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Re: Ask HN: What do you wish someone would build?

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Post by csallen »

rimantas wrote: post #51
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,…

What if in the last 20 years we've learned that browser is not the proper place for applications?

I think we've learned the exact opposite of that in the past 20 years.

Re: Ask HN: What do you wish someone would build?

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Post by dwaltrip »

rimantas wrote: post #51
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,…

What if in the last 20 years we've learned that browser is not the proper place for applications?

Why would you say that? The browser has become the most successful app platform ever built.

Re: Ask HN: What do you wish someone would build?

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Post by wwalser »

hyuuu wrote: post #28
joshontheweb wrote: post #25

A simple plug and play referral program to let your saas customers get a recurring kickback when referring others. It should integrate with stripe and let you configure behavior like adjusting payout percentages after a certain amount of time has passed. Ideally it would have an admin panel for each referrer so they can see their performance. It also needs to have pricing that scales from nothing so pre-revenue compa…

Referly did this before they pivoted to Mattermark: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/refer-ly

Did Referly have a two sided marketplace? I knew Referly as a platform that allowed individuals (bloggers, authors, content marketers) to track the referral links that they themselves share.

I thought it was basically a database of referral programs where Referly was attempting to reach high enough volume to negotiate a rake from the company already offering that referral program. I never saw them offering to setup referral programs on behalf of companies.

edit: The answer to my question is: Yes. Not exactly what the top comment asked for but it was close. https://techcrunch.com/2012/07/23/referly-gets-more-social-l...

Re: Ask HN: What do you wish someone would build?

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Post by joshontheweb »

hyuuu wrote: post #28
joshontheweb wrote: post #25

A simple plug and play referral program to let your saas customers get a recurring kickback when referring others. It should integrate with stripe and let you configure behavior like adjusting payout percentages after a certain amount of time has passed. Ideally it would have an admin panel for each referrer so they can see their performance. It also needs to have pricing that scales from nothing so pre-revenue compa…

Referly did this before they pivoted to Mattermark: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/refer-ly

Anyone know why they pivoted? I don't really need the social sharing stuff as my referrers will be invited and given their own link to share. Seems like something lots of businesses would need. Mine does.

Re: Ask HN: What do you wish someone would build?

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Post by Razengan »

Fantasy Tourism [1].

A VR app or game that lets me explore (or live in) fictional cities and places from popular works or standalone art. Like Hobbiton, Coruscant, the torus-city of Sigil from Planescape, or the Venice-on-Mars from the Aria manga/anime.

[1]: https://medium.com/@Razengan/virtual-reality-fantasy-tourism...

Re: Ask HN: What do you wish someone would build?

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Post by Razengan »

sssilver wrote: post #30

A single IM platform through which everyone can talk to everyone regardless of their IM service, and I mean I wanna be able to send a message to someone's iMessage from my Battle.net account, and then receive someone's Facebook message on my Slack or something. Obviously IDK how this would be possible, but IM is now broken beyond repair by companies that tried to "fix" it. The list of IM apps on my iPhone keeps growi…

This. It's baffling; we've "solved" email – anyone can have an account with any provider and is able to mail anyone else – why haven't been able to do the same with instant messaging already?

Re: Ask HN: What do you wish someone would build?

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Post by [deleted] »

Razengan wrote: post #66
sssilver wrote: post #30

A single IM platform through which everyone can talk to everyone regardless of their IM service, and I mean I wanna be able to send a message to someone's iMessage from my Battle.net account, and then receive someone's Facebook message on my Slack or something. Obviously IDK how this would be possible, but IM is now broken beyond repair by companies that tried to "fix" it. The list of IM apps on my iPhone keeps growi…

This. It's baffling; we've "solved" email – anyone can have an account with any provider and is able to mail anyone else – why haven't been able to do the same with instant messaging already?

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Re: Ask HN: What do you wish someone would build?

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Post by hitsurume »

I want Jarvis, literally the AI in the Iron Man movie. I want him to converse banter and operate my computers / servers with whatever I need, and do it FAST. Siri and Google are doing good things, but I want something I can host myself so its quick, responsive and feels like i'm talking to a real person.
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