2. A developmental IDE that targets interactive run-time development where you see results instantly. Variables would instantly turn into scrollable bars that you can set min and max to modify a running game window. (i'm working on this idea.)
3. A service that teaches me how to program distributed, peer to peer, or machine learning step by step in implementing useable already made tools. Not just blog posts or coursera courses how to teach yourself how to make them.
4. An small box that you can program to respond to text with other small parts to turn lights on and off as well as other small things around the house for automation. But not be over the internet. A simple home automation by wifi sounds safer to me.
5. A plugin for the browser that track's movements and clicks of a mouse, for later automating a specific session. Useful for automation and faking users for social sites. This would probably have to be open source since privacy is a concern with plugins that provide that much level of tracking.
6. A finance screen that pulls off data in a more use-able way that isn't just simple stock figures but gives insight into market trends. This is a general idea, but the data needs to be useful enough. Thinknum, quantopian, and quandl.com are all decent ideas that are like "half-there."
Would you pay for a service that collected sets of tags from a site and returned it as JSON? Like all the links or images or script tags?
Then it has options to create rules for other pages similar to it as well so you can just provide a url or two and it'd update the script.
Quandl is nice, but it is only "shared data" that people are willing to submit so it is not up-to-date. It does have the best API of the group because you can pull data from it with very few lines of code, or simply download a .csv.
Thinknum is nice, they do discounted cash flow computing which is useful for investing. But theres not much there besides the balance sheets. It is a large amount of data, but it's not curated in a very digestable format. If you look at finviz you can see what I mean about more digestable information. It has green or red marks where it lists information indicating if things are good or bad that is a bit more digestable.
Mutual fund inflows are what really do a lot of the work for the market, but many financial sites do not cover this data. And momentum investing seems to be very big, but it's not covered that much.
edit: Ok, I dunno how well this really works, but it sounds/looks rather brokenish. Actually, I think this could have been easily made not nearly so pricey though. An API is expensive for this task, it's such a general task it should be a 1 time fee.
edit2: Actually this is pretty neat, but dang that price is annoying. I think anyone re-coding this idea as a plugin without a API cost and instead with a single cost but outputted the code would literally make 3x the amount of money.
edit3: Kimono is broken. Just did some tests on random blogs. It is not exactly as good as it suggests. It just chose a few sites that are easy to scrape from for it's display.
First of all, you cannot reliably determine what someone will pay for by asking them directly. People frequently do not know what they want until they see it, do not know what they will pay for until they open their wallet, and are poor forecasters of both.
Secondly, my experience indicates that the cross-section of people who post comments on HN is not well correlated with you average consumer or B2B market. Or with human beings in general, for that matter. ;)
Sometimes people do better with "forced" creativity. By asking someone this type of question it makes them think of quicker easier ways that may make their lives simpler. Which sometimes can lead to better thought out ideas.
While I agree HN's isn't the average consumer or even B2B market they are still people. . .
The right approach, I think, is to build a prototype and then ask people if they would pay for that prototype, rather than forcing people to imagine a product.
I will/might pay for a smart mailbox (physical not email) that can scan my mails and tell me if I have any useful mail other than junk. Bonus point if it organizes/separates the junk mail automatically in a separate bundle than my regular/good mail.
Note: You can tell that I am a homeowner. In general, a lot of home related stuff need serious fixing. So much can be done via great technology. Example: Lockitron is cool. Need more innovative things like that for home stuff.
EDIT: I edited the mailbox to physical mailbox to clarify that i m not talking about email.
I think rabbitmq, and few other mail services may do "some" of that.
They shut down last week, for insufficient demand (cost of user acquisition too high)
Problem:
I have a marketplace type website where my users would like to be contacted but not have their emails be made public.
How it works:
I set a subdomain of my site, mail.mysite.com to an ip address you designate. On demand, i make an API call to your service (www.emailobfuscationasaservice.com) with
{
real_address:foo@bar.com,
expiration_timestamp:2014-01-20T00:00:00.000Z,
obfuscate_replies: true / false,
callback_url: (optional)
}
(A) a success message and an anonymized, temporary email address like 239fag72wa@mail.mysite.com (the subdomain i gave you), or
(B) an error message like "no such user at that domain" or "domain doesn't exist" or something.
The email address lives until the expiration timestamp. If the obfuscated email receives a message, you forward it to the "real_address".
If "obfuscate_replies" was set to true at email creation time, then if the person responds, you play middleman for both parties and force all their emails to go through you (basically you create another obscured email for person who writes to the obscured email).
If "callback_url" was set, that means that I, the operator of www.mysite.com, want to be notified of activity at the obscured email address, so you POST activity to the specified url. That lets me do things like update activity feeds in my app for the user.
If you build this, I will pay for it. It seems to me that many other startups could use something like this as well.
edit: formatting and owning up that this is me re-posting this from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7024718 in hopes that somebody will build this so I can pay for it.
