Between ZenCoder and the encoding services that AWS released, someone needs to expose easy video encoding to non-developers. It's easy for us to wire up these services for our needs, but Joe Marketer can't.<p>Here's what he see when he searches: a large amount of spammy looking sites offering downloadable software of questionable origin (and ability). Five minute trial versions. The actual download page has twelve <i>other</i> download buttons for affiliate links and products. It's awful.<p>He just wants whatever-file-type he was given to work on iPhone/iPad for this upcoming ad campaign.<p>Bootstrap + filepicker.io + Zencoder + Stripe.
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I spend too much time procrastinating... so I'd like it if I could speed up my "stupid" time.<p>I'd build a site that has the design of pinterest/instagram or whatever the site is that has the multi-columns of different heights for individual cells.<p>And the content would simply be from various RSS feeds -- npr, cnn, fox news, times, huff po, etc. Ideally I'd bring it to a level similar to HN, Reddit and Digg with the only difference being the content isn't user generated and you can't "vote" on a story's popularity -- it's timely.<p>Add the necessary ajax elements so it "stacks" stories on the top of the scaffolds. I should be able to sit on that page and not do a thing and have fresh content load for me.<p>Then if there's any interest you could easily add more features.<p>I'd probably write it one day if I weren't so distracted by other things. Shouldn't take much longer than 4 hours to code.
If I only had 4 hours I would stand on the shoulders of some good APIs. Maybe make a gaming site with challenges - "guess the common theme"... pictures, video or something like that. Use search and embedding.
A mashup between a To-Do list and a bookmarking system.<p>This way, I could just fill links in, then when I got time, read the first one and unstack it instead of having 20+ tabs opened at the same time.
A bookmarking site that works with bookmark previews only. I haven't been able to find something similar to what I want but then again I haven't searched a lot.
A site that sold t-shirts and the like which promoted the idea that disabled folks are sexy as hell.<p>Yes, I am serious. I would totally do that if I had any clue how to make it work.