6 ms·

I need a software that ....

85 points by rokhayakebe 16y ago

I need a software that...

metellus 16y ago
Interesting idea, but the results are pretty empty...
- pavel_lishin 16y ago
  The first page looks like it's full of people retweeting this. And the rest looks like job ads.
  - jiganti 16y ago
    Pretty ironic.
  - bdickason 16y ago
    I'm amazed at how many times those job ads get retweeted. Recently, someone put up an ELance posting for 'salon software' which triggered my twitter search in Tweetdeck. There were 3-4 pages of retweets.
  - gacba 16y ago
    All this just confirms the signal-to-noise ratio on Twitter is incredibly low. Too bad, because poorly phrased or not, the question was interesting.
michael_nielsen 16y ago
I get (slightly) more interesting results from: http://www.google.ca/search?q=%22I+wish+there+was+software%22 http://www.google.ca/search?q=%22I+wish+there+was+software%2...
- hugh3 16y ago
  Or just "I wish there was..." I wish there was a Gucci Mane bot. I wish there was a checkers in tneck. hey. There isn't a storm comming. I wish there was... I wish there was a photographer with me in the bathroom rite now caz I look hella sexy!!! #conceitedtweet OK, no great business ideas there (unless you work for Checkers Drive-In Restaurants and can figure out where tneck is) but a great insight into the hopes and dreams of people in the 21st century. edit: Oh, apparently Teaneck, New Jersey. edit2: "I wish there was a way to bake cookies from my bed!" Now there's a customer need for ya!
  - michael_nielsen 16y ago
    As a variant, this is amusing: http://www.google.ca/search?q=%22I+wish+my+computer%22 http://www.google.ca/search?q=%22I+wish+my+computer%22
  - schnaars 16y ago
    A Gucci Mane bot would be so sweet.
    - hugh3 16y ago
      I only just looked that up. Apparently Gucci Mane is a rapper. My mental image is spoiled.
  - Raphael 16y ago
    "I wish there were"
    - hugh3 16y ago
      Oh, I know that, but I didn't want to confine my sample to the tiny fraction of twitter users with a grasp of basic grammar.
wheaties 16y ago
"I need a software that generates a lot of traffic to my site..." Nice idea and good initial attempt but you're going to get a lot of noise and crud with this one. In fact, I linked in almost expecting to see "I need a software that picks winning lotto tickets" to come up or the even more elaborate "I need a software that works the way I want it too."
- cubicle67 16y ago
  at the moment it seems like fake gift card software is very much in demand. This request fills almost the entire list
  - uxp 16y ago
    That software idea is actually a job posted on one of the many freelance job finder boards, scriptlance in this case. There are a few jobs that seem to catch a lot of attention and get re-tweeted by a large number of popular twitter accounts, including @hulufans and @rootzreggae, which don't seem to be ones that should be interested in freelance job offers.
blasdel 16y ago
A native speaker of english from the west would never use this phrasing — software is abstract rather than individual. Your usage stands out as south asian as much as "do the needful" would. "I need software that…" or "I need a program that…" would both be correct.
- mynameishere 16y ago
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_noun http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_noun
- tbrownaw 16y ago
  A significant fraction of my coworkers talk like that, and I've noticed lately that I'm starting to occasionally think/talk that way as well (note I'm from the U.S. midwest and only speak english). It's a bit disturbing, really.
  - jacquesm 16y ago
    It is your innate ability to learn that takes over automatically there. You probably couldn't stop such assimilation of things done around you even if you wanted to, it's how our brains are wired. If you had to consciously decide to learn something you'd be a baby forever stuck in a 'dead-lock' of not having the reasoning ability to start learning-by-imitation, so it's 'on' by default. So given extended exposure to some behaviour it is very hard to resist imitating it to some extent, even if you know better.
    - sophacles 16y ago
      It's true, spend some time in the South (US) or Britain, and return to the midwest, they will comment on how you picked up an accent while you were there.
- pvg 16y ago
  You don't need to qualify it that far. It's grammatically incorrect in just about all standard forms of English. Exceptions happen in various jargons like you'll see 'codes' in sciency and weapons-researchy contexts but I don't think this is one of them.
marknutter 16y ago
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=&ands=&phrase=Is+there+a+website&ors=&nots=&tag=&lang=all&from=&to=&ref=&near=&within=15&units=mi&since=&until=&rpp=15 http://search.twitter.com/search?q=&ands=&phrase=Is+...
sprout 16y ago
If anyone at Twitter's paying attention, your mobile redirect breaks the link. But I just typed it in manually.
megamark16 16y ago
I have a saved search for "software sucks" and another for "program sucks", they can be pretty insightful. A lot of people really hate CD/DVD Burning software and manufacturer's printer software.
- patrickk 16y ago
  Add in the manufacturers software driver for my Netgear Wifi dongle! NEVER connects to my Wifi network (have to manually connect each time, tried a lot of settings and nothing works). I have to have it installed so the dongle is operable, but the software itself is crap.
jsz0 16y ago
iusethis.com is probably a better resource for finding software that already exists. If the goal is to find ideas for software that doesn't exist my request would be something that makes sense out of Twitter searches. So much garbage, duplication and SPAM. It seems like there should be some better method even if it was simply a vote up/down style ranking system within the search results.
tremendo 16y ago
or http://www.reddit.com/r/SomebodyMakeThis/ http://www.reddit.com/r/SomebodyMakeThis/
chrisduesing 16y ago
"I need a software that controls US defense systems to remove human error from strategic decisions must not become self-aware" (via @laughlitmus)
Jencha 16y ago
You have set up recursion (there is hackernewsbot that post the same link): hackernewsbot I need a software that ....... http://twitter.com/#search?q=i%20need%20a%20software%20that http://twitter.com/#search?q=i%20need%20a%20software%20that
JoshRosen 16y ago
bitskits 16y ago
I liked the part where nothing interesting happened.
bearwithclaws 16y ago
I've created something like that a while ago: http://wappr.com http://wappr.com p/s: looking to sell it. anyone interested?
jorrel 16y ago
"I need a software that allows me 2 post short messages 2 the web n allows people 2 follow certain people to keep up with it." Haha, nice one.
toumhi 16y ago
Could be interesting, however I think only software engineers reason this way. Normal people want solutions to their problems, and usually don't realize software could be this solution.

