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

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Post by mazuhl »

I'd pay $10 a month for a service that finds podcasts and videos about specific subjects.

I don't have the time to scour TV listings or subscribe to busy podcasts/RSS feeds in the hope of finding something to listen to at work/when I'm out and about. What I'm doing now is going to the BBC iPlayer website every week, putting in my keywords and hoping something comes up.

I'd pay a monthly subscription to a reliable service that could bring me high quality content from universities, YouTube Edu, Authors@Google, iTunes store, the BBC iPlayer, NPR, PBS, Fora.tv, etc. about the subjects/keywords I enter. What I don't want is homemade slideshows from YouTube or micro-segments of news. I shouldn't have to sit in Google's search box and now be able to drill down to find this interesting stuff.

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

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Post by mazuhl »

chris11 wrote: post #97

Something like a Netflix for books and articles. I'd pay just to rent textbooks for general education classes. It would need to have a gigantic library though, big enough to guarantee that I would be able to find any book through there if it wasn't in a library. PDF versions of the books would be nice to, so I could access the book anywhere immediately. And it would need a good selection of scientific books. I have a…

I'd like to be notified when authors have new book coming out. You get this from some publishers, but what if the author jumps to another publisher?

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

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Post by chuffwaffle »

charlesju wrote: post #168
icey wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you have a blender?

haha fair enough, let me rephrase. "I would love to drink my meals, and still be a healthy human being."

you can do that. take whatever normal healthy food you were going to eat and put it in a blender with water or milk. then drink it.

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

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Post by khafra »

cschneid wrote: post #173
khafra wrote: post #6

A combination proxy/script/something that'd pop up an interstitial task tracker/to-do list overview when I go to any of a list of "time-sink" sites. I can click "snooze" and go to the time sink, with the task tracker popping back up after 5,10,30 minutes, turn it off for a day or two, or click through to the detail/edit view for any task and get to work.

Leechblock + NowDoThis is my solution to this. I don't actually use NowDoThis, but it's default is to have it's own name in big letters, which is enough to remind me to stop slacking.

I know of those, but I'm absent-minded enough that I often forget there's many better things I could be doing. Seeing my long-range goals and my short-range deadlines in an easy-to-grok format has done wonders for me in the past; I just need a systematic way of delivering that when it's needed. Ideally, the software solution could also pop up when I start viewing a comic book archive, watching a video file, or preparing a snack just because I can't think of anything more pressing to do.

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

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Post by khafra »

charlesju wrote: post #168
icey wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you have a blender?

haha fair enough, let me rephrase. "I would love to drink my meals, and still be a healthy human being."

I eat my morning cereal with Muscle Milk instead of milk. The stuff actually tastes good, unlike the ~10 other protein powders I've tried; and the nutritional information list looks like a multivitamin.

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

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Post by khafra »

mixmax wrote: post #70
mingyeow wrote: post #50

A service that matches you up with intellectual AND decent looking folks.

Actually I would settle for a site that matches you up with intellectual folks...

OKCupid has done reasonably well for me--just spend enough time answering questions to get a good level of math & science stuff, and rate those as very important or mandatory. The Harvard math majors who run the site don't know how to classify looks into "Me likey" or "me meh-y" yet; but they do have the personality profile done pretty well, in my experience.

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

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Post by icey »

khafra wrote: post #185
charlesju wrote: post #168

Earlier quoted context omitted.

haha fair enough, let me rephrase. "I would love to drink my meals, and still be a healthy human being."

I eat my morning cereal with Muscle Milk instead of milk. The stuff actually tastes good, unlike the ~10 other protein powders I've tried; and the nutritional information list looks like a multivitamin.

Pretty much daily now I drink a shake that contains 1 cup of dry oatmeal, some yogurt, a few cups of fruit, a banana and a tablespoon of peanut butter. Oh, and skim milk and occasionally some protein powder.

It's pretty good and it helps me keep my caloric intake at the right level.

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

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Post by dthompson »

jgilliam wrote: post #88
imp wrote: post #66

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You can use AdWords for that.

Has anyone used AdWords like this, and how did it work out?

The key is to spend all the ad money in a small period during the day, say 1hr. It is better to have a lot of people on your site 1hr a day then 1 person on your site all day, that is if you site relies on users to interact.
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