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Ask HN: What problem does your business face that you’d pay to have solved?

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Presumably something that you currently aren’t able to pay to have solved bc the solution isn’t there.

For context, I’m scouting problems to solve for an IndieHackers-esque capstone project, my personal objective being to net at least $1k over a ~5 months (could be any kind of problem at all, scale-wise and industry-wise).

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Phone spam.

It interrupts employees' train of thought, but many people can't simply not answer their phones: a salesman who doesn't answer incoming phone calls isn't very effective at their job. Gone are the days where you could tell by the caller ID.

It's fun to think about a crew of mercenaries who travel to whatever corner of this planet, find the autodialer equipment, and take a small brick of C-3 to both the equipment and the owner, but would just settle for finding a way to stop it transparently.

From a business perspective a simple solution could be hiring a virtual assistant who vets incoming calls and only routes legitimate ones to employees.

Interestingly enough, at a hackathon I was at two weekends ago someone built exactly this: https://devpost.com/software/eddie-k7b3yf

Bad code. I would pay for better developers. But they are all happily employed (for the most part) and we cant exactly back up the brink truck...

What kind of developers are you looking for?

I wonder, do you need better developers, or better processes, practices and policies? Good developers will write shit code if the organisation has a gun to their head.

+1 to what he said. What many people complain that their Developer is bad, is mostly because of lack of business process and communicating clearly to the dev. Many small businesses still operate with the mindset that throw requirements to the other side and get back fully working bug free code which rarely works.

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