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Ask HN: What would you pay $10,000 for right now?

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Re: Ask HN: What would you pay $10,000 for right now?

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Post by gesman »

marcamillion wrote: post #11
gesman wrote: post #5

Link analysis visualization

Care to expound on this further?

Well designed .js based, interactive link analysis functionality capable of taking feed of external data and showing links and relationships between nodes in a way that does not look like a mess on the screen.

Don't confuse it with Google page links to each other. It's not about SEO. It's about having an ability to visualize relationships between entities.

(A)->(B)->(C)

      |

      v   

     (D)->(E)
None of D3.js can do it properly

Re: Ask HN: What would you pay $10,000 for right now?

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Post by fludlight »

xchaotic wrote: post #25
fludlight wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you considered REITs?

I have looked at a few, the fees and the opaque structure scared me away. I would like the control, of being able to sell my share on the open market at any point (at close to face value, obviously) and being able to benefit from a proportion of rental income where ROI < 20 years.

Avoid the private REITs and buy one that's publicly traded. Also avoid mortgage REITs, those lend money (vs owning buildings).

Here's a simple screen for office REITs with a market cap over $300m on the NYSE (note that there are other types residential/retail/medical/etc under the "industry" filter):

https://finviz.com/screener.ashx?v=111&f=cap_smallover,exch_...

Re: Ask HN: What would you pay $10,000 for right now?

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Post by muzani »

marcamillion wrote: post #49
muzani wrote: post #40

I do a lot of freelancing but I have difficulty dealing with clients while doing the heavy lifting of tech work. Programming can be emotionally exhausting, and it's worse when dealing with clients who are manipulative. I'd gladly pay $10,000 for someone who could just handle sales and customer service for a project that pays $20,000 or more.

When you say handle sales, do you mean handle product development for each project that you have landed? So basically an account manager? Or do you mean someone that goes and lines up new sales? Just want to get specifics, so everybody understands what is being discussed.

Someone who manages what we promise to the client and how much they pay for it.

A huge part of the role is just deciding requirements. Whether this thing is possible, how much it costs, keeping the client from sneaking in something impossible, and lowering the costs to us when we can't deliver something that is too expensive to build.

The person has to be good at not overpromising things. Or managing client expectations.

Many clients prefer waterfall because it's easy to estimate project costs but it tends to be extremely costly to both parties. So someone who can educate the client in how to work from an agile perspective, suited to their budget restrictions.

There's the legal landmine to maneuver. What happens when things go wrong.

There are also many unethical people, especially in large companies, who are experts at pushing people into those landmines. They ask for impossible things then refuse to pay when those conditions are not met.

So the ideal person or service needs to be good at reading clients and avoiding these kinds of contracts.

Re: Ask HN: What would you pay $10,000 for right now?

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Post by computerfriend »

WingH wrote: post #48
wgator wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Want to exchange information? I can provide at least 3 of those APIs almost immediately. Working in the same industry, pretty solid technology.

sure email me at henley dot wing at gmail.

I can possibly pick up the other three.

Re: Ask HN: What would you pay $10,000 for right now?

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Post by ocrcustomserver »

cm2012 wrote: post #54
ocrcustomserver wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Like leads "locked" in pdf documents?

Not sure what that means?

I mean leads in the form of listings contained in pdf documents. The problem is that parsing/extracting that data is non-trivial.

In general:

  - pdf to Salesforce
  - pdf to Excel
  - pdf to database

Re: Ask HN: What would you pay $10,000 for right now?

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Post by thedirt0115 »

manglav wrote: post #31
thedirt0115 wrote: post #26

This is super niche, but a service that takes a video upload (or youtube link) of a professional pool/billiards match and generates overhead shot diagrams for every shot of the match. Why do I want this? Diagramming shots is the most tedious part of making a book where you analyze shots from pro matches -- this has been done by hand before and sells for ~$50 -- https://www.amazon.com/Capelle-9-Ball-Archer-vs-Reyes/dp…

Do you have any contact info? I'd like to give this a shot as a pool player and a computer vision engineer.

Awesome, I'll email you!

Re: Ask HN: What would you pay $10,000 for right now?

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Post by cm2012 »

ocrcustomserver wrote: post #56
cm2012 wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not sure what that means?

I mean leads in the form of listings contained in pdf documents. The problem is that parsing/extracting that data is non-trivial. In general: - pdf to Salesforce - pdf to Excel - pdf to database

Oh no, I mean getting people interested in buying your product to click "submit" on facebook with their email, etc.

Re: Ask HN: What would you pay $10,000 for right now?

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Post by agitator »

xchaotic wrote: post #23
agitator wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, I want to do this as well. When Tesla announced the gigafactory in Reno, I really wanted to pool together with others to buy an apartment complex or something.

Did the property prices spike up as expected?

I'd say it's still too early? I mean, Tesla's factory is only a fraction built and at a fraction of capacity.
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