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Typing SQL scripts for retrieving data takes time

Thu, 06 Oct 2022 10:47:00 +0000

I recently worked in a database support team where I had to dig deep into the db by executing multiple/lengthy/nested SQL select statements to find the root cause of the issue or for analysing the data.

So I started creating a simple tool which allows us just to connect our db to the tool and then instead of typing those SQL scripts, once could just click the table/tables and the record/records that he needs to view and they get displayed. Moreover that data can be also used for analysing the business.

Need your suggestion guys on the idea.

Thank you

1 points posted by rhythm

Social media handles of companies #socialmedia #webscrapping

Mon, 25 Jul 2022 12:40:00 +0000

I would like to tag the companies I tweet or post about, But have to search for the company's Twitter (or) Facebook handle manually each time and If don't find them on the platform, I have to visit their website to find them.

It would be easier if I am able to get the social media handles of the companies I'm tweeting about automatically.

1 points posted by Jonas

Show IMDB, RT ratings on any website #movies #ratings

Fri, 22 Jul 2022 13:58:00 +0000

Any website which is related to movies, tv/web series link to the IMDB (or) Rotten Tomatoes page of that movie or show, But there is no way to see the current rating without clicking the link.

If we can see the rating when we hover over the link, It can save our time.

1 points posted by Jen

Hand wash liquid which doesn't make the skin dry #skincare #hygiene

Sat, 27 Feb 2021 16:57:00 +0000

All these obsessive hand washes due to the pandemic has made my skin dry like never before. I tried different hand wash liquid soap including the expensive ones in vain.

Skin on my hands look wrinkled, old and sometime the dryness is causing some discomfort.

I've heard my friends complain of this too, Is there any solution for dry skin from hand wash? If not I think now is a great time to build a product which doesn't make the skin dry while washing hands.

6 points posted by Natasha Taylor

Plan Second-Order, Third-Order consequences #mentalmodel #cognitivescience

Sun, 04 Jul 2021 03:15:00 +0000

I have realized that almost all of my troubles are because I didn't plan the second-order, third-order consequences of my life's decisions. By choosing the first available option, I have often ended up creating more problems for myself and others around me.

Smart people avoid this by thinking about the second-order, third-order consequences. But not everyone is a chess Grandmaster.

I feel wanting to improve the decision making is the first step and if aided by tools to plan consequences of our options then many can avoid costly mistakes in life.

5 points posted by Chase

Make clicking links safer #cybersecurity #privacy

Sat, 19 Jun 2021 13:59:00 +0000

My job involves clicking lot of links from unknown individuals, Which is the first no-no to prevent hacking and is being constantly advised everywhere.

I am constantly paranoid after clicking a link. May be cybersecurity experts have some ways for clicking links safely, But I am not one of them and I doubt whether the method they use would apply for people like me who get dozens of legitimate links over email and chat.

I feel since there's no easy way currently to safely click links, People just ignore the advise against clicking links and end-up getting hacked.

5 points posted by Miguel

Book meetings easily and pay for that time #consultancy #payment

Mon, 10 May 2021 14:04:00 +0000

I'm a consultant and I charge by hour my clients for advice. Nowadays the meetings happen through video calls and I charge my clients through PayPal or wire transfer.

If there was an automatic mechanism to charge those who attend the video calls based on hourly rates it can save time for me and my clients. I think this might be useful for all consultants involved in similar work.
5 points posted by Jerry

How much should I charge for my freelance work #freelancer #calculator

Sat, 17 Apr 2021 02:52:00 +0000

One of the biggest pain point for someone in the gig economy, is to know the value of our time; How much should I charge my clients for the work?

For someone making an entry into the freelance work, there might not be much options than to undercut the competition in pricing. But once we have gained some reputation for our work, Calculating fair market price for our effort is hard.

I feel there is a need gap for tools which help freelancers calculate the fair price for their time.

5 points posted by Yogesh Basu

Human voice summary of news #news #voice

Wed, 03 Mar 2021 17:31:00 +0000

There are several news apps which offer automated summary of news, but they don't match the quality of human summarized content like InShorts in India. But they don't offer read aloud feature i.e. voice summary of the news.

