Big Tech is wasting billions on useless A*I gimmicks while ignoring the most basic, annoying everyday problems. What is a regular life frustration you wish someone would just build a software to solve?

Don't hug me I'm scared

I am so incredibly tired of every single tech company forcing useless "A*I assistants" into apps that don't need them. Nobody wants an A*I to write a poem about their grocery list, and nobody asked for an A*I search engine that hallucinates fake recipes. ​It feels like tech founders are just building tools for other tech founders or venture capitalists, completely ignoring actual, regular human beings.

​I’m a software engineer and I finally have some free time between contracts. I want to build an A*I tool or simple software app that actually helps people deal with the mundane, deeply annoying parts of daily life—not another corporate SaaS gimmick. ​

What is a tedious, repetitive, or frustrating task you have to do in your normal life that makes you think, "why hasn't someone automated this yet?" ​Give me your worst daily bottlenecks and I'll see if I can build an open-source tool to fix it.

Posted Jul 5, 2026, 12:21 PM UTC

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