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“I often wish there was a group of people hanging out in a chatroom somewhere, all of whom would be obsessed with making awesome sofware of some sort or another, and everyone would be amazing djs or at least be into some sort of awesome electronica.” One of 25 pieces of evidence collected from Forum / discussion. Automated grouping by shared topic — not yet a human-reviewed conclusion.
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Platform score 63.3, calculated 26 Oct 2026. Adjust weights, and see supporting/missing evidence per component, in Explainable score below.
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Hacker News (Algolia Search API) small team tooling frustration
Then I realized "Synergy sure has an annoying UI, lacks a few features, and uses a lot of RAM + it's a pain to enter my license on each machine".
Hacker News (Algolia Search API) small team tooling frustration
I often wish there was a group of people hanging out in a chatroom somewhere, all of whom would be obsessed with making awesome sofware of some sort or another, and everyone would be amazing djs or at least be into some sort of awesome electronica.
Hacker News (Algolia Search API) small team tooling frustration
I still wish there was a happy medium between "parse tool calls for perms" (which fails all the time if the tool call is long/complex enough) and a full-on sandbox, but otherwise 2.0 is really solid.
Hacker News (Algolia Search API) small team tooling frustration
I kept having "I wish there was..." moments --ideas for tools or apps I wanted but couldn't find.
Hacker News (Algolia Search API) small team tooling frustration
I wish there was a better way to share these over a team but I haven't taken that time yet.
Hacker News (Algolia Search API) small team tooling frustration
Sometimes, I wish there was an agreed standard for every UI - to have only the core, commonly used keys pre-set, while making everything else configurable.
Hacker News (Algolia Search API) small team tooling frustration
I wish there was an easier way, but I've spent weeks during the course of the project working on and failing to solve a similar problem (SDF to BREP) and concluded finally that there just isn't an easier way to do this fully automated without AI.
Hacker News (Algolia Search API) small team tooling frustration
I wish there was also tools that would refuse and reject (or prevent) models from inserting "thinking" messages into responses.
Hacker News (Algolia Search API) small team tooling frustration
I wish there was a way that your comment could be pinned.
Hacker News (Algolia Search API) small team tooling frustration
I understand the reasons, but I wish there had been a smoother path to this future.
Hacker News (Algolia Search API) small team tooling frustration
You can't even kill the process, because it's immediately relaunched, I just wish there was an option to disable it and only get the library.
Hacker News (Algolia Search API) small team tooling frustration
And the huge gains we would see in open source where "man I wish there was a tool that could…" becomes "I'm gonna make a tool that…" So personally I think it's just a continuation of the belt tightening that was and still is occurring across the economy.
Hacker News (Algolia Search API) small team tooling frustration
I wish there was a tool I could use to share my documents, activity, etc.
Hacker News (Algolia Search API) small team tooling frustration
I wish there was a chrome/Firefox extension for - an overlay in corner showing github/author sites of apps whenever mentioned on HN News.
Hacker News (Algolia Search API) small team tooling frustration
I wish there was a site that would be designed for hopeful expats that would connect them with jobs from employers in other countries that hire foreign workers.
Hacker News (Algolia Search API) small team tooling frustration
You get a neat report with: Common complaints grouped together Ideas for products to solve these issues Highlighting of comments where people are saying "I wish there was a" or "I would pay for" etc etc Most negative comments A search function for all the comments We give 1 free credit, try it out and lmk your thoughts!
Hacker News (Algolia Search API) small team tooling frustration
I wish there were a training in like ...
Hacker News (Algolia Search API) small team tooling frustration
But I wish there was a standard protocol for tools to report progress information to a CI environment.
Hacker News (Algolia Search API) small team tooling frustration
I really wish there was a resurgence of information dense UIs and tools, optimizing for people who use them daily and not “use it once.” It really reminds me of the hate folks have for things like Eclipse or IntelliJ which are daunting at first but once you get over the shock and learn them really are amazing tools.
Hacker News (Algolia Search API) small team tooling frustration
I wish there was a decent set of tools for using regexes as list generators.
Hacker News (Algolia Search API) small team tooling frustration
I wish there was a culture in the team I'm in now to share each others dotfiles (which I feel would lead into sharing so much more including tools, processors, etc), especially since I fall into that group of the new, younger rookie.
Hacker News (Algolia Search API) small team tooling frustration
Sort of off topic, but I wish there was a better tool for pinboard user discovery.
Hacker News (Algolia Search API) small team tooling frustration
For me, we've co-opted event handlers in Hasura as a poor man's background job runner, and I wish there was something that gave me more visibility into job throughput and performance, easier debugging, chainability between jobs, and integration with 3rd party services.
Hacker News (Algolia Search API) small team tooling frustration
:) That said, I do wish there was a tool I could use to verify the cert authorities installed on a device I own or buy.
Hacker News (Algolia Search API) small team tooling frustration
I really wish there was a tool out their that could automate the process and connect me with a bigger network of businesses.
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