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Explore the hottest developer projects on Show HN for 2025-01-15. Dive into innovative tech, AI applications, and exciting new inventions!
Summary of Today's Content
Today's Product Highlights
- Product Name: itsLaunched
- Highlight: A fair alternative to Product Hunt limiting to 10 launches per day and 2 votes per user, ensuring every indie maker gets visibility and a second chance through "Under Radar" feature.
Quick Summary
- Most Hot Category: AI/ML Tools
- Top Keywords: AI, Open Source, Automation
- Most Popular Product: itsLaunched (197 points, 75 comments)
Technology Trends
- AI Integration & Automation
- Developer Tools & Infrastructure
- Open Source Solutions
- Cloud Services
- Productivity Enhancement
Project Distribution
- AI/ML Tools: 35%
- Developer Tools: 25%
- Productivity Apps: 20%
- Infrastructure: 15%
- Other: 5%
Trend Insights
- Strong focus on AI-powered automation tools and services
- Growing emphasis on open-source alternatives to commercial products
- Increasing demand for developer productivity tools
- Rising interest in infrastructure management solutions
- Trend toward simplified, user-friendly interfaces for complex tasks
- Notable shift toward privacy-conscious and self-hosted solutions
- Emergence of specialized tools for niche markets
- Integration of AI capabilities into traditional software categories
- Focus on cost-effective alternatives to enterprise solutions
- Emphasis on developer experience and workflow optimization
Today's Top 10 Trending Products
Top 1. A fair platform for indie makers that offers an alternative to Product Hunt. Discover, showcase, and support innovative creations from independent developers and creators. (Likes: 197, Comments: 75)
Top 2. A versatile tool designed to effortlessly save multimedia content from multiple platforms, enhancing your digital collection with just a few clicks. (Likes: 68, Comments: 34)
Top 3. Discover Anyshift.io – the ultimate Terraform "Superplan" that revolutionizes infrastructure management with unprecedented ease and efficiency. Streamline your workflows and enhance collaboration while effortlessly handling complex deployments. Perfect for DevOps professionals looking to elevate their cloud infrastructure game! (Likes: 31, Comments: 39)
Top 4. Join us in revolutionizing compliance tools! We're creating an open-source solution for SOC-2 compliance and need your expertise and input. Together, we can simplify the process and make it accessible for everyone. Let's build a better way to achieve compliance! (Likes: 29, Comments: 0)
Top 5. Stay active and energized with Move Frequently – a simple 1-minute exercise routine every 45 minutes to boost your productivity and well-being. (Likes: 16, Comments: 11)
Top 6. An innovative Common Lisp implementation currently under development, showcasing modern features and enhanced performance to elevate programming experiences. (Likes: 15, Comments: 7)
Top 7. Curator is an innovative open-source library designed for synthetic data generation, empowering developers and researchers to easily create realistic datasets tailored for various applications. (Likes: 13, Comments: 6)
Top 8. Experience history like never before with GeoGuessr inspired by historical events. Challenge your knowledge and discover significant moments in time through an engaging and interactive gameplay experience. Perfect for history buffs and trivia lovers alike! (Likes: 11, Comments: 2)
Top 9. Introducing QwQ-32B APIs: Experience 1% the cost with o1-like reasoning capabilities, revolutionizing affordable AI solutions for your projects. (Likes: 10, Comments: 2)
Top 10. Transform any ComfyUI workflow into a fully functional web app or API effortlessly, enhancing productivity and accessibility for developers. (Likes: 3, Comments: 6)
1. Show HN: I built a fair alternative to Product Hunt for indie makers
URL: #
Author: lakshikag
Description: I’m an indie maker, just like many of you. A few months back, I launched a product on one of the big platforms, and... nothing. It got buried under dozens of other launches within hours. All that work, all that excitement is gone in the blink of an eye. No one even saw it.
It stung. I wasn’t mad, well, maybe a little but mostly, I just felt invisible. The truth is, indie makers like me don’t have big teams or budgets to fight for visibility. We rely on genuine support and connections. I couldn’t stop thinking about how many great ideas never get the attention they deserve because they’re overshadowed.
So, I decided to build something different: https://itslaunched.com
Here’s the idea:
• 10 launches per day, max. Limiting the number of daily launches ensures that every product gets its moment in the spotlight.
• 2 votes per user, per day. This isn’t a popularity contest. You only get two votes, so people have to really think about which products they want to support. It’s quality over quantity.
• “Under Radar” feature. This one’s my favorite. If a product doesn’t get much love on its launch day, it gets a second chance to shine the next day. Because timing shouldn’t be the only thing standing between you and success.
There’s more like badges, comments, streaks but the heart of it is simple: a fair shot for indie makers.
I built this because I believe every product deserves to be seen, especially the ones built by solo makers and small teams putting their heart into something they truly care about. And I didn’t build this to compete with Product Hunt. I built it to give indie makers the platform they deserve, one where their creativity truly gets noticed.
If this sounds like something you’d want to check out, I’d love your thoughts. I’m still tweaking and improving it every day based on feedback.
Let me know what you think and if you’ve got a product you’re proud of, I’d love to see it shine.
Popularity: 197 points | 75 comments
2. Show HN: I made a tool to save multimedia from various platforms
URL: https://www.saveplays.com/
Author: sanusihassan
Description: My goal is to create a free media downloader that doesn't bother you. friendly, efficient, and has no paywalls or anything like that.
I've been working on that for the last 3 weeks or so, it's not perfect yet, but it works, and I'm really excited to share it.
Popularity: 68 points | 34 comments
3. Show HN: Anyshift.io – Terraform "Superplan"
Author: fasten
Description: Hello Hacker News! We're Roxane, Julien, Pierre, Mawen and Stephane from Anyshift.io. We are building a GitHub app (and platform) that detects Terraform complex dependencies (hardcoded values, intricated-modules, shadow IT…), flags potential breakages, and provides a Terraform ‘Superplan’ for your changes. To do that we create and maintain a digital twin of your infrastructure using Neo4j.
