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A new non-invasive biomarker sensor from Rockley Photonics seem to address this by using infrared instead of traditional LEDs for measuring biomarkers. Since it's infrared and that the melanin pigment is invisible to it; Color of the skin is not a factor for such sensor.
Upcoming wearables like smartwatches with such laser-based spectrophotometer sensors are en-route and can measure wide range of biomarkers from blood glucose to blood pressure.
You should look at link rot and NTFs! I can see that being a serious problem that would have some serious value if you can solve it and explain it to people properly
Oh that explains why this need-gap has higher than average views than most new need-gaps. Thanks for bringing it to me.
I'm not into NFTs, I presume the URL to the actual content stored on the NFT becomes invalid? IPFS should address this as long as peers exist, But just as archive.org there could be need-gaps to make this process seamless and accessible.
Sir, but isn't the non-interactive nature i.e the simplicity of being able to convey deeper meaning with a static image the core philosophy of a meme?
Hence even the cave man paintings are technically considered a meme.
I wonder whether making a meme interactive would make it cease to exist as a meme Or whether an interactive meme would add additional depth to the memes like depending upon the reader action the meaning could change.
Occasionally I see people are using reddit's gallery feature to construct a meme with multiple images where the reader is required to slide each image, So some basic level of interactive memes do seem to exist.
Thanks for letting me know about people using the gallery feature like that - it's the kind of story that we remember!
The creative way people use very simple features to build new experiences is the kind of "aha" moment I want to make possible with Touchgram - https://www.touchgram.com/ .
I'm not (just) targeting memes. It's a convenient example of the many popular things people consume which are almost-always static experiences - you sit and watch something, rather than being able to interact with it.
"since Touchgram functions inside iMessage, It probably doesn't suffer from chicken-and-egg issues of larynx"
Exactly!
I was originally working on a cross-platform version using a similar game engine (Cocos2D-X in C++, rather than Apple's SpriteKit in Swift). A mentor advised me in 2018 to try to get it working either inside Facebook Messenger or Apple iMessage. The only platform with a rich enough API is iMessage. Apple take care of the notification side, because Touchgrams arrive like any other message. They also provide streamlined installation - if you don't have Touchgram installed and I send you one, Aple put the install link right there in the message bubble.
It's true that developing apps within someone else's ecosystem can aid addressing the chicken-and-egg issues through discovery mechanisms offered through that ecosystem.
But that comes with riders too, Total & absolute dependency on the platform being the primary.
Cannot establish our brand as our product would be always under the primary ecosystem brand (e.g. iMessage or Messenger).
Monetization possibilities are scare or even impossible( Messenger ToS prohibits digital asset sales to avoid conflict with Playstore/Appstore ToS).
Stability of the platform affects product directly(Days when Messenger API goes down, Our product goes down too).
Ownership of the data is complex, We could be liable to protect the data of our customers but we don't have total control over that data.
I've been affected by several of the above issues because I've built Messenger bots in the past and had conducted ~ 100 Million conversations through them.
Great points about platform reliance and these are why I decided Messenger was too dangerous (and limited) for us to use.
Apple's approach with iMessage app extensions is very different - they run as a kind of pure native app, which is called to take control over 95% of the screen for user interaction and then hands back a bundle of data for the message. So Apple preserve user privacy but we aren't running in a weird non-native environment. Much of Touchgram's core logic runs on Mac also and changing it to be "just" a normal iOS app would be very straightforward. We have an in-house testbed app which is just a standard app. Most of the work would just be adding notification support and a bit of UI to replace what iMessage gives us.
All the other extension mechanisms for different messaging platforms that I've evaluated do so via some kind of cut-down HTML running under control of the messenger app. That's much more limiting and vulnerable.
You also make a very good point about monetisation control - Apple don't impose any special restrictions on apps inside iMessage - we have similar subscription and marketplace plans to many apps. I've not reviewed FB Messenger's restrictions for a couple of years but unsurprised.
As a solution, there could be better looking cash registering machine with fresher looks and an easier to use software in which you can register objects faster and easier. As a result, this can lead to people paying for their products so much faster that the time spent in the line to pay will be dramatically shorter.
There could be few shops which are still using old mechanical cash machines while the majority have switched to computerized systems; All it requires now is a mobile app, a PoS machine and so it's not a matter of cost to set it up.
Did you ask why they didn't switch to a computerized system? My guess is that they are not just willing to change, Perhaps and old mom&pop shop with very few customers at a time.
As a solution, there could be a platform in which is a full marketplace but instead of buying the product completely, you rent it for a certain amount of time and you pay the one who gives you the object to keep it and use it well. If it breaks, you pay a fee so the buyer won't mishandle it.
Services like archive.org saves web pages among other things and help address link rot directly. But saving individual pages protected by captcha are not scalable and to address this archive.org provides couple of solutions:
ArchiveBot; An IRC bot which saves entire website upon request.
I've used ArchiveBot to save entire websites with hundreds and thousands of URLs before and yet to try the API to address the aforementioned problem.
Even if URLs are archived in real-time, Identifying and replacing the URL when it's not accessible anymore requires additional work. So there's a need for for an end-to-end solution for identifying and addressing link rot.
Netvyne - A Chrome extension to leave and read comments on any URL
I was first introduced to this Chrome extension idea by a friend a couple years ago in college, and worked on it on-and-off as a side project (in Python+JS). At the start of last year, I picked it up as a serious undertaking and re-wrote the tool in Golang+React with a tightly-knit team of 5 fulltime people.
What differentiates us is that we’re building content moderation from the very start, which is more of an operations problem than a technical problem. We’re committed to civility of discussion over all else; if that means sacrificing “free” speech, or taking the site down temporarily while we scale up moderation, so be it. Timing-wise, people are increasingly familiar with the idea of Chrome extensions, and have also recognized the value of comments due in large part to the popularity of Reddit in recent years.
