Great startup ideas spring from problems.<p>Plenty of people on HN have problems to solve.<p>Plenty of people on HN want to solve problems.<p>So, an experiment: share a pain point or problem you've had recently (even if it's more like a minor annoyance / not a tech-related problem) and maybe someone will think of a cool way of fixing it for you, prompting a slew of 'Show HN' posts to obliterate your problems.<p>If your life is completely pain free then more power to you, and soldier on, you lucky saint!
I'd like someone to create an amazing Sublime Text 2 editor build for me. It would integrate a python debugger with stepping and breakpoints, as well as integrate an AS3 / Unity3D debugger. Failing being able to bolt the debugger on to the chrome of ST2, provide me with a nice debugger that works for all three languages and knows when i'm trying to "run" code from ST2.<p>It would also have amazing autocomplete for UnityScript, Actionscript and Python (e.g. for Python the autocomplete could determine return types from documentation and so forth). I've been thinking of trying to put all this together but I just don't have the time.
Trivial Pain (if that): I was watching Storage Wars last night and I couldn't help but wonder about bidding patterns.<p>The show has such a rich data set and their bidding strategies are so simple that I would love to see someone break down the metrics on that show. It's rare that someone has chronologically recorded all bets of all competitors and followed up on the asset value after the purchase.<p>Strangely, this reality TV show could be sitting on valuable information about how people bid and how to predict a successful auction.
I'd love a Mac app that allows me to select text on a web page and copy the HTML for a link to the page with the selected text as the anchor text. It would save me a ton of time every day.
My current pain is the amount of different algorithms within the field machine learning.<p>And Ive also collected 20000 pains before from twitter, or needs actually: <a href="http://www.ideaoverload.com/Find-ideas/New-ideas/Methods-generating-ideas/Solve-a-problem/" rel="nofollow">http://www.ideaoverload.com/Find-ideas/New-ideas/Methods-gen...</a><p>Probably going to find a ml algo to sort them a little bit better
We have several websites/products where we need to have fast connectivity servers. At the moment is very hard to rely on reviews/sales reps or finding speed tests on hosting provider sites to determine which hosting is faster than other - and there are huge differencess. we find it hard way by buying 1 month and then realizing its slow and moving on to the next provider.
Apartment renting - CL sucks, it is filled with spammers. Brokers charge heavily, and in general, I don't feel like paying a lot of money to a broker, as I don't think they add too much value (it is different when buying a property though)
My pain is having many ideas for startups and not being able to develop them for lack of coding skills and lack of interest in coding. Give me a drag&drop development system and you will make me happy :)
My pains:<p>1) Satisfying my physical/emotional intimacy needs (the physical is the bigger pain)
2) Commuting without being surrounded by strangers.<p>Go build a startup to solve those pains for me :)
A way to explore pain points by industry:<p>Ideally a website where domain experts can share their business and industry pain points with a community of developers, entrepreneurs, etc. for us entrepreneurs to explore, give and get feedback.