HN Showcase – AI-Curated Project Gallery

A searchable gallery of Show HN posts with AI-powered curation and categorization. Users discover indie projects, side projects, and open-source tools easily instead of scrolling through hundreds of HN posts daily.

Show HN posts are genuinely hard to browse at scale, and with AI categorization now cheap enough to run on a hobbyist budget, the curation angle is at least technically feasible today in a way it wasn't two years ago. No clear incumbent owns this specific niche, though Hacker News itself, hnpings.com, and various HN search tools like Algolia's HN Search serve adjacent needs well enough that most developers already have workarounds. The $100–500/month revenue band implies either a small sponsorship or a thin paid tier, which is realistic only if the audience is tiny and highly engaged — but that ceiling also means there's almost no room to recover from even modest churn or development costs. The core risk is that the HN community itself is the audience *and* the content source, and that audience tends to resist monetization layers built on top of content they already access for free, making sustainable revenue very difficult to reach.