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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
Why hasn't there been a real competitor to Ticketmaster yet?
It feels like every event/venue is selling tickets exclusively through Ticketmaster. Every other ticketing platform seems to only hold resale tickets in their inventory which just transfers the tickets to your Ticketmaster account when bought. With all the hate Ticketmaster has gotten and all the other ticketing platforms out there, I'm surprised Ticketmaster still has a hold of pretty much the entire market. How are they doing this? Why haven't the other platforms been able to compete?
Hacker News3mo agoToolOther
Intuned (YC S22) – Build and run reliable browser automations as code
Hey HN, we're Faisal and Ahmad from Intuned (https://intunedhq.com). We’re building a platform for building, deploying, and maintaining browser automations.Customers primarily use the Intuned AI agent to automate websites that don't expose APIs. Common use-cases include scraping data, pulling reports, and submitting forms. As the website changes, our agent also helps automatically heal the automation.On Intuned, browser automations are created by an AI agent and run as code. Our infra captures the context of every run, allowing our agent to debug and maintain the underlying code - to keep the automations working over time. This way, we’re able to offer the predictability, speed, and cost of code, without the painful parts of writing and maintaining it.Here’s a demo of building a scraper on Intuned: https://youtu.be/ruZP73bK4FUHere’s a demo of using AI to maintain a project: https://youtu.be/e4R4hLdHBroBackstory: we were accepted into YC for a completely different idea. During the batch, because of Faisal's background at UiPath, several batchmates asked us whether RPA tools could fill API gaps in their products by automating websites without APIs. When it was time to pivot, we went back to those founders to dig deeper. (RPA in this context is referring to using UI automation to do complete non-testing tasks)We discovered that the actual hard problem in browser automation is maintenance. Websites change, selectors break, and failures can be painful to reproduce and fix. So in early 2024, we decided to take a crack at this problem with a handful of customers. It needed a fair number of iterations before we landed on our current code-first approach.How it works: Intuned is infra + agent, deeply integrated.On the infrastructure side, Intuned is a managed runtime for browser automation code. Projects are usually Playwright-based TypeScript or Python. Users can write them directly in our online IDE, or hand the work of
Hacker News3mo agoToolAI
Command Center, the AI coding env for people who care about quality
Hi HN! We’re Jimmy and Ray. Jimmy is a Thiel Fellow with a Ph. D. from MIT who has worked on programming tools for 15 years; Ray became VP of Sales at a $2B company when he was 19 and has built side-businesses vibe-coding.Last year, we set to answer the question “If AI can write code 100x faster, then why aren’t you shipping 100x faster?” What we learned shocked us — even fairly nontechnical people and solo founders told us they were spending more than half of their development time reading the AI-written code. And much of the rest of the time was spent either de-slop-ping it, or wishing they had done so.As luck turns out, our last two products were a tool that quickly onboards people to large codebases ( https://x.com/0xjimmyk/status/1873357324229984677 ) and trainings that taught deep concepts of code quality to CEOs, YC founders, and engineers at top companies ( mirdin.com ), so we were extremely well-positioned to solve these problems.Command Center is an agentic coding environment focused on quality. With a few keypresses, you can start building 3 features at once and soon have 3 diffs ready, each consisting of 2000 changed lines across 50 files….This is normally the point where you think “Crap, what now?”With Command Center, at this point you simply click “Refactor,” and watch the vibed slop turn into readable robustness. Then you click “Generate Walkthrough,” and then suddenly, to read a 2000 line diff, instead of scrolling up and down trying to make sense of it, you just press the right arrow key 200 times. See something you don’t like? Click on line 37, type “Do this and all other network fetches in the background Cmd+Enter,” and you have a few more agents getting your code into final shape. Click or type “Commit,” “Push,” “Create PR” — you just shipped a high quality, non-slop featureWe’re striving to be the best at every step of the pipeline, but can just try Command Center in pieces wherever you feel your current workflow is wea
Hacker News3mo agoToolAI
No queue position indicator for ticket purchases
Users buying tickets on platforms like Thai Ticket Major must stare at screens waiting for their turn without knowing their position in the queue, causing uncertainty and frustration during high-demand sales.
X3mo agoToolE-Commerce
Cringe-desensitization tool or app for content creators
Content creators and builders experience high cringe and self-doubt when promoting themselves publicly, hindering consistent outreach and growth.
X3mo agoToolPsychology
No quick emoji-style reactions for emails
Email users hate leaving others on read but cannot send quick reactions like emojis or casual replies without composing a full response, creating awkward communication gaps.
X3mo agoToolProductivity
Local expert assistance for IT and eSIM system setup in Johannesburg
Individuals and businesses in Johannesburg need specialized help with IT infrastructure and eSIM systems but lack access to trusted local experts, creating delays and technical barriers.
X3mo agoOtherDev
Dating app with verified weight filtering to avoid unwanted matches
People seeking specific physical preferences in dating (e.g., excluding overweight matches) face frustration with current apps that don't enforce or verify body-related criteria, resulting in time-wasting interactions.
