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Ask HN: Idea Sunday

249 点作者 _hoa8大约 11 年前
Continuing the series! Go...<p>A small HN experiment. Every Sunday, a thread will be started to share product ideas. Why? Because many people have ideas they will simply not have the time to implement, and many need product ideas to work on.

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miguelrochefort大约 11 年前
Why are recipes linear and textual? I&#x27;m surprised the recipe-book metaphor sticked with us for that long.<p>I want a social cooking platform where the only way to represent a recipe is with a diagram.<p><a href="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/156044/2247517/Pancake-recipe-crop.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;payload.cargocollective.com&#x2F;1&#x2F;4&#x2F;156044&#x2F;2247517&#x2F;Pancak...</a><p>You&#x27;re a cooking master? No need to explain you how to make a roux or how to blanch vegetables.<p>Don&#x27;t have butter? We&#x27;ll substitute the step where you need butter by the steps to make it.<p>Allergic to peanut? These nuts are a good alternative.<p>Let&#x27;s build a semantic recipe platform that&#x27;s not linear and add a functional twist to ingredients (the part where you can substitute an ingredient by the function that returns one).
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avalaunch大约 11 年前
A major pain point in my life is house maintenance and repair. I really miss having a (good) landlord. That&#x27;s what I want - a single point of contact to manage the upkeep of and fix any issues related to my home.<p>There&#x27;s so much friction in the process of finding the various contractors needed to keep a home in good order. First you have to search on craigslist, angieslist, or google for contractors that service your area. Then you play phone tag with each. Then you schedule a time for each to come out and give an estimate, which can be a major interruption to your week. Then you schedule a time for the chosen contractor to actually complete the work. And then you cross your fingers that you chose well, because if you didn&#x27;t, you&#x27;ll have an even bigger headache on your hands.<p>Ideally I would pay a large monthly fee (500-1k) and absolutely everything would be covered. Regular maintenance would simply get done without requiring anything of me. My lawn would get cut when it needs it. My driveway would be cleared when it snows. My gutters would be cleaned as needed. My home would be cleaned twice a month. And so on. When ever anything else needs fixing, I&#x27;d have a single point of contact (an app, maybe) where I could open a ticket. I&#x27;d then be offered a selection of times when an expert could come fix the issue and after selecting a time that works for me, an expert would actually show up at that time and fix the problem. A little more friction could be removed if I could preselect times when it&#x27;s acceptable for maintenance personnel to enter my home. Ideally I wouldn&#x27;t even have to be home. The service would also have permission to deal with my insurance company as needed since that&#x27;s also a major pain point. They&#x27;d cover anything not covered by the insurance. Or perhaps I could do away with my existing home insurance in favor of this full service home insurance company.<p>To begin the service, someone would have to perform a full home inspection to uncover preexisting issues which wouldn&#x27;t be covered. The service could help take care of those issues but it&#x27;d have to be on an a la carte basis. Once the home was up to snuff, then the monthly fee would kick in and cover any new issues, as well as regular maintenance.<p>A simpler version of the idea, which wouldn&#x27;t be as good but would have a lot less risk would be to offer maintenance only: lawn cutting, regular cleanings, ect... I&#x27;d still pay good money for that.
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personlurking大约 11 年前
Just going to throw this one out there. I live in Lisbon, it&#x27;s tourist-central (I&#x27;m from SF and I&#x27;ve never seen so many tourists). Since I see a ton of lost people every single day there should be a way to digitally leave comments on things and places and a free one-stop shop to find such info (like Wikitravel). This info, although having a central repository, should be pushed out to an app that connects to one&#x27;s phone (in particular, GPS) so that when you need help with figuring out where you are, what statue you&#x27;re standing in front of, etc, you can open the app and it tell you (no entering anything...only if you want to get to another location).<p>By entering what you want to do beforehand, the app would know where you are and have a list of places you said you want to go, and tell you how to get to the next closest place, or alert you if one on your list is about to close for the day. Perhaps each city version is done by locals and in case of bad actors, there can be a voting system so the right info goes to the top. Plus, there could be integration with Google Maps so you can see if you&#x27;re going the right way.
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egypturnash大约 11 年前
Basically Yelp for transgender surgeons.<p>I&#x27;ve been working on making the decision as to who I&#x27;ll get to sculpt new genitals for me, and researching this on the web is a mess - every site comparing them is out of date, triggers my mental sketchy spam site detectors, or both.<p>It&#x27;d be great to be able to go to a nice-looking site and say &quot;all I&#x27;m interested in right now is MtF genital surgery&quot;, then see doctors who do that, and crowd-sourced reviews if their work. (Other people may be interested in FtM genital surgery, breast augumentation&#x2F;removal, orichectomy, you get the idea - various manipulations of genitals and secondary gender cues.)<p>I think there&#x27;s probably less than a hundred people who offer these kinds of services in the world, so it&#x27;s not exactly a huge database to worry about.
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manish_gill大约 11 年前
This might be fairly simple, but I can&#x27;t find a good solution - A replacement for Google Groups.<p>More specifically, a better UI to use Mailing Lists. Perhaps like vBulletin or other advance forum software. Maybe even built-in support in my email client?<p>For the life of me, I can&#x27;t find a good way to use Mailing Lists. I don&#x27;t like receiving 40+ messages every day, but I don&#x27;t find digest mode good enough either. Google Groups is clunky, and it gives me no good motivation to return to it. The readability is also not all that great imo. The whole ajaxy thing it has going for it is also bad. I want to read static text on a functional and beautiful UI. It&#x27;s not too much to ask for. :(
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harryh大约 11 年前
Build a company around creating a best in class development environment that they can sell to other tech companies. This would involve everything from repository management (on top of git) to build &amp; compilation tooling to automated testing and probably more than that eventually.<p>Once companies reach a certain scale they inevitably expend some of their resources on building internal development tools. At Foursquare we have 1 person (on a team of ~80) doing this fulltime. Google has spent a ton of effort on this with blaze. Facebook &amp; Twitter have done similar work. But it&#x27;s all fragmented and it&#x27;s all reinventing the wheel.<p>A company should do this right for everyone. If it was good enough I&#x27;d happily write very very large checks to use it.<p>Honestly I think this is what GitHub should be doing, but they don&#x27;t appear to have their shit together enough to innovate so someone else should do it.
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miguelrochefort大约 11 年前
An IDE for ideas. Intellisense for thoughts.<p>For those of you who develop using powerful IDEs (such as Visual Studio, Eclipse, ...), it&#x27;s hard to imagine going back to a basic notepad.<p>Most people, most of the time, don&#x27;t write software. They exchange ideas, express wishes, share their feelings. And to do that, they use tools that are not more powerful than a basic notepad.<p>This forces them to be explicit, to explain what they mean, to repeat ideas, to think linearly.<p>I believe it&#x27;s time for the average person to have access to tools that are just as expressive (if not more) than the ones developers have been using for years. It&#x27;s time to break the speech metaphor and develop a completely new way to communicate. It&#x27;s time for a UI-driven, computer-assisted, general-purpose language.<p>What I suggest we build is an IDE for ideas. Intellisense for thoughts.