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I've had this problem on my mind for at least over a year now.
And about 2 months ago, I finally decided to scratch this itch and started working on https://geniepy.com .
After a few weeks of work, I feel that the boilerplate is coming along quite nicely. If you would like to beta test the product (for free!) either leave a comment here or leave your email address in the form on the homepage and I'll get in touch!
Regardless, I'm curious what you think! I'd also love to know if there's any other feature that comes to your mind that should be on the list above but currently isn't!
A journal diary starting with the birth date sounds like a great way for someone to get into journaling, those who make resolutions on their birthday and want to get into journaling or already have the habit could be very interested in it.
One way to find that out would be through the folks at r/Journaling.
Business wise, I presume It would mean 366 different diaries to be made for each type of diary; No changes in printing but in making the diary(arranging the pages) and maintaining a large inventory.
As explained in the post I was struggling to access large valuable datasets like total historical stock/crypto prices or historical news to analyse patterns and so I built a tool that does this.
Basically you can get data like stock & crypto prices, news, financials, press releases, shareholder changes, reddit posts via an API in JSON or CSV format. I am adding more exchanges and alternative datasets like eCommerce pricing and stock levels with time. The data goes back decades, It's cleaned, formatted and analysis ready.
It resolves a few issues:
- Transparent pricing with no limit to API calls
- Access to many datasets not limited to one particular region or category
- No more scraping, Just access the data you want via an API
- No more managing sorting, wrangling, scraping, indexing infrastructure so you can just focus on building your App, doing your research, analysis or getting an edge in the market
The project is still in development and looking to launch an Alpha soon. Would love to get any feedback, questions or to simply find out your data needs
Butt Pomodoro helps to get things done without burnouts by reminding us to take a walk at regular intervals. I created it to address this need-gap /comments/507 .
Now I've launched crowdfunding campaign to refine and make Butt Pomodoro more accessible for everyone. Back the development at https://buttpomodoro.com .
Aforementioned color accuracy dependent industries would love this need-gap to be addressed, Evident from newer high-end mobile devices having 100% DCI-P3 color gamut coverage.
Perfect color accuracy is not possible without external display calibration hardware but I think this need-gap could be addressed to a reasonable extent with color management library at the software level. Android offers ColorSpace API to convert between different color spaces and iOS offers System Colors which automatically adapt to the system settings.
A 3rd party library which provides helper routines to these APIs depending upon the displays and the color to be presented; could reduce development time and create more reliable, accurate colors for the apps. Due to the extent of this need-gap I think this could be a viable open-source project.
Attempting to solve the above problems we have created EpsiFund https://epsifund.com as a tech-enabled revenue-based funding solution with a human touch. To begin with we take a look at online businesses' key data sources to estimate revenue, marketing and sales efforts, as well as, general financial health. This part of the process is data-driven and we automatically underwrite the risk and offer a few funding options. The process doesn't stop at this point though. We go above and beyond to understand the business and work out a solution that would suit its needs. We are still in Beta and currently focusing on Shopify App Store ecosystem, having helped a few Shopify Devs to fund their next feature release, App add-ons developments and boost revenue via Ads. Check us out and let us know if we can help.
I believe the source of the problem is that when you are procrastinating you won't truly realize how much impact you could create if you would work on what's important. If your task list is full of things that won't motivate you I recommend you to use a prioritization framework like the Eisenhower Matrix to get more clarity about what you should focus on. Then dedicate 2 hours each day when you are most productive to focus on the truly important ones. If you manage to get the most important tasks in those 2 hours you are already making more progress than most of the people and you will feel satisfied.
Please see this Reddit post on my concept of how you could use the Eisenhower matrix inside a calendar to focus on the important:
Clear and clean problem statement; I appreciate it!
We tried so many already like Minecraft, which we purchased for our laptops but his internet couldn't handle being on my server.
The latency or Internet issues in general seems solvable? Did you explore it further?
We liked the concept of Adorable Home. Too bad that app isn't an online multiplayer, even for just 2 people.
That seems like a clear need-gap, The game seems to be built specifically to be payed by two people, Perhaps by transferring the phone to each other. Making it multiplayer would directly address the needs of long-distance relationship couples.
Are you planning to address this need-gap yourself?
>The latency or Internet issues in general seems solvable? Did you explore it further?
Yeah my brother mentioned that it could be a problem so we're going to try and figure it out. But when we started, we definitely got frustrated and we also got tired of being on a laptop. We decided an app based game is best so it's easy to check on it wherever we are idle too.
>Are you planning to address this need-gap yourself?
A need-gap in gaming that can be potentially addressed by a indie-developer is rare, So I'm sure this will be picked-up by someone soon and perhaps they would have you on-board as well.
I create a google alert for the gadgets I buy e.g. 'iPhone recall' and get an email alert immediately when any major news on that is published. Perhaps this could be automated a bit, But I don't think that it could be done without deliberate consumer action.
I'm paying unnecessary tax for donations for couple of my projects so I can validate that this problem exists. The problem in my case is partly regulatory and partly technical,
Stripe doesn't support non-profit in my country and requires registered business for International transactions. By registering, I'm mandated to pay taxes for each transaction even though it's a donation to an individual.
Paypal allows International payments to individuals without registration but an account is limited to one brand and so I cannot use it for multiple projects besides it doesn't support domestic payment.
As you've mentioned, Services like Patreon, Buy Me A Coffee just use Stripe or Paypal and doesn't offer much to those who can integrate those payment gateway themselves and so we end-up paying double commissions(I'm tracking that problem here - /problems/313 ).
Donating virtual gift cards as you mentioned may address some of those issues but I see two major riders to being with,
Collecting payments from donors as virtual gift cards should be absolutely friction-less, Only negligible fraction of our users would even consider donating and if there's any friction even that's lost e.g. Having to buy a virtual gift card first.
