I've been thinking a lot lately and I've not been able to come up with ANY ideas for a new app that want to be my first published app at the App Store. So, I've decided to ask HN, what are your thoughts ? What apps/websites/ideas/stuff you really want to make life better for you ?<p>P.S. I've come up with a few myself:<p>1. A nice and beautiful(flat) Calculator app<p>2. A better Assistant(Better than Siri, atleast :P)<p>3. A better alarm clock. (One that's capable of waking ME up)<p>EDIT: I am asking for software, unlike quite a few people who wanted hardware stuff to exist, sure, that was great, but please, restrict yourself to software for future ideas, hackers!
(If this already exists, please point me to it)<p>I have primary medical insurance and secondary medical insurance.<p>I'd like software where I can mark that someone from my family has a doctor's appointment. I get few bills, all of them could be different because of mistakes: Insurance EOB, Secondary Insurance, Doctor bill. Sometimes the bill gets "corrected", in which case all prior bills should also be stored. All email communication between me and any of those parties should be stored in system (I can copy/paste). There should be red flags when numbers are not same (for example $53.67 vs $56.37 - it happens). I should be able to upload picture of EOB/other bills into the system. The system should be able to deal with a single check paying several bills (for example a bill for $26, $24 and $50 should be marked paid when I send a check for $100, and if I mistakenly send a check for $90, there should be a red flag)<p>None of this has to be integrated into primary/secondary insurance systems, I can upload everything. System should warn me if I have 2 of 3 bills though, have reminders to get missing ones resolved.<p>This information should be visible from my phone, my wife's phone and also from a website.
An alternative to F.lux on the Mac would be great. I'd pay for it, even if it was just a port of Redshift.<p>When I say alternative, I mean a program that adjusts the system color palette based on the time of day (or the light curve as captured by the webcam).<p>While F.lux kind of does that - barely - it's designed for something completely different: it's some kind of weird Zen sleep optimizer. What I want is to use a less harsh screen at night, whereas F.lux asserts that I shouldn't be on the computer at all during that time. Consequently, it's almost impossible to configure its behavior.
A calculator for idiots. I have an item proced at £37.48 - how much was that item before 20% sales tax. A disturbing number of people don't know how to do this. Not only don't know, but will go into some kind of broken mode where they stop being able to even think about the problem.
There are apps for iphone and android which display 2D movie files duplicated side-by-side, so that you can get the big-screen experience using a VR headset like Durovis Dive or Google Cardboard.<p>I would like to be able to do other 2D things with a headset, like speed reading with one if those apps which flashes three words at a time. Or reading HN.
I wish there was a web site where I could find movies and actors/actresses by things they had in common (they were in the same movie, etc):<p>For example:<p>Who was the actor who was in Blade Runner and Cowboys and Aliens?<p>What was the name of the movie that had ben stiller and the guy who costarred with with jackie chan in a cowboy movie?
It would be good to have an ability to have more knowledge about my commute. Ex: what is the best time to leave, do i need an umbrella, what shops will come on my way, what interesting places i can stop by,etc.