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

9 points by NewUser76312 3 days ago | 7 comments
I thought it could be interesting to have a 'reverse Show HN', where instead of people showing what they've built, people can post about what they want built :)

Do you have any Requests for Software?

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

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

  • nicbou 2 days ago
    I want to monitor specific sections of German law for changes. I used Wachete but Gesetze im Internet is now blocking it.

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

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

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

    • mikewarot 2 days ago
      I want a real life version of Memex[1]. In particular, I want to be able to ingest all of my web pages normally, then refer back to their offline local copies at some future date, and spit out a complete ready to use copy on demand.

      Copyright and disk space limitations be damned.

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

      • joey_spaztard 3 days ago
        Five months ago:

        https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42915664

        • AznHisoka 2 days ago
          I want a product that helps me choose the right health insurance plan based on a set of questions, or even a list of preferences, including who my primary doctor, dentist is etc.

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

          • nicbou 2 days ago
            I'm building exactly that in Germany. It's going live tomorrow. The system here is a lot more sane though. It's mostly a recommendation tool for recent immigrants.
            • idontwantthis 2 days ago
              Also just the data isn’t available. There isn’t a way I know of to know which doctors even exist or which insurance they use. The insurance companies’ own list is useless.
            • aristofun 3 days ago
              Please make a simple yet powerful video editing native app (macos) that doesn’t suck and doesn’t require a degree to make all the basic stuff that a youtuber needs.

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