Ask HN: What could be better in your industry?

As a business, while it might be too expensive to have custom software solution built for your exact needs. But it's completely doable if it's built as a service, as in business similar to you with same needs also use it. Then cost is spread out. So let your brain have freedom and think beyond your budget. Assume you have a magic wand and it can solve any of your business pains, just like that.

We're a group software developers who build custom software for businesses and instead of charging one customer $50k we charge monthly fee, ex: $300, to 1000 businesses.

Whatever you have in mind let it out here in comments or PM me. Doesn't matter if it's your business or you work in business and know it's a problem. Doesn't matter if you think it can be solved with a software or not.

Few questions to get you going:

- What is something that you do repeatedly and could be automated?

- What is that eats up most of your time in day?

- What is currently grinding on you?

- What software do you use that you wish was better and you think it sucks?

- What app do you wish existed for your type of business? or what app do you wish some tech company would make for you guys?

- Excel... what stuff do you do in excel manually. How much time do you spend on it.

- could there be an app/software that would allow you track something better, let your team collaborate better, alert you whenever xyz happens, let's you automate customer support, calculate quotes..

These're questions as much as for you as for us.

There are problems which you're aware of and there are some which are so standard that you may not even realize it's one. Don't hesitate, think of anything that either take times, unreliable, ambiguous, tedious, repetitive ...

Try at least 3, quantity of quality.

So your industry, title, problems, and background on the problems.