Gift cards cannot be converted to Fiat money, So places where we can use that gift card would be very limited.
But you mention very specific use case of using gift card to cover operating expense of a project which does make sense, e.g. If AWS offers gift card we can use 'Buy me a AWS gift card' on the project. Perhaps there's a need-gap for a service which makes that happen by creating gift cards for common infrastructure services and facilitates purchase of those as a payment host.
Thanks Abishek for your detailed reply & for validating my problem.
Regarding your points --
1. Yes, I agree. Let's say company Acme Co fills this needgap. I imagined Acme Co to work something like this:
- Acme Co has the ability to accept regular credit card payments just like any other SaaS would (resulting in a frictionless payment experience from the end user/donor).
- That money goes to and is held by Acme Co. Acme Co issues a virtual credit card to a project owner with the donation amount.
- When the project owner wants to pay for server costs, they can now use the issued virtual credit card at AWS, Digital Ocean, or any other established infrastructure provider (they should be able to accept virtual CCs just like a regular card). This also addresses your point #2.
As a result of this flow of funds, real money never actually makes its way to the project owner.
Stripe Issuing lets Acme Co create virtual cards as well as the ability to adjust amounts to the card.
One problem I see while typing this out is that Acme Co can essentially hold funds in hostage if they want to, so trust will be a big factor here.
(I live in the US so this is my understanding of how it would work with virtual CC's in the US.)
I would try to code up my idea into a real web app but my current capacity would only allow a side project, not a full-blown one that would require a business entity and a lawyer...
Just to establish the premise - The solution is for avoiding unnecessary tax and not tax evasion.
That said, Virtual Credit Card and Gift cards are not interchangeable under most jurisdictions i.e. If there's a law which makes you pay taxes if you receive 5 USD as donation, Then certainly receiving that 5 USD as virtual CC is also taxable.
Gift cards or even physical gifts on the other hand are specifically tax exempted as their purpose is constrained.
So I think Acme Co. should directly buy credits from various infrastructure services and deliver that to their customer (i.e. project builder) depending upon how much a donor pays. Getting the services on-board is the real work here, Technical implementation is straightforward.
> The solution is for avoiding unnecessary tax and not tax evasion.
Correct, the idea is for a donor to support a project owner in a payment form that is not cash on the receiving end, ie. by paying for a service provider.
You are right that I was confusing virtual credit cards with gift cards. Disregard the virtual CC part.
> So I think Acme Co. should directly buy credits from various infrastructure services and deliver that to their customer (i.e. project builder)
Yes, I think ultimately it comes down some version of this, and making it super easy for donors to select a provider to gift to the project owner, kind of like a wedding registry.
You should start by reaching out the cloud service providers and convince them to sell credits via your service. I expect few of them to be interested and once you've proven that this works I see no reason why any other SaaS provider wouldn't want to sell credits via your service.
Essentially it needs to be a two-way market where the service providers sell their credits and the donors buy them for the projects they like. Revenue is through the commissions from the sale of credits, Thereby eliminating the current double charges by the donation payment hosts to the payee.
Even if you have built something, You must state the problem your product addresses first in the post and then in the comments explain how your product addresses that problem.
fosspay is closest to what I want but it's in python and so it requires separate web server for SSL; I'd rather create a self-contained application in Go.
Yet still this solution is out of reach for many others since it's self-hosted and requires some basic programming skill; So there's scope for this need-gap to be filled by a payments service.
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I must note that If a Linux phone is available an average consumer wouldn't switch to it from the duopoly(Android/iOS) due the limitations with app ecosystem but I feel that the Linux enthusiast market is large enough that manufacturing a Linux phone in India for the world could be profitable.
Besides few governments around the world have been open about reducing their dependency on the duoploy mobile ecosystem and so policy level incentives for Linux based smartphones could be something which could be workable with more manufacturers.
Do you mean specific solutions targeted at old people? If so what issues do you think which specifically affect old people from using existing security and preventive measures against phishing.
Hi all, as explained in the problem thread, we faced this problem ourselves, but then, our founder, Lincoln Islam, decided, we build a WordPress sales funnel builder that solves all these problems, because we figured there are many agencies like us that want to use sales funnels for their plugin development side, but face so many limitations and barriers.
After a year, we found a solution that we can be proud of and solve all the issues we faced. We created a plugin called WPFunnels.
This kind of app seems to be getting a lot of developer attention at present. Yay for Users!
Momento is one of the best in class.
Free with a limited “privacy tax” and ton of features you didn’t know you needed like: bookmarks that save a brief transcription of the audio along with your personal notes on the clip, LINKED TO THE TIMESTAMP and trigger-able by your AirPod’s “double click” and mass-export to your PKM of choice…. It’s amazing.
And best of all, IT WORKS for your favorite YOUTUBEs content, AS AUDIO PODCASTS, from within the APP ITSELF!
(And unlike the native YouTube app, which requires a subscription to YouTube TV, you can listen without keeping your phone’s screen on—don’t tell google, or it’ll surely disappear…).
Called “Momento - Podcast Clips to Text” in the iOS AppStore.
Its app description is, "Listen to any podcast, and clip any moment into text." But this is not the capability of value for which I referenced it.
The OP mentioned a specific interest in listening to YouTube videos audibly as podcasts automatically, without having to manually extract and convert the audio content for use.
Momento does this exact thing, beautifully and automatically, in-app. Users can search for their fave YouTube Channel, any episode, and listen, sans video, to their heart's content! It's beautifully done and exactly satisfies OP's primary gapped need. (except no integration for Vimeo or direct URL links as yet)
But even better, Users can Follow, make playlists, get updates, and download whole episodes from all their podcastified YousTubes!
