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Usually its in plain sight ... try something that affects you daily.

For me its paying bills ... it sucks, so now im building something to make it suck less.

When I built my last house I also found things that sucked like components for hanging tvs on the wall. I wanted a junction box that was interchangeable and could work specifically for each tv, so I made that too.

There are probably hundreds of thousands of valuable things no one has executed well on yet, it does not mean no one has tried and just because someone has tried and failed it does not mean it is less valuable either.

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If paying bills is a pain for you, you likely live in the US, where banks choose un-encrypted RFID over Chip and PIN, and people still use checkbooks.

If you're looking for inspiration on how bills should be paid, just take a look at nearly any other country.

Money can be transferred between people in an instant, with no hassle. Bills can be sent directly to your bank account, and you can just choose to pay them, or dispute them if you like, one click, that's it. It's rare to spend more than even a minute or two on bill payments.

The systems exist, it's just the slowness or unwillingness to adopt that's the problem.

Just curious, what is the actual pain point for you? Is it the actual paying of the bills, remembering to pay them, splitting them between people, or something else?

for me its the amount of bills I actually have and trying to keep track of all of them.

I have about 16-17 bills monthly (mainly because I own two homes) but I have to remember to login to each of those accounts and make sure all of the payments went through even if they're on autopay, I'm also anal enough that I like to check every single bill to make sure there are no charges I did not make etc.

I'm making my version of this now and hopefully launching soon to some feedback.

check it out. http://cloudbill.com

Usually its in plain sight ... try something that affects you daily.

"You" and me are not a very good target market.For starters we dont like to pay.

"For me its paying bills ... it sucks, so now im building something to make it suck less." I have the same pain point. I posted this on HN today http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4107367

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