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Ask HN: What do you need that you'd pay a lot for?
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#42Photo 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 use Google Drive and FolderSync [1] to sync my photos to a folder on Drive. I also just copy-paste pictures from my camera to Drive. Google Drive seems quite cheap in terms of storage for casual usage.
[1]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dk.tacit.andro...
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#43I make money to pay my bills when I get someone a job. Help me do that better. It's much harder than it sounds. None of the software products I have heard of help.
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#44Tax 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.
This won't work. Tax authority will simply not accept tax deductible expenses which allow you to transfer profits to Ireland and will issue you new tax bill. Why big corporations can get away with this? It comes down to people. Little guy working at tax office doesn't have enough confidence to oppose Apple or Google but will have world of confidence to scrutinize unknown small businesses. I see companies like this po…
Do you have a specific example of something Apple does that is illegal, but for which the IRS isn't pursuing them?
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#45Affection and/or love.
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#46Easy access to well-funded companies looking to hire highly skilled full-stack developers for contract work. Word of mouth works great, but it'd be good to have something reliable to fall back on if my network falls through. I imagine I'd be willing some small % of my hourly/project fee (less than recruiters would take), or a somewhat high yearly rate for access if it was good.
Wouldn't pay "a lot" for it, maybe $10-20/month, but I'd like some sort of "learning framework" software. I imagine it would be a clever combination of Anki/Mnemosyne (but modern and web-based), note-taking software like Evernote, bookmarking similar to Pocket, and maybe some basic reminders/tasks that I can schedule. Disclaimer: I've put no more than ~5 minutes of thought into this total.
Someone said [legal] "tax evasion" as a service. I'd pay for that. As a contractor I've set up an LLC for myself, and I'm sure I'm missing out on lots of elementary tricks that could save me money. I actually have a meeting set up with a tax guy later this week, but my intuition is that if a company figured out how to scale this, it could be cheaper and more effective. I'd be willing to pay a % of the money saved if it's substantially more than what I've been able to do on my own.
Office hours with experts. I'd pay upwards of $200/hr to be able to schedule time to speak with certain experts. I doubt I'd use it more than a few times a year, but that's still a lot of money.
Some sort of automated personal assistant that coaxes me to do the things I need to do without a lot of manual input on my part. It's been tried many times and it's tough to do, but if someone gets it right, I'd pay a lot.
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#47I have three windsport-related ideas for you. 1) weather analysis I'm a hang glider pilot, but this applies to all wind sports – windsurfing, kiteboarding, paragliding, sailplanes, possibly even surfing and skydiving. These sports require weather analysis. Is the wind blowing from the right direction? Is the cloudbase high enough? Some weather analysis tools exist like http://www.xcskies.com/ for hang gliding and par…
If you think your flight instruments are overpriced, I should show you the bill for replacing the altimeter in my Cessna.
A couple serious questions though:
1. Would glider-pilot software running on a smart phone, possibly with an attached sensor, be a viable replacement for the Flytec devices?
2. How do you feel about angle-of-attack indicators? Do hang gliders have a good place to mount them, and then wire them back to a display?
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#48Earlier 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'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.
You Want everpix. They got shutdown but no product is coming close to what they had. Except maybe picturelife but they bloat their app with editing and social features unfortunately.
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#49I have three windsport-related ideas for you. 1) weather analysis I'm a hang glider pilot, but this applies to all wind sports – windsurfing, kiteboarding, paragliding, sailplanes, possibly even surfing and skydiving. These sports require weather analysis. Is the wind blowing from the right direction? Is the cloudbase high enough? Some weather analysis tools exist like http://www.xcskies.com/ for hang gliding and par…
I'm also a (newbie) hang glider pilot. This idea is a little further out there, but if anybody experienced with aircraft design could build a hang glider that folded into a backpack, it would be huge. Lots of R&D and tiny market, but they would pay tons for it. That convenience is one of the big reasons paragliding is more popular right now.
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#50Data as a service. Collect, normalize and index public (but often hard to find/use) data sets and re-syndicate them in a data-as-a-service model.
I like this one. Normalized data, with all changes timestamped, realtime pushed directly to my own server where I can use along with my own internal datasets. It'll be very labor intensive though.