PG mentioned this question in his most recent essay, so I am redirecting it to everyone on HN. What does your company (or you individually) need that you would play a lot of money for?
Ask HN: What do you need that you'd pay a lot for?
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#2Peace of mind.
Take care of all my trivial stuff for me. Bills, taxes, money management, politics, corruption and other stupid distractions that stop me from focusing on people that matter.
How much do you want?
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#3Personally, I'd pay lots for a set of hardware-integrated network infrastructure monitor tools of a more advanced sort.
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#4People pay premium prices for stuff, that they want to do very much or that they do not want to do at all, but have to. Cyberjunkie described the second category as stuff that brings piece of mind. For the first category you get bonus points if you find something, that is highly visible to others (status symbols).
First category: Golf equipment, expensive knifes, barbecue stuff, wine, shoes etc.
Second category: Taxes, cleaning, medicine, everything which lets one appear to be a better parent (does not matter if it actually does) etc.
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#5Personally, I'd pay lots for a set of hardware-integrated network infrastructure monitor tools of a more advanced sort.
What tools do you use today, and what don't they do well enough?
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#6Photo storage /viewing that doesn't try to sync my photos to a computer (making me scared of losing them in a sync mishap) or share them. Electronic equivalent of a shoebox. Snapjoy did this but Dropbox bought them and shut it down. I haven't seen an alternative - maybe the new Amazon photos does this?
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#7Automating the US immigration system. Obsoleting attorneys.
Re: Ask HN: What do you need that you'd pay a lot for?
#8Photo storage /viewing that doesn't try to sync my photos to a computer (making me scared of losing them in a sync mishap) or share them. Electronic equivalent of a shoebox. Snapjoy did this but Dropbox bought them and shut it down. I haven't seen an alternative - maybe the new Amazon photos does this?
I had an idea a while back for this kind of thing, but never stuck with it. I wanted to make something with Amazon Glacier that would be for long-term storage of RAWs for all those people who don't want to ever really delete a RAW file, with small jpeg previews of your library. Maybe I should dig up my old notes and give it another go.
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#10knowledge, i want a website that i tell that i want to have the knowledge of someone about certain domain. then the site give me a path(books, articles, exercises) that lead me to this. this could be simply done by letting people write about their knowledge and give the path by themselves