An app/service which provides the location of one mobile phone to another mobile phone. It should work across different manufacturers (iphone blackberry), across different service providers (verizon t-mobile).
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#52I would pay (a little) for a purchasing/problem fullfilment agent.
An example: I have one of the new macbook pros, and it came with a "free" 3rd party cheap-china usb C -> usb 3.0 hub. The problem (which I believe is quite common) is that attaching it, disables wifi - I guess it's just crappy low end chinese design and total lack of care for wireless compliance, etc.
So, I'd like to buy another hub that actually works without disabling my wifi. I don't want to pay Apple prices. I don't want to spend a day reading between-the-lines on aliexpress/ebay to ensure that it is genuinely compatible and non-interfering with my macbook wifi. I'll pay a premium (but not too much) for the best/best-value usb C hub for my purposes.
There are numerous examples of this kind of problem when buying products, particularly electronics, of having to read the fine print to get particular revisions that support some obscure use-case that I'm particularly interested in, and it's a real drag to try and hunt the right combinations.
Another example: I got interested in mechanical keyboards. (I think) I'd like a 68-key layout with rgb backlighting and gateron brown switches. Find one for me.
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#53I live in apartment complex. I’d like to buy my own washer and dryer and be able to rent out a place with water/dryer hookups and pay a monthly and usage fees as to not use the gross common laundry machines. To my knowledge no such service exists.
Why not use a laundromat, then?
What do you think a laundromat is?
Re: Ask HN: What product/service would you be willing to pay for?
#54I live in apartment complex. I’d like to buy my own washer and dryer and be able to rent out a place with water/dryer hookups and pay a monthly and usage fees as to not use the gross common laundry machines. To my knowledge no such service exists.
How is this use case not covered by apartments with in suite laundry?
They wouldn't use the service, I'm not sure what you are asking.
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#55I live in apartment complex. I’d like to buy my own washer and dryer and be able to rent out a place with water/dryer hookups and pay a monthly and usage fees as to not use the gross common laundry machines. To my knowledge no such service exists.
When I lived in an apartment without laundry services, I found it was cheaper to just pay a laundry service for pickup and drop-off at my front door. I paid about $50 a month, when an in unit washer dryer would cost a lot more. I also looked into a washer dryer unit that I could plug into my sink. They are really common in Europe but not in the United States. The problem is that American voltage is too low to run a d…
Unfortunately laundry services also use machines of variable quality/cleanliness, so not help there for me at least.
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#56I live in apartment complex. I’d like to buy my own washer and dryer and be able to rent out a place with water/dryer hookups and pay a monthly and usage fees as to not use the gross common laundry machines. To my knowledge no such service exists.
Wouldn't common laundry machines that somehow don't become gross be much more efficient in terms of space and resources?
I know they are trying to do vibrating dryers which don't become as gross, but washing machines are the main problem in terms of cleanliness, but I'm not sure if there are any new advances on that front.
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#57Alert me when my service providers introduce newer better deals and quietly grandfather me onto older worserer ones.
Like today I called my ISP to upgrade to a faster connection that is cheaper than my old slow one.
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why not use a laundromat, then?
What do you think a laundromat is?
A business devoted to maintaining clean, high-quality clothes-washing facilities. The degree to which they succeed varies.
If your criteria are specifically a single-household-only washer and dryer setup, and not just avoiding poorly-maintained central facilities, then my suggestion will not suffice.
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#59Twitter without bullshit (algorithmic timeline, "how to follow", ads, tracking, t.co).
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#60Twitter without bullshit (algorithmic timeline, "how to follow", ads, tracking, t.co).
Oh yeah? And how much do you believe you would pay for that =)