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Show HN: I Built an Autonomous Marketing OS from a Small Town in India (Vect AI)
by afrazullal | 2025-12-16 10:52:06+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m Muhammed Mufinuddin Afraz, a solo technical founder based in Ullal, Karnataka, India.

For the past 12 months, I’ve been building Vect AI — an Autonomous Marketing Operating System designed to replace the fragmented “modern marketing stack.”

The Thesis: The Stack Is Broken

Modern marketing requires juggling 10–15 disconnected tools: one for writing, one for images, one for SEO, one for CRM, plus automation glue in between. For solo founders and lean teams, this creates siloed data, lost context, and endless prompt-copying. You spend more time managing tools than building growth.

I didn’t want a better chatbot. I wanted a command center.

What Is Vect AI?

Vect is a state-aware marketing OS.

Unlike ChatGPT-style tools that reset context every session, Vect maintains a persistent business kernel. Onboarding happens once:

Brand voice (e.g. professional, technical, witty)

Audience avatar

Core product truths

Every tool inside Vect inherits this state automatically. I never have to re-prompt “act like a B2B SaaS marketer” again — the system already knows.

Architecture: Three Layers of Autonomy

1. Sensor Layer (Grounding & Research) Most AI content is generic because it hallucinates or relies on stale data. Vect’s Market Signal Analyzer addresses this by:

Performing real-time web retrieval via Google Search APIs

Analyzing top-ranking content to detect information gaps

Scoring subtopics by velocity (0–10) to surface early “blue ocean” opportunities

2. Strategist Layer (Planning & Logic) This is the hardest problem: getting an LLM to plan without hallucinating.

Vect’s Campaign Builder takes a goal (e.g. “Launch a Black Friday offer”) and generates a structured, multi-phase plan:

Tease (anticipation)

Launch (conversion)

Close (urgency)

It produces a campaign canvas showing all required assets (emails, posts, blogs) and enforces consistency across the entire funnel.

3. Creative Layer (Execution) Vect integrates specialized agents for SEO, email, and social copy using proven frameworks (PAS, AIDA). It also integrates Google’s Veo model for physics-aware text-to-video generation, enabling high-quality commercial assets without context switching.

Why Build This From India?

Building from Ullal means no VC safety net and no large team — just code and time. That constraint forced radical efficiency.

I didn’t hire a strategist; I built the planner. I didn’t hire a researcher; I built the analyzer. I didn’t hire a video editor; I integrated one.

Vect is designed to make a solo founder operate like a full marketing team.

Availability

Vect is a web-based app using a credit system, since deep research and video generation incur real compute costs.

I’d appreciate feedback on:

The state-aware approach to brand consistency

Whether the Campaign Builder feels too rigid or appropriately opinionated

What other painful parts of your marketing workflow should be automated next

Link: https://vect.pro

Location: Ullal, Karnataka, India
by gigatexal | 2025-12-16 10:52:22+00:00
Yikes it’s gotten here. Come on Apple!

Update 14 December 2025: Someone from Executive Relations at Apple says they’re looking into it. I hope this is true. They say they’ll call me back tomorrow, on 15 December 2025. In the mean time, it’s been covered by Daring Fireball, Apple Insider, Michael Tsai, and others, thanks folks! I’ve received 100s of emails of support, and will reply to you all in time, thank you. Finger’s crossed Apple calls back.

Second Update 14 December 2025: No luck so far, and not looking good. Anyone got a good lawyer to send them a letter and/or help me sue them? paris AT paris.id.au

Update 16 December 2025: The Register covered it. No luck yet.
by verzali | 2025-12-16 10:52:39+00:00
The atmosphere is still thick enough to drag you down at 500km. You would last typically last a few years before burning up - the rate of fall is pretty low at 500km. But you do need fuel to do collision avoidance manoeuvres and for attitude control (otherwise your panels will no longer face the Sun and your antennas will not face the ground).
by psychoslave | 2025-12-16 10:53:06+00:00
What’s the thing emulating so much activity around closures lately?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46228597

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46259334

Also talking about the Knuth boy/man test: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46020151

Not a bad thing, but that really question if there is some active micro-
by pjc50 | 2025-12-16 10:53:30+00:00
>> The most common objection is that writing proposals is “a waste of time” compared to writing code.

