Ah, there's a dumb easy hack to figure out what ideas people will pay for. Search "I'd pay for" on Twitter and you'll find hundreds of posts from people talking about pain points and products they'd pay for to solve them.<p>Do this enough and you realize you have to filter through a lot of slop. slop. slop.<p>I created willpayforthis.com to accumulate high signal, high quality posts and save you some time.<p>I love thoughts from the community on how I can make it better, save you time, and help you work on the best ideas.
This project is one example of what made me lose faith on the Indie Hacker movement. Many "indiehackers" just started creating projects for other people that wanted to become indie hackers.<p>The value to society of many tech-based businesses lately is appalling. They feel more interested in grabbing your wallet first than in creating any actual value.
"I created willpayforthis.com to accumulate high signal, high quality posts and save you some time" - Really ? How you filter for high signal, high quality posts to save me some time while paying you $20/month ? Otherwise I can search myself "I'd pay for" on Twitter for free. I don't see the added value for your product.
these are things people *say* they will pay for.<p>They're saying this on twitter for likes. It's different from what they or the org they work for actually thinks.<p>you're better off asking yourself, "would I pay for this" and being brutally honest.
Hmm $30? I dunno. I just looked at<p><a href="https://x.com/search?q=%22I%27d%20pay%20for%22&src=typed_query&f=live" rel="nofollow">https://x.com/search?q=%22I%27d%20pay%20for%22&src=typed_que...</a><p>and I don't mind looking thru them all for free.<p>There is also:<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/SomebodyMakeThis/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/SomebodyMakeThis/</a>
How are your orders since last time you posted? [1]<p>Have you reconsidered creating an actual demo?<p>[1] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42671589">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42671589</a> (it was flagged)
I will pay $500/500€ for a 500g subnotebook with a proper keyboard (a la ThinkPad), A5/11" b/w e-Ink screen and a battery that lasts for a week. No hires graphics card, no GPU, 1 CPU (1-4 ARM cores, possibly RasPi-based), 16 GB RAM + 1 TB SSD suffice. (Doesn't have to have much compute power, as it would ba a reading/writing/editing appliance.)<p>I would pay a LOT for whoever reactivates my collection of RIM BlackBerries.
Beware: as I'm sure most people intrinsically understand, it's much easier to say you'd pay for something than it is to actually bust out your wallet
This would be a more compelling site if there was evidence that people were tweeting “I’d pay for a mobile app to hail rides from freelancers” before ridesharing existed. But I doubt that was occurring.
This is a great idea to put together for fun and/or to show off some skills. The moment (very early on) it asks me to purchase access to it was when it became a cheap money grab, of the sort I’d pay never to see again.
The hard part is a lot of people say they will pay for stuff but they won't... They just want to present themselves on social media as being the kind of person who would pay for that.<p>Once put in front of a paywall, a whole bunch of doubts can pop up out of nowhere and for no particular reason. Maybe the user just doesn't trust the app sufficiently to give money. Insufficient brand recognition to cross the threshold to actually pay.
I think a better way to validate ideas is to go to acquire.com and actually see what people are paying for already. They are frequently 1 person businesses and already have paying customers
If you had some further validation like someone <i>actually clicking pay</i> besides someone just saying they would pay for it then the website would be worth paying for. You should just give the tweet database away for free and then charge for the actual validation. I think your website still has value though, I know users saying they would pay is step one on the way to paying
> You need to enable JavaScript to run this app.<p>Fix that. And when it's enabled all the twitter links are broken anyway. Find a way to show something useful on that landing page without downloading 100 MB of JS files first.<p>Last but not least, users may not be the best clients for you as they always need random impossible things, and they may not be prepared to pay for all the crap they are asking on twitter. I guess that most of the time it's joking or venting.