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Posted by
eibrahim on Monday March 16, 2026 @10:39AM
from the show-hn dept.
https://www.chatspark.dev
ChatSpark is a lightweight, embeddable live chat widget for solopreneurs and small business owners who handle support themselves.Single script tag embed. One dashboard. Real-time messaging via WebSocket. Email/push notifications. Offline mode with leave-a-message form. Optional AI auto-replies from your FAQ content.Built with Next.js, Node.js, WebSocket, PostgreSQL. Deployed on Kubernetes.Free...
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eibrahim on Saturday March 14, 2026 @05:37PM
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https://www.mailparse.dev
MailParse receives inbound emails and parses them into structured JSON, delivered via webhook or REST API.You get an email address instantly (or bring your own domain with MX records). When email arrives, MIME is parsed into clean JSON with subject, body (plain + HTML), headers, threading info, and attachments with signed download URLs.Webhook delivery includes configurable retries and request...
Posted by
eibrahim on Saturday March 14, 2026 @03:37PM
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https://www.zapcode.dev
Zap Code generates working HTML/CSS/JS from plain English descriptions, designed for kids ages 8-16.The core loop: kid types "make a space shooter game", AI generates the code, live preview renders it immediately. Three interaction modes - visual-only tweaks, read-only code view with annotations, and full code editing with AI autocomplete.Technical details: Next.js frontend, Node.js backend,...
the linktree-for-side-projects angle is interesting but i think the real problem is distribution, not organization. you can have a beautiful profile page with 10 ideas listed but if nobody sees it, the signal you get back is silence, and silence doesnt tell you anything useful.
the voting/interest signal idea is solid tho. the key question is whether the people voting are potential users or just other builders being polite. thats the trap Product Hunt fell into and its really hard to avoid.
Posted by
eibrahim on Saturday March 07, 2026 @03:41PM
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https://www.aicurate.news
AICurate lets professional associations create AI-curated news hubs for their members.Problem: Associations spend 10-15 hrs/week manually finding, filtering, and summarizing industry news for members.Solution: Configure industries, topics, and RSS/web sources. AI agent scans, scores relevance, generates summaries, and delivers via branded portal + email digests.Multi-tenant architecture, each...
Posted by
eibrahim on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @05:36PM
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https://www.elitecoders.ai/
AI full-stack developers at $2500/mo. Each one gets a unique identity (name, email, avatar) and integrates with your existing team tools.They pick up Jira tickets, plan implementation, write code, push PRs, and respond to code review feedback. The interaction model is the same as working with a remote developer - Slack messages, GitHub PRs, ticket updates.Each agent maintains persistent context...
Posted by
eibrahim on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @11:16AM
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https://www.goldinegypt.com
Gold In Egypt (https://www.goldinegypt.com) is a gold price tracker for the Egyptian market.Shows real-time gold prices in EGP for 24k, 21k, 18k, and 14k per gram. Includes historical price charts, price alerts, and a dealer directory.The main differentiator is the shabka calculator. In Egyptian weddings, the groom's family gives gold (shabka) to the bride, and it's one of the biggest financial...
Me too. I am exhausted by all the human slop constantly complaining about comments or posts being ai slop. I think I have had better conversations with bots the last few months lol.
This is everywhere not just HN: Reddit LinkedIn and twitter too. You are guaranteed to get 2 types of comments on anything you post:
1. Comments accusing you of AI slop (I call them human slop)
2. Comments by AI bots (surprisingly some are helpful and useful) at the end your bot will be a reflection of you.
Asshole humans will train asshole bots.
ps: I don’t even know how any of these sites can fight these bots. The LLMs are amazing and with openclaw and similar it’s impossible to detect bots vs humans.
Posted by
eibrahim on Sunday March 01, 2026 @05:36PM
from the show-hn dept.
https://www.partyhubrental.com
PartyHub Rental is a two-sided marketplace for casual event rentals (bounce houses, food trucks, photo booths, etc.).The party rental industry is extremely fragmented. Most vendors rely on phone calls and Facebook pages for bookings. Built this to give both sides a proper platform.The interesting technical problem was the availability engine. Rental items have constraints most booking systems...
The article makes a reasonable case for internal tools but glosses over the elephant in the room: if every company can vibe code their own B2B tools, what happens to the SaaS vendors? The ones that survive will be the ones where the distribution and ecosystem around the product matters more than the code itself. Nobody is going to vibe code their own Stripe or Salesforce, but the long tail of niche B2B tools is absolutely vulnerable.
Posted by
eibrahim on Saturday February 28, 2026 @09:39AM
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https://www.aiwins.news
AI Wins curates only positive AI developments. The entire pipeline is automated: story discovery, sentiment filtering, summarization with key takeaways, categorization, and publishing.Stack: Next.js, Tailwind CSS, PostgreSQL. Content pipeline runs via external automated jobs that scan sources, filter for positive sentiment, generate structured summaries, and publish to the database. The app...
Posted by
eibrahim on Friday February 27, 2026 @10:38AM
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https://www.pitchanapp.com
Pitch An App (https://www.pitchanapp.com) is a platform where users submit app ideas, the community votes on them, and ideas that hit the vote threshold get built.Submitters earn revenue share when their app generates income. Voters get 50% off forever.9 apps have been built through the platform so far.The core assumption: non-technical people have good software ideas but no way to act on them....