- 2 min demo : https://app.guideflow.com/player/dkd2en3t9r
- try it now: https://app.anyshift.io/ (5min setup).
We experienced how dealing with IaC/Terraform is complex and opaque. Terraform ‘plans’ are hard to navigate and intertwined dependencies are error prone: one simple change in a security group, firewall rules, subnet CIDR range... can lead to a cascading effect of breaking changes.
I’ve dealt in production with those issues since Terraform’s early days. In 2016, I wrote a book about Infrastructure-as-code and created driftctl based on those experiences (open source tool to manage drifts which was acquired by Snyk).
Our team is building Anyshift because we believe this problem of complex dependencies is unresolved and is going to explode with AI-generated code (more legacy, weaker sense of ownership). Unlike existing tools (Terraform Cloud/Stacks, Terragrunt, etc...), Anyshift uses a graph-based approach that references the real environment to uncover hidden, interlinked changes.
For instance, changing a subnet can force an ENI to switch IP addresses, triggering an EC2 reconfiguration and breaking DNS referenced records. Our GitHub app identifies these hidden issues, while our platform uncovers unmanaged “shadow IT” and lets you search any cloud resource to find exactly where it’s defined in your Terraform code.
To do so, one of our key challenges was to achieve a frictionless setup, so we created an event-driven reconciliation system that unifies AWS resources, Terraform states, and code in a Neo4j graph database. This “time machine” of your infra updates automatically, and for each PR, we query it (via Cypher) to see what might break.
Thanks to that, the onboarding is super fast (5 min):
- Install the Github app
- Grant AWS read only access to the app
The choice of a graph database was a way for us to avoid scale limitations compared to relational databases. We already have a handful of enterprise customers running it in prod and can query hundreds of thousands of relationships with linear search times. We'd love you to try our free plan to see it in action
We're excited to share this with you, thanks for reading! Let us know your thoughts or questions here or in our future Slack discussions. Roxane, Julien, Pierre, Mawen and Stephane!
Popularity: 31 points | 39 comments
4. Show HN: Fed up with compliance tools? Help us make SOC-2 OSS
URL: https://github.com/getprobo/probo
Author: gearnode
Description: Hi HN! We're open-sourcing our collection of SOC 2 controls as the first step in building an open source compliance automation platform. Github: https://github.com/getprobo/probo
The current SOC 2 experience:
1. Pay a random $10k+ for compliance software
2. Get hundreds of tasks with no context on what's optional and how much time it will take
3. Realize you need to pay an external auditor
4. End up with checkboxes, not better security
Why we think open source matters:
- Never speak with a sales guy who doesn’t understand your needs.
- You should never pay for templates.
- Ship an integration instead of uploading a screenshot.
- Don’t get locked. Churn if you don’t like the product
Check out the repo, star it, and let us know your thoughts! We’d love feedback from fellow teams tired of compliance-as-a-box-ticking-exercise.
Popularity: 29 points | 0 comments
5. Show HN: Move Frequently – Stay active with a 1-min exercise every 45 minutes
URL: https://movefrequently.com/
Author: danimirror
Description: My buddy Miguel and I really like taking care of our health. So we eat healthy, we lift weights and all of that. However, last week we learned no matter how much you exercise, sitting for long periods of time is a risk factor for early death. And we also love building products, so we do spend a loooot of time in front of a computer.
At first, we just wanted to build a tool for ourselves that reminded us to do a couple of exercises to break our sedentary work habits. But then we thought it would be much more fun if more people could join us and we could all take a break together to do a mobility/strength exercise every now and then.
So we launched https://movefrequently.com/ : a world-wide initiative to perform a 1-minute mobility and strength exercise every 45 minutes. The tool has a universal timer so that everyone in the world using it will be presented with a simple exercise they can do in front of their computers.
We hacked this on Friday, but plan to give it some love and add features if people like it. Check it out and let us know what you think.
Source code can be found on https://github.com/MoveFrequently/movefrequently
BTW, love Show HN!
Popularity: 16 points | 11 comments
6. Show HN: A Common Lisp implementation in development
URL: https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/alisp/
Author: andreamonaco
Description: I've been working on this for a couple years.
Implementation of the standard is still not complete, but in my opinion breakpoints and stepping work quite well! Support for loading systems with ASDF is near.
Let me know if you like it! Support on Patreon or Liberapay is much appreciated
Popularity: 15 points | 7 comments
7. Show HN: Curator – an open-source library for synthetic data generation
URL: https://github.com/bespokelabsai/curator
Author: madiator
Description: Synthetic data generation is an essential step in training and evaluating LLMs/Agents/RAG pipelines, but tooling around this is still lacking. We're introducing Curator, an open-source library designed to streamline the data curation process.
While there are many libraries to prompt LLMs, the semantics of generating synthetic data is different from prompting. For example, we need to process a large number of prompts (sometimes in millions or more) while accepting some failures, utilize several stages of prompting, incorporate human feedback, and filter out bad data using verifiers and heuristics.
Curator addresses these challenges:
- It supports efficient data generation by several API providers and local models.
- Recovers from failures and caches previous output.
- Utilizes structured outputs to enable programming complex data generation pipelines.
- Visualize your data generation in real time.
We are working on many more features (such as adding verifiers, diversity and data quality indicators, calling external tools to generate data, etc.). We hope to help the community create high-quality datasets to train great bespoke models!
Popularity: 13 points | 6 comments
8. Show HN: GeoGuessr but for Historical Events
URL: https://www.eggnog.ai/entertimeportal
Author: samplank2
Description: Hi HN!
