Ask HN: What are your problems?

  • My biggest problem is knowing whether an idea is worth spending time or even possible. Or just parts of it. There is no place to throw in questions like:

    "I need this in my database but im pretty sure it won't scale, will it?

    "I wrote this small gadget to solve a very specific problem that I use quite often, does anyone else have that problem?"

    "I'm using library X, how would I subclass Y to allow path prefixes?"

  • I'd like to eat large amounts of chocolate without consequences ;) Seriously, someone who figures it out (and manages to not screw up the business side) will be the next Rockefeller.

  • I'm a freelancer, typically with several engagements at once (1 major, a few minor), and my biggest problem is figuring out how to take a vacation. I can take two days off, and I suppose I could take 2 months off, but how do I take 2 weeks off? I'm sure how to do it!

  • I cannot get muscle mass without having to work out.

  • If I open up one excel workbook with a lot of links excel freezes for 30-45 seconds, sometimes more, and I just have to wait it out. If I could change between workbooks while it froze it wouldn't be so bad. My work laptop has an i5 and 16GB of RAM, so I don't think it's a hardware issue.