But wait, there's more! It allows annotation and exporting clips +/- the annotations in a variety of output formats for sharing or further digestion.
Annnnd, it also does the 'clip and transcribe to text' thang...
I do wonder how Momento got YouTube to okay these functions, since to listen to YTubes offline (or even with your phone's display off... come on Youtube...) requires a monthly subscription to YouTubeTV or YouTube+ or whatever it's called...
Basically built a node API server that coordinates a fleet of Caddy web servers configured as reverse-proxies. As users create new domains, I update the configurations in the caddy instances.
You should strongly consider not purchasing individual stocks and instead look for broad index-funds/ETFs. An example would be the excellent MSCI World ETF. Basically, this means that MSCI will purchase many individual stocks for you, simply based on their market capitalization. This minimizes risks as no single company failing will impact your portfolio a lot, while also assuring that you get a tiny portion of any upside of any company included in the index.
Please try Personal.ai ( https://personal.ai ) - we are approaching this problem as follows:
1. Capture most of what you create and consume since 80% is lost - we create ambient tools to capture.
2. Create a digital memory vault that's automated via predicted AI models, called Memory Stack and a model that is trained on your Stack, your own Personal AI.
3. Connect to your AI that unlocks bidirectional messaging with your own AI to recall in the moment, sometimes entirely autonomous.
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Would you be willing to create a similar offer for our needgap community?
We're a smaller group than PH, but may provide an equally dedicated userbase with a shared problem-focused interest in helping to grow "products that people (and their AI's) want."
Looking forward to signing up for Personal.ai (with a promo code) soon! ;)
Hey needgap community, I actually ended up creating a solution for this.
It's called AnySport Scorekeeper, and it's is a quick and easy-to-use score counter for Apple Watch!
I imagined a blissful future sporting experience where there would be no more arguing and debating over the amount of points or goals; you would simply flick your wrist up to see the score. And if you'd like to update the score, just give a tap to the respective side and then continue where you left off.
Now, people would be able to enjoy sport with a greater peace of mind (and with their relationships intact 🙈).
Check it out and feel free to ping me with feedback!
Bitcoin or any other cryptocurrency is not accessible to all payers or payees. It depends upon the audience, Perhaps a niche cryptocurrency or decentralization project could receive donations through cryptocurrencies primarily as its audience likely have access to it.
Besides, legality of cryptocurrencies is highly volatile around the world, I already pay taxes for my donations via Stripe for my projects as Stripe doesn't support non-profits in India!
But I agree with you that one of the main premise of cryptocurrency is to do away with middlemen and thereby commissions; Then again there are commissions to exchanges but may not be for every transaction as when paid through card via Buy Me a Coffee/Stripe or similar services.
Why not https://github.com/moodle/moodle ? It's a commonly used learning management system with one click installers on a few hosting providers. Might not have a payment integration, but hosts video, writing, etc
The unique names which I've come across in my life were of those which were combination of words which are not part of colloquial vocabulary but is known to most native language speakers i.e. in my case Tamizh.
I was actually jealous of the unique tamizh names of my friends who got unique email ids, search results e.g. Priyanayagan (meaning: loved hero) , Samarasam (Meaning: Compromise, Usually in the sense of achievement of peace). There's no dearth of such vocabulary in Tamizh as it's the oldest living spoken language in the world.
So a better chance of finding unique baby names might to be look outside major spoken languages, Then again a name has huge societal/cultural and even legal implications and so just checking for uniqueness wouldn't be enough.
I think such a marketplace can also address the need-gap in selling hardware products - /problems/256 by shipping the developed products through the gig workers themselves - /comments/1169 .
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Good find, They seem to fit the requirements of those who are looking for managed services to host courses but as with most managed services they too suffer from vendor lock-in.
A service which allows the tutor to deploy the course platform to a host of their choice to remain vendor neutral would address that need-gap.
I think there is potential in this idea if there are other people who have this problem as well. I can see this being used by other professionals as well such as music teachers, tutors etc who charge for a service by hour/minute and conduct meetings through video. Do you know any other people who struggle with the same problem as you?
Do you know any other people who struggle with the same problem as you?
At least 1300 people have viewed this problem and 1 person has said they would pay for the solution @abishek had posted below according to my Ideator plan insights as of now.
I've designed an app that helps not to forget that you haven't forgotten.
The idea is simple:
When you need to go somewhere, you probably do a house check. Many people do different things to remember, like recording the video, slapping their face, jumping on a single leg, etc.
The app also tracks your geolocation (only on your smartphone, not being shared with me or smbd else) and notifies you when you leaving your home area, so you won’t forget to switch your toggles. It’s also switches your toggles off when you coming home.
Removing my previous comment of Dish Tango after going down a search journey, as this is also a problem I constantly face.
Finally found one - Plant Jammer 2.0 - https://www.plantjammer.com/ . The app is pretty slick. Only thing is there's few unpaid recipe options, otherwise it's $3.49 / month. But it has some cool options, like planning out the meals that you like with a one-click option. Pretty slick UI.
Hey! We're currently trying to fix this at https://www.mockmate.com . Instead of sending an application with a CV, we ask the candidates to answer a few questions related to the job, our algorithm analyses the answers and comes up with a score and we send that report to recruiters. We currently have thousands of users already and are looking for companies willing to try it out with us!
I've often thought the same thing, i love cooking but find it hard to decide what to cook based on the ingredients i have and i end up making the same thing every time
I would be happy with recipes that say "You would need to buy: X" so if i have 75% of the ingredients i can decide whether to go and shop or not
And regarding the items in stock, what about a wizard based filter that asks what you have, so you would input the main ingredients you have i.e. Onion, Chicken, Pasta, then it would ask Do you have Cream? Yes/no, Do you have Mushrooms, Yes/No, logging these every time to improve the understanding of your larder. It could even ask "Do you still have Mushrooms" if you said yes a day or two ago. It could then make suggestions based on what you have, with a small shopping list to make something else
so I guess it could be calculated by some app, given that you provide it with the information about your passive income streams and your expenses. But at the same time, it's not really that complicated to calculate it yourself.
