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Ask HN: What apps or services do you wish existed (in the AI age)?

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One issue I've noticed that I've faced over the last year is that... I don't really have that many problems anymore when it comes to software. I fire up Codex, write up my problem, and BAM! I've soon got a solution.

In this new world, it is possible that I am becoming intellectually lazy and I find it hard to think about problems to solve.

I asked some of my friends, they could not really name too many things either. Most problems at work are more process-related (inter-personal) than they are technical limitations, now that AI can mostly help solve the technical stuff. You still need to talk to people, for example.

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I am thinking about implementing an open network (over VPN), where the connectivity of nodes depends on their reputation, kind of KarmaNET. Before the internet, misbehaving nodes would be excommunicado, physically disconnected. This is not possible anymore. In this KarmaNET, anyone could generate a key pair and join. New nodes would have 0 reputation though, so far not all other nodes on the network would receive incoming connections from such nodes. In order to gain reputation, one would have to do something useful for the network/people on the network, e.g. write an interesting article, host a ftp server, a public xmpp server, an e-mail service, host a video, etc. That would also naturally incentivize distributed services and prevent spam/scrape. This might be similar to web3 though, or directly use some of its concepts. Main question is how to prevent all sorts of abuses, which are mostly known from social networks, like rapid circular reputation pumping, mass cooperated dislikes, etc.

Interesting. It seems fun, and would be cool for us tech-y people.

I, too, enjoy making social apps, and monetizing them has been rough but preventing abuse and all sorts of mischief is even harder!

I had a food related app a few years ago, and the types of stuff people were inputting to crash my AI was mind-boggling.

Couldn't find a lightweight tool to visually tweak AI-generated HTML in the browser like PowerPoint, so I built my own. That last-mile UI layer is still missing.

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