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Ask HN: If you had to pay ~5$ per month for an online service, what would it be?
I'm not really fishing for startup ideas, but I'd like to get a sense of consumer pain points that are severe enough that people will pay moderate sums of money for.
Good Examples:
File sharing / hosting / management: Github, Dropbox, Flickr
Dating / Networking / Communication: Skype, LinkedIn, Match.com, OKCupid
Tasks / Todo / Personal Search: Evernote, Basecamp
Others: Eyefi, Wakemate
Basically I'd love to hear answers that are like "Oh, I'd LOVE IT if someone fixes X --I'd totally pay 5 bucks for it!"
- cperciva 16y agoI'd pay $5/month for somewhere I could direct my cron email to which would (a) store everything for future reference, and (b) intelligently compare them from day to day and forward me the emails where something significant changed. The hard part is (b), of course -- you'd need to figure out things like "the number in the 'up X days' line changes each day, so that's not worth flagging as important".
- deleted 16y ago[deleted]
- shadowpwner 16y agoHuh, I could make this for free as a side project. Hmmmm..
- veb 16y agoDude just said he'd pay $5 a month for it. Where's your business sense boy?!
- mariuskempe 16y agoA good long-form news service. Because I hate poorly formatted overly-long articles surrounded by awful offensive Flash ads.
- zoomzoom 16y agoCheck out longform.org
- shadowpwner 16y agoCheck out Readability. It discards the ads and reformats the article like a newspaper. Best of all, it's free!
- revorad 16y agohttp://longreads.com/ http://longreads.com/ + http://www.instapaper.com http://www.instapaper.com
- hasenj 16y agoA youtube that doesn't take videos down for copyright violations.
- shadowpwner 16y agoIf you were looking for copyrighted music material, there's Zune Pass. Unlimited music for $15 a month. (http://www.zune.net/en-US/products/zunepass/default.htm http://www.zune.net/en-US/products/zunepass/default.htm)
- antonioe 16y agoA blog alert that would, via email give me a way to email my comments to blog topics I am interested. So say I am interested in Entrepenuership, NYC Pizza, Van Gogh Paintings. I'd get a nice digest in my mail of that days blogs with a way of commenting on them without leaving my Gmail.
- frou_dh 16y agoThought for a few minutes and I honestly can't think of anything lacking. Surprising.
- albahk 16y agoA secure dashboard for my websites or projects where I can see data pulled from Google Analytics/Mixpanel, sales, domain expiry alerts, pingdom uptime, server load, monitoring stats etc. To quickly check all these things requires a significant chunk of time when really my intention is just to "glance" at them to make sure everything is still ticking over. Eventually I will build and self-host something like this but its a significant development investment for an internal tool. I would pay $5 a month for this.
- chrismiller 16y agoYou should check out Geckoboard. It is pretty much exactly what you described. It is also free, so you can spend that $5 on an extra coffee every month :)
- revorad 16y agohttp://www.metricly.com/ http://www.metricly.com/
- iworkforthem 16y agoOh, I'd LOVE IT if someone make another drop.io with the file expiry option or single file sharing --I'd totally pay 5 bucks for it! Oh, I'd LOVE IT if someone give a localized version of twitter, and tell me what is trending, what's hot, etc. --I'd totally pay 5 bucks for it!
- revorad 16y agohttp://www.letscrate.com/ http://www.letscrate.com/
- jorkos 16y ago- send me a weekly email with a few cool events / venues going on in my city (think private thrillist)
- veb 16y agoI'd pay $5 a month for this site. Definitely.
- revorad 16y agoIt just occurred to me charging $5 a month may be a good way to control HN addiction... unless we end up with an addiction which also costs money.
- runT1ME 16y agoDropBox. I wish there was a middle ground between the free and $20 a month option.