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Ask HN: What service are you willing to provide for $1?
- muzani 8y agoAlmost nothing really. The cost to agree upon any service costs more than $1.
- spacesarebetter 8y agoYou can talk to me for 1 minute. I'm great listener.
- fundamental 8y agoThe key thing that seems to be missing is $1 from how many people? $1 from one individual involves a lot of overhead to complete a transaction (for your average person), but $1 from N people who each require a minimum of interaction can make much more economical sense. This can be multiplied by getting $1 from N people every X days. Per the original question there's fairly little I'd be willing to provide to a single individual at $1, but in aggregate (high N, reasonable X) there's a number of viable options (mostly in the software realm).
- hood_syntax 8y agoSend someone an anecdote from my life every month. Not that my life is interesting, but it would be worth the effort from my end.
- deft 8y agoI kinda like this idea. A subscription based generic version of FML
- xstartup 8y agoSelf-hosted http://killbill.io/ http://killbill.io/ with working bitpay plugin. Or if you are selling bitpay and other plugins for killbill, i'll gladly pay more.
- Blackstone4 8y agoSounds like you've seen earn.com and the emails they send users. For $1 sign-up and get some crypto.... the monetary value here is crazy low. The tasks they seem to set probably take ~5mins which translates into $12 p/h... so you've got to really be into crypto. Service am I willing to provide for $1? Watch my favorite Netflix shows and give you a thumbs up or down :).
- beojan 8y agoI can easily automate that by calling /bin/true.
- nanospeck 8y agoBe Your Personal Job Hunt VA: Share your linkedin/resume and I will search for the whoishiring posts or SO ads that match your job profile and send you a custom intro email draft. 1$ per draft, hurry limited time offer! akhil.karunAtTheRateGmailDotCom
- tonyedgecombe 8y agoNothing, I wouldn’t want someone who places so little value on my work as a customer.
- Gustomaximus 8y agoRemember Whatsapp used to charge a dollar. Multiply $1 by how many millions of users. That's not bad assuming a profit margin is there.
- tonyedgecombe 8y agoYou can't make it up in volume :) It might be irrational but people value what they buy by how much they spend. I remember when I left my last full time job I felt we were undercharging our customers. I went back to those same customers doing the same work and charged them three times as much as they had been paying. Their attitude towards me changed completely, I was really shocked at the difference, I'd gone from being a grunt who installed systems to a valued member of the team.
- cimmanom 8y agoYou can't make it up in volume when you're charging directly for your time. But you can with a service where the marginal cost to serve an additional user is less than that $1.
- txsh 8y agoTurn down service.
- mark212 8y agoas in "No, sorry" or you'll come to my hotel room and fold down the blankets and put a nice chocolate on the pillow? Because I would love to have the latter for $1, especially if the chocolate is included.
- txsh 8y ago> you’ll come to my hotel room and fold down the blankets and put a nice chocolate on the pillow? No, sorry. You now owe me $1.
- whatsstolat 8y agoI'll buy that debt for $0.02
- mark212 8y agoI'll tell you you're a cheapskate. IaaS -- insults as a service.
- DoreenMichele 8y agoBut for an entire dollar, I want custom insults. None of this telling me the same thing you told the last ten people who gave you a dollar. Cuz, wow, lazy. ;)
- mark212 8y agoI’m sorry but auditing is only available in the Enterprise Plan
- jason_slack 8y agoI'd be willing to: 1. provide positive inspiration 2. provide an answer or at least initial research within 5 minutes of time. (using some automated tools I write) 3. provide a daily list of facts about that day at various points in time. 4. teach a child a simple task. 5. provide the top "movers and shakers" in the stock market from the last day.
- cimmanom 8y agoA smile. Note that there are a lot of things many people are willing to do for free but wouldn't do for $1. Such as answering this question. That's because taking money for it interferes with the personal satisfaction of an altruistic or community-building or socially responsible act.
- deft 8y agoFind someone/something to solve your problem by providing internet research on the topic. Max 5 minutes.
- lake99 8y agoYou know the service that Bob Newhart provided, as a psychologist? He charged 5$ for 5 minutes. I'd be willing to do that for 1$. Ref. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ow0lr63y4Mw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ow0lr63y4Mw
- muzani 8y agoHow does someone really do that? It takes a few minutes just to arrange a meeting or enter the room and sit down with someone.
- CloudBuddy 8y agohttps://cloudbuddy.cloud/ https://cloudbuddy.cloud/
- C_System 8y agoTake a photo of what I'm looking at in the real world. This is kind of what Indeed is doing via the Job Spotter app. They pay users ~$1 for snapping photos of help wanted signs.
- quickthrower2 8y ago7 function calls.
- canterburry 8y agoI am actually working right now on a runtime configs management service for which I am initially planning to charge $1/month/client in blocks of 10 clients with a minimum commitment of 1 year...but still $1 per client per month.
- marssaxman 8y agoIt'd be less hassle to just give it away for free.
- chewyland 8y agoBuy me a beer and I'll tell ya.
- soulchild37 8y agoI have been selling Android/iOS apps with a $1 price tag on it, I get 1 star review almost everyday blaming why the app isn't free. There's a lesson on don't price your app at $1.
- mkovji 8y agoI don't think that is the right lesson to learn from the given point. There are lot of $1 apps that are successful. There is a huge difference between $1 and free if you can see it. This for example. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.halfbrick.fruitninja https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.halfbrick.... https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.explodingkittens.projectbombsquad https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.explodingk...
- ai_ia 8y agoOne minute call twice everyday by real human. 1. First to remind me the things, I would be doing today. 2. Following up on the tasks, I am supposed to do today. I tried to do using Alexa. Didn't go as expected.
- cakridge 8y agoDistributed accountability buddies. I like it.
- odonnellryan 8y agoNeat idea that has existed in other spaces for a while. There are groups of sailboats on longer voyages that keep in contact, often back to a base on land, over SSB. If you don't respond to the daily check in it is assumed something is wrong, and everyone is told about it and if anyone is close to your last position you hope they can look for you.
- muzani 8y agoGoogle Assistant might be able to do it well.
- theblogz_in 8y agoI can provide various things @ $1. But if you only promise to pay it on daily basis. I can provide you Services like: 1 Facebook Like on your pages. 1 feed for your blog on each platform and if you are interested we can discuss it in brief, there are various services which we can provide.
- tmaly 8y agoI will recommend one amazing food dish per month for $1
- yesenadam 8y agoTranscribing about 40 seconds of voice audio.
- netrap 8y agoOne minute of my time.