 |  | * Digital concierge health care. No crap booking an appointment with a GP two weeks from now to ask him about something that could be nothing. * A full-program fitness regimen with tailored diet/nutrition/recipes and work-out regimens. I keep keep them up-to-date on the progress using my wirelessly synching Withings weight. * Great, fresh fruit and vegetables sent to me every one or two weeks. * Maybe a service where I can text legal questions (with a quota) to someone who can answer them - or find someone who does - for me. * A decent internet connection where I can talk to support staff who can actually tell their ass from their elbow. * Not for me, but I think there is a great business plan lying around for the person who has a big backlog of recipes. Recipes As a Service could be pretty interesting where all recipes and information are in the cloud. * A gym that actually cares about my activity and commitment. Normally, the ideal customer to gyms is the January guy whose new year's resolution is never going to happen. A gym that actually nudges you and cares about your activity would be interesting. They can send me a poke, if I haven't visited the gym in a while, or if my weight hasn't changed for the better. Since a lot of this can be automated, it might not even take that much effort. reply |
| | There's a gym like what you described near my house. You have a membership card you swipe to get in, and also swipe on a machine when you begin to use it. When you start out, you're given a health assessment and some exercises to determine your base level, then screens on the machines tell you what to do for your fitness goal. You get personal notes from your trainer. The machines tell you how many reps/how long to work, as well as pacing. Go too fast, and it yells at you. It tracks your progress on their machines, showing your progress to keep you motivated. While I don't go to that gym anymore (it's expensive, more than double $50/mo), it really was a great service for what is an otherwise average experience (going to the gym). reply |
| | > * Great, fresh fruit and vegetables sent to me every one or two weeks. Like a CSA? reply |
| | > Digital concierge health care. Check out ConsultingMD, consultingmd.com. It's a great perk startups can provide their employees. reply |
| | A service that let me watch any TV show, documentary or film on demand. Current solutions don't seem to have enough coverage, selection nor are they often up to date. I easily watch enough to justify $50 pm reply |
| | +1, with the addition (maybe it was implicit in ANY TV show) of live domestic sporting events. Best analog for $50/mo. subscription is HD/DVR cable or satellite service. reply |
| | This is my service of choice. People assume it's getting free stuff, when in fact it's far more expensive than Netflix. But the choice is way better. I can watch nearly anything, in a variety of formats (SD, 720p, 1080p, DD5.1) If a service existed that was as good, I'd pay more than $50 monthly. I pay more than that for my terrible cable packages. reply |
| | 1. For timesavers. If it saves me 1 hour of my working time per month (and reliably), I would buy it. 2. For tools which create the opportunity to earn more or stabilize my income, like bidsketch. E.g., a tool which makes project proposals a bullet-proof thing (using a best-practice process framework or sthg), increasing my freelancing client conversion rate. 3. Networking with experts or professionals from areas to which I have no access to (like dentists or steel industry). Because this might lead to projects. reply |
| | I think it's worth listing the things people already pay $50 (or more) for: -TV / Internet / Phone bundle -Electricity -Water -Car insurance -Gym memberships (?) -Daycare -Food -Interest (home mortgages / loans etc.) -Clothes Almost all of the suggestions in this thread are effectively replacements for one of the existing services in one of the categories above. That means you'd have to beat the incumbents (challenges: investment, infrastructure, partnerships, etc.), or create a new market demand. I love the idea though, keep thinking. "If it were obvious, everyone would be doing it". Things that come to mind: a personal trainer that is delivered through the internet and scalable? Some kind of 'make my grocery list and just have me pick it up' service? Financial engineering that decreases the interest on a large pool of loans (ha!)? reply |
| | To pay $600 per year for something "virtual" I would need a real career benefit out of it. Continuing career support tailored to high-talent individuals. Not tied to one firm, not a recruiter trying to fill positions getting paid by the other side. An industry expert who actually knew the ins and outs of each firm, how to find the best projects, and who could make introductions to very high level people-- including VCs and CTOs. Someone who could read the market across domains-- who knew finance and startups at the same time and could compare the markets. (Most recruiters only know one or the other.) High-talent is a tiny market (< 1%) and this service probably doesn't scale. And you'd probably have to charge a lot more-- maybe $250 per month. But people would pay and it could become a lifestyle business. reply |
| | Personal: - a rented cooking robot (I'd pay extra for ingredients) that prepared 2 decent meals/day based on my needs, allergies ... Work: - a remote service that checks all our systems immediately when issues such as http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Vulnerability-in-Yaho... arise and notifies us if we're affected - a well-maintained weekly digest of optimization/tuning suggestions for 3 technologies of our choice (e.g. PostgreSQL, Redis, Tomcat) where the source of information is mailiing lists and the digest contains well-written, brief articles instead of just a few e-mail threads - a decent virus filter for Linux/Unix that doesn't have licensing costs depending on number of users, e-mail addresses, CPUs, servers (and consequently doesn't waste resources for accounting) reply |