I just want to click play and want to listen to the bite-sized news one by one instead of scrolling through them visually. I know that Google Assistant & other voice based assistants do offer news but they are usually auto-summarized web article or snippets from the TV news; both of them are not as good as the human summarized news content.

I would like a service which could convert these text based human summary of news to audio or a human voice summary of news itself.

5 points posted by Ashoka

Share YouTube subscribed channel list #youtube #sharing

Fri, 23 Oct 2020 12:47:00 +0000

Recently I got bored of the content from my subscribed channels on the YouTube and I asked my friends to share their subscription list only to find out that there's no such option to share YouTube subscription list.

It seems earlier there used to be an export option and third party service which allowed importing subscription list into another Google account, but not anymore.

There are others asking for the same in the YouTube community forum without any solutions. I think a tool which allows easy sharing and exporting of YouTube subscription list could be appreciated by these people and me!

5 points posted by Devin

Get me the news I need, not the news I want #news #information

Thu, 17 Sep 2020 13:21:00 +0000

I'm tired of the hate mongering, cognitive bias rich, mindless advertisement fuelled News media be it on Internet or Television or Radio or even traditional Paper medium.

When I say Internet, I don't mean just the websites, but also mobile Apps with infinite scroll which has put pressure on the News Agencies to produce content at a blistering rate, resulting in low quality content without any editorial oversight or fact checking or even proofreading.

I'm tired of these News medium exploiting my FOMO, I'm convinced that 99.9% of the news I consume every day has just information I don't need, Information I will never use in my life, at least in the foreseeable future. This is after choosing the categories of interest, giving personal information about myself than I should have to the large media companies and thereby advertisers.

I'm convinced that these News media are trying make me someone they want to be, rather than give me what I need.

What does it take to get only the News I need, which will be actually useful for my life?

5 points posted by Andora

Make me breathe properly #health #respiration

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 14:02:00 +0000

80% of the population has some form of disfunction in breathing, 50% of modern population chronically breathe through their mouth, says James Nestor.

It seems that the correct way to breathe is 5 - 6 breaths/minute and breathing correctly has huge therapeutic benefits such helping with reducing symptoms of allergies, asthma, autoimmune disease, anxiety, depression and in some cases even curing them.

What can help me develop this correct way of breathing as a habit, without investing too much time or money?

5 points posted by Michelle

Remind me to take break when working from home #WFH #physicalactivity

Mon, 15 Jun 2020 15:58:00 +0000

I'm forgetting to take regular breaks when I work from home as I get too involved with the task, as there's no one to interrupt me like in office. Without regular breaks, I get back-pain due to over exerting myself with the work which also increases my depression at the end of the day.

Current activity timers require manual start, which are useless when we forget to start the activity timer after a break or when starting the task.

I would like an activity timer which starts automatically when I start the work and remind me at regular intervals to take a break from work without me having to take any explicit action with the timer.

5 points posted by Apsara

Taking notes from Hacker News comments #hackernews #notes

Thu, 10 Jun 2021 13:29:00 +0000

Hacker News from YCombinator is a news submission website optimized for gratifying one's intellectual curiosity. Regular readers know that the real gold is in the comments of Hacker News.

But in the urge to submit/respond to the comments, FOMO other HN stories the knowledge in the comments are often lost if not saved(favorites). Even if saved, Memory ( /problems/41 ) should serve right to get what we need and when we need it.

I feel there's a need gap for a better note taking solution for assimilating knowledge from Hacker News discussions.
4 points posted by Abishek Muthian

Add Twitter followers to a Twitter list #socialmedia #feed

Tue, 25 May 2021 16:26:00 +0000

I don't follow all my Twitter followers, But I would like to know what they are up to by adding my Twitter followers to a list and follow the list instead.

I couldn't find an automated solution to achieve this, Only manual methods. An automated mechanism can also help in updating the list when I gain/loose followers.

4 points posted by Whitney

Notification when bookmarked pages gets updated #monitor #alert

Tue, 13 Apr 2021 13:19:00 +0000

I have hundreds of bookmarks and like most I forget after bookmarking them. Many of them are singe web pages and so receiving a notification when there is an update to the content would let me revisit them and also keep me up-to date.

I guess such a service would need to sync my bookmarks and alert me through an app.

