I'm a high school student. My co-founder and I work on our startup for ~1 hour per day between homework and sleep.
The problem we kept hitting: Sitting down to code at 9pm, spending 15 minutes checking:
- GitHub (what got pushed?)
- Gmail (any user issues?)
- Discord (team updates?)
- Analytics (signups, errors, metrics)
- Trying to remember what I was working on
Then finally starting to code at 9:15pm with 45 minutes left.
So we built Dirac. One command pulls from your connected services and gives you a plain-text summary of what happened since you last checked.
*Tech details:*
- local-hosted widget
- OAuth integrations with GitHub, Gmail, Discord
- Local caching for speed
- Written in python + electron
- Currently pulls: commits, PR comments, emails matching filters, team messages, basic metrics
*Current limitations (being honest):*
- Only works for solo/small teams (not enterprise-scale)
- Summary quality varies (working on better filtering)
- Setup takes ~5 minutes (too long)
- No mobile app yet
*Why we're launching at 80%:*
This is our third pivot. First tried building a general AI agent (too hard). Then task automation (no market). Now solving our own problem. We needed to validate before spending 3 more months building.
Launched on Product Hunt today (currently #18). Learning that launching is more about conversation than ranking.
For HN: What am I missing technically? What would make this actually useful vs. just another aggregator?
The problem we kept hitting: Sitting down to code at 9pm, spending 15 minutes checking: - GitHub (what got pushed?) - Gmail (any user issues?) - Discord (team updates?) - Analytics (signups, errors, metrics) - Trying to remember what I was working on
Then finally starting to code at 9:15pm with 45 minutes left.
So we built Dirac. One command pulls from your connected services and gives you a plain-text summary of what happened since you last checked.
*Tech details:* - local-hosted widget - OAuth integrations with GitHub, Gmail, Discord - Local caching for speed - Written in python + electron - Currently pulls: commits, PR comments, emails matching filters, team messages, basic metrics
*Current limitations (being honest):* - Only works for solo/small teams (not enterprise-scale) - Summary quality varies (working on better filtering) - Setup takes ~5 minutes (too long) - No mobile app yet
*Why we're launching at 80%:* This is our third pivot. First tried building a general AI agent (too hard). Then task automation (no market). Now solving our own problem. We needed to validate before spending 3 more months building.
Launched on Product Hunt today (currently #18). Learning that launching is more about conversation than ranking.
For HN: What am I missing technically? What would make this actually useful vs. just another aggregator?
Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa5ddZ1achg
Open to technical critique—that's why we're here.