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Ask HN: What is your's “I would pay $5 to get that problem resolved”

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Re: Ask HN: What is your's “I would pay $5 to get that problem resolved”

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Today, I was dealing with foreign currency conversion and was confused about a few things, but to get an answer, I'd have to open Reddit, find the right community, click self-post and ask what I wanted, then wait for an answer. A service that did this for me would be cool but it would annoy/'ruin' Reddit, so I think a better idea is what I've outlined below. I've never used Mechanical Turk but from what I hear, each…

You could try Ask Metafilter.

Re: Ask HN: What is your's “I would pay $5 to get that problem resolved”

#12
- 20$/year: better facebook (with all my friends migrated magically, no adds, no spying bullshit)

- 5$/month: a good windows backup (audited encryption + cloud or easy management of multiple external drives. Single system image once per month, versioned backups for all my documents). Currently trying arq but it has no proven crypto and no system images.

- find me the best nieche software for X with these requirements. On a human level. For many things there are 5 good softwares and one clear winner. Somehow it's still hard to find the winner without skimming a few human authored comparisons (if you find them) and installing 2 or 3. E.g. bulk-crop pdf pages¹ or visual click automation².

¹ https://sourceforge.net/projects/briss/?source=typ_redirect

² http://www.sikulix.com/

Re: Ask HN: What is your's “I would pay $5 to get that problem resolved”

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I will pay $5/Month to make sure that I don't get any junk physical mail in my mailbox (US). I hate sorting through mails and I almost always know that 95% are junk.

Wow, I live in Queensland, Australia, and here if you put up a sign on your letterbox that says "Australia Post Only" or "No Junk Mail" or similar, your junk mail intake drops to basically zero immediately -- it's really effective. So effective actually that I've never had to lookup what actions to take if I still receive junk mail, because it just never happens. I looked it up just now and found this: https://www.ehp.qld.gov.au/waste/advertising-material.html

Re: Ask HN: What is your's “I would pay $5 to get that problem resolved”

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post #8

I will pay $5/Month to make sure that I don't get any junk physical mail in my mailbox (US). I hate sorting through mails and I almost always know that 95% are junk.

I am in Norway and all I have to do is put a sticker on my mail box, which basically says "No unsolicited mail" which stops the postman from filling my mailbox with junk mail. I usually take off the sticker during Christmas or near black Friday, so I can see if I am missing out on any good deals.

I wonder, if it would make sense, to have a service, which would receive all your mail, sorts it for you, throws out the junk, scans the rest and email that to you. In Norway, I rarely receive any important physical mail, especially since the government has started a secure email service[0], where you can receive your payslip and other important documents from government departments. The senders are pre authorized and pay a small fee to send an email to the user but the service is free for the user of the service.

[0](https://www.digipost.no)

Re: Ask HN: What is your's “I would pay $5 to get that problem resolved”

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post #8

I will pay $5/Month to make sure that I don't get any junk physical mail in my mailbox (US). I hate sorting through mails and I almost always know that 95% are junk.

You can contact your local USPS office and just tell them you do not want the junk mail - and they will no longer deliver it.

Re: Ask HN: What is your's “I would pay $5 to get that problem resolved”

#16

I'd pay $5 for someone to find and schedule a dr appointment for me to help deal with my anxiety and depression. I've been putting it off for months. :\

I'm thinking of a {life coach, personal assistant, concierge, gopher, personal trainer} service for people with motivation issues.

It might hold you a little accountable for things like exercise and offload some errands and legwork for easy things like PP is asking. There are services for this already but I'm thinking more opinionated and motivational.

Re: Ask HN: What is your's “I would pay $5 to get that problem resolved”

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post #8

I will pay $5/Month to make sure that I don't get any junk physical mail in my mailbox (US). I hate sorting through mails and I almost always know that 95% are junk.

There was a service like this, right? It opened and scanned all of your mail and sent it through email. Junk mail wasn't scanned.
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