Hidden Gems

Loved by the thread, but under 50 points.

AI

2026

Hive

Open sourcing our ERP (Sold $500k contracts, 7k stars)

Loved32 points48 comments

Hardware

2025

bluetooth-gamepad

A small lib to turn a USB gamepad into a Bluetooth one

Loved26 points44 comments

AI

2021

NightCafe Creator

Create art from a text prompt using VQGAN+CLIP

Loved39 points43 comments

Dev tools

2025

Anyshift.io

Terraform "Superplan"

Loved35 points42 comments

Productivity

2015

Stampede

Ambient soundscape generator for productivity

Loved45 points40 comments

Web and SaaS

2024

Prismix

Your AI Social Media Manager

Loved15 points39 comments

Dev tools

2026

FixBugs

Reproduce production bugs and verify fixes

Loved43 points39 comments

Productivity

2025

Canteen

Hire Engineers 10× Faster, at Half the Cost

Loved16 points38 comments

Dev tools

2025

Rad Type

Can we make gamepad typing fast?

Loved42 points37 comments

Games

2026

Mathstick

Stop playing my matchstick puzzles, start building your own in seconds

Loved37 points35 comments

Dev tools

2014

Shippable

Free CI and CD service built on Docker, 2X faster than travis

Loved23 points34 comments

AI

2026

ReadMe

Continual Learning with .md

Loved34 points34 comments

Dev tools

2020

Tailwind Button Playground

Loved40 points33 comments

Infrastructure

2025

Launch.app

Link-in-Bio *just* for apps and devs

Loved30 points33 comments

Other

2026

thankyousteve.org

Steve Jobs died 15 years ago today. I built an interactive tribute

Loved15 points33 comments

Dev tools

2011

Space Gremlin

Some technical info.

Loved41 points32 comments

Productivity

2017

HexoPress

a blog that syncs with your Google Docs

Loved44 points32 comments

Dev tools

2019

8base

We moved 8base from free-trial to freemium

Loved38 points32 comments

Games

2012

Roll20

A new virtual tabletop for playing RPGs online

Loved36 points31 comments

Infrastructure

2021

Garnet

a developer-friendly, open-source secrets manager

Loved45 points31 comments

Consumer and social

2013

Corral Rides

All your SF transportation options in one place

Loved27 points30 comments

Creative

2011

Pictorical

Pictorical, Crowd-illustrated books startup

Loved46 points28 comments

Web and SaaS

2011

RecruiterBox

Loved43 points28 comments

Productivity

2015

ReplyAll

The platform used for the TechCrunch interview with Sam Altman

Loved39 points28 comments

Dev tools

2025

ServerBuddy

GUI SSH client for managing Linux servers from macOS

Loved42 points28 comments

Creative

2011

Speaker

My weekend project on the Mac App Store

Loved39 points27 comments

Creative

2011

PaintAcquaint

Doodle with strangers 1 on 1 in real-time

Loved18 points27 comments

Infrastructure

2025

Robot MCP Server

Connect Any Language Model and ROS Robots Using MCP

Loved26 points27 comments

AI

2025

Datapizza AI

Lightweight open source framework for GenAI apps

Loved43 points27 comments

Creative

2026

passo.uno

I remade my blog into a Windows 3.1 environment

Loved32 points27 comments

Consumer and social

2013

xstashed

My porn startup

Loved21 points26 comments

Consumer and social

2014

Bonjournal

I learned Rails and Objective-C in a year to build this

Loved40 points26 comments

Consumer and social

2020

YKYZ

Micro Podcasting Made Easy

Loved17 points26 comments

Productivity

2020

Incubator List

A curated list of 250 startup incubators and accelerators

Loved42 points26 comments

Languages and libraries

2024

NativeVision

NativeVision, helping React Native devs to build XR apps for any device

Loved49 points26 comments

Dev tools

2025

EmbedPDF

Open Source PDF Viewer Using Chrome’s PDF Engine (MIT, WebAssembly)

