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Ask HN: I would pay X for Y
I would pay $10 every 3 months for a highlevel review/changelog of the top Javascript frameworks.
I would pay $1/month for book suggestions related to technical leadership.
I would pay $2/month for 10 suggestions of breweries I haven't tried yet.
- nathell 9y agoI would pay high margins to legal firms whom I'd forward spam and they'd sue spammers on my behalf (in Poland).
- coding123 9y ago90% towards class action to sue spammers on my behalf (in US)
- tmaly 9y agoI would pay $50 for 30 minutes of time in person from an expert on gardens. I would pay $10 a month for scraping 100 data entries for my side project.
- whoami_nr 9y agoDoes the second part scale linearly ? Does scraping 200 entries mean 20$ ? If it does, I might be interested in making some 150-200 bucks a month scraping websites for you given that it's a decent amount in the place I currently live
- tmaly 9y agoyes 200 entries means $20
- rhizome 9y agoGardens, as in landscaping your yard?
- tmaly 9y agoyes, if you have certain flowers, they are pretty challenging to take care of. Roses are a great example. I have numerous varieties, but I lost one plant this year.
- icey 9y agoMost nurseries have expert gardeners on-hand who will happily talk to you for free.
- tmaly 9y agoI speak with them frequently, but it would be awesome if some could be paid to come to your house and help with various issues.
- ktta 9y agoI bet you can say "Hey, would you mind coming to my house this weekend? I'll buy dinner after" to someone you've spoken to before (so that they know you're not a murderer) You might make a wise old friend out of it too :)
- RepressedEmu 9y agoMturk can get you 100 data feeds scraped for around that price pint probably.
- softwareqrafter 9y agoI would pay $xxx for a good UX/UI designer!
- fairpx 9y agoAre we (http://fairpixels.pro http://fairpixels.pro) within your budget? :)
- rmdoss 9y agoThat's an interesting concept. Do you do only the design/mockups or you build the frontend (HTML/CSS) as well? I will forward the link to a friend that was looking for something similar.
- rhizome 9y agoWhich part are you having trouble with, "designer," "good," or "$xxx?"
- sagitariusrex 9y agoI'd pay 20k for an open-hardware Notebook with a formally verified open source OS
- whamlastxmas 9y agohttps://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/novena https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/novena
- jacek 9y agoI would pay $10/month for a weekly digest of the most important world news without editorializing, clickbait, celebrity news. Just important stuff. Also I would not like it to be only US-centered (that could be optional though). EDIT: Some people asked what I mean by "important". For me, important event is the event that has potential to have a high impact on the society or any large group of people in long term. Some very recent news that I found important: results of elections in Austria, terrorist attack in Somalia, grand jury indictment against Manafort, hundreds of sexual harassment allegations in USA as a whole (I don't think reporting each individual case and celebrity implicated is important).
- Splendor 9y agoHow do you personally define 'most important'?
- glintik 9y agoI suppose it is a key moment - most important for Mr. westonplatter0. So Service have to be smart enough taking into account user's prefs. AI and Deep Learning are good friends for that Service.
- sleavey 9y agoShameless plug, but check out WikiTribune [1]. It was started by Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia founder) as an attempt to democratise and wikify news. It just entered public beta, but they solicited recurring donations over summer and are still accepting them - if you believe in the project, consider signing up for a few dollars a month. [1] https://beta.wikitribune.com/ https://beta.wikitribune.com/
- jacek 9y agoThanks! Looks promising, I will try it out.
- lukeqsee 9y agoI have found the Economist Espresso[1] is an excellent version of this. And it's only $3 / month. [1] http://www.economist.com/digital http://www.economist.com/digital
- mpolichette 9y agoI would pay $5 a month to have all physical junk mail filtered out of delivery. Why can't I opt out of "or current resident"?
- whynotkeithberg 9y agoYou can.... Same list as the opt out of phone calls. However, this one I've actually had luck with it working. https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0262-stopping-unsolicited-mail-phone-calls-and-email https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0262-stopping-unsolici...
- jmnicolas 9y agoIn France you just put a sticker on your letter box with something like "no ads, thank you". Since I did it my letter box is desperately empty except the occasional paper bill. Won't work with junk mail that is directly addressed to you of course, but in my case it's not frequent, I'm probably not in many databases.
