Still Unbuilt: the 100 tools Hacker News keeps asking for
Hacker News, 2008 to 2026
I collected every comment and post since 2008 that says “I wish there was”, “is there a tool” or “I’d pay for”: 63,300 of them. An AI classifier kept the 12,441 that ask for software. These are the 100 tools people asked for most often, across the most years, and are still asking for now. Every number links to the comments behind it.
63,300comments and posts read
12,441real requests for software
1,433asks behind these 100, each re-read
$6.00spent on AI labelling
Every c...
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