Thanks a lot for this! Agreed that the numbers can be simple once people get a bead on them, it's actually determining what the numbers are, how they will change, and tracking them as life happens that is the tough part. Appreciate you sharing your thoughts! :)
You create Workspaces with tabs and switch between them. The unused tabs are archived in the meantime, not using as much computer resources.
I'm using it now for a few months and honestly I couldn't live without it.
They recently switched to a paid model, where you can create only 5 workspaces for free and after payment ($7/month) you get to create unlimited workspaces.
Yes, I know workona. What I have built is similar but with less restrictions and hopefully easier to use. Since you’ve used workona, would love it if you tried tabworkx and gave your feedback on it. I’m open to adding features that you think would be more useful to your workflow.
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1 will pay for this solution.
You should look at link rot and NTFs! I can see that being a serious problem that would have some serious value if you can solve it and explain it to people properly
Sir, but isn't the non-interactive nature i.e the simplicity of being able to convey deeper meaning with a static image the core philosophy of a meme?
Hence even the cave man paintings are technically considered a meme.
I wonder whether making a meme interactive would make it cease to exist as a meme Or whether an interactive meme would add additional depth to the memes like depending upon the reader action the meaning could change.
Occasionally I see people are using reddit's gallery feature to construct a meme with multiple images where the reader is required to slide each image, So some basic level of interactive memes do seem to exist.
1 will pay for this solution.
Thanks for letting me know about people using the gallery feature like that - it's the kind of story that we remember!
The creative way people use very simple features to build new experiences is the kind of "aha" moment I want to make possible with Touchgram - https://www.touchgram.com/ .
I'm not (just) targeting memes. It's a convenient example of the many popular things people consume which are almost-always static experiences - you sit and watch something, rather than being able to interact with it.
2 will pay for this solution.
1 will pay for this solution.
"since Touchgram functions inside iMessage, It probably doesn't suffer from chicken-and-egg issues of larynx"
Exactly!
I was originally working on a cross-platform version using a similar game engine (Cocos2D-X in C++, rather than Apple's SpriteKit in Swift). A mentor advised me in 2018 to try to get it working either inside Facebook Messenger or Apple iMessage. The only platform with a rich enough API is iMessage. Apple take care of the notification side, because Touchgrams arrive like any other message. They also provide streamlined installation - if you don't have Touchgram installed and I send you one, Aple put the install link right there in the message bubble.
One of the things that informed my attitude to building "on top" of platforms, especially if you're trying to add extended capabilities, was https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/a-story-of-gamelayers-inc-
which was also turned into a book https://www.amazon.com/Story-GameLayers-inside-internet-startup-ebook/dp/B005PDH410
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It's true that developing apps within someone else's ecosystem can aid addressing the chicken-and-egg issues through discovery mechanisms offered through that ecosystem.
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Great points about platform reliance and these are why I decided Messenger was too dangerous (and limited) for us to use.
Apple's approach with iMessage app extensions is very different - they run as a kind of pure native app, which is called to take control over 95% of the screen for user interaction and then hands back a bundle of data for the message. So Apple preserve user privacy but we aren't running in a weird non-native environment. Much of Touchgram's core logic runs on Mac also and changing it to be "just" a normal iOS app would be very straightforward. We have an in-house testbed app which is just a standard app. Most of the work would just be adding notification support and a bit of UI to replace what iMessage gives us.
All the other extension mechanisms for different messaging platforms that I've evaluated do so via some kind of cut-down HTML running under control of the messenger app. That's much more limiting and vulnerable.
You also make a very good point about monetisation control - Apple don't impose any special restrictions on apps inside iMessage - we have similar subscription and marketplace plans to many apps. I've not reviewed FB Messenger's restrictions for a couple of years but unsurprised.
As a solution, there could be better looking cash registering machine with fresher looks and an easier to use software in which you can register objects faster and easier. As a result, this can lead to people paying for their products so much faster that the time spent in the line to pay will be dramatically shorter.
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There could be few shops which are still using old mechanical cash machines while the majority have switched to computerized systems; All it requires now is a mobile app, a PoS machine and so it's not a matter of cost to set it up.
Did you ask why they didn't switch to a computerized system? My guess is that they are not just willing to change, Perhaps and old mom&pop shop with very few customers at a time.
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As a solution, there could be a platform in which is a full marketplace but instead of buying the product completely, you rent it for a certain amount of time and you pay the one who gives you the object to keep it and use it well. If it breaks, you pay a fee so the buyer won't mishandle it.
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Netvyne - A Chrome extension to leave and read comments on any URL
I was first introduced to this Chrome extension idea by a friend a couple years ago in college, and worked on it on-and-off as a side project (in Python+JS). At the start of last year, I picked it up as a serious undertaking and re-wrote the tool in Golang+React with a tightly-knit team of 5 fulltime people.
What differentiates us is that we’re building content moderation from the very start, which is more of an operations problem than a technical problem. We’re committed to civility of discussion over all else; if that means sacrificing “free” speech, or taking the site down temporarily while we scale up moderation, so be it. Timing-wise, people are increasingly familiar with the idea of Chrome extensions, and have also recognized the value of comments due in large part to the popularity of Reddit in recent years.
If you have a moment, try out our extension and please let us know what you think!
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/netvyne-extension/hdmpoglhdchngeiefpiaiilfeicjjfap
https://www.netvyne.com/
We've built a Chrome extension that addresses this (and just released it two days ago, 01/06/22)!