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rhythmvs大约 11 年前
A file naming convention (lightweight markup) that would allow us to store structured (meta)data right inside file names. Obviously inspired by Markdown and CSV.<p>We could then build lean, database-less asset management applications, while the user data (i.e. the files and their metadata) would always be portable, across platforms.<p>Take for example:<p><pre><code> J.M.W. Turner | Rain, Steam and Speed | ···· 1844.jpg W. Blake ···· | Newton ·············· | 1795–1805.jpg </code></pre> as compared to the clutter we now must deal with:<p><pre><code> _IMG00123.JPG Turner_-_Rain%2C_Steam_and_Speed_-_National_Gallery_file.jpg </code></pre> My practical use case: take snapshots of my incoming receipts, bills, etc., name the jpgs using the proposed file naming convention (including fields for VAT, net amount, etc.), put them in Dropbox, build a parser and accompanying GUI to edit file names (and their corresponding metadata; have total amounts etc. being calculated in real time), drop a link to that (web app) interface to my accountant.<p>It’s just an idea for HN Idea Sunday; I did a somewhat more detailed write-up:<p><a href="https://gist.github.com/rhythmus/11118629" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;rhythmus&#x2F;11118629</a>
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monk_e_boy大约 11 年前
Web filter. I love F1 and there is a race today, so I can&#x27;t look at 99% of the internet as they will show the result. I will watch the race later when the kids have gone to bed.<p>This problem is so big that i have to avoid facebook becaue they also show trending news.<p>So a filter that filters F1 or any selectable sports news. Then when i turn it off after watching the race the filter shows me a list of what news it found and filtered for me.<p>Added extra, while i&#x27;m watching the race it could show me tweets in real time, but back shifted so as to make sense with the race.<p>My football loving buddie also agrees he&#x27;d pay for this filter.
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miguelrochefort大约 11 年前
Sell anything in a snap.<p>1. Find something you want to sell<p>2. Snap a picture (or a short video)<p>3. Tap &quot;list for sale&quot;<p>4. Let mechanical turk + computer vision identify the object<p>5. Let the system pick a value (based on sales history, location, demand)<p>6. Contact the seller when a serious buyer made a deposit<p>7. Proceed to demo + sale<p>I shouldn&#x27;t have to write down any spec when selling something as ubiquitous as an Xbox 360. I shouldn&#x27;t have to go through 100 different ways to describe an iPhone 4S when looking to buy one.<p>Delegating item identification to a third party is how you reduce the friction of listing items for sale and improve semantics.<p>And to think that this system only applies to selling items is naive. The possibilities are endless.
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raldi大约 11 年前
Unlike &quot;Who is hiring?&quot; posts, which are ephemeral, &quot;Idea Sunday&quot; posts continue being useful for a long time. Therefore, consider posting a link at the end of each one allowing readers to jump to the previous one.
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Bootvis大约 11 年前
A bit lame maybe but here it goes:<p>The &quot;Ready for Battle alarm clock&quot;. An alarm clock that wakes you up with your favourite quotes from video games or movies such as:<p>- Rise and shine, Mister Freeman. Rise and... shine. Not that I... wish to imply you have been sleeping on the job. No one is more deserving of a rest, and all the effort in the world would have gone to waste until... well, let&#x27;s just say your hour has... come again. (or part of this one).<p>- It&#x27;s time to kick ass and chew bubble gum... and I&#x27;m all outta gum<p>This idea would work best when you always wear your Google Glass like device. Then the audio can be combined with a nice visual of for instance the G-Man.<p>For now, without the glass integration, it&#x27;s easy to do make this with your own phone. A nice service could be to personalize the message, i.e. &quot;Wake up Mr. Bootvis...&quot;.<p>The big problem here is that just copying these audio samples isn&#x27;t allowed and so it will be hard to build a company out of this.
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basicallydan大约 11 年前
I&#x27;ve been sitting on this gem for a while. I present to you: The Bruce Wayne Gap Year.<p>Wealthy people with desires to become Batman can more-or-less do so.<p>First they sign a waiver and an NDA, removing any liability from the Bruce Wayne Gap Year company. Then they&#x27;ll pay the company tens of thousands of dollars to pay for what is to come.<p>They&#x27;ll be put into a real criminal gang [1], and taken around the world getting involved in all sorts of illegal [2] activities.<p>Sooner or later they&#x27;ll be subtly led to the Himalayas, where they&#x27;ll join a monastery, lead a simple life of celibacy and minimalism and slowly learn to meditate and fully understand themselves and their body.<p>After a while, they&#x27;ll be groomed by a man [3] claiming to be working for a mysterious and powerful leader of a guild of assassins, and taught all kinds of martial arts over months and months, culminating in a complex battle which determines their eligibility. At that point, they will be asked to do something their morals will not allow (this will be determined in a psychological screening), and end up betraying and destroying [4] the guild.<p>Then they return home, better for the experience.<p>It can&#x27;t fail. A friend of mine also suggested it be re-implemented for all sorts of action hero&#x2F;film type situations. James Bond, Die Hard, Rambo, etc. It&#x27;s essentially a very expensive, realistic roleplaying experience.<p>[1]: Actually, very highly paid and well-trained actors. We don&#x27;t tell them that though.<p>[2]: Mostly not illegal, but they&#x27;re made to believe that these things are illegal. Some things will be borderline (they may accidentally end up threatening people who are not part of the ruse, for example), hence the NDA.<p>[3]: Also an actor. A very good, very well paid actor. Possibly we&#x27;ll just get Liam Neeson, and he&#x27;ll act so well that he&#x27;ll convince them that he&#x27;s not Liam Neeson.<p>[4]: Not really. The martial artists will never be allowed to be worse than the client, and will also be stunt-trained and capable of faking death.
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wting大约 11 年前
There&#x27;s a lot of parallel conversations on Reddit &#x2F; HN &#x2F; etc. for various articles.<p>Would about pulling high rated, top-level conversations from multiple sources for a quick digest? Sort of like Google News for commentary.
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rjf1990大约 11 年前
Airbnb, but paid with labor.<p>Many travelers are short on cash but would love to trade services for a night&#x27;s stay. Me, I would be happy to host a guest for free provided they did my dishes or laundry.<p>Many homeowners, especially empty-nesters, have homes with plenty of space that they still have to maintain. This would provide benefits to both parties.
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yzhou大约 11 年前
Here&#x27;s what I want: A cheap text ssh terminal with wifi,or cellular, nice keyboard hardware, with extremely long battery life (or solar powered), which i can just throw it in my car and forget it. Whenever I am away of my computer I can always log in to my cloud server and write codes or do some quick fixes.
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mden大约 11 年前
Idea: Tree of knowledge<p>Ever been interested in a topic that once you google you end up with explanations(quite often on wikipedia) that rely on foundational knowledge you didn&#x27;t even know you should have? And then you started working your way back by googling things you didn&#x27;t know until you hit something you do know and from that point you try to inch your way forward to the original topic just to get discouraged a few hours in? I know I have and it&#x27;s a pain!<p>A well built knowledge map that would graph the relationships between different topics in a field would help alleviate this problem. Take for example linear algebra. You&#x27;ve heard about this fancy thing called singular value decomposition but barely know what a matrix is. You type SVD into a search box, and it generates a breadth first tree with all the topics you need to know to be able to understand SVD up to a certain depth. And then you just work from the leafs that you do understand up to the topic you are interested. This saves hours or sometimes days of just trying to understand the ordering in which you should be learning things. It essentially builds a curriculum for the user on the fly for a topic they are interested.<p>I would propose this as a community wiki so knowledge maps could be crowdsourced and curated as they would be time consuming and difficult to build for a single person. Would also suggest adding the ability to let users create accounts and mark off topics they feel confident they know.<p>Potential problems: The two big problems with this idea are 1) generating a proper knowledge map: There will be ambiguities in the edges and even the nodes of a map. Sometimes (often) you will need to be clever how you organize the information. For example, your have a dependency listing like: Matrix &lt;- Rotation Matrix, but in reality it might be better to have something like Matrix &lt;- Linear Transform &lt;- Rotation Matrix. Linear transforms would act as an intermediary node for rotation, scaling, shearing, w&#x2F;e.<p>2) a topics can be studied in different frameworks: E.g. linear algebra can be studied with or without using vector spaces. Once again, deciding how to create the knowledge graph will be difficult.<p>Solution: Have multiple types of edges. You can have edges to signify hard dependencies, soft dependencies, generalizations, and extensions. Maybe other types of edges. You will still need to be clever, but having a way to signify the relationship between topics will help resolve the problem.