I love imagining the past, so I made Time Portal, a game where you are dropped into a historical event and see AI video footage from that moment. You have to guess where you are in time and on the map. It’s heavily inspired by GeoGuessr.
The videos are all created with AI. It’s a pipeline of Flux (images), Kling (video), and mmaudio (audio). The videos aren’t always historically accurate to the last detail. They might incorporate elements of folklore or have details from popular beliefs about the way things looked rather than the latest academic research on how they looked.
I’m thinking a lot about how to make the game more interactive. One thing that makes Geoguessr so fun for me is that you can move infinitely and always find more details to help you pinpoint the location. I want Time Portal to have a similar quality. I have a few ideas to try soon that will hopefully make the game more interactive and infinite.
Popularity: 11 points | 2 comments
9. Show HN: QwQ-32B APIs – o1 like reasoning at 1% the cost
URL: #
Author: ozgune
Description: Ubicloud is an open source alternative to AWS. Today, we launched our inference APIs, built with open source AI models. QwQ-32B-Preview is one of those models; and it can provide o1-like reasoning at 1% the cost.
QwQ is licensed under Apache 2.0 [1] and Ubicloud under AGPL v3. We deploy open models on a cloud stack that can run anywhere. This allows us to offer great price / performance.
From an accuracy standpoint, QwQ does well in math and coding domains. For example, in the MMLU-Pro Computer Science LLM Benchmark, the accuracy rankings are as follows. Claude-3.5 Sonnet (82.5), QwQ-32B-Preview (79.1), and GPT 4o 2024-11-20 (73.1). [2]
You can start evaluating QwQ (and Llama 3B / 70B) by logging into the Ubicloud console: https://console.ubicloud.com/create-account
We also provide an AI chat box for convenience. We price the API endpoints at $0.60 per M tokens, or 100x lower than o1’s output token price. Also, when using open models, your first million tokens each month are free. This way, you can start evaluating these models today.
## OpenAI o1 or QwQ-32B
In math and coding benchmarks, QwQ-32B ties with o1 and outperforms Claude 3.5 Sonnet. In our qualitative tests, we found o1 to perform better.
For example, we asked both models to “add a pair of parentheses to the incorrect equation: 1 + 2 * 3 + 4 * 5 + 6 * 7 + 8 * 9 = 479, to make the equation true.” [3]
QwQ’s answer shows iterative reasoning steps, where the model enumerates over answers using light heuristics. o1’s answer to the same question feels like an iterative deepen-and-test (though not purely depth-first). When we asked the models harder questions, it felt that o1 could understand the question better and employ more complex strategies. [3][4]
Finally, we found that o1’s advantage in reasoning compounded with other ones. For example, we asked both models to write example Python programs. Looking at the answers, it became clear that o1 was trained on a larger data set and that it was aware of Python libraries that QwQ-32B didn’t know about. Further, QwQ-32B at times flip flopped between English and Chinese, making it harder for us to understand the model. [3]
Now, if we think that o1 has these advantages, why the heck are we doing a Show HN on QwQ-32B (and other open weight models)? Two reasons.
First, QwQ is still comparable to o1 and Ubicloud offers it for 100x less. You can employ a dozen QwQ-32Bs, prompt them with different search strategies, use VMs to verify their results, and still come in under what o1 costs. In the short term, combining these classic AI search strategies with AI models feels much more efficient than trying to “teach” an uber AI model.
Second, we think open source fosters collaboration and trust -- and that is its superpower that compounds over time. We foresee a future where open source AI not only delivers top-quality results, but also surpasses proprietary models in some areas. If you believe in that future and are looking for someone to partner with on the infrastructure side, please hit us up at info@ubicloud.com!
[1] https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwq-32b-preview/
[2] https://huggingface.co/blog/wolfram/llm-comparison-test-2024...
[3] https://github.com/ubicloud/ubicloud/discussions/2608
[4] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2201.11903
Popularity: 10 points | 2 comments
10. Show HN: Turn any ComfyUI workflow into a web app or API
URL: #
Author: jjdelannoy
Description: I’ve been playing around with ComfyUI for a while now and built my fair share of apps using it as an API, both for my own projects and others.
To simplify this process, one of my crazy friends and I just launched a cloud solution to deploy any ComfyUI workflow on scalable infrastructure. It works with any node and model. You just have to upload your workflow and the system detects all the custom nodes and will install them automatically. It will also download all the models that it recognizes. If it can't find a model, because you are using a custom LoRA for example, it will ask for a download link and add it to the deployment.
We have 7 different GPUs available to cover all use cases:
- T4 (16GB VRAM)
- L4 (24GB VRAM)
- A10G (24GB VRAM)
- A100 (40GB VRAM)
- A100-80GB (40GB VRAM)
- L40S (48GB VRAM)
- H100 (80GB VRAM)
We’ve optimized this solution to work with the open-source app builder for Comfy workflows we released a few months ago: https://github.com/ViewComfy/ViewComfy. The idea is that you can turn a workflow into a web app running in the cloud in just a few minutes.
To make this new project as usual as possible, the deployments can also be accessed via APIs that can easily be integrated into existing apps. You can get started right away: https://app.viewcomfy.com/ =)
Popularity: 3 points | 6 comments
11. Show HN: Federation of robots collaboratively train an object manipulation model
URL: https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/examples/quickstart-lerobot
Author: jafermarq
Description: This is a quickstart example using LeRobot and Flower that demonstrates how to train a diffusion model collaboratively across 10 individual nodes (each with its own dataset). This example uses the push-t dataset, where the task is to move a letter T object on top of another that is to remain static.
The example it's pretty easy to run, and can do so efficiently if you have access to a recent gaming GPU. Although the diffusion model only take 2GB of VRAM (of course you can decide to scale it up), the compute needed to train them isn't negligible. For context, running the example until convergence takes 40mins on a dual RTX 3090 setup. It takes about 30rounds of federated learning (FL) to do so although the example runs for 50 rounds by default.
