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Ask HN: If you were to pay for a small online product to what would it be?

2 pointsby nasirover 9 years ago
What is Lately, I'm doing research about different markets and different products. I ask this question from different businesses and even though many tools are available, still a lot of people don't know about them. The HN community however are more knowledgable in this scene and I would like to know your opinion.

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DanBCover 9 years ago
A software that can run on iPhone, android, windows phone, and desktops.<p>A person would take the software, and import a tab-delimited list of words + definitions. Some of the definitions would have web links. They&#x27;d then have a the software + list, which is the thing they&#x27;d distribute to end users. The software should have some way of searching the lists.<p>Many of the end users are not going to be sophisticated computer users, so asking them to import a word list is probably not practical.<p>Changes to the wordlist would be handled by updates.<p>You would either sell this to NHS health trusts and let them deal with updating it, or you&#x27;d sell it as a service and brand it and deal with the updates for them. Or you could include ads, but you&#x27;d need to carefully screen out any ads for alcohol or other problematic public health stuff.<p>Example entry:<p>PLACE [tab] Patient Led Assessment of the Care Environment <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.england.nhs.uk&#x2F;ourwork&#x2F;qual-clin-lead&#x2F;place&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.england.nhs.uk&#x2F;ourwork&#x2F;qual-clin-lead&#x2F;place&#x2F;</a>
bloodorangeover 9 years ago
A Lastpass replacement which has a free software client, high availability, first class GNU&#x2F;Linux support and Yubikey support. I&#x27;ll easily pay more for this than I paid Lastpass.<p>(I don&#x27;t trust Logmein and want to move away from Lastpass and haven&#x27;t found a satisfactory alternative).