There are a lot of "Would you pay for X?" posts around. Let's reverse the narrative.
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In the US, I would pay $5/Month to NOT receive physical junk mail in my mailbox. Guarantee that I will only get relevant mails and you get paid.
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In Switzerland you can buy 'No spam' stickers for your mailbox and it's legally binding - no spam allowed! Works great
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I'd pay way more than $5/month for this!
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seriously, how can this problem be solved. Every day I am forced to check my mailbox otherwise it gets full of junk which makes up for 95% of the total mail that is in the mailbox.
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Hmmmm...
Maybe using a service that collects your snail mail on your behalf and you can log into their dashboard and just view the images they take of each piece of mail? That way you forward the ones that are not junk and have them shred the ones that are?
I know this service used to exist, can't remember the name of the company, but when I did use (a long time ago) it didn't work as I fully expected (and needed) to solve this very problem.
But something along these lines maybe?
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This. Such a waste of paper... The junk senders should be penalized.
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I would pay for honest feedback from my target audience for an app or website at a reasonable price.
I've used https://getreview.co a little - you get one initial review for free on signup, and then for every other idea you review, you get a review back in turn. I've had fairly useful feedback through it, and it's very cheap way to get it (just takes your time, and not very much of it).
I'm sure there'd paid services that do this better, but it's a nice place to start.
I tested their service about 2 years ago and really loved the process.
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What about $99 for 10 reviews collected manually in 1on1 chat?
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I would. But I think the keyword here is honest. That's the hard part.
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I also thing is not a question of quandity, the quality matter. At time as a maker, i dont even know the right questions to ask. I might ask do u like the idea and the user might say yes and never buy. EARN.com has way to connect to userbase but still not sure about the honest part. by honest i mean if u like it , u buy it , Dont say u like and never buy.
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My personal experience with them has been poor, got some one word low quality responses and support didn't really help out. I agree that quality control is definitely important!
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I would share revenue (pay for performance) with a SEO/Growth Hacker for every 1000 new unique sessions he/she could drive to my site OR per position I am moved up Google for the keywords we agree on.
To be clear - im talking trailing/recurring commission
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Hey @Courtzz I'm interested in having a conversation, drop me an email at jb@jamesbe.com
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I might be able to help you with this depending on your current rank in SERP
I would pay $50/m for a really well (at least partially manually) curated weekly/daily digest of news that I should know about. Could be general news and/or work related stuff and/or topics I'm just interested in.
I want to be able to focus on my work during the day & week and know that I'm not missing anything important.
The closest I've ever seen is Yahoo News Digest. Arguably the best thing to come out of Yahoo in years.
I would pay upwards of $100/m for someone to go through my social feeds AND pull out the must see content from there too.
I say 'manual' here because frankly I've tried every purely 'algorithm' based app out there and I end up missing crucial stuff, and also it's nearly always an endless stream of content... I want a finite list of stories.
I've been thinking of working on this for ages now so if anyway is as passionate about the problem as I am - email me z@zee.me. I can handle design, marketing & ops. Need help on the development.
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Hi Zee, I am ready we go for it!
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Would pay for something/something to select what I am going to wear for the day based on what's in my wardrobe, the weather etc
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that actually could be a really cool app. you take pics of your wardrobe, the typical outfits you like to wear (to gather your taste preference) and a stylist curates the look. i would think there is something like this out here already with all these instagram stylists lol
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I'd pay a monthly fee for not needing to go to fetch groceries from my local store. Damn useless thing to spend 30 minutes figuring out where they've hid the naan bread this time.
Amazon is not available at my country yet.
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"Damn useless thing to spend 30 minutes figuring out where they've hid the naan bread this time."
Haha that made me chuckle. I hope you have grocery delivery service soon at your place.
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I use Instacart for this, love it!
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I would pay for a mentor to spend time 1-on-1 with me, watch what I do while working on a project, tell me what I'm doing wrong, or what I should be doing more, or which idea/path to pursue.
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@ppanagi, If you are looking for mentoring for marketing and business building, write to me on my email.
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What kind of mentorship would you expect? More on the technical side? Marketing? Product/Design?
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Strictly business side. Not technical or any specific marketing technique. If you read the E-Myth - that.
Or it could be the other way around. I spend a month with someone that is very successful, and watch him/her starting a new business from scratch.