The example runs each node/robot in simulation by default (i.e. each node is a Python process and there is some clever scheduling to run the jobs in a resource-aware manner). But it is straight forward to run it as a real deployment where each node is, for example, a different device (e.g. NVIDIA Jetson). If someone is interested in doing this, checkout the links added at the bottom of the example README.md
I'd love to hear your feedback and thoughts!!
Check out Flower: https://flower.ai
Learn more about LeRobot: https://github.com/huggingface/lerobot
The push-t Dataset: https://huggingface.co/datasets/lerobot/pusht
Learn more about the Diffusion Policy model: https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.04137
Popularity: 7 points | 0 comments
12. Show HN: UiForm – Never write a parser again, make any file LLM-ready
URL: #
Author: Louis2B2G
Description: Hey HN! UiForm is a document processing SDK that (1) makes any file LLM-ready, eliminating the need to write custom parsers for each format, and (2) improves structured data extraction through built-in Chain-of-Thought prompting (repo: https://github.com/UiForm/uiform, site: uiform.com).
We’ve been analyzing shipping documents with LLMs for over a year with Cube. While building, we faced two major challenges in document analysis: First, each client had different document formats (PDFs, Excel sheets, emails) requiring custom parsers. Second, getting consistent, structured outputs from LLMs was a constant struggle - small prompt changes would lead to unpredictable results. After months of building parsers and refining prompts, we realized everyone working with LLMs faces these same challenges, so we built UiForm as an open solution that handles both the document processing and prompt engineering pieces in one cohesive system.
Today:
1. We’re launching uiform (free for all!), an API that pre-processes any file (e.g. excel, email, …) for use with LLMs. We built it to be compatible with Pydantic, JSON schemas, and most LLM providers.
2. We're open sourcing a prompt engineering framework that combines JSON schema validation with Chain-of-Thought reasoning to ensure reliable structured outputs
Prompt engineering is managed directly within the JSON schema using three additional directives:
- X-SystemPrompt
- X-FieldPrompt enhances the standard field description to decorrelate prompt engineering and schema specification
- X-ReasoningPrompt creates an auxiliary reasoning field that gives the LLM more time to think, to perform better when dealing with complex data.
Since o1, everybody's been talking about CoT and inference time compute. We found that using reasoning fields with structured generation improves performance on document analysis tasks.
We’d love to see document analysis be more community driven, with people sharing their JSON-schemas for different use-cases, which is why we open-sourced our prompt-engineering utility :)
Looking forward to hearing your thoughts, we’ll be in the comments or on discord (https://discord.com/invite/vc5tWRPqag). Thanks!
Popularity: 6 points | 0 comments
13. Show HN: IndieScanner – Find product ideas by analyzing Reddit with LLMs
URL: https://www.indiescanner.com
Author: peasmooth
Description: Hey HN,
I’m an aspiring entrepreneur who has struggled to find product ideas grounded in real user needs. Interviewing users is often infeasible, so I’ve spent countless hours browsing Reddit to uncover pain points from target user groups. While this works, it’s time-consuming and inefficient.
To solve this, I built IndieScanner, a tool that uses LLMs to analyze Reddit discussions and streamline this process.
Here’s how it works:
- Enter a question (e.g., “What challenges do influencers face when creating content?”)
- Define a target audience (e.g., TikTok influencers).
- Add optional context (e.g., “Prioritize pain points solvable with AI”).
- Select subreddits to explore (e.g., “/r/contentcreators,” “/r/videoediting”).
The tool scans thousands of discussions and generates a report in 2-3 minutes, including references to relevant threads.
I’d love to hear your thoughts and feedback. You can try it out for free at indiescanner.com.
Popularity: 4 points | 1 comments
14. Show HN: Doom PDF: Play Doom Inside PDF Documents
URL: https://doompdf.com
Author: AndrewBBoo
Description:
Popularity: 3 points | 2 comments
15. Show HN: I Built a Free Text-to-SVG Generator
URL: https://text2s.vg
Author: reymaggle
Description: Hey HN,
Last weekend, I got bored and decided to build something fun: https://text2s.vg – a simple tool that lets you type a prompt and generate a free vector SVG image.
Why I built this: I wanted to explore combining text-to-image generation with lightweight vector outputs, all while keeping it fast and accessible. It's a good way to progress at creating a project from A to Z, from backend workflows to frontend design. Plus, I thought it might be useful for developers, designers, or anyone working on creative projects.
How it works: Type a prompt, hit "Generate SVG," and you instantly get an SVG file ready to use. It’s completely free, no ads, no signup – just something I made for fun.
The tech stack: Backend: A custom ComfyUI workflow (using Flux, BiRefNet, and a custom node ComfyUI-ToSVG,) all running serverlessly on Runpod. Frontend: React with Tailwind CSS (no Next.js, no need for SSR). Database/Hosting: Firebase handles Firestore, storage, and hosting. What’s next:
I’m looking for feedback to improve it or explore new features. Maybe adding style controls or export options?
Would love to hear your thoughts, questions, or ideas!
Popularity: 2 points | 2 comments
16. Show HN: AXAR AI – a minimalistic TypeScript framework for building LLM agents
URL: https://github.com/axar-ai/axar
Author: aksyam
Description: It started as a personal frustration with existing frameworks that felt too heavy or focused on flashy demos instead of real-world usability. AXAR is our attempt to keep things simple, giving developers full control while ensuring workflows are reliable and intuitive.
GitHub repo: https://github.com/axar-ai/axar Documentation: https://axar-ai.gitbook.io/axar
Would love to hear your thoughts and feedback!
