Invent a new framework. Make use of what you already know -- i.e. HTML5, CSS3, JS, PHP, Ruby, Python & Perl.
What kind of framework? Just anything random?
A lightweight micro-framework.
Offer HN: Tell me what you need, and I'll program it (for free)
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Re: Offer HN: Tell me what you need, and I'll program it (for free)
#32Create a web app that offers, your offer. A portal for HN devs to take on jobs, possibly in tandem, to better their skills. Hackers helping hackers.
I like this idea too, but perhaps instead of just "hackers helping hackers," maybe you could open it up to something like "hackers helping charities" to do some more good.
Re: Offer HN: Tell me what you need, and I'll program it (for free)
#33a software that help us to download all our pictures,data,comments,etc. from facebook, so we can have it for us, and then be able to delete our accounts from that evil web...
They already kindof let you do that, the thing I can't find any simple way to do is download all of my friends photo albums that I'm tagged in somewhere. I don't really take photos, so most of my precious memories are in other people's photo collections. If someone makes that I may well even give them money. It shouldn't be too hard, just a few graph API queries and a loop to call curl, but I've never got around to i…
Since IFTTT (http://ifttt.com) uses the Facebook push notifications, you can actually auto-save pictures that your friends have tagged you in fairly easily. Granted, this is not for historic purposes, but will work from when you turn the recipe on.
https://ifttt.com/recipes/1717 is the original recipe that most people have modified that saves any pictured you're tagged in to Dropbox. I'm sure that it can be modified to upload all the pictures in the album (which you have access to).
Re: Offer HN: Tell me what you need, and I'll program it (for free)
#34I'd pay $20/year if you build a reliable HN e-mail comment gateway. I'd pay double if you convinced PG to let your app sync people's comment history. Use e.g. Gmail OAuth IMAP authentication, sync to a label, optionally sync bidirectionally (i.e. comment replies from Gmail), but that's only marginally more useful than getting e-mail archives of comments here. Hell, if you write it in Python then I'll even donate the…
Be careful about putting dollar figures on things like this and estimating demand. What if this guy spends a few hundred hours on this and then no-one buys it? Sure, it's his risk to take, and you carefully qualified your last statement, but overestimating demand is a deadly thing. So let me as - why do you think people will be willing to pay for this service, and what kind of numbers are you talking about? 100? 1000? 10000?
Re: Offer HN: Tell me what you need, and I'll program it (for free)
#35An app that ranks content that we provide according to the popularity of an associated twitter hashtag. Similar to andthewinner.is but where the tiles of each event shift around in real time according to realtime popularity.
Re: Offer HN: Tell me what you need, and I'll program it (for free)
#36Create a web app that offers, your offer. A portal for HN devs to take on jobs, possibly in tandem, to better their skills. Hackers helping hackers.
I like this idea too, but perhaps instead of just "hackers helping hackers," maybe you could open it up to something like "hackers helping charities" to do some more good.
Re: Offer HN: Tell me what you need, and I'll program it (for free)
#37a software that help us to download all our pictures,data,comments,etc. from facebook, so we can have it for us, and then be able to delete our accounts from that evil web...
I want to extend this a bit
* scrape your facebook data and most importantly the references to other accounts
* make accessing facebook available through your own software
* when you post something, it should appear on facebook but also directly into the very own self hosted version of your data
Why?
Use facebook but be ready to leave or parallely use one of the many Free Software wanna be social networks.
Re: Offer HN: Tell me what you need, and I'll program it (for free)
#38I want to build an autobiographical timeline with Google App Engine using a javascript bookmarklet that copies the url and title from any Wikipedia page and lets me add dates and annotations (eg toy I loved, book I read, etc)
Re: Offer HN: Tell me what you need, and I'll program it (for free)
#39I'd pay $20/year if you build a reliable HN e-mail comment gateway. I'd pay double if you convinced PG to let your app sync people's comment history. Use e.g. Gmail OAuth IMAP authentication, sync to a label, optionally sync bidirectionally (i.e. comment replies from Gmail), but that's only marginally more useful than getting e-mail archives of comments here. Hell, if you write it in Python then I'll even donate the…
Be careful about putting dollar figures on things like this and estimating demand. What if this guy spends a few hundred hours on this and then no-one buys it? Sure, it's his risk to take, and you carefully qualified your last statement, but overestimating demand is a deadly thing. So let me as - why do you think people will be willing to pay for this service, and what kind of numbers are you talking about? 100? 1000…
It's just an alternative for someone already offering to work for free – I'm certainly not about to write a business plan around it.
My use case is simply that I like my own comments/SMS/tweets/etc. archived and searchable, as it's an easy way of keeping track of stuff with zero effort. In the case of HN it would also serve to avoid the common situation where I miss a reply until hours after the replyer's lunch break ended.
Re: Offer HN: Tell me what you need, and I'll program it (for free)
#40I'd pay $20/year if you build a reliable HN e-mail comment gateway. I'd pay double if you convinced PG to let your app sync people's comment history. Use e.g. Gmail OAuth IMAP authentication, sync to a label, optionally sync bidirectionally (i.e. comment replies from Gmail), but that's only marginally more useful than getting e-mail archives of comments here. Hell, if you write it in Python then I'll even donate the…
I had a crude but working version of that written in Go. One goroutine for the scraper, another for the email sender, it's pretty easy. Writing the website and billing is probably more time consuming than the gateway itself.