> The extra time spent writing is actually spent thinking.

Common theme for decades is "we can save a few days of planning with just a few weeks of programming".

But then there's the darker realization that sometimes the people you are working for are incapable of reasoning about planning artefacts or understanding how the system will look or operate simply from a document. So you need to present the system in small iterative chunks and repeatedly re-align expectations with reality: Agile.

And sometimes you genuinely need to do exploratory work which doesn't fit into a planning framework - actual research!
by MrOrelliOReilly | 2025-12-16 10:53:52+00:00
I agree that it's annoying to have competing standards, but when dealing with a lot of unknowns it's better to allow divergence and exploration. It's a worse use of time to quibble over the best way to do things when we have no meaningful data yet to justify any decision. Companies need freedom to experiment on the best approach for all these new AI use cases. We'll then learn what is great/terrible in each approach. Over time, we should expect and encourage consolidation around a single set of standards.
by felixyz | 2025-12-16 10:54:05+00:00
The tech world knows this. They are raking in money off of these scams. People with a rudimentary moral compass leave, those without stay, which makes it even less likely that industry will self-sanitize. The rest of society, out of survival instinct if nothing else, will have to force it to stop anti-social and fraudulent practices. Same as many other industries.
by looofooo0 | 2025-12-16 10:54:58+00:00
No, this is a lie. It is also funny because Germany was so depended on Russian Gas that nuclear fuel even if fully depend on would be laughable.

Germany has its own fuel enrichment and production, and it is still running https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urananreicherungsanlage_Gronau

And no Uranium ore does not stem from Russia, they might still produce some of the UF6, but this can be much more easily shifted because unclear fuel cost are only a small fraction of the total cost!
by philipwhiuk | 2025-12-16 10:55:19+00:00
> This time, one guy has two matches which means that there will be eleven girls, but only ten boys.

One thing the show runners do subtle alterations that makes the logic much harder.

The Traitors has to do lots of these tricks when not playing the Celebrity edition because there's a self-selection for the sort of person who has already played Werewolf/Avalon-type games.
by kakacik | 2025-12-16 10:55:23+00:00
Only if you have a home or some other super convenient always available spot. I don't and EVs are non-existing to me for another decade at least, simply too much hassle even if ignoring all other downsides (I don't buy new but mildly used for 25-30% of price of new which for ICE means 95% of the car, I do sometimes family 1500km drives like another one in 2 days - PITA with overcrowded electric cars, in cold which is normal here they become fraction of their capacity and drain battery continuously when parked and so on).

Its future but its coming/will come at very different time for various folks
by philipallstar | 2025-12-16 10:57:31+00:00
> Well, the right wing also wants to destroy education, which is pretty bad for teachers in or out of a union.

Teaching has been demolished over the last 30 years under left-wing teaching practices. This isn't even close.

> So yeah, if you're mad at teachers' unions for supporting left-wing political causes & politicians, you're, uh, kinda barking up the wrong tree.

I'm not, and didn't say that, which probably means you were taught by someone from the US teachng profession in the last 30 years. I'm saying people shouldn't be forced to support political causes they don't believe in.
Show HN: MetroYatra – Metro Route Finder For Indian Cities
by codebyprakash | 2025-12-16 10:58:06+00:00
Hi HN,

I built MetroYatra to solve everyday metro travel problems in India — confusing routes, unclear interchanges, and unpredictable travel time.

MetroYatra helps people plan metro journeys across all metro cities in India with clear routes, distances, interchanges, fares, and time estimates.

I’d love feedback from the community, especially on usability, performance, and data accuracy.
by jeroenhd | 2025-12-16 10:58:08+00:00
ARM support is still mediocre, but it's improving with the new Snapdragons. Every generation seems to make running normal Linux on those things a little bit less of a pain.

