Hacker News: connollystr

New comment by connollystr in "Ask HN: Product idea validation made simple and streamlined"

connollystr — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 05:58:32 +0000

How long does it take you to build and launch an MVP? Single landing page experiments take minutes.

Ask HN: Product idea validation made simple and streamlined

connollystr — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 04:37:03 +0000

Article URL: https://pmfboard.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48640348

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by connollystr in "Show HN: TownSquare, a tiny presence layer for websites"

connollystr — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 16:23:50 +0000

This is sick!

Ask HN: Would you let your AI coding agent profile and optimize autonomously?

connollystr — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 05:20:55 +0000

Profiling is fun. Coding is also fun. But realizing AI is doing a far better job than me it just makes sense that I hand over the task.

Profiling is still left as a human in the loop kind of work and blocks me to create a better harness.

Would anyone find this needed too? If so, what language and platform?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48615910

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by connollystr in "Ask HN: Are people optimistic about the future?"

connollystr — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 19:16:08 +0000

I think it’ll be the same. There will be new aspects in life to bring joy, and misery in counterparts.

Ask HN: How did you find PMF?

connollystr — Sun, 24 May 2026 17:59:47 +0000

Nearly all successful business stories boil down to two aspects

1. Build what people want. So much so they are willing to pay. Talking to potential customers matters here. 2. Minimize the cost for solution building, both time and money.

I get it.

My problem is in the details. I would ask questions on sub-reddit, hacker news, x, etc if someone has specific problems, with some solution in mine. I get very little traction.

I would launch MVPs, reach out to the people who I think may find it interesting, both online and offline. Very little traction, and both growth and retention converge to zero.

Is there the right playbook? How do you execute? Things are quite daunting and disappointing. Never felt so useless.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48259551

Points: 3

# Comments: 3

New comment by connollystr in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

connollystr — Mon, 18 May 2026 05:31:12 +0000

Yes it’s an MCP

New comment by connollystr in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

connollystr — Thu, 14 May 2026 15:27:20 +0000

Idea: lightweight & high performance remote desktop that connects easy-to-carry apple devices (macbook air/neo or ipad) to mac mini.

I use Splashtop for WFH and apple vnc at work for servers and they are so slow

New comment by connollystr in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

connollystr — Tue, 12 May 2026 14:17:06 +0000

Thank you for asking. No I'm not considering it as of now. I'm dogfooding and found it quite useful, so first wanted to reach out to others and see if anyone else finds it useful too.

New comment by connollystr in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

connollystr — Tue, 12 May 2026 14:05:02 +0000

I'm working on Helene (https://helene-ai.com), a personal memory layer for AI chats, stored in your Drive.

I chat and work with AI a lot, across multiple clients and devices, and copy-pasting context between sessions was painful (especially between desktop and mobile). I also wanted past conversations to compound into something useful, like a hassle-free automated diary. So I built Helene.

Helene captures conversations with AI and weaves them into documents. Data stays on your own Google Drive. Works across Claude, ChatGPT, desktop, and mobile.

I hope there's someone to find this useful.