Ask HN: What's an app or business you wish somebody else would build?
What is the idea? Why do you think it would be great and valuable? Why don't you work on it yourself? And who do you think would be best suited to making it happen?
Despite searching high and low around the gazilions of "flat file CMSs" and "Static Site Generators", I have not found a single one that remotely caters to artists/illustrators who might want to simply post their art on an open-source, local, and truly free site with a RSS feed. No title, optional date label, nothing else around. "Image-centric" rather than text-centric if you will.
I don't have the programming chops (I'm a designer) or the time to make it, but feel like it'd be a fairly simple month project with potentially big returns.
Very doable with 10 minutes of training (or far less if you know your way around things). (The app didn't work ultimately for me for text-focused reasons but it was the closest thing yet.)
Couldn't see why a very simple GUI wouldn't be the game changer.
It also takes a lot of effort to get great loading performance with it. A “free, simple visual SSG” without these problems would be much more attractive to artists or designers.
- It's my understanding that SSG's are much harder to hack/deface since there's much less (or nothing) to hack "into"; no databases, MYSQL, etc. Security's always a plus. Faster loading, too, is always a plus.
- It's abstract language, but wordpress "feels" bloated to just use in having way too many extensions, options, security holes, code, etc, when very often, artists only want their blog to look something like this: http://log.kradeelav.com/ - aka five features/options, max. Header, post image, post timestamp, title, tags, boom.
- Artists/designers have a spectrum of tech knowledge in that while sure, the vast majority have very little experience, there's quite a few "tinkerers" (I'd put myself there) that have no desire for a tech career but have enough experience to build a site (but not a blog), and want it to look clean/minimal with little fuss. Looking cleaner/better than your average corporate bootstrap blog is a huge plus aesthetically. ;)
- Artists tend to lean on the side of wanting to "own" their data and images as well caring about a free internet. Cutting out the bloat and keeping the values of RSS feeds, local hosting (much harder to censor too), and open-source code is a net win for individuals and society. Doesn't take a techie to understand the advantages there.
Happy to answer more privately if you do get curious enough to do something like this - email's in my profile. :)
You can use a portfolio theme in Publii for this purpose, it doesn't have to be text-centric.
Secondly, an Indian version of chipotle. there is one in Montreal that is great and would prob thrive in US.
Third, Super Giant games needs to make sequels to Hades for different religions and areas. An Aztec or Egyptian spinoff game would be dope.
Naantastic / Halal Guys
I strongly suspect licensing/permits are substantially more involved for a restaurant that exposes customers to uncooked meat and boiling hot oil and broth.
This has always been my thought for why it would be harder to do in the US (how do you handle the liability of having boiling pots within a toddler's reach). Same with "self cook BBQ" restaurants that put a hot thing of coals in the center of your table.
I don't know if it would thrive but if it was within half an hour of my house I would live there.
UK Website: https://happylambuk.com/ Australian: https://happylamb.com.au/ Beaverton Google Maps: https://goo.gl/maps/pYJDrL3ZmP2oHNiU9
Same Logos, but no centralized site. Maybe because it's a chinese company and my search isn't finding their Chinese website.
It's also common in asian grocery stores as a hotpot base http://www.littlesheep.com/ is their American site. They don't seem to have a centralized site the way some franchises do, though
What does this mean, exactly? Like, I know what Chipotle is. And I know what Indian food is, hah.
Nope in plenty of jurisdictions every single pot needs to be ventilated. Massive startup cost.
I frequent the Texas location but didn't realize it was one of the only US locations until now. It's not exactly Chipotle style (which I actually call Subway style) but very QSR/fast casual style. It's pretty good stuff and has a large following for people that I would guess are of Indian decent (I'm white), I feel like that says a lot because they're pickier than I am.
Grow shrimp in the aquarium, lettuce, cherry tomatoes and so forth in the terrarium
Each is monitored by a small computer w/ sensors which adjusts for nutrients, water, light, &c. --- at need, a vendor comes along, unlocks the outside access (which can only be unlocked if the matching inside lock is secure) and tops off/adjusts things.
If I'm having a dinner, have an option to drop off tilapia or a lobster in the aquarium.
I lack the green thumb, knowledge of electronics, and biological credentials --- it could be a nice gig for some person who is talented at growing things and has the computer programming/electronic sensor skills
I complain about having to mince my own garlic when I get a Blue Apron meal and you're willing to filet live fish? I don't see this working any where in the US, maybe somewhere else
I was very surprised to find such a thing doesn't exist (to my knowledge). I've tried sending pdfs to my Kindle account and it silently fails (the pdfs never show on my device). I tried using a pdf reader+Dropbox combo, but the pdf reader kept having trouble saving to Dropbox and creating "MyPdf (2).pdf" copies. I would end up with 20-30 copies, making it impossible to tell which one had the notes I was looking for.
or directly at https://social.network.europa.eu/about
Note that they only provide accounts on their instance for EU institutions, bodies and agencies.
Whatsapp tried this. People are generally unwilling to pay any amount of money for a service if a free (ad-backed) version exists.
In that case, yeah. It would be nice to see an alternative to Facebook that respected privacy.
xxx.io/your_value
It's currently invite only. I'm looking for some feedback.
Or less sarcastically, a dating site that actually works, where it doesn't revert to the whole game theory optimum strategy leading to the worst result overall.
Women are more valuable than men according to men (and women know this both consciously and biologically), hence it doenst matter what algorithm you use to match, 80 of of women prefer the top 20% of men
It is a quite basic problem, but I haven't been able to find a good solution yet: an audio recorder/player that shows the exact time instead of relative time. I'll be very happy for suggestions, and if not, then it's an app I would wish someone would build:)
Give me NetFlix, Disney+, Amazon Prime, Z Prime, Sony Liv, Discovery+ and all the rest in a consistent single UI, with a sensible, robust media player interface like VLC
May be technically impossible given the propreitary nature of these services.
Something like doodle, but it also has a chat box.
It also has to have a competent web interface that I can share a link with anyone, and they don’t need to create an account for some functionality.
Not something that's useful without hardware availability and wide adoption, plus there may be legal issues with the GDPR.
I would also like to see a non-vaporware GearEye that works with normal UHF tags.
"Stuff" is one of the biggest detriments to my own well being, and many others. Any technology that manages stuff well is great.
Being able to search storage boxes the way you search a computer would allow much denser packing and much less time looking for things, and make cleaning easier.
I'd love it if there was an ISO like group dedicated to micro-standards, that worked with tiny companies. All these random electronic modules on eBay could share a common size and pin layout. Stacking boxes could all be stackable between companies. They would actively look for anything that has more than one part, make a standard, and promote it, or document the existing de facto standard.
Sex worker positive apps seem to have a challenge maintaining traction for various reasons (edit: even in jurisdictions where it’s legal).
The creators wanted to launch it in the U.S. where it is illegal, and wanted to remain anonymous.
I'm all for innovation and trying to make things safer (I think they also said they would do background checks), but I was skeptical and thought it was more likely a scam than not.
While I suppose you can argue that leaves things no worse off than the current sex work landscape, it seems like any company jumping into this isn't going to look good in the public and regulatory eye if their attitude is to just keep letting customers get diseases and providers get stalked and murdered. This is why brothels work. They can actually provide security. A phone app can't.