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marpalmin大约 11 年前
A kind of task rabbit that will connect expats ( who don&#x27;t speak the language) with locals. The idea is that the local will help the expat in small tasks like understanding an insurance policy, housing contract, employment receipt.
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DanBC大约 11 年前
== Dying Skills, Lost Tech ==<p>I knew a chap who could roof a home with Cotswold stone. He knew how the stone was quarried (but he didn&#x27;t do that bit) and how it was made into roof tiles (but he didn&#x27;t do that bit very often) and he knew how to roof a house using those tiles. There are not that many people who can do that anymore.<p>There&#x27;s a meme about the NASA Saturn V rockets that says we&#x27;ve lost the paperwork and thus re-making them would be cery hard, and could involve rediscovering technology.<p>The Domesday project is sometimes used as an example of digital obselesance <a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Domesday_Project" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;BBC_Domesday_Project</a><p>And here&#x27;s an example of someone looking for Cray software and code and documentation <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3464546" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=3464546</a><p>So, this would be a site that interviews people (using crowdsourced interviews) to glean information about how they do or did things, and why, with video if possible of them demonstrating the techniques and equipment and methods.<p>This would be a teeny bit like the Endangered Language Project. <a href="http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/about/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.endangeredlanguages.com&#x2F;about&#x2F;</a><p>There would need to be some way to control for truth and accuracy[1] and also some suggestions for what is a good interview.<p>[1] my dad used to tell quite a few lies. One of these (well, one set) was about his diabetes diagnosis and treatment. He claimed he had been diagnosed as a child while still at school, and that he had to sharpen his syringe on the stone floor. Utter cobblers, but somehow it found its way to an academic site. I sent them a polite email and they made their disclaimers about uncorroborated etc a bit clearer.
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miguelrochefort大约 11 年前
A system to compose and track drug&#x2F;supplement stacks, regimen and diets.<p>Transforming yourself has never been more accessible than it is today. We have access to so much information and so many resources that there&#x27;s rarely any valid excuse not to become what you want to be. The problem is that the whole process can be overwhelming, and finding what works for you requires discipline and dedication. Most results don&#x27;t happen overnight, and the only way to get through months of imperceptible progress is to have a clear plan, track everything, and learn from others.<p>I&#x27;ve seen all kinds of people in all kinds of context attempting to share some regimen with others. You will find that on Oprah, in books, at the gym, at your doctors, on forums, etc. That&#x27;s all fine, but why do they still have to write down the name of the product, the brand, the posology, the side-effects, their interactions, everything by hand? Wouldn&#x27;t it be easier for them to write them down with a tool that understands what the regimen means, and easier for us to add them to our own regimen in a single click?<p>Once the system understands what I (and others) want to achieve, how I progress and exactly what I do to reach it, only good things can come out of it. It can learn (machine learning, correlation finding), it can recommend tweaks, it can help me acquire products, it can reward me, etc.<p>How hard is it to set-up a database of all drugs&#x2F;supplements&#x2F;vitamins, and let people semantically fill the why, what, when and how?<p>I don&#x27;t think there&#x27;s a lack of niches either:<p>- Bodybuilding<p>- Cognitive enhancement (nootropics)<p>- Weight loss<p>- Hair loss<p>- Skin care<p>- Allergies<p>- Acne<p>- Long distance running<p>- Diets (vegan, paleo)<p>- Chronic disease<p>- Life extension
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keithwarren大约 11 年前
RAID Arrays for online storage services.<p>So many services offer a free tier, maybe 5gb for free and then you pay after that. Some are much higher. Build sort of a proxy to these services so that you have a distributed and large free online storage system.<p>This was an idea my team had last year when we were looking closely at a photo organization and management startup. We had won a startup competition, had investors tender offers but in the end we decided not to pursue the idea primarily because the storage business absolutely sucks, and photo systems are inherently storage businesses. This idea of &#x27;BYOS&#x27; (Bring your own storage) was one of the hacks we thought up to get around the problem but in the end customer discovery taught us that the idea had too much friction for most people. Tech folks loved it, 35 year old moms didn&#x27;t.<p>You can simply start with a few of the larger players, use the service to connect your free DropBox, Google Drive and OneDrive accounts. There may even be a monetization option wherein as you approach saturation of the storage you push the user to sign up with a specific vendor for a discounted deal and that other vendor can be a partner company or your own storage medium.<p>It has to be simple and transparent though, you still want people to have that simply sync experience regardless of where the file is stored and they should be able to view all the files across all the services at one time, regardless of where they are physically stored.
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siruva07大约 11 年前
I&#x27;m responsible for purchasing our computer equipment for our startup. Every time I make a purchase on our company (@MakeSpace) credit card, I have to remember to send an email to our accountants (record the purchase as an asset, depreciation for taxes, etc).<p>More importantly, it&#x27;s hard to keep track of what equipment was given to each employee. I imagine at a larger company this would be handled by an IT department, but sub 50 people I&#x27;m doing this on a spreadsheet myself. Would love a simple web app to record serial # of machine, receipt (that I could upload PDF), date purchased, employee, etc.<p>Happily would pay monthly SaaS. Please message me if anyone knows of this type of product. I&#x27;d happily be your first customer if you want to build it.<p>edit: Happy Easter!
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nathanathan大约 11 年前
[X-post from the previous Idea Sunday thread that didn&#x27;t make it to the front page: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7616132" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=7616132</a>]<p>Idea: Git-story, a website that generates summary narratives from git commit histories and other github data.<p>Here&#x27;s a brain-dump with some ideas for the specifics:<p>Use foreshadowing: &quot;It all started with one person, X, spending months to gradually build what would one day become Y, a project forked by hundreds and starred by thousands.&quot;<p>When someone makes their first contribution to a project give them a brief introduction, like a shorter version of <a href="http://osrc.dfm.io/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;osrc.dfm.io&#x2F;</a><p>Use sentiment analysis on commit messages to say things like &quot;Frustrations mount as...&quot;, &quot;the developers rejoice after...&quot;<p>When people work on multiple concurrent branches use use phrases like: Meanwhile, X and Y toil away on the new Z feature.<p>Use the time between commits to chunk them into single sentences&#x2F;paragraphs. Also, add comments if the project goes dormant, or if there is a spike in development.<p>Use keywords in commit messages like merge, revert, resolve to generate events in the story.<p>When bugs are resolved look for linked issues and use the age of the bug and number of comments to say thinks like &quot;X finally fixed the controversial Y bug&quot;
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rdl大约 11 年前
A tablet (iPad or Android) game which is designed to be used while exercising.<p>Use ANT or Bluetooth 4.0LE to tie into a treadmill, bike, or other exercise equipment to get output measurements (speed); ideally, find some devices which allow two way commands (not common at all right now).<p>Networked games against other people, or vs. computer or past personal performance. The interesting part is a &quot;use while running&quot; interface for the touchscreen, requiring inputs (using gross motor skills, not fine control) to do things in-game while retaining performance. Or maybe use audio output for instructions (i.e. &quot;press the blue button, then the red, then the green&quot; while keeping heart BPM above 130, and targets moving on screen.
