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Explore the hottest developer projects on Show HN for 2025-02-01. Dive into innovative tech, AI applications, and exciting new inventions!
Summary of Today's Content
Today's Product Highlights
- Product Name: Meha AI Desktop App
- Highlights: Innovative desktop application that uses Chrome browser and LLMs to execute automated tasks, featuring multi-agent workflows and long-term memory capabilities.
Quick Summary
- Most Popular Category: AI/ML Tools
- Top Keywords: AI, Automation, Desktop Apps, Browser Control, Productivity
- Most Popular Product: ESP32 RC Cars (124 points)
Technology Trends
- AI Agents and Automation
- Browser-based Control Systems
- Continuous Profiling
- Local LLM Implementation
- WebCodecs Video Processing
- P2P Networking
Project Distribution
- AI/ML Tools: 35%
- Developer Tools: 25%
- Productivity Apps: 20%
- Gaming/Entertainment: 10%
- Infrastructure: 10%
Trend Insights
- Strong focus on AI integration into everyday tools and workflows
- Growing interest in local/private AI solutions versus cloud-based services
- Emphasis on developer productivity and automation tools
- Increasing demand for browser-based solutions and extensions
- Rising trend in real-time monitoring and profiling tools
- Movement towards decentralized and P2P technologies
- Emergence of AI-powered content creation and management tools
Recommendations:
- Focus on building AI tools that respect privacy and run locally
- Invest in browser-extension development
- Consider building tools that bridge AI with existing workflows
- Explore opportunities in real-time monitoring and profiling
- Develop solutions for content creators and productivity enhancement
Today's Top 10 Trending Products
Top 1. Discover the innovative ESP32 RC Cars that merge cutting-edge technology with remote control fun. These smart vehicles are powered by the versatile ESP32 chip, enabling advanced features like real-time telemetry, customizable controls, and seamless connectivity. Perfect for hobbyists and tech enthusiasts alike, they offer an engaging way to explore programming, electronics, and robotics. Join the excitement and elevate your RC experience with ESP32 capabilities! (Likes: 124, Comments: 17)
Top 2. TalkNotes: Transform your ideas into actionable tasks effortlessly with this innovative platform. Perfect for organizing thoughts and enhancing productivity! (Likes: 95, Comments: 41)
Top 3. Introducing a revolutionary desktop application designed for seamless integration with browser-based AI agents, enhancing productivity and user experience. (Likes: 47, Comments: 47)
Top 4. Perforator: A powerful cluster-wide profiling tool designed to optimize performance in large data centers, enhancing efficiency and resource management for data-intensive operations. (Likes: 61, Comments: 10)
Top 5. A fresh, user-friendly interface redesign for Hacker News that enhances navigation and overall user experience. (Likes: 15, Comments: 30)
Top 6. Simplify complex research with a single click! Just add 'explain' to any ArXiv paper and receive a clear, concise breakdown of its content. Perfect for students, researchers, and anyone looking to grasp cutting-edge academic work effortlessly. (Likes: 13, Comments: 6)
Top 7. Test your color vision with our engaging new game! Enjoy a fun challenge and discover how well you see colors. Perfect for all ages, join the excitement and rank your color perception skills today! (Likes: 2, Comments: 8)
Top 8. Discover an innovative AI-powered vision board platform that allows users to visualize their goals and aspirations effortlessly. Create customized boards with curated images and inspirational quotes, enhancing motivation and focus. Ideal for personal development and creativity enthusiasts looking to manifest their dreams effectively. Join a community of like-minded individuals and take the first step toward turning your visions into reality! (Likes: 6, Comments: 0)
Top 9. Discover Voil – a powerful integration of Oil.nvim for VSCode, streamlining your coding experience with enhanced file navigation and management features. Perfect for developers seeking efficiency and flexibility in their workflow. (Likes: 5, Comments: 1)
Top 10. Introducing the ultimate solution for today’s product managers: a cutting-edge software designed to streamline workflows, enhance collaboration, and drive innovation in product development. Elevate your team's efficiency with intuitive features that streamline planning, tracking, and executing projects seamlessly. Embrace the future of product management with our all-in-one platform that empowers teams to deliver exceptional results. (Likes: 4, Comments: 2)
1. Show HN: ESP32 RC Cars
URL: https://github.com/mattsroufe/esp32_rc_cars
Author: mattsroufe
Description: This is a projected I started that blends both the fun of playing a split screen multiplayer driving game and controlling real rc cars.
The cars can also be controlled via bluetooth gamepads and is meant to be easily hackable.
