Ask HN: What do you wish someone would build?

As someone who has worked as both a sysadmin and software developer for many years, RHEL and SuSE are not any better than the other Linux distros in terms of polish and usability.

RHEL/SuSE are "enterprise" Linux, meaning you pay the vendor for a phone number to call when things don't work according to the documentation.

As primarily server-based operating systems, they receive no extra UI polishing than their free counterparts (e.g. Fedora, Ubuntu). I would argue that they often receive even less because as server operating systems, the vendors expect you to run them mostly in a headless environment.

In fact, since they are so "enterprise" and have long support/release cycles, they frequently featured software which is years out of date even on the day of release. Because the software has had several months/years since release, all the obvious show stopping bugs have been quashed, so now it's "ready for enterprise."

I would say that back in the day (mid-2000s), I would probably have considered Mandrake Linux to be the most polished. They had a graphical software center years before Ubuntu did. Unfortunately they found, as many others did over the years, that unless you're #1 or #2 in the desktop Linux distribution list, eventually the money dries up and you're toast.

Not to knock "enterprise Linux" too much. It has it's time and place: when you need a stable operating system with vendor support that you plan to develop and release a product on and expect that product to work for several years without major attention.

But for polished desktop use, they're worse than the other free distributions like Ubuntu/Debian/Arch/Fedora, both because enterprise Linux distributions lack recent software, and because the documentation is frequently behind a pay wall and only produced by the vendor (instead of say the Arch Linux or Gentoo wiki).

CrowdFlower has a de facto monopoly on the outside of the US supply and charges an enormous premium for it - enough to turn off most of them. I certainly don't want to pay several thousand a month for the right to submit jobs, although I was ok with the 25% premium in the old days.

If it's an alternative marketplace, it has to have excellent automation via API. I'm not going to use this for questionnaires, I'll be submitting thousands of jobs automatically.

If you have built this already, please email me.

I'd like a process/thread to be able to have multiple current-working-directories at the same time, so that a library can change the directory without effecting the rest of the program.

Similarly, I'd like processes to be able to operate on behalf of multiple users at the same time.

I'd like stricter security policies that deny network access, file system access, etc.. unless they've been explicitly turned on (like Android or IOS).

I'd like transactional semantics for filesystem updates. No process should be able to see changes made by another process until that process does a "commit".

I'd like to have a general command-line undo. I'd like to be able to do "rm -rf /*" and then undo the operation and have everything be restored.

I'd like to have something like proc files, but for user space applications.

My full wish list is quite a bit longer, but that's good enough for now.

I want to set up rules like "take 19 percent of every incoming transaction and save it to virtual account 'taxes'. Use this, account to pay invoices by $financialAgency"

Banking hasn't produced any innovation since online banking, it seems