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gus_massa大约 11 年前
Current “Idea Sunday” thread <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7616132" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=7616132</a> (14 points, 7 hours ago, 22 comments)
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11thEarlOfMar大约 11 年前
I frequently wonder if there is a place on the planet I&#x27;d be happier in. The idea is a site that allows me to select a wide variety of attributes and then search for places in the world that match those attributes. For attributes that I only care about only generally, I&#x27;d be able to select from a broad category. For those that I care a lot about, I&#x27;d be able to drill in to highly granular selections.<p>For example, I may only care that: : Government = Democracy<p>But for climate, something a little more specific: : Climate : Rainfall &lt; 200 cm : Climate : Snowfall = 0 cm<p>And then something really granular: : Sports &amp; Leisure : Adventure Sports : Sky Diving &lt; 50 km<p>Major categories might include: • Climate • Geography • Demographics • Government • Infrastructure • Security • Entertainment • Recreation • Culture • Education • Economy<p>It could be marketed as a branded plugin for company web sites in travel, real estate and jobs. They&#x27;d pay for clicks and then use the results to market their services.<p>I&#x27;ve found sites that offer this, but none have been quite what I wanted. One requires you to enter the locations you think you&#x27;d like and then helps you decide. Another was pretty close, but only covered the USA.
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rokhayakebe大约 11 年前
I compiled different ideas over the week.<p>coMarketing: I would like to see a solution that allows smaller companies that target a similar audience to be able to put their &quot;little&quot; marketing dollar together and have a better chance at fighting the big guy.<p>Phone screen on my computer: When I am at my desk, I want to be able to use my phone from my computer. I can use the desktop interface to go through contacts, check feeds, answer texts, and even forward calls to my desk phone.<p>Conversation blog: A blogging platform that is based on discussion. Each blog post is a conversation between two or more people, let us stop the monologues because in real life to hear two is more interesting than one.<p>Alarm Band: A simple band that wakes me up with a buzz, but I just want to spend $25 for it.<p>PHP wrapper: I began to write a simple consistency wrapper for PHP, but I never finished. Basically it a class that gives me a clear structure on how to pass parameters for functions. I ALWAYS know to do function something (haystack, needle) then the wrapper rearranges according to the actual function requirement.
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gbrits大约 11 年前
Related to @mden&#x27;s Idea: Tree of knowledge.<p>Chrono: chronological inventions and academic breakthroughs of mankind as a dependency graph. This is a lingering idea that has been coming back to me a couple times a year over the last decade or so.<p>What if there&#x27;s a kind of semantic wikipedia that is built upon a dependency graph of inventions and academic breakthroughs. What led to the invention of the internet, to nano-tubes, etc? How cool would it be from an education standpoint to be able to jump back in time and see invention upon invention replayed (with backgrounds on how these breakthroughs came to be) up to today.<p>Check out what led to invention X (the galaxy S you&#x27;re reading this on), played back . Or reversely, lookup which inventions were build (transitively) upon the discovery of Y. You&#x27;d also finally be able to answer definitively who was more important: Tesla or Edison ;)<p>Socio-economic backgrounds, anecdotes, etc. what led to invention X, and how X was important for Y, etc. An interactive &quot;Short history of nearly everything&quot;
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neilsharma大约 11 年前
Problem: Completion rates for online courses are dismal and engagement with other students and faculty is low.<p>Idea: Weekly online, live discussion sections to accompany self-paced video lectures. Discussion sections have 5-10 students and are facilitated by Teaching Assistants<p>How it works:<p>Students taking a MOOC course sign up each week for a discussion section. There can be multiple discussion sections to accommodate changes in the student&#x27;s schedule, different time zones, etc. Students pay ~$10&#x2F;discussion, once a week, for an hour.<p>Discussion sections can be G+ Hangout style and taught by crowdsourced Teaching Assistants. These TAs can be grad students in universities looking to make extra money. They can assist students with HW problems, go over tough concepts, and talk about material outside of the immediate subject matter.<p>TAs can rev share per discussion. Example: 30% rev share for a class of eight students paying $10 each --&gt; $24 for the TA for an hour of teaching. This is significantly higher than market rate (~$10-16&#x2F;hr)
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sambeau大约 11 年前
A meetings clock that counts UP the price of a meeting based on the the salaries of the people in the room.
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binarymax大约 11 年前
Food Golf.<p>(Code golf - for recipes). A community where members submit recipes. Score is a function of ingredient count and cooking time. The lower the better. Recipes are also rated for taste&#x2F;quality by the community.
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pubby大约 11 年前
A twitter&#x2F;imageboard system where it takes 2 weeks for messages to appear once posted. The idea being that messages still relevant in 2 weeks are important and interesting ones.
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karangoeluw大约 11 年前
Ok I&#x27;ll go first.<p>It&#x27;s an &quot;Imgur for audio files&quot;.<p>Now there&#x27;s times when you record an audio and want to share it. What do you do? Uhh,, umm.... Yup. exactly. There&#x27;s no reliable, easy-to-use app to share audio files (not music).<p>So, this is a web&#x2F;mobile app for easily uploading and sharing audio files, and playing them. I don&#x27;t have a full plan laid out, but I&#x27;ll work on it for sure.<p>(If you&#x27;d like to be notified when it&#x27;s done, let me know: <a href="http://eepurl.com/SRIPT" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;eepurl.com&#x2F;SRIPT</a>)
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LazerBear大约 11 年前
GitHub for mathematicians.<p>For every theory, define its axioms and valid logical steps. Let anyone build theorems based on these (validate them automatically), and allow people to fork others theorems to create their own.<p>It&#x27;s probably possible to get a lot of proofs from projects like Mizar and Metamath to start with, then let the community build on top of it.<p>Maybe even a crowd sourced bounty program for unproven theorems, like P=NP. Let people pledge and automatically pay to whoever proves or disproves it.<p>I think this can really change how mathematical research is done.
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fest大约 11 年前
Ordering prototype (3d printing, CNC machining, lasercutting) parts, reimagined. It&#x27;s a major pain just to get a few parts made- first you find a company that does that, e-mail them their design, they get back to you with a quote and you either accept it or go back to step 1.<p>What if you could just upload your design, select a material from catalogue and receive an instant quote. If you&#x27;re happy with it, order the parts and then either pick them up in person or have them delivered.
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PopcornTimer大约 11 年前
Mixergy specifically for bootstrapped solopreneurs&#x2F;micropreneurs except NO video interview or a lot of the unnecessary info.<p>I want something I can read (comprehensive guides) with specific background info on insider knowledge per industry or cool things they did that made the company a success.<p>Mixergy interviews are often too long, too much noise to sift through, and not enough core information.<p>Examples of things I&#x27;ve love to see... Say you are building a physical product... How did you go about figuring&#x2F;developing the prototype. If its hardware, where did you go to get the prototype done (PCB boards, etc..). How did you figure out manufacturing, if its overseas, how did you coordinate (different language, sourcer, shipping information, quality control, etc...).<p>If you&#x27;re in the food industry, how did you manage to get contacts to help you get your product into stores, how did you develop or manufacture the product, etc.. If you&#x27;re in catering, how did you go about reaching specific clients before you were known, etc...<p>The things people want to know are the details that are difficult to find that could be useful. I don&#x27;t care much for the stories (success or failure doesn&#x27;t matter as much as the core background on how things got done).