Popularity: 124 points | 17 comments
2. Show HN: TalkNotes – A site that turns your ideas into tasks
URL: https://www.talknotes.tech/
Author: ajlkshdaksjd
Description: Hey all!
I created TalkNotes few weeks ago and it started getting traction in hours. It quickly went from 0 -> $700 revenue with One time payment and I decided to remove the one time payment, the line went straight down but since then it rising little by little and has now reached $150 MRR. I'm stoked since this is one of my best projects.
The idea is to speak freely into a microphone about anything on your mind—meetings, emails, tasks—and let AI help organize it all. It turns your thoughts into a structured to-do list, notes, flashcards, and more. I created it because spending 15 minutes every day setting up traditional productivity apps is a waste of time. I thought it might resonate with others looking for a similar solution.
There's a fair bit of churn since I think with something like this users either love it or never end up using it. I could probably add some more retention strategies like reminders and other productivity tools integration like Google Calendar, and more...
If this sounds interesting, I’d love to hear your thoughts or suggestions. Feel free to share how you currently manage your daily tasks—always keen to learn from this community.
Here's the link if you want to have a look: http://talknotes.tech
Popularity: 95 points | 41 comments
3. Show HN: We're building a desktop app for browser-based AI agents
URL: https://meha.ai
Author: jawerty
Description: What's up HN!
This is Jared and Art. We met on HN and started building together.
Over the last few months we've been thinking a lot about how AI agents are going to impact the future. We want agents to be something that's actually useful for normal people as well as the 10x'ers. This lead us to building Meha over the last few months, our first swing at our vision! We saw OpenAI release Operators then we said f*k it let's post.
Meha is a desktop app that uses your Chrome browser to execute tasks in the background. It controls your installed Chrome browser and uses LLMs with playwright to plan and execute actions to accomplish your task. You get to see each planning step the bot is doing and have access to its long term memory.
Meha also uses its own file system and can export files for download. Another thing we've been focused on in multi-agent workflows and Meha can run many bots at the same time. One of the reasons why we can ship this for free in the mean time is because of how cheap the agents are. But we are planning to have a Pro version for power users. We prefer not to raise since we're against VC funding.
We have been influenced by a lot of concepts in probabilistic robotics and RL to develop a fairly robust 'agentic' framework. As well as an algorithm for efficiently converting/compressing large html pages into a semantic format. If you're interested we will open source this asap in an SDK (will work with all OpenAI API spec LLMs and with llama.cpp) let us know.
We're currently in beta and working on figuring out what this product will become and super stoked! Let us know what you think. To get access to Meha we have links on our discord to download (Both MacOS and Windows is available). Please give us all the feedback/criticism (even if you hate AI).
Link to Meha: https://meha.ai
Popularity: 47 points | 47 comments
4. Show HN: Perforator – cluster-wide profiling tool for large data centers
URL: https://github.com/yandex/perforator
Author: BigRedEye
Description: Hey HN! We are happy to share Perforator – our internal cluster-wide profiler with great support for native languages and a built-in AutoFDO pipeline to simplify sPGO builds. Perforator allows you to profile most binaries without having to recompile or adjust the build process. We use it at Yandex to profile each pod inside a large cluster at modest speed (99Hz), collecting petabytes of profiles every day.
There's a blog post about it at https://medium.com/yandex/yandexs-high-performance-profiler-....
Inspired by Google-Wide Profiling, we started continuous profiling years ago with simple tools like poormansprofiler.org. With the rise of eBPF, we came up with a simple and elegant solution providing detailed profiles without noticeable overhead. Pretty wild when you can see the guts of your production binaries in a flamegraph without them even noticing.
Some technical details:
- Our main contribution is infrastructure for continuous PGO using AutoFDO. Google and Meta have done tremendous work on building PGO infrastructure, and we made the last missing piece of the puzzle to make this work well and scalable.
- Native binaries are profiled through eh_frame analysis, interpreted/JIT-compiled languages are profiled through perf-pid.map or hardcoded structure offsets.
- We render profiles in multiple ways, the most common one is a fast implementation of FlameGraphs, rendering 1M frames in 100ms.
- We provide Helm charts to easily deploy Perforator on your k8s cluster.
- You can use Perforator in standalone mode as a replacement for perf record.
I'd love to answer your questions about the tool!
Popularity: 61 points | 10 comments
5. Show HN: I re-designed interface for HN
URL: https://hacked.unlace.app/
Author: vednig
Description: Any suggestions are appreciated, stack utilizes Gluestack UI ,Expo, React Native, and Cloudflare Pages.