85 points by rokhayakebe 16y ago

I need a software that...

metellus 16y ago

Interesting idea, but the results are pretty empty...

pavel_lishin 16y ago
The first page looks like it's full of people retweeting this. And the rest looks like job ads.
- jiganti 16y ago
  Pretty ironic.
- bdickason 16y ago
  I'm amazed at how many times those job ads get retweeted. Recently, someone put up an ELance posting for 'salon software' which triggered my twitter search in Tweetdeck. There were 3-4 pages of retweets.
- gacba 16y ago
  All this just confirms the signal-to-noise ratio on Twitter is incredibly low. Too bad, because poorly phrased or not, the question was interesting.

michael_nielsen 16y ago

I get (slightly) more interesting results from: http://www.google.ca/search?q=%22I+wish+there+was+software%22 http://www.google.ca/search?q=%22I+wish+there+was+software%2...

hugh3 16y ago
Or just "I wish there was..." I wish there was a Gucci Mane bot. I wish there was a checkers in tneck. hey. There isn't a storm comming. I wish there was... I wish there was a photographer with me in the bathroom rite now caz I look hella sexy!!! #conceitedtweet OK, no great business ideas there (unless you work for Checkers Drive-In Restaurants and can figure out where tneck is) but a great insight into the hopes and dreams of people in the 21st century. edit: Oh, apparently Teaneck, New Jersey. edit2: "I wish there was a way to bake cookies from my bed!" Now there's a customer need for ya!
- michael_nielsen 16y ago
  As a variant, this is amusing: http://www.google.ca/search?q=%22I+wish+my+computer%22 http://www.google.ca/search?q=%22I+wish+my+computer%22
- schnaars 16y ago
  A Gucci Mane bot would be so sweet.
  - hugh3 16y ago
    I only just looked that up. Apparently Gucci Mane is a rapper. My mental image is spoiled.
- Raphael 16y ago
  "I wish there were"
  - hugh3 16y ago
    Oh, I know that, but I didn't want to confine my sample to the tiny fraction of twitter users with a grasp of basic grammar.