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I'd love that too: pay an expert to spend a 40h work-week mentoring me.
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@slig, If you are looking for mentoring for marketing and business building, write to me on my email.
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I'm currently interviewing AWS managed service providers to help handle devops for us. Man, they charge a ton. This is why I previously hadn't moved to AWS - it gets so pricey so fast.
But I am looking to launch a new product that utilizes the AWS Lambda Serverless environment and just need some help get our serverless.yml optimized for easy deployment and basic aws configuration. Plus maybe get Bitbucket Pipelines CI/CD configured and working for staging and production deployments.
I've been getting quotes for $6-10k to do what I feel like should not be that much work. If anyone is expert in those fields and can do it for <$1k I'd be willing to pay for it.
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Mail me at dairon.medina AT gmail with a list of your requirements or explanation of the work to be done. Depending on how much it is I can provide you the service for under 1K, starting a consulting agency on AWS and real-time technologies and i'm more interested on getting clients than making big bucks.
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Not an expert on this but I'd be happy to talk with you about what you're doing (and maybe learn something) - could potentially be helpful! Email me: kian [at] orioncomputing.net if you want!
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I would pay for a service that lets one issue a debit card from a specific country with ease.
Good product by Stripe, but they issue the US cards only.
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Was making that but had doubts like hell haha :)
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Could you elaborate on it?
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I am still building basically its an app that you create an account with an empty debit account (must be from US,Europe) and a client who needs those details pays subscription and gets details
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It's interesting how you are solving the problem. I'll contact you soon.
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Thanks really thought it was such a terrible idea but its intended for folks in countries not supported by stripe, brainTree one could bypass those limitations by using such a service
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prepaid cards from a country?
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Yes.
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I'd pay for an affordable content writing service that would charge me a fixed price per month. Ideally they would research keywords, and suggest what they could write about.
I would pay for a service similar to Heroku but running on my own VPS.
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There’s an OS project called dokku, I believe. It’s been some time but it’s basically your own self hosted Heroku. There’s also another project called Flynn.io that you may want to check out.
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OpenShift maybe?
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Some kind of "disaster recovery concierge" service.
Suppose your house floods and you need electricians, plumbers, demolition, restoration etc... Your home insurance doesn't cover flood damage, and demolition/restoration companies don't want to deal with you because your (FEMA) flood insurance pays lower rates than they can get out-of-pocket. You schedule companies just for them to cancel when they find out about your flood insurance. Meanwhile, your family can't actually live in the house and you waste most of your days waiting for people to show up.
What if instead you paid a monthly subscription and gave the company all your insurance, warranty, etc... info and when something goes wrong, you call them and they send someone to coordinate the work that needs to be done, gets multiple estimates, and uses your insurance/home warranty/whatever to save you as much money as possible?
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Personally, I'd rather just put that money towards flood insurance. I hear you though.
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It is precisely because I had flood insurance and actually had to use it that I am willing to pay for something like this.
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I would pay 25% of revenue for five years on leads that convert into paying users once my company launches our new Ops platform. Essentially, I would pay for business development.
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I would pay for any solution that saves me more time a day than it would cost to do a task, depending on an hourly rate that I setup.
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Are there any specific tasks that you feel you spend too much time on?
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Sifting through emails for one 😉
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I would pay for someone to try Facebook advertising for me. However not at the rates most agencies charge, which is quite frankly absolutely ridiculous.
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I have a program that is 14 day make over take over for your Facebook page. It is free and the revenue generated during this period is split 50/50 (on profits) After that you keep all the changes I make. I can continue to run the Facebook for you or teach you what I do. If I run it, it is small retainer plus commissions if you want to learn it we will discuss the cost based on you client value
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Just want your opinion would this work for you? https://paidreview.co .. Desparately waiting :)
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I know a guy, that maybe have not the cheapest prices, but much, much lower than usual agencies (agencies actually outsource to him). If you want a contact, send me an email.
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What would be your preferred rate/business model?
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I may have a solution in the works, can I get in touch with you?
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if facebook could give us a probability of how successful a campaign would be?
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FWIW Facebook tells an estimated ad reach (reach does not necessarily == success) based on decided ad budget.
In the US, I would pay $5/Month to NOT receive physical junk mail in my mailbox. Guarantee that I will only get relevant mails and you get paid.
