Did It Survive?

Cohorts

Week 49, 2025

Admitted 144. Still standing 136.

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Products in this cohort
ProductDayStatus
FinfamI built a dashboard to compare mortgage rates across 120 credit unions302Alive
Onlyrecipe 2.0I added all features HN requested – 4 years later301Coasting
FreshA new terminal editor built in Rust302Alive
HCB MobileFinancial app built by 17 y/o, processing $6M/month302Alive
FanfaInteractive and animated Mermaid diagrams301Alive
MicrolandiaA brutally honest city builder302Alive
KraaWriting App for Everything301Critical
PrintcalendarA Minimal Monthly Task Planner (printable, offline, no signup)301Alive
AiroboticistI was reintroduced to computers: Raspberry Pi303Alive
PbnjA minimal, self-hosted pastebin you can deploy in 60 seconds300Alive
StacktowerXkcd #2347 lived in my head, so I built the dependency tower for real301Alive
RFC Hub304Alive
ZalorTurn APIs into MCP servers without code301Dead
Doomscrolling Research Papers303Alive
SidepayA $20/year invoicing tool for solo developers (simple, fast, no bloat)302Alive
GitHitsCode example engine for AI agents and devs (Private Beta)304Alive
AgentdiffDo we need MCPs? Reverse-engineered Slack and Linear API for Evals & RL301Alive
HavenBanking needs a safer browser300Alive
BenrichardsonApple OS 1 inspired personal website299Alive
MCP GatewayUnifying Access to MCP Servers Without N×M Integrations302Alive
AvolalBook routine flights in 60 seconds302Coasting
HCBNonprofit financial app processing $6M/month302Alive
Keenethics LabsChatGPT App That Solves LLM Randomness Problem No One Talks About300Alive
SmollaunchLaunchpad for developers to ship and showcase their projects303Alive
FlooderMaking Persistent Homology Practical for Industrial Use Cases300Alive
Rhythm Seodang WebAI music and auto-charting and custom rhythm minigame sandbox301Critical
AienhancerOnline AI Image Quality Enhancer for Free304Alive
MarvinYour own AI-powered game studio301Alive
AlwayswithI built alwayswith.us to easily add deceased loved ones into photos302Coasting
GeetanjaliRAG-powered ethical guidance from the Bhagavad Gita298Coasting
EricliA prediction market where you can bet against my goals302Alive
CurioQuestA simple web trivia/fun facts game304Alive
CupertinoMCP server giving Claude offline Apple documentation302Alive
Banana PromptsCurated Prompts for Nano Banana Pro300Coasting
Morph-AI-EraTurn CSV files into interactive dashboards instantly298Coasting
RoundtableA rubber duck that argues with itself303Dead
UseterminatorPlaywright for Windows Computer Use301Alive
Bible Note JournalAI transcription and study tools for sermons (iOS)300Alive
VdrawA free AI Room Design tool that redesigns any room in seconds301Alive
LaminarWe instrumented Claude Agent SDK using a tiny Rust proxy301Alive
Doubao Seedream 4.5Next‑gen image creation and editing model302Alive
AlessandroferrariWriting Rust modules for the xv6 kernel304Coasting
ClaudekitThe missing layer between Claude Code and production-ready software304Alive
Valid HumanCan you spot AI-generated content? (spoiler: probably not)304Alive
PantoA simple Markdown note app with templates and PDF support303Alive
CodeBakeSo that PM tasks aren't extra work303Alive
Mapping DNS302Alive
NexrooFrom automation workflows to real products303Critical
TrysomaI built an open-source Rust/TS AI agent runtime with a Next.js-style DX303Coasting
HathoraLive Qwen3-Omni API (open-source speech-to-speech)303Dead
JournalofaislopThe Journal of AI Slop – an AI peer-review journal for AI "research"302Alive
TabPFN Scaling ModeTabular Foundation Model on millions of rows302Alive
Buy StartupsI made a simple, 100% free marketplace to buy or sell micro-startups301Alive
FirstDistroI lost a $5k/mo customer overnight301Alive
TrackerNewsKeyword monitoring and insight extraction302Critical
NerveThe AI Chief of Staff that does your actual work302Critical
HowoneA Self-Evolving Agentic App Builder (Seeking 300 Beta Testers)300Alive
NthesisWho is hiring" search tool with chat / other features300Alive
Sample Chapter of BookFairShares, an Alt Digital Goods Economic Model300Alive
ProphitThe AI Search Engine For Stocks299Alive
NumlaThe notepad that thinks in numbers299Alive
GitHiredFind Your Next 10x Engineer298Alive
7x faster Iceberg ingestionHow we redesigned OLake's writer300Alive
DrftsPhoto app that does just one thing – no stories/reels/algorithm304Alive
LingokuI used Gemini 3 Pro to design my landing page301Alive
Scanner SEO Internationalization (Free)299Alive
ConversiontoolsI Built an Agentic AI That Creates Hosted File Converters303Alive
Diamond or DudVote on and discuss a different stock every week300Alive
QuashA mobile-use agent for Android QA303Alive
ClayCheap OpenTelemetry lakehouses with Parquet, DuckDB, and Iceberg301Coasting