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huherto大约 11 年前
A corporate firewall where employees can control which sites they want to stay away from.<p>I don&#x27;t know if this exists. But some companies don&#x27;t ban some sites because they don&#x27;t want to appear to be too controlling.<p>I personally do this by changing my own &#x2F;etc&#x2F;hosts file, but it is too easy to override. A firewall solution my be better for technical and not technical employees to help them to control their own browsing addictions.
s369610大约 11 年前
Idea: ShowMeThere (needs better name, camanywhere?)<p>An phone&#x2F;web app that allows you to click on a place in google maps and request a &quot;cammer&quot; for x minutes, you pay $x and anyone running the software on their phone that is near that location can accept the offer and start streaming video from their phone to you, allowing you to have a kind of &quot;live&quot; street view.<p>There is UI for the payer to click on arrows to inform the cammer to move here or there, and to zoom or focus on certain things, also a pre translated set of things to help communicate with cammer. Cammer gets paid after the x minutes is up.<p>Cammer gets cheap money for being a personal camera man for someone somewhere else in the world.<p>Client saves a trip out there to see something for himself.<p>Use cases: Want to see if an antique you are looking for is at the markets but cant get away from work?. Want to check out markets in turkey but live in australia? Want to see what the surf is &quot;really&quot; like right now and whether you should bother heading out? Police work&#x2F;chases! heaps of uses.<p>For popular events and markets, a cammer could setup shop and offer high quality streams etc.
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hershel大约 11 年前
One of the biggest problem in the new field of medical apps is lack of verification: how do i as a doctor or patient know if an app works, and how well ?<p>Of course this problem is generic for many types of products.Reviews are a partial solution ,but it would be quite useful to have a site that gathers research and helps in creating valid research on various products.
martinaglv大约 11 年前
tl;dr Independent store for bookmarkable HTML5 mobile apps<p>This is an idea that I had recently, but for which unfortunately I have no time. I hope that some of you folks can make it happen.<p>The idea is that with the recent release of Chrome for Android&#x27;s &quot;Add to Home Screen&quot; feature, there is now a way to bookmark websites to the home screen of every mobile os. Mobile sites can add a meta tag to hide the browser chrome and look fully native. Combined with fast mobile processors, this means that we can finally have native-like experience only by using HTML.<p>It may be difficult to build a business around it, and could make more sense if it is crowd-sourced (the database could be hosted as json on a github repo).<p>I haven&#x27;t done much research, but I believe that an independent store which collects these apps, makes them discoverable, and instructs people how to install them would be very useful, and will do a great job for promoting the freedom of the web over closed app stores.
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Buetol大约 11 年前
An anonymous and representative group discussion and voting system<p>Practical example: Attending a conf as a woman<p>- You want to ask questions during the talks but you are afraid that because you are a woman your answer will be &quot;dumbed-down&quot; or just different<p>- Also, the guy doing the talk would like to answer the best possible question (or a random one)<p>So, there can be a lot of solutions to this problem, here is mine:<p>- Every attendee get an anonymous account on discuss.confname.org<p>- So everyone can ask questions anonymously and also it&#x27;s fair because everyone has only one account<p>Except, that I made up this example in 5 minutes. This problem is effectively on every possible group in the world. People would like to express their opinions inside the group without risking differentiation.<p>I tried to describe this idea and the implementation ( <a href="http://kioto.io" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;kioto.io</a> ), but it&#x27;s really hard to explain. So I&#x27;m just implementing a prototype right now to better explain this idea.
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pnathan大约 11 年前
Chores service.<p>For $X, we will come and do Y chores, quickly and professionally, relatively flat rate. Y job is a typical household chore.<p>Particular pain point: cleaning the litterbox. I don&#x27;t really like it, so it gets delayed a bit more than it should. Garbage can be a pain when the apartment building is poorly laid out.<p>I don&#x27;t mean a maid or cleaning service. If I lived in a house, I&#x27;d want someone for random house maintenance tasks.<p>I&#x27;m half-tempted to do this where I live - I live near both a university and a fairly well-off suburb. Pretty sure a freshman would appreciate odd-job work not far from campus.<p>The catch is that I don&#x27;t really have time to deal with bonding, insurance, payroll, workman&#x27;s comp, etc, etc. Someone with 10-20K, familiarity with the process, lots of flex time over the next 4-6 months (when your help gets sick, YOU get to do it. =) ), and a yen for business could probably make a tidy income from it.
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genericsteele大约 11 年前
Idea: StackOverflow for comebacks<p>I&#x27;ve always had a hard time coming up with a good comeback in conversations. It would be great to have a site where I could post a situation and have the community suggest and upvote&#x2F;downvote insults and comebacks. Maybe introduce a real-time element so I could use it in an actual conversation.
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kidlogic大约 11 年前
Yelp for Manufacturing - help hardware startups determine which manufacturer fits their needs and remove the question of whether or not they&#x27;re working with someone qualified
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adamzerner大约 11 年前
Skimmable video. Like this - <a href="http://worrydream.com/MediaForThinkingTheUnthinkable/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;worrydream.com&#x2F;MediaForThinkingTheUnthinkable&#x2F;</a><p>Like any platform, there&#x27;s the chicken-egg problem. I&#x27;m not sure how you&#x27;d get enough content, but I&#x27;m confident that if you had enough content, it&#x27;d be better than YouTube.<p>But starting off getting content wouldn&#x27;t be that hard though. You could take currently existing YouTube videos and make them skimmable. And you could convince people to make videos for your site because the quality is so high.<p>And if you could create a tool that makes making these videos easy, it&#x27;d provide single-user utility, is important for platforms. See <a href="http://platformed.info/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;platformed.info&#x2F;</a>
frankpinto大约 11 年前
A site where you sign up for coffee &#x2F; tea &#x2F; lunch with a stranger in your workplaces area.<p>Context:<p>- I&#x27;m currently in Guatemala City and nobody talks here. A lot of people go to their office, bring their lunch, go home. You hang out with your high school &#x2F; college buddies some evenings &#x2F; weekends. I should know who works in the building next to mine.<p>- Haven&#x27;t read the book but the concept of &quot;Never Eat Alone&quot; has been running through my head for a bit<p>- <a href="http://www.inc.com/ilan-mochari/6-habits-connectors.html?cid=sf01001" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.inc.com&#x2F;ilan-mochari&#x2F;6-habits-connectors.html?cid...</a><p>Inspiration:<p><a href="http://teawithstrangers.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;teawithstrangers.com&#x2F;</a><p><a href="http://teawithtanay.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;teawithtanay.com&#x2F;</a>
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sakai大约 11 年前
A simple service for setting up and running jobs&#x2F;workers without having to run a server.<p>Ideally, it would have the following features:<p>* Pay once, run forever (pay for the job up front and never again -- no recurring billing to worry about)<p>* Configure once, run forever (use Docker&#x2F;LXC in the background to allow custom environments and absolve the user of the dependency headaches that can arise when running multiple jobs on a single machine)<p>* Easy to use<p>I&#x27;ve been casually working on this as it&#x27;s a pain point I&#x27;ve experienced numerous times (e.g., running a daily job that should cost ~50 cents per month, which is substantially below any available VM price).<p>Would anybody use this? Other thoughts?