- bluewalt 9y agoI'm in Paris, I did it and it had absolutely no effect. I guess the spammers don't care about these stickers or not bothering you. They just want to finish their spam job as soon as possible.
- charlieegan3 9y agoRoyal Mail in the UK call them 'door-to-doors' and allow you to opt out here: https://personal.help.royalmail.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/293 https://personal.help.royalmail.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/...
- jamestomasino 9y agoIt's a bit more than $5, but you can try a service like PostScanMail.com that will scan your mail for you and let you manage it virtually. You can choose to have certain items forwarded or opened and contents scanned.
- source99 9y agoI would pay $5/night for someone to clean my families dishes after dinner. I would pay $20/month for someone to keep my clothing fresh.
- schitzapplebits 9y agoI’d pay $200 a month for a professional dishwasher, but really I’d probably have to pay much more.
- LyndsySimon 9y agoHow big is your family? Assuming your dishwasher(s) can hold 3-4 days' worth of dishes, you can totally do that now. Hiring a housekeeper to come in twice a week to do dishes and laundry is probably in your price range.
- synicalx 9y ago> I would pay $5/night for someone to clean my families dishes after dinner. Why not just use a dishwasher? If you wanted to break it down into a 'cost per night' then maybe rent the appliance or get it on interest free.
- jmnicolas 9y agoI would pay 1€ once for an Android weather app that has no ads, that don't take 30s to load and that is instantly readable and not some fancy schmancy style that makes it hard to know what's the weather for today and where to look for next days. Apparently it's too much to ask.
- bpicolo 9y agoThe yahoo weather app is great.
- pplante 9y agoThe Google weather app is easy to read and loads in <5 seconds on my OnePlus 5. Doesn't that app fit your requirements?
- jmnicolas 9y agoNow you're talking about it, it didn't appear in the top 30 apps that I found on Google Play. However I sometimes get Google weather predictions on my (desktop) browser and find them less accurate than our local weather service (Météo France).
- TJTorola 9y agoThe built in weather widget gets the job done
- Adamantcheese 9y agoWunderground is what I use, it works quite well. Ad free is $1.99 a year, which I guess is close enough. Generally I don't do into the app though and just use a widget.
- ju-st 9y agometeoblue.com. Website with adblocker, I don't know about their app because I usually just use websites instead of apps (they load faster and ad-free).
- matthew349hall 9y ago
- megaman22 9y agoI pay $60-$70/month to have my laundry done. They do a better job than I would, and I value my time highly. Plus the capex of a washer/drier, and the opex of detergents and dryer sheets, and I think I'm coming out well ahead...
- jmnicolas 9y agoDoes it include ironing ?
- almostarockstar 9y agoI feel like in 2017 we should have an automatic Ironing Machine in every home.
- jakobegger 9y agoI feel like in 2017 nobody should have to wear clothes that need ironing.
- Kevin_S 9y agoNo one should wear clothes that look professional? The hardline against even business casual dress by some people boggles the mind. Ironing appropriate clothes will make you look substantially more put-together. Try it please.
- purvis 9y agoNot op, but they have no-iron dress shirts that look pretty good directly out of the drier.
- tomjen3 9y agoYou mostly have that actually: Get stuff out the washer within 20min of it being done and hang it to dry. Alternatively I have a few shirts made by high threat count Egyptian cotton and those are wrinkle free if you just put them in the bathroom while taking a shower and the let 'em dry. Pretty price, but honestly worth my time.
- andrei_says_ 9y agoI would pay $50 for 30 minutes of the time of a webpack configuration expert. Or a similar amount for SAAS allowing me to select modules from a UI and chain them as desired. I gave up on my desired configuration after spending 3-5+h in frustrated powerlessness.
- almostarockstar 9y agoCould you give a couple examples?
- lukeqsee 9y agoHaving just gone through the setup process a few times, I concur. It is an excruciatingly bad entry to a powerful solution to front-end web development.
- zackify 9y agoThe config is pretty straight forward once you understand how it all works. The docs have example configs for anything you need. Specify an entry point, add some loaders, and maybe a plugin or two, what are you stuck on?
- andrei_says_ 9y agoI agree, it is a straight forward design (you chain things one after the other). I just couldn't make these specific items work together, at all.
