Ask HN: What's an app you'd pay $5/month for?
I'm looking to build apps and learn as much as I can about programming, rails, APIs etc.
HMers, what's something that's been bugging you?
I'd love to make something here, for All HN to see.
Why $5?
Anytime someone is willing to pay any sort of money, it becomes a clearer problem :P. Plus it's a lot more motivating to make money + program
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Edit : There seem to be some really good ideas here! it might just make a nice resource that new hackers can use to start and Show HN
Published in 2012, this chronicle by @stopachka details the mechanics of building a profitable, self-funded business without venture backing. Key verified financial milestone: $5/month.
The community focused on B2B customer acquisition channels, cold email vs SEO distribution, and balancing full-time employment with side-project development.
A service that did bandwidth intense tasks for me. If I'm on my cell phone, I'd like to be able to take a link to an mp3 file hosted anywhere, and have an "upload to Google Music/Amazon/etc" option. The key would be to have you, the service provider, download and upload the file. Send me an email when it's done. This would be infinitely convenient for me when it comes to podcasts, videos, large DJ sets, conference footage, etc.
I say this as someone on America. I imagine you could find a few users in nations where virtually all services are metered. And once you program your tool once, it's automated.
The work is finding what services allow this, and adding then to your framework as requested. And, of course, your own bandwidth/storage bill...
Maybe this is best as a feature for existing data lockers.
A web service that makes it easier to debug problems that users of my website are encountering, by recording all console log statements and letting me filter and search on various dimensions. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4081806
I'm not sure how many other people want this. But you'd be saving developer-hours, which are worth a lot, and could charge accordingly.
I am already paying that for Backblaze.
Okay - here are some services that can be automated. Deal hunters - I say I want 240 GB SSD or 7970 for x, you scrape regularly some interesting places (newegg, ebay etc) and if something drops - notify me and charge me a dollar.
How about a coupon manager. For example I scan all the items I'm buying at a store using the app, and it finds all the coupons available from that store or manufacturer. Than I hand over the phone to clerk, who scans it, and all the coupons are applied.
Anything that will save me more than $10 per month. E.g. could save me money on bills, fees, government charges, tax, anything. But it has to be on something I am already spending money on (e.g. a recurring spend).