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Ask HN: Requests for Software – have something you want built?
I thought it could be interesting to have a 'reverse Show HN', where instead of people showing what they've built, people can post about what they want built :)
Do you have any Requests for Software?
No hard requirements or constraints, anything from a fun hobby idea to something your $BIG_CO may desperately need.
The motivation for the idea is pretty simple: some of us like building, but may be out of ideas of interesting things to build. Hope others find the thread interesting or useful, cheers.
- joey_spaztard 1y agoFive months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42915664 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42915664
- aristofun 1y agoPlease make a simple yet powerful video editing native app (macos) that doesn’t suck and doesn’t require a degree to make all the basic stuff that a youtuber needs. Closest thing is screenflow, next (much farther away in “suck” department) - camtasia.
- AznHisoka 1y agoI want a product that helps me choose the right health insurance plan based on a set of questions, or even a list of preferences, including who my primary doctor, dentist is etc. I doubt anyone can build this reliably though. The incentives are simply not there and it isnt an interesting hobby project either
- idontwantthis 1y agoAlso just the data isn’t available. There isn’t a way I know of to know which doctors even exist or which insurance they use. The insurance companies’ own list is useless.
- nicbou 1y agoI'm building exactly that in Germany. It's going live tomorrow. The system here is a lot more sane though. It's mostly a recommendation tool for recent immigrants.
- mikewarot 1y agoI want a real life version of Memex[1]. In particular, I want to be able to ingest all of my web pages normally, then refer back to their offline local copies at some future date, and spit out a complete ready to use copy on demand. Copyright and disk space limitations be damned. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memex
- nicbou 1y agoI want to monitor specific sections of German law for changes. I used Wachete but Gesetze im Internet is now blocking it. I would love to subscribe to changes for sentences, paragraphs or sections and get the a diff when it changes. I would also like to get API-like access to certain values placed in those sentences, to use them as infrequently updated constants in my code. There is an official initiative for a legal API but it's been in limbo for a while. It was supposed to be released last Spring but I can't find any updates nor get a response from the project lead.