Show HN: Wishminer – Mining social media for app ideas, my weekend project

Dear HN,<p>Currently, I am stuck in a long-term project and really had the desire to build and finish a small app - I guess some of you can relate.<p>So this weekend, I built Wishminer, a little tool which searches social media for app ideas that people wish for. I hope it can be helpful to some of you. It&#x27;s fairly basic and nowhere close to perfect, but I would appreciate your advice on how to improve it.

Super cool weekend project! This is a great example of an MVP. The design and functionality are all attractive, intuitive and consistent, but you kept the scope very narrow and didn&#x27;t get distracted by different filter methods, search, etc.<p>Nicely done!

I see a lot of &#x27;a laptop for school&#x27; wishes from teenagers. I&#x27;m curious whether the current generation of cheap laptops just aren&#x27;t cheap enough, or is it a status thing where they actually mean they want an expensive Macbook?

Just from the first page I found this one, &quot;A restaurant that does food for when you feel too sick to eat real food&quot; which is interesting because normally restaurants are not eager to cater to sick people, but if you combine it with home delivery there might actually be a market.

My favorite is &quot;An app that reminds me to turn my phone on&quot;.

Wishminer is a lot of fun, partly because some of the suggestions are so crazy. I enjoy scrolling through them.

Good work! This could prove to be useful for both the wishers and wish-granters. It looks great, but I had a couple of issues on my first impression:<p>1. Not much info at the top of the page, could use a description, especially mentioning the goal of trying to help people fulfill these wishes. (I initially thought this was more of a selfish goal of mining&#x2F;stealing ideas)<p>2. All the wishes seem to be from Twitter, apart from one Reddit item. Maybe a filter to categorize the different sources, or a total from each source at the top of the page.<p>Very cool though, thanks for sharing and I hope you continue to work on it!

<i>An app for planning holidays with 1 click</i><p>What&#x27;s the closest to this? Is there an app where you can specify a destination&#x2F;price&#x2F;date and have a 1 click checkout with your bookings and tickets?

Heh. An app-interlock: &quot;An app that only allows you to call taxis, your parents or 999 when drunk and not any other numbers&quot;<p>This is genius (the site, not the above idea).

Weird but saw at least 3 tweets validating my existing app, likely to be frequency illusion.<p>Was definitely addicted in moving down to see more.<p>Im sharing this with my friend right now.

Brilliant mvp, impressive cares for details bravo!<p>Note that you&#x27;re rewriting html entities to their readable counterpart, eg:<p>``` Loved &amp;amp; Found ```

someone wishing for myspace app made me laugh

I just saw one which said &quot;a show that&#x27;s all about you&quot;, This sounds like a very creepy idea which should be turned into a black mirror episode.

And as always with this idea, people have no idea how IT and app development works. I also want an app that does my dishes but that’s not how it works..

Decent idea, but super hard to filter spam it seems.<p>Best of luck!

First three or so pages, four different versions of Tinder-but-for-finding-friends.

Seems very good for a weekend -- for an year, even.<p>How do you do it?

neat. thanks. will probably waste a lot of time on this :)