- zackify 9y agoWhat were you trying to make work that you couldn't figure out?
- andrei_says_ 9y ago1. SCSS preprocessor followed by PostCSS-based autoprefixer, sourcemaps in dev and CSS minifyer when building. 2. CoffeeScript2 with support for modules, with uglifyer/minifier on build. Both 1. and 2. as a part of a middlemanapp dev/build process, which means the JS process watches and builds a file tree, and the SCSS process does the same. Even setting up ES6 had issues on build because some incompatibilities of the uglifyjs iirc. EDIT: Added clarification.
- mitchellshow 9y agoI would pay $20/month for a simple, easy to set up affiliate management service. Seriously - there are literally hundreds of affiliate management services out there, I've looked at dozens of them, and none of them quite fit the following requirements: - Simple setup - Reasonably low cost - Dashboard for affiliates to track clicks & signups Most existing systems also wrap up some sort of customer referral widgety thing, which I don't need. Or, the websites are broken / look like they're from 2001. ReferralCandy is probably the closest thing, but again, it's way more set up for "customer referrals" vs professional or semi-pro affiliates. The integration process is also super heavy. We literally built our own affiliate management since everything that fit our requirements was so expensive. This seems like an obvious side-project for someone to knock out.
- whistlerbrk 9y agoNot sure if this is helpful, but have you seen https://www.getambassador.com/ https://www.getambassador.com/ ?
- mitchellshow 9y agoYes - this is a great example of what I'm talking about, it starts at $800/month (https://www.getambassador.com/pricing https://www.getambassador.com/pricing) with a bazillion features I don't need.
- goatherders 9y agoI would pay much more than that for a system that matches what I have to sell with affiliates that could promote it properly. I have a couple side eZines/Paid Newsletters I would love to promote through affiliates but finding those that have the kind of traffic I'm after seems so impossible. (Here is where I'm hoping someone chimes in to say that already exists)
- holic 9y agoThis is something I've considered doing for years after dealing with the likes of Clickbank, etc. I'd love to pick your brain for your requirements. How can I get in touch?
- bootsz 9y ago$20/month for a bundled subscription to various popular news sites (WSJ, NYT) & other online media (The Atlantic, New Yorker, etc.). So many of these sites are behind paywalls and everyone wants you to subscribe to them. It's unsustainable to subscribe to all of them and the days of being a dedicated reader of just 1 paper are long gone
- goatherders 9y agoI don't do this exactly, but have 3 newsletters that: - publish two times a week - include between 8 and 12 key industry stories in the specific B2B vertical of that newsletter - Include a ~100 word summary of the linked story - Cost $10/month each The cool part to me is that the subscribers I do have almost never click the links; they tell me the summaries are all the info they need. So that feels like creating some value. Now, if I could just find more subscribers. :)
- laci27 9y agoshameless plug missing:)
- goatherders 9y agoyeah, I don't care for it much when people plug their wares unless it really is applicable. In this case, no one brought up the niches I publish to so I avoided adding them in. LOL
- ktta 9y agohttps://blendle.com https://blendle.com Not exactly a 'subscription', but you pay a small amount (~$0.30) for each article. It is in beta but I got accepted by the next day when I signed up a few months ago.
- jblow 9y agoI would pay $100/hr for a competent freelance system administrator who could parachute in and deal with the various things we need dealt with. Of course the problem here is "competent". On two different occasions people have offered to do the job and they were terrible.
- Bedon292 9y agoWhat kind of things do you need dealt with? Any examples?
- synicalx 9y agoI wish there was more demand for stuff like this at a reasonable price. I've worked from various freelance sites in my spare time asking a similar price, but invariably I'd only see 10% of the business that the $15/hr crowd would see. I got a few ex-$15/hr customers, who wanted a few hours of my time purely to clean up the mess left by the last guy, and once it was cleaned up they'd take their business to the next $15/hr guy and hope he was a little better than the last one. Bit of a tricky situation I suppose, on one hand the competent Sadmins are probably more inclined to stick to a normal job with a steady income, but the incompetent ones seem to be happy to sit around all day spamming freelancing sites.
- thenomad 9y agoI would pay $5 to get a text transcription of any podcast. My life doesn't support podcast-listening particularly well, and yet I know there's a lot of good info out there in the audio world.
