Ask HN: What is a useful, minimal app that doesn't exist yet? I am curious about this community's ideas about minimal single-purpose apps or services that can be implemented in theory, but haven't been done yet. |
Ask HN: What is a useful, minimal app that doesn't exist yet? I am curious about this community's ideas about minimal single-purpose apps or services that can be implemented in theory, but haven't been done yet. |
So there is nothing new under the sun."
More than likely, there is no app that hasn't been done. There are only ones we don't know about.
An idea on the front page of ideaswatch.com looks pretty easy and useful -- bill splitting for roommates.
It has of course, already been done. It's too obvious to have slipped through the cracks. But if you want to build something small that'll help lots of people who need help -- that would be a good one to tackle.
There are plenty of other good ideas at http://www.ideaswatch.com
https://www.reddit.com/r/Lightbulb/top/?sort=top&t=year
https://www.reddit.com/r/SomebodyMakeThis/top/?sort=top&t=ye...
2 random ideas:
Probably exists, but I don't know about it yet: Something that automatically or as-easy-as-possible deals with timezones (possibly as a browser plugin), showing me the time in my local zone. I can copy-paste to Wolfram Alpha, but that isn't perfectly smooth.
A YouTube frontend that can filter subscriptions, even better if it can split series automatically. E.g. many channels have multiple running series, posting them alternating, I'd love to see them as separate channels/ignore ones I'm not interested in. Identify common title prefixes/numbering schemes, break them out into separate displays. Solves the issue that not all channels provide playlists, and I can't subscribe to only playlists or "evrything except those 3 playlists".