What hair on fire problem are you willing to pay for right now?

Full linux system on phone, available as a desktop experience through hdmi out. Samsung phones have Dex, Pixel 8 has desktop mode in beta. In terms of general use, UI is pretty much there (Dex is ahead of Pixel 8 beta, but likely full desktop mode is coming). Code-server works pretty well for running visual studio code in a browser window. Portable external monitor with a keyboard or a lapdock is much nicer to carry, serves as an extra battery, and you get the advantage of having internet connection through the phone when there is no wifi.

But because of how termux is structured, compiling stuff isn't always straighforward. The team does a good job of building out the packages, but for example, stuff like pip install numpy should just work natively (in termux you have to install it as a system package). There is Proot, but its very slow.

I would pay for a better Termux that wraps all the necessary stuff so I can just do everything like I do under linux.

I want a simple RAG. Not even the RAG part, just AI backed searching of a document. I put a CSV in there. I ask it a question. It pops me back the closest match. I don't need it to be very smart, but it should be better than fuzzy searches. Specifically it has to match a question from a different language, and it has to match questions asked in different contexts. I want users to ask it questions like "I don't like the books recommended here" and it should eventually match up with "What are your favorite books on Indian history?" inside the CSV. So it's not just keywords, semantics matter too.

I'm surprised it doesn't exist yet. Plenty of tools do this offline. There's online cloud ones just hosting the vector DB. Not much that just handles a search API.

But it has to do this at scale, for tens of thousands of users, not just one user like most sites do. I feel like Algolia should be able to do this easily but it's not on the list.

Not exactly "hair on fire," but I have dumped a bit of money into fixing my problem with music "dyslexia" (blindness?). Much more detail: https://hw.leftium.com/#/item/31689274

I enjoy social dancing, but it's tragic I can't connect with the music at more than a basic level. And it makes dancing with some (more musical) partners difficult/uncomfortable.

Things I've tried:

- group dance lessons

- private dance lessons ($80+ per hour)

- books (like: https://ihatetodance.com/)

- online courses (like: https://thecharismaticvoice.com/product/music-appreciation/)

- I would pay a pretty sum for a solution ($1000?)

I am thinking of making a beat-aware video player to help me with this.

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Note: some dancer "whales" easily spend over $10,000/year on their hobby. (I'm probably just a "dolphin.")

My hair on fire problem right now is i want to get a list of all companies and their company descriptions, headcount range and sector that match a single company name, sorted by relevancy. If you can create an API for that and charge per API call (say $100 for 5000 calls), i would be your first customer

A singular inbox for my favorite web articles, bookmarks, and Twitter bookmarks, and anything else I want to add (preferably via API) that requires no extra steps or manual imports. Readwise was close to this until Twitter shut off API access.

Eg: I save an article or bookmark something and it magically appears in my singular inbox.

Something that makes sure I don't waste my time with social media and garbage content.

It's really hard.

Compiling a tiny NIC test program that needs dpdk, cuda, and the oversized driver bundle. Seriously build me a binary that I can run on Ubuntu 18 or maybe 20 and I'll be happy. Bonus if you can tell me how to reproduce.

A simple app that can scan the pictures and videos on my iphone and suggest groups of pictures and videos that could be batch deleted.

I save way to much useless photos and video.

Online booking of services & professionals in low density (rural) areas. Wrapper for phone, basically.

nothing i solve any problem i ever face (because im good at my job)