In fact, the use-case you are describing here is a need that we've experienced ourselves, and we support both static comments and live chat.
You can check it out the extension here:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/netvyne-extension/hdmpoglhdchngeiefpiaiilfeicjjfap
I'll share some background in this thread as well if you're interested!
Thanks @Abishek for connecting us!
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I've had this problem on my mind for at least over a year now.
And about 2 months ago, I finally decided to scratch this itch and started working on https://geniepy.com .
After a few weeks of work, I feel that the boilerplate is coming along quite nicely. If you would like to beta test the product (for free!) either leave a comment here or leave your email address in the form on the homepage and I'll get in touch!
Regardless, I'm curious what you think! I'd also love to know if there's any other feature that comes to your mind that should be on the list above but currently isn't!
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Sounds interesting, Please do comment here(Reply) after launch.
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Here's one boilerplate for saas. https://github.com/smirnov-am/awesome-saas-boilerplates
Thank you for sharing! It's very useful, Surprised to see less entries though and that might explain this need-gap.
i had a similar need and was able to solve it with https://webz.io for the data feeds.
they also have good support if you need something further
May I ask what was the need and how did you solve it using webz.io?
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As explained in the post I was struggling to access large valuable datasets like total historical stock/crypto prices or historical news to analyse patterns and so I built a tool that does this.
Basically you can get data like stock & crypto prices, news, financials, press releases, shareholder changes, reddit posts via an API in JSON or CSV format. I am adding more exchanges and alternative datasets like eCommerce pricing and stock levels with time. The data goes back decades, It's cleaned, formatted and analysis ready.
It resolves a few issues:
- Transparent pricing with no limit to API calls
- Access to many datasets not limited to one particular region or category
- No more scraping, Just access the data you want via an API
- No more managing sorting, wrangling, scraping, indexing infrastructure so you can just focus on building your App, doing your research, analysis or getting an edge in the market
The project is still in development and looking to launch an Alpha soon. Would love to get any feedback, questions or to simply find out your data needs
Here is a link: https://gigadata.com.au/
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Attempting to solve the above problems we have created EpsiFund https://epsifund.com as a tech-enabled revenue-based funding solution with a human touch. To begin with we take a look at online businesses' key data sources to estimate revenue, marketing and sales efforts, as well as, general financial health. This part of the process is data-driven and we automatically underwrite the risk and offer a few funding options. The process doesn't stop at this point though. We go above and beyond to understand the business and work out a solution that would suit its needs. We are still in Beta and currently focusing on Shopify App Store ecosystem, having helped a few Shopify Devs to fund their next feature release, App add-ons developments and boost revenue via Ads. Check us out and let us know if we can help.
I believe the source of the problem is that when you are procrastinating you won't truly realize how much impact you could create if you would work on what's important. If your task list is full of things that won't motivate you I recommend you to use a prioritization framework like the Eisenhower Matrix to get more clarity about what you should focus on. Then dedicate 2 hours each day when you are most productive to focus on the truly important ones. If you manage to get the most important tasks in those 2 hours you are already making more progress than most of the people and you will feel satisfied.
Please see this Reddit post on my concept of how you could use the Eisenhower matrix inside a calendar to focus on the important:
https://www.reddit.com/r/AppIdeas/comments/r2rnx2/nextgeneration_task_management_what_if_the/
I hope that helps.
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>The latency or Internet issues in general seems solvable? Did you explore it further?
Yeah my brother mentioned that it could be a problem so we're going to try and figure it out. But when we started, we definitely got frustrated and we also got tired of being on a laptop. We decided an app based game is best so it's easy to check on it wherever we are idle too.
>Are you planning to address this need-gap yourself?
would love to but I don't know how
A need-gap in gaming that can be potentially addressed by a indie-developer is rare, So I'm sure this will be picked-up by someone soon and perhaps they would have you on-board as well.
that would be fun. I'd love to join even if it's just for the initial brainstorming session and/or testing the prototype
that would be fun. I'd love to join even if it's just for the initial brainstorming session and/or testing the prototype
I create a google alert for the gadgets I buy e.g. 'iPhone recall' and get an email alert immediately when any major news on that is published. Perhaps this could be automated a bit, But I don't think that it could be done without deliberate consumer action.
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Thanks Abishek for your detailed reply & for validating my problem.
Regarding your points --
1. Yes, I agree. Let's say company Acme Co fills this needgap. I imagined Acme Co to work something like this:
- Acme Co has the ability to accept regular credit card payments just like any other SaaS would (resulting in a frictionless payment experience from the end user/donor).
- That money goes to and is held by Acme Co. Acme Co issues a virtual credit card to a project owner with the donation amount.
- When the project owner wants to pay for server costs, they can now use the issued virtual credit card at AWS, Digital Ocean, or any other established infrastructure provider (they should be able to accept virtual CCs just like a regular card). This also addresses your point #2.
As a result of this flow of funds, real money never actually makes its way to the project owner.
Stripe Issuing lets Acme Co create virtual cards as well as the ability to adjust amounts to the card.
One problem I see while typing this out is that Acme Co can essentially hold funds in hostage if they want to, so trust will be a big factor here.
(I live in the US so this is my understanding of how it would work with virtual CC's in the US.)
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I would try to code up my idea into a real web app but my current capacity would only allow a side project, not a full-blown one that would require a business entity and a lawyer...
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> The solution is for avoiding unnecessary tax and not tax evasion.
Correct, the idea is for a donor to support a project owner in a payment form that is not cash on the receiving end, ie. by paying for a service provider.
You are right that I was confusing virtual credit cards with gift cards. Disregard the virtual CC part.
> So I think Acme Co. should directly buy credits from various infrastructure services and deliver that to their customer (i.e. project builder)
Yes, I think ultimately it comes down some version of this, and making it super easy for donors to select a provider to gift to the project owner, kind of like a wedding registry.
