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2024-05
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"Good luck to the next person maintaining it."
View original →The Next.js boilerplate with all you need to build your SaaS, AI tool, or any web app and make your first $ online fast
"This is just Next.js boilerplate. You can get this free from Vercel's own templates."
View original →The #1 AI Headshot Generator for Professional Headshots
"There's no moat around profile pictures, not even good execution."
View original →Automate & Scale Your Marketing
"On its face this seems handy... But the pricing, for the above, seems insane: $99/mo for the standard plan"
View original →Track your calories with just a picture
"While technologically cool the app is bullshit. 90% accurate isn't accurate enough for the job and it's effectively making shit up."
View original →Redesign your interior in seconds using AI
"results are extremely terrible. The output has almost nothing to do with the input"
View original →Build a custom AI chatbot trained on your data
"OpenAI is going to show us how closed they are and who's startup that they are going to kill. First it was Jasper, then the Chat with PDF apps and now it will be ..."
View original →Get Video Testimonials from Your Customers with Ease
"testimonial.to is just so likely to misspelt that this is probably a good move. Not sure about the cost, though."
View original →High Quality Text Transcription with OpenAI's Whisper on Mac
"Seems shady to me to charge for running larger free models you don't provide on hardware your users provide."
View original →Change Your Life One Habit at a Time
"Do people really pay for that?"
View original →Find out if robots will take your job
"The methodology is questionable and this is just fearmongering dressed up as data."
View original →The cold outreach tool that helps you get replies
"There's a new one every day because the last one got banned/isn't effective anymore."
View original →Simple, privacy-friendly Google Analytics alternative
"Web analytics isn't boring to me. I also think it's a really hard area to break into. There's no shortage of competition and none of them seem very differentiated."
View original →The Note-Taking App with Robust Markdown Editor
"I tried InkDrop and couldn't justify the steep price point for something so trivial. I backup everything on my own and watch Boostnote grow as a competitor, but free..."
View original →The simplest way to create forms, for free
"Yet another form builder. Typeform already owns this space. What's the differentiation?"
View original →Simple, free, fully responsive one-page sites for pretty much anything
"Wix and Squarespace exist. What's the point of yet another website builder?"
View original →Meetings that ship
"Yet another entry in the productivity tool sweepstakes."
View original →Beautiful screen recordings in minutes
"Screen Studio at $29/mo is unusually and extremely expensive for a video recorder app"
View original →A better UI for ChatGPT
"This is literally just a ChatGPT UI. OpenAI's own interface is free and better."
View original →Build & Monetize your X audience FAST
"I really dislike the product and what it stands for...this product is polluting Twitter and it seems to be pissing off genuine content creators."
View original →Rent a stranger's home — the idea every investor called crazy
"You guys are crazy. There's going to be a murder in one of these houses. There's going to be blood on your hands. I am not touching this with a 10-foot pole."
View original →Design for non-designers — 100 VC rejections later, worth $26B
"Good designers don't use Canva."
View original →AI chatbot that made the world argue about autocomplete
"ChatGPT is nothing more than long-form autocomplete. The specifics of approach are irrelevant."
View original →File sync for people who don't want to set up a Linux server
"For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem."
View original →Sketch in a browser — Adobe offered $20B to make it stop
"Figma is an absolutely awful design tool that has great collaboration features. For a UI/UX design tool it has terrible constraints, and basically no support for state changes."
View original →Photo filters for phones — the idea critics called useless
"I really don't see the value of sharing photos with some 'artistic' filter applied to them."
View original →Another Jira clone — until every high-growth startup dropped Jira for it
"Honestly, I don't really see the value over any other tools (Jira, Trello, Asana, Monday, etc)."
View original →Too complex, too slow, too Japanese — worth $10B
"There's so much wrong with this app that I sometimes wonder if this isn't an enormous practical joke"
View original →IRC with a coat of paint — acquired for $27.7B
"It's IRC with auto-linkification. Well deserved? Pro-capitalists are crazy."
View original →$30/month for email — the product everyone called absurd and thousands pay for
"It's kind of shame that being fast has become a super-premium feature that people are willing $360 USD a year for"
View original →Electric cars will never be mainstream — said every analyst until they were
"There's always the possibility another carmaker will surpass those achievements; the experience of established brands will prove more important when it comes to improving cars over the long term."
View original →Getting in a stranger's car — the idea regulators tried to kill
"Putting your daughter in a random strangers car with no information other than them owning an iphone is...different."
View original →Just a React wrapper — now the standard for deploying the web
"Javascript development on the web has become such a mess... The web has become an overengineered mess."
View original →Each card pairs one public skeptical quote with a verified outcome milestone, so the gap is clear in one glance.