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Re: Ask HN: What do you wish someone would build?

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Post by yolesaber »

modeless wrote: post #8

A social media, messaging, and news aggregator that screen-scrapes or otherwise accesses FB, Twitter, Instagram, FB Messenger, WhatsApp, iMessage, Hangouts, GMail, HN, Reddit, etc, and integrates them all into one unified interface. This of course would violate ToS agreements and various services would try to block it. But if it ran as a local app instead of in the cloud, and it was regularly updated, it would be ver…

Sounds like a good weekend project. Most of those have APIs for what you couldn't screen scrape.

Re: Ask HN: What do you wish someone would build?

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Post by ge96 »

basch wrote: post #10

a news aggregator that works. one where each person using it fills it with all sorts of metadata regarding why they liked/disliked a post/comment/embed etc, and then lets me use all the tagged metadata around content to sort it, possibly with some AI to help me. slashdot seemed like it was on the right track, then the simplicity of the like/upvote threw complex out the window. buzzfeed came back with wtf/lol, but its…

Then I use my Bluetooth earpiece and the news is read to me.

- Watched the movie Her too many times

Re: Ask HN: What do you wish someone would build?

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Post by endriju »

I'm in desperate need of scalable Apache Spark cluster available through API that would make it easy to submit jobs that could process arbitrary size datasets but would let me abstract away the scaling part of the problem. I don't understand how there's nothing like that already considering popularity of Spark.

Re: Ask HN: What do you wish someone would build?

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Post by ge96 »

yolesaber wrote: post #11
modeless wrote: post #8

A social media, messaging, and news aggregator that screen-scrapes or otherwise accesses FB, Twitter, Instagram, FB Messenger, WhatsApp, iMessage, Hangouts, GMail, HN, Reddit, etc, and integrates them all into one unified interface. This of course would violate ToS agreements and various services would try to block it. But if it ran as a local app instead of in the cloud, and it was regularly updated, it would be ver…

Sounds like a good weekend project. Most of those have APIs for what you couldn't screen scrape.

I wonder what this would look like. Just a bunch of tiles butted against each other with their respective logos/color schemes?

Re: Ask HN: What do you wish someone would build?

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Post by adatta02 »

tommynicholas wrote: post #6

API for sports data. If you want to build a great product based on sporting data, it is crazy hard to get. I think someone that made the pipes to all sports data (stats, schedules, lines, etc) could facilitate a lot of good innovation and build a solid business. Not sure if this is a VC scale business, but I think it should exist and I'd love to be a user if someone built it.

Check out https://www.stattleship.com/

Re: Ask HN: What do you wish someone would build?

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Post by tommynicholas »

adatta02 wrote: post #15
tommynicholas wrote: post #6

API for sports data. If you want to build a great product based on sporting data, it is crazy hard to get. I think someone that made the pipes to all sports data (stats, schedules, lines, etc) could facilitate a lot of good innovation and build a solid business. Not sure if this is a VC scale business, but I think it should exist and I'd love to be a user if someone built it.

Check out https://www.stattleship.com/

Cool! Not at all what I want but also a neat thing in and of itself

Re: Ask HN: What do you wish someone would build?

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Post by ge96 »

phycodurus wrote: post #4

I wish someone would build an interactive teaching AI, (perhaps in a mathematical context at first). For example, the user might start with a goal such as, "I'd like to understand singular value decomposition." The AI would interactively assess the user's level of background and begin instruction at the appropriate level, leading to the desired goal.

The AI starts getting mad.

You: I don't understand AI:. What is so difficult about quantum mechanics! I can solve this question in 0.00076 of a second!

Judgment day happens.

Re: Ask HN: What do you wish someone would build?

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Post by tommynicholas »

vskarine wrote: post #9
tommynicholas wrote: post #6

API for sports data. If you want to build a great product based on sporting data, it is crazy hard to get. I think someone that made the pipes to all sports data (stats, schedules, lines, etc) could facilitate a lot of good innovation and build a solid business. Not sure if this is a VC scale business, but I think it should exist and I'd love to be a user if someone built it.

http://sportradar.us/ they are not cheap though

OH hai! Maybe this is it. Checking it out

Edit: no gambling data. Maybe that's ok, but I'd want that too. Still looks pretty interesting thanks!

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