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Website to track politicians voting against 6x1 work scale
Someone should create a site to eternalize in history all those against the Brazilian people on ending the 6x1 work scale.
X3mo agoToolLegal
Archive of absurd congressional bills
Someone should create a profile that gathers all the bomb bills from recent years, with votes by party and each deputy and senator.
X3mo agoToolLegal
Irreversible loss of years of social media photos videos and posts due to lack of backups
Users lose irreplaceable years of dedicated photos videos and posts on social platforms with no backups or copies leading to deep frustration and thoughts of quitting digital life entirely.
X3mo agoToolProductivity
Annoying ads on all platforms with no ad-free option
Users are extremely frustrated with constant ads from companies on platforms and would pay for a completely ad-free alternative without any promotions.
X3mo agoToolMedia
No easy way to discover OnlyFans creators
Users want a dedicated site, app or tool to quickly find and discover which people have OnlyFans accounts without tedious manual searching across platforms.
X3mo agoToolDating & Community
Better social network than Instagram
Tired of Instagram, someone should create a better social network.
X3mo agoToolMedia
Lack of transparent step-by-step public building for finance tools
Users and builders seek transparent public development of finance apps with real updates on progress challenges and features to build trust and follow the journey.
X4mo agoOtherFinance
Thigh pain from intense focused work requiring morning massage
People who work with high intensity and focus experience painful thighs from walking/standing and explicitly state they would pay for a morning massage right after work to relieve it.
X3mo agoToolSport & Fitness
Personal Data Breach Monitor
Users want to know if their data was exposed in breaches. A simple tool to check multiple breach databases and monitor ongoing exposure across services. [Trending: "what is a data breach" with 1000+ searches in US]
Google Trends3mo agoToolFinanceUS
Creator ROI Measurement Platform
Brands struggle to measure actual ROI from influencer campaigns beyond vanity metrics. A tool to track attribution, conversion, and revenue impact across creator partnerships. [Trending: "influencer marketing" with 1000+ searches in US]
Google Trends3mo agoToolMarketing & SalesUS
Ableton Automation Learning Platform
Musicians and producers need interactive tutorials to master Ableton's automation features. A structured learning platform with video guides and templates could accelerate the learning curve. [Google Search suggestion]
Google Trends3mo agoToolDesign & CreativeUS
FL Studio Automation Helper Tool
Music producers struggle to understand pitch automation workflows in FL Studio. A visual guide or tutorial tool could help producers quickly learn and implement pitch automation techniques. [Google Search suggestion]
Google Trends3mo agoToolDesign & CreativeUS
Niche content streaming platform
Lack of dedicated streaming services for African-American and African diaspora content. Discovery and curation of culturally relevant media.
YC Graveyard11y agoToolMedia & Entertainment
College Student Quick Commerce
College students need dorm essentials, snacks, and supplies delivered quickly but face limited options and high prices. Existing services don't target student-specific needs or student neighborhoods effectively.
YC Graveyard6y agoToolConsumer
High fees and poor UX in student financial management
Students struggle with managing money, paying bills, understanding financial products, and avoiding overdraft fees. Current solutions are fragmented and expensive.
YC Graveyard8y agoToolFintech
Sleep/Focus Ambient Sound Tool
Users need ambient noise/whitenoise generation for sleep, focus, and relaxation
YC Graveyard19y agoToolWellness
Infinite canvas notes in the non-Euclidean Poincaré disk
Hi!This is an infinite canvas note-taking tool where notes are laid out in a non-Euclidean, hyperbolic geometric space. As you drag and navigate through the view, you’ll experience a unique fluid distortion that naturally leverages your brain's spatial memory.I’ve been obsessed with the concept of space in HCI for years. Many modern UI patterns are essentially workarounds for the lack of screen real estate. While researching zoom-based UIs a while back, I stumbled upon old HCI papers that used the Poincaré disk model of the hyperbolic plane to organize data. It elegantly projects an infinite space into a finite disk, keeping everything contextually visible.I wanted to build an experimental app around this concept years ago, but the non-Euclidean math was a significant roadblock. Recently, I decided to give it a shot with the help of LLMs. It turns out that LLMs can handle the mathematical heavy lifting quite well, specifically in designing the coordinate systems and optimization algorithms, provided that you guide them with a solid architectural design.This is still an experimental demo, but I hope it leaves an impression. I’d love to know if you find this paradigm practical for organizing your thoughts.
Hacker News3mo agoToolAI
Nutrepedia – Nutrition info in 29 locales built with Clojure and Htmx
Hacker News3mo agoToolDesign & Creative
Lowfat – pluggable CLI filter that saved 91.8% of my LLM tokens
Hi HN, not sure if anyone would be interested, but just wanted to share that I've been maintaining my small tool called 'lowfat' that helps me filters some of my verbose CLI output. It's a single binary, works as an agent hook or a shell wrapper. It has a plugin system to customize filters per command.The idea is pretty simple: agents don't need the full kubectl get -o yaml or any 10k-line dump to make decisions. So that lowfat sits in between, strips the noise, and passes through what matters. Here's my real report after 2 months of personal use: lowfat history --all lowfat plugin candidates ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────── # command runs avg raw cost savings source status 1 kubectl get 101x 14.4K 1.5M 93.9% plugin good 2 grep 103x 13.5K 1.4M 96.2% plugin good 3 git diff 81x 995 80.6K 57.9% built-in good 4 kubectl 90x 485 43.6K 33.6% plugin good 5 docker 127x 5.5K 693.6K 96.1% built-in good 6 ls 489x 117 57.3K 56.2% built-in good 7 find 30x 16.5K 495.0K 95.5% plugin good 8 git show 63x 490 30.9K 38.0% built-in good 9 git 177x 368 65.2K 76.1% built-in good 10 git log 86x 556 47.8K 78.5% built-in good 11 kubectl logs 5x 3.6K 17.8K 43.0% plugin good 12 git status 86x 152 13.1K 58.0% built-in good 13 docker ps 20x 467 9.3K 52.8% plugin good 14 kubectl describe 6x 656 3.9K
Hacker News3mo agoToolAI