QforgeThe Doorstep – Voice RPG300Alive
Ink WebBuild CLI apps with Ink that run in the browser303Alive
Ipados CursorA Next.js Recreation of the iPadOS Cursor298Alive
SteadynewsA calm, finite daily news briefing (no infinite scroll, no ads)303Alive
GoanieAI that scores news for emotional coercion and rhetorical manipulation298Coasting
AI Paul Graham298Critical
VisualLocal-first data tool303Alive
Banana ProAI image editing powered by Google's official API301Coasting
OneshotcodegenCut multi-turn AI agent cost/latency by ~80–90% with one small change304Critical
ArrangementMusicians! Build arrangements for songs with click tracks300Coasting
Downloadable Extensions for Postgres.app304Alive
MditClean Markdown notes with local files301Coasting
ZkorigoplusStateless compliance engine for banking and blockchain299Dead
SafeKeyPII redaction for LLM inputs (text, image, audio, video)302Alive
Cross-Layer Transcoders for Qwen3302Alive
MigdalEquations Explained Colorfully (KaTeX and Markdown)302Alive
Net RazorConsoleBuild Interactive TUI with Razor and Spectre.Console303Alive
PrivacygenGenerate a privacy policy for your app with one click in VS Code304Coasting
NoeticmapI analyzed and visualized 5k near-death and out of body experiences302Alive
Systemdesigner.netA free interactive system-design learning platform303Alive
IwantI want food – Simple swipe based restaurant discovery app303Dead
RakeNow you're thinking in vectors300Alive
GumroadI wrote a book for software engineers, based on 11 years at Uber303Alive
ReisparKnow your employees skills gap and boost retention rate299Alive
TrakkrSearchable AI visibility index (15k+ brands, 500 industries)301Alive
isitworththetime.comCalculate if automating saves time299Alive
Salary Calculator Spain299Alive
TestPlanitAn open-source test case management system built for QA298Alive
Mental Age TestWhat's your mental age? Try It304Alive
SharpskillI was frustrated of 85% of my technical interviews, I built SharpSkill298Alive
OpenFretGuitar inventory, AI practice, and a note-detection RPG298Alive
LogiCartIntent-based shopping agent built with pgvector304Critical
SeychlA Markdown document manager in Rust298Coasting
ImpostergameHow to play imposter game with impostergame.win299Dead
EbookforgeI built a JSON-to-PDF book generator because formatting was killing me299Critical
ElfReviewFace detection meets corporate satire for Christmas299Critical
RendleyRemove silences from video/audio for free302Alive
Jester NewsAn RSS/Atom Companion App303Dead
Leyzen VaultOpen-Source File Vault with E2EE+Moving-Target Defense302Alive
Burla1T row challenge in 76s using 10,000 CPUs303Critical
Honor QuoteA new way to spot AI cheating on schoolwork301Alive
NeurIPS 2025 Poster Navigator303Critical
ReferralLoopWaitlist platform with viral referral mechanics304Alive
SonuslyMade HN, but for Music – Sonusly301Alive
Geo RacersI built a game where you race from one side of the world to the other301Alive
CoThouControl what AI search engines say about your business303Critical
LingonI made a yule themed secret Santa system for my family303Critical
ProbeOps Horizon BrowserTest your site from different countries301Critical
Paper2SongHear Every NeurIPS 2025 Paper as a Song304Alive
RobustdesignI made system design easy302Coasting
Meetinghouse.ccA site to find and be found304Alive
Hoodl.netFind and Vet Top X Influencers in Seconds with PageRank302Critical
LesswrongIs Friendly AI an Attractor? Self-Reports from 22 Models Say No301Alive
SalarysacrificecalculatorI built a privacy-first UK tax calculator302Coasting
Gihtub Wrapped 2025301Alive
FlowsProduct adoption tools suck so me and my homies built Flows302Alive
Letters From the EarthDaily climate data turned into narrative301Alive
TurboSantaStateless secret Santa generator301Alive
Explosion ScratchTiny (12MB) Clipboard Manager for macOS with CLI299Alive
Travel ESIM Comparison300Alive
WorkTabA Workspace-Based Tab Manager for Chrome300Alive
AI Hairstyle ChangerTry Different Hairstyles (1 free try, no login)302Alive
AzurewebsitesA new AI driven task management tool300Alive
Zen EnterpriseThe World's First Enterprise Ad-Blocker300Dead
TorialExplainer videos that generate in 20 seconds300Critical
SideSparkA Local, Private AI Note Taker for macOS300Critical
Watsn.aiScarily accurate lie detector303Alive
CSVtoAnyCSV Local File Converter301Coasting
ConversaiChrome extension for searching past conversations across LLMs299Alive
SupaOpenAI-compatible API hosted on German bare metal (GDPR-compliant)299Alive
StackMarkDocker stack management CLI with auto port allocation299Alive
ShuffaloUnlimited free word puzzle game301Alive
Tera.fmListen to Hacker News instead of reading it304Alive
HolesailOpen-source peer-to-peer tunnels299Alive

8 did not make it.