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Show HN: Handpicked Tools to Empower Indie Hackers
Hey HN,

I'm Simonas, a SaaS founder passionate about discovering tools that help automate and improve my businesses. I've curated a list of 150+ valuable tools tailored for B2B, indie hackers, and solopreneurs, and it's continually expanding.

This project isn't for profit—running it costs me $83/month on Webflow for features like file uploads. It's a hobby I enjoy, and I hope you find the list useful.

If you know of any tools designed for B2B, indie hackers, or solopreneurs, please submit them! I'll review, test, and potentially add them to the list or write a review.

Hope you find it helpful!

Cheers,
Simonas
Also related, for the Clojure fans among us:

A Clojure-compatible(-ish) Lisp dialect targeting Python 3.8+
https://github.com/basilisp-lang/basilisp
It is also workable if you have more than just a few files. I sync several GB of data, books, papers, notes, photos, videos, etc. Constantly changing and it has been pretty fast. Webdav is just the interface used for external services that support the protocol. Which may not be the best tech but it certainly is supported by many, many apps and services. I cannot connect a random e.g. pdf reading app with Syncthing and maybe not with Nextcloud directly but certainly via webdav.
I'm not sure of the root causes but British Columbia does seem to have particularly antiquated liquor laws, even compared to the rest of Canada.
Probably depends on the crime in the city and location. Here (Vienna, Austria) a lot of people just store them outside. We store ours on one of the parking spots we have (since we only have one car) together with some of our other stuff. They do take space, but I'm not sure if that is the main challenge with cargo bikes.

Personally I think it comes down to cost and availability. They cost around 5000 Euro if not more, and they take sometimes months to be delivered.
“Punishing people” by calling them idiots, ignoring them, making fun of them, removing commercial opportunities from their grasp, and so on is exactly the marketplace of ideas in action.

Punishing people by exercising the power of the state — which is not what’s happening here — is the non-western thing.
Distributed hosting is incredibly inefficient.
Likely https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40481808

We only have one side of the story, and it seems like Cloudflare could have communicated better. But I have no sympathy for anything related to gambling.
(one) nice thing about Raku is it does a surprisingly good lisp impression out of the box…

https://www.codesections.com/blog/raku-lisp-impression/

[thanks to Larry Wall’s penchant for collecting stuff]
Interbreeding between modern and archaic humans
Only because last time there was.
True, but important software doesn't (by and large) benefit very many people. Instead it makes a very few people extremely wealthy, and makes a somewhat larger number of comfortably upper middle class engineers' lives a little easier. Often those engineers are building products which actually harm most of their users.

I labor in this industry because I enjoy the work and it pays better than anything else I could do, and I try to work for companies doing good things, but I have some misgivings about seeing unpaid open source work in the same light as volunteering. To be clear, as an engineer who benefits I'm grateful, but I'd rather developers were compensated fairly.

EDIT: given the down votes, let me pose it as a question--Is software obviously a public good? Are we actually making things better on balance?
They are stil very expensive where I live(NL). EUR 4K+ on a cargobike or renting one for 150+ per month is A LOT for a normal family with 1-2 children. To add to that recently there's been a case in NL where more affordable manufacturer was deliberately selling cargo bikes with frames of sub-par quality[1][2].

I've been renting cargo bikes from two competing companies in Amsterdam (cargoroo and baqme) one offering super premium bikes bosch motors and the other with cheapie bafang motors. The build quality and riding experience is night and day.

Owing a cargo bike to me is more a life style choice or just virtue signalling. It's hard to justify the up front cost. Choosing cheaper options is risky since the maintenance cost is high or just unsafe.

[1] https://www.nvwa.nl/nieuws-en-media/nieuws/2024/02/14/nvwa-b...
[2] https://www.nvwa.nl/nieuws-en-media/actuele-onderwerpen/freq...
> but with the requirement that there wouldn't be official tooling offered with it --- arguably to protect Smartbear's investment in Swagger

That kind of seems backwards. If there was a official tooling, it would be Smartbear's (who else would provide it?) This clause actually seems to be designed to limit Smartbear's ability to use OpenAPI to push their products (and at the same time push OpenAPI as a credibly vendor-independent spec).