There is a known bug via touch scroll ability on Android, external keyboard's spacebar or mouse works correctly though, currently. If you know about a solution, let me know.
Please note, this is just a prototype, it still has a lot of features to be included.
I'd like to learn more about how people use HN and how Hacked could help, where other HN clients failed.
Popularity: 15 points | 30 comments
6. Show HN: Explain any ArXiv paper just add 'explain'
URL: https://explainarxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762
Author: shashanoid
Description:
Popularity: 13 points | 6 comments
7. Show HN: How good is your color vision? Find out in my new game
URL: https://vidzert.com/find-the-different-color
Author: vidzert
Description:
Popularity: 2 points | 8 comments
8. Show HN: I built an AI visionboards site
URL: https://www.visionboardsai.com/
Author: Collusus96
Description: Hello everyone, I doubt this would be relevant to the kind of person who uses HN, but I thought I could share for some feedback. I built this site because there is a whole world of people who believe in new age spirituality and I am very much one of them. It is a site where you get the users gender their goals and their images and use AI and psychology to generate images of them in the process of achieving their goals.
I am so deeply struggling with how to get this highly on Google. I don't even know if that is important anymore. What are your suggestions with distribution and getting in into the hands of users? What about the landing page do you feel like it is compelling? I really need to get it into the hands of users. distribution is difficult.
Popularity: 6 points | 0 comments
9. Show HN: Voil – Oil.nvim for VSCode
URL: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=AliMostafavi.voil
Author: hexomancer
Description: I wrote a vscode extension which allows you to create/rename/move/delete files by editing a text buffer. If you are familiar with oil.nvim, this is similar. In my opinion this is vastly superior to the built-in file manager because it allows you to utilize your existing text-editing muscle memory into file manipulation skills, as opposed to the built-in file explorer which requires mouse or at least memorizing new keyboard shortcuts. There is a video demo on the github page here: https://github.com/ahrm/voil.
Popularity: 5 points | 1 comments
10. Show HN: The Modern Product Management Software
URL: https://zehnex.com
Author: bbsnly
Description: Hey there, HN community!
I’m really excited to share a new tool we are working on that’s more than just your usual Kanban boards. It’s designed to make your product management workflow smoother and help you collaborate better with your team.
We’d love for you to join us on this journey!
Popularity: 4 points | 2 comments
11. Show HN: GithubTracker – Better GitHub Repository Analytics
URL: https://githubtracker.com/
Author: toni88x
Description: Hey devs!
When Nuxt 3 beta was first released it was quite a journey to upgrade existing Nuxt apps from v2 to v3 – mainly because the ecosystem lagged behind for quite a while. At the time, I didn’t find a good way to track dev progress and releases across multiple GitHub open-source repositories, which is why GitHubTracker came to life on a rainy weekend.
The app is 100% free and pulls stats from the GitHub API to compute relevant metrics and render neat charts. You can create collections of repositories and get an instant overview of dev activity across all of them.
Metrics include:
- Commits
- Issues
- Pull Requests
- Releases
- Contributors
The app doesn’t have a backend and all data is stored locally in your browser. Obviously made with Vue/Nuxt ;)
You can also squeeze ‘tracker’ into any GitHub repository URL to get redirected to the respective stats page on GitHubTracker, like so:
https://githubtracker.com/nuxt/nuxt
You can check it out here: https://githubtracker.com
Would love to hear some feedback.
Popularity: 1 points | 4 comments
12. Show HN: I made a free interactive and payment processor database for startups
Author: quicscribe
Description: Hello everyone. I'm a relatively new developer and I started my first project to go full production recently. It is a directory of payment processors and payment service providers. It's free to use and gives detailed info on their pricing, business model, supported business types, available countries, prohibited businesses and high risk business support. So far only 40 have been added with more to come. And I allow processors to contact me so that they're details can be added to the database. I'll eventually automate this and add verification the months to come. I hope you'll find it useful. Let me know what you think!
Located at sourcefees.com
Popularity: 4 points | 0 comments
13. Show HN: LLMule – Run and Share Local LLMs in a P2P Networking
URL: https://github.com/ne-zha-2-chinese-move
Author: gisela21
Description:
Popularity: 4 points | 0 comments
14. Show HN: Qweek – Create a Week's Worth of Social Media Content in Minutes
URL: #
Author: qweek
Description: Tired of spending hours brainstorming and designing social media posts?
Qweek (pronounced as Quick) is an AI-powered content generator that helps you craft engaging, trend-optimized posts for all your platforms in just minutes. Simply provide a few details about your brand, and Qweek takes care of the rest—text, images, and more.