Funnily enough, the device with probably the best "normal" desktop protocol support is the old Windows RT tablet, which features an ARM SoC that runs UEFI and ACPI and everything. It's locked down to Microsoft's secure boot keys, unfortunately, but thanks to Microsoft abandoning the device, there are exploits you can use to bypass that.
by philipallstar | 2025-12-16 10:58:14+00:00
Of course workers can. But workers can be from different political stripes, and might not want people donating their money to the opposing cause. This shouldn't something you file under "it's only bad when they, the baddies, do it to us, the goodies"[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_position
by attila-lendvai | 2025-12-16 10:58:25+00:00
has been the case for Hungarian ID cards for a decade now, but it was never really used, except maybe by burorats in gov offices to access their systems.

but no one understands it, including the people who need to issue new signing keys.

it didn't get anywhere really. it was just a good opportunity for a lot of taxpayer money to... "lose its taxpayer money nature" (actual phrase by an actual politician when cornered by questions).

and now they are "moving on" to an app that must be installed on your phone to access more and more services.

ID2030 is roaring on worldwide... soon mandatory iris scans, vaccine implants, and who knows when they will try to roll out mandatory brain implants against thought crimes.

the more i think about the sign of the beast (as an atheist), the more sense it makes.
Show HN: 85% Cheaper Crypto Data
by SamTinnerholm | 2025-12-16 10:58:29+00:00
If you've ever tried to integrate crypto market data into an app, you know the pricing for commercial APIs gets crazy fast. I couldn't justify the cost for my projects, so I built my own solution.

I learned to index and query the blockchain directly, cutting out the middleman fees.

The result is qoery.com.
by aaronharnly | 2025-12-16 10:58:41+00:00
According to this US government site, 5-year survival rates across all cancer sites have improved from 50% to 75% between 1974 and 2017. (For men it started at more like 40%).

That’s not utterly transformative but I wouldn’t call it negligible either.

https://progressreport.cancer.gov/after/survival
by bob1029 | 2025-12-16 11:00:15+00:00
> I've noticed that these people will not go to the grocery store on days when the weather is inclement due to the chance of the groceries getting wet.

A modern pickup truck can fit the payload capacity of an entire Honda civic in the back of the cab. I've never seen someone put sacks of groceries in the bed of their truck. Maybe packs of water or charcoal, but no one is putting their produce and boxed goods back there.
by dJLcnYfsE3 | 2025-12-16 11:00:41+00:00
Eh. If it was released in early days of crypto and was dedicated only for that task and quite cheap - I don't think it would be anything wrong with it. Think of hosting a TOR relay or some kind of WiFi/Mesh network . So it is just 10 years late, no one believes anymore that cryptocurrency will be a real decentralized payment method. The only community left is "the line goes up" people.
by somewhereoutth | 2025-12-16 11:02:02+00:00
"the accumulation of capital by some to the exclusion of others"

This allows decentralised decision making for large grained resource allocation - for example should we build a factory for shoes, or for toothbrushes? - and is a good thing, as central planning has been demonstrated to not work if applied to the whole economy. (the converse, no central planning to any of the economy, has also been demonstrated to not work!)

However that accumulation can be (and nowadays usually is) orchestrated by a corporate entity, which in an ideal world would be almost entirely beneficially owned by retirees on an equitable basis.

What has gone wrong, is that the benefits of productivity enhancements (since 1970?) have flowed to capital more so than to workers - which not least prevents them from forming capital themselves (savings/pensions), hence rising wealth inequality.
by BlackFly | 2025-12-16 11:02:10+00:00
Except that the conclusion is wrong because you need tolerance. A bridge is designed to tolerate a certain weight, then you factor in some large tolerance for special circumstances, the same is true of effort.

You put more effort into your team presentation just in case there are guests. You cannot suddenly have a better presentation instantaneously when you arrive and see the CTO. In sports, such as bouldering, you will grip a hold slightly harder than strictly required in case you suddenly slip or just to easily accommodate the dynamics necessary as you shift your weight without requiring ultra precision which is a different form of effort.

The additional effort you expend is based on your estimation of the risk. As you master whatever skill it is, then you are better able to estimate the risks and the need or lack thereof for additional effort. Novices expend more effort than masters because they cannot gauge the need, but they will also make more mistakes by correctly guessing the correct effort but not accommodating for the risk.

The appropriate (over)effort is never 0 because there is always some context dependent risk.
by wkat4242 | 2025-12-16 11:02:15+00:00
Linux had the chance to fight against what GNU called "TiVoisation" but Linus said TiVo did nothing wrong.

