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Ask HN: How do you cope when your startup contracts?
The same general situation has happened to me twice now and I am wondering if it’s something I can break free from or if it’s just the nature of the Startup beast - or what. There seems to be some kind of bubble that starts drying up investment in a startup where I am a technical lead. Both times, things seem to be going well and then 2 years in there are rounds of layoffs due to factors outside my/product’s control where the result is the same. I end up as the last tech generalist. It fall
Show HN: Bitemap – See where everyone would bite a sandwich
I know the internet likes to celebrate perfect bites and debate where to take the next bite of half-finished sandwiches. So I built Bitemap. You see a photo of a sandwich, you tap where you'd take your next bite, and it shows a heatmap of where everyone else bit.It's early. Most of the sandwiches are ones I uploaded to seed it and the maps are still filling in, so some are thin. You can add your own too.No signup, nothing to install. Curious what you think, and where you'd bite. H
Show HN: Local-first history, search, and analytics for Claude Code and Codex
I'm an indiehacking type, which means I work on like 5 different things at any given time.Claude and codex are incredible. But, there were a few problems I had with them. AgentGraphed pretty much solves for those.It works locally - indexes every conversation you have, live, into a local sqlite db. With it, theres a lot we can render in a nice UX.Among other things..Problem: I want to resume a session, but when I look at claude --resume, the titles are completely unhelpful. They are just the
Show HN: Sandbox AI-app lifecycle, from build to run
Hi HN,This is a project I've been working on since the beginning of 2025 full time, without funding.Coding agents have fundamentally changed the way we write software. When you let an agent write code, pull dependencies, and run scripts, you are delegating trust while still keeping the responsibility. You shouldn't have to choose between moving fast with agents and maintaining basic control over your host machine.Normally, we just inspect the final result, treating the app like a black
Show HN: Plastron – A spreadsheet you grow into an app, in one index.html
Plastron is a spreadsheet starting with one cel (元) whose formula generates the a readme DOM element but you can make sheets of cels with formulas like =cels(8, 5). It's a single index.html — no build, no server, no install — so it runs locally, offline, and free.
Excel is maybe the most useful software ever written, but the moment a sheet wants to be a real app — a UI, a file, a database, something to share — you fall off a cliff and rewrite it as "a real application" (framework
Launch HN: Transload (YC P26) – Measuring freight items with CCTV
Hi HN — we’re Julius, Jago, and Nils, and we’re building transload (transload.io).transload helps LTL trucking companies measure freight dimensions using the security cameras already installed in their terminals. Instead of sending shipments through a dedicated dimensioning station, we measure them automatically as they move through the normal dock workflow.We’ve put together a small HN-specific demo site here: https://hn.transload.io/In LTL trucking, dimensions matter because the
Show HN: Maillune – Embeddable drag-and-drop email editor as a single component
Alot of companies (Including the one i work at fulltime) use third party email builders to provide custom email functionality to users. However this is a niche sector and the prices are... insane?So to try and fix this i built Maillune, a embeddable emailbuilder sdk that is alot cheaper with a usable free tier for hobby projects. The entire goal was to make the features transparent and logical. With lower focus on feature paywalls and aiming on a more "Out of the box" approach.This is
Show HN: VQAScore – open eval metric/reward model, now for text-to-video
Two years ago we released VQAScore: ask a VLM "does this image show {prompt}?" and use P(Yes) as the score. It became a go-to evaluation metric and reward model for image generation, replacing CLIPScore across the field (2M+ downloads on Hugging Face; used by groups at DeepMind, NVIDIA, ByteDance).We just added text-to-video evaluation with 20+ VLMs (GPT, Gemini, Qwen). It is free and open-source, and it keeps getting better as the underlying VLMs improve.Paper: https://arxiv