4 points posted by Aazar

New skills from short projects for organizations #skills #education

Fri, 19 Feb 2021 09:01:00 +0000

Hi all, since some weeks ago I have been diving in a new industry and learning new skills/knowledge. I have been creating small projects to showcase these skills. In the near future I would like to create a startup in the industry I am diving into. Before doing that, it would be great to have experience with organizations where I could help with my new skills/knowledge. In my view this would be a win-win. I would get to gain experience and use my new skills (before getting paid gigs and to build a portfolio), while organizations can benefit from the help in an area where they lack experience or time for.

Think about it as a very short project based internship. For a day-week max. For example, a small organization who wants help with their website and could use even basic knowledge of web development. You as a starting web developer or student, could help for two days In which organizations can benefit from someone helping them with their social media usage or web development.

Do you know of such platform? I would definitely be interested in trying it.

4 points posted by Toufic_e

Track the p/l of multiple investment accounts #investment #reports

Fri, 21 Jan 2022 04:35:00 +0000

I have a stock/options brokerage account and a crypto account and I can’t find a single platform that allows me to track my overall p/l with ease. All the tools available online have one or more of the following:

requires me to tediously enter information of my every single stock trade using a poorly-designed web interface
has a limitation on the number of trades that I can enter
doesn't show the performance metrics that I want (e.g. time-weighted return, money-weighted return, on a monthly/annualized basis, CAGR, IRR, Sharpe Ratio, Omega Ratio etc..)
limited benchmarking options
charges a monthly subscription
does not support data logging of my options trading
does not support crypto
cannot unify the p/l of multiple accounts / assets / currencies into a single report
low customizability of the portfolio reports

3 points posted by JMaven

Small social bits like memes aren't interactive #photo #socialmedia

Fri, 14 Jan 2022 22:02:00 +0000

Missing a simple way to create small interactive experiences

The range of small content creation on mobile encompasses single photos, customising gifs and composing entire movies. There are no options for users who want to make interactive experiences.

Workarounds

Two common ways for users to create an interactive experience are building a website or a game. There are a few website builders that run on mobile (eg: Universe) but these are still deployed via web, not providing content you can deliver directly.

Historical Technology

Two generations of technology have allowed end users to easily create experiences. These pre-date the rise of mobile devices. Both created a document which could be played on a commonly-available runtime. The Hypercard environment was bundled with Mac computers for several years (pre-Web).

3 points posted by andydentperth

Link rot, Invalid web URLs #web #archive

Mon, 10 Jan 2022 13:27:00 +0000

Link rotting is when a particular URL is not valid anymore, Usually because the content has been removed. Link rot is an issue we face with needgap as the majority of links here are of side-projects and when the project unfortunately ceases to exist the links become invalid.

If the links are automatically archived then it can help the community can understand what it offered and perhaps even help understanding why it didn't succeed.

Of course link rot is not specific to needgap, Whole wide web is affected by the link rot.

3 points posted by Abishek Muthian

Boilerplate for building SaaS products #SaaS #web

Tue, 28 Dec 2021 20:46:00 +0000

Every user-facing SaaS product requires a basic set of features that are common to every SaaS. This includes features like:

user registration / authentication
email / password reset (general app settings and user preferences)
sending emails
file storage on cloud services
error tracking
deployment configuration files
payments!

Implementing these features is a major distraction for founders, because this takes up time they cannot spend building their own business logic. And when done correctly, this can easily take anywhere from a few weeks to a few months.

3 points posted by siddhantgoel

Journaling diary starting with the birth date #journaling #writing

Sun, 26 Dec 2021 06:25:00 +0000

A custom diary/journal should have the option to start from birth date which makes more meaning when it comes to personal writing to start with every real new year.

Example: I want a diary for where I expect the start start date shoud be 12/02/2021 and end date should be 12/01/2022.

This can be called as "Birthday Diary" For those who believe new year is their birth date and want to take resolutions or start writing their journals from birthdate with new motive each year.

Personal note: Writing in a physical notebook is the best thing which adds muscle memory and more memory power than the digital tools which gives modern stat/graphs, easy to do stuffs / storage /portability. A physical pen and notebook gives more value when it is personal.

And with our modern printing technology, this birthday diary printing must be a simple one which is not ready just.

