Ask HN: Imagine you can solve one of your own problems today – what would it be?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8219386

by gregmuender • 12 years ago

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There have been so many startups lately that seem to resonate with a very painful problem. Dropbox with file sharing. Uber with hailing a cab. Airbnb with finding lodging.

What's the next behemoth?

92482• 12 years ago

International payments. Anybody? Please?

gregmuender2• 12 years ago

What about Google Wallet? Venmo? Paypal? Square Cash? Are they solving that problem at all?

https://www.google.com/wallet/send-money/ https://venmo.com/ https://square.com/cash

92482• 12 years ago

Funny how the three you linked are all US-only..

If you're lucky enough to not live in a country accepted by PayPal, there's no service, that I know of, that would allow you to accept payments, cash out, and not require your customers to sign up.

joshmangel• 12 years ago

Payoneer

dllthomas3• 12 years ago

Home Ec

gregmuender2• 12 years ago

Home Ec, what's that?

dllthomas3• 12 years ago

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_economics

Basically, "stuff to help me keep my household clean and organized and running well."

hashtag2• 12 years ago

Education (I'm working on it right now)

philiphodgen• 12 years ago

Email.

Every inbound message will fall into one of the following categories:

1. Something that I need to remember. This could be some information that will be of future value in a project, or it could be the contact information of the sender. (Help me store it efficiently).

2. Something I need to do. (Help me track what I'm supposed to do so I don't forget).

3. I don't need this. (The delete button works well here, as do filters).

This may be easy (though I doubt it) for rugged individualists, but for those of us who work with a group of people, it's extraordinarily difficult.

I guess I am not really whining about email. I am whining about the interaction of email with project management, task management, calendars, and archives.

And how have I solved this? With a human being. Can your software compete with the $50,000/year price of a person? I'm interested.

(In writing this I realize that I am now advocating the hollowing-out of American civilization by making white-collar workers obsolete, replacing perfectly nice people with machines. Sorry, America.)

petervandijck• 12 years ago

Growing a team. (Hiring, Training, Managing).

mgial• 12 years ago

Health.

Ask HN: Imagine you can solve one of your own problems today – what would it be?

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