> Compare to gRPC/protobuf, where the specification and tooling have been developed together.

Yes, because it's a protocol pushed by one company, not pretending to be independent.
This is just an extension of the LinkedIn/YouTube/X "thoughtfluencer" epidemic. If the person sharing has a successful track record in the field and is genuine about sharing/helping - great! 99% of them are, however, only interested in building clout and expanding their personal brand.
In Europe? In the building's designated areas for bicycles, or you just use the bike share systems like cargoroo.
The elephant behind the elephant in our room is an inability to be honest and upfront about this kind of stuff and instead we have to dance around it. This essentially means we can’t have a decent discussion on any topic that carries actual risk and instead we focus on low-risk banalities.

Also I should add there are a lot of young posters who are, and I won’t sugarcoat it, hopelessly naive at times - certainly saying shit I’d never think about saying when I was their age, so with that we are on a treadmill of constantly seeing, mocking, relearning etc past mistakes.
> For over 70 years, he lived on the East Coast believing he was the son of another couple.

How is that possible? He was 6 years old, he should have known who his parents were. Did he have no memories of his parents or siblings?
Bootstrap started as something like this, but it both evolved too quickly IMO, and for some reason a generic look on the web is considered bad (by who? marketing? designers? even users as they think lack of distinctive style means lack of developer skills?)
In my case: The Netherlands (lived there > 10 years as adult).
I've also lived in Germany for 5 years, and it was only slightly worse than NL. But nothing compared to the horror stories I hear from US colleagues.
I searched and cannot find the answer in their archives: has the Washington Post, or any other nationally prominent newspaper, ever written coverage from this standpoint, but about an oil refinery?
I'd recommend against taking any advice from Reddit, especially subreddits like:

- /r/recruitinghell

- /r/jobs

- /r/cscareerquestions

That's like asking a meth fiend for lifestyle advice. Most people there have no idea what they are talking about and never took part in recruitment on the company side, they just repeat some bullshit they were told or try to rehash some opinion pieces as universal rules.
So what does the performant way of doing this look like? Your final suggestion brought the nio version down to about 32s.

I was looking for ways of re-using the wrappers in the NIO code, but couldn't figure out how to do that.
It sounds like something that would be very easy to fix if the government mandated that insurance companies have a responsibility to keep their provider directories up-to-date. Software should be able to very easily identify providers that have not accepted any claims in a given time period, so that they can be flagged for removal.
> Having a new protocol based on HTTP and JSON

This is just a HTTP/REST api? These exist already.
I guess you don’t have any hills/mountains in your area, going up there can be quite intense.
I think this question is telling in the aggregate but not so much on an individual level.

Given a large company you can determine the cohesion between all employees and compare that to other (successful) companies.

I am no expert in any of this but this appears to be a proxy metric for tenure.
As tenure increases people are more likely to consider someone a friend.
So being below average on the cohesion would mean to me that the company needs to work on employee retention.

My 2 cents
StarDict (a program/file format) is easily googlable. A bit of a rabbit hole is that it's been chased around hosting providers because its site (used to) offer downloads of copyrighted dictionaries, including the OED 2nd edition. I don't know how these files were originally obtained or produced. See: https://web.archive.org/web/20230718140437/http://download.h...

Edit to add: Also, "i scanned the first edition decades ago" sounds like quite a story. 13 volumes? What project were you doing?
I'm in Seattle - I have a car and an e-bike. What I've found is that you can surprisingly get to many places using trails. For instance, you can get to the Costco in south seattle from places like Ballard or Interbay largely on separated lanes. The thing that stops me from getting a larger bike and doing that is the fact that I have no idea where to park my bike securely if I need to make another stop. Your shit is getting stolen in this city if you're not careful.
Since our older kids go to school themselves I don't have to cycle them any more. The last few years I dropped two kids of at day care by cargo bike regardless of weather. The alternative is basically public transport because the combination of traffic and lack of parking locations in the city make dropping them off by car impossible for me.