Popularity: 3 points | 1 comments
17. Show HN: AI chat client that can run on SharePoint and regulated environments
URL: https://github.com/aerugo/stina
Author: aerugo_
Description: Stina is a lightweight AI chat client specifically designed for environments like government, healthcare, and large corporate settings, where IT policies prohibit the use of web servers, installations of new software, or access to online AI chat bots. Chat with with LLMs with your own API keys or a local Ollama instance after downloading the repo and opening the chat.html file from the file system.
Stina keeps all conversation history and data in localstorage on the browser, which is great when your manager asks you about data security considerations of AI chatbots.
Stina is a client-side solution that requires no server, no installations, and no build tools. Written in vanilla javascript with all dependencies bundled. This enables editing the code in environments where there is no access to Node.js, NPM or other JS-build tools.
Right now it supports Azure AI Foundry deployments, OpenAIs API, Anthropic and Ollama.
Stina can be hosted on a SharePoint server, run directly from the filesystem, or accessed through a local web server. It supports multiple language models, custom instructions, and dynamic system prompts.
I built this for my own needs at work where we have access to API keys to an Azure AI Foundry sandbox on the company tenant. By renaming chat.html to chat.aspx and putting the repo in a folder on SharePoint, I can run this as a chatbot internally.
If you want to contribute, you are very welcome to do so. I would love to extend this with the ability to chat to files, and perhaps even add an in-memory clientside vector database support to allow doing lightweight clientside RAG on documents accessible with the filesystem.
Popularity: 4 points | 0 comments
18. Show HN: News Minimalist – All news ranked by significance
URL: https://www.newsminimalist.com/
Author: yakhinvadim
Description:
Popularity: 3 points | 1 comments
19. Show HN: Python App for Batch Downloading TikTok Videos
URL: https://github.com/joeycato/tiktok-favesave
Author: jojohack
Description: With a potential U.S. TikTok ban on the horizon, I created this Python app to batch download your favorited/liked videos—no browser extensions or third-party services required (however this tool does rely on ytp_dl to directly fetch content )
Popularity: 4 points | 0 comments
20. Show HN: GoodReadsLunatics – I turned 16,000 book reviews into a game
URL: https://goodreadslunatics.arthurdeschutter.com/
Author: AdsDev
Description: I decided to give Blazor a try and created a small project called GoodreadsLunatics. It’s a game where you guess which book a review comes from based on some of the funniest Goodreads reviews I filtered out.
To build it, I started with a list of the 100 most-read books and scraped multiple reviews for each book. Then, I used a large language model (via Semantic Kernel) to evaluate and score the reviews for humor. Afterward, I manually approved the funniest ones since many reviews were either genuine, not funny, or in a different language.
I'm currently still manually approving reviews for the game.
The project is hosted on a Hetzner server, and I’m happy to answer any questions about it!
Popularity: 2 points | 1 comments
21. Show HN: Apple Engineer Made Samaltmanprize.com
URL: https://www.samaltmanprize.com/
Author: shayarma
Description: I wanted a way to track everybody gunning for this prize. There's meant to be a one-person employee Unicorn startup sometime soon with the advent of more intelligent AIs.
Popularity: 3 points | 0 comments
22. Show HN: Free spaced repetition Anki app
URL: https://memoanki.com/en/home
Author: tapeo
Description: I built MemoAnki because I was frustrated with complex flashcard apps that got in the way of actual learning. I wanted something that just works - no accounts, no complications, just learning.
Popularity: 1 points | 2 comments
23. Show HN: OneUptime – open-source observability platform
URL: #
Author: ndhandala
Description: We're building an open source observability platform - OneUptime (https://oneuptime.com). Think of it as your open-source alternative to Datadog, NewRelic, PagerDuty, and Incident.io—100% FOSS and Apache Licensed.
Already using OneUptime? Huge thanks! We’d love to hear your feedback.
Not on board yet? We’re curious why and eager to know how we can better serve your needs. What features would you like to see implemented? We listen to this community very closely and will ship updates for you all.
Looking forward to hearing your thoughts and feedback!
Popularity: 3 points | 0 comments
24. Show HN: Mongo Murder Mystery – Can You Find Out Whodunnit?
URL: https://mongomurdermystery.com
Author: diana-e
Description: What:
So I built this small (and ofc free) web-based interactive game where folks solve a murder mystery while learning MongoDB commands and concepts. It combines a fun storyline with practical lessons to help you practice querying and navigating data.
It’s not a full tutorial—more like a self-directed exercise with an optional walkthrough to guide you.
Motivation:
Over the holidays, I wanted to teach MongoDB basics to my 8th-grade nephew in an interactive and exciting way. I was inspired by the popular SQL Murder Mystery and thought, “Why not create something similar for MongoDB?” I tested it with my nephew and some friends, so here it goes.
The ask: Give it a try! Feedback is most welcome—let me know if the mystery stumps you or if you have ideas for future cases!
I'm also more than happy to answer any questions about how I put this project together, e.g., the tech stack used.
Thank you very much for stopping by and taking a look.
Cheers Diana
Popularity: 3 points | 0 comments
25. Show HN: Edit Photos with Just a Prompt
URL: https://editmyphotos.online
Author: the-yair
Description: This is my side project, editing image with just a prompt, will be happy for any feedback
Popularity: 2 points | 1 comments
26. Show HN: Make your own end2end platform for LLMs in under 4 minutes
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=km2Jj-fuKlA
Author: carlosfm
Description: OK, it may take you a couple more minutes than that, but it really is quick. And open source.
I'm struggling to get people to use the tool, and I'd love feedback to get the features right! The accompanying written guide for the video is here: https://kalavai-net.github.io/kalavai-client/self_hosted_llm...
This is the repo: https://github.com/kalavai-net/kalavai-client
Thank you HN folks!