Key Features: > AI-generated posts tailored to your brand > Optimized for engagement and trending topics > Supports multiple platforms > Saves hours of content creation time
We’re still in development and plan to launch next week. In the meantime, we’d love your feedback on what features you'd like to see or any improvements we can make.
Qweek Details: https://golamglu.wixsite.com/qweek
Sign up now to stay updated, and let Qweek handle the heavy lifting for your social media strategy!
Looking forward to your thoughts!
Popularity: 2 points | 2 comments
15. Show HN: A simple free VIN decoder
URL: https://corgi.vin
Author: samsullivan
Description: I built a simple VIN decoder on top of the NHTSA's vPIC database. I ported the database to sqlite and used web assembly to run it fully in the browser. I have been working on a larger automotive consumer application and I needed a lightweight VIN decoder to normalize ingested vehicle data and couldn't find anything. The code to port the vPIC database is [here](https://github.com/samsullivandelgobbo/vPIC-dl) hoping it helps anyone working on a similar problem.
Popularity: 4 points | 0 comments
16. Show HN: I made a tool that automatically finds your customers on social media
Author: nicemackerel
Description:
Popularity: 2 points | 1 comments
17. Show HN: I hope this is fun – a Tetris inspired Rotation Block Dropping Game
URL: https://ihopethisisfun.franzai.com/
Author: franze
Description:
Popularity: 2 points | 1 comments
18. Show HN: One_TUI: A terminal based onedrive client
URL: https://github.com/Riken7/one_tui
Author: Riken7
Description: I built one_tui, a OneDrive client for the terminal, written in Rust. Browse, upload, download, and manage your OneDrive files—all without leaving your terminal.
project link: https://github.com/Riken7/one_tui
Popularity: 2 points | 1 comments
19. Show HN: Diffusion Studio (YC F24) – Webcodecs powered video rendering engine
URL: #
Author: k9p5
Description: Hey HN, For nearly two years, I’ve been building an AI-native solution for programmatic video editing after running into the many limitations of FFmpeg when automating content creation.
The result is @diffusionstudio/core – a browser-based video editing engine powered by WebCodecs. The library is almost entirely written from scratch, with just a single dependency (49KB gzip).
Since rendering and encoding happen mostly on the GPU, client-side, it’s blazingly fast. And with no need for backend rendering infrastructure, integration into any website is simple and lightweight.
One ed-tech startup used it to turn study materials into engaging videos and scaled to $200K MRR in just 9 months using the engine.
Some of its key features are:
- Video/Audio Clipping
- Engaging Captions
- Waveform Visualization
- Shapes & Overlays
- Keyframe Animations
Try it for free https://github.com/diffusionstudio/core
A star would mean the world!
Popularity: 2 points | 0 comments
20. Show HN: Krita RGBA Tech – Exploring Filter Engines in Open-Source
URL: https://github.com/Demon-Force-on-sub-eng
Author: vadela11
Description:
Popularity: 1 points | 0 comments
21. Show HN: Yet Another Image Converter
URL: https://ekpic.com/
Author: oislas
Description: This is an old project. I just wanted to share. It as yet another image converter. When I created it, I just wanted to make a software that does not collect user's images, thus, all the conversions are on device. Also, I wanted something more ergonomically nicer that the main results we find while searching for such a tool.
Popularity: 1 points | 0 comments
22. Show HN: Click and Discover Any Point on a Map
URL: https://godview.ai/discover
Author: ata_aman
Description: I added a Discover page where you can click any point on a map and retrieve information from an LLM(s). Supports Sonnet-3.5, DeepSeek V3 and GPT-4o.
This is a follow-up to the post from Christmas [1]. The aim with this project is to combine maps with generative models for location research and discovery. Please use with caution and expect hallucinations and/or potentially incorrect information.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42519562
Popularity: 1 points | 0 comments
23. Show HN: Cain, a script I made to keep track of my dotfiles and keybindings
URL: https://github.com/v3ai/cain
Author: applestone
Description: What is cain and what does it do?
cain stands for Collect And INstall
Think of cain like a little robot that helps you keep track of dotfiles, keybindings, and desktop environment settings and easily install them on a new computer
I made cain because I was having a hard time keeping track and updating individual repositories for configs
Cain makes it easy to make your computer exactly like you like it on a fresh install and it does those two things
First, the install script will download all required programs and put all of your configuration files in their respective places
then it gives you a command called "cain" and sets up a crontab that will grab the most recent version of those files automatically, and commit them to git in the cain directory.
if you look at the code please lmk if you find bugs
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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