Loved27 points26 comments

Web and SaaS

2012

ArchiveSocial

North Carolina's interactive social media archive

Loved30 points25 comments

Consumer and social

2018

Octal

A Hacker News client for iOS

Loved14 points25 comments

Consumer and social

2021

orange-juicer

Chrome extension to collapse and expand HN parent comments threads

Loved44 points25 comments

Infrastructure

2022

OpenZiti

OpenZiti Python SDK

Loved41 points25 comments

Creative

2022

Womp

Easiest, goopiest 3D software of your dreams

Loved26 points25 comments

Hardware

2025

Pulse

the wearable for n=1 habit experiments

Loved13 points25 comments

Dev tools

2026

Modafinil

Let agents continue running while MacBook lid is closed

Loved15 points25 comments

Creative

2026

Fakeipedia

Wikipedia for worlds that don't exist

Loved46 points25 comments

Productivity

2010

Proxlet

Control Twitter w/ API Proxy

Loved46 points24 comments

Games

2012

Infinite Flight

Our flight sim for iOS: Infinite Flight

Loved11 points24 comments

Consumer and social

2012

Prune Unwanted Stories from HN Front Page

Loved49 points24 comments

Productivity

2021

Phasedust

Static Site Authoring via SMS

Loved38 points24 comments

Productivity

2021

Shiny Buildings

GitHub for Buildings

Loved43 points24 comments

AI

2026

CivBench

CivBench a long-horizon AI benchmark for multi-agent games

Loved12 points24 comments

Web and SaaS

2026

TopMail

LaunchFest Winner, $20/Mo Unlimited Email, Coding Agents API

Loved12 points24 comments

Web and SaaS

2026

Pay For No Reason

A site where people pay me money for no reason

Loved16 points24 comments

Infrastructure

2026

Shpyrd

A new type of cloud for AI era

Loved9 points24 comments

Dev tools

2013

Modulz

Create a Marketing Site for your Startup in Minutes

Loved30 points23 comments

Dev tools

2013

EngineHere

Realtime Coding Q&A. Stack Overflow meets IRC

Loved40 points23 comments

Consumer and social

2013

League Warrior

Loved38 points23 comments

Infrastructure

2015

Goofys

a faster s3fs written in Go

Loved40 points23 comments

Games

2018

Steam250

Making good Steam games discoverable again

Loved44 points23 comments

Security and privacy

2019

Privacy Eye

Open-source Chrome extension for internet transparency and data privacy

Loved12 points23 comments

Productivity

2020

Grist

A Hacker Friendly Spreadsheet

Loved27 points23 comments

Productivity

2022

Sun Clock

a 24hr clock that shows the position of the sun

Loved45 points23 comments

Dev tools

2026

Waffle

Native macOS terminal that auto-tiles sessions into a grid

Loved40 points23 comments

Dev tools

2026

Y

A malleable coding-agent desktop app built with Electron

Loved37 points23 comments

Web and SaaS

2012

Let's all connect on LinkedIn

Loved27 points22 comments

AI

2012

SoundBite

Our StartupWeekend hack,music fingerprinting,on the desktop,all the time

Loved21 points22 comments

Learning and science

2012

kenHub

anatomy learning platform

Loved28 points22 comments

Hardware

2015

Wio Link

ESP8266 Based Web of Things Hardware Development Platform

Loved26 points22 comments

AI

2023

LLMFlows

LangChain alternative for explicit and transparent apps

Loved49 points22 comments

Creative

2023

Hacker News home page spoof

Loved47 points22 comments

Games

2025

Lil digi

play a platformer game as yourself

Loved30 points22 comments

AI

2025

Opper AI

Task-Completion API for LLMs

Loved31 points22 comments

Creative

2026

The Alphabetical Clock

Loved40 points22 comments

Productivity

2026

mailtrim

find what's actually filling your Gmail inbox

Loved34 points22 comments

Dev tools

2026

Papermill Press

An AI-friendly markup language for PDF generation

Loved18 points22 comments

Web and SaaS

2012

OpenRent

Our non-sexy start-up that's growing 10% a week

Loved44 points21 comments

Infrastructure

2013

Eligible Demo

Demo application for Eligible Web Services.

Loved47 points21 comments

Infrastructure

2013

GoInstant

A full dev stack for building real-time collaborative apps

Loved46 points21 comments

Games

2014

Planets Cube

My first startup, Cubical Drift video game studio

Loved31 points21 comments

Dev tools

2014

minicron

a system to manage and monitor cron jobs

Loved31 points21 comments

Consumer and social

2014

Journi

A free travel journal iPhone app

Loved36 points21 comments

Learning and science

2016

extremely-simple-flux-demo

Learn Flux from an extremely simple demo

Loved18 points21 comments

Finance and crypto

2026

StarkZap

Gasless Bitcoin Payments SDK for TypeScript

Loved6 points21 comments

Creative

2026

landscape.bairui.dev

Turn your name into a tree in an infinite procedural shanshui landscape

Loved41 points21 comments

Consumer and social

2012

recikeep

My never ending weekend project - recikeep.com

Loved10 points20 comments

Productivity

2012

SocialHN

Share, rediscover and keep track of all the gems you find on HN

Loved39 points20 comments

Consumer and social

2013

Skim HN

Your personal Hacker News reader - Skim HN

Loved43 points20 comments

Creative

2020

Clad

An ASCII art music video animated with JavaScript

Loved41 points20 comments

AI

2022

dji-aerial-georeferencing

Finding and plotting solar panels in drone videos using computer vision

Loved29 points20 comments

Web and SaaS

2022

createtargetaudience.com

I unlocked reaching 10.000 real potential customers as low cost as $50

Loved37 points20 comments

AI

2023

Whisper

Windows port of OpenAI's Whisper automatic speech recognition model

Loved43 points20 comments

Dev tools

2023

LibreScroll

enable flywheel-scrolling on any generic mouse

Loved43 points20 comments

AI

2024

Sama AI

AI mentor in your iPhone that collects your memories and gives feedback

Loved21 points20 comments

Productivity

2024

Supercharge Your Mac

Mac menu bar utility adding power-user features like cut and unminimize

Loved27 points20 comments

AI

2026

Ratel

Ratel, give agents unlimited tools and skills without context bloat

Loved23 points20 comments

Finance and crypto

2026

OpenChart

OSS TradingView alternative with your own AI agent

Loved45 points20 comments

Dev tools

2011

draughtsman

A webserver for front-end devs

Loved45 points19 comments