Ask HN: What could I build to make your life a little easier?

A places bar editor for Win11 Mellowware has one for Win10, but he's not updated anything in a very long time.

I know we can edit the choices these with regedit, but it's a pain in the arse for many and a small utility should do it. Much documentation about the registry stucture for this topic.

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A TurboTax-quality tax filing service for American expats with American investments who live abroad (particularly interested in a few European countries) and have to file in their country of residence and declare the income from such investments. I would pay $1-2k a year for a service like that, as I prefer to do things myself than relying on a CPA who will inevitably mess things up.

A means of posting on Reddit for those permanently banned.

I've been banned from using Reddit for years, and each time I create a jew account or use a different device I get suspended immediately. I don't even know how I'm getting caught for "ban evasion" lol.

So a tool to make me post on Reddit and comment, lol. I don't even know how it would work.

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Debt pile visualizer...

The financial advise tends to be to pay off your smallest debt first, even if the interest is low, because it will give a mental boost...

So yeah the website would ask you to list your debts in order. (Student loan, car loan,...) And the interest rate.

Than it would make a (not too depressing) visual and ask you how much you can pay per month.

Bonus points for using Google sheets as a backend.

But main thing would be that people would be able to get helpful reminders / tips.

"You've saved yourself 500$ over the next 10 years, keep up the good work".

Christmas time "If you got a Xmas bonus and can double your loan pay off this month you'll speed up your debt freeness by 2.5 months"

"Did you know:A Starbucks frappucino cost 0.55c to make, and in ventti size costs 8$ and 400kcals (more than 2 ice creams). The coffee of the day cost 0.40c to make and cost 3$ and 10kcal. Caffeine the same.

Anyway v 0.1 probably only takes a day to make.

Cool initiative good luck

A really good performance management system for Engineers. Something that helps people get fairly evaluated, helps people grow, but isn't a big burden (hours of form filling) and all about impact but something more nuanced and balances what people want to do, are naturally good at and benefits the business.

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Ah, thank you for the offer!

* An alliteration dictionary (you enter "cat" and it suggests "catatonic", "cab" etc.)

* A simple free file sharing service based on webrtc. Dont make me remember/enter a weird code into my devices. Give me a qr/what-three-words code.

* Something that'll help with my vector graphics workflow: I hand draw on paper, photograph with my phone, send to my laptop, vectorize on laptop, publish on wordpress. A webpage that does the vectorize + share part should be straightforward.

* Build a phone app that you use in realtime to look over a patch of clover and find the 4-leafed ones. Sell them. Become obscenely rich.

* A tool that lets you take an image, slice it/mark distinct areas, open each one as a separate tineye/google image search. For visually matching subsets of a bigger image.

I still want a to do list app that I like. Something compact like Workflowy, not the card-bloat that vibe coding adds. Something AI-aided, so I can take a photo of a recipe book and it'll add the ingredients. Or I can tell it what I want to do today and it'll break that down into something.

Like a Cursor for To Do lists.

An AI organizing my computer. It would organize small things, like perhaps a particular folder or something and then show the before and after. Then I'd approve it, it'd do it.

A bit vague, but fleshed out well this would probably make my life a little easier. I have 3 laptops, multiple SSDs and my data is all fragmented.

an app to keep me off my damn phone, social media and youtube. i know there is plenty already, and it's not really working for me...

Revive Lazarus Form Recovery.

Refactor Better Open With.

Oh, the list is long, really long. So many left for dead programs that were just ahead of their time.

A universal installer/package manager for Github.

I have two folders on my computer filled with BIFM (build it for me) projects that are now several years old because I don't code and cant vibe code. Not everyone who sees a gap should necessarily be the one who codes a solution.

Some type of crypto bounty site for ideas such as the ones listed on this page. So not whoishiring, but whoispaying.

Pledged funds returned if funding goal not obtained. Milestones voted upon for new funds to be released - or just multi-stage projects.

Big bounties paid here: https://hackenproof.com/

This Bounty site should be good for getting long-tail coins off the ground - get a buch of cool/useful apps developed so the underlying coins can go viral. Have some coins in your back pocket too.

Bitcoin and Ethereum are silly to use if you're smart and want to make an impact on the price. Leave those to the banking mafia. Although any apps will probably be replicated to them if they're successful and especially if open-source. At least there's a head start. That said, EVM is compatible to multiple chains.

Checkout rofl.app platform (Oasis) - only because it's new and being hyped right now. There are other ones too, obviously.

In my previous comment, I suggest 2 ideas in the areas of localized prediction markets and rentals in the Access Economy. Gambling and predictions are different things although there is overlap. Predictions can be used to bring focus to new narratives. That's powerful. The observer can also influence the observed.

Life is going to get a lot harder for many as inequality increases, but that belief doesn't have to be set in stone.

A plug in for BRAVE and CHROME that will allow mp4 to play that were sent to us attached to a gmail. Now we have to download the mp4 and play it - it will not "stream" or will not play directly from gmail message