Ask HN: Requests for Software – have something you want built?
I thought it could be interesting to have a 'reverse Show HN', where instead of people showing what they've built, people can post about what they want built :)
Do you have any Requests for Software?
No hard requirements or constraints, anything from a fun hobby idea to something your $BIG_CO may desperately need.
The motivation for the idea is pretty simple: some of us like building, but may be out of ideas of interesting things to build. Hope others find the thread interesting or useful, cheers.
I want a real life version of Memex[1]. In particular, I want to be able to ingest all of my web pages normally, then refer back to their offline local copies at some future date, and spit out a complete ready to use copy on demand.
Copyright and disk space limitations be damned.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memex
I want a product that helps me choose the right health insurance plan based on a set of questions, or even a list of preferences, including who my primary doctor, dentist is etc.
I doubt anyone can build this reliably though. The incentives are simply not there and it isnt an interesting hobby project either
Please make a simple yet powerful video editing native app (macos) that doesn’t suck and doesn’t require a degree to make all the basic stuff that a youtuber needs.
Closest thing is screenflow, next (much farther away in “suck” department) - camtasia.
Five months ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42915664