- RepressedEmu 9y agoDon't most mainstream podcasts come with a text transcription?
- kahlonel 9y agoI would pay $200 for a dumb phone that only makes/receives call/texts, and has whatsapp and google maps.
- almostarockstar 9y agoThe technical requirements of running google maps would immediately turn your dumb phone into a smart phone. Why don't you just uninstall everything from your phone but whatsapp and google maps?
- bob_theslob646 9y agoHe is worried about distractions from other websites/apps if I had to guess and or does not need all extra features.
- kahlonel 9y agoTry to switch your SIM card on your iPhone without having access to WiFi or any other assisting device, in a remote terrain where you need the new SIM immediately.
- bob_theslob646 9y agoThe biggest issue is that you need data for the maps, unless you plan ahead and download them off line. Check out TMobile's 25$ a month just Text and Calling service that came out fairly recently. I am looking for the same thing as you, but unfortunately have used a ton of software to replicate it. I wish phone companies would go back to simple =(
- tixocloud 9y agoI paid $150 for a Samsung phone that does everything you mentioned.
- bob_theslob646 9y agoWhich phone?
- bluewalt 9y agoI would pay $100/year for a photo organizer SaaS, that has a read-only access on a folder in my Dropbox, and let me organize my photos by time, by people on the photo, by places, or by events that I would have created. It would let me make some requests like "Show me all photos with John on it, taken on Europe, between 2008 and 2012". Google Photos is shitty and Google already got too much information about me.
- lzy 9y agohttps://www.smugmug.com/plans/basic https://www.smugmug.com/plans/basic I don't use them and it's not from your Dropbox but heard great things about them in general.
- logfromblammo 9y agoX = you Tuesday, Y = a hamburger today If you don't like that Wimpy suggestion, I would pay $2000/year in union dues (or professional association of equivalently sized teeth).
- antisthenes 9y agoI would pay $100 for a secure, open source version of Skype that is compatible with Skype chat history and contacts.
- acconrad 9y agoSignal has video and voice chat
- antisthenes 9y agoCan it seamlessly import all the Skype chat history and groups correctly? That's mostly what I'm paying for, not just "video and voice chat"
- acconrad 9y agoI would pay $50 a 30-60 min call with an industry vet programmer/EM to look at my career and give next steps to grow my career. I have no idea if I'm doing well or not or how to become a great programmer cause I don't know what's "next", as it's not as linear as I wish it was.
- Balgair 9y agoDefine 'veteran'. Also, readers, the email is in his profile ... ;)
- acconrad 9y ago15-20+ years in the industry (I'm almost 10 in myself)
- vernon99 9y agoUnfortunately a good eng/em makes much more than $50/h. More like 150-300 (pretax) and that’s just for a normal fulltime hour, they would def charge more for consultancy work due to the overheads. That leaves you with not-that-vet people. Edit: I assumed major tech companies and western world, the situation is obviously different in other regions.
- acconrad 9y ago> Unfortunately a good eng/em makes much more than $50/h. More like 150-300 (pretax) and that’s just for a normal fulltime hour That's to hire them for their work. I'm just trying to talk with them about their experience, not asking them to code/manage.
- hasenj 9y agoThere was a service a while ago called "clarity" or something like that, which was supposed to facilitate this kind of activity. EDIT: It seems to still be in business at clarity.fm, though it seems to be more aimed for startups than individuals.
- piecu 9y agoI would pay up to $300 for a NAS with at least two hard drives bays working in RAID and an open linux-based operating system (with root access). Hard disks are no included in that price.
- SirAiedail 9y agoHow about GnuBee [1]? They're currently running a campaign [2] for version 2. 1: http://gnubee.org/ http://gnubee.org/ 2: https://www.crowdsupply.com/gnubee/personal-cloud-2 https://www.crowdsupply.com/gnubee/personal-cloud-2
- gravypod 9y agoJust install FreeNAS on a usb stick and buy a PC off GovDeals for $50. Not Linux but it's the best NAS you'll get.
- YouKnowBetter 9y agoI would pay up to 50% (EU level) of my monthly income to live in a place with direct democracy. Fortunatly I live in the one country on earth with direct democracy so I pay less then 24%.
- earenndil 9y agoWhich country is that?