Ask HN: What tech problems would you glady pay $25 a month for a SAAS solution?
Published in 2012, this chronicle by @seanpackham details the mechanics of building a profitable, self-funded business without venture backing. Key verified financial milestone: $25 a month.
The community focused on B2B customer acquisition channels, cold email vs SEO distribution, and balancing full-time employment with side-project development.
Smart monitoring tool that would automatically check:
- Front end web site availability
- APIs available
- Back end processes are running
- Database up
- Disk space available
- Error logs for important issues
The database checks would include referencal integrity and sanity checks on volumes to warn of potential issues eg a failed module or abuse by a user.
Daily and weekly reports by Email, RSS, Twitter, web tool. SMS for emergencies requiring immediate action.
Option to have support from a Sys Admin/DBA automatically trigger to fix minor issues.
social network api where user can login via different networks and import contacts/friends/following. Must be able to have different types of users. and add extra fields like hobbies etc. on sign up form. Must have a javascript widgets I can drop on a screen and cusomtze look and feel or api I can call with backend. Tracking of user. User can share/post message to friends followers etc. mobile sdk also.
I'm not sure if this is exactly what you're after, but it is tech business related.
Currently frustrated that highrise does not timestamp tags, or allow tags to be sorted by a timestamp.
If you could add that feature as a plugin or via their api I would gladly pay $25 per month.
Haven't looked extensively for a solution, but it's certainly a pain point at the moment.
I'd want a SaaS that when given a URL of an article or piece of content I just wrote... gives me a bunch of related Twitter followers, potential LinkedIn Groups, bloggers, etc where I can pitch my content to. Content marketing tool, so to speak. Hard problem, but hey, that's why I'd pay a lot for it.
From validation. It's a pain to write validation code and to do it cleanly, give me an ajax service that I can hand the validation off to. I just want to be able to say field x is a number, field y is an address, etc.
I asked this question wanting to know what day to day issues people struggle with, what tasks they repeat a dozen times a day, what 20 process step can be reduced to 3 or even better completely automated.
Thank you for the answers so far!