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Ask HN: Requests for Software – have something you want built?

9 points by NewUser76312 ↗ HN
I thought it could be interesting to have a 'reverse Show HN', where instead of people showing what they've built, people can post about what they want built :)

Do you have any Requests for Software?

No hard requirements or constraints, anything from a fun hobby idea to something your $BIG_CO may desperately need.

The motivation for the idea is pretty simple: some of us like building, but may be out of ideas of interesting things to build. Hope others find the thread interesting or useful, cheers.

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aristofun
Please make a simple yet powerful video editing native app (macos) that doesn’t suck and doesn’t require a degree to make all the basic stuff that a youtuber needs.

Closest thing is screenflow, next (much farther away in “suck” department) - camtasia.

AznHisoka
I want a product that helps me choose the right health insurance plan based on a set of questions, or even a list of preferences, including who my primary doctor, dentist is etc.

I doubt anyone can build this reliably though. The incentives are simply not there and it isnt an interesting hobby project either

idontwantthis
Also just the data isn’t available. There isn’t a way I know of to know which doctors even exist or which insurance they use. The insurance companies’ own list is useless.
nicbou
I'm building exactly that in Germany. It's going live tomorrow. The system here is a lot more sane though. It's mostly a recommendation tool for recent immigrants.
mikewarot
I want a real life version of Memex[1]. In particular, I want to be able to ingest all of my web pages normally, then refer back to their offline local copies at some future date, and spit out a complete ready to use copy on demand.

Copyright and disk space limitations be damned.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memex

nicbou
I want to monitor specific sections of German law for changes. I used Wachete but Gesetze im Internet is now blocking it.

I would love to subscribe to changes for sentences, paragraphs or sections and get the a diff when it changes.

I would also like to get API-like access to certain values placed in those sentences, to use them as infrequently updated constants in my code.

There is an official initiative for a legal API but it's been in limbo for a while. It was supposed to be released last Spring but I can't find any updates nor get a response from the project lead.