3 points posted by Samarasam

Historical datasets are expensive, hard to find #finance #datascience

Mon, 13 Dec 2021 06:45:00 +0000

With all the WallStreetBets hype I've been developing/testing automated investment/trading strategies in crypto/stocks. I was struggling to get large amounts of data cheaply like total historical stock/crypto prices or historical news, eCommerce pricing and stock levels. To resolve this I had to rely on heavy scraping or work with a variety of vendors who specialise in different datasets which increases infrastructure cost, risks getting IP blocked, increases load on the target server and increases data sourcing cost. I spent more time managing scrapers, bots and data streams instead of working on the analysis, research and building my app

3 points posted by gigadata

Funding not aligned with building business #funding #saas

Wed, 08 Dec 2021 20:56:00 +0000

Too many investment and accelerators models built around getting funded by classic VCs (be it VC equity, debt or a hybrid of the two). Investment terms suit a multiple rounds of VC raising, but aren’t really aligned with the way of building businesses that most founders prefer. There is a significant lack of source of capital that is aligned with founders who want to build a healthy, sustainable, profitable business.
Revenue-based funding requires no equity to be sacrificed by a founder and it could be a solution unless it takes the form of another black-box 'computer says no' type of approach. There needs to be a revenue-based funding with the human oversight to see the founder/business behind the numbers (MRR, churn etc.) and also work out a truly appropriate solution for the founder's need.

3 points posted by Alex_EpsiFund

Gadget recall monitoring and alert #monitor #alert

Mon, 22 Nov 2021 13:45:00 +0000

Gadget recall happens all the time, Usually due to safety concerns regarding battery or fire hazard from the electronics.

Those who have registered their product on the manufacturer's site or use a connected device where the manufacturer knows the email id get intimations via email about the product recall but others loose out.

There are several reasons for why someone might never register their product, Especially common among aged people. I think it's about time we come up with better mechanisms to monitor gadget recalls and inform the owners.

3 points posted by Rakesh

Localization for No-Code platforms #language #nocode

Sat, 20 Nov 2021 14:03:00 +0000

I recently reviewed couple of no-code platforms to recommend to a friend and learnt that even major platforms lack in localization[1][2] both in the apps built through them and as a platform themselves.

Lack of localization seems like a major de-limiter to anyone who wishes to build apps for regional audience using these no-code platforms.

3 points posted by Abishek Muthian

Linux phone for India and the world #smartphone #India

Mon, 15 Nov 2021 15:45:00 +0000

India is the second largest smartphone market in the world with 439m users in 2020 which is only poised to grow in future. India has one of the largest Linux user base, if not the largest.

What connects those two statements? When the rest of the world have started to look at 3rd alternative to mobile operating systems in the form of smartphones[1][2] powered by Linux Operating Systems(Mainline kernel) India has been left behind due to it's policies with pre-built smartphone hardware.

India has exuberant import taxation for pre-built smartphone hardware and offers incentives to manufacture smartphone in the country which propelled it to become second largest smartphone manufacturer in the world.

I think there's a need-gap for a smartphone manufacturer to build Linux smartphones for India and the world from India.

3 points posted by Abishek Muthian

Sales funnel for WordPress are complicated #sales #wordpress

Fri, 12 Nov 2021 09:08:00 +0000

Last year, we wanted to implement sales funnels for our other plugins on our WordPress site.

But we couldn't find a native solution to WordPress that we could call a complete sales funnel builder. There were a couple of WordPress funnel plugins but they were so complicated and took a lot of steps to build a funnel.

Plus, there were no WordPress tools with a visual funnel planner. People used external tools such as Funnelytics or Prettyfunnels to plan their funnel steps.

Overall people spent over 30-40 mins just to create a simple sales funnel.

Meanwhile, when we looked into SAAS tools, we found Clickfunnels, Kartra, and many others. But they were so expensive. Plus, most of them also didn't have a funnel planner.

So we found out:

- Funnel building takes over 30mins (for beginners it could take even more).

- It took multiple tools to plan and build funnels.

- No WordPress plugins had a visual funnel planner.

- WordPress funnel plugins were so complicated.

At the end of the day, we couldn't get the solution we were looking for.

3 points posted by CSSultan

Configuring custom domains for SaaS is difficult #domain #SaaS

Mon, 08 Nov 2021 18:33:00 +0000

Mature SaaS products often allow users to bring their own domain / subdomain. This allows for customizability and familiarity for their customers. Or perhaps you need to have a 3rd-party tool hosted under your domain for technical reasons. Scaling the SSL / TLS certificates for all these custom domains is very complicated!

