2025 · archive
Launched in May 2025
6,725 products launched in May 2025 (+4% on April), about 217 a day. 15% reached 10 votes on launch day and 6.5% reached 50. Of the 5,256 product sites checked since, 86% are still online.
- 6,725
- launches, +4% vs April
- 217
- launches a day
- 15%
- reached 10 votes on launch day
- 6.5%
- reached 50 votes
- 86%
- of 5,256 product sites checked are still online
- 13:00 UTC
- best hour to post that month: 19% reached 10 votes
Volume counts every board on record. Vote shares are measured on the board whose record is complete since 2009 (2,326 launches this month).
Top 60 by votes. There were many more.
Tapflow 2.0▲1,125We built Tapflow for devs, designers, PMs, and tech folks who’ve been sitting on internal docs, templates, and systems — but never productized them. Upload a PDF, notes, or workshop deck, and Tapflow drafts a structured product (with chapters, teaser and pricing plans). It’s good for AI kits, onboarding guides, design systems, and frameworks. You can sell through Stripe, LemonSqueezy, or PayPal. Real-time collaboration is in early beta. No site builder, no LMS — clean design and just focused tools to ship. Fully bootstrapped and just launched on PH today →…
Work · 2025 · tapflow.ai
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Life & fun · 2025 · felixrieseberg.github.io
Appwrite Sites▲990Appwrite 2.0 brings a new engine, a rebuilt Console, five database types, an S3 API, an OAuth 2.1 server, and organization-level Domains and Firewall.
Dev tools · 2025 · appwrite.io
Zero▲845Hi HN, I’m Nizar, and I’m building Zero (https://0.email) — an AI-powered email client that manages your inbox for you. Email hasn’t changed in decades, even though the way we work has. The average knowledge worker now spends close to 30% of their week on email, constantly reacting, replying, and sorting through noise. It’s become one of the biggest productivity sinks in modern work. At the same time, AI has transformed how we write, plan, and collaborate — yet our inboxes are still stuck in the past. I built Zero to fix that. Zero automatically prioritizes, organizes, and even…
Dev tools · 2025 · 0.email
BreezePDF lets you edit, sign, merge, compress, redact, OCR, fill forms, extract tables, and use 30+ more PDF tools — all in the browser, no sign-up. Files never leave your computer. I built it because when people search Google for common PDF tasks, many of the tools they find upload documents to a server. I wanted an option that keeps files local instead. I posted an earlier version on HN last spring: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43880962 At the time it only supported a small set of features. Over the last 10 months I rebuilt large parts of it and expanded it to…
Work · 2025 · breezepdf.com
Perplexity Labs▲638We built a search engine interface on top of OpenAI GPT 3.5 and Microsoft Bing that summarizes and cites top search results in response to natural language questions. By using search results, the AI is able to reference recent news and provide citations for specific facts. Our interface offers concise answers, without having to click through links, scroll past irrelevant content, or read ads. No login is required; no personal data is collected. We believe in the power of combining the intuitive UI of web search with the intelligence of large language models. The search engine does indexing…
AI · 2025 · perplexity.ai
A year ago, my co-founder launched Desktop Docs here on HN. It's a Mac app we built with Electron that uses CLIP embeddings to search photos and videos locally with natural language. We got positive feedback from HN and our first paying customers, but the app was almost 1GB and clunky to use. TLDR; rebuilding in Rust was the right move. So we rewrote the app with Rust and Tauri and here are the results: - App size is 83% smaller: 1GB → 172MB - DMG Installer is 70% smaller: 232MB → 69.5MB - Indexing files is faster: A 38-minute video now indexes in ~3 minutes instead of 10-14 minutes -…
Dev tools · 2025 · desktopdocs.com
remio▲541remio is designed to free you from being a manual data porter for AI. By syncing your full context, it builds a zero-effort Second Brain that understands your work as well as you do. We call this AI knowledge base "remio", because we want to build a local first app to "remember every input and output". As knowledge workers, we are stuck copy-pasting context just to get a decent answer. We spend more time digging through scattered Slack threads, Google Docs, and local files than actually doing the work. So here is what we made: 1. Connect once: It automatically indexes your full context—web…
AI · 2025 · remio.ai
- Generate Ads AI▲536
Hey! It always annoyed me to manually try to figure out the best winning ads from competitors, so I created my own ads library that automatically calculates it
Growth · 2025 · adkit.so
LLM 0.26 is out with the biggest new feature since I started the project: support for tools. You can now use the LLM CLI tool—and Python library—to grant LLMs from …
AI · 2025 · simonwillison.net
LLM SEO Monitor▲526Monitor what ChatGPT, Google Gemini and Claude recommend
AI · 2025 · llmseomonitor.com
Have a natural, spoken conversation with AI! Contribute to KoljaB/RealtimeVoiceChat development by creating an account on GitHub.
AI · 2025 · github.com
I've been working on the Anukari 3D Physics Synthesizer for a little over two years now. It's one of the earliest virtual instruments to rely on the GPU for audio processing, which has been incredibly challenging and fun. In the end, predictably, the GUI for manipulating the 3D system actually ended up being a lot more work than the physics simulation. So far I am only selling it direct on my website, which seems to be working well. I hope to turn it into a sustainable business, and ideally I'd have enough revenue to hire folks to help with it. So far it's been 99% a solo project, with…
Work · 2025 · anukari.com
Pretty Prompt▲492Grammarly for prompting. Turn any text into perfect prompts.
AI · 2025 · pretty-prompt.com
BnbIcons▲475You probably saw the new icons from Airbnb, this is an app to easily create your own. Ask for what you want, get a beautiful icon.
