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Finding best discounts on airline tickets using loyalty points
Travellers seek tools to efficiently find and compare discounts on airline tickets redeemable through loyalty programs, as current offers are scattered and hard to track. [Trending: "passagem aerea" with 200+ searches in BR]
Google Trends9d agoToolTravelBR
Assistive tools for people experiencing age-related sight loss
Seniors losing sight face challenges in reading, entertainment, and daily tasks; digital tools to adapt content and assist with navigation could improve quality of life. [Trending: "dame judi dench sight loss" with 200+ searches in GB]
Google Trends9d agoToolMedicine & HealthGB
Image curation and discovery from large social media feeds
Users struggle to filter and curate interesting images or content from overwhelming social feeds or the web so they can easily save and share favorites.
YC Graveyard17y agoToolConsumer
Simplified mobile website design and building tools
Non-technical users want to create and publish websites easily from mobile devices without desktop tools.
YC Graveyard8y agoToolConsumer
Resale marketplace for used furniture and home goods
Consumers want a convenient and economical way to buy and sell used furniture and home items without dealing with the hassles of listing, shipping, or logistics.
YC Graveyard12y agoToolConsumer
Complex ERP for manufacturers
Manufacturers struggle with outdated ERP systems that are not AI-native, leading to inefficiencies in manufacturing planning, inventory, and operations management.
YC Graveyard5mo agoToolB2B Manufacturing
Working capital financing for small restaurants in emerging markets
Many small restaurant owners in Brazil lack access to short-term working capital financing through simple, fast digital means to manage cash flow and grow.
YC Graveyard4y agoToolFintech
Omnara – Open-source alternative to Claude Managed Agents
Hey all, Kartik from Omnara (https://omnara.com) here. We're building an open-source API for running durable agents. You create an agent with an API call, and Omnara runs the agent loop, gives the agent sandboxes to run commands in, and handles secrets, permissions, and RBAC. Each agent's state is stored in Postgres, so agents survive restarts and cost nothing while idle. You can message them and stream their events over the API.You may remember us from our early days, when we made a remote-control phone app for Claude Code and Codex. Since the harness ran on a laptop back then, we had to build a relay to reach it, it stopped when the laptop closed, and moving it to a cloud sandbox meant syncing code and agent state between machines. We didn't think remote-controlling a local agent was end-game for how people would run agents, so we built a new product where the agent runs in the cloud, any client can talk to it through an API, and it can still use your laptop as one of its machines.Anthropic and OpenAI are building hosted versions of this, like Claude Managed Agents and the OpenAI Agents API. Omnara is an open-source version you can run on your own servers and use your own models. It's basically a harness server like the opencode or codex servers, but durable, scalable, with the usual harness features like file and shell tools, subagents, compaction, permission prompts, MCP, skills, memory, yada yada yada.Here's some interesting architectural decisions we made while building this out:Most harnesses, like Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Pi, Goose, etc, run the agent loop in one long-lived process that keeps its log in a JSONL or SQLite file. In Omnara, the log is an append-only event log in Postgres, with inputs, model outputs and tool calls stored as typed rows in their own tables. The loop runs on stateless workers in the control plane. A worker runs one iteration of the loop, either a model call or the tool calls it produced, then
Hacker News9d agoToolAI
Alter (YC S25) – Access control for multi-user agents
Hi HN! We’re Srikar and Kevan, founders of Alter – https://alterauth.com/. We’re building access control for agents that can take actions on behalf of multiple users.If you’ve built an internal agent people use through Slack, you may have experienced this scenario: everyone signs in with their own account, but the agent connects to the CRM or billing system with one shared API key, so the agent can do anything that the key can do. User-level authentication in Slack does nothing to control what the agent can do in an external system like the CRM or billing system.Here’s what Alter does:-It acts as a proxy and manages downstream credentials for every API request that an agent takes;-It takes identity into account for every action the agent does. Automatically take into account the end user identity of the person that the agent is taking actions on behalf of.-It enforces fine grained runtime policies and records compliance grade audit logs.Here’s a demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZqPU14ipGEWe started this because we saw first hand how hard it is to build agents in regulated industries. To unlock the true benefits of agents we need to allow agents to take actions, sometimes actions on behalf of end users. I (Srikar) was working at Goldmans and I saw how prohibitively expensive it was for me as a developer to write my own custom auth to enable multi-tenancy in agents and to allow agents to have strict policy controls as they act on behalf of end users. My co-founder, Kevan, is a second time founder and was previously working on a database startup. He has experience building and selling deep tech into highly regulated environments. So this problem seemed like a natural fit for the both of us.Building and maintaining custom auth for multi tenant agents was challenging. But so was ensuring that the solution we developed was secure, scalable and keeping track of security grade audit logs. As a result we realized there needs to be a
Hacker News10d agoToolAI
No dating app tailored for people attracted to fat guys
Users seeking partners who prefer or are fat guys have no dedicated dating platform, leading to frustration with mainstream apps that don't cater to this specific preference.
X14d agoToolDating & Community
No feedback mechanism for game mod archives after site shutdowns
Modding communities for games like Zenless Zone Zero lose access to cached mods when sites shut down, with GameBanana not covering the full library, hindering preservation and access.
X9d agoToolOther
Unwanted crypto and gambling ads in sports content
Sports fans are frustrated with intrusive targeted ads for crypto and gambling that appear during games and would pay to filter or opt out of them entirely for a cleaner viewing experience.
X10d agoToolMedia
Discord lacks a centralized notifications tab
Discord app notifications beep without indicating the source, forcing users to hunt through servers and channels for context, causing frustration with the app's notification system.
X11d agoToolProductivity
No reliable non-Electron native app for Microsoft Teams on Linux
Linux users replacing Electron-based apps struggle with existing Teams clients due to API issues, needing a stable native alternative for daily work.
X21d agoToolDev
No way to confirm or deny AncestryDNA traits accuracy
Genealogy users cannot provide feedback on the accuracy of DNA traits shown on Ancestry's website, limiting research improvements and user trust in the data.
X10d agoToolMedicine & Health
Cyberattack alert platform for bank customers and enterprises
Bank customers and small businesses need a simple tool to monitor and receive alerts about cyberattacks affecting major banks like SBI to proactively protect their data and accounts. [Trending: "state bank of india" with 2000+ searches in IN]
Google Trends10d agoToolFinanceIN
Track and notify users of GLP-1 medication recalls and safety alerts
Patients and healthcare providers need a reliable tool to get timely alerts and detailed information about GLP-1 medication recalls and safety issues, as current sources are scattered and often delayed. [Trending: "glp 1 medication safety recall" with 500+ searches in US]
Google Trends10d agoToolMedicine & HealthUS