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Show HN: One-click AI employee with its own cloud desktop

https://cloudbot-ai.com
1•fainir•26s ago•0 comments

Show HN: Poddley – Search podcasts by who's speaking

https://poddley.com
1•onesandofgrain•1m ago•0 comments

Same Surface, Different Weight

https://www.robpanico.com/articles/display/?entry_short=same-surface-different-weight
1•retrocog•3m ago•0 comments

The Rise of Spec Driven Development

https://www.dbreunig.com/2026/02/06/the-rise-of-spec-driven-development.html
1•Brajeshwar•7m ago•0 comments

The first good Raspberry Pi Laptop

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/the-first-good-raspberry-pi-laptop/
2•Brajeshwar•7m ago•0 comments

Seas to Rise Around the World – But Not in Greenland

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/greenland-sea-levels-fall
1•Brajeshwar•8m ago•0 comments

Will Future Generations Think We're Gross?

https://chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com/p/will-future-generations-think-were
1•crescit_eundo•11m ago•0 comments

State Department will delete Xitter posts from before Trump returned to office

https://www.npr.org/2026/02/07/nx-s1-5704785/state-department-trump-posts-x
2•righthand•14m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Verifiable server roundtrip demo for a decision interruption system

https://github.com/veeduzyl-hue/decision-assistant-roundtrip-demo
1•veeduzyl•15m ago•0 comments

Impl Rust – Avro IDL Tool in Rust via Antlr

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmKvw73V394
1•todsacerdoti•15m ago•0 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
2•vinhnx•16m ago•0 comments

minikeyvalue

https://github.com/commaai/minikeyvalue/tree/prod
3•tosh•20m ago•0 comments

Neomacs: GPU-accelerated Emacs with inline video, WebKit, and terminal via wgpu

https://github.com/eval-exec/neomacs
1•evalexec•25m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Moli P2P – An ephemeral, serverless image gallery (Rust and WebRTC)

https://moli-green.is/
2•ShinyaKoyano•29m ago•1 comments

How I grow my X presence?

https://www.reddit.com/r/GrowthHacking/s/UEc8pAl61b
2•m00dy•31m ago•0 comments

What's the cost of the most expensive Super Bowl ad slot?

https://ballparkguess.com/?id=5b98b1d3-5887-47b9-8a92-43be2ced674b
1•bkls•32m ago•0 comments

What if you just did a startup instead?

https://alexaraki.substack.com/p/what-if-you-just-did-a-startup
5•okaywriting•38m ago•0 comments

Hacking up your own shell completion (2020)

https://www.feltrac.co/environment/2020/01/18/build-your-own-shell-completion.html
2•todsacerdoti•41m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Gorse 0.5 – Open-source recommender system with visual workflow editor

https://github.com/gorse-io/gorse
1•zhenghaoz•42m ago•0 comments

GLM-OCR: Accurate × Fast × Comprehensive

https://github.com/zai-org/GLM-OCR
1•ms7892•43m ago•0 comments

Local Agent Bench: Test 11 small LLMs on tool-calling judgment, on CPU, no GPU

https://github.com/MikeVeerman/tool-calling-benchmark
1•MikeVeerman•43m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AboutMyProject – A public log for developer proof-of-work

https://aboutmyproject.com/
1•Raiplus•44m ago•0 comments

Expertise, AI and Work of Future [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsxWl9iT1XU
1•indiantinker•44m ago•0 comments

So Long to Cheap Books You Could Fit in Your Pocket

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/books/mass-market-paperback-books.html
3•pseudolus•45m ago•1 comments

PID Controller

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional%E2%80%93integral%E2%80%93derivative_controller
1•tosh•49m ago•0 comments

SpaceX Rocket Generates 100GW of Power, or 20% of US Electricity

https://twitter.com/AlecStapp/status/2019932764515234159
2•bkls•49m ago•0 comments

Kubernetes MCP Server

https://github.com/yindia/rootcause
1•yindia•50m ago•0 comments

I Built a Movie Recommendation Agent to Solve Movie Nights with My Wife

https://rokn.io/posts/building-movie-recommendation-agent
4•roknovosel•50m ago•0 comments

What were the first animals? The fierce sponge–jelly battle that just won't end

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00238-z
2•beardyw•59m ago•0 comments

Sidestepping Evaluation Awareness and Anticipating Misalignment

https://alignment.openai.com/prod-evals/
1•taubek•59m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

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.