Show HN: The AI App I Made for My Wife Became Everyone's 'Digital Painkiller'

by algorron 11/5/2024, 10:08 AMwith 0 comments

Sometimes love inspires innovation, and sometimes the best solutions come from real pain points. Here's my story.

It All Started with a "Pain" My wife is a dedicated teacher who supervises student internships. Every week, she manually typed hundreds of handwritten addresses into Maps. Every. Single. Week.

One evening at our kitchen table, surrounded by papers, with tired eyes, she sighed, "There has to be a better way."

Right then, I realized I had a similar "pain" - as a developer, I was constantly lost among code screenshots, manually retyping each one... Two different pains, same root problem.

Not Just Our Pain, Everyone's Problem As we shared our solution, we discovered everyone has similar "digital pains":

For Teachers:

The struggle of digitizing handwritten student assignments

The hassle of entering hundreds of addresses into maps

The challenge of preparing exam questions

For Developers:

The pain of retyping code from screenshots

Gallery chaos

Documentation creation headaches

For Students:

The struggle of digitizing lecture notes

The hassle of copying book pages

The challenge of creating study questions

For Business People:

Piles of business cards

Meeting notes chaos

Document archiving struggles

Introducing Our Digital Painkiller: Uscan! Born from my wife's need, became everyone's solution. Our AI-powered app:

Take a photo - get instant digital text

Recognizes even the messiest handwriting

Open addresses directly in Maps

Create searchable PDFs

Summarize long texts

Generate study questions automatically

Edit extracted text easily

Copy any part or all of the text

Basic features work offline

Share files instantly

Create professional PDFs from regular photos

Early Relief Reports! Started with My Wife, Growing with You Our app is brand new, and we're discovering new use cases every day. What's your "digital pain"? What problem should we solve for you?

What Can You Do With It? Convert handwritten notes to digital text

Extract addresses directly to Maps

Turn screenshots into editable text

Save handwritten documents as searchable PDFs

Generate summaries of long texts

Create study questions from any text

Convert photos into professional-looking PDFs

Edit any extracted text on the spot

Share your digitized documents instantly

Copy specific parts or the entire text with one tap

Let's Create More Solutions Together! We're continuously developing the app. What pain point can we relieve in your life? Share in the comments!

Your Digital Painkiller is Ready:

App Store https://apps.apple.com/tr/app/uscan-ai-text-capture-ocr/id66...

Google Play https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.appoint.co...

Edit: Wow, looks like we weren't alone with these pains!

TL;DR: The AI app I developed to solve my wife's address-typing pain has become everyone's digital painkiller! It instantly converts any text to digital, summarizes it, creates questions, and lets you edit and share everything easily. What pain point can we solve for you?

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