In addition, your SaaS might need to support white-labeling so that clients can have their own branding on your app, such as their logo, colors, and other customizations to make it appear like part of their application. This is important when your user is trying to establish a consistent brand with their customers.

3 points posted by yroc92

Prevent arguments related to scorekeeping #sports #tracker

Sat, 06 Nov 2021 16:19:00 +0000

For anyone who has played football, basketball, badminton, or spikeball etc. - you would probably have a good rally, or long passage of play and then when someone does score, everyone seems to have a different interpretation of what the score was/should be.

It's a bit annoying to argue over something so simple. So there should be some kind of scoreboard app that's easy to view and update without disrupting the flow of the game.

3 points posted by jamesfromldn

Finding makers for our product #hardware #freelancer

Fri, 05 Nov 2021 06:07:00 +0000

Developing IoT or other hardware products at scale as a small startup or as a solopreneur is hard as building hardware involves various nuances such as design, development, supply-chain, logistics, manufacturing, quality control etc.

The freelancer ecosystem for software is robust enough that a minimum viable software product could be built using Gig workers, But assessing a gig worker for a hardware product is not as easy because unlike a software not two hardware product is exactly same and the freelancer marketplaces lack specific features to address issues with employing the gig worker for hardware development.

I think there's a need-gap for a marketplace which enables end-to-end hardware product development using gig workers.

3 points posted by Abishek Muthian

Stock market investment decision is hard #stockmarket #reports

Tue, 02 Nov 2021 07:54:00 +0000

The fundamental data and also all the financial charts, doesn't really help me in making a stock market investment decision. It's too polar opinionated and complex, for someone with basic finance knowledge.

Need something easy to grasp and actionable so that I can focus on my day to day work.

3 points posted by Abhikuch

Business analytics in one place #anlaytics #dashboard

Mon, 01 Nov 2021 03:02:00 +0000

In order to run a business in today's world, there's a lot of analytics involved. Some basic analytics every business use would be,

Google Analytics/some other audience analytics tool
Stripe/any other payment provider
Twitter/any other social media platform
Mailchimp/any other email marketing tools

These are some of the basic tools every business use, if not more. In order to get a grasp of what's happening on day to day basis, you either have to visit each of these websites on daily basis or subscribe to their email notifications.

What if there's a platform that pulls the data and gives you a super easy dashboard for various businesses?

3 points posted by jgm

Self-hosted online course distribution platform #tutorship #education

Sat, 23 Oct 2021 16:45:00 +0000

EdTech startups at scale serve the interests of neither the educated nor the educator but themselves.

As an alternative tutors need to host the course on their own platform, Which is easier said than done for educators who are not coders themselves.

There is a need-gap for platform which can enable the tutors distribute courses under their own infrastructure (incl. easy deployment to cloud). Such a platform should include video content distribution, chat, course work submission, assessment, certification etc.

3 points posted by Abishek Muthian

A tracker for everyday activities #habit #lifestyle

Wed, 20 Oct 2021 15:42:00 +0000

I could not find a proper tracker to keep a tab on things. A few examples can be,

Weight, height, Steps taken
Vacation, books read, and a lot more

Probably build a community around this to bring like-minded people together. I could find one similar app for iOS - Haptic, but, few key points are missing there. Like presence in android, community, multiple profiles, etc.

3 points posted by jgm

IP addresses leading to wrongful arrests #Internet #privacy

Tue, 19 Oct 2021 13:46:00 +0000

There have been numerous incidents of IP addresses leading to wrongful arrests, be it due to a typo, 'AM-PM' goof-up or wrong time-zone.

These people having to undergo ordeal for no fault of theirs were the lucky ones since the truth came out in the end but it's not unreasonable to think that many innocent people are languishing in the jails due to wrongful convictions sighting false IP addresses as evidence.

It's naive to expect all investigative agencies to have knowledge about how Internet protocols work or ISPs to act with caution and sincerity when the police ask them to match the IP address to the real geographical address. Yet the governments still rely upon IP addresses at large to prosecute cyber crimes.

