HACKER Q&A
📣 darkhorse13

What are some small, internet products/services that you wish existed?


The title is fairly self-explanatory. What are some small, internet products/services that you wish existed? Could be a website, app, or even a library/framework.


  👤 zanmat0 Accepted Answer ✓
As a part of online banking, being able to spawn temporary pseudo accounts, where I could transfer, say $150 a month over 6 months to cover an upcoming one time payment of an auto premium for example.

You would get the benefit of prepayment discounts and an accurate financial picture when looking at your main account.

I think some semblance of this exists for certain online banks but I have enough momentum with my current bank that I wouldn't switch just for that.


👤 abop
I wish there was a way to find tools, products, SaaS services.

There are so many cool tools and micro-SaaS on the internet but I always browse by and when I need them later on it’s impossible to find again.


👤 iFire
Not answering the question, but https://opensource.builders/ does list sufficiently well ran and living projects you can self-host.

You can look at the categories to see where the gaps are.


👤 HybridLightAI
As a Linux user I wish there were a new improved replacement for Grub2 with a well-written manual. This would make dual booting much easier and safer and would most likely help to increase the ranks of Linux users. And also because I trust Microsoft and Apple - about as far as I can throw them.

👤 trungdq88
I want to pay a reasonable fee to stop seeing ads everywhere on the internet.

👤 kleer001
A digital game store like Steam, but where you could resell your games.

👤 pc86
Please don't use HN for market research.