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Twitter users cannot search or organize saved bookmarks and likes effectively
Users accumulate thousands of bookmarks and likes on X but lack tools to back them up, search them, or turn them into a usable knowledge base.
X3mo agoToolProductivity
Growing engagement and audience on X is difficult without specialized tools
Creators and businesses struggle to consistently grow their presence, reach, and interactions on X due to lack of efficient growth tools.
X3mo agoToolMarketing & Sales
Difficulty maintaining consistent posting when building in public
Solo founders struggle to post consistently for months on social media as part of building in public, even though they know it's key for distribution; the consistency requirement itself becomes the main barrier rather than idea generation.
X3mo agoToolVC & Startups
Freelancers struggle with manual invoicing, payment tracking, and reminders
Freelancers and small businesses waste time creating invoices, tracking payments, and sending reminders manually, leading to delayed payments and administrative burden.
X3mo agoToolFinance
Non-technical users cannot easily create browser-based automations without coding
Users need to automate repetitive browser tasks like data capture or file downloads but find traditional scripting too complex and time-consuming.
X3mo agoToolProductivity
New mobile apps are invisible in app stores without initial reviews
Apps with fewer than 50 ratings get no algorithmic trust, making ASO ineffective and preventing visibility or ranking against established competitors from day one.
X3mo agoToolDev
Creating daily building-in-public content feels cringe and directionless
Builders find it mentally exhausting to show up every day on social media with something to share; many days they have nothing to post and the process feels inauthentic or too exposing.
X3mo agoToolProductivity
Job seekers need affordable 24/7 AI-powered interview practice and coaching
Candidates lack consistent, personalized interview preparation and feedback, especially outside business hours or for AI-related roles.
X3mo agoToolEducation
Solo developers lack support and feel overwhelmed building alone
Indie hackers working solo on products get deep into technical pipelines but have no time or bandwidth for marketing/socials, leading to burnout and desire for co-founders.
X3mo agoOtherDev
Affordable Hormone Patch Alternatives
Guide women to lower-cost HRT patch options (generics, biosimilars, compounded alternatives) and help navigate insurance coverage. [Google Search suggestion]
Google Trends3mo agoToolMedicine & HealthUS
Medication Alternative Finder Tool
Help users find cheaper, equivalent, or side-effect-free alternatives to OTC antihistamines like Zyrtec, comparing efficacy, cost, and availability. [Google Search suggestion]
Google Trends3mo agoToolMedicine & HealthUS
Free Graphic Design Tool Comparison
Curated guide comparing free Photoshop alternatives (GIMP, Photopea, Pixlr) with skill-level recommendations, tutorial maps, and feature parity charts. [Google Search suggestion]
Google Trends3mo agoArticleDesign & CreativeUS
Free InDesign Alternative Guide
Comprehensive comparison of free layout design tools (Canva, Affinity Publisher, Scribus) with templates, tutorials, and workflow tips for publishing/print design. [Google Search suggestion]
Google Trends3mo agoArticleDesign & CreativeUS
Open-Source Discord Alternative Finder
Comparison guide for self-hosted chat platforms (Mattermost, Rocketchat, Zulip) with setup guides, cost analysis, and migration tools from Discord. [Google Search suggestion]
Google Trends3mo agoToolDevUS
Telecom Provider Comparison & Switch Guide
Compare cellular plans across carriers for specific needs (coverage, price, data), calculate savings from switching, and automate the port-out process. [Google Search suggestion]
Google Trends3mo agoToolProductivityUS
Open-Source AI Code Assistant Comparison
Comparison tool for self-hosted AI code tools (Continue.dev, Codeium, Ollama) as alternatives to Claude Code, with setup guides and local model recommendations. [Google Search suggestion]
Google Trends3mo agoToolDevUS
Medical device design and development tools
Biomedical engineers struggle to design, simulate, and prototype electrical stimulation devices efficiently
YC Graveyard9y agoToolHealthcare Tech
Is the web for machines (/llm.txt) the one we wished we had as humans?
I got really tired, as a human, of parsing the standard marketing heavy web we have today. I've always loved the simplicity of gopher and gemini web.Recently I found myself manually adding `/llm.txt` to most websites I visit because I find the content for LLMs strait to the point and clear. The only annoyance is web browsers like chrome do not render the markdown.So could the AI revolution actually fix the web for humans as a side effect?Do you find yourself doing the same?
Hacker News3mo agoToolAI
General Instinct (YC P26) – Frontier models on edge devices
Hey HN, Guanming and Bill here from General Instinct (https://general-instinct.com/).After years of working in robotics, we kept running into the same problem: the best models never fit the hardware we actually had available.The models that performed best were usually designed around datacenter assumptions: large GPUs, lots of memory bandwidth, and reliable network access. But most physical systems have the opposite constraints.That led us down the path of figuring out how much of a frontier model could be preserved while still making it practical to run on edge hardware.As part of that work, we recently open sourced InstinctRazor (https://github.com/General-Instinct/InstinctRazor)One result we're excited about is compressing Qwen3.5-122B-A10B, a roughly 245 GB BF16 MoE model, into a 48 GiB GGUF. The resulting model is actually smaller than Gemma-4-26B-A4B while outperforming it on benchmarks like MMLU-Pro and GPQA-D etc. we preserve the parts that are always active (router, norms, Gated-DeltaNet/SSM layers, vision pathway, etc.) and quantize the routed experts much more aggressively. We then use on-policy distillation to recover capability lost during quantization.The model can also run in a "small GPU" configuration where experts are streamed from system RAM. With an 8k context window, peak VRAM usage is around 7.6–8 GB.If you're interested in the technical details, we wrote up the approach here (https://general-instinct.com/blog/frontier-moe-sub-4-bit)We're especially interested in hearing from people deploying models onto robots or other edge devices. What models are you trying to run locally today? What has been the biggest bottleneck in getting them into production?
Hacker News3mo agoToolAI
Estimating company cost savings from replacing employees with AI agents
Employees face uncertainty about job security due to AI replacement and lack a way to calculate the monthly USD cost savings for their company if agents take over their role.
X3mo agoToolHR & Career