3 points posted by Yogesh Basu

Doubts about fit when shopping online #clothing #eCommerce

Thu, 14 Oct 2021 12:15:00 +0000

When I shop online it's so hard to make a choice! Not only I can't understand what would be the right size (when I'm shopping for a brand for the first time), but also I don't understand how the particular garment will look on me. On the other hand, I find shopping online so much more convenient than in stores.

3 points posted by Ekaterina Ulianova

Browser tabs become unmanageable fast #tabs #productivity

Tue, 12 Oct 2021 03:20:00 +0000

When working remotely at a tech company, I use a lot of different SaaS apps, so essentially, all my work is done in the browser. So very quickly, I find that the number of tabs in my internet browser grows to unmanageable counts.

This forces me to stop what I'm doing, and spend time curating my window of tabs to reduce the count so I can continue doing my work. Existing solutions often facilitate curating your tabs in different ways.

Chrome profiles work up to a limit, but when you are multitasking everyday, it doesn't make sense to create multiple profiles for even short-lived distractions.

3 points posted by TabWorkx

Lack of critical thinking when consuming news #news #thinkingaboutthinking

Mon, 11 Oct 2021 20:36:00 +0000

Many people lack trust in news and the time or skill to critically think through each article (for bias, ownership info, alternative perspectives, opinion or more factual). There is a need to reward users for performing functions which would encourage critical thinking to find answers in news and fight misinformation at the same time. 3 points posted by Chamira

Buy Me a Coffee without commision #payment #donation

Mon, 11 Oct 2021 13:56:00 +0000

Buy Me a Coffee is a good way to receive payments without much effort and a widely used method to support indies.

But with the introduction of Stripe Payment Links it doesn't make sense to use BMaC type services anymore, Especially since we'd end up paying commissions to both BMaC and Stripe. I myself use stripe payment links on static websites like my blog and other places where I used BMaC before.

But BMaC does have some features like listing recent payments and comments which might result in better conversions. Features which requires custom implementation and might be out of the reach of no-code developers.

There is a need-gap in bridging Buy Me a Coffee and Stripe Payment Links.

3 points posted by Abishek Muthian

I need to know what recipes I can make #food #recipe

Mon, 11 Oct 2021 11:45:00 +0000

I am not very creative when it comes to making dinner for my family. I have a lot of recipe books, but it's time-consuming to find a recipe, scan my pantry to see what I have and don't have, figure out if I can substitute ingredients, etc.

Current solutions either let you search by main ingredient, or multiple ingredients without considering you might not have all of them or the right quantity.

https://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/ingredients

https://recipeland.com/recipes/by_ingredient

https://www.supercook.com/

3 points posted by dwatling

Difficulties cashing paychecks #banks #money

Tue, 05 Oct 2021 15:05:00 +0000

Inspired by this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl-XVqcJA7s

I've noticed many people have trouble cashing their checks on their banks because their processes are very slow and usually leaves to stand in front of long lines. For that reason, going to the bank can be very frustrating to a lot of people going there and therefore, cashing a check can be a nightmarish process for a lot of people.

3 points posted by rgm48

GST compliant invoice for stripe #billing #invoice

Sat, 02 Oct 2021 05:23:00 +0000

Stripe supports outstanding invoice, i.e. statements of amounts owed by the customer and receipts after payment. But in India's GST regime, tax invoices are to be provided after delivering the service i.e. after payment and has very specific rules for how the invoice should be.

Stripe's invoice is not compliant with the India's GST invoice regulations(lack of required fields), Forcing me to generate my own invoice; Which is fine for the SaaS products where I have back-end to process the invoice but on services where there's no back-end e.g. static websites I have to generate the invoice manually.
I have a separate Stripe account for each product/service for convenience under single GST registration which requires the invoice number across accounts to be in same sequence but is not possible with Stripe.

These are some of the major need-gaps I have noticed with Stripe's invoicing service in India, It may or may not be applicable to GST regimes of other countries. Companies with revenue over 50 crores (500 million) can use Govt's E-Invoicing API and so this need-gap affects only small businesses and indies.

3 points posted by Abishek Muthian

Finding qualified tutor near home #education #tutorship

Tue, 28 Sep 2021 14:58:00 +0000

Last time, I've talked with another user about an idea of a free problem solver ( /problems/291 ) and it turned out that this idea would cause more harm than good for a lot of students. Instead, I focused on the need of providing better education for everyone (like students from all grades and also family members who want to educate their children but don't have time to do so).