Popularity: 2 points | 1 comments
27. Show HN: I Put Snake in my Resume [pdf]
![Show HN: I Put Snake in my Resume [pdf] - Project Screenshot](https://showhntoday.com/images/42717674.png)
URL: https://argo.larrys.tech/snake_resume.pdf
Author: swiftc
Description: I'm sure you've seen the post about putting Tetris in a PDF (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42645218) and putting DOOM in a PDF (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42678754). Someone suggested using this technique in a resume to potentially demonstrate your engineering skills, and being chronically unemployed, I had the chance to try that out. The vision is that some recruiter out there will take a break from work, enjoy a game of snake, before inevitably pressing reject. Take a look if you like. Like the others, it requires chromium based browsers.
Popularity: 2 points | 1 comments
28. Show HN: Transform Images into Descriptive Text with AI Image Reader
URL: https://alttextgenerator.co/tools/ai-image-reader
Author: Nataliaaaa
Description: Hi everyone!
I’m excited to share a tool we’ve been working on: AI Image Reader. It’s designed to turn images into meaningful, detailed descriptions quickly and effortlessly. Whether you’re a content creator, an artist experimenting with AI tools, or someone looking to make content more accessible, this tool adapts to your needs.
What makes it special? It’s simple, intuitive, and helps save time while ensuring quality results. Whether you need descriptions for SEO, accessibility, or just creative inspiration, AI Image Reader delivers.
As part of the team behind this project, I’d love for you to try it out. Your feedback means the world to us—it helps us improve and ensures we’re building something truly useful.
Popularity: 3 points | 0 comments
29. Show HN:[Launching Soon] AI-Powered File Organization
![Show HN:[Launching Soon] AI-Powered File Organization - Project Screenshot](https://showhntoday.com/images/42708302.png)
URL: https://orgafile.com/#join
Author: dragssine
Description: I'm launching OrgaFile soon—a tool that uses AI to automatically organize your files. No more wasting time sorting or renaming files. Just drop them in, and OrgaFile handles the rest.
Features:
-Fast and automatic file organization
-Smart renaming for easy searching
-Custom categories for your workflow
-Secure file handling with encryption
If this sounds useful, join the waitlist
I'd love to hear your advice and feedback. Thanks!
Popularity: 1 points | 1 comments
30. Show HN: How to Generate Description for Image-Try This Tool
URL: https://alttextgenerator.co/tools/ai-describe-image
Author: allenz_cheung
Description: As part of the team behind the Image Description Generator, we’re excited to share what we’ve been working on. This tool was created with a simple yet important goal: to make images more accessible and meaningful for everyone.
The idea came from a need we noticed—whether it’s for improving accessibility, enhancing SEO, or just making content more engaging, generating accurate image descriptions can be time-consuming and challenging. That’s where our AI steps in.
With this tool, you can upload an image and instantly receive a clear, contextually relevant description. It’s quick, easy to use, and adaptable for different needs—whether you’re managing a website, crafting social media posts, or organizing your personal photo library.
We’ve also ensured that it supports multiple languages and lets you customize keywords, so it fits seamlessly into your workflow.
If this sounds like something you’d find useful, give it a try. We’d love to hear your thoughts and feedback as we continue improving it to serve your needs better.
We hope this small step makes a big difference for your content!
Popularity: 2 points | 0 comments
31. Show HN: US visa time and price estimation (O-1A, O-1B, EB-1A, EB-2 NIW)
Author: svasilev
Description:
Popularity: 2 points | 0 comments
32. Show HN: Discovering Value in Hetzner Auctions: A Tool I Built
URL: https://hetzner-value-auctions.cnap.tech/about
Author: robinbraemer
Description:
Popularity: 1 points | 1 comments
33. Show HN:[World's Only]Free,Unlimited,Unrestricted Flux-Dev AI Image Generator
![Show HN:[World's Only]Free,Unlimited,Unrestricted Flux-Dev AI Image Generator - Project Screenshot](https://showhntoday.com/images/42713175.png)
URL: https://raphael.app
Author: blacktechnology
Description:
Popularity: 2 points | 0 comments
34. Show HN: Raink – Document ranker using LLMs
URL: https://github.com/BishopFox/raink
Author: noperator
Description: I think a lot of AI-augmented security problems can be decomposed into "show me the best thing in this list of things":
- the changed function in a patch diff that most closely relates to a given security advisory
- the injection point in a webapp that seems most likely to cause a state change on the backend
- the static code analyzer result that would have most severe impact if a sink were actually reachable
It's notoriously difficult to get an LLM to seriously consider all items when presented with a big list of input—so I built raink, a CLI tool to harness LLMs for general purpose document ranking.
Blog post here: https://bishopfox.com/blog/raink-llms-document-ranking
Popularity: 2 points | 0 comments
35. Show HN: Beating cuBLAS in Single-Precision General Matrix Multiplication
URL: https://salykova.github.io/sgemm-gpu
Author: skidrow
Description: This blog post focuses on an SGEMM implementation that outperforms cuBLAS with its (modified?) CUTLASS kernel across a wide range of matrix sizes. The blog delves into benchmarking code on CUDA devices and explains the algorithm's design along with optimization techniques. These include inlined PTX, asynchronous memory copies, double-buffering, avoiding shared memory bank conflicts, and efficient coalesced storage using shared memory. The code is super easy to tweak, so you can customize it for your projects with kernel fusion or just drop it into your libraries as-is. If you have any questions, feel free to comment or send me a direct message - I'd love to hear your feedback and answer any questions you may have!
Popularity: 2 points | 0 comments
36. Show HN: L2E Llama2.c in a PDF in a Polyglot PNG
URL: https://twitter.com/VulcanIgnis/status/1879649889178837025
Author: AMICABoard
Description:
Popularity: 1 points | 1 comments
37. Show HN: PLChef – Explore the Spotify catalogue and make playlists quickly
URL: https://github.com/selira/plchef
Author: Saliroz
Description: Highlights:
- Explore more than 6000 spotify genres in a tree of genres/subgenres.
