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Products that do what Diaspora Slowly going broke and fading away? does
Just received an email from the Diapora team, asking to contribute a bit more to their efforts. I wonder why would people still do that since they havent been able to get a project up and running that would has a social hook. Email copied below Dear Ahsan - We love you. Yes. Really, we do. We’re building Diaspora, in a spirit of community, because we believe in you. You’re one of the innovators, the creative ones, the people who make the world awesome. We’re building tools that we hope will help you bring your true voice to the world. For no other reason than we want to see what you’ll say…
- 1KO
My co-founder and I saved up enough money to quit our jobs 6 months ago and go full-time. We began working on, while bootstrapping, a photo sharing startup. Unfortunately, after many iterations, it wasn't working well enough and we decided to kill it. However, through that process, we conducted a lot of user tests and interviews, and realized that finding users to test is a pretty hard problem. That's why we made Gemba, Japanese for "the real place", which is a service that connects companies to testers on demand for in-person interviews. URL: http://gemba.me Would love your…
2013
- 2UO
When I see what some HN members have done in a weekend on their projects, it makes it hard to confess that it has taken us 1 year to get to this stage. I kept trying to make things perfect, but finally I have seen the light - it will never be perfect and even in its current state, I see so much we need to improve, but it's something. Instead of delaying even more, I thought I would release it to the best critics out there - HN say hello to MyProperty.com Hope to hear your feedback, criticism, thoughts.
2011
- 3WB
We kept seeing the same problem: creators make great content but the moment they dub it into another language, everything falls apart. Robotic voice. Music gone. Meaning lost. Lips not matching. So we built Vaani. Whatever language you create in, wherever you are in the world, your content can reach a global audience. We clone your voice, match your gestures, preserve your music, and optionally sync your lips to the new language. 10+ Indian languages, 20+ global languages, all in minutes. We built it for 2 reasons: So creators never have to sound like a robot in another language again So the…
Jun 2026 · vaani.media
- 4MS
Hi all, I have always wanted to create a community dedicating to creating the work place more positive. Right now, it's only jokes. I am working on a revision of this that will just place the community page right in front and do away with the landing page. I welcome and appreciate any cheesy thoughts, critiques or suggestions you might have. In the pipeline: jokes, quotes and ideas on how to make the work place more positive! -V.
2012 · officecheese.com
- 5MA
Hello. :) I've noticed for the last few years it feels like everyone has been saying the same thing, that social media got baaad, timelines feel hostile, nothing you see is actually from people you chose to follow, and every platform seems optimized for outrage, screenshots, and engagement bait rather than the original microblog ideas of the early 2010s I miss the 2010 social styles, where you have to share your @name with a friend IRL because search wasn't really search... A place where you followed people, saw what they wrote, stumbled into interesting discussions, and hashtags meant…
Jan 2026 · meepr.co
- 6MA
Hi there, So a buddy a couple of days ago came up with the idea for a new SaaS product regarding gpt and image generation. We did a quick MVP that barely works, it breaks almost 50% of the time but we still wanted to validate the idea before going all in. We have almost 1k followers on Twitter together. Did a quick post describing the idea with a stripe link in the comments with a 5$ value, no landing page, and no shipped product. In exchange, the buyers become beta users. Around 30 mins later we got our first sale next 30 mins another 5$ and so on. Do we consider the idea validated? The…
2023
- 7IM
Hey HN, I’m a solopreneur and have been in the SaaS space for the past 3 years. My last 3 startups failed, and a common challenge in all of them was figuring out how to reach my audience. Recently I started with cold outreach (its a struggle, since I dont have much experience with marketing). I am finding leads mainly using exa.ai websets (web vector search, extremelly good for multiple use cases, recommend checking them out) and then sending them through smartlead. I ran the campaign for the past 30 days and 12-15% emails always bounced. This wasted my email credits & chances of reaching…
2025 · verifyemailai.com
- 8FA
Hey HN! I've been building an open-source community platform over the past few days and would love for y'all to check it out. We are still very early, the platform has been open for 2 days and we're already on 38 people as i post this. This has been a fun challenge getting this built in a couple of days since the news broke of posts.cv shutting down. See you on Folks! ~ Johny
2025 · folkscommunity.com
- 9RM
I'm trying to come up with a semi-stealth "about" for my newest project. The point is to give a little (clever) insight on the project, but not to give the farm away. Please let me know what you think... "Want to pay $34/month or get roped into a six month contract? We know the perfect match for you. But it's NOT us. Want to answer more than 400 pointless questions? We know a place that can give you such harmony. But it's NOT us. Want to join a site that's all about free and all about flakes? We know a great spot for you to fish. But it's NOT us. AKChances is different. And different is…
2011
- 10JL
Hello, we had launched the private beta version of Hypejar (http://www.hypejar.com) in October 2012. We have done a lot of learning since then. Recently, we quietly released the new version of the platform. We were hoping some you may be awesome enough to provide feedback as to what sucks and/or what rocks. I can't thank you enough in advance. Our users thus far have had HUGE say in the direction we go and we plan on keeping it that way. Thank you HN!
2013
- 11IA
Maybe you've had this experience too: You build something you're proud of, post it on HN with your low-karma account, and... crickets. Zero votes, zero comments. That's what happened to me last Monday. I posted my coding tool (XaresAICoder - an open-source browser IDE) that I'd built with AI assistance. In my mind it was revolutionary. On HN? Completely ignored. Then I wondered: How many other potentially great projects suffer the same fate? What "hidden gems" are we missing because they come from low-karma accounts? So I built hn-gems (with help from Claude and my own XaresAICoder). It…
2025 · hn-gems.sensem.de
- 12
Hi guys I know ur time is valuable so I will keep this short. Ever since I was in uni I saw that its been difficult for people finding collaborators for your project/startup. Building something is easier than ever but finding collaborators has never been more difficult. so I interviewed 1083 users (yea i know thats a lot but i needed some validation hehe). Half of them did not hear about yc cofounder matching and other platforms and the ones who were using them still found it quite painful and exhausting and they got no one from there. I found that in most cases for my users the only…
20d ago · cofoundme.app
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