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vishaldpatel大约 11 年前
Here&#x27;s one I&#x27;ve had for a little while: Say you&#x27;re playing a sport with your friends. You&#x27;re yelling at each other.. commands likes, &quot;pass the ball here&quot;. Or if you&#x27;re out playing paintball and trying to coordinate an attack - your sound, and your opponent&#x27;s sound are both pretty important.<p>As far as I know, such use of voice does not exist in any game. Player&#x27;s voice does not really interact with the environment. So, say someone says, &quot;come to me!&quot; through voice-chat.. you still have to look at the map to see where they actually are.
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gamegoblin大约 11 年前
I really hate the format of arguments&#x2F;debates in person. I feel like they would be a lot more rational if done through email or something, where one isn&#x27;t expected to respond immediately as part of a conversation.<p>I&#x27;d like a website which facilitated debates, allowed debaters to branch off multiple threads of debate and close threads once they are settled (ideally until all threads are closed), backreference other threads, citation lists that get automatically aggregated, etc.
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nashadelic大约 11 年前
A knowledge assimilator: it crawls the web and other knowledge sources and summarizes facts about any topic. The system is thus able to auto-generate a wikipedia-like page for the topic.<p>If employed in an corporate&#x2F;enterprise environment, it reads all the documentation and then someone can ask it questions like: &quot;What does the SDP 5.1 do?&quot;, &quot;What is the capacity of an SDP 5.1?&quot;, &quot;Can I connect an SDP to an SCP&quot; etc.
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refrigerator大约 11 年前
[X-post from the previous Idea Sunday thread that didn&#x27;t make it to the front page: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7616132" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=7616132</a>]<p>Idea: a new way to purchase and set up a fish tank. Currently, you have two options:<p>a) Buy everything separately - tank, filter, heater, plants, fish. You have to find out whether your fish and plants are compatible and your tank is big enough for what you want etc. You have to figure out where to put the heater and filter so that it doesn&#x27;t look unsightly.<p>b) Buy a prebuilt tank with the filter and heater etc. pre-installed somewhere not too ugly. You still have to figure out which livestock you can keep, based on tank size, filter type, plants, and whether they can live with the other livestock you want. You also have to live with the prebuilt tank company&#x27;s design decisions, which you might not like.<p>The solution: a company that offers minimalistic, sleek tanks with a modular system for adding filters, heaters, skimmers, lighting, etc. that keeps the equipment out of the way and not looking ugly. Also, an online service where they can select and order the modular tank and equipment that they want, and be allowed to choose from compatible livestock and plants. Alternatively, they can start with livestock that they want and they can be recommended the right modular tank and equipment etc. They can pay for everything all together and the items would be delivered as they are needed (with marine tanks, for example, you have to let the tank &#x27;cycle&#x27; for a few weeks so that the water parameters normalise before you can add livestock).<p>What do you guys think?
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joeclark77大约 11 年前
Crowdsourced gardening. You create an account, taking pictures of your garden. A cloud service stitches them together into a 3D model. GPS location and the height of the various house&#x2F;trees&#x2F;walls are used to predict sunlight and shade. Historical weather is recorded and predictions of future weather are built in. Optionally the user can use cheap sensors or manual test kits to measure soil contents, moisture, acidity etc.<p>Once the data is put in, the garden becomes part of the user&#x27;s &quot;profile&quot; on the site. Others can examine it and make suggestions about what to plant, how to amend the soil, etc. User can log the things they do and upload photos (or use automated sensors and webcam to send periodic updates). You can &quot;star&quot; someone&#x27;s garden to keep track of it and see how well their decisions worked.<p>Would be a great tool for experienced gardeners with too much time on their hands, and busy newbies (who are nerds like me) to get free access to distributed knowledge to learn how to grow food in the back yard.
Lambdanaut大约 11 年前
Let&#x27;s take 3D printing to the circuit board world.<p>A consumer machine that can be configured to takes as inputs:<p>1. A set of different electrical part. (Perhaps self-contained in a large box like printer ink is)<p>2. A circuit board schematic file<p>The machine cuts the board and solders the parts in.<p>And there you have it! Your own computer factory! (For limited definitions of &quot;computer&quot;)<p>If this idea ever piques anyone&#x27;s interest, I&#x27;d love to lend a hand with it.
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maxerickson大约 11 年前
<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7582482" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=7582482</a>
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fiatjaf大约 11 年前
A platform for building websites with data you already have (or will create&#x2F;update) and want to make public.<p>There are already a specialized niche for this: blogs. Blog platforms just take your data (posts) and display in a nice time-aware format.<p>But there are not alternatives for pages built with not temporal articles, tree-structured data, hierarchical content, lists of things etc.
jreed91大约 11 年前
I just thought of this so I haven&#x27;t exactly vetted it out yet or checked if anyone else is doing this.<p>A major pain I&#x27;ve noticed is event planning. If you are doing it solo you must call a ton of different individuals. You have to call for a place for the event, a caterer or someone to supply food, decorations, and finally invite all the people you want to come.<p>My idea is kind of a cross between airbnb and eventbrite. We create a service that works with only local locations and food vendors. This service allows them to post times they are available and food availability in a central location. Individuals who are planning an event can come to this web site and select what they want and where they want there event.<p>This service acts as the middleman easing the pain of event planning in a one stop web site and also benefits the local small businesses by connecting them with people looking for vendors for an event.<p>Let me know if anyone sees any problems with this or ways it could be improved.
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ezl大约 11 年前
Better calorie counting.<p>My fitness pal is great, but it too long for me to use, I suck at looking up or even knowing exactly what I ate is.<p>What I&#x27;d like is an app that lets me just take a picture of my meal, then add any comments that might be helpful &quot;ham sandwich&quot; or &quot;poached salmon, about the size of my palm&quot; -- then it magically figures out what I ate and the nutrition contents (within a day is fine)<p>I&#x27;ve seen this attempted before, but nobody still seems to be in business. I suspect this has to happen with a human powered &quot;pictures+comments to nutrition data&quot; engine.<p>I&#x27;d be willing to pay $30&#x2F;mo (too low? $50?) for this and commit to paying for 4 months. If 99 other people (or 59) people committed as well, that&#x27;d be $3000&#x2F;mo revenue for the day this thing launches.<p>1. Would anyone else back that as a pre-signed up user? 2. Is anyone willing to do it for us?
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X4大约 11 年前
OK, you got me in.<p>I&#x27;ve got a Software Architecture assignment which allows me to work on any kind of large scale Project (regardless of number of languages and complexity) for 3 Months. The end result will be planned, discussed and evaluated scientifically. We&#x27;re two experienced devs. Suggestions for ideas are welcome!
realrocker大约 11 年前
A mobile app to gamify recruitment. Users can win small amounts of credit by 1) referring friends(from phonebook) for a job 2) reviewing jobs to put them in the baskets of: not applicable, interested but not actively looking, interested and applying.This credit can be redeemed for non-cash items like: gift cards and coupons. Recruiters pay a fee(in-app payment) to post jobs. In return they get: 1) leads to candidates who applied and 2) profile summary of people who found the job interesting but did not apply or found it not applicable. For e.g: 10 applied(list of contact info), 15 found the job interesting but did not apply(of which: 70 % are web developers, 60 % have salaries more than 100k, 80 % are more than 5 years of exp. I have been working on a prototype but it still need to iron out a few wrinkles idea-wise.
