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Not a subscription but I'd pay $100 after booking of a vacation travel planner that could give me options tailored to what I want, on flexible dates. For ex if I want to travel to some place warm sometime in say January - March, with some flexibility on length, I end up spending a lot of time figuring out if flying a week later of some random date is way cheaper, or if the airport waiting times or fly times are terri…
I'd pay ~5-10 dollars a month for high quality local grammar checking. I can't use grammarly in many contexts due to corporate security concerns.
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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).
No haven't heard of them but sounds like beeminder. In my opinion these automated solutions seldom work in the long run. Otoh having a real human being who calls you up or even WA you to check how you're doing from time to time can make a hell of a difference (right now my wife does that for me in a good way :P but I really think the guys who started bossasaservice were on to something and people were going crazy abo…
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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?
I'd pay $10/month for a news website that didn't cram a ton of ads and tracking into every page, covered a bit of everything, and was genuinely well-balanced. I don't particularly mind if it was left- or right-leaning in each article so long as it averaged out to be close to the centre overall. I actually think it's a pretty good potential application for a GPT-3 style prose-generating AI - I'd happily accept somethi…
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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?
I've been hearing about this dystopian future for as long as I remember and don't really see it pan out as bad as it's described. In fact the existing credit reports or DMV records already are some form of personal data aggregation and I don't hear people losing sleep over it
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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).
No haven't heard of them but sounds like beeminder. In my opinion these automated solutions seldom work in the long run. Otoh having a real human being who calls you up or even WA you to check how you're doing from time to time can make a hell of a difference (right now my wife does that for me in a good way :P but I really think the guys who started bossasaservice were on to something and people were going crazy abo…
We're very much active! (Though we did add a waitlist so we could onboard people in batches!) We're inviting people every week now though!
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No haven't heard of them but sounds like beeminder. In my opinion these automated solutions seldom work in the long run. Otoh having a real human being who calls you up or even WA you to check how you're doing from time to time can make a hell of a difference (right now my wife does that for me in a good way :P but I really think the guys who started bossasaservice were on to something and people were going crazy abo…
Hi, Boss as a Service founder here, thanks for the mention! :) We're very much active! (Though we did add a waitlist so we could onboard people in batches!) We're inviting people every week now though!
I'd pay ~5-10 dollars a month for high quality local grammar checking. I can't use grammarly in many contexts due to corporate security concerns.
I want the same for the same reason and have considered building it. Would you want it running in the browser? As some kind of plug-in to other tools? I have considered both.
A viable YouTube competitor, including its social and recommendation features, but without the ad-based business model making it so... fraught. I am happy with (and pay for) YouTube, but I'd love competition in this space.
Just out of curiousity, how would someone go about competing with YouTube? Build a prototype, raise a bunch of $$ from investors? Do you need to come in with domain / technical experience? Do you target a niche first?