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Ask HN: Share Your Pain

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Re: Ask HN: Share Your Pain

#11

My pains: 1) Satisfying my physical/emotional intimacy needs (the physical is the bigger pain) 2) Commuting without being surrounded by strangers. Go build a startup to solve those pains for me :)

Not a startup, but I blog a lot about how to solve problems like your first one.

Re: Ask HN: Share Your Pain

#12
I'd love a Mac app that allows me to select text on a web page and copy the HTML for a link to the page with the selected text as the anchor text. It would save me a ton of time every day.

Re: Ask HN: Share Your Pain

#13
post #8

My pain is having many ideas for startups and not being able to develop them for lack of coding skills and lack of interest in coding. Give me a drag&drop development system and you will make me happy :)

That's easy enough already if you're willing to pay for it.

Re: Ask HN: Share Your Pain

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post #12

I'd love a Mac app that allows me to select text on a web page and copy the HTML for a link to the page with the selected text as the anchor text. It would save me a ton of time every day.

ClickBoard extension for Chrome does almost that: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bnahceedpdkaiojgdp...

I have not looked into that too much but I guess it is possible to find extension that does exactly what you need. Maybe even this extension could do that with some custom settings.

Re: Ask HN: Share Your Pain

#15

My pains: 1) Satisfying my physical/emotional intimacy needs (the physical is the bigger pain) 2) Commuting without being surrounded by strangers. Go build a startup to solve those pains for me :)

Buy bicycle. It will solve second problem and will benefit for solving first one. While you might need psychological help on first one (I don't know you so it is hard to recommend properly).

Re: Ask HN: Share Your Pain

#16
Apartment renting - CL sucks, it is filled with spammers. Brokers charge heavily, and in general, I don't feel like paying a lot of money to a broker, as I don't think they add too much value (it is different when buying a property though)

Re: Ask HN: Share Your Pain

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post #13
post #8

My pain is having many ideas for startups and not being able to develop them for lack of coding skills and lack of interest in coding. Give me a drag&drop development system and you will make me happy :)

That's easy enough already if you're willing to pay for it.

I am totally willing. I have tried to recruit someone on oDesk and other similar platforms but the experience has been bad so far.

Re: Ask HN: Share Your Pain

#19

My pains: 1) Satisfying my physical/emotional intimacy needs (the physical is the bigger pain) 2) Commuting without being surrounded by strangers. Go build a startup to solve those pains for me :)

Taking care of (1) is easy - you just have to:

- chill the f* out

- act natural

- lower your standards

It's that simple. Alcohol is known to help with the last step, btw.

Re: Ask HN: Share Your Pain

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post #8

My pain is having many ideas for startups and not being able to develop them for lack of coding skills and lack of interest in coding. Give me a drag&drop development system and you will make me happy :)

A drag-and-drop system would severely limit your options and creativity. Compare coding in HTML/JS/CSS to using Frontpage or Dreamweaver.

Furthermore, you are posting on a site full of engineers and developers. If you are really interested in building something, drop me a line. My email is in my profile.

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