Email, chat & communities

22 requests, newest first

• Would pay for

  decent email service, but I'm poor, so I can't afford that

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  Yeah, I would pay for a decent email service, but I'm poor, so I can't afford that...

  encrypted_bird · Oct 30, 2026in “Proton goes all in on using AI”

• Wish it existed

  way to automatically hide all the comments saying "but I think LLM was involved in this software"

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  I wish there was a way to automatically hide all the comments saying "but I think LLM was involved in this software".

  jwr · Aug 8, 2026in “SupererDuperer”

• Wish it existed

  guides in Kagi help or the feature pages themselves that included lots of community examples of how to actually use Kagi features

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  I wish there were guides in Kagi help or the feature pages themselves that included lots of community examples of how to actually use Kagi features.

  abtinf · Aug 3, 2026in “Ask HN: What are the viable alternatives to DuckDuckGo?”

• Startup idea

  social media platform where illogical or false statements are rejected with an annotated refutation

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  startup idea: a social media platform where illogical or false statements are rejected with an annotated refutation

  stevenalowe · Jul 30, 2026in “Show HN: Bullshit Detector – agent skills that fact-check videos and articles”

• Wish it existed

  Fedora LTS that had the same community size, build system, etc because I really like all that, as well as the transparency of it all

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  I wish there was a Fedora LTS that had the same community size, build system, etc because I really like all that, as well as the transparency of it all.

  99954bb63ccc · Jun 11, 2026in “AI agent runs amok in Fedora and elsewhere”

• Wish it existed

  rule on any forum that if somebody non-ironically uses “TDS” they should just get permabanned by a bot with no explanation

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  I feel like there should be a rule on any forum that if somebody non-ironically uses “TDS” they should just get permabanned by a bot with no explanation.

  Forgeties79 · Apr 24, 2026in “Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic”

• Wish it existed

  as standardized format so my e-mail client could just roll it all up into one status box but it's hardly the end of the world

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  I wish there was as standardized format so my e-mail client could just roll it all up into one status box but it's hardly the end of the world.

  afavour · Apr 8, 2026in “One item purchased, ten emails”

• Looking for

  help me sort/manage email without letting it write my emails (I still want full control)

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  I love this idea -- I've been looking for a tool to help me sort/manage email without letting it write my emails (I still want full control).

  subdomain · Apr 3, 2026in “Show HN: Prismle – I built an AI assistant you use by forwarding emails to it”

• Someone should build

  website or project and post it on HN, and then set up an AI agent takes the top comments and just implements them

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  Someone should make a website or project and post it on HN, and then set up an AI agent takes the top comments and just implements them.

  groggo · Apr 3, 2026in “Show HN: Made a little Artemis II tracker”

• Would pay for

  even a 30 minute chat and demo of my app

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  I would pay for even a 30 minute chat and demo of my app.

  smalltorch · Mar 19, 2026in “Ask HN: Solo Senior Developers, Where do we find you?”

• Wish it existed

  some sort of community project where engineers could whistleblow about their product falling apart through misguided AI pushes

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  >I wish there was some sort of community project where engineers could whistleblow about their product falling apart through misguided AI pushes.

  AbstractH24 · Mar 19, 2026in “OpenAI Has New Focus (on the IPO)”

• Wish it existed

  some sort of community project where engineers could whistleblow about their product falling apart through misguided AI pushes

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  I wish there was some sort of community project where engineers could whistleblow about their product falling apart through misguided AI pushes.

  torben-friis · Mar 19, 2026in “OpenAI Has New Focus (on the IPO)”

• Would pay for

  YT premium in a heartbeat if they let me tune the platform to my needs: disable all recommends, disable all comments, allow only a whitelisted set of channels

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  I'd pay for YT premium in a heartbeat if they let me tune the platform to my needs: disable all recommends, disable all comments, allow only a whitelisted set of channels.

  wolttam · Mar 10, 2026in “YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they'll be unskippable”

• Would pay for

  app that fwd'd messages from other apps and gave me a wikipedia feed to scroll on the elevator / other places where the phone is a social respite

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  I'd pay for an app that fwd'd messages from other apps and gave me a wikipedia feed to scroll on the elevator / other places where the phone is a social respite

  forgetbook · Feb 2, 2026in “Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed”

• Someone should build

  fire chat OSS project with some proprietary E2EE on top of the the OSS one based on Signal protocol

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  For real, someone should make a fire chat OSS project with some proprietary E2EE on top of the the OSS one based on Signal protocol.

  Moldoteck · Jan 17, 2026in “Briar keeps Iran connected via Bluetooth and Wi-Fi when the internet goes dark”

• Wish it existed

  Chrome extension to filter out snarky meme comments like these

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  I wish there was a Chrome extension to filter out snarky meme comments like these.

  shepherdjerred · Jan 12, 2026in “Xfce is great”

• Wish it existed

  to help founders spot real product pain without spending hours reading forums

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  I built a small tool called I Wish There Was to help founders spot real product pain without spending hours reading forums.

  Max_bignolet · Jan 11, 2026in “A tool that clusters real user pain from public forum posts”

• Would pay for

  social media site that respected my preferences / content choices and had everyone using real names / validated and so on

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  But I'd pay for a social media site that respected my preferences / content choices and had everyone using real names / validated and so on.

  duxup · Dec 22, 2025in “I announced my divorce on Instagram and then AI impersonated me”

• Why is there no

  CLI where I can just run something like `build --matrix=macos-arm,windows-x64,linux` from my terminal

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  Why isn't there a CLI where I can just run something like `build --matrix=macos-arm,windows-x64,linux` from my terminal?

  vicdotso · Dec 20, 2025in “Vercel for Desktop Apps?”

• Wish it existed

  way for an AI chat to link to the paid version of the free page when referencing in the chat window

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  Okay, so if you open up your site for free, there should be a way for an AI chat to link to the paid version of the free page when referencing in the chat window.

  adrianwaj · Dec 6, 2025in “Blogging in 2025: Screaming into the Void”

• Why is there no

  universal + standard VoIP/data SMS-like message protocol

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  Why isn't there a universal + standard VoIP/data SMS-like message protocol?

  Bender · Nov 4, 2025in “Why isn't there a universal + standard VoIP/data SMS-like message protocol?”

• Why is there no

  universal + standard VoIP/data SMS-like message protocol

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  Why isn't there a universal + standard VoIP/data SMS-like message protocol?

  abcqwerty9876 · Nov 4, 2025in “Why isn't there a universal + standard VoIP/data SMS-like message protocol?”