Ideas Lab

Managing and canceling forgotten inactive app subscriptions

Users are charged for apps they haven't used in years and need a tool to identify and cancel these subscriptions automatically or easily.

X3mo agoToolFinance

Social media managers wasting time on repetitive documentation and posting tasks

Social media managers spend significant time on boring and repetitive tasks like documentation on LinkedIn/FB and manual posting, seeking to automate them in the future.

X3mo agoToolMarketing & Sales

Repetitive data entry and workflow tasks in small teams

Team members waste entire afternoons on small manual tasks like replying to candidates, checking numbers, sending summaries, and copying data into sheets, which accumulate despite each taking little time alone.

X3mo agoToolProductivity

Tracking real market demand versus hype or noise

Traders and analysts need a tool to measure actual demand accurately instead of relying on misleading hype or 'golden age' narratives.

X3mo agoToolFinance

Live 5G signal strength mapping and charting

Users want a dedicated app for real-time 5G signal strength visualization similar to weather mapping tools.

X3mo agoToolOther

35FL score

Vehicle Recall Status Tracker

Users struggle to quickly check if their specific vehicle model/year is under recall and get alerts for safety issues. Current solutions are fragmented across manufacturer websites. [Trending: "2018-2022 ford safety recall" with 1000+ searches in GB]

Google Trends3mo agoToolTransportationGB

Bicycle Sharing Infrastructure

Making bike sharing systems accessible and affordable for cities and communities

YC Graveyard14y agoToolTransportation

Boxes.dev: ditch localhost; run Claude Code and Codex in the cloud

Hi HN, we’re Nick and Drew, and we’re building boxes.dev – the first cloud-only agentic dev environment (ADE) that gives every Codex and Claude Code agent its own cloud computer.We’re two engineers who previously built Gem (co-founder/CTO and first hire), and we spent the last year coding almost exclusively using Codex and Claude Code. It’s been a huge change to how we code, and it’s been exhilarating seeing the models keep getting better – but we eventually realized that developing on localhost was holding us back:- Git worktrees are clunky to set up and use for parallelizing work - It’s 2026, but somehow everyone is still walking around with laptops cracked open or SSHing into mac minis in their garage so their agents don’t stop working. - Mobile is treated like an afterthought even though coding is just texting now We started hitting resource constraints when multiple parallel agents test their own work by running the full app locally. - We tried different products, but couldn’t find any that solved all of our pain points – so we pivoted and decided to just build the ADE we wanted for ourselves.Boxes.dev is a desktop and mobile app that lets you run Claude Code, Codex (using your subscription!), and the full dev environment for whatever you’re building, all on remote compute. It’s similar to Conductor or the Codex desktop app, except everything is in the cloud.We use coding agents to scan your local dev setup and port it to the cloud. Then every Claude Code/Codex thread starts from a snapshot of the full setup, with its own filesystem and compute. No more git worktrees, no more cracked-open laptops, and your coding agents can actually test their work end-to-end because they can run your full app in isolation.We’ve mirrored the Claude Code and Codex UX to feel natural to power users, and also have a fully-featured mobile app (no handoffs or remote control), plus scheduled automations and a Slack integration.We’re obviously biased, but we’ve been buildin

Hacker News3mo agoToolAI

FFmpeg WebCLI – Full FFmpeg in Browser, Offline PWA, No Uploads(WASM)

Built a browser-based FFmpeg editor that runs entirely client-side via WebAssembly. Your files never leave your device -- all processing happens in a Web Worker. Works offline as an installable PWA after first load.

