<story><title>Ask HN: What kind of ideas are not VC-backable but should exist in the future?</title><text>I have been thinking about what the current VC fund structure limits the founder&amp;#x27;s imagination about the future for a long time.&lt;p&gt;Please share your wildest ideas.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>egypturnash</author><text>A free program for doing US taxes that has the polish and SEO of TurboTax.&lt;p&gt;The ultimate successful exit sees the entire sector of “tax service middleman” drying up once you have cut off the revenue of TurboTax and the rest of the tax preparation lobby, so they can no longer keep lobbying the government to have this complicated process instead of just automatically doing your taxes and sending you a bill like every other civilized country. Your company vanishes along with the rest of this sector.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arcticbull</author><text>Seriously the IRS should just mail you filled in forms, they have all the data, you can mail back amendments. Or online. There&amp;#x27;s absolutely not a single reason any third party needs to be involved in this.&lt;p&gt;Canada&amp;#x27;s been experimenting with this lately [1].&lt;p&gt;Frankly, as a rule of thumb, if something is potentially big and impactful, and isn&amp;#x27;t well suited to being funded by a VC, it should just be a government service.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.canada.ca&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;revenue-agency&amp;#x2F;services&amp;#x2F;e-services&amp;#x2F;about-auto-fill-return.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.canada.ca&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;revenue-agency&amp;#x2F;services&amp;#x2F;e-services&amp;#x2F;...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Ask HN: What kind of ideas are not VC-backable but should exist in the future?</title><text>I have been thinking about what the current VC fund structure limits the founder&amp;#x27;s imagination about the future for a long time.&lt;p&gt;Please share your wildest ideas.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>egypturnash</author><text>A free program for doing US taxes that has the polish and SEO of TurboTax.&lt;p&gt;The ultimate successful exit sees the entire sector of “tax service middleman” drying up once you have cut off the revenue of TurboTax and the rest of the tax preparation lobby, so they can no longer keep lobbying the government to have this complicated process instead of just automatically doing your taxes and sending you a bill like every other civilized country. Your company vanishes along with the rest of this sector.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>totemandtoken</author><text>I might get downvoted or something for this, but have you seen the most recent episode of Patroit Act with Hassan Minhaj?&lt;p&gt;His last episode was all about why tax prep companies mislead customers and the Patriot Act team set up a site that points to free tax filing services. Characteristically, with a vulgar name: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.turbotaxsucksass.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.turbotaxsucksass.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>