Tools Hacker News keeps asking for

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I’ve been wanting to use Jev in a project, and I recently saw Firecrawl use it in an interesting way. They use their crawler to pull company data and then use Jev to classify the companies into categories. I thought this was a very powerful way to gain insights out of publicly available data, so I tried it on Hacker News.

I pulled every comment and post since 2008 that asked for some piece of software or a tool (~63k of them). Jev kept the 12k that were real requests, for about $6 (on OpenRouter). Opus 5.5 grouped those into concrete tool ideas and re-read every request behind the top 100.

Finally I checked Show HN to see which ones already exist. Still a few left to build, in case you’re looking for an opportunity :D

> Paid search without ads

What about https://kagi.com ?

"Search for the small web" is interesting. I think the closest thing we have of "the Internet that doesn't suck" for me is HN.

The Usenet vibes, "let's talk about the stuff we geeks love before people come to spoil them". A much higher quality than average chat room, even if imperfect and undoubtedly biased to our left brain personas.

So searching on HN is a bit of the "Search for the small web".

I have recently done the same analysis albeit lower level than yours. In your site I read the phrase "A CMS for editors and developers" and came to the exact same conclusion. Working with marketing teams and dealing with my own CMS pain points made me want to scratch my own itch, so I've been building a project of my own.

WordPress has become painfully hard to work with, but static site generators even with platforms like Vercel and Netlify are equally challenging. Explaining how to run Node.js/git or even just brew or even compile code to a non-technical user is a massive headache. Most end users just keep asking for the username and password for "my site," not realizing it's a static site built with Jekyll or Hugo.

Most marketing teams have no clue how markdown functions and explaining frontmatter to them has been revealing of how simple things are hard to understand to non tech people.

On top of that, all they really want is the ability to edit content, a simple form, and basic caching. Great site and well done on the analysis.

Shameless plug - https://github.com/Zen-Labs-Corp/hatamoto

I am surprised dark mode for HN did not make the list: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=hn+darkmode

Perhaps because it's not a stand-alone tool? (Although there are stand-alone tools that accomplish this)

I guess the most likely reason is the exact trigger phrases aren't present

#4 Email you pay for, not with

Fastmail has been a thing forever. I recently started paying for it again and am quite happy with it.

i’m reading this right now inside https://github.com/andrewarrow/ruie some of these ideas I could add here

6 Paid search without ads - never launched.

Me and my Kagi sub are a bit dubious of this claim.

"Windows without the junk - never released"

...but that's literally LTSC.

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