Show HN: Artie – Real-time data replication to your warehouse, now self-serve
Hey HN, cofounder of Artie here. We’ve built a real-time data replication tool that captures every row-level change in your source database and streams it to your warehouse in under 60 seconds.The last time I posted here, people had to book a call with us in order to access Artie. Today, that’s no longer the case. You can now connect your source and destination and start streaming immediately.I spent years of my career building large-scale data pipelines and experienced how difficult it was to g
Show HN: Persist.chat – Outreach and Sales Agents
Hello HNs,Meet persist.chat - outreach agents that runs itself. It will find you prospects on the internet and reach out to them and do personalized followups till you secure a sell.Also bring your contacts, and launch campaigns with personalized followups. it runs 24/7 with out you looking.Most founders quit because of the assumption of vitality on 3-7 days of after building apps. unfortunately that's not how the internet works. Your website might take unto 7-14 days to get indexed. a
Show HN: This Week in Obsidian – Obsidian Newsletter Published Every Tuesday
I am the author of This Week in Obsidian, a newsletter published every Tuesday to help Obsidian users stay up-to-date with the latest community news, discussions, and interesting plugins. The Obsidian community is very active, with new plugins and lively discussions every day. For the average user, there's no need to spend a lot of time reading all of that. I hope This Week in Obsidian can help you spend just a little time each week keeping up with the latest from the community.The newslett
Beyond Meat drops the ‘Meat’ from its name as it expands to plant-based drinks and snacks
Beyond Meat is dropping “meat” from its name as it moves beyond the struggling market for plant-based burgers, sausages and tenders and expands into new categories like protein drinks. The company, ...
The trader who sparked the Beyond Meat short-squeeze unpacks why he's betting against 3 top AI stocks
Dimitri Semenikhin, known as the trader who kicked off last year's Beyond Meat rally, says he's betting against some of the ...
Why Investors Bailed on Beyond Meat Last Month
It posted a double-digit decline in net revenue in its first quarter.
Jackfruit isn't just a meat substitute anymore; can reduce cholesterol too
Jackfruit flour is produced from unripe, dried, mature jackfruit bulbs.
"All You Can Eat Means Until You're Full...Do Not Sit Around And Make Yourself Hungry Again, Or Hit Blunts Outside": 22 Signs And Notes That Are So Suspiciously Specific, Something Absolutely Unhinged Must Have Happened
"Beware, beware, beware, beware about this house for sale."
Calling All Lazy Neat Freaks – These 59 Items Will Make Keeping A Tidy Home 10x Easier
"Lazy neat freak" isn't an oxymoron when these low-effort products exist.
A wild idea: Abstract reality using ontology
# A Wild Idea: Abstract Reality with Ontology## Background
Large language models (LLMs) debuted with GPT-3 back in June 2020. After roughly five to six years of development, I believe the technology is still in its infancy, with massive room for improvement. A major priority is building powerful models that run on fewer resources, especially capable models that can operate smoothly on CPUs.More crucially, the engineering ecosystem around LLMs is also at an early stage. Many unresolved challenges
Launch HN: Rudus (YC P26) – AI for concrete contractors
Hi HN, we’re Rishi and Sahil. We’ve developed Rudus (https://www.rudus.ai/), an AI-powered takeoff and estimation platform built for concrete subcontractors.Takeoff is the process of measuring and quantifying materials from concrete plan sheets. Rudus identifies every concrete structure (footings, walls, columns, slabs), pulls in related details, and eliminates hours of manual quantity calculation. Here’s a demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAMNDRWEdlI.The probl
Show HN: On-device transcriber that's 97% accurate at identifying speakers
I’ve spent the last seven months building a tool I wish I’d had in my previous roles. MimicScribe is a macOS menu bar app that fits the "AI notetaker" category. It has accurate on-device speaker identification (a first possibly?), real-time meeting talking points for discovery calls, and a fully keyboard- and voice-driven interface.I believe the accuracy of the speaker ID system is its biggest strength. I used fluid audio’s port of (https://github.com/fluidInference/