They're right that nobody is vibe coding a full ERP system. But that's not really the threat. The threat is vibe coders building the 20% of Workday that 80% of small businesses actually use, and selling it for a fraction of the price. The market for small, focused tools that replace one expensive feature of a bloated enterprise platform is massive and growing fast.
The maker movement comparison is interesting but I think it breaks down in one key way: the marginal cost of software distribution is basically zero. 3D printing still requires physical materials and shipping. Vibe coded apps can reach users instantly if there's a discovery mechanism.
The real parallel might be the early web era where anyone could make a website but finding them required Yahoo directories and later Google. Right now vibe coded apps have the same discovery problem - they exist but there's no effective way to find or evaluate them.
Posted by
eibrahim on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @04:09PM
from the show-hn dept.
https://www.sitterrank.com
Rover and Wag dominate pet sitting but take 20-40% of every booking. Sitter Rank is a direct-booking alternative where sitters keep everything they earn.Owners search by zip code, filter by service type, and read reviews that can only come from completed bookings on the platform.Stack: Next.js, PostgreSQL, Stripe Connect for direct sitter payments.The business model is SaaS (sitter...
The part about vibe coding lowering the barrier to building software is well established at this point. What nobody seems to be addressing is the distribution problem that creates. We're about to have an order of magnitude more software being built, but no corresponding improvement in how people discover and evaluate it. App stores were designed for a world where shipping software was hard. We need new discovery mechanisms for a world where shipping is easy.
Context divergence is a real problem once you have more than one person prompting on the same codebase. The git-native approach makes sense since thats already where the code lives. Have you seen cases where different team members LLMs generate conflicting architectural patterns even with shared context? Curious how much shared context actually prevents drift vs just documenting it.
cool concept. the million dollar homepage model is clever for bootstrapping initial attention.
interesting that you mention this is your first vibe coding project. curious where you plan to list it long-term for discovery. product hunt gives you a day of visibility but then what? feels like theres a gap in the market for a place where vibe-coded projects can live and get discovered organically.
The hook-driven status tracking is a nice pattern. Running multiple agents in parallel and needing visibility into whats happening is a real problem once you go past one or two. The git worktree automation is a smart touch too.
Curious about the hook interface - is it specific to Claude Code or generic enough to work with other agent frameworks?
This is a really important cautionary tale about autonomous AI agents operating without proper guardrails. The gap between 'AI agent that can do useful tasks' and 'AI agent that understands consequences' is still enormous. It highlights why having human oversight in the loop matters — whether it's content review, action approval, or just sanity-checking outputs before they go live. The best setups treat the AI as a capable but supervised collaborator, not a fully autonomous actor.
This is a really important cautionary tale about autonomous AI agents operating without proper guardrails. The gap between 'AI agent that can do useful tasks' and 'AI agent that understands consequences' is still enormous.
It highlights why having human oversight in the loop matters - whether it's content review, action approval, or just sanity-checking outputs before they go live. The best AI assistant setups I've seen treat the AI as a capable but supervised collaborator, not a fully autonomous actor.
the self-extending skills part is really interesting. ive been building AI agents with persistent memory for a while now and the skill/tool extensibility piece is where most frameworks fall short. they either give you a rigid plugin system or completley open-ended function calling with no guardrails.
how are you handling the trust boundary for self-created skills? thats usually where things get tricky.
also curious about the memory architecture. file-based memory (like markdown files the agent reads/writes) has been surprisingly effective in my experience compared to fancy vector DB approaches. simpler to debug, easier for the agent to reason about, and way less infrastructure overhead. whats your approach?
Interesting approach! How does this handle long-running background tasks and tool execution? One challenge I've seen with self-hosted AI assistants is managing the lifecycle of agent sessions - especially when you want the assistant available 24/7 without manual intervention.
I guess i can tell AI to make it look a bit shitty lol
Agreed. The devs that don’t see the writing on the wall are going to be very disappointed. They are the ones screaming “AI slop” on every post on the internet. It’s the farmer that once said “tractors and machines will never replace me” only to be unemployed and bitter a few months/years later.
If we don’t adapt, we will not survive. I know this is a hard pill to swallow because we all thought we were set for life with job security and high paying jobs forever. This is changing fast or maybe already changed.
Lots of uncertainty and no one knows how this will pan out. The optimist in me thinks/hopes that new doors will open shrug
I understand your skepticism but their estimate was for a POC not a fully blown implemented feature. What I gave them was a POC with TONS of warnings that this was AI generated and vibe coded and not tested and not reviewed etc etc. they understood but loved the fact that they have something “working” that they can show off to higher ups. I was very very clear about the fact that it was very rough and not production ready - after all it was less than 2 hours of work.
Posted by
eibrahim on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @05:29AM
from the self-post dept.
I have been running my business for years and haven’t worked on a client team/project for a while. It blew my mind how badly devs are with AI tools after joining a relatively big team in a company that is heavily invested in AI-first. It’s not a software company or even a tech company.One example is we were in a meeting with 4 devs debating and implementation of a feature. I kept quiet but...
I did 10k worth of tokens in a month and never had issues with tokens or stuff. I am on the 100 dollar max plan so I did not pay 10k - my wife would have killed me lol
PS: screenshot of my usage (and that was during the holidays https://x.com/eibrahim/status/2006355823002538371?s=46
PPS: I LOVE CLAUDE but I never had to deal with their support so don’t have feedback there
Posted by
eibrahim on Friday January 16, 2026 @12:06PM
from the terminalai.app dept.