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Ask HN: I wish there was a web service that...
What was the last thing that you wished you could do but couldn't find a suitable existing solution?
- lmm 14y agoSomething that makes it easy to set up my own transforming proxies using a few simple rules. Like yahoo pipes, but more oriented towards manipulating websites rather than feeds.
- bkyan 14y agoCould you be a bit more specific on what you mean by "transforming proxies" ?
- lmm 14y agoA proxy that would change parts of the page. Specifically I'm thinking something to make the web more useful from my Kindle, so rewrite new-window links into regular ones, replace links to PDFs with google docs, and maybe simplify pages a bit (article mode is pretty good at that to be fair). I guess "instapaper in proxy form" would also solve the problem. Probably fairly niche, but it was the first thing I could think of.
- polyfractal 14y agoFind local (amateur) vegetable growers so we could swap vegetables. I'm overrun with jalepenos, green peppers and tomatoes... would love to trade them for something else.