[spitfire]

I've heard of HN and i'm dissatisfied with the offerings out there. I want to sign up for a service and have my small business technology problems disappear.

That means: - Help me point my domain to your service. - A built in CMS that humans can actually use, not a directory where I'm expected to shove html (What the fuck is html and can word make it?) - email: Make my domains email, work without hassle - file sharing - let me share stuff with others in my business. - calendaring/meetings - duh, just make it work. - wiki - built in, from the ground up.

None of this is technically difficult. But no one has put in the effort to make these things frictionless yet.

When I brought up the subject of a turnkey linux distribution for business 12 years ago at a meet up I got violently shouted down. I was told businesses HAD to have an LDAP administrator otherwise they would cease to function immediately.

I disagree. Huge amounts of effort have gone into making things technically possible, but very little has gone into making them _useful_ to the average business user. Have a look at hosted wordpress as a model for this sort of thing.