What is a product or service that would save you time and/or money if it existed? It could be something you would work on, but don't have the time. Or it might be something you don't have the expertise to build.
A service that could look up every online account I've ever created, probably by email address, and allow me to completely delete it and all associated data. Like Unroll.me, but for user accounts. Oh yeah and without the sketchy data re-selling practices.
A way to purchase pre-cut lumber in small quantities.<p>For instance, I need an 18-24" piece of 2x4 to prop up an air conditioner, and a couple 30" lengths of 1x10 to convert steam radiators into makeshift shelving. Oh, and four 36" lengths of 1/4" dowel to sew into the bottoms of curtains.<p>Obstacles to my acquiring these:<p>1) The small corner hardware stores I can get to on foot or by transit don't sell lumber, period.<p>2) I don't own a car, and hate driving (I do have a license, but many of my neighbors don't, and I can get about my daily life 99% of the time without one).<p>3) OK, let's say I take a cab to a big box store. They'll only sell me full 8' lengths of lumber.<p>4) Fine, I rent a car or get a cab home, or maybe Home Depot has finally worked out that New Yorkers will buy more if they provide delivery even for small sales.<p>5) At this point, I've already spent $100 on taxis or more on car rental just getting to and from the store.<p>6) I finally get the lumber home, and I can't cut it. I live in a New York apartment, with no outdoor space for projects like this. I own a screw gun because it's useful for assembling Ikea furniture and attaching stuff to walls, but for obvious reasons I don't own a hand saw let alone a circular saw or table saw. Neither do any of my neighbors. And even if I had a saw, no way it's getting anywhere near my apartment's hardwood floors (do you have any idea how much the security deposit was?)<p>7) By some miracle, I find someone to lend me a saw AND a space to cut the lumber in (where??) -- I have nowhere to put the scraps and no sensible way to get rid of them.
Long-term rentals without the phone calls, in-person visits and dealing with shady brokers. Airbnb was almost there but decided to focus on the mostly illegal hotel-like short-terms.
Capsule Corporation (from Dragon Ball): "a company that creates special small capsules that shrink and hold objects of various sizes for easy storage".
Some service which can take in my golang project from github and build static executable for every possible target and upload it to github releases.<p>It will be using karalabe/xgo for building these static executables.<p>So it can build these for all operating systems<p>- web servers<p>- cli applications
A service to match people with jobs based on their Signature Strengths[1]<p>1. <a href="https://www.viacharacter.org/www/Research/What-the-Research-Says-About-Character-Strengths-Signature-Strengths" rel="nofollow">https://www.viacharacter.org/www/Research/What-the-Research-...</a>
A company I can share a github repo and a description of a webpack config, and will get back the github repo with a working webpack config.<p>“Here’s this new middlemanapp project running scss through sprockets. Set it up to process scss through webpack, make sprite-based icons from images in this folder, compile es6 and vue modules or coffee script and cue modules, include lodash, set up the hot reload to work with middleman’s, and prep production and Dev environments.”<p>I’d pay for something like this.