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Ask HN: Tell me your product ideas, let's see if I can build it real quick

10 pointsivanceras11 comments

They say your products ideas worth nothing to the developers, but I'm gonna go ahead and listen to your product ideas. Let's see if we can build a quick prototype for it. Also people will point out that your ideas may have already been built and there may be an existing app you can use. So go ahead and post what product/app would you like to have.

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I want a simple reporting tool / dashboard.

Every week I run a couple SQL queries against my database and copy the results to a spreadsheet for graphing. I feel that there should be an easier / more automatic way to do that.

Existing software that I have looked at sucks because of one of the following reasons:

- it is ridiculously expensive

- it is complex to set up and using it would be harder than my current setup

- it is cloud based and would require sending credentials to my database on a third party server

What type of graphs do you create, how many data points, and is it the same graph you're making every time?

I mostly look at weekly revenue and trial downloads vs. sales, so I have at most a few hundred data points. I make bar charts mostly. (I don't think line charts are good for data that fluctuates a lot). It's always the same graph.

Have you seen metabase ?

http://www.metabase.com

This looks interesting. I'll check it out. Thanks!

Did you get what you were looking for in metabase. If not, I may have to tailor my base open-source data management project[0] to your need

https://github.com/ivanceras/curtain

Redash?

Allows you to produce graphs/charts of your own data, by writing SQL queries.

Self-hosted too.

A job posting website ( I know ) where every posting is a job relevant contest. Sort of like kaggle for all industries where the winner gets a job.

How terrible? Probably a nice Idea, but will be soon be overrun by people who just want to compete(and obviously, don't need a job) and making the hiring HR feel like the people who are looking for a job(and not finishing that high on the leaderboard) are really bad at their job. It ends up being a place where no one finds the job and companies get really demanding from anyone they hire. A guy who can probably finish 350th might not be that bad from the guy who finishes at say 25th on daily programming tasks, but HR is gonna say, "Well, there are 349 people better than him, so we may try hiring them". All in all, the companies ends up paying more depending on the "Rank". Probably only winners in this scenario are the big corps & people who finish < 25th.

A text editor with DOM-based search and replace for HTML.

Isn't that already exist. Simple search will just work just fine

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