Ask HN: What would you love to pay for if it was available? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What would you love to pay for if it was available?

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Post by cjbos » Tue, Apr 07, 2009, 9:03 PM UTC

davidw wrote: post #2

Decent Mexican food in Europe:-) (BTW, "if it were available") Edit: if I ever 'made it big', and decided to stay in Italy, I'd invest a portion of my money in a good Mexican restaurant here. It would probably lose money, but what the hell.

And New Zealand too.. there are zero quality Mexican restaurants there.

Its not Mexican, but the best Peruvian food I've had outside of Lima is in Amsterdam http://www.casaperu.nl/html/casaperu.html can't recommend it enough!

(My wife was born in Lima and we eat alot of Peruvian food)

Re: Ask HN: What would you love to pay for if it was available?

#22

Post by abstractbill » Tue, Apr 07, 2009, 9:04 PM UTC

I would pay for a good enough telepresence application for keeping in touch with my family and friends (they're in the UK, I'm in San Francisco).

Skype is better than nothing, but still not good enough.

Re: Ask HN: What would you love to pay for if it was available?

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Post by dexen » Tue, Apr 07, 2009, 9:05 PM UTC

A computer display with at least 200DPI, and about 19...21 inches diagonal. I'd consider only 1:1 and 4:3 sized ones.

Honestly, several times I've been searching for high resolution displays, and aside of old, expensive and slow T221 (or crazy-expensive medical and flight control ones), there are none.

Why such DPI? For starters, it makes anti-aliasing (think, `blurry' fonts, jagged or blurred widgets and 3D objects and so on) irrelevant. Also, with the current 85...100 DPI screens, I still see individual pixels, and that's quite disturbing to me.

Re: Ask HN: What would you love to pay for if it was available?

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Post by rdouble » Tue, Apr 07, 2009, 9:05 PM UTC

cjbos wrote: post #21

davidw wrote: post #2

Decent Mexican food in Europe:-) (BTW, "if it were available") Edit: if I ever 'made it big', and decided to stay in Italy, I'd invest a portion of my money in a good Mexican restaurant here. It would probably lose money, but what the hell.

And New Zealand too.. there are zero quality Mexican restaurants there. Its not Mexican, but the best Peruvian food I've had outside of Lima is in Amsterdam http://www.casaperu.nl/html/casaperu.html can't recommend it enough! (My wife was born in Lima and we eat alot of Peruvian food)

And New Zealand too.. there are zero quality Mexican restaurants there.

The Mexican food I had in Australia was a "shocker."

Re: Ask HN: What would you love to pay for if it was available?

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Post by cjbos » Tue, Apr 07, 2009, 9:06 PM UTC

Something that allows me to search across all my old browser history (Content of the pages not the titles). So I can find all those blog posts and articles I forgot to bookmark for later reading at the time. (I guess I could start using stumbleupon or something but I want to be able to search in those pages as well.)

Re: Ask HN: What would you love to pay for if it was available?

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Post by bemmu » Tue, Apr 07, 2009, 9:07 PM UTC

Apartment with a pool in Tampere, Finland. Also I would be more likely to rent a place using a site that actually allowed me to search for apartments from a map.

Instant helpful per-minute advice from MySQL/Linux/etc. gurus 24/7 when I need it. Similarly graphic design where I could in a few moments get sketches of things and commission them to be turned into finished works. I don't enjoy hunting for talent on forums/elance and having to wait days for responses when I need something done now while I am still in the zone to work on that particular project.

Frappuccino in Finland, although I hope nobody actually does that as it would make me poor.

A mouse that makes no clicking sound. It seems to exist: http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/14/thanko-silent-mouse-kills... I'll buy one when I go to Japan next time.

Re: Ask HN: What would you love to pay for if it was available?

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Post by hooande » Tue, Apr 07, 2009, 9:08 PM UTC

tokenadult wrote: post #9

An intelligent agent that would hunt up best comment threads from lots of news aggregator and other discussion sites.

http://www.backtype.com perhaps?

Re: Ask HN: What would you love to pay for if it was available?

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Post by kingsley_20 » Tue, Apr 07, 2009, 9:08 PM UTC

Femur wrote: post #8

I desperately wish i could find top level tropical and non-tropical fruit of many varieties here in Houston. I love fresh fruit but mangos from Mexico are not that great and the lack of variety gets old.

I'd say. I miss the rainbow hued cornucopia of Indian mango markets. Yes, even blue mangoes.

Re: Ask HN: What would you love to pay for if it was available?

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Post by ALee » Tue, Apr 07, 2009, 9:09 PM UTC

Business: - a way way better analytics system that integrates with our own logs and sql calls - a better referral system for hiring, contacts, etc.

Personally: - a system to clean up my contacts and make sure that all my living address books (linkedin facebook) work out. - a front end for mechanical turk, so that I know I'm getting Turk rates without doing the outsourced assistant

Re: Ask HN: What would you love to pay for if it was available?

#30

Post by davidw » Tue, Apr 07, 2009, 9:09 PM UTC

abstractbill wrote: post #22

I would pay for a good enough telepresence application for keeping in touch with my family and friends (they're in the UK, I'm in San Francisco). Skype is better than nothing, but still not good enough.

Yeah, that's tough. It's even worse when you have a small baby and the grandparents are far away:-/

Here's an idea for someone: Virtual Grandpa - some sort of telepresence thing that's been made a bit robust so that a kid can drag it around and drop it without problems. Maybe like a robust cell phone with a decent size screen and camera? I actually wouldn't mind working on that too, but feel free to run with it. The big problem is probably finding hardware that will work: cheap, robust, and more or less customizable so that the parents can fiddle with it to 'tune in', and then lock it to some degree.