So now we have a world full of devices running open software but which are locked down. And a Linux foundation run by corporates.

To me it is clear this was indeed a huge problem. Linux might not have become as big as it is now if it had taken GPL3 on board but it would have made it a lot harder for manufacturers to do what they're doing.
by bartread | 2025-12-16 11:02:15+00:00
> Probably because Microsoft knows vibe coding is _not_ an actual viable way to build production ready code and does not want to deal with the liability issues of prompting customers to move from a working Excel sheet to a broken piece of software that looks like it works.

Whilst you could plausibly argue that Microsoft have spent the past 25 years attempting to stamp them out, this is exactly what VB6 and VBA were.

People built whole businesses on/around these technologies, and people liked them because you could get something working fast. As maligned as they are nowadays they were so widely used because they delivered value.
by hexbin010 | 2025-12-16 11:03:54+00:00
Was your old boiler a non-combi?

Modern condensing combis I think are designed to be more complex and not last as long. I'm not sure all the complexity and fancy modulation etc is really worth it myself. I'd rather have a boiler that lasts 20 years and that any half-competent gas engineer can fix with a spanner and some spare parts.

£20k, jesus!
by _factor | 2025-12-16 11:04:06+00:00
We need to look at this from an inevitability perspective sprinkled with Murphy’s law.

Adding money to politics corrupts the will of the people, it will with 100% certainty, and the people who corrupt it will eventually end up in power. Super PACs have destroyed this country, allowing technigarchs to buy elections. You can’t prove or disprove control anymore, it’s pure capital infusion.

Lobbying is a scourge. I went on a trip to the heart of DC and got toured around by a lobbyist. They make you feel so relaxed and are very convincing how they’re helping as they guide you through how they work. Many others with me were very convinced and even defending the practice as necessary after my skeptical commentary. These are professional salespeople, wining and dining our politicians using corporate money. This is entirely disconnected from what is actually good for our society, is pure pay to gain. It has just seeped out and overflowed to the digital realm now.

A government having a dossier on every citizen would have been a headline 50 years ago. Today it’s open and free to corporations also. We’ve crossed the line and lost it miles away.

Now we have literally made up monetary systems that big banks can play with at will to extract as much wealth from solo investors, and effectively legalized insider trading and crypto scams.

If prices don’t drop (which I assume the opposite), we’re heading for another world war. China will invade Taiwan in a few years, Russia will keep the land and rearm for parts 5 and 6 into Poland and Europe, the US will be forced to dig into Venezuelan oil, and god knows what else.

This doesn’t feel like a bump on the road, this feels like an end to an era. I hope I’m wrong.
by philipwhiuk | 2025-12-16 11:04:36+00:00
Aristotle is already an LLM and LEAN combined.

[from the Aristotle paper]

> Aristotle integrates three main components: a Lean proof search system, an informal reasoning system that generates and formalizes lemmas, and a dedicated geometry solver.

[from elsewhere on how part 2 works]

> To address IMO-level complexity, Aristotle employs a natural language module that decomposes hard problems into lists of informally reasoned lemmas. This module elicits high-level proof sketches and supporting claims, then autoformalizes them into Lean for formal proving. The pipeline features iterative error feedback: Lean verification errors are parsed and fed back to revise both informal and formal statements, iteratively improving the formalization and capturing creative auxiliary definitions often characteristic of IMO solutions.
by krapp | 2025-12-16 11:05:31+00:00
No thank you. That last thing anyone should want is governments holding ownership over their private keys.

Private companies are bad enough, but at least they won't declare you an undesirable for your political beliefs or religion or ethnicity or gender identity or sexual preference or whatever and shoot you in the head over it.

Except where governments and private companies collaborate, which of course happens (looking at you literally every American social media platform.)
by Amezarak | 2025-12-16 11:05:36+00:00
Millions of people in the US do their own carpentry. In fact, there are orders of magnitude more DIY carpenters than there are professionals.

> And it's cheap, at knee-level, and detachable, so you only pay the cost of inconvenience and extra fuel when you use it, not all the time.

