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Ask HN: What can I build for you today?
What's your biggest pain point?
I want to build a webapp that people and/or businesses will find useful. I'll start building it right now.
One webapp per comment will make it easy for people to vote.
- corin_ 16y agoA sexy dashboard that grabs data from Google Analytics API and displays it all - suitible to have a monitor up on the wall showing various stats from 1-10 websites, highly customisable, very beautiful.
- lachyg 16y agoHeard of http://geckoboard.com/ http://geckoboard.com/ ?
- corin_ 16y agoI now have, and will check it out on Monday - thanks! edit: don't suppose you have an invite code?
- pmjoyce 16y agoHi guys, I'm the founder of Geckoboard. Thanks for your interest (and thanks for the mention lachyg). We currently have a a backlog of > 1000 invites. It's still early days and the product is a little raw but if you're interested in checking it out mail me (address in my profile). If you include your HN handle I'll get your invite out straight away.
- ntulip 16y agoheard of? Yes. On it? No. Got an Invite?
- dmitri1981 16y agoThere was a similar YC startup. Does anyone remember what it is called?
- pmjoyce 16y agoLeftronic - looks great but I haven't been able to check it out in person.
- vijayr 16y agoit looks beautiful, wish I could try it out. There seems to be some slight differences between leftronic and geckoboard though. Geckoboard collects data on your behalf, not sure if leftronic does it
- malbiniak 16y agoA tool similar to Delicious that aggregates content that you've Liked on Facebook (within the wall) and marked as a Favorite on Twitter. There's a few of us that are using those two methods to mark content to come back and read later.
- nodata 16y agoIt seems we need a better way of tracking what existing webapps are available.
- AlexMuir 16y agoGreat idea. Sort of like an Appstore for webapps (without payments). http://www.appappeal.com/ http://www.appappeal.com/ was the first thing I came across - it looks awful. Anyone used it?
- noodle 16y agoagreed. i kind of started working on a solution to this at some point in time, but i got discouraged. might try and finish it up this weekend.
- parenthesis 16y agoFor anyone making this, let me search not only for "image editor" or "spreadsheet", but also for web apps "like [desktop app] Photoshop" or "like Excel", etc.
- RiderOfGiraffes 16y agoA way of reading HN that lets me say "That was interesting" and "That is of no interest to me" and then presents, when asked, all the posts from the last 48 hours based on how interesting a Bayesian (or other) filter thinks I'll find them. I've been intending to write my own, but I've been too busy of late to make any progress.
- AlexMuir 16y agoI'm not convinced - there's already an incredibly powerful filter on HN that finds and reads all the articles and rates them as being of interest to the audience. I suspect that the appeal of something that filtered HN for people with narrower interests (of whom I am one) would be pretty limited. I'm looking for something that is widely useful, rather than a fun coding project (which I'm sure this would be).
- RiderOfGiraffes 16y agoYou asked for a pain point, I provided one. These days I'm finding most of the "new" page to be uninteresting, and worse, most of the front page to be uninteresting as well. Many, many good, interesting and useful items slip through the net and get insufficient upvotes to hit the front page, and yet on occasion when re-submitted get noticed quickly enough, hit the front page and stay there for hours, sometimes more than a day. So when you say: > there's already an incredibly powerful filter on HN > that finds and reads all the articles and rates them > as being of interest to the audience. ... I guess I don't know what you mean. And if you just mean the current mechanism of having a wide readership that rates submissions, it's not working for me. But I would guess that you're unconvinced and won't work on it, but that's your choice, and I fully support it. Someone might build it, it might be me, and I'll be really interested to see how much use it gets. If any.
- AlexMuir 16y agoSorry if I came across unappreciative - I do appreciate your idea. I just tend to enjoy seeing items that I wouldn't otherwise consider reading - perhaps this is still a bit of novelty from not having been here very long. I find that if I'm away for a few days the Best list helps me catch anything good I missed.
- swombat 16y agoA plugin/gem for rails apps that allows you to build a feedburner-like feed subscriber tracking system so you don't have to go through FB all the time. If all it does is accurately report the number of subscribers, I'll be using it on a number of sites. If it does more, all the better. Feedburner in a gem, basically.
