I Wish There Was an App
Productivity
idea aggregator
SHOW HN2021
272points
124comments
#132of 2,533 in 2021
Top 6%of 2021 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
12 positive, 23 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 13 critical, out of 50 comments about the project. Thread score +0.02.
Idea: 7 for, 10 againstExecution: 0 for, 2 againstPerformance: 1 for, 0 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Fun and entertaining to browse
From 3 comments
Wow this is fascinating just for the entertainment. Especially liked this one... > I need an app that sends me a notification 90 seconds before the sun reaches the exact position…
harryf on HNWow. That was a trip. People want some terrible apps. Why are so many people obsessed with how many people follow them on Twitter? Or how many people follow the people who follow…
Igelau on HNAs someone who built a website called (roughly) "$5 business ideas" about 12 years ago this gives me great joy! It was mostly satire but still fun to build and populate with…
josefresco on HN
Good source of ideas
From 2 comments
This is great. Many years ago (5 or 6?) I started pulling down any tweet that had the phrase “there should be an app...” and saving to a database daily with the idea of making…
Nicholas_C on HNThis is awesome! It would also be really nice if the scraper would organize the ideas based on keywords in a given tweet.
fransiscoli on HN
Objections
Many entries lack context
From 1 comment
I think this is pretty cool and a great idea. One thing that I ran into within a couple minutes is that there are several entries that don't have enough context. It will just say…
bckr on HN
Low quality tweets included
From 1 comment
This is fun and super useful. Some low quality tweets could easily be discarded, though.
arkitaip on HN
Requests
Search function
From 1 comment
I love this and have bookmarked it for daily review. If I can make one recommendation, add a search function. That way users can find all the recommendations that touch on some…
nickelcitymario on HN
Group ideas by keyword
From 1 comment
This is awesome! It would also be really nice if the scraper would organize the ideas based on keywords in a given tweet.
fransiscoli on HN
RSS feed
From 1 comment
Can we have RSS there, please?
ovnz on HN
Voting buttons
From 2 comments
Imho there should be voting button (up/down) to see which app idea is the need of the hour.
bprasanna on HNCool idea! You could have a simple up/down arrow voting below each idea to get some interactivity.
druckenmillev on HN
Questions
What is the tweet identification strategy
From 1 comment
This is awesome! What is the strategy to identify the idea tweets? It looks like some string matching, but I'm not sure.
tracyhenry on HN
Alternatives named
Request For Startup
From 1 comment
Nice app. I also like Request For Startup (https://requestforstartup.co/)
seapunk on HN