Where/who would you go to to develop a chrome plugin?
Alright so here's the idea:
It's your typical "productivity/distraction blocking" plugin, with a twist.
You set a $/min rate that you pay for each distracting site.
Every session generates a bill.
The idea being to integrate a stronger incentive to value your time.
How would you use site x differently if it cost you $0.10/$1/$10 a minute?
Maybe the balance buys bitcoin or donates to a cause, or transfers to an accountability partner who's doing the same thing?
Would you use something like this?
The layman (me) assumes the financial infrastructure of this would be achievable in PayPal/Stripe, but lots of custody/money movement may make it very hard to do
"The tab on your tabs"
"The tab tab"
Drop the the, it's cleaner
"Meter" is a cool positioning idea too - cheers @humrashid for sharing this from @stripe:
Visuals increase the velocity of your message by an order of magnitude.
You can (and should) get better at writing, speaking, selling, etc. All brilliant skills with massive leverage.
But realizing that "design" isn't a skill reserved for art school or design specific careers, is a ridiculously powerful force multiplier for your ideas.
The barriers that used to exist: expensive software, tuition, certification, etc are no longer there.
Fire up YouTube, crack open Figma and experiment.
99/100 people will never do this because they aren't "creative."
This is an exclusively financial concept to most, but I like to think of it as it applies to value in general.
What can you do for someone that they couldn't (or wouldn't) do previously?
That's an arbitrage opportunity.
The ability to spot arbitrage opportunities in a spreadsheet or a financial terminal ultimately results in the same outcome as identifying a need for a product in an underserved market: