A money manager. It knows all the expenses and allocates an allowance. it tells you to get a new job and to trim expenses in a sensible way. it tells you to stop buying so many clothes/books/whatever. it asks you to repeat what you are doing when you don't spend money. it makes you justify expenses before you can have money. it saves for you.<p>I think this is possible now, when it was impossible before. it funds a debit card monthly for you, and calculates everything else. it learns you finances and then plans accordingly. most people will adapt to whatever money they have, they just suck at managing it. there isn't anyone that tells you "you can't afford that." or "you will run out of money if your lunches are so expensive" "your rent is too much money, get a better job" "you are not saving enough, what can you change so I can save you more money?" that would make life SO much easier.
A todo list that helps me figure out WTF to do, maybe by generating checklists from a corpus of facts, sources trusted via web of trust, social collaboration, etc.<p>I'd input "trip to Thailand" and the service would break that down into:<p>1 check your vaccines<p>1.1 hepatitis A most important<p>1.2 try local clinic X, click here to dial<p>2 check your insurance<p>2.1 click here if you have home insurance<p>2.2 click here to purchase trip-specific travel insurance<p>3 decide dates<p>3.1 week? two weeks? month? click to specify<p>3.2 pick a flight, click to browse curated list<p>And so on. (These should probably be in reverse order but I'm too lazy to change the numbers.)
A smart meta-OS, a computer butler a la Jarvis. I want a ultra-light weight daemon that sits on my network and learns what I use, when and where. Then, after getting a fair amount of data it starts to subtly suggest my next step.<p>Say, I use Itunes every morning at 6 am for my morning run, except on Sundays or holidays. My Jarvis would see that I'm up and going outside and it's a Tuesday and get my regular playlist ready as a little icon on an unobtrusive toolbar. Or whatever it finds and figures out. Sure it would be a little clunky at first, but people tend to be regular and predictable. Also, people tend to externalize their bodily functions, fire is an external step of digestion and clothing is an external form of fur.
A way to sort or filter Web searches (sites, articles, posts, comments) by the IQ and or age of the person who wrote it. This would help people to minimise low-quality content. Even if the person were unknown, heuristic methods could be devised to estimate the level of intellect in a given article or post. There are various obstacles and abuses to be resolved, but it would still be nice to have a feature like this available. At the same time, I imagine that society would not currently accept such a proposition.
A personal life assistant at a good price.<p>Is it realistic to get something like a 20hrs/mth retainer for like $10/hr to sort out things for me. Something that was a longer term relationship so they get to know your personality plus build trust ideally.<p>Possibly share this assistant with friends/family.<p>The role would be to create a 1) one stop shop that 2) gets to know you and 3) can remove small distraction tasks; like coordinate dinner with friends, monitor my emails to pay bills, find good tyres for my car, come up with gift ideas, find me a new cleaner etc.
I have a habit of jumping into a new hobby/collection every 6-12 months but never know where to start since most online resources cater towards those who already know what they're doing (specifically watches in my case). I started a website hoping to address that, but it's far from finished. If there are any sites that do this already I'd love to see them!
I got a few:<p>- Teleportation<p>- Time Machine<p>- Dream Recorder (as in record our dreams as we see them)<p>- Mind Reader (as in Mel Gibson in What Women Want :))
switch-for-me. I don't care who my household energy supplier is, I just want to pay the least each month without the hassle of monitoring my usage, comparing prices and administrating the transfer. You do it for me and you can keep a percentage of the saving.
Sorry, I don't think you'll find any free lunch here.<p>The products I would like to see don't exist because they're not economically viable (e.g. high-quality development and mobile phone hardware using open source firmware) or they depend on technology that doesn't yet exist or doesn't scale well, etc.<p>You may come up with a novel idea for a viable product, but no one can do this for you.