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Re: Ask HN: New web service idea that you would pay for?

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Post by eitland »

vertis wrote: post #26
AitchEmArsey wrote: post #8

I'd pay $5-ish per month for social media if it came with no ads or data harvesting - just a more privately scoped version of Facebook with some of the useful bits like event scheduling and discussion groups. Of course the problem is getting non-technical people to value their attention and privacy at more than $5/month in order to catalyse the network effects.

This has been tried though, app.net came and went. I mean if you want those things they exist in some form with Mastodon, Matrix/Element (not sure about the event scheduling).

app.net failed because they copied the most useless social network provider of them all.

Note that I specify provider above. Twitter is somewhat useful, but that is despite of, not because of the interaction design of it.

Edit: IIRC app.net was a bit overpriced and had some weird limitations too, although the latter might just be me remembering that they copied all the design mistakes of Twitter for no good reason.

Edit2: If anyone is in doubt at all: Twitter is popular because of the network effect. Everything else has been solved better by one or more competitors.

Re: Ask HN: New web service idea that you would pay for?

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Post by mNovak »

panorama wrote: post #22

I run a successful SaaS and while we have 2 engineers including myself, sometimes there are issues that are outside of my skill level (usually devops or db-related) or just aren't worth it for me to deal with on my own. I would likely pay 3 figures a month (maybe low 4?) just to have the privilege to field technical questions a couple times per month and ensure I can get good advice/help quickly. It's not that I don'…

I like this. A sort of incentivized professional Stack Overflow / Quora

Re: Ask HN: New web service idea that you would pay for?

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Post by superasn »

I'd like an accountability service like beeminder but with an actual human being who helps me not stray for my indiehacking goals.

There was something called bossasaservice or something but don't think they were able to keep up with the demand and closed. Also the suggested $10 might be too low a price point for this.

Re: Ask HN: New web service idea that you would pay for?

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Post by marginalia_nu »

I'd pay money for a service that finds me the best product according to parameters I provide. Like, not the product with the fanciest advertisement, but something that is actually good.

* My phone is broken. I want to buy a new one. I want to find the best one, given it must have at least 48 hour battery life and be able to handle falling to the floor a lot. I don't care about cameras or big screens. Show me what to buy. I don't want the options to be influenced by what other people want out of a phone, like an ultraviolet infrared stereoscopic 3D camera and 0.5g weight, but my parameters.

* I need new hiking shoes. I want something that lasts a while. Which ones do I get?

* I drive a Mazda CX-5 from 2014, maybe time to replace it? I want low mileage and I'm quite tall so I need some leg room. Give me some options. Oh, maybe the answer is I don't need a new car. That's useful to know too.

Currently, this requires a lot of research as most reviews are bought, most product information is unreliable. I'd pay for a service that shows me what is in my best interest as a consumer, not what is in the best interest of the sellers.

Re: Ask HN: New web service idea that you would pay for?

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Post by imglorp »

gerash wrote: post #25
AitchEmArsey wrote: post #8

I'd pay $5-ish per month for social media if it came with no ads or data harvesting - just a more privately scoped version of Facebook with some of the useful bits like event scheduling and discussion groups. Of course the problem is getting non-technical people to value their attention and privacy at more than $5/month in order to catalyse the network effects.

I've never had issues with the ads on social media. Some are indeed reasonable. What I hate about FB or Instagram is the "look how great my life is" aspect.

It's super aggressive data harvesting and aggregation you need to be worried about. What's the end game when employers, landlords, insurers, creditors etc have a stream of your purchases, browser history, location history, offline friends, etc etc? Social credit much?

Re: Ask HN: New web service idea that you would pay for?

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Post by stareatgoats »

Brajeshwar wrote: post #19
jawns wrote: post #5

I am willing to pay $5-$10 a month for a service that provides quality suggestions for low-price subscription SaaS businesses.

I don't know their pricing but check out https://www.builtfirst.com

He was probably just joking.

Re: Ask HN: New web service idea that you would pay for?

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Post by itake »

Todoist with metrics.

Todoist to me is regular (habits) + irregular to-dos (e.g. buy book, follow-up on email, etc.).

Pure habit tracking apps don't work b/c you need build a habit to use the app and with the content always being stale, they have high churn.

I want an app that also lets me track personal OKRs (habits). My goal might be to do 15 pullups and my habit could be to do 5 pullups per day. I want to know how often I skip my daily pull up habit so I can know to make adjustments (e.g. maybe 5 is too many. I should start with 3.).

Re: Ask HN: New web service idea that you would pay for?

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Post by bckr »

superasn wrote: post #54

I'd like an accountability service like beeminder but with an actual human being who helps me not stray for my indiehacking goals. There was something called bossasaservice or something but don't think they were able to keep up with the demand and closed. Also the suggested $10 might be too low a price point for this.

I think about this all the time myself.

Have you looked into StikK? They provide services like automatically donating to your most hated charity if you don't meet your goals (they provide options like the NRA and Planned Parenthood).

Re: Ask HN: New web service idea that you would pay for?

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Post by andrei512 »

panorama wrote: post #22

I run a successful SaaS and while we have 2 engineers including myself, sometimes there are issues that are outside of my skill level (usually devops or db-related) or just aren't worth it for me to deal with on my own. I would likely pay 3 figures a month (maybe low 4?) just to have the privilege to field technical questions a couple times per month and ensure I can get good advice/help quickly. It's not that I don'…

try codementor.io
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