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Show HN: Willpayforthis.com – Gathering posts about what people will pay for

by bickett on 1/12/25, 5:56 AM with 14 comments

When people have a pain point they'd like solved, I find that many of them resort to posting a Tweet about it. I made these posts easy to find.

  • by reconvene1290 on 1/12/25, 8:56 AM

    In reality, people won’t pay for things they say they will; it’s cheap rhetoric to try to get maintainers to add their niche feature.

    Nice idea though, maybe add some more data sources to increase confidence in data (and hopefully prove me wrong).

  • by Kwpolska on 1/12/25, 9:13 AM

    I doubt people will pay for willpayforthis.com. They could just type "will pay" into Xitter search themselves.

  • by sky2224 on 1/12/25, 9:10 AM

    A pre-order for a basic web-scraper... you're joking, right?

  • by thih9 on 1/12/25, 10:41 AM

    It’s not really a Show HN. Or is there a way I can use this without paying?

  • by foobarquxbaz on 1/12/25, 8:59 AM

    wontpayforthis

  • by anthropodie on 1/12/25, 9:17 AM

    I think people who want to view ideas should pay instead of people who submit ideas.

  • by mgl on 1/12/25, 9:38 AM

    I’m surprised to see the previous six comments being negative.

    There’s nothing wrong with building a simple, potentially useful service and charging for it upfront.

    This is actually a great example of how you should test such ideas.

    Congratulations - and the market validation journey has just begun. Cheers!

  • by CaffeineLD50 on 1/12/25, 9:03 AM

    Isn't that what mechanical turk and so on are for?