wheaties 16y ago

"I need a software that generates a lot of traffic to my site..." Nice idea and good initial attempt but you're going to get a lot of noise and crud with this one. In fact, I linked in almost expecting to see "I need a software that picks winning lotto tickets" to come up or the even more elaborate "I need a software that works the way I want it too."

cubicle67 16y ago
at the moment it seems like fake gift card software is very much in demand. This request fills almost the entire list
- uxp 16y ago
  That software idea is actually a job posted on one of the many freelance job finder boards, scriptlance in this case. There are a few jobs that seem to catch a lot of attention and get re-tweeted by a large number of popular twitter accounts, including @hulufans and @rootzreggae, which don't seem to be ones that should be interested in freelance job offers.

blasdel 16y ago

A native speaker of english from the west would never use this phrasing — software is abstract rather than individual. Your usage stands out as south asian as much as "do the needful" would. "I need software that…" or "I need a program that…" would both be correct.

mynameishere 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_noun http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_noun
tbrownaw 16y ago
A significant fraction of my coworkers talk like that, and I've noticed lately that I'm starting to occasionally think/talk that way as well (note I'm from the U.S. midwest and only speak english). It's a bit disturbing, really.
- jacquesm 16y ago
  It is your innate ability to learn that takes over automatically there. You probably couldn't stop such assimilation of things done around you even if you wanted to, it's how our brains are wired. If you had to consciously decide to learn something you'd be a baby forever stuck in a 'dead-lock' of not having the reasoning ability to start learning-by-imitation, so it's 'on' by default. So given extended exposure to some behaviour it is very hard to resist imitating it to some extent, even if you know better.
  - sophacles 16y ago
    It's true, spend some time in the South (US) or Britain, and return to the midwest, they will comment on how you picked up an accent while you were there.
pvg 16y ago
You don't need to qualify it that far. It's grammatically incorrect in just about all standard forms of English. Exceptions happen in various jargons like you'll see 'codes' in sciency and weapons-researchy contexts but I don't think this is one of them.

marknutter 16y ago

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=&ands=&phrase=Is+there+a+website&ors=&nots=&tag=&lang=all&from=&to=&ref=&near=&within=15&units=mi&since=&until=&rpp=15 http://search.twitter.com/search?q=&ands=&phrase=Is+...

sprout 16y ago

If anyone at Twitter's paying attention, your mobile redirect breaks the link. But I just typed it in manually.

megamark16 16y ago

I have a saved search for "software sucks" and another for "program sucks", they can be pretty insightful. A lot of people really hate CD/DVD Burning software and manufacturer's printer software.

patrickk 16y ago
Add in the manufacturers software driver for my Netgear Wifi dongle! NEVER connects to my Wifi network (have to manually connect each time, tried a lot of settings and nothing works). I have to have it installed so the dongle is operable, but the software itself is crap.

jsz0 16y ago

iusethis.com is probably a better resource for finding software that already exists. If the goal is to find ideas for software that doesn't exist my request would be something that makes sense out of Twitter searches. So much garbage, duplication and SPAM. It seems like there should be some better method even if it was simply a vote up/down style ranking system within the search results.

tremendo 16y ago

or http://www.reddit.com/r/SomebodyMakeThis/ http://www.reddit.com/r/SomebodyMakeThis/

chrisduesing 16y ago

"I need a software that controls US defense systems to remove human error from strategic decisions must not become self-aware" (via @laughlitmus)

Jencha 16y ago

You have set up recursion (there is hackernewsbot that post the same link): hackernewsbot I need a software that ....... http://twitter.com/#search?q=i%20need%20a%20software%20that http://twitter.com/#search?q=i%20need%20a%20software%20that

JoshRosen 16y ago

bitskits 16y ago

I liked the part where nothing interesting happened.

bearwithclaws 16y ago

I've created something like that a while ago: http://wappr.com http://wappr.com p/s: looking to sell it. anyone interested?

jorrel 16y ago

"I need a software that allows me 2 post short messages 2 the web n allows people 2 follow certain people to keep up with it." Haha, nice one.

toumhi 16y ago

Could be interesting, however I think only software engineers reason this way. Normal people want solutions to their problems, and usually don't realize software could be this solution.