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Show HN: Solving NP-Complete Structures via Information Noise Subtraction (P=NP)

https://zenodo.org/records/18395618
1•alemonti06•4m ago•1 comments

Cook New Emojis

https://emoji.supply/kitchen/
1•vasanthv•6m ago•0 comments

Show HN: LoKey Typer – A calm typing practice app with ambient soundscapes

https://mcp-tool-shop-org.github.io/LoKey-Typer/
1•mikeyfrilot•9m ago•0 comments

Long-Sought Proof Tames Some of Math's Unruliest Equations

https://www.quantamagazine.org/long-sought-proof-tames-some-of-maths-unruliest-equations-20260206/
1•asplake•10m ago•0 comments

Hacking the last Z80 computer – FOSDEM 2026 [video]

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/FEHLHY-hacking_the_last_z80_computer_ever_made/
1•michalpleban•10m ago•0 comments

Browser-use for Node.js v0.2.0: TS AI browser automation parity with PY v0.5.11

https://github.com/webllm/browser-use
1•unadlib•11m ago•0 comments

Michael Pollan Says Humanity Is About to Undergo a Revolutionary Change

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/magazine/michael-pollan-interview.html
1•mitchbob•12m ago•1 comments

Software Engineering Is Back

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
1•alainrk•13m ago•0 comments

Storyship: Turn Screen Recordings into Professional Demos

https://storyship.app/
1•JohnsonZou6523•13m ago•0 comments

Reputation Scores for GitHub Accounts

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/02/reputation-scores-for-github-accounts/
1•edent•16m ago•0 comments

A BSOD for All Seasons – Send Bad News via a Kernel Panic

https://bsod-fas.pages.dev/
1•keepamovin•20m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I got tired of copy-pasting between Claude windows, so I built Orcha

https://orcha.nl
1•buildingwdavid•20m ago•0 comments

Omarchy First Impressions

https://brianlovin.com/writing/omarchy-first-impressions-CEEstJk
2•tosh•25m ago•1 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.12501
2•onurkanbkrc•26m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Versor – The "Unbending" Paradigm for Geometric Deep Learning

https://github.com/Concode0/Versor
1•concode0•27m ago•1 comments

Show HN: HypothesisHub – An open API where AI agents collaborate on medical res

https://medresearch-ai.org/hypotheses-hub/
1•panossk•30m ago•0 comments

Big Tech vs. OpenClaw

https://www.jakequist.com/thoughts/big-tech-vs-openclaw/
1•headalgorithm•32m ago•0 comments

Anofox Forecast

https://anofox.com/docs/forecast/
1•marklit•32m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How do you figure out where data lives across 100 microservices?

1•doodledood•33m ago•0 comments

Motus: A Unified Latent Action World Model

https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.13030
1•mnming•33m ago•0 comments

Rotten Tomatoes Desperately Claims 'Impossible' Rating for 'Melania' Is Real

https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/rotten-tomatoes-desperately-claims-impossible-rating-for-m...
3•juujian•35m ago•2 comments

The protein denitrosylase SCoR2 regulates lipogenesis and fat storage [pdf]

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scisignal.adv0660
1•thunderbong•36m ago•0 comments

Los Alamos Primer

https://blog.szczepan.org/blog/los-alamos-primer/
1•alkyon•39m ago•0 comments

NewASM Virtual Machine

https://github.com/bracesoftware/newasm
2•DEntisT_•41m ago•0 comments

Terminal-Bench 2.0 Leaderboard

https://www.tbench.ai/leaderboard/terminal-bench/2.0
2•tosh•41m ago•0 comments

I vibe coded a BBS bank with a real working ledger

https://mini-ledger.exe.xyz/
1•simonvc•41m ago•1 comments

The Path to Mojo 1.0

https://www.modular.com/blog/the-path-to-mojo-1-0
1•tosh•44m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I'm 75, building an OSS Virtual Protest Protocol for digital activism

https://github.com/voice-of-japan/Virtual-Protest-Protocol/blob/main/README.md
5•sakanakana00•48m ago•1 comments

Show HN: I built Divvy to split restaurant bills from a photo

https://divvyai.app/
3•pieterdy•50m ago•0 comments

Hot Reloading in Rust? Subsecond and Dioxus to the Rescue

https://codethoughts.io/posts/2026-02-07-rust-hot-reloading/
4•Tehnix•50m ago•1 comments
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Ask HN: Should I build a directory product?

4•alizaid•8mo ago
"just build a directory, they’re easy to monetize" - one of my friends

but there are already hundreds of those most of them feel the same

if i ever build one it won’t be another uneed or tinylaunch clone it’ll have taste, soul, and real utility

that’s the same mindset behind thumblifyai.com not just another ai thumbnail tool

it’s a content machine for creators built to help them get real clicks, real reach

this “build a directory” idea’s been stuck in my head for a month

i don’t know… should i actually build it?

Comments

mooreds•8mo ago
I had a directory of local farm shares/CSAs for about a decade. That one wasn't super easy to monetize, so I'd pick your niche carefully. It also was a ton of work right around the holidays. It helped a lot of people though.

I'd avoid building software--you can find Wordpress plugins that give you everything you need. That will get you up and running quickly from the tech side.

If you follow my advice you'll spend most of your time doing marketing and sales to try to get both free and paid listings.

If that excites you and you love the space that you're cataloging, go for it! Otherwise I'd avoid.

alizaid•8mo ago
thanks for sharing - that’s super helpful

the idea i have in mind is to build something like a product hunt killer not just another list, but a real product that feels fresh and useful

i’ve been doing all the marketing for my other product (thumblifyai.com), and i actually enjoy that part a lot

also, i know how to code - and with tools like cursorai - i’m confident i can build MVP in a month

appreciate advice though, means a lot

owebmaster•8mo ago
If it is stuck in your head yo should do it, it is not too much work to start but it is to make it good. If you give up at least it won't be stuck in your head anymore and you might learn from the experience and not have ideas stuck in your head anymore after understanding the work it takes to make a thing that looks simple (a directory) be worth any good amount of money.