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Ryel大约 11 年前
Full text search of Youtube videos.<p>How many times have you watched a video, maybe an hour long conference and wanted to go back to a point in the video where something specific was mentioned. You have to skim to the area where you think it happened, and then re-watch the video until you find what you&#x27;re looking for. That sucks.<p>Even if Youtube allowed people to embed the full transcript of a video in some kind of search layer with corresponding points in the video that would be a dream.<p>Besides that I&#x27;d like a web browser built on &#x27;the hive&#x27; that eliminates advertising. If you want to browse the web without being tracked, traced, prodded and harassed you could install the browser and a small, unnoticeable amount of your CPU is used to help power the hive. I would then like to see that operating system give a charitable donation every 6 months that says they will donate 1 month of computational power to a research organization.<p>One thing I&#x27;ve always wanted to create is a competition website like Kaggle but with real world results. Let&#x27;s say I create this and go to Mount Sinai hospital in NYC and tell them that I want to run a contest. The contest is to anybody who thinks they can increase Mount Sinai&#x27;s margins by X percentage within a particular area of interest. The agreement with Mount Sinai is that they have to give us all of the available data and we will open-source it. The challenge for open-source folks is to review the data and if you can find a way to increase margins by X percentage while still upholding the same level of quality, you win the prize. Let&#x27;s say Mount Sinai gives us access to the entire spreadsheet of products they order from hospital gowns to radiation machines, or even lets say we fund a $100,000 bounty to anybody or any team who can reduce their emergency room wait times by 50%.<p>You could solve the problem in any way possible, improving hardware&#x2F;software, or simply finding redundancy in logistics.<p>Hospitals are probably not the best examples but I hope you see what I&#x27;m getting at...
hershel大约 11 年前
1. Combining the mio water flavoring , which gets very good reviews in his category ,into a cap of a reusable water bottle ,similar to pillid[2]<p>2. Pcb layout design, in the electronics industry, is somewhat similar to games like pipes. So why not gamify pcb layout[3] ?<p>3. Recently i read some interesting research about some electronic circuit. It would have been very useful to get access to a full diagram&#x2F;layout and a module to buy and play with.<p>[2]<a href="http://store.nalgene.com/product-p/pillid.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;store.nalgene.com&#x2F;product-p&#x2F;pillid.htm</a><p>[3]<a href="http://www.chipestimate.com/blogs/IPInsider/?p=2126" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.chipestimate.com&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;IPInsider&#x2F;?p=2126</a>
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caseyash2大约 11 年前
As a part of my venture into user interface and user experience design (<a href="http://www.caseyash.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.caseyash.com</a>), I created a few concepts. It would be excellent if I could implement them, however technical individuals are rare in Tennessee.<p>Below are the concepts:<p>Pack - A travel planning tool that integrates weather information to stay alert on what to pack.<p>RQRES - A real estate search that uses a collaborative algorithm to quickly find a home. The application pulls 10 homes; user rates them and then are shown results that are highly relevant.<p>Pattern - A more difficult game of Simon. Instead of four tiles, there are nine. The game also features ways to manipulate the game board.<p>Wonder - Hyper-local network.
brightsunday大约 11 年前
Bufferbox Duplex - I sometimes find myself wanting to transfer a physical product (books, keys to bikes etc) with someone. Sometimes it is hard coordinating this and I often wish I could just put it into a box from which only they could come and pick it up.<p>If people are familiar with Bufferbox (YC S12,acquired by Google) this is essentially the duplex version. People can deposit and retrieve packages&#x2F;items.<p>One can think of charging people for the amount of time the package remains inside the system or based on the size of the box etc.<p>Pros - if there is a secure payment system on top of this, one can essentially use this to implement a small marketplace.<p>Cons - Could be used for exchanging illegal goods as well.
mudil大约 11 年前
WP plugin to charge for guest posts.<p>As a blogger for last 10 years, I think someone should consider providing WP blogs with ability to charge for guest posts. That can be done either as a single time purchase (for a single guest post) or as a recurring payment (i.e. monthly charge for unlimited or predetermined number of guest posts per month). The purchaser makes a payment and opens an account, and then is redirected to WP where he can write a post.<p>Guests posts is a growing industry for a number of reasons: SEO manipulation, old fashioned PR, promotional activities, contests with multiple participants (such as writing contests), etc etc.
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slater大约 11 年前
A sortable, queryable list of movies. A site that would retrieve a resulting (and sortable!) list of queries such as &quot;Show me all science-fiction movies made in the last ten years&quot;, or &quot;All Arnold Schwarzenegger movies that have won an Oscar&quot; (trick question!)<p>- Yes, IMDB exists. And has some of the functionality I&#x27;d like. But it is a slow site, replete with ads, upsells, 2003-esque &quot;only show 10 results per page!&quot;, etc. Yes, I realize they have to make money.<p>- Yes, there are millions of movies in existence, and thousands added to the pile every year. Not sure how to fix that data issue :(
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Jemaclus大约 11 年前
Google Glass app that streams subtitles from Netflix, Hulu, or even cable TV. I rely heavily on subtitles to watch TV (I&#x27;m very hard-of-hearing), but I&#x27;ve found that my [hearing] friends don&#x27;t like subtitles very much. It would make my life 10 million times easier if I could watch TV with subtitles or closed captioning without having to subject my friends to that as well.<p>I don&#x27;t know jack shit about Google Glass, but this is so high on my list of wants that I&#x27;d drop $1500 for a Google Glass just for this app, assuming it worked well and as advertised.<p>Someone make this happen.
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bliker大约 11 年前
I really want a nice wysiwyg markdown editor. Not the two column layout. I want syntax highlighting, but it should not only do colors but also semantics. Headings should be actually bigger and italics slanted.<p>I tried and failed to make this idea a reality. I got to partial solution using regular expressions. But it is far from functional and reliable but it is only like 200 lines!<p>You can check it out here: <a href="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/52646091/syntax/selection.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dl.dropboxusercontent.com&#x2F;u&#x2F;52646091&#x2F;syntax&#x2F;selectio...</a>
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cweiss大约 11 年前
A photo app designed specifically for concerts - The main feature is that the display goes dark while filming&#x2F;snapping shots. As someone who goes to a lot of shows, I hate the myriad of tiny squares I see between myself and the stage and I&#x27;ve noticed a fairly small percentage of folks actually check focus&#x2F;etc., they just stick their phones in the air and shoot away.<p>Bonus points for good social media integration - Read my location&#x2F;4sq to know what show I&#x27;m at - Easy posting to 4sq&#x2F;FB&#x2F;Twitter&#x2F;Compuserve.
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kordless大约 11 年前
A highly distributed framework for building a coop cloud using OpenStack and Bitcoin: <a href="https://github.com/StackMonkey" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;StackMonkey</a>. Whitepaper here: <a href="https://github.com/StackMonkey/xovio-pool/blob/master/whitepaper.md" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;StackMonkey&#x2F;xovio-pool&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;whitep...</a><p>I&#x27;m working on this full time now, so it&#x27;s less of an idea than a reality in progress! :)
cabalamat大约 11 年前
Something like Wordpress but including a wiki as well as a group blog. The blog entries would also be viewable based on recentness&#x2F;score (like on reddit or HN) or by topic (like on forum software).<p>It would be possible to have a local mirror of the site on one&#x27;s PC which would automatically sync with the live site; this mirror could also be used to set up other live sites. Thgis would be an anti-censorship measure if the site went down, someonre else could mirror it easily.
