E-commerce, marketing & sales

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• Would pay for

  activity of the agent over the network (how much content it checks for them), not ads

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  People would pay for activity of the agent over the network (how much content it checks for them), not ads.

  eye_dle · Oct 17, 2026in “Ask HN: Social network with AI agents – why bad, why good?”

• Wish it existed

  more such successful "craftsman shops" out there than soulless "service providers" that today's video game companies are

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  I wish there were more such successful "craftsman shops" out there than soulless "service providers" that today's video game companies are.

  dartharva · Jul 1, 2026in “Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%”

• Wish it existed

  tiered ad block tool

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  I'm reminded that there should be a tiered ad block tool.

  SwellJoe · Jun 4, 2026in “Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot”

• Wish it existed

  national payment processing operator as an alternative to VISA/MC

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  There should be a national payment processing operator as an alternative to VISA/MC.

  Aspos · May 13, 2026in “Kickstarter is forced to ban adult content by payment processors”

• Startup idea

  physical ad blocker for this thing

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  I think I have my next startup idea: a physical ad blocker for this thing.

  ifyoubuildit · Mar 26, 2026in “Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features”

• Would pay for

  things by hovering my phone over a payment terminal

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  I never expected that I'd pay for things by hovering my phone over a payment terminal.

  kelnos · Mar 24, 2026in “OpenClaw is a security nightmare dressed up as a daydream”

• Wish it existed

  never ending productivity increase but when you sell a prompt as a product, people use it as a black box to get things done

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  So ideally there should be a never ending productivity increase but when you sell a prompt as a product, people use it as a black box to get things done.

  kamaal · Feb 24, 2026in “AI Added 'Basically Zero' to US Economic Growth Last Year, Goldman Sachs Says”

• Would pay for

  solution that aggregates these alternative payment systems that aren't tied to VISA and Mastercard and their rules

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  I would pay for a solution that aggregates these alternative payment systems that aren't tied to VISA and Mastercard and their rules.

  Palmik · Feb 17, 2026in “Wero – Digital payment wallet, made in Europe”

• Wish it existed

  paid for high quality browser that serves me rather than sneakily trying to get me to look at ads

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  Personally, I'd love a paid for high quality browser that serves me rather than sneakily trying to get me to look at ads.

  benrutter · Dec 17, 2025in “No AI* Here – A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter”

• Would pay for

  expensive CRM 10 years ago when it was only basic CRUD

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  SaaS was never (only) about costs, developers were already wondering why people would pay for an expensive CRM 10 years ago when it was only basic CRUD.

  tarsinge · Dec 15, 2025in “AI agents are starting to eat SaaS”

• Wish it existed

  better documentation for this, because "random indie game demo cannot upload my family photos" would be a great selling point for SteamOS/Bazzite

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  I wish there was better documentation for this, because "random indie game demo cannot upload my family photos" would be a great selling point for SteamOS/Bazzite.

  moltopoco · Nov 30, 2025in “Bazzite: Operating System for Linux gaming”

• Wish it existed

  regulation that you have to sell and maintain a working product, so that open source devs don't have to waste their time fixing proprietary products

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  I wish there was regulation that you have to sell and maintain a working product, so that open source devs don't have to waste their time fixing proprietary products.

  drunner · Nov 22, 2025in “$1900 Bug Bounty to Fix the Lenovo Legion Pro 7 16IAX10H's Speakers on Linux”

• Why is there no

  tool that can turn a finished software product into a sleek, polished product video that can be used on marketing pages

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  With all these nifty AI tools popping up all over the place, we found ourselves thinking: "why isn't there a tool that can turn a finished software product into a sleek, polished product video that can be used on marketing pages?" Furthermore, why can't those videos stay in sync with the state of the code, easily re-renderable whenever the UI evolves?

  mox-1 · Nov 17, 2025in “Show HN: Turn storybook.js stories into product videos”