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Actually that is exactly what we've built recently! Beta version of our software - Raport will be open to public this week.
You can create a free beta account here: https://raport.pro
What does Raport allows you to do?
1. Connect metrics from multiple data sources.
e.g. Revenue from Stripe, Shopify and Google AdSense. Pageviews from Google Analytics. Ad clicks from Facebook Ads and Google Ads.
2. Analyze all your data in one app.
No more switching between multiple dashboards. No more "spreadsheet analytics". All your data is synced, aggregated by metric and displayed in one clear dashboard.
3. Receive reports and alerts by email.
Be up to date with your business performance. Receive daily, weekly and monthly reports. Set up custom alerts. Get notified about changes in your metrics.
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I didn't know this existed. Super neat landing page. How's the pricing for data connectors?
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Hi @rotimi_je_suis welcome to needgap, Posts are for problems alone and so please use the comments to explain what you've created to address the problem.
Thanks for the clarification. I'll add the solution in the comments
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Do you mean specific solutions targeted at old people? If so what issues do you think which specifically affect old people from using existing security and preventive measures against phishing.
Hi all, as explained in the problem thread, we faced this problem ourselves, but then, our founder, Lincoln Islam, decided, we build a WordPress sales funnel builder that solves all these problems, because we figured there are many agencies like us that want to use sales funnels for their plugin development side, but face so many limitations and barriers.
After a year, we found a solution that we can be proud of and solve all the issues we faced. We created a plugin called WPFunnels.
You can check it out here: https://getwpfunnels.com/
It also has a free version here: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpfunnels/
If you are an agency or have a WordPress site, you can check out this plugin to meet your sales funnel needs without spending a fortune or
using complicated plugins.
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This kind of app seems to be getting a lot of developer attention at present. Yay for Users!
Momento is one of the best in class.
Free with a limited “privacy tax” and ton of features you didn’t know you needed like: bookmarks that save a brief transcription of the audio along with your personal notes on the clip, LINKED TO THE TIMESTAMP and trigger-able by your AirPod’s “double click” and mass-export to your PKM of choice…. It’s amazing.
And best of all, IT WORKS for your favorite YOUTUBEs content, AS AUDIO PODCASTS, from within the APP ITSELF!
(And unlike the native YouTube app, which requires a subscription to YouTube TV, you can listen without keeping your phone’s screen on—don’t tell google, or it’ll surely disappear…).
Called “Momento - Podcast Clips to Text” in the iOS AppStore.
Check out:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/momento-podcast-clips-to-text/id1530089886
Thanks for sharing but isn't Momento a transcription app which is more suited for /problems/46 ?
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Most welcome.
Its app description is, "Listen to any podcast, and clip any moment into text." But this is not the capability of value for which I referenced it.
The OP mentioned a specific interest in listening to YouTube videos audibly as podcasts automatically, without having to manually extract and convert the audio content for use.
Momento does this exact thing, beautifully and automatically, in-app. Users can search for their fave YouTube Channel, any episode, and listen, sans video, to their heart's content! It's beautifully done and exactly satisfies OP's primary gapped need. (except no integration for Vimeo or direct URL links as yet)
But even better, Users can Follow, make playlists, get updates, and download whole episodes from all their podcastified YousTubes!
But wait, there's more! It allows annotation and exporting clips +/- the annotations in a variety of output formats for sharing or further digestion.
Annnnd, it also does the 'clip and transcribe to text' thang...
I do wonder how Momento got YouTube to okay these functions, since to listen to YTubes offline (or even with your phone's display off... come on Youtube...) requires a monthly subscription to YouTubeTV or YouTube+ or whatever it's called...
I had to scratch my own itch and create AppMasker ( https://appmasker.com ). Let me know what you think!
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Basically built a node API server that coordinates a fleet of Caddy web servers configured as reverse-proxies. As users create new domains, I update the configurations in the caddy instances.
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Are you a part of SigmaOS team or a satisfied user? Either way I would like to hear more about what you feel about it.
You should strongly consider not purchasing individual stocks and instead look for broad index-funds/ETFs. An example would be the excellent MSCI World ETF. Basically, this means that MSCI will purchase many individual stocks for you, simply based on their market capitalization. This minimizes risks as no single company failing will impact your portfolio a lot, while also assuring that you get a tiny portion of any upside of any company included in the index.
Needless to say, this is not financial advice.
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I faced this problem for https://Traverse.link and I found https://approximated.app which helped out beautifully (and worked with my firebase setup)
Very nice! Looks like it checks a lot of boxes. How did you find them?
Please try Personal.ai ( https://personal.ai ) - we are approaching this problem as follows:
1. Capture most of what you create and consume since 80% is lost - we create ambient tools to capture.
2. Create a digital memory vault that's automated via predicted AI models, called Memory Stack and a model that is trained on your Stack, your own Personal AI.
3. Connect to your AI that unlocks bidirectional messaging with your own AI to recall in the moment, sometimes entirely autonomous.
Thank you!
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Hi Suman!
Personal.ai debuted on Product Hunt on 11/4/21 with a one-day PROMO CODE: "When you sign up, if you use promo code PRODUCTHUNT for today only (November 4th, until 11:59 PM PDT), you will also get a free yearly subscription when we start to commercialize our product."
Would you be willing to create a similar offer for our needgap community?
We're a smaller group than PH, but may provide an equally dedicated userbase with a shared problem-focused interest in helping to grow "products that people (and their AI's) want."
Looking forward to signing up for Personal.ai (with a promo code) soon! ;)
Thank you @kanugantisuman !
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Hey needgap community, I actually ended up creating a solution for this.
It's called AnySport Scorekeeper, and it's is a quick and easy-to-use score counter for Apple Watch!
