Karolis Budreckas

Karolis Budreckas

Turning daily frustrations into signals

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I built an app with no AI, no algorithms, no feeds. Am I insane?

Everyone's racing to build AI products. I went the opposite direction.

Frikt is an app where people post their daily frustrations in one sentence. Others say "same." Patterns emerge. That's it.

No AI summarizing your problems. No algorithm deciding what's relevant. No infinite scroll. Just raw, real frustration posted by real people, every day.

frikt (iOS & Android)

What have you been able to build with AI as a non-technical person?

Before AI, I always thought I would NEVER learn how to code. I genuinely admired technical people, watching them code felt like watching magic. I remember wishing that maybe one day, I could do something like that too.

I ve never had any formal education in programming, and I had zero experience building apps. But with AI, I was able to start from just an idea and slowly figure things out on my own experimenting, setting things up, and eventually creating my first interface that I could actually interact with.

It honestly felt magical. It made me realize how fast the world is changing. Coding is no longer something completely out of reach. AI is making it possible for people like me to turn ideas in our heads into real, tangible drafts for the first time.

Frikt - Turn your daily friction into collective signal

Most problems die at the "everyone agreed, nothing happened" stage. Frikt is where that stops. Post what's annoying you, others say "same", and real patterns emerge. Free, no spam.
Y Combinatorp/ycNika

27d ago

Y Combinator offers 7 startups ideas they want to fund (Spring 2026)

As usual, Y Combinator came up with segments that are worth investing:

1. Cursor for Product Managers
2. AI-Native Hedge Funds
3. AI-Native Agencies
4. Stablecoin Financial Services
5. AI for Government
6. Modern Metal Mills
7. AI Guidance for Physical Work 8. Large Spatial Models 9. Infra for Government Fraud Hunters 10. Make LLMs Easy to Train