| | An article from the Economist [1] covers some of the latter idea: A leader in this field is Cardlytics, a private American company founded in 2008. It has developed technology to analyse transaction data held by banks and to use this information to sell targeted advertisements to retailers and others. A supermarket might, for example, be interested in customers who spend $100 or more a month at rival grocers but who have not entered its own stores for six months. It might then offer these people a 20% discount on their next shopping trip at its stores. Cardlytics would insert an advertisement to this effect into these customers? online-bank statements, ideally under a relevant transaction such as a payment to a rival retailer. Customers can accept the discount online by clicking a box. This connects the discount coupon to their debit card, so that the discount is automatically rebated to their account when they meet the conditions (by, for instance, shopping at the store within a certain period of time). [1] http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21565223... reply |
| | On the personal front its pretty hard to think of anything besides stuff that defies the laws of economics or current tech that I'd pay $50/m for. If you asked me 5 years ago Id answer differently. Due to mostly internet powered services a number of my monthly costs have dropped dramatically... My home phone used to be $40/m and now is $4/m, Cable used to be $80 and is now about $17 with Netflix/Hulu, Music used to cost me about $40/m for CDs/iTunes and is now about $10 for streaming. I guess the point is that taking those price points into consideration its really difficult to think of something that would seem rationally priced at $50. Although if you streamed all new releases currently in the movie theater to my TV I might bite. reply |
| | A streaming Netflix+HBO+Spotify like service, but with a much better selection and with a minimal delay between cinema/tv premier and showing up on the service would make me seriously consider it. Throw in an NFL Game pass and you've got yourself a deal. On the more physical plane, I'd probably also seriously consider it for some of laundry+ironing service that picks up and delivers to my apartment. reply |
| | > laundry+ironing service that picks up and delivers to my apartment I'd pay $50 a week for a high quality pick up/drop off laundry + ironing service. Or probably more. I wouldn't go so far to say laundry is the bane of my life but it's up there and I'd pay a good sum to just make the whole problem disappear. reply |
| | Get a housecleaner. I'm serious. If you live in California, there are lots of women who will come and clean your house for something like $10/hour. They would be glad to do your laundry for you as part of that service. In the time that you describe, one could go to the laundromat, wash your clothing, come back, fold and iron it. Of course if you dislike the idea of illegal immigration, or the idea of taking advantage of its reality, don't do this. It will also make you ineligible for higher political office. reply |
| | Right now: something that materially saves me at least 10 hours per month, whether business or personal. Soon: something that materially saves me at least 5 hours per month. Ideally: something that materially saves me at least 2 hours per month. This reflects how I currently value my time (I'm bootstrapping a finance data service) and how I see that time value appreciating in the coming months Edit: I realise this isn't particularly helpful, just seems relevant and it's been on my mind :o) reply |
| | HD television channels easily streamed on my TV, iPhone, iPad, and computer. Much like what Tivly is doing. The ability to record x amount of shows to go back and watch anytime from anywhere on any device. It worked wonderfully on the Harvard campus. reply |
| | Actually saw someone trying to disrupt this on Dragon's Den. It's a notoriously competitive space (nearly anyone can do the job) and labour intensive, so it's hard to work out a model where you can get a cut and still employ the workers. There are also liability issues; you are sending people to work inside other people's homes. That said, unless you are out in some village somewhere, it's very likely you can find someone locally for that rate. reply |
| | 50 bucks it is, so.. Personal: - If IMDB offered service with HD quality click-to-stream for every title they have listed - Drop&collect laundry service for basic clothing - Home delivered grocery subscription for relatively cheap basic stuff which don't rot quickly like pasta, rice, flour, cheese, butter, sugar, coffee, spices, canned tomatoes, etc. Work related: - Beefy enough VPS - Book-keeping for small business - Leased laptop - Seat in open floor co-working space with electricity and network connectivity reply |
| | I find $50/m too much for single services unless they add revenue to the bottom line. On that note, I submitted another thread shamelessly based on this one. "Ask HN: Would you pay a 20$/m subscription for...?" http://hackerne.ws/item?id=4727420 reply |
| | HBO with Go, on demand, PC, and on my Apple TV + Showtime Anytime, on demand, PC, and on my Apple TV. Something like FIOS or faster U-Verse (I currently have the 24 down / 3 up service from U-Verse). On demand handy man to help me get stuff done around the house. reply |
| | Any of the linode/heroku/aws services that would be hosted in Canada and follow Canadian data laws/protections. Some services do exist; They just do not have the quality, ease of use and price points to be competitive. reply |
| | A home automation system with a mobile and desktop view that combined HVAC, security (including door locking/unlocking), utility monitoring and billpay for all those services (assuming they?re different vendors). e.g. I?d love to defragment all those areas that make up ?home?... some kind of Nest + (non-ugly) Lockitron + Mint.com for utilities reply |
| | I would pay $50 for a Apple version of Netflix, including all iTunes Store catalog. But generally speaking, I would pay $50 for a high quality entertainment service, or for something that highly improves my productivity at work. If something provide me a big stream of fun or money, it will have $50 from me, or even more. reply |
Source: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4727087
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