In Switzerland you can buy 'No spam' stickers for your mailbox and it's legally binding - no spam allowed! Works great
I'd pay way more than $5/month for this!
seriously, how can this problem be solved. Every day I am forced to check my mailbox otherwise it gets full of junk which makes up for 95% of the total mail that is in the mailbox.
Hmmmm...
Maybe using a service that collects your snail mail on your behalf and you can log into their dashboard and just view the images they take of each piece of mail? That way you forward the ones that are not junk and have them shred the ones that are?
I know this service used to exist, can't remember the name of the company, but when I did use (a long time ago) it didn't work as I fully expected (and needed) to solve this very problem.
But something along these lines maybe?
This. Such a waste of paper... The junk senders should be penalized.
I would pay for honest feedback from my target audience for an app or website at a reasonable price.
@BartBoch ...?
Thanks Chris, yeah, I also thought about https://afteridea.com when I read it :)
I've used https://getreview.co a little - you get one initial review for free on signup, and then for every other idea you review, you get a review back in turn. I've had fairly useful feedback through it, and it's very cheap way to get it (just takes your time, and not very much of it).
I'm sure there'd paid services that do this better, but it's a nice place to start.
My friends at https://rayfeed.com/ built a service for this.
I tested their service about 2 years ago and really loved the process.
What about $99 for 10 reviews collected manually in 1on1 chat?
I would. But I think the keyword here is honest. That's the hard part.
I also thing is not a question of quandity, the quality matter. At time as a maker, i dont even know the right questions to ask. I might ask do u like the idea and the user might say yes and never buy. EARN.com has way to connect to userbase but still not sure about the honest part. by honest i mean if u like it , u buy it , Dont say u like and never buy.
My personal experience with them has been poor, got some one word low quality responses and support didn't really help out. I agree that quality control is definitely important!
I would share revenue (pay for performance) with a SEO/Growth Hacker for every 1000 new unique sessions he/she could drive to my site OR per position I am moved up Google for the keywords we agree on.
To be clear - im talking trailing/recurring commission
Hey @Courtzz I'm interested in having a conversation, drop me an email at jb@jamesbe.com
I might be able to help you with this depending on your current rank in SERP
Cool. Im on courtenay at parserr dot com
Indeed I see several things I could do, you can contact me at amade.gabriel@gmail.com
I would pay $50/m for a really well (at least partially manually) curated weekly/daily digest of news that I should know about. Could be general news and/or work related stuff and/or topics I'm just interested in.
I want to be able to focus on my work during the day & week and know that I'm not missing anything important.
The closest I've ever seen is Yahoo News Digest. Arguably the best thing to come out of Yahoo in years.
I would pay upwards of $100/m for someone to go through my social feeds AND pull out the must see content from there too.
I say 'manual' here because frankly I've tried every purely 'algorithm' based app out there and I end up missing crucial stuff, and also it's nearly always an endless stream of content... I want a finite list of stories.
I've been thinking of working on this for ages now so if anyway is as passionate about the problem as I am - email me z@zee.me. I can handle design, marketing & ops. Need help on the development.
Hi Zee, I am ready we go for it!
Would pay for something/something to select what I am going to wear for the day based on what's in my wardrobe, the weather etc
that actually could be a really cool app. you take pics of your wardrobe, the typical outfits you like to wear (to gather your taste preference) and a stylist curates the look. i would think there is something like this out here already with all these instagram stylists lol
I'd pay a monthly fee for not needing to go to fetch groceries from my local store. Damn useless thing to spend 30 minutes figuring out where they've hid the naan bread this time.
Amazon is not available at my country yet.
"Damn useless thing to spend 30 minutes figuring out where they've hid the naan bread this time."
Haha that made me chuckle. I hope you have grocery delivery service soon at your place.
I use Instacart for this, love it!
I would pay for a mentor to spend time 1-on-1 with me, watch what I do while working on a project, tell me what I'm doing wrong, or what I should be doing more, or which idea/path to pursue.
@ppanagi, If you are looking for mentoring for marketing and business building, write to me on my email.
What kind of mentorship would you expect? More on the technical side? Marketing? Product/Design?
Strictly business side. Not technical or any specific marketing technique. If you read the E-Myth - that.
Or it could be the other way around. I spend a month with someone that is very successful, and watch him/her starting a new business from scratch.
