In the age of Single Page Applications that work almost without any backend I am missing a BaaS - Backend as a Service, that would handle users (sign up, sign in, forgot password), their data (save some user generated data, load user generated data) and payment processing at the same time. Right now you could try to combine Kinvey with Stripe or Cognito with PayPal but it is not easy at all.
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Ask HN: What “missing” technical solution(s) do you wish existed?
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Re: Ask HN: What “missing” technical solution(s) do you wish existed?
#212A way of using nuclear power to directly generate electricity, without going through a thermal cycle first. Similar to how photovoltaics work: instead of capturing heat from sunlight and going through a Carnot cycle engine to generate electricity, PV directly converts photons to electricity. Something like this with nuclear power would be revolutionary I think.
Re: Ask HN: What “missing” technical solution(s) do you wish existed?
#213A way of using nuclear power to directly generate electricity, without going through a thermal cycle first. Similar to how photovoltaics work: instead of capturing heat from sunlight and going through a Carnot cycle engine to generate electricity, PV directly converts photons to electricity. Something like this with nuclear power would be revolutionary I think.
Hey dude, I think you're shadowbanned! Most all of your comments show as [dead] :(
Re: Ask HN: What “missing” technical solution(s) do you wish existed?
#214Swift support on android [I'm aware of kotlin et al, I'm the kind of guy who never got well with Java]
Rubymotion, dozens of js frameworks, Xamarin... I dont really see why swift.
Re: Ask HN: What “missing” technical solution(s) do you wish existed?
#215Earlier quoted context omitted.
Rubymotion, dozens of js frameworks, Xamarin... I dont really see why swift.
It doesnt have to be swift, it could be dart or something else, what I'm wishing its a language distinct from Java but with first tier support, ideally supported by google (We all know that JS/Xamarin/Rubimotion aren't there yet)
I stopped doing android ads because i dont like Java enough to make more than a shitty app. So really with you on this
Re: Ask HN: What “missing” technical solution(s) do you wish existed?
#216A way of using nuclear power to directly generate electricity, without going through a thermal cycle first. Similar to how photovoltaics work: instead of capturing heat from sunlight and going through a Carnot cycle engine to generate electricity, PV directly converts photons to electricity. Something like this with nuclear power would be revolutionary I think.
Hey dude, I think you're shadowbanned! Most all of your comments show as [dead] :(
Re: Ask HN: What “missing” technical solution(s) do you wish existed?
#217Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was actually building something like that for myself. Would you use it if you had to manually log it?
Yeah. Having to manually log to /some/ extent is actually my expectation; it just has to be simpler than typing out a whole log entry. I don't want to type out "dec 02 2016 Hung out with Alex and Sammy, talked about Star Wars and whether Darth Maul or Qui-Gon would win in a fistfight, Sammy was backing Darth Maul and won the argument" I don't have any ideas to improve that in any way, I don't know if it CAN be improv…
What would you expect or be willing to time out instead?
Re: Ask HN: What “missing” technical solution(s) do you wish existed?
#218Re: Ask HN: What “missing” technical solution(s) do you wish existed?
#219A parser that would walk all web document elements, exercise keyboard access functions, then report back on what is or is not accessible via keyboard, touch, or click.
If you would be happy with a browser extension or JavaScript library, I'll make it.