This could be done by running an automated script that makes an e-mail address temporarily adds it to your site. Then another script that check's said e-mail address.
This is a problem with e-mail spam, but I think hiding your real e-mail from spambots is the main concern in this if I am understanding you right.
However these are designed around obscuring MY email address, and using 10minutemail.com or 33mail.com's domains.
I need to create emails for my customers that will forward to THEIR email addresses when another party contacts them, preferably using my own domain.
While I guess I technically could figure out a way to use something like 10minutemail and register accounts for all of the users of my site, it would probably require:
1. the users of my site to tell 10minutemail that it's ok to forward to them (during 10minutemail's registration process)
2. i would have to post 10minutemail.com domains as the contact info for the customers of my site, which is an undesirable UI.
If I'm missing something and I can in fact use existing services to do what I want, please fill me in, because I want this, I just don't want to build it (yet, anyways).
craigslist implements something like this now. If you email a CL anonymized email address and email back and forth, you never get the counterparty's email address.
Basically craigslist just acts as a relay, so all communication actually happens between $PERSON_A and Craigslist and separately between $PERSON_B and Craigslist.
My requirements are actually quite simple. I want a place to share posts, and photos and have friends and family (predominantly family) would be able to comment on those photos and posts.
It needs to look good, minimal and easy to configure. I want to get my private stuff away from the NSA vacuum cleaner. I want to take back control.
2. I'd also pay money for a sudo apt-get a-completely-simple-fully-featured-email-server-that-is-bullet-proof-by-default-and-the-only-config-is-a-domain-name(s). Ideally with a web interface. I'm praying mailpile.is will be that.
I've seen some decentralized facebook type stuff on github. Problem is non-centralized social networks are hard to scale as well as a bit strange to use for people.
There's another e-mail service being built upon "tent.io" which may be another solution to this problem. I agree though e-mail should be more private.
1. I need a cheap gpu powered pc, something like 300 cuda cores but with the ability to expand to 3072. I'm will to pay $1k for this plus the price of shipping.(Don't care if the parts are old) 2. I need to dress better. A service to pick out the clothes that I wear and should buy. Willing to pay $120 per year for this. 3. A book about how to make great conversation. The book needs to have tons of examples. Willing to pay $10 for this. 4. A book about 1000 ways to make people laugh. Willing to pay $10 for this. 5. A programmable human size android. That cost under $1k. 6. Designs to said programmable android. Willing to pay $100 for that. Should be able to hook it up to a 3d printer.
I suppose I could get some of that from a college, if I went back for a degree in CS, but it seems like school is disconnected from so many aspects of development and industry, the tools you learn are not the tools you use when working, and it is incredibly expensive with no guarantee. I want someone in tune with how things work in the real world to help me with my career, so I can focus on being good at the jobs I get, not at being good at getting jobs.
2a. Document/file storage as good as Google Drive/Docs, that is open source and runs on my servers. Corresponding mobile app required.
2b. Open source cloud (a la ownCloud) with a better user interface and more features on both web and mobile (i.e.: viable as a Google drive replacement)
3. A mobile operating system that focuses on security and isn't too information-leaky.
4. A very nice android tablet replacement for stock headunits in cars. The key is that it should be easy to install and configure. One can create this now using torque, a bluetooth OBDII adapter, and tasker to act like a genuine headunit, but requires lots of configuration/setup.
1) Tells me via a % of what type of things they post (text only vs links, vs images, etc)
2) Tweets to followers % (If someone has 10k tweets and only 100 followers, that usually means they aren't worth following IMO)
3) allows me to filter by media type on the twitter website. So, let's just say I only want to view tweets that don't have media links.
I would pay about 5 dollars for that.
This could also be done as a seperate website layout:
I think it'd be great to rank twitter users based on criteria: How influential are they? What category best fits them in one word? And statistics: What % of tweets have text, links, images? Filtering by media type.
I'd also see this as a very useful tool to pay for. If nothing else by ad revenue on the website itself.
Edit: Actually I think http://www.twitonomy.com/ or http://bottlenose.com/ are pretty nice.
There are plenty of things I think I'd pay for but when it comes to taking out my credit card and paying for it I find something else to distract me from it.
While this is true in some retrospects, it's all about solving problems. If people say "they want to solve x need for their y idea" it is essentially the same as "I'd pay for x so I can solve y sooner."
And in that retrospect these lists could be useful. You could try being less negative and think for 5-10 minutes on an idea rather then being a pessimist.
For example: Only famous people? only students? only phds? Content? Only people with blogs?
Or maybe a better dashboard abstraction that can have conversations between people be easier to digest?
You can put it together from google analytics + some perl regex script to just print the e-mail addresses.
Maybe the way to go would be to look for similar names on other sites as well.