Slop Score - AI PR Spam Detection via Badge Startup Idea

Problem (Pain Level: 7/10) “7 out of 10 PRs I get these days are AI-generated garbage” - The new pain for open-source maintainers. Current pain points: AI Spam Flood: Low-quality PRs mass-generated by LLMs flooding open source projects Time Waste: Maintainers missing real contributions while reviewing spam PRs Tool Installation Resistance: Security concerns about GitHub App permission requests Complex Setup: Most code review tools require excessive configuration New Contributor Identification: Hard to distinguish real beginners from AI spam accounts Target Market Primary Target: Open source project maintainers, enterprise GitHub administrators ...

January 25, 2026 · 3 min · Young

AI News Summarizer - Side Project Idea for Solo Developers

The Problem (Pain Level: 5/10) In the age of information overload, reading news and articles takes too much time: Dozens of newsletters arrive daily No time to read long articles Just want to quickly grasp the key points RSS feeds keep piling up Busy professionals want to quickly understand the essentials. Target Market Global Knowledge Workers - Estimated TAM $1B+ Professionals subscribed to many newsletters Analysts monitoring multiple sources RSS reader users Users interested in information curation What is AI News Summarizer? A service that summarizes news, articles, and blog posts into 3 bullet points using AI. ...

January 24, 2026 · 2 min · Young

BlueMouse - Socratic Firewall for AI Coding Startup Idea

Problem Definition As AI coding tools (Copilot, Cursor, etc.) become mainstream, developers face new challenges: No Quality Gate: AI-generated code goes straight to production with placeholder comments, TODOs, and broken imports Lack of Design Thinking: “Vibe Coding” phenomenon - developers accept AI output without critical thinking Security Vulnerabilities: AI-generated code gets committed without security review According to the 2026 Stack Overflow survey, 84% of developers use AI tools, and 41% of new code is AI-assisted. ...

January 24, 2026 · 2 min · Young

Celery Django Admin Observability - Monitor Celery Without Flower Startup Idea

The Problem Teams using Django + Celery need to monitor Celery tasks, but: Flower: Requires a separate process (port 5555) Extra Infrastructure: Additional container, process management Context Switching: Jumping between Django Admin and Flower “Celery observability inside Django admin (no Flower, no extra process)” — HackerNews Show HN (2026.01.21) Developers want to manage everything within the familiar Django Admin interface. Market Analysis Aspect Details Target Market Django + Celery teams TAM Django ecosystem $500M+ Competition Status BLUE (niche market) Competitive Landscape Solution Pricing Weakness Flower Free Requires separate process django-celery-monitor Free Limited features, unmaintained Prometheus + Grafana Free Complex setup, overkill Differentiation: Native Django Admin integration, zero extra processes ...

January 24, 2026 · 2 min · Young

CoCursor - IDE AI Collaboration Tracker Startup Idea

Problem Definition As AI coding assistants become routine, new problems emerge: No Session Tracking: AI collaboration sessions aren’t recorded, preventing learning Report Writing Burden: Work reports take an average of 30 minutes to write Knowledge Loss: AI conversations are one-time use, not reusable Team Skill Gap: Differences in AI utilization create productivity gaps Market Analysis Metric Value AI IDE Market Size (2032 projected) $37B Cursor Users Millions+ Developers Using AI Tools 84% Target Customers: Development teams using AI coding tools ...

January 24, 2026 · 2 min · Young

Kerns.ai - AI Research Automation Tool Startup Idea

Problem Definition Problems knowledge workers and researchers face: Information Overload: 5.14M+ papers published annually, manual review impossible Search Time Waste: Employees spend 1.8 hours/day (9.3 hours/week) searching for information Knowledge Disconnect: Research results don’t accumulate, starting from scratch each time Context Switching: Moving between sources reduces focus Market Analysis Metric Value Information Search Time 20% of work hours Annual Published Papers 5.14M+ AI Research Tool Adoption Rapidly growing Target Customers: Researchers, analysts, knowledge workers, consultants ...

