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HN, what's bothering you?
We're a community of builders. But we are also busy individuals with lots of problems (that need a simple or complex solution).
So HN, what's bothering you? What do you want to get solved for you? For what product/service would you pay if it existed today?
- temp8675309 15y agoMy mother in law just lost her job as a school librarian at the same time as my father in law is getting dicked around by workman's comp for an on-the-job injury. They need financial help but are too proud to take it - they don't like the thought of their son in law bailing them out even though I make far more than they do. This bothers me.
- wwwtyro 15y agoIs it feasible to pay their debts/bills anonymously? I am also curious about this, for similar reasons.
- freshfey 15y agoI'm sorry to hear that. What about taking care of "smaller" bills, like grocery etc. Make a list of what they need and just buy it (without asking them). Brush it off as "you were buying groceries anyway".
- tstegart 15y agoMaybe your wife can approach them instead of you?
- r00fus 15y agoThere are several options here - their pride and wariness are probably natural human responses. 1) Pose the financial assistance as a loan or other arrangement that has reasonable terms. 2) Claim you're investing money with them or trust them (if they are savvy) to invest it for you. My sister did this for my parents a while back - she claimed that she was giving money for my father to invest, and I'm sure she's never expecting the money back. There are numerous ways in which you can "ask them to help you" while in reality you are helping them. This can also bring you closer, but it requires a good deal of time and energy to set up (not to mention the money). Keep in mind, this kind of arrangement is fraught with downsides too - there is a reason most folks recommend against loaning to, or going in business with your family.
- voxx 15y agoI'm dying one second at a time and I'm in the way of all of my personal aspirations and the only way out is to blindly hope for salvation. AND MY COFFEE MUG BROKE
- damoncali 15y agoMy real estate broker is a pain in the ass.
- geoffschmidt 15y agoI'm drowning in email. It's hard to tell which email is important, and it's hard to tell which important emails haven't been dealt with. Gmail's priority inbox thing is useless for me. If you solved this problem, actually solved it, I'd pay whatever you asked. $25, $50, $100/month? A bargain.
- brudgers 15y agoMy gut tells me that smart email isn't a web-based solution - it's a local one. What matters is knowing about how you work, and the information to do that isn't on the web, it's on your hard drive. Web processes cannot afford to work on optimizing results for you in the background, they are focused on getting your answer quick and then moving on to the next customer. On the other hand, right now I've probably got 98% idle CPU on the 8 cores of this machine which could be figuring out when and how to deal with my email by looking at the terabytes of local data I've collected over the past few years. It's a shrink wrapped product, not a service. Given how well Google and Facebook can serve individually targeted ads over the web based on a handful of CPU cycles, odds are that a dedicated local service could handle email if utilizing idle CPU cycles.
- rkwz 15y agoJust curious, what kind of emails do you get? > It's hard to tell which email is important, and it's hard to tell which important emails haven't been dealt with. Does it mean that you get way more unimportant emails than important ones? Can't you just filter them away to tags/trash?
- tstegart 15y agoYeah, I second this. I don't get many emails because I've taken myself off the all lists. Can't the OP do the same? No twitter notifications, no FB notifications, remove yourself from all RSS feeds that you never look at, all mailing lists. Maybe its not email's problem but a problem with your organization abilities.
- geoffschmidt 15y agoI guess the problem is that there are a lot of things that are "somewhat" important, and I can't do them all, so I have to triage even between the "important" items. A friend of a friend is having a housewarming party? Cool, I normally want to know, and maybe put it on my calendar. But when I get behind on my mail I don't even want to see that stuff on my screen. And a lot of the unimportant stuff I want to at least glance at, if I have a spare minute.
- aorshan 15y agoI feel like I'm wasting my time in my college classes. I love being at college and would never give it up, but classes don't challenge me and aren't interesting.