So I basically have the choice of cycling in the rain (the kids are rain protected in the bike anyways) and taking the bus and subway. However at either one of those sides I need to walk a bit anyways and then the kids also get wet.

So despite potentially wet and snowy weather, it's still the best option.
I agree it's pretty bogus but it does seem to happen in some jurisdictions. A recent example is Matthew Perry's ketamine dealer.
In the good ol times, being a hacker meant you love tinkering with tech and are good at it.

Then media started using it to mean "computer criminal", which was annoying.

Then "I don't code I solve problems" tech bros coopted it, which is worse. Looks like now you're a hacker if you identify a need and monetize it.

I am fully cognizant I am writing this on a VC-backed founder oriented site called Hacker News, but I like to think there's still some good ol hacker spirit here, YC being named after an extremely nerdy thing and not "SaaS Launchpad" or somesuch.

(yes yes old man yelling at cloud, get off my lawn, etc)
Yeah that whole paragraph is nonsensical...
It’s 100% that they cost as much as a decent used car. Also they are easier to steal and also I wouldn’t trust my insurance in case it’s stolen.

Don’t get me wrong, I’d love to buy and use one. But it’s still too expensive to be a rational investment, especially if you are on a budget.
> That's a very wrong idea of beauty you have, there is no such thing as "objective quality".

Not believing that there is such a thing as objective beauty is a recent phenomenon. Going back to ancient philosophers and in to the Italian Renaissance, the consensus was such a thing existed:

* https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/beauty/

And we don't have to go that far back to find it, as as 'recently' as the Victorian era architectural designs were based on such principals (such as the golden ratio):

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-0XJpPnlrA

Having different be elements proportional to each other was basic stuff pre-WW2:

* https://www.youtube.com/@BrentHull/search?query=proportion

> Point is, contemporary architecture is always ugly. Give it 50 years and it becomes historical and beloved.

I'm not sure (m)any people find beauty in most of the brutalist buildings that are now ~50 years old.

Some of Le Corbusier's works are noted:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Architectural_Work_of_Le_C...

but I'm not sure how many would be called "beloved".
This is pretty great. The biggest reason I hate doing android development is the java (and to a lesser extent, kotlin) "ecosystem" is a pain. Java is a sucky language to write; Kotlin is less bad, but the whole build tooling/package management/IDE mania mess is still a hassle to use. So thanks to the author.
There's another very large subgroup you're missing: the hackers that build things (even for $0) because they're fun/cool, not because they solve a specific annoying problem/inefficiency.
I might just not be seeing it but is there any video with the gameplay to watch?
Show HN: Powerful Screenshot tool for Mac without a paywall
Hey HN! I am Adi, One of the builders of Zipshot(https://zipshot.co/) and a FAANG engineer.

Zipshot is a power packed screenshot app for individuals and teams. Screenshots are essential for communication and information sharing with people, whether it's with friends or colleagues. While every operating systems support capturing screenshots natively, it is not as easy and straightforward to share screenshots or edit them or add your comments on top. Also, OS does a poor job in naming the screenshot files and it ends up cluttering desktop for most people while being a pain to search later on.

Zipshot address all these problem and more:

* Cloud storage & sharable link
* Sharing settings and making images private
* Annotations, Comments, and a Powerful editor
* Dashboard and auto-naming of screenshots.
* Private, Encrypted, & One click data download.

## Why we built it

Most of the decent screenshot tools out there are paid, and we found the UX to be lacking. As someone who grew up during the early days of the internet, I really dislike how even the simplest tools require a subscription now — even if you use them infrequently. With Zipshot, our goal to keep it free for individual users forever.

## How we plan to do it

* Our backend is designed to be lightweight enough to handle a large user base on the free tier.
* Screenshots older than 3 months are automatically deleted (you can download them anytime beforehand) to avoid indefinite storage costs.
* If we need to monetize, we can explore creative options like an enterprise plan, SaaS newsletter ads (without spamming your images!), or something equally non-intrusive.