AI · 2025 · bnbicons.com
TLDR: I wrote a handbook for the Linux command line. 120 pages in PDF. Updated for 2025. Pay what you want. A few years back I wrote an ebook about the Linux command line. Instead of focusing on a specific shell, paraphrasing manual pages, or providing long repetitive explanations, the idea was to create a modern guide that would help readers to understand the command line in the practical sense, cover the most common things people use the command line for, and do so without wasting the readers' time. The book contains material on terminals, shells (compatible with both Bash and Zsh),…
Life & fun · 2025 · commandline.stribny.name
Show HN: Tiptap Editor 3.0 Beta is out. Hi HN! Philip here from Tiptap (https://tiptap.dev/). We're excited to announce Tiptap 3.0 Beta, a major upgrade built with and for the open source community. It's still extension-based, still unopinionated, but we've tackled some of the biggest developer headaches: Enhanced TypeScript support: Strong typing for extension storage and config options. Server-side compatibility: Manipulate editor content on the server, no DOM required. JSX support: Leverage a modern, React/Vue-like approach to describing your node output. Expanded…
Dev tools · 2025 · tiptap.dev
- LTLazy Tetris▲438
Hello all, About a month or so ago, you were all so nice as to put Lazy Tetris on your front page, and I've never felt so popular. More than 30,000 people have played the game all over the world. I'm truly happy if anyone is enjoying this fun project. So yes, I'm re-posting this, sorry if it's too soon, but I wanted to thank you for your amazing feedback in the comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44103839 I've added the following features since we last spoke: - iOS app (why? Of course Monetization, but Haptics are also cool) - translations into a few languages -…
Work · 2025 · lazytetris.com
Bugster▲419Bugster is a dev-first testing agent that runs UI tests without setup overhead. – Install and authenticate from terminal – Auto-generates an E2E test suite – Run locally or integrate with GitHub When integrated with GitHub: – Executes only relevant tests for each PR – Runs in Vercel preview environment – Comments results directly on the PR Works out of the box with Next.js + Vercel. Would love your feedback → https://www.bugster.dev/
AI · 2025 · bugster.dev
Defuddle is an open-source JS library I built to parse and extract the main content and metadata from web pages. It can also return the content as Markdown. I built Defuddle while working on Obsidian Web Clipper[1] (also MIT-licensed) because Mozilla's Readability[2] appears to be mostly abandoned, and didn't work well for many sites. It's still very much a work in progress, but I thought I'd share it today, in light of the announcement that Mozilla is shutting down Pocket. This library could be helpful to anyone building a read-it-later app. Defuddle is also available as a CLI:…
Dev tools · 2025 · github.com
Hey HN, I’m Kiet – one half of the two-person team building Onlook (https://beta.onlook.com/), an open-source [https://github.com/onlook-dev/onlook/] visual editor that lets you edit and create React apps live on an infinite canvas. We launched Onlook [1][2] as a local-first Electron app almost a year ago. Since then, “prompt-to-build” tools have blown up, but none let you design and iterate visually. We fixed that by taking a visual-first, AI-powered approach where you can prompt, style, and directly manipulate elements in your app like in a design…
AI · 2025 · github.com
Your AI search ranking tool—for ChatGPT, Gemini, & Claude.
AI · 2025 · writesonic.com
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I built AutoThink, a technique that makes local LLMs reason more efficiently by adaptively allocating computational resources based on query complexity. The core idea: instead of giving every query the same "thinking time," classify queries as HIGH or LOW complexity and allocate thinking tokens accordingly. Complex reasoning gets 70-90% of tokens, simple queries get 20-40%. I also implemented steering vectors derived from Pivotal Token Search (originally from Microsoft's Phi-4 paper) that guide the model's reasoning patterns during generation. These vectors encourage behaviors like numerical…
AI · 2025
Telebugs▲391Hey hackers! In January 2025, I started building Telebugs. It's an installable error tracker that works with Sentry SDKs. I come from a Rails background and previously worked at an error tracking/APM company, so I figured: why not build my own? I wanted a simple, reliable tool I could own outright, without surprise bills for overages. Telebugs is built with Rails 8, Hotwire, TailwindCSS, and SQLite. Like 37signals’ ONCE products (my inspiration), it’s pay-once: prep your hardware, run one command, and you’ll be up and running in 10 minutes (5 minutes refers to the actual installation…
Dev tools · 2025 · telebugs.com
Uplyt.io▲390I'm a solo founder and I've been building Uplyt.io : a tool that connects to your Google Analytics, Google Ads, Meta Ads, and Search Console, then turns all that data into clear, actionable insights. No setup, no dashboard overload, just clarity. Why I built it: After years helping SMBs and marketing teams, I saw the same problem over and over: GA4 and ad platforms are too complex for 95% of people. Most users don’t need more data — they need direction. Uplyt is my take on solving that. Once connected, Uplyt gives you: – Insights like "your SEO conversions dropped -22% on mobile last week –…
Growth · 2025 · uplyt.io
Motherboard▲388I started working on my ideas a few months ago. I've shipped 4 apps so far. I love my numbers, so every morning I'd go through the payments dashboard, analytics, bug reports, feature requests, and everything else for each app. I wished for a single place to view it all, so I built Motherboard. It runs locally in the browser and tracks any visible data point from any website with just a click. A single dashboard for everything. Life's good.
Dev tools · 2025 · trymotherboard.com
Schematic▲387Managing containers can make you feel crazy. If you’ve worked with platforms like AWS ECS, you’ve probably experienced the frustration of manually pulling ...
Life & fun · 2025 · schematichq.com