Hacker News3mo agoToolMarketing & Sales

Atomic Editor – Obsidian-style live preview for CodeMirror 6

Hacker News3mo agoToolDev

Cost.dev (YC W21) – making agents cost-aware and cheaper to call

We launched Infracost on HN five years ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26064588) where our CLI generated cost estimates for infra-as-code, e.g. "this Terraform PR adds $400/mo". The idea was to shift cloud costs (FinOps) left, so engineers get visibility of costs before deployment and make better decisions.Earlier this year we started seeing agent traffic in our logs and it looked like coding agents were calling our CLI. But that CLI wasn't designed with coding agents in mind. We went down a philosophical rabbit hole to see if a CLI is even needed anymore given that Claude, Copilot et al. already follow best practices. Ultimately we decided to create a new CLI from the ground up with coding agents in mind for two reasons:1. We optimized the CLI for agent callers and cut Claude's output token usage by up to 79% and API cost by up to 67% versus a bare-Claude baseline. We wrote a blog documenting our lessons on optimizing user token usage when designing a CLI, e.g. using predicate flags so the agent doesn't compose jq | python | wc pipelines, output format that strips JSON's redundant field names. The blog is here: https://www.infracost.io/resources/blog/we-cut-claude-s-toke...2. With cloud costs, precision matters. Telling a coding agent "make this Terraform cost-optimized" can be expensive and lossy. You burn tokens loading code and policy context into every conversation. Your agent could make up a price and you wouldn't know because it's difficult to verify that across the ~10M price points that AWS, Azure and Google have. The CLI runs static analysis on the code, uses the latest prices from cloud vendors, and passes that context to the coding agent.So that's what we're launching today - Cost.dev: https://cost.dev/.- It runs locally. Your code never leaves your machine, you get a fast feedback loop, and you're not burning API calls p

Hacker News3mo agoToolAI

Mercek – A Desktop IDE for AWS ECS

Hey HN I've been using ECS for a while now and found it annoying having to log into the console everytimeI use Lens for Kubernetes but couldnt find an equivalent for ECS so i built one!The project is open source as well https://github.com/utibeabasi6/mercek

Hacker News3mo agoToolDesign & Creative

Uruky (EU-based Kagi alternative) now has Image Search and URL Rewrites

You can get a 2h free trial by solving a proof-of-work captcha when topping up your account for the first time.If you'd like to learn more, an independent interview was posted a couple of weeks ago [1], and the FAQ [2] has a lot of information as well.For the source code sharing, we've talked with lawyers and are inclined to no longer require the NDA/NCC for privacy reasons shared with us before (signing requires identification), but instead use a source-available permissive license that doesn't allow competition, like PolyForm Shield [3] (we do still have about 6 months before finalising a decision, here).This does come with a lot more risks for us (it's harder to track down if someone publishes the code or uses it against the license), but given we've already passed 100 monthly active accounts, we're feeling more confident it's an acceptable risk.The plan is to give logged in accounts (who are 12 months old or more) a way to download a ZIP of the current code base that's in the server.Obviously there's no easy way to prove that's the case, but we're open to ideas/suggestions if someone here has them.[1]: https://theprivacydad.com/interview-with-the-engineer-of-uru...[2]: https://uruky.com/faq[3]: https://polyformproject.org/licenses/shield/1.0.0

Hacker News3mo agoToolAI

Frustrating mobile banking experience with Canara Bank Ai1 app

Users find the Canara Bank Ai1 mobile banking app extremely frustrating to use despite its AI branding, with poor functionality for basic banking tasks.

X3mo agoToolFinance

X app takedowns disrupting SMAU content creation

Creators making social media alternate universe (SMAU) threads find the X app frustrating because it easily takes down tweets, requiring constant reposts and breaking continuity.

X3mo agoToolMedia

42FL score

Unreliable chart loading in Zerodha Kite trading app

Traders experience charts not loading in the Zerodha Kite app, making real-time market analysis impossible and disrupting trading workflows.

X3mo agoToolFinance

25FL score

Forced to use hated phone app due to broken desktop login

Users are forced to rely on a phone app they hate using because the website won't allow desktop login, limiting productivity and access.

X3mo agoToolProductivity

35FL score

Hate using authenticator apps for 2FA

Users absolutely hate using authenticator apps required for two-factor authentication due to clunky interfaces and workflow friction.

X3mo agoToolProductivity

35FL score

Wood cutting tool finder & buyer guide

Builders, carpenters, and DIY enthusiasts struggle to find the right wood cutting tools for their specific projects. A comparison tool with specs, recommendations, and vendor links solves fragmented research. [Google Search suggestion]

Google Trends3mo agoToolE-CommerceUS