## What’s next

Today Zipshot is used by a tiny number of users and they love it. We have new stuff on our roadmap like.

* OCR-based text copy from screenshots
* Google Drive integration so you can fully own your data
* Full-page scrolling screenshots
* Editor tools to prettify your screenshots for social media
* A Windows app is in the works!

## What we need

Your support and constructive feedback. Download and try the mac app or the chrome extension or both (Mac app is more powerful). We are improving the app everyday.
I need to see a doctor about once a quarter for an ongoing issue and ended up switching to a DPC doctor. I pay a subscription out of pocket and extras are a flat rate menu, and they simply do not take insurance. However, it's been way cheaper overall and I have had exactly zero phone calls aside from setting appointments. No billing issues, no surprises, no middlemen, no problems. Oh, and I can have an appointment as soon as this week if I need one. No 8 month runaround just to get a referral.

The reason it works is because the doctors do not have to staff a billing department. the office runs like a '2 pizza team.' Just delete bureaucracy, it isn't helping us.
How would you know something is missing?

I tried multiple OCRs before and it’s hard to tell if the output is accurate or not but just comparing manually.

I created a tool to visualise the output of OCR [0] to see what’s missing and there are many cases that would be quite concerning especially when working with financial data.

This tool wouldn’t work with LLMs as they don’t return the character recognition (to my knowledge), which will make it harder to evaluate them on a scale.

If I want to use LLMs for the task, I would use them to help with training ML model to do OCR better, such as creating thousands of synthetic data to train.

[0] https://github.com/orasik/parsevision
Well, that pretty much rules out email, maps/navigation, messaging, and quite a bit more.

Somehow, this suggests that perhaps your rubric needs amending.
This is quite a reasonable restriction.
Same reason, don't fight every time need docker upgraded, on Linux I simply use docker package but in windows and Mac docker desktop is my go to route, but I'm trying podman desktop, I use fedora and sometimes I used podman until stopped because the Nvidia, same reason always does not fight over my tooling
Your analysis is correct. I recall in the mid 80's a number of Japanese PC's emerged. They all seemed to want to make a walled garden so they could sell add-ons into it for extra $$, while, as you say 'the hills are alive' with mass made items for the emergent PC standard enabled by Microsoft's provision by sale/licence of MS-DOS while preserving their ability to sell fully compatible same-ware. There was only a small hurdle, the IBM BIOS, which IBM lawyered to death any and all copiers. Soon clean-room original BIOSes were created by a few companies and the gold rush was on.
IBM had lost all hope, but sold enough to business and governments to make a good business. They tried a walled garden with OS2 and their MCA(Micro-channel architecture) bus. All US PC makers jumped on this, millions of plug in cards were made - buyers - crickets, crickets, crickets, I suspect many billions went down that rabbit hole. I recall one scrap salvager processing tens of thousands of Zenith MCA boards for gold a few years later.
The Japanese finally saw the light and focussed on laptops and those had a good run, but finally they faded, IBM also made their think-pads, but eventually sold to Lenovo. Us makers - Dell, Apple and HP persist - I am not sure which are US made? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_laptop_brands_and_manu....
“Seattle freeze” is like “Seattle drivers”. The chances are pretty high that the dumdum who is double-parked in a bus lane while cars honk at them is actually not from Seattle.
We rented a parking spot in our underground garage.
Can we post clean and direct links to resources here, instead of those obscure links with hidden tracking?
I see it the other way around. Yes, I am annoyed by some cyclists (like the lady with a cargo bike carring a full crate of beer trying to get it in the tram). But then, I always imagine that the same person could (and would instead) have been in a 3t tank. People exist and often do stupid things, so I prefer for them to do this in the least destructive way.
its way more than 1-4%
If the hardware works and you still use it, well... it's fine?