January 24, 2026 · 2 min · Young

MacShip - Mac App Licensing & Distribution SDK Startup Idea

The Problem Developers distributing Mac apps outside the Mac App Store (MAS) face significant challenges: Licensing System: Serial key generation, validation, activation limits Auto Updates: Sparkle framework setup and update server management Payment Integration: Stripe, Paddle, or other gateway connections Code Signing & Notarization: Apple Notarization workflow automation Building all this from scratch takes 4-8 weeks of development time, plus ongoing maintenance burden. Market Analysis Aspect Details Target Market Global macOS indie developers TAM macOS developer tools market $2B+ Competition Status EMG (Emerging) Competitive Landscape Competitor Pricing Weakness Paddle 5%+$0.50 fee Generic payment platform, lacks Mac-specific features FastSpring 5.9%+ fee Complex setup, not developer-friendly DevMate Discontinued Service shutdown Gumroad 10% fee No licensing/update features Differentiation Opportunity: An all-in-one SDK specialized for Mac apps—integrate licensing, updates, and payments with just a few lines of code. ...

January 24, 2026 · 2 min · Young

MCPJam Inspector - MCP Server Testing Tool Startup Idea

Problem Definition As Model Context Protocol (MCP) emerges as the standard for AI agent connections, developers face new challenges: Testing Difficulty: No standard way to test MCP server tools, resources, and prompts Debugging Complexity: Need to support multiple transport protocols (STDIO, SSE, HTTP) Official Tool Gaps: Anthropic’s official inspector has limited features and slow development In 2026, the MCP market is exploding with 97M+ monthly SDK downloads. Market Analysis Metric Value MCP Market Size (2025) $1.8B Monthly SDK Downloads 97M+ Major Adopters Microsoft, Google, Salesforce, SAP Target Customers: Developers building MCP servers, AI agent builders ...

January 24, 2026 · 2 min · Young

Metric-Registry - Observability Metrics Catalog Startup Idea

Problem Definition Problems DevOps/SRE teams face when building monitoring: Metric Understanding: Finding the right metric among thousands is difficult Scattered Documentation: OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, K8s each have different docs Missing Context: Metric names alone don’t explain their purpose Duplicated Effort: Every team researches the same metrics repeatedly Market Analysis Metric Value Observability Market Size (2026) $34.1B Expected Growth Rate CAGR 19.7% Projected 2035 Size $172.1B Target Customers: DevOps engineers, SRE, platform teams ...

January 24, 2026 · 2 min · Young

QRY: A CLI Tool That Writes SQL from Natural Language

The Problem: SQL Writing is Tedious Developers and analysts work with databases daily. But: Hard to remember complex JOIN syntax Confusing subqueries, window functions, and advanced SQL Context switching between checking table structures and writing queries “How did I write that query again?” happens repeatedly The Solution: QRY - Natural Language to SQL CLI QRY is a CLI tool that generates SQL from natural language in your terminal. $ qry "top 10 users with most purchases in the last 7 days" > Connecting to mydb... > Generated SQL: SELECT u.name, u.email, COUNT(o.id) as order_count FROM users u JOIN orders o ON u.id = o.user_id WHERE o.created_at >= NOW() - INTERVAL '7 days' GROUP BY u.id, u.name, u.email ORDER BY order_count DESC LIMIT 10; [Execute? (y/n)] Core Features Natural Language → SQL: Claude/GPT-based conversion Schema Awareness: Auto-detect connected DB table structures Execution Option: Run generated queries directly History: Save and reuse previous queries Multi-DB Support: PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, etc. Market Analysis NLP Market Status Total NLP market: $42B → $791B projected growth CAGR: 10.92% 72% of businesses plan to adopt NLP technologies Competitive Landscape Solution Type Features BigQuery NL Cloud built-in GCP lock-in Cloud SQL AI Cloud built-in GCP lock-in Bytebase SaaS Team collaboration focus QRY CLI tool Local, lightweight, free Market Gap Cloud providers offer built-in NL-to-SQL, but: ...

January 24, 2026 · 3 min · Young