X3mo agoToolDating & Community
ADHD-friendly AI mode for task reminders
Users with ADHD need AI to automatically mark unread messages or chats until action is taken, as standard summarization features fail to prompt follow-through.
X3mo agoToolAI
Difficulty benchmarking and managing AI agent skills
Builders using AI coding agents struggle with benchmarking skills, lack of telemetry/hooks, prompt versioning, recommendations based on coding patterns, and managing natural language agent infrastructure like plugins and context, leading to anecdotal management and need for custom wikis.
X3mo agoToolAI
Service for warm introductions and finding decision-makers in sales outreach
Sales professionals and buyers struggle because cold emails and LinkedIn messages are ignored; they need reliable ways to identify the right contact and secure warm intros to improve response rates.
X3mo agoOtherOther
EU Pay Transparency Compliance Tool
German employers struggle with new EU pay transparency law compliance. A tool automating audit, gap identification, and documentation could help mid-market companies avoid legal penalties. [Trending: "entgelttransparenzgesetz" with 200+ searches in DE]
Google Trends3mo agoToolHR & CareerDE
Obscure Film Discovery Engine
Help users discover and locate hard-to-find, niche, or obscure movies across fragmented streaming platforms and rental services. Many rare/independent films lack centralized discovery. [Google Search suggestion]
Google Trends3mo agoToolMediaUS
Pension Payment Status Tracker
Families struggle to track delayed pension payments with no visibility into processing status. A tool providing automated status updates, escalation alerts, and timeline estimates could reduce anxiety and increase accountability. [Trending: "capita civil service pension delays" with 1000+ searches in GB]
Google Trends3mo agoToolFinanceGB
Drug discovery for aging and chronic disease
Developing therapeutic interventions for age-related diseases and chronic conditions requires efficient target identification and compound screening.
YC Graveyard8y agoToolHealthcare
NoSuggest – Watch YouTube without the recommendation algorithm
NoSuggest is a quiet act of resistance against YouTube algorithms always trying to pull you into a loop of unlimited videos in turn into unlimited screen time. With unending side cards of videos, auto-play, what's next suggestions, YouTube shorts and notifications, users will be doom scrolling for many hours in a day.I faced the same problem. Acknowledging that, not all content in YouTube is bad. There are educational videos, genuine news contents without political bias which is very hard to find outside YouTube and many other good relaxing, entertainment stuff.NoSuggest lets you only follow the YouTube channels you like and removes all types of recommendation YouTube has. So you don't waste time on watching things which you never wanted to watch anyways.UI is very simple. You add your favourite channels in "Channels" tab and latest 5 videos per channel excluding shorts would appear in "Feed" tab. "Search" tab is to search for specific videos to watch and "Saved" tab is to bookmark any video you want to watch later. Intention of NoSuggest is to provide whatever is necessary to extract whats good from YouTube all inside NoSuggest and leave out bad parts.NoSuggest works in any devices. Install it as an app (PWA) in android and iPhone, or simply open in browser in laptops. No sign-in, no account creation or no card details. NoSuggest won't even ask your name. Total privacy for the users.Parents can add the channels and save some educational videos and lock it with the pin for kids mode. Kids won't be able access unwanted additive contents inside NoSuggest.Completely free, no string attached. Source available in Github through NoSuggest website.I would love genuine feedback. Thank you very much for your attention on this matter.
Hacker News3mo agoToolAI
Oproxy – inspect and modify network traffic from the browser
Hacker News3mo agoToolOther
Lathe – Use LLMs to learn a new domain, not skip past it
Hey HN!Lathe is an experiment in using LLMs to teach me something new, instead of doing the work for me. It generates a hands-on, source-backed tutorial for any technical topic you want to learn. Then you work through it yourself by reading and typing the code by hand (gasp) in a local UI built for exactly that.It's a Go CLI plus LLM agent skills (Claude Code / Cursor / Codex). You prompt something like "/lathe build a 3D slicer in Erlang", run `lathe serve` to spin up a local webapp, and read it in your browser. Every tutorial comes with the things that have made self-learning a pleasant experience for me in the past:- table of contents that follows along as you scroll - side-notes that nudge you to think - exercises for the reader - sources backing up the content that you can use to take you deeperTo help make up for the lack of human brainpower behind the tutorial, you can also ask questions about the content, have another LLM verify the tutorial actually compiles and runs, or extend it with another part (no more "Part 4 of 6" that hasn't seen an update since 2021).I didn't build lathe to replace human-written tutorials. I built lathe because I _love_ human-written tutorials, but wanted to learn technical domains where no good human-written tutorial exists yet (building a 3D slicer from scratch, making embedded Zig approachable, etc). There's a longer story in the README about how I got started with programming through PSP homebrew tutorials, and why losing that to LLMs bugged me enough to build this.I'm not here to sell you anything (there's nothing close to a VC-backed startup here :D). It's an LLM, and its output is usually good but not perfect by any means. So far, my experience is that because you're the one typing and actually engaged, you catch the weird stuff (and I'm finding that pushing back on it is its own kind of learning). And yes, it's vibecoded, because it's
Hacker News3mo agoToolAI