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Products that do what canitbebuilt does

Your hardware idea, inspected. Verdict, BOM, 3D model.

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    Roast (+fix) your startup idea in 3mins before wasting 3mths

    2025

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    Hardware prototyping, as simple as vibe-coding

    Jul 2026

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    Actionable advice to build products that people love

    2018

  4. 4AP

    2021 · postdrc.com

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    Critq103

    Get honest, in-depth product feedback from investors

    2020

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    Verify120

    Test out ideas before you implement them.

    2015

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    AI for Electronics Designing and Sourcing

    Nov 2025

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    Find out what your market wants before you waste months

    21d ago · shouldbuild.io

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    Curated collection of A/B test results

    2024

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    Prompt to production-ready Hardware designs for manufacture

    May 2026

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    Unbiased and unfiltered assessment of your startup plan.

    2020

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    Build Fab-ready Custom PCBs with one prompt

    18d ago · trycherryblossom.com

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    askOdin10

    AI due-diligence & deck stress-testing for startups and VCs

    4d ago · askodin.app

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    Research, plan, blueprint, and prototype software ideas

    27d ago · unbuiltlab.com

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    an open-source, community-vetted repository of real-world problems that AI could solve but nobody's building yet. Each idea goes through a process: Someone identifies a real inefficiency — something that could be 10x or 90% better with AI The community researches market size, existing solutions, technical feasibility, and potential impact Domain experts vote, critique, and refine Ideas that survive get a viability score and a detailed blueprint — ready for someone to pick up and build Everything is MIT licensed. The goal is simple: give builders a head start on problems that actually matter.…

    Feb 2026 · shivankar-madaan.github.io

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    I built a tool (https://1mil.app/hn) to help me test my intuition about various weird business ideas that were on my mind. Initially, I wanted to create a database with 1 million business ideas (hence the name - "1 million opportunities"). But turned out to be a dumb idea already. So instead I built this tool that returns only 10 ideas. It's all based on your input, market + your background. The first release scored on demand only and it gave false confidence. So I rebuilt the the scoring around "winnability": can a solo founder with a specific background "win" against what…

    6d ago · 1mil.app

  18. 18AA

    I built a tool to solve a problem I kept running into: I was making product decisions based on guessing instead of real users. I kept building stuff nobody wanted as I was usually wrong. So, I built HolyShift: AI agents that validate product ideas by talking to real people on Reddit, HN, X, and LinkedIn … then generate a detailed GTM and “Should we build this?” report. No synthetic data (ChatGPT). No predictions. Only real conversations from real people. What it does • Posts platform-native questions (where allowed) • Collects real reactions, objections, pricing signals • Clusters feedback…

    Nov 2025 · app.holyshift.ai

  19. 19IG

    Hello HN, I work on vision systems for structural inspection. A common pain point is usually that while we have a lot of "healthy" images, we often lack a reliable "Golden Set" of rare failures (like shattered porcelain) to validate our models before deployment. You can't trust your model's recall if your test set only has 5 examples of the failure mode for example. So to fix this, I built a pipeline to generate datasets. In this example, I took 7 real-world defect samples, extracted their topology/texture, and procedurally generated 200 hard-to-detect variations across different…

    Feb 2026

  20. 20WB

    Hey HN, After GPT-3 created waves in the tech industry, a lot of AI tools were emerging and with that, some AI website builders But the results seemed way too generic to us. It felt like the developers were rushing to catch the wave instead of building a proper tool We took our time, did months of RnD and finally came up with something better than what others in the market are doing. It’s got better design output. While it’s still in beta, I wanted to show HN what we did. Will appreciate the feedback when you guys try it out. Here is the link to signup for the beta:…

    2024 · dorik.com

  21. 21IC

    After 6 months looking for an idea, procrastinating and over analyzing what I should build. I built a tool that allows people to find problems using custom plugins built with Grok and Claude.

    2025 · gotaprob.com

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    I wanted to find a product idea to build. "Build things people want," right? So I thought, why not literally find people saying what they want? I wrote a script to collect thousands of Reddit posts where people are looking for a solution or complaining about a problem. Then I used GPT to filter out the noise and score each one based on how viable the idea seemed. Threw together a simple search interface so anyone can explore them. I was planning to build a more advanced paid version of this, but figured I'd share the raw version first to see if it's actually useful to anyone.

    Nov 2025 · search.reddit-business-ideas.workers.dev

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    I've worked on several projects writing and implementing specifications (particularly CLN): I've found the specs I write are much better when I quote them in the implementation, so I can see what implementers need to know. Also, when specs change in development, it's almost trivial to find where to update the code. This project is a formalization of my various hacky scripts which ensure the requirements are accurately quoted, and give coverage if any are missing. Not a major Opus, but I hope someone else finds it useful!

    Jul 2026 · greatspectations.org

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    Don't just say you can build it. Show it.

    24d ago · show2build.uk

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