- ChrisNorstrom 15y agoOh, you know what's bothering me? Whenever others submit "Show HN" stories they get upvoted to the front page and I give them feedback, sometimes spending 30 minutes on helping them fix some of their design problems. But when I submit my "Show HN" site, which I've tried 3 times now, it never makes it anywhere and I don't get feedback. So I give and I don't get anything back. I put in more than I get out. When this happens I leave the community permanently and never look back. I'm thinking of leaving HN. This will be the 4th time I'm leaving a community because I'm putting in more than what I'm getting out of it. HN has turned into TechCrunch, a place for nothing but tech news so wanna be entrepreneurs that don't do anything but dick around on the internet can read about other people's tech success and live in someone else's glory. How the hell does the "Facebook Acquires Instagram" story help any of us? How has that information enriched your life or helped you create something? We're suppose to be a community that helps each other out, because startups and websites are hard, and occasionally talk about some tech news. Now it's just tech news 24/7. I've got a few more Show HN submitions, if those don't go anywhere I'm out. Edit: Here's what I wanted to show. Thanks for your guy's support. http://www.timeforzen.com http://www.timeforzen.com
- helen842000 15y agoHey Chris, What are the links? I'll be happy to give feedback.Shoot me a mail if you like!
- dclaysmith 15y agoHere's one... give it an upvote... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3858109 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3858109
- helen842000 15y agoNice! You should do a blog post explaining how you built it. That's what HN loves the most!
- par 15y agoAgreed. I have submitted some Show HN's and they never get upvoted. I see other Show HN's that are just crummy landing pages. I don't get it. I spend a lot of time working on my projects and try to make something at least some people find useful. It's at least more useful than a landing page. But nope.
- AznHisoka 15y agoToday? Allergies. Overall? I hate crowded subways. Why so many useless people who exist?
- dholowiski 15y agoPG said it - Email/Todo's I need a really kick ass web based todo manager and I need it to work like email (so I can exchange todo's with other people). I started building one but... not enough time, too much todo.
- yolesaber 15y agoHave you looked at Asana? http://asana.com/ http://asana.com/
- 4342rr 15y agoHonestly, I'm lonely as hell lately. I'm starting to question how it's possible I don't have a nice ladyfriend by now. It's really starting to crush me. I even considered posting this as an ASK HN since I think this place has some of the smartest comments I've ever read, so I thought surely someone could help, but then I thought "well it's not exactly hacker-related, maybe I'll go check what else is on Ask HN right now and see if there's anything else not really hacker-related", and I seen this thread.
- JoachimSchipper 15y agoIf you are the kind of guy who likes HN, reading http://lesswrong.com/lw/6pf/new_post_version_1_please_read_this_only_if_your/ http://lesswrong.com/lw/6pf/new_post_version_1_please_read_t... and following up on its references may not be the worst idea. (This is empathically not a recommendation or endorsement.)
- AznHisoka 14y agosending you some good sentiments, my friend! A lot of great people I know have trouble in this area, so don't let it crush you. Best wishes.
- Wilduck 14y agoI would pay to have my laundry done. Not dry cleaning, just plain, old, toss-it-in-the-washer laundry. I would pay a significant amount for this service. I wouldn't bat an eye at $30-40/load. I don't care if someone comes and picks it up, or if I go somewhere to drop it off. I don't care if it's done by a professional service or by a 12 year old neighbor kid. I would pay you, and the whoever does my laundry, if you could connect me with someone.
- ricardobeat 14y agoMost laundries already do this. Don't they? Pick-up service, 24h, delivery.
- Wilduck 14y agoProbably, but not in the Minneapolis area as far as I can tell. I found one place, but it's a 20 minute drive from where I live, which nullifies a lot of the benefit. This yelp add sums up the situation quite well: http://www.yelp.com/topic/minneapolis-laundry-service-2 http://www.yelp.com/topic/minneapolis-laundry-service-2
- bmelton 14y agoIf you wouldn't bat an eye at $30-40 a load, then you're also priced pretty close into getting a maid. In most areas, you can get a maid for less than $100 a week. If your primary focus was laundry, have her come by, throw a load into the wash, maybe clean a bit, or dust, then swap the load to the dryer while taking out the trash or something, then fold it. It's a couple hours at best, and maid services tend to fall closer to minimum wage than not, and since most of the time doing laundry is waiting, you can have her fill the time with some miscellaneous cleaning.
- srconstantin 14y agoI have tried umpteen billion times to install Apache. I have wasted several full days trying and failing. I have a Mac. I must be retarded.