- maxklein 16y agoWrite a small PHP plugin that will allow our users invite their friends. This plug-in can be embedded as an iframe, and then it will ask the user to select his email service. Options would be gmail, yahoo and any other email services that provide an API. On clicking next, he will authenticate, and then his contacts will be displayed, with none selected. He can select as many as he wants. Pressing next once more will allow him customize the invite email, and a final 'invite' press will invite all his friends. I believe most of us here could use this.
- dholowiski 16y agoUh oh, make sure you provide a way to export your contact data too- you don't want to make google mad!
- bobds 16y agoYou can use OpenInviter: http://openinviter.com/ http://openinviter.com/ I think you have to signup to download it, but it's free and you get the source.
- sam26880 16y agowhere are you going with this invite idea? I'm working on a phone based invitation product at http://televite.totalengage.com http://televite.totalengage.com I'm just curious what your plans are :)
- niyazpk 16y agoI need a book listing service similar to http://www.7bks.com http://www.7bks.com, but which shows ratings (by me) and category. The list should be embeddable in my website. (eg: http://sivers.org/book http://sivers.org/book ) (The service could then extract the user ratings and make a top books list for each category.)
- someone_here 16y agoI would like a shared to-do list that is suitable for touchscreen devices.
- AlexMuir 16y agoI like this idea.
- DannyCooper 16y agoBuilding it - http://gettasklist.com http://gettasklist.com
- someone_here 16y agoCool!
- bearwithclaws 16y agoThe webapp that shows exactly what you're looking for in this "Ask HN" post. I've created Wappr.com. Too much hassle to moderate/filter (100% neglected right now). I hope you have a much better solution.
- vgurgov 16y agoPay-per-answer email service. I want to create email address- smthg like @payperanswer.com I can give it to recruiters, and all ppl that want something from me. Senders need to credit say $1 to sent me something to that inbox and once i reply to that email money go to charity of my choose (and 50% go to payperanswer.com or something). I wanted to build something like that myself, but dont have time atm. Extra bonus - convince Steve Jobs to use, price it like $1000 to Apache SW Foundation, and publish all emails publically - what would be HUGE!!! :))))
- notyourwork 16y agoI would be interesting in being a part of this project! Contact me if you want to take this from inception to conception!!! Email is on my profile.
- vgurgov 16y agosorry i didnt get it.. why do you need my contact? feel free to implement this thing, i don't hold any patents for this AMAZING idea :) I rely on your sense of justice and just added red Ferrary to my amazon wishlist
- megamark16 16y agoAt the risk of sounding like a jerk, you're asking the wrong people. This is a community of builders, you need to ask the users (or potential users). Go interview small business owners in your area. Call up companies and ask to talk to the office manager. Let them know that you're interested in building something that will solve a problem of theirs so that you can sell it to other small businesses, but that you're not trying to sell them something, you just need their help in identifying painful problems that nobody else is solving.
- noodle 16y agoi partly agree. on the one hand, we're all builders and could take good ideas and run with them. on the other, we're also thinkers. i have more ideas than i could ever find the time to build, and are usually at least mostly busy with our own best ideas
- dabent 16y agoIt's true, we are just a small subset of people who need things built to solve problems. But we also do have problems to solve, which is why companies like GitHub exist. If building tools to solve software development problems is something you can get excited about, go build those tools. But don't ignore the sea of possibilities outside our world.
- canadaduane 16y agoWe are also a community of fast adopters, and this is one reason we are a good group to build things for.
- AlexMuir 16y agoPeople here understand what's possible. They are aware when something is sub-optimal. If I go and ask the majority of people on the street they won't even know they have a problem.
- Sirupsen 16y agoBuilders are users too.
- bezdekt 16y agoA sync tool between Mac Outlook 2011 and Google Calendar and Contacts
- desigooner 16y agoUpvote a post on HN if I click on the post in the New section.
- nodata 16y agoPlease, please make an application that will make it easy to track supporting and opposing views on a topic. The idea being to replace discussions (mailing list, real life meetings) that get lost in word games and politics. The application would bring transparency to a decision and allow any people not acquainted with the discussion to get up to speed quickly. An evidence-based transparent decision process I guess.
- AlexMuir 16y agohttp://www.procon.org/ http://www.procon.org/ does this, but for more popular topics.
- fezzl 16y agoA web app manager. The browser window is far from optimal for using multiple web apps at once.