There is a need for an app which can help people find a qualified tutor near their home and help them understand the topic easily and students will feel more confident and prepared before taking whatever exam they are going to take. Moreover, tutors can make extra money by helping students to understand topics better.

Feedback is appreciated!

3 points posted by rgm48

Simulating ventilation in the building #simulation #home

Mon, 27 Sep 2021 14:09:00 +0000

Improving ventilation can help curb SARS-CoV-2 and likely similar future airborne pathogens. Building planners have already taken this into account and are giving ventilation more attention than before.

But there seems to be a need-gap in consumer level ventilation simulation software for house and small-business. There are some great home, interior design tools which can help plan floor, furniture and appliances placements, decorations to WiFi access point placements.

I think ventilation planning is a necessary addition to these tools.

3 points posted by Abishek Muthian

How far away is Financial Independence? #personalfinance #analysis

Fri, 24 Sep 2021 16:15:00 +0000

Mint/YNAB do a good job of seeing where money went, Personal Capital/Wealthfront do a good job of seeing where to put your money. But what does it all mean in terms of how far away a person is from Financial Independence given their individual circumstances? Seems like most of the software out there today makes things more complicated, which makes it even harder to have confidence that you're on the right track.

Also frustrating that a given amount of money is hard to relate to what it will actually get you in terms of real-world benefit, given your own tastes and habits.

3 points posted by ben_miller

Palm OS like timesheet app for modern mobile OS #timesheet #productivity

Thu, 23 Sep 2021 13:15:00 +0000

It looks like some are still using the Timesheet app from their long discontinued Palm OS devices because some features from it are not found in the modern timesheet apps of android and iOS.

To quote what's missing,

Palm had a set of "rules" for programmers as to how the UI should work - and one was that nothing should take more than 3 clicks, IIRC. The needs I have for a time sheet app is to simply keep track whenever I change what I work on during the day. I may be working on project 1234, then someone wants me in a meeting on project 6566 work package 312, and my time app must keep track of that. The TimeSheet app does that in the simplest way possible - I do exactly one click, and it tracks the other project.
During the day I may have to work on a number of projects, for shorter or longer periods. I have a list of those projects and work packages in TimeSheet. When the time comes to input all of that into the corporate time system TimeSheet presents me with the total sum of all work packages for each day (and other ways, if I need them).

It's extremely simple. I just can't find anything with the same easy functionality on Android or elsewhere. They seem to have a different focus, and way too many clicks to go through.

3 points posted by Abishek Muthian

Creating professional PDF reports is too hard #pdf #reports

Mon, 20 Sep 2021 19:18:00 +0000

The current solutions for creating a PDF are either too bulky or if they’re simple don’t offer a way to create good looking PDFs. The bulky solutions include LaTeX which have a big storage footprint, complex syntax as well as a bit slow to render out. Other solutions such as PDFkit library for Python and many others offer a simple way but very basic looking reports. It seems a service that makes it simple to create PDF reports but also ones that looks professional is needed. 3 points posted by noddynarwhal

Machine learning is too complex to use #machinelearning #analysis

Sat, 18 Sep 2021 18:03:00 +0000

I work in the insurance industry as a software engineer, and I see that our underwriters and business analysts don't have machine learning tools they can readily use to investigate their own hypotheses related to factor analysis in particular.

Machine learning tools that can provide this kind of analysis are too complex for regular business people to use. As a result, they rely on analytics departments or outside agencies to do this analysis for them. Sometimes, they pay large amounts of money for analysis that they could do themselves if they had tools they understood.

I believe that underwriters, business analysts, small business owners and others should be empowered to use machine learning to do factor analysis, identify potential key performance indicators, and evaluate things like surveys to find relationships in their data.

3 points posted by dmsweetser

Topic classification of Hacker News stories #hackernews #classification

Sat, 18 Sep 2021 13:20:00 +0000

Topic classification is one of the most requested features of Hacker News, which is understandable as stories from wide range of categories are submitted on Hacker News and Users with different interests consume content from HN.

Classification of topics can help with filtering the content we are interested in and for bookmarking purposes.

3 points posted by Abishek Muthian