I would pay $10 every 3 months for a highlevel review/changelog of the top Javascript frameworks.<p>I would pay $1/month for book suggestions related to technical leadership.<p>I would pay $2/month for 10 suggestions of breweries I haven't tried yet.
I would pay $10/month for a weekly digest of the most important world news without editorializing, clickbait, celebrity news. Just important stuff. Also I would not like it to be only US-centered (that could be optional though).<p>EDIT: Some people asked what I mean by "important". For me, important event is the event that has potential to have a high impact on the society or any large group of people in long term. Some very recent news that I found important: results of elections in Austria, terrorist attack in Somalia, grand jury indictment against Manafort, hundreds of sexual harassment allegations in USA as a whole (I don't think reporting each individual case and celebrity implicated is important).
I would pay $50 for 30 minutes of the time of a webpack configuration expert. Or a similar amount for SAAS allowing me to select modules from a UI and chain them as desired.<p>I gave up on my desired configuration after spending 3-5+h in frustrated powerlessness.
I would pay $50 a 30-60 min call with an industry vet programmer/EM to look at my career and give next steps to grow my career. I have no idea if I'm doing well or not or how to become a great programmer cause I don't know what's "next", as it's not as linear as I wish it was.
I pay $60-$70/month to have my laundry done. They do a better job than I would, and I value my time highly. Plus the capex of a washer/drier, and the opex of detergents and dryer sheets, and I think I'm coming out well ahead...
I would pay $100/hr for a competent freelance system administrator who could parachute in and deal with the various things we need dealt with.<p>Of course the problem here is "competent". On two different occasions people have offered to do the job and they were terrible.
I would pay $20/month for a simple, easy to set up affiliate management service.<p>Seriously - there are literally hundreds of affiliate management services out there, I've looked at dozens of them, and none of them quite fit the following requirements:<p>- Simple setup
- Reasonably low cost
- Dashboard for affiliates to track clicks & signups<p>Most existing systems also wrap up some sort of customer referral widgety thing, which I don't need. Or, the websites are broken / look like they're from 2001.<p>ReferralCandy is probably the closest thing, but again, it's way more set up for "customer referrals" vs professional or semi-pro affiliates. The integration process is also super heavy.<p>We literally built our own affiliate management since everything that fit our requirements was so expensive. This seems like an obvious side-project for someone to knock out.
I would pay 1€ once for an Android weather app that has no ads, that don't take 30s to load and that is instantly readable and not some fancy schmancy style that makes it hard to know what's the weather for today and where to look for next days.<p>Apparently it's too much to ask.
I would pay $5 to get a text transcription of any podcast.<p>My life doesn't support podcast-listening particularly well, and yet I know there's a lot of good info out there in the audio world.
I would pay $100/year for a photo organizer SaaS, that has a read-only access on a folder in my Dropbox, and let me organize my photos by time, by people on the photo, by places, or by events that I would have created. It would let me make some requests like "Show me all photos with John on it, taken on Europe, between 2008 and 2012".<p>Google Photos is shitty and Google already got too much information about me.
I would pay $50 for 30 minutes of time in person from an expert on gardens.<p>I would pay $10 a month for scraping 100 data entries for my side project.
I would pay up to 50% (EU level) of my monthly income to live in a place with direct democracy. Fortunatly I live in the one country on earth with direct democracy so I pay less then 24%.
I would pay up to $300 for a NAS with at least two hard drives bays working in RAID and an open linux-based operating system (with root access). Hard disks are no included in that price.
X = you Tuesday, Y = a hamburger today<p>If you don't like that Wimpy suggestion, I would pay $2000/year in union dues (or professional association of equivalently sized teeth).
$20/month for a bundled subscription to various popular news sites (WSJ, NYT) & other online media (The Atlantic, New Yorker, etc.). So many of these sites are behind paywalls and everyone wants you to subscribe to them. It's unsustainable to subscribe to all of them and the days of being a dedicated reader of just 1 paper are long gone