Ask HN: What do you wish someone would build?

Post by watwatwatwat » Sat, Sep 24, 2016, 10:32 AM UTC

bonoboTP wrote: post #232

tajen wrote: post #216

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"We can't do it because it's a different business model than Apple's" ;) ? From 9Gag to HN, Windows 10 is a recurring meme of disrespect for the -cattle- consumer, in a world of Snowden and Facebook where we don't even own our computers. I say there's a demand (with money available) for a trustworthy OS in the PC world, and for a open-source in the Apple world. Selling today's OSes might be impossible indeed. But a l…

Have you actually tried to talk about those supposed advantages to non-tech people? Try it. Even many tech people don't care about that stuff and get annoyed if you start bringing up this kind of democracy, privacy etc. stuff. People care about features and convenience. Getting stuff done and being entertained. Seriously, talk to "normal people" and see for yourself.

Post by amelius » Sat, Sep 24, 2016, 10:39 AM UTC

Post by rm445 » Sat, Sep 24, 2016, 10:46 AM UTC

cromulent wrote: post #176

A non-cloud off-site backup appliance. This is what I want (I know there are alternatives, but this is what I want): A device that I buy, and can plug at least one hard drive in to. I give it some sort of passphrase. I then place it in a friend's house and connect it to their internet connection. I can then access it remotely from my house. I can easily backup my stuff to it. My backups are encrypted, both over the w…

Post by NicoJuicy » Sat, Sep 24, 2016, 10:49 AM UTC

pfranz wrote: post #146

psadauskas wrote: post #39

A stack for building web applications in the browser. HTML and CSS are pretty good for documents, but terrible for in-browser GUI apps that we're all building, its just piles of hacks upon hacks. I want someone, probably Google since they own both a major browser and some of the most popular web applications, to re-invent the entire stack. Steal ideas from GUI-focused languages and toolkits, like QML, Swift, AppKit,…

That's what I understood Microsoft Gazelle[1] to be. I remember a blurb about it in 2009, I was very excited about the idea, but since then I haven't seen or heard anything. [1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/the-mul...

Post by jagermo » Sat, Sep 24, 2016, 10:52 AM UTC

ciaranm wrote: post #225

jagermo wrote: post #200

A smart bank account: I want to set up rules like "take 19 percent of every incoming transaction and save it to virtual account 'taxes'. Use this, account to pay invoices by $financialAgency" Banking hasn't produced any innovation since online banking, it seems

I guess you're not based in the UK, but monzo(previously Mondo) ( https://monzo.com/ ) sounds like the start of what you're looking for. Their API ( https://monzo.com/docs/ ) opens them up to all sorts of uses for your bank account.