I imagined a blissful future sporting experience where there would be no more arguing and debating over the amount of points or goals; you would simply flick your wrist up to see the score. And if you'd like to update the score, just give a tap to the respective side and then continue where you left off.
Now, people would be able to enjoy sport with a greater peace of mind (and with their relationships intact 🙈).
Check it out and feel free to ping me with feedback!
https://anysportscorekeeper.jamesfromldn.com/
Isn't this the classic use for a Bitcoin address?
Why not https://github.com/moodle/moodle ? It's a commonly used learning management system with one click installers on a few hosting providers. Might not have a payment integration, but hosts video, writing, etc
moodle looks like a great platform to address this problem, thanks for sharing! There seems to be several services offering to setup moodle as well.
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I think such a marketplace can also address the need-gap in selling hardware products - /problems/256 by shipping the developed products through the gig workers themselves - /comments/1169 .
Here's a nice service which helps to improve the English pronunciation using YouTube videos - https://youglish.com/ .
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nonlinear-browser/jjbpfnijgokebcbepdobkbneconogbkm?hl=hi
Try this out
There are a lot of shopify like tools available for this.
Thinkific - https://www.thinkific.com/,
Teachable - https://teachable.com are 2 which I know
I think there is potential in this idea if there are other people who have this problem as well. I can see this being used by other professionals as well such as music teachers, tutors etc who charge for a service by hour/minute and conduct meetings through video. Do you know any other people who struggle with the same problem as you?
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I built a habit tracker as a progressive web app. It might be suitable for your requirements, feel free to check it out and let me know how it goes!
https://jamesfromldn.com/carpe-diem
This looks pretty neat for a habit tracker. Along with habits, I had a few other concepts like weight, height, etc...
Hey!
I've designed an app that helps not to forget that you haven't forgotten.
The idea is simple:
When you need to go somewhere, you probably do a house check. Many people do different things to remember, like recording the video, slapping their face, jumping on a single leg, etc.
Now you simply launch the Locked.app https://apps.apple.com/ua/app/locked-app/id1586961642 and switch a few toggles there.
The app also tracks your geolocation (only on your smartphone, not being shared with me or smbd else) and notifies you when you leaving your home area, so you won’t forget to switch your toggles. It’s also switches your toggles off when you coming home.
If you wanna meet with the app closer, please check https://medium.com/@gl1n/how-we-created-an-app-that-makes-life-easier-for-the-paranoid-2cf51c38da54
I’ve done my best to describe everything there 😄
Hope you’ll like it ❤️
Please, share your feedback, it’ll be so helpful for future dev. Stay tuned ☺️
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My suggestion is to use a diagnosis tool for your website. Something like https://botmenot.com/
It will tell you how well protected your website is from bots and give you the evidence of the testing done, so you can know how to proceed.
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I'm currently developing a tool that will test website's bot protection levels - https://botmenot.com/
If you are concerned with bot detection, bot traffic, server response time, spam/fake content, web scraping, then check out this tool!
All the best on your development, Can you explain how you are addressing or planning to address the problem of false positives?
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Removing my previous comment of Dish Tango after going down a search journey, as this is also a problem I constantly face.
Finally found one - Plant Jammer 2.0 - https://www.plantjammer.com/ . The app is pretty slick. Only thing is there's few unpaid recipe options, otherwise it's $3.49 / month. But it has some cool options, like planning out the meals that you like with a one-click option. Pretty slick UI.
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https://endsandstems.com/whats-in-my-fridge-recipe-finder/ I love Ends+Stems and their meal planning workshops!
Hey! We're currently trying to fix this at https://www.mockmate.com . Instead of sending an application with a CV, we ask the candidates to answer a few questions related to the job, our algorithm analyses the answers and comes up with a score and we send that report to recruiters. We currently have thousands of users already and are looking for companies willing to try it out with us!
I've often thought the same thing, i love cooking but find it hard to decide what to cook based on the ingredients i have and i end up making the same thing every time
I would be happy with recipes that say "You would need to buy: X" so if i have 75% of the ingredients i can decide whether to go and shop or not
And regarding the items in stock, what about a wizard based filter that asks what you have, so you would input the main ingredients you have i.e. Onion, Chicken, Pasta, then it would ask Do you have Cream? Yes/no, Do you have Mushrooms, Yes/No, logging these every time to improve the understanding of your larder. It could even ask "Do you still have Mushrooms" if you said yes a day or two ago. It could then make suggestions based on what you have, with a small shopping list to make something else
https://endsandstems.com/whats-in-my-fridge-recipe-finder/!
I read lately ( https://www.notion.so/Content-Consumer-Financial-Freedom-by-playing-the-Great-Online-Game-54548c0e06a24baa978dd81871804fe1#72e280c01c974ebc849b00531937aa1e ) the formula for financial freedom:
**Financial Freedom = Passive Income > Expenses**
so I guess it could be calculated by some app, given that you provide it with the information about your passive income streams and your expenses. But at the same time, it's not really that complicated to calculate it yourself.
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Thanks a lot for this! Agreed that the numbers can be simple once people get a bead on them, it's actually determining what the numbers are, how they will change, and tracking them as life happens that is the tough part. Appreciate you sharing your thoughts! :)
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You're maybe looking for Workona browser extension - https://workona.com/
You create Workspaces with tabs and switch between them. The unused tabs are archived in the meantime, not using as much computer resources.
I'm using it now for a few months and honestly I couldn't live without it.
They recently switched to a paid model, where you can create only 5 workspaces for free and after payment ($7/month) you get to create unlimited workspaces.
Yes, I know workona. What I have built is similar but with less restrictions and hopefully easier to use. Since you’ve used workona, would love it if you tried tabworkx and gave your feedback on it. I’m open to adding features that you think would be more useful to your workflow.