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There's an astonishing amount of things in the world which are not too hard to do, would be really useful and/or popular, yet no one really thought of making th
by Pannoniae 3y ago
There's an astonishing amount of things in the world which are not too hard to do, would be really useful and/or popular, yet no one really thought of making them. This also applies to software, BTW.
- sam_lowry_ 3y agoCare to elaborate? Because nowadays anything can be a startup idea.
- Pannoniae 3y agoFor example, a universal internet annotator/commenter tool. Dissenter has tried but it quickly got shut down. The point would be that you could comment on and discuss any site without the site operators' interference.
- iSnow 3y agoSo, Reddit as a stand-alone app?
- Pannoniae 3y agoBasically, and it would work on a URL basis.
- xingped 3y agoGoogle tried that too with SideWiki, but it only lasted 2yrs I think. There must be somethin to it that makes it not as easy as you think.
- Pannoniae 3y agoThat was just Google being Google, and its history of abandoning products. I wouldn't give it too much meaning, tbh.
- ilyt 3y agoModeration. It's always moderation. "Anyone can write there" also means "anyone can write bollocks there". From ye-olde name-calling and flaming to SEO/ad spam.
- DropInIn 3y agoA little considered aspect of current "moderation" is that the mere need to create an account limits the total content volume And percentage of posted content which one would need to moderate. It's almost like a variant of security through obscurity which actually has a meaningful impact.
- anthk 3y agoUsenet?
- guerrilla 3y agoThis seems like something Brave could get away with...
- hyperpape 3y agoLots of attempts here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_annotation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_annotation.
- sam_lowry_ 3y agostet was a bad implementation of a great idea but my god was it cool! I am really puzzled why this idea did not catch in academia. Only Rap Genious reimplemented it somewhat poorly. And JIRA... even worse.
- mikrotikker 3y agoDissenter is still around. You can just install it manually, its great but you have to dodge the odd nazi.
- kdmccormick 3y agoI think part of what would make these things so especially useful is that they'd be simple FLOSS packages. "VC-backed modern-WvDial-replacement-as-a-service" doesn't sound so useful, does it?
- NotYourLawyer 3y ago>VC-backed There’s your problem.
- twic 3y agoNot with the federal funds rate at 5% they can't!
- munchler 3y agoRelevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2347/ https://xkcd.com/2347/
- imchillyb 3y agoThat one always gives me existential dread.