Ask HN: What do you still do manually in 2026 that should be automated?

Like, I gotta get up, walk a few steps, sit down, read Facebook, and then i gotta clean my own rear end. Why aren't we in Wall-E world yet?

I want to just wake up, eat, sleep, repeat without ever having to move out of my floating platform apparatus. Instead of deciding what to eat, goop is dispensed to you from the comfort of my own floating chair/bed thing. Pottying should be the same. A large blocker in this lifestyle is the necessity to get up and do the business yourself. I want a platform that directly handles bodily waste material without you ever having to get up.

The tools that I could find didn't have email support and weren't good enough in some ways I don't remember.

The inbuilt Upwork alert system sucks.

Image generators can make reasonable-looking raster images. LLMs are good at coding. But drawing SVGs sits at the worst of both worlds.

Give the measures of a bookself and get the pieces and materials needed.

If you are selling to ‘enterprise’ that business model might work well as a per-seat price.

At retail, into small bespoke niches a business built on $20 problems is unlikely to be sustainable because it is not enough money to reliably reach small markets and it is not enough money to sustain high quality service to a small number of customers…sure 1000 customers would be $20,000/month, but you have to get there first and stay there second.

Getting there is probably more money and calendar pages than you think and staying is going to gobble up more of the $20,000/month than you want through churn and employees.

My advice: find some thing you want to work on or find actual customers who will pay you handsomely to solve their important problems. Good luck.