- Make personalized playlists with 100's of songs in just a few clicks.
- Mobile friendly. Any feedback is extremely welcome!
Popularity: 2 points | 0 comments
38. Show HN: Django ActivityPub Toolkit. Application-Agnostic AP Server
URL: https://activitypub.mushroomlabs.com
Author: rglullis
Description:
Popularity: 2 points | 0 comments
39. Show HN: I built an autonomous general AI agent that can access your computer
Author: yvbbrjdr
Description:
Popularity: 2 points | 0 comments
40. Show HN: AI for creating tailored workout programs
URL: https://hitt.ai
Author: pranshuchittora
Description:
Popularity: 1 points | 0 comments
41. Show HN: Sprout, a positive psychology app for mental health
URL: https://thesproutapp.com/
Author: ericafriedman
Description: Hi all! I created a mental health app called Sprout that aims to improve users' wellbeing through validated positive psychology activities. Would greatly appreciate any and all feedback, especially if you're interested in the mental wellness space!
Popularity: 1 points | 0 comments
42. Show HN: AI Usability Test Agent That Thinks and Acts Like Human
Author: Sayuj01
Description: I'm Sayuj, and I built Zero Touch, an AI usability agent that interacts with websites through the GUI (Graphical User Interface), just like a real human would. Unlike traditional tools that rely on the DOM, this AI clicks, scrolls, and navigates exactly how users do, without touching the underlying HTML.
I built this as a fun side project to simplify usability testing for landing pages and websites. It’s completely free to use right now, and I’d love to get your feedback or ideas for improvement!
Popularity: 1 points | 0 comments
43. Show HN: Xogs – local log aggregation in your terminal
URL: https://github.com/KarnerTh/xogs
Author: tkarner
Description: Excited to share a new open source project I published recently – say hello to a tool you probably never thought you needed: xogs
xogs is a terminal-based tool designed to enhance the way you work with local logs. It streamlines log aggregation, inspection and filtering, enabling you to handle logs more effectively and focus on what matters. Whether you're debugging, monitoring, or just exploring log data, xogs provides useful tools without leaving your terminal.
This initial release contains all the basic features you need to start aggregating your local logs, but there is definitely a lot more to come.
I am curious if anyone finds this useful - would love to hear any feedback :)
Popularity: 1 points | 0 comments
44. Show HN: Open-source AI assistant for Kubernetes troubleshooting
URL: https://karpor.kusionstack.io/
Author: elliotxx
Description: I built this because I was tired of context-switching between clusters and grep-ing through logs. It's a browser-based tool that uses LLMs to diagnose Kubernetes issues.
Key technical bits:
- Fast cross-cluster search with flexible filtering
- LLM-powered root cause analysis for pod failures
- Proactive cluster risk scanning with AI-driven fix suggestions
- AI translation of complex YAML configurations into plain English
Website: https://karpor.kusionstack.io Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/karpor
Popularity: 1 points | 0 comments
45. Show HN: Built a free cap table tool to save founder form spreadsheets
Author: danilofiumi
Description: Quick story time: Despite my finance degree and years in banking consulting, when I moved to VC I struggled a lot with cap table calculations.
I could analyze business models all day, but equity dilution? Pure nightmare fuel.
Then actually I've discovered that MANY founders struggle with that.That's why when I left VC to double down on Indie Hacking I decided to build EquityCap:
What it does:
- Visualizes equity dilution without the complex math
- Projects future cap table scenarios
- Makes equity planning actually understandable
Why I'm sharing:
- It's completely free (forever)
- No signup required to get started
- Just a tool I built to solve my own pain point that can help others
If you're great at growing businesses but get a headache from equity calculations, hope this can help.
I'm launching on Product Hunt today so I'd love to hear your feedback also there https://www.producthunt.com/posts/equitycap
Questions welcome!
Popularity: 1 points | 0 comments
46. Show HN: OrgaFile Is Live Organize Your Files Effortlessly
Author: dragssine
Description: I'm excited to share OrgaFile, a tool I built to automatically organize messy document and image files. OrgaFile renames and categorizes files into clear, general categories like Games, Entertainment, and more—without relying on an "Uncategorized" folder. Why I Built It:
Managing countless files across devices was becoming frustrating. Manual sorting takes time, and most tools either overcomplicate the process or don’t organize files in a meaningful way. I wanted a simple, automated solution that actually makes sense of scattered files. How It Works:
Upload Files: Drag and drop or bulk upload any document or image.
Smart Categorization: Files are renamed and sorted into intuitive folders.
Cloud Storage: Organized files are stored securely on S3.
Frontend: Next.js (hosted on Vercel)
Backend: Nest.js (also on Vercel)
Storage: Amazon S3
Popularity: 1 points | 0 comments
47. Show HN: Track your Elsevier article review status
URL: https://elsevier-review-tracker.vercel.app/
Author: chevrefeuye
Description: I built a simple tool to track the review status of Elsevier articles. The official Elsevier tracking system is limited—it only shows vague statuses (e.g., "2+ reviewer completed") and the last update date, making it difficult to know where exactly your article is in the review process.
Popularity: 1 points | 0 comments
48. Show HN: ParakeetAI, Real-time AI Interview Assistant
URL: https://www.parakeet-ai.com/
Author: juresotosek
Description:
Popularity: 1 points | 0 comments
49. Show HN: Hornbill delivers your personalized newscast
Author: kkaatii
Description: I built this because I don't want to spend time scrolling through Reddit and other Social Media aimlessly every morning. Hornbill creates personalized newscasts based on your interests, and delivers them to your inbox every morning.
It's completely free, but there may be quirks. Please bear with Hornbill, he's still learning about the human world...
