Ask HN: What to Build in the AI Era?

Make this but open source: https://getcoldturkey.com/

in your own life, ask yourself, what do I need? what could make my life, or the lives of those I love, better?

Assuming you are thinking to build something that would make money - whatever you build someone will clone it with AI shortly thereafter. without a serious moat (which is insanely hard to get) I don’t think there is much to build anymore. “Good” thing is that nowadays you can build things fast and fail/succeed fast unlike “before” where building something took serious time

Hardware and specialized Android appliances (Android TV / Google TV / Digital Signage).

A lot of focus is currently on browser-based LLM wrappers, but there is huge untouched ground in headless device management, local orchestration, and edge utility tools for living-room/kiosk hardware.

For instance, managing TV boxes, local ADB orchestration, clean custom launcher provisioning, and lightweight local automation on constrained living-room devices without relying on bloatware or invasive accessibility hacks. Building tools that solve practical, physical-device problems will always have solid utility.