Just set up some sort of basic sync (whether iCloud or 1password or Bitwarden or Chrome/Firefox) between them so you don't lose data or logins. But that's more just a backup thing than anything to do with the hardware.

You shouldn't be risking data loss over hardware failures, old or new.

If you don't need the hardware anymore, donate them. Someone will make use of it or its parts.
IDLE is not designed for this, obviously. But you can debug Hy using standard Python tools.
> I wonder if for a public provider if the incentives are better.

should be generally. the NHS in england was viewed more favorably than the queen and they loved the queen.
Building something big alone is really tough and demoralizing. If this is a way they can mitigate that until they can find others to join them, more power to them. However, I've also heard of the dangers of oversharing early and losing the incentive to finish the project because you already got the attention dopamine hit.
Wow, you knocked it out of the park! I'll be sure to use this when I tackle that evaluation.
“Interfere to preserve free markets” is odd. The entire issue in the USA is regulatory capture and bribery of the government. The government has such tremendous lucre from taxing and such authoritarian power that every entity that can exploit it will exploit it. The government’s money and power is the one ring. The idea that the government should interfere is the entire problem. Just things like preventing insurance, a financial product, from being sold across the nation or around the world gives insurers undue power. Don’t get me wrong, in this case, breach of contract is a legal issue and the insurance company should be prosecuted, but Milton Friedman was off on this one by a mile. A government that has been purchased by banks, insurance companies, drug companies, and defense companies cannot act in the market fairly and therefore should not act at all.
Unrefined salt isn’t a good source of any of the minerals that it incidentally might have. Kinda sounds like you’re about to link us to a blog post about how it cures diseases (that also sells unrefined salt).
> The cost obviously is a massive hurdle for most families probably, and so is over night parking for many.

Cargo bikes have an absurdly and inexplicably high cost. It's unbelievable how they can easily cost over $5k. That's nearly half a brand new car like a Dacia Sandero. The economy is barely there with all this price gouging.
User roles for example. They even call the plan “essentials”.
My bad - I got confused as the original DIS+BIS took ~60s on my machine. I reproducing the Custom 1 implementation locally (before seeing your repo) and it took ~48s on the same machine. JFR (which you honestly can trust most of the time) says that the HashMap lookup now is ~50% of the time and the String constructor call being ~35%.
>It's a really evil tactic.

As an attack on a huge terrorist cell this attack is as targeted as one can possibly be at this scale. Normal course of action for pretty much any other country in the world would be carpet bombing the areas with little to no regard of civilian casualties, it is only when Israel does it suddenly UN becomes concerned.

This is not indiscriminate explosion of thousands of random pagers that entered Lebanese circulation, it is explosion that is triggered on specific Hezbollah channel, you can't target any more directly than that.
I lived in the city where it had the largest number of Qanats. Amazingly, they could still be used today as an efficient means of water transport, but the government has ruined them already, with sewage water, lack of maintenance, etc (what hasn't they ruined...)
> haul them to school 300 meters away

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I ought to test this with Sonnet too and compare the results. I feel it might perform better on OCR tasks. While I went with Azure OpenAI due to fewer rate restrictions, you've got a point - Sonnet could really shine here.
Relatively high divergence of language across a relatively small geographic area? How often, exactly, are you interacting with people outside your family group? Outside your local group of family groups? Even factoring in nomadism.
> Carrying debt is actually unfavourable for requesting further debt...

Hit the nail on the head. I have 1 effing credit card that is maxed out (interest free for another year) and it represents less than 8% of my total revolving credit line. Can't get another credit card even though I have 92% of total available credit remaining.
I was just in Vienna for a week. I was surprised to see just how many people biked through the city. We obviously spent our time where the tourists do in the center, but how far out from there can you live in Vienna and still have what you said above remain true?
Yes, I took a math course on it way back in college but I haven't ever considered using it professionally. Heck in college I did it by hand.

I've never had to say, help design a $100 million server farm. I've had a desire recently to strive to be that level of professional.

My question was more about in the hn world where is this stuff used