Poll: What would you like to see me build next?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3341665

by ibagrak • 15 years ago

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jjets7184• 15 years ago

I like the idea of TwitterContests. I definitely could see the potential for using a contest on Twitter as a marketing tool!

ibagrak4• 15 years ago

Many businesses already do this. I see hundreds of SMBs running contests on Twitter every day. Usually you have to retweet and follow to enter, but there are some other rules too occasionally. It would be nice to automate that workflow and/or help them define it.

jjets7184• 15 years ago

Yes, exactly. AppSumo has been running a lot of promotions recently that are based around social sharing in exchange for additional entries in whatever they are giving away. It would be interesting to automate the AppSumo deal process.

tlianza• 15 years ago

FYI Twitter/FB contests are one of the services we offer, if there are any SMB's out there who are interested: http://venpop.com/socialmarketing/campaigns/

inuhj2• 15 years ago

None of these. I'm not trying to be rude--but other than TwitterContests none of these look promising.

ibagrak4• 15 years ago

So it is none of these or is it TwitterContests? Either way is fine. I just forgot to make a None option. You are not being rude, btw.

inuhj2• 15 years ago

None.

wasd• 15 years ago

I'm with him. TwitterContests seem like it might have some use but you should devote yourself to something to a bit more interesting.

gburt• 15 years ago

I voted for Timelines by mistake, I wanted to vote for HairCue. There's a market for this, I guarantee it. If you can make it catch on.

dpcan• 15 years ago

My sister is a hair stylist, and I talked to her about apps, and she basically rattled off several different ones for every idea I had, and she even said she has tried to think of a few only to find several that already do everything.

There's no lack of competition, but can you get a stylist to make the app part of their daily business routine?

whenisayUH2• 15 years ago

I like Haircue. When my wife gets a haircut she likes, she always wishes she has pics of it right then so she can show the hairdresser the next time (esp if she needs to use someone else for some reason). And she tells me it always looks best right in the salon.

Good vanity, sharing, social-ness to this one. And prob some sort of B2B angle with hairdressers as well from a monetization perspective.

thejash• 15 years ago

I don't get this. I did this myself with an app called "Camera" already. When I go get my hair cut in a few days, I'm just going to say "Make it like this"

whenisayUH2• 15 years ago

Ha. Good point. But I think with women at least (basing this observation on my wife/sisters), there is an element of sharing, i.e. "check out my new haircut" or "like my new haircut?" and so some central social way to do this could be good.

I'm not the demographic but if properly positioned, I could see women primarily using this.

jvanderwal• 15 years ago

As a business, I like TwitterContests. On a personal level, I just got done with a long road trip and had been thinking it would be nice to have something along the lines of Re:Trip. Maybe an interactive map of the route with pictures I took at diff locations tagged all along it.

wooyi• 15 years ago

TwitterContests - because it solves a very specific problem and is one product you can probably monetize.

jjets7184• 15 years ago

For the Timeline idea, something similar exists with <a href="https://www.lucidchart.com/>LucidChart</a>, which is an excellent app.

yunfan• 15 years ago

an inode cloud service, so that programmer can build their own dropbox on the cloud with private addons .

rokhayakebe• 15 years ago

Because I wouldn't use any of these, I'll tell you something I would like to see built. An elegant interface for my computer in my browser. http://mypc. Nice icons, structure, view folders and subfolders, and search. I hate having to have to switch apps and try to find a certain app or file or folder.

EDIT: This is not a web app.

ibagrak4• 15 years ago

Wow. I never hoped to get statistically significant results. Thanks everyone for voting.

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