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rokhayakebe大约 11 年前
Endorse Graph: A browser plugin that allows people who are signed in with their Linkedin, Github, Stack Overflow, Medical-Sites, etc... to endorse the content of a web page.
iamsalman大约 11 年前
Searchable photo albums OR Google Image search for personal photos.<p>Basically a way to organize photos into searchable tags which are context aware and auto-generated. This way, I will not have to browse through tons of photos to find the ones shot at a concert, for example. What if I simply search for &quot;concert&quot; and all my photos shot at some concert are fetched. The key here is to auto-tag the photos as good (or near to) as Google does with their Image search.
ld00d大约 11 年前
A system of homeless charity. I never have cash. What if I could scan a QR code to donate? What if that donation was better distributed through a central agency instead of directly to the person on the street corner? The guy on the corner gets a bigger piece as an incentive.<p>A distributed peer to peer encrypted chat system. No dependencies on Google or whoever for hosting. No middle channel holding private keys. Threaded conversations. Synced across devices.
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coinspotting大约 11 年前
You can look at Firespotting - it is a hacker news for ideas.
elemos大约 11 年前
A safe storage locker. I travel frequently for work between a few different cities and it&#x27;s a pain to constantly have to pack and re-pack, and buy and re-buy those things which I cannot pack.<p>I just want a locker where I can feel safe leaving my stuff in the cities that I travel to most frequently. This means I&#x27;m reasonably assured they wont get stolen as well as being afforded many of the same rights when you own or rent property.
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notduncansmith大约 11 年前
One idea I saw posted last week that I&#x27;m scoping out and considering working on: Dataclips for everyone.<p>Heroku Dataclips allow you to share the results of a SQL query against your database with a simple URL. It&#x27;d be really cool as a standalone service that you could hook up to your non-Heroku DBs (local, QA, production, etc). An API would be sweet as well (imagine having a dataclip with your stack traces during QA).
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yesimahuman大约 11 年前
Registered agents as a service. Right now hiring people out of state is a pain, despite how popular remote working is getting. There are a lot of random rules in each state, and you have to have a registered agent in a state in order to hire in that one. There are a few services that do this, but they do it poorly and not in the typical startup fashion we&#x27;ve come to expect.
sarvagyavaish大约 11 年前
Travel Assistant While travelling I like to keep family and friends involved up to date about my travel plans - itinerary changes, delayed flights, boarded flight, landed flight, etc. Instead of a pushing updates by texting 3-4 different people, I want to be able to provide an update in one place, say, on the Travel Assistant app, and my family can receive appropriate updates.
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vecio大约 11 年前
A specific place to share and watch how other developers or designers work on their projects, by live screen sharing. It should be a good place to learn from real projects development.<p>I came across this idea after YC said no to my Android screen live sharing service <a href="https://shou.tv" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;shou.tv</a>, a live video streaming service for Android gamers.
MicroBerto大约 11 年前
This might exist but Googling for it has been a wasteland.<p>I follow many social media feeds that are other companies in my industry - some partners, some competitors.<p>I want a script or app or service to dig through their social media history (pics, posts, etc) and send me what&#x27;s been most engaging.<p>That&#x27;s it. Can probably be done in iMacros, just haven&#x27;t found the time... Could be a small SAAS though.
dk8996大约 11 年前
Social analytics. The idea is that you can keep track of multiple facebook fan pages&#x2F;twitter accounts and see how they grow over time. How many followers overtime, how many links, ect.. You may want to see other info like from what countries the likes, follows are from. Something very simple that just keeps track of your analytics and displays a nice chart.
curlyreggie大约 11 年前
This might be trivial. One of my friends is a serious blogger (she has around 7-8 blog sites on various topics she writes). Why not a simple blog aggregator to post in blogs into the site you wish?<p>E.g., You want to blog for tumblr, create a post here and then it gets auto-posted to tumblr directly.<p>Of course, the API issues and permissions are another headache to worry about.
wmaiouiru大约 11 年前
A cloud processing platform that would automatically edit videos for users based on algorithms. My thesis is that users will take more and more videos but the tools to edit them (adobe premiere, youtube editor etc) are too much hassle for people. The first market segment would be goPro and google glass users. Thoughts?
zealon大约 11 年前
Ok, here is mine: Prototyper. - Create a webapp that allows the users to choose their phone model. - Based on that, generate and allow downloading of a custom app (Android, iOS) for that model. - The user should be able to customize the software modules for that app and interconnect them, IFTTT-like.<p>HTH ;-)
miguelrochefort大约 11 年前
Semantic product review. Object-oriented product review if you will.<p>Refer to specific aspects of a product and make semantic statements about them.<p>Endorse what you agree with instead of repeating it.<p>Basically, no blank text box waiting to be filled witohut the reviewer&#x27;s own unique way to format thoughts.
fiatjaf大约 11 年前
A tool for storing&#x2F;sharing information inside private communities.<p>Enough of the forum&#x2F;blog&#x2F;posts&#x2F;email solutions! How can a community of people, oriented to a subject or location, keep organized data about things it cares about?
dmacedo大约 11 年前
Github for databases. I&#x27;ve been brainstorming occasionally about this idea... :)
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mukeshsoni大约 11 年前
A site which keeps track of which of these &#x27;Idea Sunday&#x27; ideas actually got implemented and how are they doing 1 year, 2 years, 5 years or 10 years later. Will give empirical data only how powerful are ideas.
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hiis大约 11 年前
1) daily email that highlights the top 10 posts on HN (by points or by most comments)<p>2) simple way to share sensitive financial details with others (e.g., credit card payments, pay stubs, paypal history, bank transactions)
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rdl大约 11 年前
Free network (data, voice, mobile) monitoring in exchange for personalized and general&#x2F;statistical data based recommendations (which plan to change, which ISPs in the area are best, etc.)
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DanBC大约 11 年前
It would perhaps be better if only one person posted these threads.
bnchrch大约 11 年前
Hey, I created a little meteor app today just for this. <a href="http://thoughts.meteor.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;thoughts.meteor.com&#x2F;</a>
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shanacarp大约 11 年前
A peer to peer mortgage marketplace.<p>Basically, qualified investors own pieces of mortgage in their communities.<p>I&#x27;ve seen variations of this for student loans - why not mortgages?
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JacobJans大约 11 年前
A twist on a simple timer &#x2F; productivity app.<p>When you want to focus, instead of pressing start, you ask for time from someone else.<p>Once you&#x27;ve completed using that time, you get to pass it on to somebody else.<p>Completion depends on approval from the previous owner of the time.<p>As the time gets used, it gets passed from person to person, creating a &quot;time chain.&quot; Participants get to see the history of the time chain. Established users can create new time chains and watch them grow.
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ape4大约 11 年前
zipcar&#x2F;uber: A service that delivers a car you drive to where you are when you want it. Maybe you call up an hour before or via an app. And&#x2F;or the opposite: you have driven somewhere can don&#x27;t want the car anymore - eg drinking.
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hackerpolicy大约 11 年前
Waze but for supermarket prices.
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miguelrochefort大约 11 年前
Semantic version of Twitter.<p>Every tweet is RDF.
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philip1209大约 11 年前
An app that shares the password of local wifi - e.g. for the coffee shop you are sitting in.<p>Perhaps neither practical nor legal, but something that would be useful when the barista is feeling snarky and you don&#x27;t want to return a second time to ask for the wifi password.
hershel大约 11 年前
Tools to reduce distraction in doing research on the web.
ddorian43大约 11 年前
html5+flash video player all in one with reasonable pricing and no revenue-share for vast&#x2F;google ads
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nhebb大约 11 年前
A newsletter advertising network.
hackaflocka大约 11 年前
A Chrome plugin for Hacker News and Reddit that does only one thing: collapse all comments to top level comments.