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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)

#741

A deep research system to discover if your dumb saas idea is already out there. I got sick of starting a project only to later discover significant competitors or features of the marketplace I missed, despite looking. I can now do in minutes what used to take me days. https://already.dev

Already out there: https://websets.exa.ai/

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)

#742
We've been working on a vibe-coding platform called Hypership.

https://hypership.dev

What's different with Hypership is that your apps get user auth, page view analytics, event tracking, logging, and an admin dashboard all set up and ready to go out of the box.

It's also a much nicer platform for devs because we host VS Code in the cloud for you as you're vibe coding. That means you can manually edit the code as you go.

It's basically what web development should be in 2025.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)

#743
Yet another Japanese learning app[0], but something that is very useful to me, so I hope it will be useful for others as well. I struggle to deal with comprehensible input that interests me at this time. The best way to immerse yourself is with content that interests you but sometimes that content is a bit advanced. I'm building this to bridge the gap, you can upload or select content that interests you (or we can recommend you content that would be comprehensible input), and we'll generate short stories, set in the universe of the content you want to learn that will introduce new words you need to understand the original content every week. The words and sentences of these stories will then be reviewed using spaced repetition (using the Ebisu SRS algo as underlying model with some modifications).

[0] https://katarineko.com/

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)

#744

I’m working on https://postcardlove.com — a super simple site that lets you send real postcards using a photo from your phone. No login, just upload, write, and send. It started because I wanted to send my sister an old photo for her birthday, and instead of using CVS or Shutterfly like a normal person, I ended up building it using Bubble and Lob. Now I’m exploring the B2B angle — a friend asked if I could do postcar…

I launched https://PostalAgent.com recently that solves a similar problem. It also can be used for Marketing because you can circle areas on a Google Map to send mailings to, and then filter by Household income, home value, etc Ping me if you want to chat

i wanted to build this! but now i don't need to. very great execution here, and your per-unit postcard prices are awesome. is there a minimum?

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)

#745
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A new YouTube app/player, for my kids. It allows us to control the algorithm. It’s all LLM translating to YouTube search queries under the hood. Visually it looks the same. The suggested videos come from predefined buckets on topics they love. E.g. 33% fun math, 33% DIY engineering, 33% creative activities. Video recommendations that have a banned word in the title/desc don't get displayed e.g. MrBeast, anything with…

You may be striking the goldmine with this app. There's a lot of sentiment about the effects of tech on children and also parents spend money like no one else.

On a personal level I'm interested too. My son is too young, so we only watch youtube together, even then he's very susceptible to the attention-grabbing recommendations. "Theater mode" helps put the recommendations off-screen. "Don't recommend channel" helps a curate the feed a little bit.

But ideally I should be in control of the whole interface.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)

#746
post #740

I’m working on https://postcardlove.com — a super simple site that lets you send real postcards using a photo from your phone. No login, just upload, write, and send. It started because I wanted to send my sister an old photo for her birthday, and instead of using CVS or Shutterfly like a normal person, I ended up building it using Bubble and Lob. Now I’m exploring the B2B angle — a friend asked if I could do postcar…

yay, postcard apps! this is my space, too. there's something really fun about making an API call and then postcards shoot out the other side. i like your site and the visual design, very simple and straightforward. at $3.99 it does seem rather expensive compared to other options out there (i have an idea on how much it costs you). also, having some actual pictures of what the cards look like on the website will surel…

I love threekidnwords.com, I remember reading a blog post that you wrote. I also love your website.

For the pricing, I just picked what I thought I would pay. I have been using it to send postcards to myself and my wife!

I'll check out slowmorainbow.com!

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)

#747

I’m working on https://postcardlove.com — a super simple site that lets you send real postcards using a photo from your phone. No login, just upload, write, and send. It started because I wanted to send my sister an old photo for her birthday, and instead of using CVS or Shutterfly like a normal person, I ended up building it using Bubble and Lob. Now I’m exploring the B2B angle — a friend asked if I could do postcar…

I launched https://PostalAgent.com recently that solves a similar problem. It also can be used for Marketing because you can circle areas on a Google Map to send mailings to, and then filter by Household income, home value, etc Ping me if you want to chat

Hey!

Let's chat! Postcardlove.com was a small side project that I created while working on the larger project. I think I can use PostalAgent for that project.

patelamit@gmail.com

Best, Amit

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)

#748

A deep research system to discover if your dumb saas idea is already out there. I got sick of starting a project only to later discover significant competitors or features of the marketplace I missed, despite looking. I can now do in minutes what used to take me days. https://already.dev

Already out there: https://websets.exa.ai/

How ironic

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)

#749

We've been working on a vibe-coding platform called Hypership. https://hypership.dev What's different with Hypership is that your apps get user auth, page view analytics, event tracking, logging, and an admin dashboard all set up and ready to go out of the box. It's also a much nicer platform for devs because we host VS Code in the cloud for you as you're vibe coding. That means you can manually edit the code as you…

Interesting! How does it compare with Supabase?

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)

#750

A deep research system to discover if your dumb saas idea is already out there. I got sick of starting a project only to later discover significant competitors or features of the marketplace I missed, despite looking. I can now do in minutes what used to take me days. https://already.dev

Already out there: https://websets.exa.ai/

That's only how it seems. General purpose deep research just doesn't work as well.

Thanks for taking the time! I love these guys. They are definitely way more useful in that they are general-purpose. What we're doing is much more specific, and the results are very different. Try both and compare!

I have no doubt we'll soon get taken over by general-purpose systems. But for now, all we do is deep research to find competitors, and the results are for sure much better with us for that narrow use case.

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