HackerFriction, HackerTube for what HN complains about
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Hi HN! Inspired by Karpathy's Hackertube, I thought it might be useful to have a list of usability issues most talked about in Hacker News comments.
HN · launched Nov 5, 2026 · 7 upvotes (top 53%) · 0 views
Niche: novelty and humor web apps · 175 launches, 16 in the last 7 days ▼ -6% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes It scrapes public Hacker News data via its API, groups comments with an LLM, and displays ranked lists with search and exports. Each piece is standard, and the human-review step is a process rather than a technical barrier.
Discussion
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 126 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #75 of 127 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 364 days after the earliest competitor.
- Hacker News but for comments posted on HN · hn · 2026-11-02 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- Hacker Atlas · hn · 2026-09-25 · 86 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- HackerTube · ph · 2026-11-07 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Hacker Backlinks · hn · 2026-02-06 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Hacker News · hn · 2026-11-01 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Curious HN – Hacker News without the snark · hn · 2026-11-04 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- HackerRepos · hn · 2026-11-05 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- HNswered · hn · 2026-04-24 · 30 upvotes · similarity 0.54
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