watched videos on X
Users cannot easily find or revisit videos they have watched on X, making it nearly impossible to locate previously viewed content again.
X3mo agoToolProductivity
Terrible UX for local LLMs and AI tools
Local LLMs like Qwen or Gemma have poor user interfaces and harness issues, making them unproductive and hard to use effectively for mainstream users.
X3mo agoToolAI
Private Car Sale Legal Compliance Guide
North Carolina-specific checklist, templates, and legal guidance for private car sales (title transfer, bill of sale, disclosure forms). Solves confusion around state requirements. [Google Search suggestion]
Google Trends3mo agoTemplateE-CommerceUS
TikTok Monetization Roadmap & Eligibility Tracker
Help creators track progress toward TikTok monetization thresholds (followers, watch hours, livestream eligibility). Clarifies confusing/changing requirements and suggests content strategy. [Google Search suggestion]
Google Trends3mo agoToolMediaUS
Car Selling Documentation & Compliance Wizard
Automate NC car sale paperwork (title transfer, bill of sale, odometer disclosure). Solo sellers struggle with legal requirements, forms complexity, and avoiding fraud. [Google Search suggestion]
Google Trends3mo agoToolE-CommerceUS
Computer Vision Application Development Complexity
Building, testing, and deploying perception/computer vision applications is complex and time-consuming. Developers need better tools to prototype and deploy ML vision models.
YC Graveyard11y agoToolDeveloper Tools / AI