I'd love that too: pay an expert to spend a 40h work-week mentoring me.
@slig, If you are looking for mentoring for marketing and business building, write to me on my email.
I'm currently interviewing AWS managed service providers to help handle devops for us. Man, they charge a ton. This is why I previously hadn't moved to AWS - it gets so pricey so fast.
But I am looking to launch a new product that utilizes the AWS Lambda Serverless environment and just need some help get our serverless.yml optimized for easy deployment and basic aws configuration. Plus maybe get Bitbucket Pipelines CI/CD configured and working for staging and production deployments.
I've been getting quotes for $6-10k to do what I feel like should not be that much work. If anyone is expert in those fields and can do it for <$1k I'd be willing to pay for it.
Mail me at dairon.medina AT gmail with a list of your requirements or explanation of the work to be done. Depending on how much it is I can provide you the service for under 1K, starting a consulting agency on AWS and real-time technologies and i'm more interested on getting clients than making big bucks.
Not an expert on this but I'd be happy to talk with you about what you're doing (and maybe learn something) - could potentially be helpful! Email me: kian [at] orioncomputing.net if you want!
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I would pay for a service that lets one issue a debit card from a specific country with ease.
This might be of interest: https://stripe.com/issuing
Good product by Stripe, but they issue the US cards only.
Was making that but had doubts like hell haha :)
Could you elaborate on it?
I am still building basically its an app that you create an account with an empty debit account (must be from US,Europe) and a client who needs those details pays subscription and gets details
It's interesting how you are solving the problem. I'll contact you soon.
Thanks really thought it was such a terrible idea but its intended for folks in countries not supported by stripe, brainTree one could bypass those limitations by using such a service
prepaid cards from a country?
Yes.
I'd pay for an affordable content writing service that would charge me a fixed price per month. Ideally they would research keywords, and suggest what they could write about.
Have you checked out @briancasel's AudienceOps?
https://audienceops.com
Thank you for the recommendation!
How much will you pay for it
I would pay for a service similar to Heroku but running on my own VPS.
There’s an OS project called dokku, I believe. It’s been some time but it’s basically your own self hosted Heroku. There’s also another project called Flynn.io that you may want to check out.
OpenShift maybe?
Some kind of "disaster recovery concierge" service.
Suppose your house floods and you need electricians, plumbers, demolition, restoration etc... Your home insurance doesn't cover flood damage, and demolition/restoration companies don't want to deal with you because your (FEMA) flood insurance pays lower rates than they can get out-of-pocket. You schedule companies just for them to cancel when they find out about your flood insurance. Meanwhile, your family can't actually live in the house and you waste most of your days waiting for people to show up.
What if instead you paid a monthly subscription and gave the company all your insurance, warranty, etc... info and when something goes wrong, you call them and they send someone to coordinate the work that needs to be done, gets multiple estimates, and uses your insurance/home warranty/whatever to save you as much money as possible?
Personally, I'd rather just put that money towards flood insurance. I hear you though.
It is precisely because I had flood insurance and actually had to use it that I am willing to pay for something like this.
I would pay 25% of revenue for five years on leads that convert into paying users once my company launches our new Ops platform. Essentially, I would pay for business development.
I would pay for any solution that saves me more time a day than it would cost to do a task, depending on an hourly rate that I setup.
Are there any specific tasks that you feel you spend too much time on?
Sifting through emails for one 😉
I would pay for someone to try Facebook advertising for me. However not at the rates most agencies charge, which is quite frankly absolutely ridiculous.
I have a program that is 14 day make over take over for your Facebook page. It is free and the revenue generated during this period is split 50/50 (on profits) After that you keep all the changes I make. I can continue to run the Facebook for you or teach you what I do. If I run it, it is small retainer plus commissions if you want to learn it we will discuss the cost based on you client value
Just want your opinion would this work for you? https://paidreview.co .. Desparately waiting :)
I know a guy, that maybe have not the cheapest prices, but much, much lower than usual agencies (agencies actually outsource to him). If you want a contact, send me an email.
What would be your preferred rate/business model?
I may have a solution in the works, can I get in touch with you?
if facebook could give us a probability of how successful a campaign would be?
FWIW Facebook tells an estimated ad reach (reach does not necessarily == success) based on decided ad budget.