Thread for ideas of a new web service or app solution, priced on a subscription model.
Which of your needs don't have a good solution yet?
For what app or web service are you ready to pay about 5-10$/month?
Ask HN: New web service idea that you would pay for?
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#2I pay 25$ a month to Textedly to enable me to easily send text messages to a group of people and enable signups to a list via a short code.
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#3Not necessarily anything new, but I've been looking for a clean and simple todo / project planning web application for an affordable price and ideally e2e encrypted.
From what I've seen most solutions that look appealing are focused on teams and have set their pricing accordingly.
I just need a todo app that goes a little further with a kanban board, sprints.
Full e2ee would be the cherry on top.
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#4I've wanted to build this for a while: favicon/icon as a service. Enter a domain, and get back an icon to represent the site. Could be a favicon, or a high-res application icon captured from meta tags. There are solutions to this now, but none of them are rock solid. You will end up pulling a hero image for twitter half the time. Params could include the size icon you are looking for, a good fallback, etc.
Imagine a product that deals with domains. You might want to show icons next to each domain in your product. You can build this yourself, as many do, but I think there is room for a "gravatar" style API that does this
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#5I am willing to pay $5-$10 a month for a service that provides quality suggestions for low-price subscription SaaS businesses.
Re: Ask HN: New web service idea that you would pay for?
#6I've wanted to build this for a while: favicon/icon as a service. Enter a domain, and get back an icon to represent the site. Could be a favicon, or a high-res application icon captured from meta tags. There are solutions to this now, but none of them are rock solid. You will end up pulling a hero image for twitter half the time. Params could include the size icon you are looking for, a good fallback, etc. Imagine a…
Perhaps something like this: https://favicon.allesedv.com/
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#7Slack ignore for channel, user(bot), and/or regex pattern.
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#8I'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.
Re: Ask HN: New web service idea that you would pay for?
#9Not necessarily anything new, but I've been looking for a clean and simple todo / project planning web application for an affordable price and ideally e2e encrypted. From what I've seen most solutions that look appealing are focused on teams and have set their pricing accordingly. I just need a todo app that goes a little further with a kanban board, sprints. Full e2ee would be the cherry on top.
I use Todoist and have beeen happy with it. You can even do a kanban board.
Re: Ask HN: New web service idea that you would pay for?
#10I'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.
social media where you can only post pixel art images. That way if you want to say something, you gotta click it out.