Ask HN: What do you want people to build?

[billsunshine]

We do "what are you building?" threads all the time. I want to hear the other side. What's a tool, product, or service you'd actually use that nobody seems to be making? Could be a better version of something that exists, or something totally new.

[austin-cheney]

A meta web browser, or browser toolkit. That is a web browser that by default obeys current standards but does not have to. It can be gutted or extended at the discretion of a user.

For example I would like to remove reliance on certificates for TLS. I know it’s a security nono but I don’t care. Another example is choosing to make markdown the default format instead of html.

Simultaneously such an application should allow users to add their own custom packages, such as native interpretation of Python or custom media codecs.

[fabianholzer]

> It can be gutted or extended at the discretion of a user.

Something that would give a user meaningful agency. You, sir, are a hopeless romantic. ;)

[codingdave]

Your question is also asked all the time: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

You can probably find many other posts as well by searching different phrases. Folks are always fishing for ideas via "Ask HN" posts.

[fiftyacorn]

I want a spam filter extension for browser that work with social media and remove the bots, and tune what the algorithm is trying to send me

So if you are on reddit - the extension would remove accounts that are likely bots based on age of the account, and other criteria. Same for other social media

Ive had a look and there doesnt seem much in this area

[Mobius01]

I have to be honest - build a blog and post your thoughts. Human thoughts, your ideas, the projects, the tips, and the art. Just add more human voices to the internet. We need them.

[agcat]

I agree.

[nicbou]

Based on real problems I encounter through my work:

- A simple commenting system

- A simple up/downvoting system

- A simple forum

- A simple RSS-to-newsletter tool

There are solutions in that field, but they are usually way too complicated, or can't seamlessly integrate with an existing website.

[muzani]

I would love a simple forum and chat software that can be extended into a page of a website.

Feedback is super important. That's how I scaled an app from 1k to 3k active users in a month. We had an internal "chat" hacked onto Firebase, and it turn the app from a recipe book to a community. People complained a lot about the app via this chat. We fixed the problems quickly and they'd recruit people from their other communities. It was also an exhaust pipe for complaints; we'd get few bad reviews on Google Play because people were heard.

SMF and PHPBB cost too much and were designed for an era before 80% of people were on mobile. Reddit and Discourse creates groups of people, not communities.

[gethly]

I want someone to index youtube and provide independent search engine that actually works and can also hook into my account and build recommendations to what i watch or search without google's bs. I think it is perfectly doable to turn youtube into pure video storage service and do everything else outside of it(which is finer since there is no ad bypass or anything nefarious). But definitely not commercially viable and likely google would block the services from its api.

[moomoo11]

shit that works lol

i've probably contributed to all these AI sloppers by giving them $10/20 bucks to get credits, to find out it doesn't work, so they can book it as "ARR" and raise $10M only to shut down some months later.