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Ask HN: What do you need that you'd pay a lot for?
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#12A good music recommendation service.
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#13A more approachable match making service.
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#14Tax evasion as a service. Target the same legal loopholes that big corporations use to avoid paying taxes like "transfer pricing". You set up the offices and shell corporations in Ireland and the Netherlands for a Double Irish with a Dutch Sandwich. You then share those resources (offices, staff, lawyers, accountants, etc) between your clients & charge a percentage of the tax savings as your fee.
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#15Irrevocable access to a channel that reaches every human on the planet.
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#16Peace of mind. Take care of all my trivial stuff for me. Bills, taxes, money management, politics, corruption and other stupid distractions that stop me from focusing on people that matter. How much do you want?
This. I know the big-four of accounting/consultancy firms offer these services for e.g. expatriates but they don't take on single "puppets" for logistical reasons.
Small firms mostly lack the wide scale of knowledge required to do said things.
For prices: I know a certain B4-firm asks around EUR 450 (USD 550?) for a single tax return. Extrapolate from there ;-)
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#17A more approachable match making service.
Indian :D
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#18Photo storage /viewing that doesn't try to sync my photos to a computer (making me scared of losing them in a sync mishap) or share them. Electronic equivalent of a shoebox. Snapjoy did this but Dropbox bought them and shut it down. I haven't seen an alternative - maybe the new Amazon photos does this?
I had an idea a while back for this kind of thing, but never stuck with it. I wanted to make something with Amazon Glacier that would be for long-term storage of RAWs for all those people who don't want to ever really delete a RAW file, with small jpeg previews of your library. Maybe I should dig up my old notes and give it another go.
I've mentioned something along these lines before as well. I want it to be seamlessly integrated with Aperture (and likely Lightroom, given how things are going in Aperture-land) such that I can browse all of my photos at any time. The RAWs are securely backed up in some datacenter, and if I want to edit the photo, the RAW is cached locally so that it can be edited. If the photo hasn't been edited in some time now, it's evicted from the cache, and I still have the preview available for perusal.
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#19Photo storage /viewing that doesn't try to sync my photos to a computer (making me scared of losing them in a sync mishap) or share them. Electronic equivalent of a shoebox. Snapjoy did this but Dropbox bought them and shut it down. I haven't seen an alternative - maybe the new Amazon photos does this?
I had an idea a while back for this kind of thing, but never stuck with it. I wanted to make something with Amazon Glacier that would be for long-term storage of RAWs for all those people who don't want to ever really delete a RAW file, with small jpeg previews of your library. Maybe I should dig up my old notes and give it another go.
I'd pay $10-$20/month for this. But I also currently have about 400GB of photos on my hard drive. Still, I think that with annual contracts, you should be able to achieve a 50% margin on my usage, and I think I'm something of an outlier(?) in terms of usage.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
I had an idea a while back for this kind of thing, but never stuck with it. I wanted to make something with Amazon Glacier that would be for long-term storage of RAWs for all those people who don't want to ever really delete a RAW file, with small jpeg previews of your library. Maybe I should dig up my old notes and give it another go.
I've mentioned something along these lines before as well. I want it to be seamlessly integrated with Aperture (and likely Lightroom, given how things are going in Aperture-land) such that I can browse all of my photos at any time. The RAWs are securely backed up in some datacenter, and if I want to edit the photo, the RAW is cached locally so that it can be edited. If the photo hasn't been edited in some time now, i…
Aperture is very much officially dead. http://www.cultofmac.com/285357/apple-kills-development-aper...