I got a few: - Teleportation - Time Machine - Dream Recorder (as in record our dreams as we see them) - Mind Reader (as in Mel Gibson in What Women Want :))
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Ask HN: Name one product/service that you personally need but doesn't yet exist
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#22Re: Ask HN: Name one product/service that you personally need but doesn't yet exist
#23A personal life assistant at a good price.
Is it realistic to get something like a 20hrs/mth retainer for like $10/hr to sort out things for me. Something that was a longer term relationship so they get to know your personality plus build trust ideally.
Possibly share this assistant with friends/family.
The role would be to create a 1) one stop shop that 2) gets to know you and 3) can remove small distraction tasks; like coordinate dinner with friends, monitor my emails to pay bills, find good tyres for my car, come up with gift ideas, find me a new cleaner etc.
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#25A money manager. It knows all the expenses and allocates an allowance. it tells you to get a new job and to trim expenses in a sensible way. it tells you to stop buying so many clothes/books/whatever. it asks you to repeat what you are doing when you don't spend money. it makes you justify expenses before you can have money. it saves for you. I think this is possible now, when it was impossible before. it funds a deb…
I like the idea but doubt that would work out, at least not in my environment. I think this can only work if you use your credit card everywhere and always, else you would have to write down your expenses yourself and we know nobody would do that.
Then a lot of payments show up as rather generic. You would need to map a lot of "Payment Messages" to a topic, again something i think i would not do.
I think i could see that working rather in a Bitcoin only environment than anywhere else.
But then again, there apparently are americans who use their credit cards all the time and for everything. This might be just a american thing i cant understand.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can you expand on your definition of functional?
One that tells you the truth, not just "things that are true"? For example, don't just tell us he said, and she said, and leave us to try to figure it out. Investigate until you know who's right, and why, and tell us .
I would rather prefer the exact opposite. News that tell me the facts and then let me figure out my opinion without mentioning theirs all the time.
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#27A money manager. It knows all the expenses and allocates an allowance. it tells you to get a new job and to trim expenses in a sensible way. it tells you to stop buying so many clothes/books/whatever. it asks you to repeat what you are doing when you don't spend money. it makes you justify expenses before you can have money. it saves for you. I think this is possible now, when it was impossible before. it funds a deb…
I like the idea but doubt that would work out, at least not in my environment. I think this can only work if you use your credit card everywhere and always, else you would have to write down your expenses yourself and we know nobody would do that. Then a lot of payments show up as rather generic. You would need to map a lot of "Payment Messages" to a topic, again something i think i would not do. I think i could see…
There are Europeans who use credit or debit cards for everything, too. There are also several budget managers based on that being the case.
Tink is a Swedish one that I've used and it works well. It uses some Bayesian classifier or whatever to map payment codes to specific vendors, and to assign categories to vendors. When you login, it might say "we're uncertain about these 7 transactions, please classify them." In exchange for this very small amount of work, you get pie charts and trends and whatnot to visualize your spending habits.
When I first tried it years ago I immediately started baking my own bread and making my own hummus every day to cut down on lunch spending.
There are many consumer vendors in Sweden that don't even accept cash. Most bank offices don't handle any cash whatsoever.
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#28I have a habit of jumping into a new hobby/collection every 6-12 months but never know where to start since most online resources cater towards those who already know what they're doing (specifically watches in my case). I started a website hoping to address that, but it's far from finished. If there are any sites that do this already I'd love to see them!
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
One that tells you the truth, not just "things that are true"? For example, don't just tell us he said, and she said, and leave us to try to figure it out. Investigate until you know who's right, and why, and tell us .
I would rather prefer the exact opposite. News that tell me the facts and then let me figure out my opinion without mentioning theirs all the time.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
One that tells you the truth, not just "things that are true"? For example, don't just tell us he said, and she said, and leave us to try to figure it out. Investigate until you know who's right, and why, and tell us .
I would rather prefer the exact opposite. News that tell me the facts and then let me figure out my opinion without mentioning theirs all the time.
I really wouldn't -- there are orders of magnitude more facts in the world than I have time to digest, so it certainly helps having a basis of analysis, even if sometimes that analysis is misguided.