Popularity: 1 points | 0 comments
50. Show HN: PennyPixel – A public graffiti board for charity
URL: https://www.pennypixel.xyz/
Author: soGeneri
Description: I’ve been working on a fun little side project called Penny Pixel. It’s a real-time collaborative pixel art platform where you can team up with others to create artwork, and the funds raised go to charity.
The basics:
- Everyone starts with 100 free pixels to place on a shared canvas.
- After that, each pixel costs $0.01.
- At the end of each month, the community votes on which charity receives the funds, and the final artwork is gifted to them.
I built this as a way to combine art, tech, and giving back.
I’d love for you to check it out and let me know what you think! What’s missing? What would make it better?
Appreciate any feedback or ideas for improvement!
Popularity: 1 points | 0 comments
51. Show HN: Courtney – Transform Articles into TikTok-Style Videos Instantly
Author: mandelbaum
Description: Meet Courtney, an AI tool that transforms any article into a TikTok-style video in minutes. Just paste a URL, and Courtney handles the rest:
1. Script Writing 2. Voiceover Generation 3. Visual Demo Recording 4. Subtitle Addition 5. Seamless Syncing
Built With
Frontend: Next.js + NextUI Backend: Supabase AI & Video: Fal AI, Puppeteer, ElevenLabs, FFmpeg
More coming soon! DM me @lucasmandelbaum on X with feedback :)
Popularity: 1 points | 0 comments
52. Show HN: I build this app because I didn't know what to build
URL: https://verticalsaasideas.com/
Author: jmenu
Description: I was having trouble coming up with SaaS ideas in vertical markets. So, I took the 1012 NAICS code list and built an app to generate and search a little over 20,000 ideas.
Popularity: 1 points | 0 comments
53. Show HN: PilotBuddy – AI for Pilots in Training
URL: https://pilotbuddyapp.com
Author: jcahill84
Description: There’s a ton of information that pilots need to use while learning the techniques for flying, the FAA regulations, etc. I built PilotBuddy to help student pilots and instructors to get quick, accurate answers to their questions, with citations from the source.
Popularity: 1 points | 0 comments
54. Show HN: ColorFizz – Fonts, Gradients and Love
URL: #
Author: vednig
Description: my story https://x.com/vednig/status/1879147219011686623
link: https://colorfizz.space
Popularity: 1 points | 0 comments
55. Show HN: Miruni SnapIt, a no-account, no-install screen capture tool
URL: https://snapit.miruni.io/
Author: zhendershot
Description: We built a simple, no-account, no-install screen recording tool for web admins and teams (or anybody really) to quickly capture and share screen recordings for edit requests or issue tracking. Obviously, things like Loom exist. But we needed a tool that was simple and captures only the last 30 seconds of your screen/tab/window, so you can keep it running and clip just the 'interesting' moments. Currently this tech only works on desktop, no mobile support yet.
Popularity: 1 points | 0 comments
56. Show HN: A Tool to Visualize and Help Understand the EU AI Act with RAG
Author: art_mach
Description: I'm working on finding ways to present complex legal text in a clear and understandable manner for laypeople (including myself)
Popularity: 1 points | 0 comments
57. Show HN: Website where you can rate Instagram Reels
Author: motemax
Description: I made a site where you can submit and rate IG Reels and see weekly trading reels.
Feel free to check it out and submit a reel!
Happy to hear feedback and your thoughts on it.
Popularity: 1 points | 0 comments
58. Show HN: Random Animal Generator
URL: https://www.random-animal-generator.com/
Author: brightvegetable
Description: Hi,
I created a website that generates a list of random animals as a playful way to educate children. Hope you enjoy it!
Popularity: 1 points | 0 comments
59. Show HN: S-Argame Projected Immersive Games
Author: tabulatouch
Description:
Popularity: 1 points | 0 comments
60. Show HN: UseAsyncFetcher – Implement an asyn fetch function in a Remix app
URL: https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/useasyncfetcher-implement-asynchronous-fetch-in-remix
Author: emreb
Description:
Popularity: 1 points | 0 comments
61. Show HN: Erl your personal coder and reviewer generate code
URL: https://github.com/bradlnz/erl-ai-assistant
Author: bradlnz
Description: Erl your personal AI-powered code generator designed to supercharge your development workflow and help you get your projects off the ground faster. Erl isn't just a tool—it's your partner in innovation, built to seamlessly generate, review, and manage code with precision and speed.
Popularity: 1 points | 0 comments
62. Show HN: I build a zero-instrumentation CUDA runtime monitoring tool using eBPF
Author: ethgraham01
Description:
Popularity: 1 points | 0 comments
63. Show HN: I created this new AI selfie pose generator
URL: https://www.crazyfaceai.com/crazy-selfie-ai
Author: lyogavin
Description: I'm Gavin Li, creator of Crazy Selfie AI (https://www.crazyfaceai.com/crazy-selfie-ai).
Crazy Selfie AI is an AI selfie generator.
It can generate viral selfie poses and Selfie photo grid.
Ever out of selfie poses ideas?
• Just upload a photo, our AI will generate your selfie with the most viral selfie poses on tiktok and instagram
Try your super model looks
• Generate yourself in hundreds of super model looks inspired by top viral selfie looks from social media
Generate Cute Selfie Photo Grid:
• upload a photo, instantly get 9 cute selfie faces photo grid
Key features:
• Generate 100+ popular selfie poses with one click
• Create various facial expressions instantly
• Access trending poses from social media and generate your selfie
• Free trial starting from $3.99/mo.
Check out more details here: https://www.crazyfaceai.com/crazy-selfie-ai
I'd love to hear your feedback and answer any questions!
Popularity: 1 points | 0 comments
Conclusion
Today's Show HN roundup showcases a diverse range of innovative projects. From AI-powered tools to creative coding solutions, these projects reflect the dynamic nature of our tech community. Which project caught your attention the most? Let us know in the comments!
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