You can also hook a trailer up to a truck, giving yourself even more capacity. Many people do this. However, people in urban or suburban areas may not have trailer storage areas.
by pjc50 | 2025-12-16 11:05:48+00:00
There's a complicated UK beer version of this with more parties. Basically pubs might be any of:

- directly owned and managed by the brewery

- owned by the brewery and leased to a manager, like a franchise

- independent, but contracted exclusively

- genuinely independent

Contracted pubs may also have limited supplies of "guest ales". Usually there's sufficient local competition to keep the pubs good, but local monocultures can also be a problem.
by vasco | 2025-12-16 11:06:29+00:00
I hope you've read every diff to every Linux kernel you've ever deployed... There's LOADS of code you've deployed I can bet a large amount of money you never read. So clearly there's solutions that solve the problem of having to read every line of every dependency you deploy. It's just that certain ecosystems are more easy to exploit so new solutions are needed. Read everything is not a solution, it's a bandaid that shows there's a problem of trust to be solved (or improved enough to discourage this wave of attacks) with a technical solution.
Show HN: MethodsAgent – Solves "I can build but can't sell" for founders
by pierremouchan | 2025-12-16 11:07:03+00:00
what is MethodsAgent? It gives you domain-specific AI agents that turn proven playbooks (like copy frameworks, AARRR metrics, or Jobs-to-be-Done) into actual execution-ready assets. Instead of getting generic advice, you get verified output—landing page copy, cold outreach scripts, and funnel strategies—based on 50+ curated marketing frameworks. Think of it as a "Cursor for Marketing".

Why I built it? I’m a builder who has spent the last 5 years obsessively collecting over 1,000 frameworks. But even with that library, I found myself spending 40+ hours trying to learn what experts already knew, or relying on generic ChatGPT answers that lacked depth. I built this because I wanted instant access to expert-level marketing execution without hiring a $5k/mo consultant or spending months learning a new domain.

The pain it solves? Founders and indie hackers often build great products but get stuck at marketing... We know how to build, but we struggle to sell because we lack the domain expertise. MethodsAgent bridges that gap by giving you the "methods" of experts, instantly applied to your specific product.

I’m not looking for upvotes, but honest feedback.

Does the output feel more actionable than standard LLMs? Which marketing frameworks would you actually use right now? Thanks!
by duskdozer | 2025-12-16 11:07:40+00:00
It's largely not up to people. 59% of Americans support Medicare for All[1], including over 1 in 3 Republicans, but how many politicians even talk about it?

[1]https://d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/econTabRepor... via https://truthout.org/articles/6-in-10-americans-back-medicar...
by v0id_p | 2025-12-16 11:07:48+00:00
Hey Jack, I built an I Ching tool earlier this year using arrow.js. I tried to stick with vanilla JS at first but it proved difficult to maintain. My tool uses a casting method that results in the same probabilities as when one uses the Yarrow Stalk method, but doesn't include a yarrow stalk simulation. I briefly considered creating a 3D simulation of the yarrow stalk casting method but never got around to it. I find it interesting that someone had a similar idea.

My I Ching tool is located at classicofchanges.com
by pscanf | 2025-12-16 11:09:38+00:00
> when dealing with a lot of unknowns it's better to allow divergence and exploration

I completely agree, though I'm personally sitting out all of these protocols/frameworks/libraries. In 6 months time half of them will have been abandoned, and the other half will have morphed into something very different and incompatible.

For the time being, I just build things from scratch, which–as others have noted¹–is actually not that difficult, gives you understanding of what goes on under the hood, and doesn't tie you to someone else's innovation pace (whether it's higher or lower).

¹ https://fly.io/blog/everyone-write-an-agent/
by nosianu | 2025-12-16 11:09:56+00:00
Unfortunately, German AND Paywall, but:

https://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2025-12/atomkraft-frankreich-...

> France's dangerous nuclear friendship with Russia

> France promises to support Ukraine. But its nuclear energy supply is closely linked to Russia. Former energy bosses earn a lot of money with Rosatom.
by shiomiru | 2025-12-16 11:10:04+00:00
w3m doesn't support chafa for inline image display.

(You can set a custom w3mimgdisplay command, but it has to speak the same protocol as w3mimgdisplay. If you're feeling adventurous, you can try modifying https://github.com/uobikiemukot/sdump/tree/master/yaimg-sixe....)