handa

What it does

handa is made to serve songwriters and producers, putting them first. This is built by the creators, for the creators. With just your name and IPI, handa will tell you the money the industry owes you, and then we recover it. Low friction. Just type your details into the platform and in seconds, we audit the actual ground-truth rights data the industry itself uses to decide who gets paid, and show you exactly what's unclaimed with your name on it.

handa helps songwriters and publishers find unclaimed mechanical royalties from streaming. See exactly how much you

Every stream generates royalties. If your songs aren't properly registered, that money just sits there. Starting in 2027, unclaimed royalties get redistributed. We find what's missing before it disappears. Writers we work with hold credits on releases by these artists. We help songwriters & publishers recover uncollected royalties. If you're interested to learn more or would like to talk, please drop us an email at [email protected]from handa.app

• 
  Check if any of the $656M in unclaimed royalties at The MLC is yoursAug 2026 · pub.doub.ly · ▲77

  Hi HN, I built this. Quick background on why it exists: When music is streamed on digital streaming platforms (think Spotify, Apple Music, Pandora), there are two separate royalty streams: one for the recording, paid through your distributor (DistroKid, TuneCore, CDBaby), and one for the underlying work (generally known as publishing). The work side's mechanical royalties are collected by The MLC, a nonprofit that was created by the 2018 Music Modernization Act (MMA). If you haven't registered your songs with The MLC, there are issues with your metadata, or about half a dozen other reasons,…

• 
  Wafaa.ioApr 2026 · wafaa.io · ▲118

  Create secure digital contracts in minutes

• 
  Claimby2018 · claimby.com · ▲107

  Free legally-valid timestamps for your files, ideas & art.

• 
  Monimen - DMCA2020 · ▲76

  Privacy Protected (Anonymous) DMCA Takedown

• 
  AuthentifyApr 2026 · authentify-music.com · ▲4

  Legal proof you made your music - before anyone can claim it

• 
  PAYLAJan 2026 · payla.ng · ▲7

  Get paid with one link. No bank details. No follow-ups.

• 
  Fundraisly▲1,537

  AI fundraising agent that finds investors and books meetings

  AI · Jun 2026 · fundraisly.com

• 
  Homebrew 6.0.0▲1,481

  Today, I’m proud to announce Homebrew 6.0.0. The most significant changes since 5.1.0 are a new tap trust security mechanism, the new faster, smaller, default internal Homebrew JSON API, sandboxing on Linux, better defaults informed by our user survey, many brew bundle improvements, improved performance and initial support for macOS 27 (Golden Gate). Happy to discuss any questions here!

  Dev tools · Jun 2026 · brew.sh

• 
  Performative-UI – A react component library of design tropes▲1,181

  Hi HN! I was super frustrated at apps like tiktok and wechat preventing me from saving or downloading the animated gifs, so I made a little tool to turn a screen recording into a slack-sized emoji. Hope you get some value from this!

  Life & fun · Jun 2026 · vorpus.github.io

• 
  Upstream▲976

  The inbox designed for humans and agents

  AI · Jun 2026 · upstream.do

• 
  Goldfish▲958

  Press Option. It knows your work and replies like you

  AI · Jun 2026 · goldfish.sh

• 
  I made Google Trends for Hacker News by indexing 18 years of comments▲822

  Search 18 years of Hacker News and chart how any topic, tool, or person trended. Overlay terms to compare their rise and fall across 45M posts and comments.

  Life & fun · Jun 2026 · hackernewstrends.com