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Ask HN: What Do You Want?
I think a community of hackers is the best place to ask what people want on the internet. So, tell me, and I'll hack it if it's popular and/or interesting, since I have free time from other coding projects at the moment!
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- duncan_bayne 15y agoI want a tablet that runs Linux, with a nice friendly multi-touch UI built upon StumpWM. I want it to be so user friendly that anyone can just pick it up and use it for email, web-browsing, etc. Then, when I plug in a keyboard (or pair a bluetooth keyboard) it switches 'modes' and kicks off Emacs, so I can develop apps interactively. I want it to integrate with GitHub (or any other Git repo) so that installing an app is just a 'git clone' under the hood. As a developer, I want to be able to install an app via forking it in my personal repo, so that I can modify it as I wish, and issue pull requests. I want the whole thing to be FOSS, from the BIOS up. Above all, I want to be able to cross someone's palm with silver and get one of these delivered to me a few days later. I want to be able to put down a deposit to pre-order one of these things. Please?
- leeHS 15y agoIs it the best place? I question that. Post this same message at a group of researchers, elementary school teachers, chefs, women, kids. I'd be curious how they would answer this question. There is just so much out there by hackers, for hackers. My 2 cents.
- dylangs1030 15y agoActually, great feedback. I'll start scouting different places asking those audiences.
- stray 15y agoWhat do you want? Make that.