Ask HN: What do you want people to build? We do "what are you building?" threads all the time. I want to hear the other side. What's a tool, product, or service you'd actually use that nobody seems to be making? Could be a better version of something that exists, or something totally new. |
For example I would like to remove reliance on certificates for TLS. I know it’s a security nono but I don’t care. Another example is choosing to make markdown the default format instead of html.
Simultaneously such an application should allow users to add their own custom packages, such as native interpretation of Python or custom media codecs.
Something that would give a user meaningful agency. You, sir, are a hopeless romantic. ;)
You can probably find many other posts as well by searching different phrases. Folks are always fishing for ideas via "Ask HN" posts.
So if you are on reddit - the extension would remove accounts that are likely bots based on age of the account, and other criteria. Same for other social media
Ive had a look and there doesnt seem much in this area
- A simple commenting system
- A simple up/downvoting system
- A simple forum
- A simple RSS-to-newsletter tool
There are solutions in that field, but they are usually way too complicated, or can't seamlessly integrate with an existing website.
Feedback is super important. That's how I scaled an app from 1k to 3k active users in a month. We had an internal "chat" hacked onto Firebase, and it turn the app from a recipe book to a community. People complained a lot about the app via this chat. We fixed the problems quickly and they'd recruit people from their other communities. It was also an exhaust pipe for complaints; we'd get few bad reviews on Google Play because people were heard.
SMF and PHPBB cost too much and were designed for an era before 80% of people were on mobile. Reddit and Discourse creates groups of people, not communities.
i've probably contributed to all these AI sloppers by giving them $10/20 bucks to get credits, to find out it doesn't work, so they can book it as "ARR" and raise $10M only to shut down some months later.