Ask HN: What do you wish someone would build?

Re:Ask HN: What do you wish someone would build? by SwellJoe on Saturday September 24, 2016 @03:02AM (#12569797)

After weeks of Microsoft bouncing every mail our server sent to any of their mail properties (due to, I guess, some history on the IP before we owned it), I have begun to doubt the premise that no one owns email. The major providers can make your mail server useless to 20%, or more, of email recipients. That's a pretty big club to wield. (I understand why a mail provider would block, and I've instituted IP-based blocks on my own mail servers in the past. It's just that email is such a mess, and there's not a good way to solve it.)

But, I would love it if RSS made a huge comeback. Twitter, facebook, Instagram, etc., I'd love it if I didn't have to open any of them, but could still follow my friends posts. There's no technical reason for them to be walled gardens, only business reasons, which are at odds with my privacy and general happiness.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you wish someone would build? by watwatwatwat on Saturday September 24, 2016 @03:07AM (#12569819)

> There's no technical reason for them to be walled gardens, only business reasons, which are at odds with my privacy and general happiness.

Then pay them! Hosting fees are not gratis.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you wish someone would build? by SwellJoe on Saturday September 24, 2016 @03:20AM (#12569867)

Where should I sign up for the "privacy-respecting, no-advertising" facebook plan? Twitter have one of those, too?

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Re:Ask HN: What do you wish someone would build? by watwatwatwat on Saturday September 24, 2016 @06:59AM (#12570438)

Nope, but google is trying. See google contributor and youtube red. Start there.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you wish someone would build? by SwellJoe on Saturday September 24, 2016 @03:23PM (#12572195)

Google Contributor looks neat, and probably something I'll try out...but, I don't see any indication that privacy will be respected with their plan. Seems like I still need an ad blocker and a privacy-respecting web browser.

It's unfortunate that something like Contributor can't be done in a peer-to-peer fashion. It requires a huge player with a visible impact on their entire web to be able to "sell" a different sort of web experience. That's actually kinda scary; it reminds me how much power Google has. While I have vaguely positive feelings about Google (and use gmail, Android, etc.), it's not great that one entity owns such a big chunk of the web.

I already have a couple of subscriptions to services that provide music. I don't know if I'll switch to Red; might try it out at some point. I should read up on it; I do watch a lot of tech videos and such on YouTube, and if Red actually supports the people who make them, that'd be great.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you wish someone would build? by pitaj on Sunday September 25, 2016 @01:07AM (#12574067)

Youtube Red and Google Play Music come in a package, which is actually an awesome value. Red does support the creators whose videos you watch.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you wish someone would build? by offa on Saturday September 24, 2016 @11:27AM (#12571280)

Not OP, but unfortunately Google Contributor is not yet available in my country. Google really seems to be focused on the US and only on the US.

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