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2d ago

How do you make transparency visible in a color picker?

I build ToolKnit, a browser toolbox, and have been thinking about a small design problem: the same semi-transparent color can look very different against a light or dark background. Copying a six-digit HEX value also drops alpha.

Our image color picker supports alpha-capable values and palette exports: https://toolknit.com/tools/color...

When sharing a palette, I find it useful to document both the color and the intended background, then check the resulting combination for contrast. A pleasant palette on its own does not establish accessibility, and screen colors are not a print proof.

For those who design or build color tools: what is the clearest way you have seen to show that a selected color is translucent? A checkerboard, a paired light/dark preview, or something else?

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5d ago

Trade Calculator preview: how would you set the stop?

Trade Calculator puts a trade plan in a compact macOS panel: entry, stop, target and estimated profit or loss. It works with the numbers you enter; it does not connect to market feeds or trading accounts. This is a product preview.

Here is one made-up long stock trade in Trade Calculator: entry 30, default stop 3%, 100 shares, and risk:reward 1:3. Stop: 29.10. Target: 32.70. Estimated loss: 90. Estimated profit: 270. Estimates exclude fees, taxes and slippage; execution prices and returns are not guaranteed.

The default can be changed or turned off; a manual stop takes priority. How would you set the stop: a price or a percentage?

This preview copy and its explanatory graphics were prepared with AI assistance. The app screenshot comes from a native UI check using illustrative inputs.

Piythia Introduction

I've been building something called Piythia, and I wanted to share the vision behind it.

I've always been fascinated by one question:

How can one person multiply their ability to create opportunities without having to do everything themselves?

We have AI models that can reason, financial markets filled with opportunities, and increasingly accessible brokerage APIs. Yet most people still have to research investments, test strategies, manage risk, and execute decisions themselves, often across multiple disconnected platforms.

How do we convey information about verification? 🤔

Hi, I m Jeppe, founder of InReality!

I spent about 7 years researching misinformation and trying to distinguish fake content from real, including building AI detectors. But with the rise of deepfakes and generative AI, I doubt that looking for fakes is ever really going to solve the problem

TheWorldOf: helping mobile apps get discovered on a world map

Hi Product Hunt! We build mobile apps ourselves and know that getting discovered after launch can be as challenging as building the product.

We created TheWorldOf as a visual discovery platform for mobile apps. Developers choose a spot on a world map to showcase their app, and visitors can explore categories and open the relevant app-store page. The selected location represents a listing choice not a claim about where the app is popular or most used.

The site is available at https://theworldof.app. We would love feedback from both developers and app explorers: what would make a discovery platform genuinely useful to you?

We are preparing our Product Hunt launch and appreciate any thoughtful suggestions as we keep improving the experience.

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6d ago

Where should a Mac scan show that a folder couldn’t be read?

I m on the team that builds AI Agent Clean, a Mac app for reviewing storage used by AI tools. In 1.0.9, we clarified the notice for unreadable locations and made it easier to see the previous scan results when switching views.

Say Deep Scan can read your logs but hits a folder it can t open. When you come back to the results, the sizes for the files it read are still useful. The missing folder s size is unknown. If the page shows a total without that context, it s easy to assume the scan covered everything it tried to read.

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6d ago

I built 17 free browser tools. Roast my PDF workflow. 🔥

I've been building TASKONO, a collection of free tools for PDFs, images, writing, and work hours.

One thing that surprised me: a PDF can look perfectly readable but contain zero extractable words.

So I built an OCR tool that lets you recognize scanned pages, review mistakes, and export a searchable PDF. All in your browser, with no account needed.

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12mo ago

How to Build Operations Into Your Business

For many small companies, things start to unravel not because the idea is bad, but because the operations can t scale. How can you tell? Well, it s like that dream where the harder you swim, the further you end up from shore; you just can t keep up. You ve been caught in a riptide. It s at this point that it s worth pausing for a minute and sorting out your operations. By operations, I mean the processes, systems, and tools that not only keep your head above water but get you moving forward once again. The obvious problem with focusing on operations is that many founders find it boring or even a distraction from their top concern with product and sales. It s more fun to build the product, tinker with the UX, and keep shipping new features. But just like high school English class, boring doesn t mean you should skip it. In fact, I believe you need to start thinking about systems from day one. That s because one of the things I ve noticed in my nearly 20 years of running companies is that many early-stage founders have a great idea. What they don t have is a system to validate whether this idea can turn into a business. Ops only gets trickier as you transition from starting a company to growing it. That s where things almost unraveled for my last company, Cheetah Technologies, an e-commerce and logistics-tech company catering to independent restaurants. We were fortunate to get a lot of product-market fit early on, and within a year of launching, we d raised >$6 million in venture funding. Within 3 years of launching, we were serving thousands of independent restaurants across multiple geographies. That meant a lot of processes needed to be built: hiring, onboarding, retaining and promoting talent, evaluating performance, motivating people, communicating internally, communicating with investors, and solving myriad challenges as they came up. There s a lot. And, I think, we did it really well. But there was one operational challenge we didn t have locked down, which ended up hurting us. Post-Covid, we were going to accelerate our revenue growth by acquiring a few smaller competitors, and we created systems to hire M&A professionals. The process was extensive, including interviews and validation exercises. But after the contract was signed, we took a step back, assuming the people we hired would get us there with little oversight. We didn t have the right processes in place for monitoring the performance of these new hires. The post-M&A integration was a disaster, and, as a result, we lost millions of dollars; it was a huge setback for the company. I don t want other startup founders to be unable to scale because they didn t get their operations right. Ops Doesn t Have to Be Onerous Right now, many people are using no-code platforms to spin up software. What if you could use a no-ops platform to plug into systems, tools, and frameworks to help you build, grow, and lead your company without hiring an operations person too early? That s what we re building at Waya: from an executive summary generator tool that uses Retrieval Augmented Generation to make sure your idea is sound and fundable, to frameworks for managing and evaluating team performance so you can scale. But I m just a startup founder, too, looking to validate that what I think is a great idea will actually work. So I m offering 1 hour of free startup consultation for every 1 hour of user testing. You can ask me anything about fundraising, investor relations, go-to-market, building and scaling teams, etc. In return, I will give you a sneak peek into our brand-new product and let you take it for a test drive. Sign up here: https://wayaframes.com/promotion... And I d love to get in touch on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/naam...

6 findings, only 1 is real. Can you spot which one our scanner proved?

A little game, because it explains what we built better than any pitch.

Picture a typical freshly shipped SaaS: Next.js front end, Supabase back end, a few API routes. You run an external scan on it and recon flags these 6 candidates. When the validation step finishes, exactly one of them is PROVEN. The other five end up refuted, inconclusive, not tested or false positive.

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6d ago

Traders and beginners: what is unclear in my stock-research dashboard?

I m building eStockes, a stock-research workspace, and I d appreciate help testing the public dashboard: https://estockes.com/dashboard

Please open it, pick a stock you know, and try the first research task you would normally do. If you re new to the market, tell me what you would expect to do first.

1. Do you have stock-market experience, or are you new to it?

2. What did you try, and were you able to complete it?

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