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Thanks for commenting.
The projects that I always admire here and out there is something like this:
1. someone find real problem (like very tedious to use gov site)
2. build a solution in a weekend
3. solve the problem for themselves and the rest of us.
Bonus: The world is better than it was.
Another very nice project I admire and is recent one is this one [1] and this one [2] as you can see it's to the point and very clear it solves a specific problem and it's useful for a lot of people. Does not necessary to millions but it's useful to enough people nevertheless.
My question is then if AI is that mighty why I don't wake up to 100s new and very useful and exciting side projects and nice tools like this every day?
Other question: why we have an investigative journalism that's is its very business model based (partially) on the incompetence of a "byzantine" fed system? [3]
Again if AI and its Agents are that mighty; why I can't task them to guide me through a byzantine system. Didn't you (not literally you but those who say AGI is almost here) told me that AI is better than the best lawyer and the best investigative journalist and most talented programmer?
The point here is if AI is that mighty in developing software why we don't have solutions for incompetent/ insufficient tools/platforms gov or otherwise.
For me here's a few examples of tools I want to see:
1. Tools that I can connect directly to my PayPal/Wise/RedeotPay/Binance accounts and give me jargon-free actionable insights. No setup needed. No CSVs download/uploaded needed.
2. Tools that I can upload to them my FB/LinkedIn/Twitter/Gmail/WordPress archive and give me useful psychological/marketing related/productivity/ideations/patterns's unearthing insights.
3. Same as 2 but for my browser data and bookmarks and history.
To answer your question directly:
> What kind of software were you hoping to see more of? Curious if there's a specific gap you're noticing.
the gap I see is Useful analytical tools that when I give it already existing data (may it be a jpgs of My handwritten journal or my finances CSVs or My search history...) it give me useful insights that make me able to do more of what works and less of that doesn't.
More indie projects I admire and use:
1. yakread.com
2. blogtrottr.com
3. f5bot.com
4. www.newsminimalist.com
5. Kagi News
6. Bluesky Directory
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[1] site about deals by Jenny Ouyang
https://buildtolaunch.substack.com/p/app-worth-building-ai-v...?
[2] Substack Reader Chrome Extension by Karen Spinner
https://open.substack.com/pub/wonderingaboutai/p/i-built-a-c...
[3]
https://seamushughes.substack.com/about
Read:
> A bit about Court Watch. We have a weird knack for finding the unfindable in the byzantine federal court records system.
> Additionally, for a limited time, if you become a founding member, you get an online zoom training by us on how to traverse the federal court system.
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I’ve followed BetaList and similar directories for years, and I regularly read side-project posts here on Hacker News.
With the explosion of AI coding assistants, I expected a noticeable increase in useful small SaaS tools and practical software. But honestly, I’m not sure I see it.
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