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Show HN: A Graveyard of Startups

Mon, 07/27/2026 - 7:17am

I built Startup Graveyard after realizing it's hard to find startups that didn't make it.

You can paste your startup idea, and it will find similar startups that were shut down or abandoned, along with why they failed (when that information is available).

I'd love to hear what the HN community thinks:)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49067899

Points: 2

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Ask HN: What do you use to monitor cron jobs and queue workers?

Mon, 07/27/2026 - 7:09am

I've been running production Laravel apps for a while and noticed that most teams have zero monitoring on their cron jobs and queue workers. Uptime monitors check if a URL responds 200, but they can't tell you if your scheduler stopped firing or your workers crashed.

I built Crontinel (https://crontinel.com) to solve this for myself. It hooks into framework events and monitors scheduler health, worker status, queue depth, and agent runs. Open source, MIT licensed, SDKs for Laravel, Node, Python, Go, Rust, PHP.

Curious what others here use. Do you monitor your cron/queues? What tools? How did you find out when something broke?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49067832

Points: 3

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Show HN: Release-gate – a CLI that checks AI-agent PRs for risky changes

Mon, 07/27/2026 - 7:01am

I built this after noticing that AI-agent PRs are hard to review. There are many tools available but it does not show the reason why the code can be problematic in case of agent.

A normal diff can show code changes, but it may not make it obvious that a prompt changed, a model changed, a tool config changed, or model output now reaches an eval/exec path.

release-gate is a Python CLI that compares a PR branch against a base ref and reports only what the PR introduced.

Example:

pip install release-gate release-gate pr --base origin/main

It can also create a lockfile for prompts/model/tool config:

release-gate lock . release-gate audit . --lock

This is early. I’m mainly looking for feedback on whether PR-scoped gating is useful, and where the static analysis is still too noisy.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49067759

Points: 1

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Show HN: Dozenal – A Game of Spatial Arithmetic

Mon, 07/27/2026 - 6:44am

Hello HN! We're Rory and Chris, and we've made a game called Dozenal[0], a grid-based number puzzle game where the objective is to use all the tiles on the board to create totals of 12 (hence the name).

We think the mechanic is quite unique, although keen to hear if people know of similar games! You essentially drag tiles across the board, and the distance between two numbers decides the arithmetic operation when they connect to each other: zero spaces is addition, one space is subtraction, two spaces is multiplication: e.g.

5 → 4 = 9 5 → _ → 4 = 1 5 → _ → _ → 4 = 20

We've spent the past month getting people to test the game. The two biggest points of feedback are: 1. People generally find the learning curve a little too steep -- we are open to any feedback on how to make the rules clearer or easier -- but we've found that almost everyone that sticks with it for more than a couple of days can solve the puzzles. 2. People find that "mixing" arithmetic is confusing -- you can combine up to two arithmetic operations (e.g. addition and multiplication) in a single chain to reach a "12 total", but there's a catch in that you can only do this for one move.

We release a new puzzle every day (all of them are set by Chris), and our aim is to make something that people enjoy coming back to and that strikes the right balance between a time-killer and a bit of a challenge.

A bit of backstory: Chris and I came up with the idea over a decade ago while we were students. We were always tinkering with prototypes but never released anything. AI coding assistants made it a lot easier to work on the game in the past couple of months (it's a mixture of human and AI development, not fully vibe-coded).

Give it a try and let us know what you think!

[0] - https://dozenal.game

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49067632

Points: 4

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Ask HN: Why is every company encorporating AI everywhere?

Mon, 07/27/2026 - 6:39am

So I have been going through multiple websites and also been seeing AI in all the apps that I use. Do you think it is necessary ?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49067602

Points: 2

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